US20110303322A1 - Filling element for filling containers with a liquid product, filling machine and method for filling containers - Google Patents

Filling element for filling containers with a liquid product, filling machine and method for filling containers Download PDF

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US20110303322A1
US20110303322A1 US13/202,994 US201013202994A US2011303322A1 US 20110303322 A1 US20110303322 A1 US 20110303322A1 US 201013202994 A US201013202994 A US 201013202994A US 2011303322 A1 US2011303322 A1 US 2011303322A1
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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
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    • B67C3/286—Flow-control devices, e.g. using valves related to flow rate control, i.e. controlling slow and fast filling phases
    • 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
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    • B67C3/04—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus without applying pressure

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  • the invention relates to a filling element according to the preamble of patent claim 1 , to a filling machine according to the preamble of patent claim 9 and a method for filling bottles or similar containers according to the preamble of patent claim 12 .
  • Filling elements for use in filling machines in particular in rotary filling machines in which a plurality of filling positions are each formed on the periphery of a rotor that can be driven to rotate about a vertical machine axis, and with each filling position consisting of a filling element with an associated container carrier, are known in different embodiments.
  • the filling elements exhibit at least one liquid valve with a valve body which can be moved by an actuating device between only two positions, namely between an open and a closed position.
  • liquid valves having an appropriately configured actuating device also provide three possible switching states of the liquid valve, namely the closed and fully open states and an additional partially open state.
  • Pneumatic or electromagnetic operating elements which move the valve body of the liquid valve between the individual switching positions at high speed serve to switch the particular liquid valve or valve body concerned.
  • One disadvantage of this is that during the said switching, very sudden and pulse-like changes occur in the volumetric flow rate of the product to be filled, leading to pressure pulses and hence very often to an undesirable frothing of the liquid product, with a consequential deterioration in the filling throughput (filled containers per unit of time) of the filling machine.
  • Methods are also known in which the filling machine is controlled according to saved or stored container-specific filling curves which represent the filling height in a container as a function of the volume of liquid product already filled into the container. In this method it is not the filling speed that is controlled or regulated but the relative motion between the bottom of a long filling tube and the particular container type so as to prevent an unwanted excessive immersion of the filling tube in the product.
  • the filling speed (volumetric flow rate of product per unit of time) of the inventive filling element can be adjusted and varied at will, such adjustment and variation being continuous or infinitely variable or essentially infinitely variable.
  • the change in the volumetric flow rate is effected for example by an infinitely variable or essentially infinitely variable change of the effective orifice cross-section of the at least one liquid valve and/or of a return gas valve disposed in a return gas path of the filling element, i.e. by an infinitely variable or essentially infinitely variable lift of a valve body of the liquid valve or of the return gas valve.
  • ‘infinitely variable’ or ‘essentially infinitely variable’ means primarily and preferentially ‘infinitely variable’ in the strict sense, but also means a variation or adjustment in very small adjustment or variation increments, with the number of adjustment or variation increments that are possible between the two extremes ‘closed’ and ‘open’ being greater than ten and with each adjustment or variation increment causing a change in the effective flow cross-section of the opened liquid valve or of the opened return gas valve which is not more than 10% of the orifice cross-section of the fully open liquid valve or return gas valve.
  • the infinitely variable adjustment or variation of the liquid valve and/or of the at least one return gas valve is effected by an electrically, pneumatically or hydraulically triggerable actuating element which is for example a piezo motion element/motion actuator or other electric, hydraulic or pneumatic linear drive.
  • the inventive filling element permits filling methods which avoid sudden changes in the volumetric flow rate of the filled product and consequential pressure pulses as well as an unwanted frothing of the product resulting therefrom. It is in particular possible to dynamically adapt the filling speed to properties of the container or product, for example to the form and/or contour of the containers used, and also to the momentary contours or cross-sectional area or product surface area of the interior of the container concerned, said contours or areas constantly changing as the product is filled, and/or to the frothing tendency or to the CO 2 concentration in the product or to other product parameters, so that even when a filling machine is operating at a high throughput, the frothing of the product and the associated oxygen uptake in the product is at least minimised.
