US3643398A - Bottle capping machine - Google Patents

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US3643398A
US3643398A US71941A US3643398DA US3643398A US 3643398 A US3643398 A US 3643398A US 71941 A US71941 A US 71941A US 3643398D A US3643398D A US 3643398DA US 3643398 A US3643398 A US 3643398A
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Karl Quest
Werner Heckmann
Uwe Knabe
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B67—OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
    • B67B—APPLYING CLOSURE MEMBERS TO BOTTLES JARS, OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; OPENING CLOSED CONTAINERS
    • B67B3/00—Closing bottles, jars or similar containers by applying caps
    • B67B3/02—Closing bottles, jars or similar containers by applying caps by applying flanged caps, e.g. crown caps, and securing by deformation of flanges
    • B67B3/06—Feeding caps to capping heads
    • B67B3/064—Feeding caps to capping heads from a hopper
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B67—OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
    • B67B—APPLYING CLOSURE MEMBERS TO BOTTLES JARS, OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; OPENING CLOSED CONTAINERS
    • B67B3/00—Closing bottles, jars or similar containers by applying caps
    • B67B3/02—Closing bottles, jars or similar containers by applying caps by applying flanged caps, e.g. crown caps, and securing by deformation of flanges
    • B67B3/06—Feeding caps to capping heads
    • B67B3/062—Feeding caps to capping heads from a magazine
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
    • H02G—INSTALLATION OF ELECTRIC CABLES OR LINES, OR OF COMBINED OPTICAL AND ELECTRIC CABLES OR LINES
    • H02G3/00—Installations of electric cables or lines or protective tubing therefor in or on buildings, equivalent structures or vehicles
    • H02G3/02—Details
    • H02G3/08—Distribution boxes; Connection or junction boxes
    • H02G3/18—Distribution boxes; Connection or junction boxes providing line outlets

