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US20040105798A1
US20040105798A1 US10/470,343 US47034304A US2004105798A1 US 20040105798 A1 US20040105798 A1 US 20040105798A1 US 47034304 A US47034304 A US 47034304A US 2004105798 A1 US2004105798 A1 US 2004105798A1
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61L—METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR STERILISING MATERIALS OR OBJECTS IN GENERAL; DISINFECTION, STERILISATION OR DEODORISATION OF AIR; CHEMICAL ASPECTS OF BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS OR SURGICAL ARTICLES; MATERIALS FOR BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS OR SURGICAL ARTICLES
    • A61L2/00—Methods or apparatus for disinfecting or sterilising materials or objects other than foodstuffs or contact lenses; Accessories therefor
    • A61L2/02—Methods or apparatus for disinfecting or sterilising materials or objects other than foodstuffs or contact lenses; Accessories therefor using physical phenomena
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
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    • A61L—METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR STERILISING MATERIALS OR OBJECTS IN GENERAL; DISINFECTION, STERILISATION OR DEODORISATION OF AIR; CHEMICAL ASPECTS OF BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS OR SURGICAL ARTICLES; MATERIALS FOR BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS OR SURGICAL ARTICLES
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B55/00—Preserving, protecting or purifying packages or package contents in association with packaging
    • B65B55/02—Sterilising, e.g. of complete packages
    • B65B55/025—Packaging in aseptic tunnels
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B55/00—Preserving, protecting or purifying packages or package contents in association with packaging
    • B65B55/02—Sterilising, e.g. of complete packages
    • B65B55/04—Sterilising wrappers or receptacles prior to, or during, packaging
    • B65B55/08—Sterilising wrappers or receptacles prior to, or during, packaging by irradiation
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61L—METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR STERILISING MATERIALS OR OBJECTS IN GENERAL; DISINFECTION, STERILISATION OR DEODORISATION OF AIR; CHEMICAL ASPECTS OF BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS OR SURGICAL ARTICLES; MATERIALS FOR BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS OR SURGICAL ARTICLES
    • A61L2202/00—Aspects relating to methods or apparatus for disinfecting or sterilising materials or objects
    • A61L2202/20—Targets to be treated
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  • the invention relates to a sterilizing tunnel for pharmaceutical containers as generically defined by the preamble to claim 1 , of the type that is known from DE 198 46 277 C2.
  • Sterilizing tunnels of this kind which are used in the pharmaceutical industry, particularly for sterilizing ampules, vials, or the like, have ventilating fans in the individual zones along which the containers are conveyed, which produce an air flow that circulates around the containers in a laminar fashion from top toward the bottom.
  • the circulated air is scrubbed by means of clean air filters (so-called HEPA filters) disposed above the containers and is heated and cooled by means of heating and cooling units.
  • HEPA filters clean air filters
  • the heating and cooling of the containers occurs from the direction of the container mouth toward the container bottom, i.e. unevenly over the height of the container, which can damage the containers or produce stress cracks in them, particularly in relatively thin containers or when a container has walls of different thicknesses.
  • the sterilizing tunnel for pharmaceutical containers according to the invention has the advantage over the prior art that the containers are thermally treated in a particularly gentle way so that the probability of stress cracks is reduced. This is achieved according to the invention through the additional use of radiant heat-generating heating units that act on the container bottoms so that in concert with the hot air from the ventilating fan units, it is possible to produce a uniform heating of the containers over their entire height.
  • the transport apparatus on which the containers are conveyed is embodied in the form of a radiation-permeable wire mesh belt.
  • the sterilizing tunnel is also intended to be used for coating and baking-on emulsion-like substances
  • the invention provides for the use of heating units that generate additional radiant heat in the heating zone, which units are disposed above and/or to the side of the containers.
  • the coating and baking-on process is at least for the most part already finished by the next time hot air is circulated around the containers, thus reducing the percentage of baking residues in the air that is circulated through the filters.
  • FIG. 1 shows a simplified longitudinal section through a first sterilizing tunnel according to the invention
  • FIG. 2 shows a partial section in the plane II-II of FIG. 1 during operation of the first sterilizing tunnel
  • FIG. 3 shows a simplified longitudinal section through a second sterilizing tunnel according to the invention.
  • FIG. 4 shows a partial section in the plane IV-IV of FIG. 3 during operation of the second sterilizing tunnel.
  • the first sterilizing tunnel 10 is essentially comprised of an entry zone 11 , a heating zone 12 , and two cooling zones 13 , 14 .
  • Pharmaceutical containers 1 such as ampules, vials, or the like, which come from a cleaning machine, not shown, are supplied into the sterilizing tunnel 10 from the entry zone 11 and leave the tunnel at its opposite end 15 after the cooling zone 14 , in order to then be further processed in the subsequent filling and closing machines, which are not shown.
  • a horizontal, preferably continuously driven, endless conveyor belt 17 serves to transport the containers 1 through the individual zones inside the sterilizing tunnel 10 .
  • the conveyor belt 17 is embodied as an air-permeable wire mesh belt made of stainless steel.
  • Large-area filter elements 18 , 19 , and 20 are disposed above the conveyor belt 17 in the different zones of the sterilizing tunnel 10 .
  • the filter elements 18 , 19 , and 20 cooperate with ventilating fan units 22 , 23 , and 24 , which are each associated with a respective zone and each serve to circulate the air in a respectively closed circuit.
