US20110225932A1 - Apparatus and method for the hot filling of beverages - Google Patents

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US20110225932A1
US20110225932A1 US13/049,548 US201113049548A US2011225932A1 US 20110225932 A1 US20110225932 A1 US 20110225932A1 US 201113049548 A US201113049548 A US 201113049548A US 2011225932 A1 US2011225932 A1 US 2011225932A1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B67—OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
    • B67C—CLEANING, FILLING WITH LIQUIDS OR SEMILIQUIDS, OR EMPTYING, OF BOTTLES, JARS, CANS, CASKS, BARRELS, OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; FUNNELS
    • B67C3/00—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus; Filling casks or barrels with liquids or semiliquids
    • B67C3/02—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus
    • B67C3/04—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus without applying pressure
    • B67C3/045—Apparatus specially adapted for filling bottles with hot liquids
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C49/00—Blow-moulding, i.e. blowing a preform or parison to a desired shape within a mould; Apparatus therefor
    • B29C49/42—Component parts, details or accessories; Auxiliary operations
    • B29C49/4252—Auxiliary operations prior to the blow-moulding operation not otherwise provided for
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C49/00—Blow-moulding, i.e. blowing a preform or parison to a desired shape within a mould; Apparatus therefor
    • B29C49/42—Component parts, details or accessories; Auxiliary operations
    • B29C49/4268—Auxiliary operations during the blow-moulding operation
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C49/00—Blow-moulding, i.e. blowing a preform or parison to a desired shape within a mould; Apparatus therefor
    • B29C49/42—Component parts, details or accessories; Auxiliary operations
    • B29C49/42414—Treatment of preforms, e.g. cleaning or spraying water for improved heat transfer
    • B29C49/42416—Purging or cleaning the preforms
    • B29C49/42418—Purging or cleaning the preforms for sterilizing
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C49/00—Blow-moulding, i.e. blowing a preform or parison to a desired shape within a mould; Apparatus therefor
    • B29C49/42—Component parts, details or accessories; Auxiliary operations
    • B29C49/4273—Auxiliary operations after the blow-moulding operation not otherwise provided for
    • B29C49/428—Joining
    • B29C49/42802—Joining a closure or a sealing foil to the article or pincing the opening
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C49/00—Blow-moulding, i.e. blowing a preform or parison to a desired shape within a mould; Apparatus therefor
    • B29C49/42—Component parts, details or accessories; Auxiliary operations
    • B29C49/4273—Auxiliary operations after the blow-moulding operation not otherwise provided for
    • B29C49/42808—Filling the article
    • 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
    • B65B55/10—Sterilising wrappers or receptacles prior to, or during, packaging by liquids or gases
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B67—OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
    • B67C—CLEANING, FILLING WITH LIQUIDS OR SEMILIQUIDS, OR EMPTYING, OF BOTTLES, JARS, CANS, CASKS, BARRELS, OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; FUNNELS
    • B67C3/00—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus; Filling casks or barrels with liquids or semiliquids
    • B67C3/02—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus
    • B67C3/22—Details
    • B67C2003/227—Additional apparatus related to blow-moulding of the containers, e.g. a complete production line forming filled containers from preforms

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  • the present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for producing filled beverage containers and, in particular to a method and an apparatus in which beverages are filled hot.
  • various beverages such as for example iced tea are filled hot.
  • This hot filling poses problems, in particular in the case of plastics material containers or PET containers.
  • the thermal stability of the material and the vacuum stability of the container represent a major challenge.
  • the material of PET has a relatively low glass transition temperature of approximately 75° C. This is not sufficient for the filling temperature of sensitive products which as a rule is between 85° C. and 92° C. For this reason the material is thermally crystallized during the treatment in the stretching blow moulding machine.
  • DE 36 50 667 T2 describes a method of producing a deformation-resistant polyester container which is capable of being hot filled.
  • a plastics material pre-form is produced, and it is heated and placed in a blow mould cavity.
  • specific drawing ratios of the wall of the pre-form which are between 8:1 and 12:1.
  • the temperature of the re-heated pre-form is maintained between 82° C. and 121° C.
  • DE 698 02 357 T2 describes an apparatus for the sterile filling and packing of foods.
  • This apparatus has a sterilization portion for sterilizing packing containers filled with solid or liquid foods as well as a packing portion for hermetically sealing the packing containers.
  • a filling machine with liquid circulation is known from EP 1 559 674 B1.
  • a charge is also filled hot into bottles and, in order to prevent the charge from cooling in the filling elements, the charge is conveyed in the hot state in at least one flow path including the filling elements whilst interrupting the filling process.
  • a method of low-germ filling of plastics bottles is known from DE 195 20 925 A1.
  • each container is subjected to a thermal after-treatment in which the charge is held in the interior of the respective container at a temperature of at least 60° C.
  • a plastics material container is first produced, the plastics material container being produced from a plastics material pre-form by means of a shaping device. After that, the container is conveyed to a filling device and is filled with a liquid and, in particular with a beverage, in which case the liquid is filled into the container at a temperature which is above 50° C.
  • the container is sterilized at least in part between the shaping device and the filling device, or expressed in more precise terms, between a separating device for separating the plastics material pre-forms arranged upstream of a pre-form inlet of the blow moulding machine and the filling device.
  • a separating device for separating the plastics material pre-forms arranged upstream of a pre-form inlet of the blow moulding machine and the filling device.
  • an inner wall of the container to be sterilized at least in part and is preferably sterilized completely.
  • sterilization of an outer surface of the container to be carried out at least in part.
  • this separating device for separating the plastics material pre-forms also to be regarded as being a component part of the shaping device within the context of this description.
  • the separating device is arranged between the inlet of the shaping device and the filling device.
  • blow moulding machine refers in the following not only to the actual blow moulding module which shapes the plastics material pre-forms into plastics material containers, but also to apparatus arranged upstream of this blow moulding module, such as in particular but not exclusively a heating device or a furnace, which heats the plastics material pre-forms.
  • the pre-form inlet can be in particular that area at which the pre-forms arrive in the aforesaid heating device.
  • sterilization in an area of the heating device would thus also be possible.
  • the pre-forms heated in the heating device would also be sterilized before, during or after their entry into the blow moulding module.
  • the shaping device is in particular a blow moulding machine and, in a particularly preferred manner, a stretching blow moulding machine.
  • the high filling temperature is necessary in particular on microbiological grounds.
  • the charge has to be heated to a temperature dependent upon the product in order to achieve an adequate sterilization effect against the germ spores etc. which exist. As a result of this destruction of pathogens a longer storage life of the charge is achieved.
  • the product In order to ensure that all pathogens are destroyed even on the path of the product into the container and in the container, the product has to be filled hot and not only sterilized in the course of a heating of short duration.
  • the prior art provides for a certain standing time of the hot liquid in the bottle, which as a rule lasts between one and five minutes for this microbiological safeguard.
  • this very standing time has the effect that the PET container is difficult to keep dimensionally stable since the strength of the material is sharply reduced.
  • the hot filling already described in the prior art is economic to only a limited degree and is improved by way of the present invention in such a way as to result in an economic filling method. It is advantageous for the sterilization of the container to be carried out by acting upon it with a sterilizing agent and, in particular, with hydrogen peroxide gas.
  • the container prefferably be sterilized in the shaping device.
  • the containers prefferably be sterilized in the shaping device for example of the blow moulding machine. This sterilization of the container produced is now combined with the hot filling in order to avoid in this way the necessary standing time of the container at a hot temperature.
  • the container is cooled after the filling (in particular immediately afterwards). In this way an additional protection of the containers is possible. It is thus possible for the containers to be conveyed directly into a heat exchanger downstream of the filling device. In this case, as compared with the prior art, the conveying path is dispensed with which is otherwise present between the filling device and this heat exchanger.
  • the cooling of the filled containers is carried out without further head space sterilization of the filled containers. It is preferable for the cooling to be carried out at a temperature of below 50° C. If products, the temperature of which is above 85° C., are filled, sterilization of the filling device itself is also effected by the product.
  • the container is cooled down from the critical temperature range of over 80° C., in particular after the filling, so that the PET does not pass into a weakened state in which it could become dimensionally unstable.
  • the shaping unit and the filling device prefferably be operated in a block arrangement or in synchronism, and it is particularly preferred for these blocks to be complemented by a heat exchanger.
  • the container is advantageous for the container to be cooled by being acted upon with a flowable medium. It thus can be sprayed with water for example in order to be cooled in this way. Cooling with air, however, would also be possible.
  • the container is closed immediately after the filling. It is advantageous for the disinfection or the sterilization of the individual closures to be carried out during this. In this case too this sterilization can be carried out with a gaseous medium, such as in particular but not exclusively hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2 ).
  • a gaseous medium such as in particular but not exclusively hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2 ).
  • the closure of the container is likewise sterilized. It is advantageous for the closure to be sterilized before the closing procedure. In this case, in particular, sterilization of the interior of the closure takes place, i.e. of that region which bounds the interior of the closed container.
  • the container prefferably conveyed through a sterile environment between the shaping device and the filling device. In this way it is possible for the container no longer to be contaminated after the shaping procedure.
