Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B08—CLEANING
  • B08B—CLEANING IN GENERAL; PREVENTION OF FOULING IN GENERAL
  • B08B9/00—Cleaning hollow articles by methods or apparatus specially adapted thereto 
  • B08B9/08—Cleaning containers, e.g. tanks
  • B08B9/20—Cleaning containers, e.g. tanks by using apparatus into or on to which containers, e.g. bottles, jars, cans are brought
  • B08B9/42—Cleaning containers, e.g. tanks by using apparatus into or on to which containers, e.g. bottles, jars, cans are brought the apparatus being characterised by means for conveying or carrying containers therethrough

Definitions

• Container cell in particular bottle cell and container basket with such
• the invention relates to a Behalterzelle according to the preamble of claim 1 and to a container basket according to the preamble of claim 6
• Container or bottle cells as part of container or bottle cages in container or bottle washing machines are known and serve there for receiving containers during their transport with a transport system formed by a multiplicity of container or bottle baskets through the various cleaning devices. and treatment zones of the respective container orjetnreimgungsmaschine (DE 195 42 673 A1)
• container or bottle cells (DE 42 42 375 A1) whose wall or shell each consists of a cylindrical or polygonal-shaped portion and an adjoining tapering portion (mouth area), wherein the tapered portion and also a portion of the cylindrical or polygonal portion received in a cell carrier is made entirely of plastic, while a portion of the shell projecting beyond the cell carrier and remote from the mouth portion is made of sheet metal or reinforced with a metal sheet
• the object of the invention is to show a container cell having a reduced heat capacity with the possibility of low-cost manufacturing, with sufficiently high mechanical and thermal stability and in particular also with regard to shape and structure optimally trained inner surface.
• a container cell is designed according to claim 1.
• a container basket consists of a cell carrier and a plurality of container cells is the subject of claim 6.
• the container cell according to the invention is completely or almost completely as a molded part of foamed plastic, for example of thermoplastic or thermosetting foamed plastic with sufficient strength, e.g. made of PUR foam or PF using the known in the art plastic foam systems or methods.
• the container cell according to the invention ideally combines the advantages of a container cell which can be produced in a simple production method, which i.a. is optimally structured and / or shaped on its inner surface for the cleaning or treatment of the container as well as on the outer surface for the attachment and positioning in the respective cell carrier, with the advantage of a reduced weight or a reduced mass and as a result u.a.
• FIG. 1 is a simplified partial perspective view of a container basket consisting of a cell carrier and several provided on this cell carrier bottle or container cells.
• Fig. 2 in partial view a section through the wall of a container cell.
• the container basket generally designated 1 in the figures essentially consists of a box-shaped cell carrier 2, for example made of sheet steel, preferably made of corrosion-resistant sheet steel, and of a plurality of bottle or container cells 3 which are suitably inserted into receptacles 2.1 of the cell carrier 2 and to this example are held by locking twist-proof and accurate and firmly positioned.
• the container basket 1 is part of a not shown container cleaning machine for cleaning bottles or similar bottle-like containers and doing special part of a transport system of the container cleaning machine, which has a plurality of similar container baskets 1, each with its cell carriers 2 at both ends with fastening tabs 2.2 on Transport elements, for example, are held on rotating transport chains and with which the containers to be cleaned are moved through cleaning and treatment zones of the cleaning machine.
• each container cell 3 is composed of a tubular portion 4, which in the illustrated embodiment is a substantially polygonal or square outer and inner cross-section having rounded corners and in the illustration of Figure 1 at the top of the container basket 1 is open or there forms the open bottle or container cell end, as well as from one of the section 4 downwardly adjoining, frusto-conical tapered mouth portion or section 5 together.
• a tubular portion 4 which in the illustrated embodiment is a substantially polygonal or square outer and inner cross-section having rounded corners and in the illustration of Figure 1 at the top of the container basket 1 is open or there forms the open bottle or container cell end, as well as from one of the section 4 downwardly adjoining, frusto-conical tapered mouth portion or section 5 together.
• Against the section 5 is the respective, recorded in the bottle cell container with its container mouth area.
• the section 4 projects with a section 4.1 on the top of the cell carrier 2 and is received in the cell carrier 2 with a section 4.2.
• Section 5 protrudes beyond the underside of the cell carrier.
• openings 6 and 7 are provided in the wall of the container cell 3, in particular also a plurality of openings 7 at the bottom of the portion 5, e.g. is formed lattice-like.
• the peculiarity of the container cells 3 consists in the fact that they are each made completely as molded parts made of foamed plastic, in such a way that the container cell 3 zellig closed on its entire outer surface, ie with a closed, smooth surface forming layer is made without pores.
• the thickness of this layer can be adapted by controlling the process parameters to the respective requirements.
• Suitable plastic material for the production of the container cell 3 are the thermoplastic or thermosetting plastics or plastic foam systems known to the person skilled in the art, as well as methods used for the production of molded parts from hard plastic foam, for example rigid polyurethane foam or PF.
• the parameters are set in the production so that the container cell 3 not only in all surface areas by preventing foaming of the plastic material, for example by appropriate cooling of the mold used in the production, closed-cell, ie formed with a smooth surface, but at their surface areas also one sufficiently high strength, in particular also shock and wear resistance has, for example, the fact that there or in a cross-sectional area of sufficient thickness foaming of the plastic material is prevented or greatly reduced.
• the Foaming can take place in many different ways, in particular by the foaming of the plastic causing additives.
• the container cells 3 are produced with a sufficiently high stability.
• the total mass of the container cell 3 can be kept low, so that a significantly reduced heat capacity results for the container cell 3 compared to conventional, made of non-foamed plastic container cells, with the advantage of significant energy savings in the operation of a container cleaning machine ,
• the production of the container cells 3 as moldings made of foamed plastic has considerable advantages, so u.a.
• the container cells 3 can be formed by the molding process in terms of their shape, their course, their structuring, with molded functional elements (this, for example, the positions 8 of Figure 2), etc. in a simplified manufacturing process, as e.g. et al
• the training of the invention thus connects u.a. the advantages of simplified production and optimum shaping of the container cells and their inner surfaces with a significant reduction in heat capacity and thus a significant energy savings in the operation of the cleaning machine.
• the density, ie the number and / or size of the pores of the foamed plastic material to be adjusted so that not only the required closed and smooth as possible outer surface results, but the respective container cell 3 where higher mechanical stresses occur in the use case in a cleaning machine, and / or where the container cells 3 are designed special filigree, ie the shape of the container cells 3 is characterized by narrow and / or thin wall sections, such as has in the region of the openings 7 forming lattice-like structure, a higher mechanical strength.

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