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  • the transfer station accommodates a vertically adjustable platform which supports a chute for delivery of caps to successive sockets and a stop which centers the caps in the sockets to place them into an op timum position for engagement with the respective magnets.
  • a deflector is mounted on the platform to expel, if necessary, from successive sockets caps and/or fragments of bottles before such sockets reach the transfer station.
  • the present invention relates to improvements in machines for the application of caps to bottles or other types of containers. More particularly, the invention relates to improvements in machines of the type wherein two or more capping units orbit about a vertical axis to apply caps to bottles or like containers which are conveyed at a level below the capping units. Still more particularly, the invention relates to improvements in the construction and mounting of capping units and of parts which are installed at the cap feeding station of a machine for the application of caps to bottles or like containers.
  • Machines which embody a set of orbiting capping units or heads have found widespread acceptance for the capping of filled beer bottles, milk bottles, bottles containing fruit juice and/or similar containers having an elongated slender neck and a steeply sloping shoulder between the lower part of the neck and the main body portion of the container.
  • Such machines must be provided with bulky, costly and complicated attachments and other auxiliary equipment if their capping units are to apply caps to containers of the type having a very short neck and a slightly inclined shoulder between the neck and the main portion of the container.
  • Such auxiliary equipment is necessary mainly to insure accurate centering of containers below the respective capping units.
  • the centering bell and/or the cap-receiving platform of a capping unit is mounted at a considerable distance from the sealing device which applies the cap over the mouth of a container. This is desirable to insure convenient introduction of caps into successive capping units.
  • such construction of conventional capping units prevents the mouth of a container with a short neck from being moved sufficiently close to the sealing device.
  • each capping unit with a centering member which surrounds the sealing device and is moved axially to raise or lower a holder for caps.
  • the holder receives a cap in the lowered position of the centering member and the latter is thereupon raised to move the cap close to the sealing device.
  • Such proposal is not entirely satisfactory because the dimensions of successively capped containers may vary within a rather wide range so that the caps cannot always be placed on the mouths of successive containers in an optimum position for deformation in a way to establish a leakproof seal.
  • An object of the invention is to provide a capping machine for bottles or analogous containers wherein the capping units are constructed and assembled in such a way that they can apply caps to containers having short or long necks and that their scaling action is not affected by the configuration of containers.
  • Another object of the invention is to provide a capping machine for bottles or like containers with novel means for feeding caps into successive capping units.
  • a further object of the invention is to provide a capping machine which embodies the improved feeding means and which comprises novel and improved capping units.
  • the invention is embodied in a machine for the application of caps to bottles or analogous containers, for example, to containers having relatively long or short necks with strongly or slightly sloping shoulders between the lower ends of the necks and the main body portions of such containers.
  • the machine comprises a plurality of capping units which are driven to orbit about a substantially vertical axis along an endless path.
  • Each such capping unit includes a cap-receiving socket having an open side facing away from the axis, and cap retaining means which preferably includes a permanent magnet movable up and down to raise caps from the socket to a sealing ram or an analogous cap applying device of the respec tive unit.
  • the machine further comprises a platform which is adjacent to a portion of the endless path and is preferably movable up and down so as to enable the machine to cap shorter or taller containers, a support provided on the platform and registering with successive sockets when the capping units are set in motion, centering means preferably comprising a stop provided on the platform so that its stop surface is inwardly adjacent to the open side of a socket which reaches the aforementioned portion of the endless path, feeding means preferably comprising a suitable inclined chute or an analogous device for delivering caps in a predetermined orientation onto the support so that a thus delivered cap engages the centering means and is thereby located in the range of the respective retaining means to be lifted by the latter toward the associated sealing rarn while the capping unit moves toward registry with a filled container, and deflector means provided on the platform and extending across the endless path upstream of the feeding means, as considered in the direction of travel of the capping units, to expel from successive sockets such caps which were not applied to containers and/or fragments of broken containers which happen
  • FIG. I is a fragmentary plan view of a bottle capping machine which embodies the invention.
  • FIG. 2 is a side elevational view of the structure shown in FIG. ll.
  • the drawing illustrates a portion of a capping machine which comprises a frame or housing including one or more vertically adjustable carriers 19 for a horizontal platform d supporting a feeding device 2 for caps 9.
  • the feeding device 2 includes an inclined chute 3 whose outlet is adjacent to the endless circular path 7 for an annulus of capping units l which orbit about a vertical axis.
  • the chute 3 receives properly oriented caps 9 from a suitable hopper, not shown.
  • the platform 4 has an extension 5 whose width decreases in a direction toward the axis about which the capping units 1 orbit, i.e., toward the center of the path 7.
  • the extension 5 carries at its upper side a support or holder 6 for successive caps 9.
  • the support 6 is rigidly connected to or integral with an ejector or deflector b having an inclined deflecting surface 8a which extends across the path 7.
  • the capping units ll rotate in a clockwise direction, as viewed in FIG. l.
  • the chute 3 delivers properly oriented] caps 9 to a transfer station 10 and each cap which reaches such station is thereupon propelled into a cutout or socket ll of the adjacent capping unit.
  • the open sides of the sockets llll face away from the axis about which the capping units orbit, i.e., away from the center of the path 7.
  • the means for propelling the caps 9 from the transfer station 10 into successive sockets llil can include a suitable pneumatic system having one or more nozzles 2A1 which discharge streams of compressed air in synchronism with the speed of the capping units 1..
  • Each of the thus propelled caps 9 slides along the support 6 and comes into abutment with a raised centering member or stop 12 which is (ORA positioned in such a way that a cap which abuts against its stop surface or shoulder 12a is properly centered in the respective socket 11, Le, that such a cap is located at an optimum distance from the center of the path 7.
  • the thus centered cap 9 enters the field of a retaining device here shown as a permanent magnet 13 which forms part of the respective capping unit 1 and serves to retain the cap in the centered position.
  • the magnet 13 moves the centered cap 9 upwardly against a sealing or cap-applying ram 14 of the respective capping unit 1.
  • the latter advances the cap 9 into registry with the mouth of a container 21 which is supported by the customary turntable plates of a transporting conveyor 22, and the cap is applied over and sealingly secured to the mouth in a manner not forming part of the present invention.
  • the purpose of the deflector 8 is to eject from successive sockets 11 those caps 9a which were not applied to containers and/or to expel from such sockets the necks of broken or deformed containers.
  • the deflector 8 insures that the sockets 11 which reach the transfer station 10 are invariably empty so that each thereof can receive a properly oriented and properly centered cap 9.
  • the parts which are expelled by the inclined surface 8a of the deflector 8 can drop into a suitable collecting receptacle or onto a takeoff conveyor, not shown.
  • the upper side of the deflector 8 can be flush with the upper side of the support 6.
  • the carrier 19 is adjustable up and down, as indicated by the arrow 23, so that it can move the support 6 and the deflector 8 to several levels. This enables the machine to apply caps to different types of containers.
  • the parts 6 and 8 are preferably separable from the extension of the platform 4.
  • each capping unit 1 receives a properly oriented cap 9 directly from the feeding device 2 and moves the cap into registry with the respective container 21.
  • Each container is centered with reference to the respective capping unit 1 and is thereupon lifted off or with the conveyor 22 so as to move its mouth into engagement with the corresponding cap 9 which is held by the permanent magnet 13.
  • the upward movements of containers 2] are entirely unobstructed because the containers begin to move upwardly after the respective capping units 1 have advanced beyond the transfer station and upon completion of lifting of the corresponding caps by the magnets 13.
  • Such mode of operation prevents tilting of caps prior to or during the application of deforming stresses because each cap is properly centered and held in the respective capping unit 1 before it comes into contact with the mouth of the associated container.
  • a combination comprising a plurality of capping units arranged to orbit along an endless path about a substantially vertical axis, each of said units including a capreceiving socket having an open side facing away from said axis and cap retaining means; a platform adjacent to a portion of said path; a support provided on said platform at a level below said path and registering with successive sockets when said units orbit about said axis; centering means provided on said platform; feeding means comprising a device for delivering caps in a predetermined orientation onto said support and into successive sockets so that a thus delivered cap engages said centering means and is thereby located in the range of the res ctive retaining means; and deflector means supported by sar platform and extending across said path upstream of said feeding means, as considered in the direction of travel of said units, to expel from successive sockets any parts which might be contained therein during travel of such sockets toward said portion of said path.
  • said centering means comprises a stop provided on said platform and having a stop surface inwardly adjacent to the open side of that socket which registers with said feeding means.
  • a combination as defined in claim 1, wherein said device for delivering caps comprises a chute.
  • each of said retaining means comprises a permanent magnet which is movable up and down.
  • each of said units further comprises a cap applying device located at a level above the respective socket and wherein said retaining means are movable up and down to raise caps from said sockets into close proximity of the respective cap applying devices.

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US4770022A (en) * 1987-02-27 1988-09-13 Dayton Reliable Tool & Mfg. Co. Method and apparatus for transferring relatively flat objects
US5157897A (en) * 1990-11-13 1992-10-27 Aluminum Company Of America Rotary capping machine
US5280693A (en) * 1991-10-14 1994-01-25 Krones Ag Hermann Kronseder Maschinenfabrik Vessel closure machine
US5285618A (en) * 1991-11-06 1994-02-15 Seitz Enzinger Noll Maschinenbau Aktiengesellschaft Apparatus for separating and making available closure elements
US5309696A (en) * 1991-04-05 1994-05-10 Krones Ag Hermann Kronseder Maschinenfabrik Apparatus for transporting closing caps in vessel closing machines
US5531057A (en) * 1995-09-08 1996-07-02 Crown Cork And Seal Company, Inc. Bottle cap delivery system
US6658814B2 (en) * 2000-06-21 2003-12-09 Alcoa Deutschland Gmbh Verpackungswerke Feed unit for a container closure device

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US4770022A (en) * 1987-02-27 1988-09-13 Dayton Reliable Tool & Mfg. Co. Method and apparatus for transferring relatively flat objects
US5157897A (en) * 1990-11-13 1992-10-27 Aluminum Company Of America Rotary capping machine
US5309696A (en) * 1991-04-05 1994-05-10 Krones Ag Hermann Kronseder Maschinenfabrik Apparatus for transporting closing caps in vessel closing machines
US5280693A (en) * 1991-10-14 1994-01-25 Krones Ag Hermann Kronseder Maschinenfabrik Vessel closure machine
US5285618A (en) * 1991-11-06 1994-02-15 Seitz Enzinger Noll Maschinenbau Aktiengesellschaft Apparatus for separating and making available closure elements
US5531057A (en) * 1995-09-08 1996-07-02 Crown Cork And Seal Company, Inc. Bottle cap delivery system
US6658814B2 (en) * 2000-06-21 2003-12-09 Alcoa Deutschland Gmbh Verpackungswerke Feed unit for a container closure device

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