  • This can be for example a sterile room which extends from the shaping device to the filling device. It is thus advantageous for the filling device also to adjoin the shaping device at a relatively short distance and, in a particularly preferred manner, directly.
  • the container it is advantageous for the container to be acted upon with a gaseous medium after being filled.
  • a gaseous medium and in particular nitrogen, is introduced into the container after the filling procedure. In this way it is possible for air to be forced out of the head space of the containers in order to prevent contamination in the head space of the containers as well in this way.
  • the present invention relates to an apparatus for producing filled containers, this apparatus having a shaping device which shapes plastics material pre-forms to form plastics material containers.
  • a conveying device is also provided which conveys the plastics material containers away from the shaping device and, in addition, a filling device is also provided which is arranged downstream with respect to the shaping device along a conveying path of the plastics material containers and which fills the containers with a liquid.
  • the filling device is designed in such a way that it fills the liquid at a temperature of more than 50° C. into the containers.
  • the apparatus prefferably has a sterilization device which is arranged between a separating device (for separating the plastics material pre-forms) arranged upstream of a pre-form inlet of the shaping device and the filling device and which sterilizes the containers ( 10 ).
  • the sterilization device can also be arranged in a region of the shaping device (or in the region of a separating device for separating the plastics material pre-forms which is optionally arranged upstream of this shaping device), and for example the plastics material pre-forms are also sterilized shortly before or even during the shaping procedure. It is advantageous, however, for the sterilization device to be arranged downstream of the shaping device and thus to sterilize the containers already produced.
  • the apparatus has a application device which is arranged downstream of the filling device along the conveying path of the plastics material containers and which acts upon the filled containers with a flowable and preferably gaseous medium.
  • the liquid present in the containers is acted upon with the gaseous medium.
  • the gaseous medium it is advantageous for the gaseous medium to be nitrogen. In this case it is possible for this nitrogen also be introduced in a liquid form.
  • the apparatus has a cooling device arranged downstream of the filling device for cooling the filled containers. It is preferable for the cooling device to cool the containers to a temperature which is between 50° C. and 75° C., preferably between 60° C. and 75° C. and in a particularly preferred manner between 65° C. and 75° C.
  • the container is no longer so highly stressed thermally as in the prior art. It is thus also possible for the container to be produced in a more inexpensive manner, in which case for example use is made not of a heat setting method but only of a hot relaxation method. In addition, the weight of the containers can be significantly reduced. A weight of the containers as used in aseptic applications has been found to be particularly suitable, without, on the other hand, the high costs of the operating expenses of aseptic plants having to be applied.
  • An application of the invention is possible both for a conventional hot filling and for a hot filling with subsequent stressing with gas (also referred to as NitroHotFill by the Applicants).
  • a high degree of efficiency can be assumed for the last-named method.
  • a closing device for closing the containers prefferably arranged upstream of the cooling device. This means that it is preferable for the containers first to be filled, then to be closed and finally to be cooled. It is advantageous for the closing means to be provided substantially immediately downstream of the application device, which acts upon the liquid with the gaseous medium.
  • a sterile room through which the container is conveyed, is arranged between the shaping device and the filling device.
  • the provision of this sterile room ensures that contamination of the container after the production thereof can no longer occur.
  • the shaping device is advantageous for the shaping device to be followed substantially directly by the filling device. It can thus be provided that only one transfer star wheel is provided as a conveying device between the shaping device and the filling device.
  • the shaping device and the filling device it would be possible for the shaping device and the filling device to be arranged in the same housing.
  • the apparatus has a labelling device which applies a label to the container. In this case this labelling device is advantageously arranged downstream of the closing device, which closes the containers already filled. It is advantageous for the labelling device also to be provided downstream of the above-mentioned cooling device for cooling the filled containers.
  • a drying device which dries an outer wall of the containers, for example by acting upon it with an air flow, can also be provided between the filling device and the labelling device.
  • the labelling device can be a labelling device which applies self-adhesive labels to the containers. Labelling devices would also be possible however, which apply the labels to the containers by means of an adhesive, or even those labelling devices which apply shrink-on labels to the containers.
  • FIG. 1 shows a plant for handling containers from the prior art
  • FIG. 2 is a diagrammatic illustration of a plant according to the invention.
  • FIG. 1 is a diagrammatic block diagram of a plant 100 according to the prior art.
  • a shaping device 2 such as in particular a stretching blow moulding machine, which shapes the plastics material pre-forms to form plastics material containers.
  • the plastics material pre-forms are first conveyed through a heating device 48 such as a furnace and are then supplied in a heated state to the shaping device 2 .
  • This shaping device 2 is followed by a filling device 4 in which the containers are filled with a beverage. Following this filling the filled containers are conveyed to a heat exchanger 6 by way of a conveying path 52 , 54 and 56 .
  • the reference number 56 relates to a sterilization unit for a head space of the containers.
  • the heat exchanger 6 is followed in turn by a conveying path 58 for the filled and also closed containers as well as a labelling device 12 which provides the containers with labels.
  • the reference number 14 relates to packing devices which for example form groups from a plurality of containers.
  • the reference number 16 designates a palletizing means.
  • FIG. 2 is an illustration in the manner of a block diagram of an apparatus 1 according to the invention.
  • a shaping device 2 and a filling device 4 are again provided.
  • the reference number 5 relates to a conveying device which conveys the containers from the shaping device [into] the filling device.
  • This conveying device can be for example a conveyor belt or a circulating conveyor chain.
  • a sterilization device 8 which sterilizes the shaped containers, is provided additionally between the shaping device 2 and the filling device 4 .
  • this can be a sterilization device which acts upon the containers with gas, for example H 2 O 2 .
  • radiation devices to be used which irradiate the containers with radiation such as in particular UV radiation, X-rays or electrons.
  • the reference number 20 relates to a clean room which is arranged in the region between the shaping device 2 and the filling device 4 . This ensures that the shaped containers leave this sterile room 20 again in particular only in a closed state in which contamination is eliminated.
  • the reference number 22 accordingly designates a closing means which closes the filled containers.
  • the pre-forms pre-forms to be already sterilized after entering the furnace in which they are heated for the blow moulding procedure, or even during the passage through this furnace.
  • nozzles which act upon the pre-forms with a sterilizing agent could be arranged for example above a conveying device for the pre-forms.
  • the sterilization devices could also be arranged downstream of the furnace or between the furnace and the actual blow moulding stations. It is also possible for the temperature at which the action of the sterilizing agent is to take place to be indirectly determined by the arrangement of the sterilization device.
  • a plurality of sterilization devices to be provided which are arranged for example at different locations along the conveying path of the containers.
  • these different sterilization devices could also apply different methods, for example sterilization by means of UV or electron radiation and a further sterilization by means of H 2 O 2 .
  • the pre-forms it would also be possible for the pre-forms to be immersed in a bath with sterilizing agent so that in this way sterilization of both the inner wall and the outer wall of the pre-forms is carried out.
  • the containers can be rinsed with warm water in the course of a sterilization process. It would also be possible for the outer areas of the containers to be rinsed by a sterilizing agent being directed onto an opening of the containers. The interior of the containers can also be rinsed with (sterile) air after being acted upon with the sterilizing agent.
  • a plurality of spray nozzles which direct the sterilizing agent onto the surface of the containers.
  • the jet of the sterilizing medium can be directed for example onto the lateral faces or the base surface of the containers.
  • movable spray nozzles can be used.
  • Saturated steam can also be used for the sterilization.
  • sterilization of the surface of the containers can be achieved by continuously acting upon the latter.
  • the sterilizing agent can also be heated before the containers are acted upon by it.
  • the filling device is immediately followed in this case by the cooling device 6 which cools the filled and closed containers.
  • the conveying path 52 , 54 and 56 illustrated in FIG. 1 is dispensed with.
  • the containers can be conveyed for example on a belt and preferably arranged adjacent to one another through this cooling device.
  • the containers can then be acted upon from the outside with a flowable cooling agent such as for example water, but optionally also with air.
  • a drying device can be further provided which dries the outer wall of the containers for the purpose of labelling for example.
  • a stressing device 24 which acts upon the filled containers with nitrogen for example, can also be provided in this region.
  • the devices downstream of the cooling device 6 once again correspond essentially to the arrangement shown in FIG. 1 .
  • the reference number 46 relates to a CIP unit for cleaning the filling device.
  • the reference number 42 designates a pasteurization unit for pasteurizing the liquid.
  • the reference number 44 designates a mixer which can likewise be used with a multiplicity of beverages.
  • the interior of the container is rinsed (in particular with nitrogen).
  • the container is hot filled at the appropriate filling temperature, this high filling temperature being necessary—as mentioned above—in order to keep the filling device sterile.
  • the container itself is ideally not contaminated itself.
  • the closing device 22 is preferably provided with a closure disinfection means.
  • the container is transferred—as mentioned above—on the shortest path, in particular by way of a conveyor belt, directly into the cooling device 6 and it is cooled to a lower temperature there. It is preferable for the containers to be guided individually upstream of the heat exchanger in the heat exchanger and in a stream of containers.

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