  • the product speed is controlled or regulated preferentially according to an optimised container-specific and/or product-specific filling curve which sets the filling speed as a function of time.
  • the inventive embodiment permits filling methods with optimal accelerations and/or decelerations of the product for necessary changes in filling speed, and in particular permits an infinitely variable adaptation of the volumetric flow of the product to areas of the product surface that are continuously or discontinuously changing as the already filled product volume changes.
  • the filling method can in particular be configured with a slow initial filling at a moderately increasing filling speed to cover the container base with product, with a gentle transition to maximum filling speed in the straight section of the particular container, with a gentle, preferentially infinitely variable reduction and/or adjustment of the filling speed in container regions of varying cross-section, and with a gentle transition to a slow filling phase so as to precisely achieve the required filling height or filling quantity as the case may be.
  • FIG. 1 shows a schematic view in cross-section of a filling element of a filling system according to the invention
  • FIG. 2 shows a container-specific or bottle-specific filling curve
  • FIG. 3 shows a schematic view in cross-section of a filling element of a filling system according to the invention in another embodiment
  • FIG. 4 shows an enlarged partial view of the filling element of a filling system according to the invention in the region of a piezo actuator
  • FIG. 5 shows a schematic view in cross-section of a filling element of a filling system according to a further embodiment of the invention.
  • FIG. 1 shows a filling element 1 of a filling machine, for example a rotary filling machine, which on the periphery of a rotor 3 that can be driven to rotate about a vertical machine axis, exhibits a plurality of filling elements 1 of the same type for the open-jet filling of containers or of bottles 2 with a liquid product.
  • a container carrier 4 which together with filling element 1 forms a filling position 5 and at which the respective bottle 2 is held suspended from a mouth flange 2 . 2 formed beneath bottle mouth 2 . 1 and at a distance from the underside of the filling element and/or at a distance from a local delivery orifice 6 .
  • Filling element 1 has a housing 7 with a liquid channel 8 into which an element 9 serving as a gas seal is inserted on the underside of filling element 1 to form delivery orifice 6 , and which in its upper region is connected by line 10 incorporating flow meter 11 to a tank 12 of the filling system or of the filling machine. While tank 12 is provided for all filling elements 1 or filling positions 5 of the filling machine collectively, each filling element 1 is connected to tank 12 by its own dedicated line 10 and own flow meter 11 .
  • a liquid valve 13 is provided in liquid channel 8 for the controlled delivery of the product flowing to the respective bottle 2 as an open jet 14 during the filling process.
  • Liquid valve 13 consists essentially of a valve body 13 . 1 which interacts with a valve seat formed by the inside face of liquid channel 8 and which can be moved up and down on a vertical filling element axis FA inter alia to open and close liquid valve 13 .
  • Operation is effected by a pneumatic actuating device 15 which consists essentially of a cylinder 16 provided at the top of housing 7 , and a piston 17 with piston rod 18 whose lower end facing away from piston 17 is connected to valve body 13 . 1 .
  • Actuating device 15 and valve body 13 . 1 are preloaded in an open position of liquid valve 13 by a compression spring 19 surrounding piston rod 18 .
  • filling element 1 is further configured with an auxiliary space or ring space 21 which encloses delivery orifice 6 and which is connected by a channel 22 on the filling element side to a ring channel 23 provided on rotor 3 for all filling elements 1 of the filling system in common, said connection being for a CIP cleaning of filling elements 1 and filling machine, for example.
  • a gaseous and/or vaporous fluid such as compressed air for example
  • Cylinder space 20 is connected by an electrically triggered control and regulating valve to a source 26 for the pressurised gaseous or vaporous fluid.
  • An electrical triggering stage or driver stage 25 which is in turn triggered by an electronic controller 27 , serves the triggering of control and regulating valve 24 .
  • valve body 13 . 1 is movable by actuating device 15 not only between a fully closed and a fully open state of liquid valve 13 but that by appropriate control of the pressure in cylinder space 20 , the volumetric flow rate of the product flowing to the respective bottle 2 can be controlled continuously or between a value of nil (closed state of liquid valve 13 ) and a maximum value (fully open state of liquid valve 13 ).
