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
  • B08B9/423—Holders for bottles, cell construction

Definitions

• Container cell in particular bottle cell, container basket with such container cells and method for producing container cells
• the invention relates to a container cell according to the preamble of claim 1, to a container basket according to the preamble of claim 14 and to a method of manufacturing container cells according to the preamble of claim 15.
• Container or bottle cells as part of container or bottle baskets in container or false cleaning machines are known and serve there for receiving containers during transport with a transport system formed by a plurality of container or bottle baskets through the various cleaning and treatment zones of the respective container - or bottle washer (DE 195 42 773 A1).
• container or bottle cells or their walls or cell shells from a cylindrical or polygonal-shaped section and an adjoining, tapered section (mouth region), wherein the cell sheath at least over a larger part of the container cell length of a Sheet metal exists.
• a disadvantage of known container cells, etc. is that they or their cell jacket have a relatively large mass and thus also a relatively high heat capacity. This results in the operation of a container cleaning machine due to the temperature differences between the different treatment zones and the resulting constant heating and cooling of the container cells during transport through the treatment zones to significant energy losses.
• the object of the invention is to show a container cell having a sufficiently high mechanical and thermal stability as well as the possibility of simplified production of the cell sheath a reduced heat capacity. Furthermore, in the context of the present invention, the aim is to reduce the mass of a container cell in order to further reduce the energy loss.
• a container cell is designed according to claim 1.
• a container basket consisting of a cell carrier and a plurality of container cells is the subject of patent claim 14.
• a method for producing container cells is the subject matter of patent claim 15.
• the container cell according to the invention which can be produced from sheet metal, for example by punching and bending, connects by their special design in a surprising manner, the advantages of a simplified production, an optimally selectable for the cleaning and treatment of the container shape and high mechanical and thermal stability in particular the advantage of a reduced mass and heat capacity and, associated therewith, a substantial energy saving in the operation of a container cleaning machine equipped with the container cells according to the invention, by the use of a high-strength metal sheet, for example a steel sheet with profiles in predetermined areas.
• the profiling of the metal sheet can be realized in a variety of ways, for example by beads, ribs, embossments, etc.
• the profiling is not only in terms of their course, their shape, etc. to the shape of the respective container cell or Adjusted cell shell, but also partially or locally performed differently on different areas of the cell wall, in such a way that the partially or locally very different loads that a container cell is exposed during operation of a container cleaning machine, is taken into account optimally by the reinforcing profiling ,
• a metal sheet is used as the starting material, which is tailor-made for the respective container cell with the profiling, ie the profiling is already on the starting material in terms of their nature, shape, size, arrangement and / or their course so (also partially or locally different) provided that it has after stamping and bending or molding of the starting material on the container cell or at the local, to be reinforced by the profiling areas each required for each area training in terms of type, shape, size, arrangement and / or course, for example different in different areas of the cell wall.
• custom-made sheets also known as "tailored blanks"
• These customized sheets consist of at least two components which have different properties, such as different grades of material and / or or material thicknesses and / or geometrical dimensions, and have been joined together by a joining process, for example by welding together.
• the interaction of the at least two constituents results in a profiled sheet in its entirety which, however, is additionally provided by beads or Ribs can be provided.
• 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.
• FIGS. 2 to 4 each show, in simplified schematic partial representation, the profiled wall (cell jacket) in different embodiments of the container cell of FIG. 1;
• FIG. 5 is a partial perspective view of a container cell according to another embodiment of the invention, in the region of its open end,
• