US20140137512A1 - Device for feeding container closures to a capper - Google Patents

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US20140137512A1
US20140137512A1 US14/082,665 US201314082665A US2014137512A1 US 20140137512 A1 US20140137512 A1 US 20140137512A1 US 201314082665 A US201314082665 A US 201314082665A US 2014137512 A1 US2014137512 A1 US 2014137512A1
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Klaus Buchhauser
Sebastian Klepatz
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65BMACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B57/00Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices
    • B65B57/02Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices responsive to absence, presence, abnormal feed, or misplacement of binding or wrapping material, containers, or packages
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65BMACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B7/00Closing containers or receptacles after filling
    • B65B7/16Closing semi-rigid or rigid containers or receptacles not deformed by, or not taking-up shape of, contents, e.g. boxes or cartons
    • B65B7/28Closing semi-rigid or rigid containers or receptacles not deformed by, or not taking-up shape of, contents, e.g. boxes or cartons by applying separate preformed closures, e.g. lids, covers
    • B65B7/2842Securing closures on containers
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65BMACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B3/00Packaging plastic material, semiliquids, liquids or mixed solids and liquids, in individual containers or receptacles, e.g. bags, sacks, boxes, cartons, cans, or jars
    • B65B3/04Methods of, or means for, filling the material into the containers or receptacles
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65BMACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B55/00Preserving, protecting or purifying packages or package contents in association with packaging
    • B65B55/02Sterilising, e.g. of complete packages
    • B65B55/04Sterilising wrappers or receptacles prior to, or during, packaging
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65BMACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B7/00Closing containers or receptacles after filling
    • B65B7/16Closing semi-rigid or rigid containers or receptacles not deformed by, or not taking-up shape of, contents, e.g. boxes or cartons
    • B65B7/28Closing semi-rigid or rigid containers or receptacles not deformed by, or not taking-up shape of, contents, e.g. boxes or cartons by applying separate preformed closures, e.g. lids, covers
    • B65B7/2807Feeding closures
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B67OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
    • B67BAPPLYING CLOSURE MEMBERS TO BOTTLES JARS, OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; OPENING CLOSED CONTAINERS
    • B67B3/00Closing bottles, jars or similar containers by applying caps
    • B67B3/02Closing bottles, jars or similar containers by applying caps by applying flanged caps, e.g. crown caps, and securing by deformation of flanges
    • B67B3/06Feeding caps to capping heads

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  • the present invention relates to a device for feeding container closures to a capper in a beverage filling plant, preferably for feeding plastic screw caps to a screw capper, for closing plastic bottles having a closing thread by means of a screw cap.
  • container closures in particular plastic screw caps
  • feeder devices to feed container closures to a capper.
  • the container closures are usually sorted into the correct orientation in a sorter, for example a cascade sorter, an inclined sorter, a vibration sorter or a centrifugal sorter, wherein these sorters are usually disposed close to the floor.
  • the container closures are raised by an elevating conveyor to the height required for the corresponding capper.
  • Air conveyors or inclined belt conveyors are usually used as elevating conveyors. From the height which they thereby reach, which is usually in the region of 10 meters above floor level, the closures are then fed to the capper via a suitable closure chute, which also serves as a closure buffer.
  • the container closures are inspected for possible damage or incorrect orientation, with defective container closures then being removed from the stream. After the inspection device, the container closures are then fed to the actual capper, which carries out the closing of the beverage containers which are to be closed using the applicable capping heads.
  • Access to locations where faults can potentially occur is difficult. This applies for example to access to the air conveyors or the long inclined belts. Furthermore, the height which can be reached is limited, particularly if air conveyors are used.
  • a device for producing containers in which a closing apparatus is provided, to which closures are fed via a feeder device in the form of a transport path or transport track.
  • a device for feeding container closures to a capper is provided, which enables better access to locations where faults can potentially occur.
  • the device for feeding container closures to a capper in a beverage filling plant comprises a sorter, an elevating conveyor and an inspection device.
  • the inspection device is disposed before the elevating conveyor.