  • actuating device 15 not only between a fully closed and a fully open state of liquid valve 13 but that by appropriate control of the pressure in cylinder space 20 , the volumetric flow rate of the product flowing to the respective bottle 2 can be controlled continuously or between a value of nil (closed state of liquid valve 13 ) and a maximum value (fully open state of liquid valve 13 ).
  • Curve section 28 . 1 Start of filling with gentle increase of filling speed V by slow continuous or infinitely variable opening of liquid valve 13 ;
  • Curve section 28 . 2 Rapid filling at constant or maximum constant filling speed V and with fully open liquid valve 13 ;
  • Curve section 28 . 4 Final filling at constant or essentially constant yet reduced filling speed V;
  • Curve section 28 . 5 Gentle completion of the filling phase by slow closing of liquid valve 13 .
  • the respective control and regulating valve 24 and hence liquid valve 13 as well are controlled by electronic controller 27 as a function of the measured signal from flow meter 11 and of the bottle-specific or container-specific filling curve 28 which is stored in a working memory of electronic controller 27 and imported from a database of the machine controller into the working memory, for example prior to the filling of bottles 2 of a certain bottle type.
  • FIG. 3 shows a filling element 1 a for the pressurised filling of containers in the form of bottles 2 with the liquid product, wherein during filling, the respective bottle 2 that is here again suspended from container carrier 4 is held with its bottle mouth 2 . 1 in sealed position up against filling element 1 a in the region of delivery 6 .
  • the filling system forms part of a filling machine, for example of a rotary filling machine, in which a plurality of filling elements 1 a is provided on rotor 3 that can be driven to rotate about the vertical machine axis.
  • liquid channel 8 which exhibits delivery orifice 6 and which is connected, via line 10 that is provided individually for each filling element 1 a and that incorporates flow meter 11 , to tank 12 which is provided on rotor 3 for all filling elements 1 a collectively.
  • tank 12 For the pressurised filling of bottles 2 , the interior of tank 12 is partially filled with the liquid product, thereby creating a liquid space 12 . 1 that is occupied by the product and forming above liquid space 12 . 1 a gas space 12 . 2 that is filled with a compressed inert gas such as for example CO 2 .
  • a compressed inert gas such as for example CO 2 .
  • liquid valve 13 a that is formed essentially by valve body 13 a . 1 which interacts with a valve surface formed by the inside surface of liquid channel 8 and which an actuating device 15 a can move on filling element axis FA inter alia between a position that fully closes liquid valve 13 a and a position that fully opens said liquid valve.
  • Valve body 13 a . 1 is provided on a return gas tube 29 that serves as a valve stem and that is moved axially on filling element axis FA in a controlled manner by actuating device 15 a.
  • Ring channel 34 is connected to gas space 12 . 2 of tank 12 and serves in particular to preload bottle 2 with inert gas from gas space 12 . 2 when filling a bottle 2 , i.e. at the beginning of the filling phase concerned.
  • Ring channel 35 serves inter alia to take away the inert gas which is forced out of the bottle by the inflowing product during pressurised filling and which flows into ring channel 35 via return gas channel 29 and control valve 32 acting as a return gas valve.
  • control valve 32 By controlling the opening and closing of control valve 32 (return gas valve), the filling speed, i.e. the amount of product that flows per unit of time to bottle 2 during the filling phase, can be controlled or regulated.
  • control valve 32 is configured so that as well as having a fully open and a fully closed state it is infinitely variably adjustable between these two extreme states in regard to the effective orifice cross-section and therefore in regard to the volumetric flow rate.
  • control valve 32 By appropriate triggering of control valve 32 it is therefore possible to control or regulate the filling speed as a function, for example, of the optimised bottle-specific or container-specific filling curve 28 .
  • Control valve 32 is in turn pneumatically triggerable.
  • a cylinder space 36 of an actuating element of control valve 32 is connected via a control and regulating valve 24 a . 1 with source 26 that supplies the compressed gaseous or vaporous fluid, for example compressed air.
  • liquid valve 13 a is furthermore configured so that it permits an infinitely variable controlling or regulating of the volumetric flow rate between its open and closed states, here again by an appropriate adjustment or variation of the orifice cross-section of partially open liquid valve 13 a .
  • the pneumatically operable actuating device 15 a consists of a ring piston 37 that can be displaced axially, i.e. on filling element axis FA, in a cylinder space of housing 7 ; ring piston 37 is provided on return gas tube 29 and together with return gas tube 29 is preloaded in a position that opens liquid valve 13 a by compression spring 38 surrounding return gas tube 29 .
  • ring piston 37 On its side facing away from compression spring 38 , ring piston 37 confines a cylinder space 39 to which a control and regulating valve 24 a . 2 can apply the pressure of pressure source 26 in a controlled manner.
  • the two control valves 24 a . 1 and 24 a . 2 are in turn triggered by electronic controller 27 via control or driver stages 25 a . 1 and 25 a . 2 respectively and as a function inter alia of the signal of flow meter 11 and of a container-specific or bottle-specific filling curve stored e.g. in the working memory of electronic controller 27 , for example as a function of filling curve 28 in FIG. 2 .
  • control valve 32 and liquid valve 13 a that is controlled by actuating device 15 a are in turn parts, for example, of a closed control loop in which the measured signal supplied by flow meter 11 is compared as an actual value with a given actual value [sic] represented for example by the filling curve, with an adjustment of the setting of control valve 32 and/or of liquid valve 13 a being made according to appropriate control or regulating criteria, e.g. such that liquid valve 13 executes a rough setting or adjustment of the filling speed and return gas valve 32 executes a fine correction of the filling speed, or vice versa.
  • control valve 32 or liquid valve 13 a in such a way that this valve can only assume an open or a closed state, while the infinitely variable or continuous control and regulation of the filling speed during the respective filling phase, e.g. according to container-specific or bottle-specific filling curve 28 , is effected by triggering liquid valve 13 or control valve 32 .
  • control valve 32 When control valve 32 is configured solely for opening and closing, then this return gas valve or control valve serves for example to define the maximum filling speed in the open state and the reduced filling speed in the closed state, with liquid valve 13 a being appropriately triggered so as to produce the gentle and/or moderate increase in filling speed according for example to curve section 28 . 1 and the gentle decrease in filling speed according for example to curve sections 28 . 3 and 28 . 5 .
  • FIG. 4 shows a simplified partial view in cross-section of a filling element 1 b which is part of a filling system for the open-jet filling of containers or bottles 2 and which only differs from filling element 1 in that between the piston rod of actuating element 15 and valve body 13 .
  • an electrically triggerable actuating element 40 for example in the form of a piezo actuator.
  • the actuating element is triggerable by a driver stage 42 of electronic controller 27 specifically to execute an infinitely variable translatory motion, i.e. a motion of valve body 13 .
  • Actuating element 15 is configured and/or triggered only for opening and closing liquid valve 13 b.
  • FIG. 5 shows a filling element 1 c that is part of a filling system for the pressurised filling of bottles 2 .
  • filling element 1 c only differs from filling element 1 b in that actuating element 15 c , which is equivalent in function to actuating element 15 a , is only configured for opening and closing liquid valve 13 c , which corresponds to liquid valve 13 a , whereas the filling speed is controlled or regulated by a return gas valve 32 c which corresponds to control valve or return gas valve 32 , said return gas valve 32 c having an electrically triggerable actuator 43 , e.g. in the form of a piezo actuator, which is directly triggered by electronic controller 27 . It is as a function of this triggering that the volumetric flow rate of the return gas through return gas valve 32 c , and hence also the filling speed during pressurised filling, are infinitely variably controllable.
  • the filling speed can be controlled or regulated infinitely variably, preferentially as a function of a container-specific or bottle-specific filling curve optimised for the particular containers that are used, and preferentially in consideration of inter alia the container shape or contour and again preferentially in consideration of the product volume already filled into the container concerned and as a function of the particular product or corresponding product parameters.
  • the infinitely variable control or regulation of the filling speed is achieved by an appropriate setting or regulating of the opening state or orifice cross-section of liquid valve 13 , 13 a - 13 c and/or at least of one return gas valve 32 , 32 c.
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