Classifications

• • 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
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
  • B65C9/00—Details of labelling machines or apparatus
• • 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

Definitions

• the invention relates to a treatment machine for containers, for.
• a treatment machine for containers for.
• cans or similar containers for example, filled with a beverage, cleaned, provided with a label, equipped with a closure or comparable treatment routines are subjected, with at least one drive unit with regular electric drive motor and motor housing, further with a to the drive unit connected manipulation unit, and with a drive housing, which receives the drive unit and has at least one bearing for the manipulation unit.
• the known machine has a control unit and an actuator, which are housed in a common housing and can be replaced as a complete assembly.
• the drive unit can be completely replaced and thus examined independently of the treatment machine in question and optionally replaced.
• the invention is based on the technical problem of further developing such a treatment machine for containers in such a way that the costs, the design complexity and the number of required components are even further reduced.
• the invention proposes a generic treatment machine for containers, eg. As bottles, cans or the like, that the motor housing is also the drive housing and forms a combined single motor / drive housing.
• the motor housing for receiving the drive motor also acts as a drive housing, thus forming the only combined motor / drive housing. Consequently, the combined motor / drive housing in question is not only set up for receiving the drive motor, but also has the bearing for the manipulation unit and optionally further devices and units in its interior. According to an advantageous embodiment of the aforementioned bearing is formed by at least one side driven by the drive motor mounting flange, which is set up for the direct connection of the manipulation unit.
• the combined motor / drive housing has the mentioned driven mounting flange as a bearing.
• the combined motor / drive housing next to the drive motor and the bearing at least one sensor receives, which detects engine characteristics such as speed, rotation angle, engine temperature, etc. of the drive motor and transmitted to a control unit as needed.
• inventively combined motor / drive unit with single motor / drive housing can replace any preferably rotary drive in a container handling machine.
• a linear actuator can be combined with the inventively combined motor / drive unit such that its mainly rotary motion is converted into a linear motion, for example by means of a rack and pinion drive or similar gear arrangements.
• the combined single motor / drive housing of the motor / drive unit according to the invention is equipped with at least one hollow bore. Because this hollow bore can be used for direct coupling with a drive shaft of the manipulation unit.
• the drive shaft of the manipulation unit in question requires no additional support (more), since this is provided by the mounting of the driven mounting flange in the motor / drive housing.
• the driven mounting flange is suitable for direct connection of the manipulation unit, for example via the inserted into the hollow bore and rotatably connected to the mounting flange drive shaft.
• inventively combined motor / drive unit with an additional cooling, z. B. water cooling, is equipped.
• This cooling is used primarily for the drive motor when needed.
• the drive motor with a brake, z. B. pneumatic brake be equipped.
• both the cooling and the brake are - again - included in the combined single motor / drive housing.
• a so-called reluctance motor As an electric drive motor, a so-called reluctance motor has proven to be favorable.
• a reluctance motor is a special design of an electric motor in which an associated rotor consists in particular of a soft magnetic material (eg iron) or such Has material and the corresponding stator contains the required magnetic coils.
• the rotor is neither equipped with permanent magnets nor energized. He has rather pronounced poles of the soft magnetic material. Accordingly, the operation is similar to an electric linear drive and works practically smoothly.
• the drive motor is a rotary, slotless synchronous motor, in which the magnetic coils of the stator are fastened on a flat iron ring.
• the equipped with a magnetic ring made of iron rotor is arranged taking into account an air gap compared to the stator.
• the drive motor has a high dynamic and a great flexibility in its construction and can cover a wide torque range up to several 1000 Nm.
• this design ensures that the combined motor / drive unit according to the invention or the associated single motor / drive housing can be equipped at all with the already mentioned hollow bore for coupling to the drive shaft of the manipulation unit. Because both the stator and the rotor are each advantageously designed as a hollow cylinder and define in this way the already mentioned hollow bore in its interior, which is not mandatory.
• the invention also provides the use of an electric drive motor with motor housing as a drive unit with a combined single motor / drive housing for direct connection to a manipulation unit in the course of treatment of containers in associated treatment machines.
• Advantageous embodiments of this use are described in claims 9 and 10.
• Fig. 2 shows an application of the combined motor / drive unit in a processing machine for containers, in this case a labeling and Fig. 3 shows another application in a treatment machine, which is designed as a closing machine
• a treatment machine for container 1 is shown in the containers 1 is in the exemplary embodiment and not limiting to bottles 1
• cans or other vessels in the manner to be described below treatment is treated in the
• any manipulation of the container 1, for example its equipment with a label 2 indicated in FIG. 2 in the context of the illustrated labeling machine, the attachment of a closure 3, as indicated in FIG. 3, or the cleaning of the respective container 1 in the frame a cleaning machine, not shown, as for example is the subject of DE 197 03 369 A1
• a manipulation unit 7 is connected to the drive unit 4.
• the manipulation unit 7 is a starwheel in the context of the labeling machine according to FIG whereas, in the variant according to FIG. 3, the manipulation unit 7 is designed as a screw shaft or has such a housing, which has a screw head 7a on the holder side, which in turn affixes the closure 3 to the bottle 1
• the drive unit 4 is accommodated in a secondary housing 6, which according to the invention is at the same time the motor housing 6.
• the attachment unit 4 has at least one bearing 8 for the manipulation unit 7 or for its connection
• the bearing 8 is a fastening flange 8 which is driven rotatively by means of the drive motor 8.
• the fastening flange 8 is suitable for direct connection of the manipulation unit 7. Otherwise, the fastening flange 8 closes the cylindrical combined motor / drive housing 6 at the head end Type of lid from Actually, the manipulation unit 7 is directly connected to the mounting flange 8.
• the combined motor / antifloor 4, 5 and, consequently, the only motor / secondary housing 6 has at least one hollow bore 11.
• a drive shaft of the manipulation unit 7 can be received directly upon viewing of Figures 2 and 3 clearly where the drive shaft of the manipulation unit 7 each (non-rotatably) in the hollow bore 11 of the combined motor / Antr ⁇ ebse ⁇ nhe ⁇ t 4, 5 is inserted because the hollow bore 11 is found in the cup-shaped mounting flange 8, which by the Drive motor 5 is driven rotatively Consequently, the drive shaft rotatably in the hollow bore 11 of the mounting flange 8 for the star wheel according to Figure 2 and the screw shaft according to the Fig 3 when applied to the drive motor 5 is rotated
• the drive motor 5 or the combined motor / Antr ⁇ ebse ⁇ nhe ⁇ t 4, 5 may be equipped with an additional and not expressly shown cooling, z B water cooling, it is also within the scope of the invention to provide a supplementary brake for the drive motor 5 Both the cooling and the brakes are recorded in the single combined engine / anti-noise housing 6
• the drive motor 5 used is a reluctance motor, that is to say an electric motor whose rotor 5a is made of soft magnetic material or has such material in the form of iron magnets attached thereto in the example.
• a stator 5b which contains only indicated magnetic coils.
• the operation of the reluctance motor is comparable to that of a linear electric motor.
• a rotating field is generated, which the rotor 5a follows with its iron magnets and rotates synchronously with the rotating field.
• the attachment flange 8 connected to the rotor 5a is also set in rotation, which is followed by the connected manipulation unit 7.

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