  • the air flows generated by the ventilating fan units 22 , 23 , and 24 which circulate in the form of so-called laminar flow currents (flow arrows 25 ) around the containers 1 essentially from top to bottom during their transport through the sterilizing tunnel 10 , are temperature-controlled by means of heating and cooling units that are not shown.
  • temperature sensors are placed in the individual zones, which supply the measured temperatures as input values to the control unit of the sterilizing tunnel 10 .
  • the control unit then appropriately regulates the heating and cooling units, and is assisted by inlet and outlet air flaps, not shown, that are also disposed in the zones, which additionally serve to compensate for leakage and overflow losses.
  • vertically adjustable sluices 26 , 27 , and 28 whose position is adapted to the respective container height, are positioned both between zones and within zones in order to reduce the above-mentioned overflow losses between the individual zones.
  • the air flows generated by the ventilating fan units 22 , 23 , and 24 which circulate around the containers 1 from above, i.e. from the container mouth 2 toward the container bottom 3 , result in an uneven temperature distribution over the height of the containers.
  • the container mouths 2 have a higher temperature than the container bottoms 3 as they pass through the heating zone 12 . This is because the hot air in the heating zone 12 comes into contact with the container mouth 2 first.
  • the sterilizing tunnel 10 is particularly designed to permit deliberate influence to be exerted on the temperature distribution along the height of the containers 1 in order to thus prevent thermal stresses that can damage the containers 1 and is also designed to permit favorable influence to be exerted on the baking of emulsion-like particles into the inner walls of the containers.
  • the heating zone 12 is divided into two regions 33 and 34 by means of a dividing wall 31 , whose end oriented toward the conveyor belt 17 is embodied as a vertically adjustable intermediary way 32 .
  • the ventilating fan unit 22 provides a heated air flow
  • the other region 34 situated on the side oriented toward the entry zone 11 is provided with a number of radiant heat-generating heating units 35 , 36 , 37 .
  • the heating units 36 , 36 , 37 which are in particular embodied in the form of infrared radiators and in the exemplary embodiment are embodied as rod-shaped, are disposed underneath the radiation-permeable conveyor belt 17 close to the container bottoms 3 , above the conveyor belt 17 close to the container mouths 2 , and if need be, beside the conveyor belt 17 at the same height as the container mouths 2 outside of stationary or mobile lateral guides 38 for the conveyor belt 17 ; in the exemplary embodiment, the heating units 35 , 36 extend lateral to the travel direction of the containers 1 through the sterilizing tunnel 10 and the heating units 37 extend along this travel direction. Furthermore, in the region 34 , there is also at least one temperature sensor 39 , which is coupled to the control unit of the sterilizing tunnel 10 .
  • the heating units 35 , 36 , 37 make it possible to provide an intentionally more intense preheating of particular container regions, for example the container bottoms 3 , in order to prevent thermal stresses in the containers 1 in the subsequent further heating by means of the air flow in region 33 .
  • the heating units 35 oriented toward the container bottoms 3 are set to a higher temperature than the other heating units 36 , 37 .
  • the radiant heat of the heating units 35 , 36 , 37 can also be set very aggressively, i.e. a temperature inside the containers 1 , which is required for coating them, is reached within an extremely short period of time and is then reduced again if need be in the region 33 .
  • the heating zone 12 is only provided with additional heating units 35 underneath the radiation-permeable conveyor belt 17 and with heating units 37 disposed to the side, outside the lateral guides 38 in a manner analogous to the sterilizing tunnel 10 , but no radiant heat-generating heating units are provided above the containers 1 . Instead, the containers 1 are heated with hot air from above by means of the ventilating fan unit 22 in the entire heating zone 12 , from which it also follows that the sterilizing tunnel 10 a does not contain a dividing wall 31 of the type provided in the sterilizing tunnel 10 that divides the heating zone 12 into different regions.
  • the first cooling zone 13 is provided with additional heating units 40 , 41 , which also generate radiant heat.
  • These heating units 40 , 41 which are also rod-shaped, are provided above the container mouths 2 on the side oriented toward the heating zone 12 , as well as laterally, outside the lateral guides 38 , at the same height as the container mouths 2 , and are controlled by means of a temperature sensor, not shown, which is disposed in the cooling zone 13 close to the heating units 40 and is coupled to the control unit of the sterilizing tunnel 10 .
  • the heating units 40 , 41 make it possible for the containers 1 , which are transferred out of the heating zone 12 and have a relatively high temperature, to be cooled down somewhat less rapidly in the vicinity of their container mouths 2 , thus permitting a more uniform cooling of the containers 1 on the whole.
  • the arrangement of additional heating units 35 , 37 , 40 , 41 embodied in the sterilizing tunnel 10 a consequently makes it possible to achieve a heating and cooling of the containers 1 that is gentle to the material in order to avoid thermal stresses and prevent heat cracks in the containers 1 .
  • the two sterilizing tunnels 10 , 10 a according to the invention can be modified in numerous ways without going beyond essence of the invention, which is comprised of providing additional radiant heat-generating heating units in the sterilizing tunnel 10 , which in cooperation with air flows generated by the ventilation fan units, produce a uniform heating and uniform cooling of the containers 1 . It is therefore conceivable, for example, to omit the heating units 36 , 37 at the top and at the sides. Furthermore, the sterilizing tunnel 10 can also have the heating units 40 , 41 disposed in the cooling zone 13 of the sterilizing tunnel 10 a , in order to treat the containers 1 in a particularly gentle fashion with regard to thermal stresses.

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