  • the inspection device By means of the location of the inspection device before the elevating conveyor, and hence before the container closures are transported to the height required by the capper, the inspection device is disposed in an area which is usually easily accessible for operators. In one embodiment, the inspection device is disposed close to the floor.
  • the sorter which represents a particular source of faults
  • the conveyor to the inspection device, and the inspection device itself are correspondingly disposed close to the floor, with the result that the main locations in which faults occur are easily accessible for operators.
  • the locations of faults can be cleared and the faults can be rectified before the container closures are conveyed via the elevating conveyor to an area which is more difficult to access.
  • the elevating conveyor in one embodiment, is in the form of a chain conveyor, in order to avoid the use of an air conveyor or belt conveyor, which requires extensive maintenance and are fault-prone.
  • a chain conveyor for example a chain conveyor in the form of a helix, it is also possible to achieve particularly compact dimensions along with an energy consumption which is significantly reduced at least in comparison with an air conveyor.
  • the use of a chain conveyor may thereby be classified as significantly less fault-prone than the use of an air conveyor. Fault-free operation of the chain conveyor is further ensured by the fact that the container closures are pre-sorted and correctly oriented before they enter the chain conveyor, and also by the fact that all defective container closures have been rejected by means of the inspection device.
  • the inspection device can, however, also be disposed before the sorter, so that defective container closures can be rejected before they enter the sorter, in which the closures are positioned in their correct orientation.
  • the inspection device is provided immediately before the elevating conveyor, such as a chain conveyor, in order to ensure that the container closures which reach the elevating conveyor, and are hence conveyed out of the operator's immediate area of influence, are correctly oriented and correctly dimensioned, and that therefore no defective container closures are transported.
  • the elevating conveyor such as a chain conveyor
  • the closure buffer can either be provided immediately following the chain conveyor, or alternatively there can be an additional cross-transport device between the chain conveyor and the closure buffer.
  • an additional cross-transport device a chain cross conveyor is again suitable, being particularly unsusceptible to faults.
  • the treatment of the closures can also take place in any other location, for example before the elevating conveyor, before the closure buffer, or before a cross-transport device; in these cases, the components that are provided downstream of the applicable closure treatment device may operate within an isolator or sterile housing, in order not to compromise the prior sterilization or initial cleaning of the container closure in the course of its subsequent transport.
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic representation of a first embodiment of the device for feeding container closures to a capper;
  • FIG. 2 is a schematic representation of a second embodiment of a device for feeding container closures to a capper
  • FIG. 3 a schematic representation of a third device for feeding container closures to a capper according to one embodiment.
  • FIG. 1 a schematic representation of a device 1 for feeding container closures to a capper 10 according to one embodiment is shown.
  • the device 1 feeds the container closures, which are not shown here, to a capper 10 which, by means of suitable capping heads, attaches the closures that are fed to it to, for example, containers filled with a beverage.
  • the capper 10 in one embodiment, is a screw capper, which serves to screw plastic screw caps onto, for example, the neck finish threads of PET bottles or other plastic bottles which have screw threads. Such screw cappers are known in principle from the state of the art.
  • a closure treatment device 12 which serves to clean or sterilize the container closures that are fed to it, and/or fill and/or surround them with a protective gas atmosphere.
  • This closure treatment device 12 for treating the container closures is particularly important when beverage containers are filled in a sterile environment, and accordingly at least the inside of the container closure, which is in direct contact with the filled product after closing, must be sterile or aseptic and hygienically acceptable.
  • the container closures are first conveyed, via a conveying apparatus which is not shown, to a sorter 2 in which the container closures are oriented correctly.
  • the sorter 2 can be for example a cascade sorter, an inclined sorter, a vibration sorter or a centrifugal sorter.
  • the above-mentioned sorters use the asymmetric mass distribution of container closures, for example of plastic container closures, to achieve a suitable orientation.
  • the cross-transport device 30 is, in on embodiment, in the form of a chain conveyor, since such a horizontally oriented chain conveyor has a low probability of being the source of faults.
  • the inspection device 4 is disposed immediately before the elevating conveyor 5 , to ensure that the container closures conveyed to the elevating conveyor 5 have been classified by the inspection device as acceptable.
  • the container closures that are conveyed have the correct orientation, dimensions and surface properties. Consequently, the elevating conveyor 5 is free of faults that would have resulted from the entry into it of defective container closures.
  • the sorter 2 , the separating device 3 and the inspection device 4 are disposed before the elevating conveyor 5 further implies that these components are disposed in an area of the plant which is significantly lower than the upper end 50 of the elevating conveyor 5 . Accordingly, the sorter 2 , the separating device 3 and the inspection device 4 are usually disposed close to the floor or on the floor area of the device 1 , so that operating staff have easy access to these components.
  • the areas of the plant that are classified as fault-prone, namely in particular the sorter 2 , the separating device 3 , and the inspection device 4 with its device for removing closures from the stream, can thus be disposed in the floor area, so that operating staff have direct access to them and are thereby able to rectify quickly any faults that occur.
  • the container closures After being raised by the elevating conveyor 5 to the upper end 50 of the elevating conveyor 5 , the container closures are then conveyed to a closure buffer 6 , which serves to buffer the container closures if a mismatch arises between the supply of container closures from the sorter 2 and the uptake of container closures by the capper 10 .
  • the location of the closure buffer 6 above the elevating conveyor 5 and in particular after the inspection device 4 , ensures that the closure buffer 6 also receives only correctly oriented, correctly dimensioned container closures with the correct properties.
  • the container closures are then conveyed from the closure buffer 6 via a closure chute 60 to the closure treatment device 12 that was described above.
  • the closure chute 60 is usually inclined, so that conveyance by gravity takes place.
  • the closure chute 60 is also significantly less fault-prone than in a conventionally arranged plant.
  • FIG. 2 shows a further example embodiment of a device 1 ′, in which the sorter 2 with the downstream closure chute 20 supplies the pre-sorted closures to the separating device 3 , wherein the separating device 3 deposits the closures that have been separated in this manner onto the cross-transport device 30 .
  • the correctly oriented and separated closures are then conveyed to the inspection device 4 , which directly transfers the closures that are found to be correct to the chain conveyor 5 .
  • the chain conveyor 5 in turn transports the closures to the upper end 50 of the chain conveyor, then transfers them to a cross-transport device 52 , which is preferably in the form of a chain conveyor or a belt conveyor.
  • the inspection device 4 has already ensured that the container closures are correctly oriented and correctly dimensioned, faults also do not occur on the cross-transport device 52 , which subsequently discharges into the closure buffer 6 . Downstream of this is again the closure chute 60 , which facilitates the feeding of container closures to the closure treatment device 12 and finally to the capper 10 .
  • the location of the inspection device 4 before the elevating conveyor 5 is an essential precondition for disposal of the sorter 2 , the separating device 3 and the inspection device 4 , with its device for removing closures from the stream, in an area to which operating staff have easy access. Consequently, the places in which faults most frequently occur are easily accessible, with the result that staff can intervene quickly if a disruption of the plant's operation occurs.
  • FIG. 3 shows a further embodiment of the device 1 ′′, in which the container closures are again sorted by the sorter 2 into the correct orientation and conveyed via the closure chute 20 to the separating device 3 .
  • the separated container closures are then conveyed via the cross-transport device 30 to the inspection device 4 , and those container closures that are thereby found to be correctly oriented and to have the correct properties are conveyed via the elevating conveyor 5 , which is again formed as a chain conveyor, to the closure buffer 6 disposed at the upper end 50 of the elevating conveyor.
  • the correctly oriented and dimensioned container closures are conveyed, via a cross-transport device 62 which is again for example in the form of a chain conveyor or belt conveyor, to the closure chute 60 , where the container closures are then fed to the closure treatment device 12 and finally to the capper 10 .
  • closures of any other kind can be conveyed by the applicable device, for example natural corks, crown caps or other types of screwed closures.
  • the conveying of preforms and bottles is also possible.

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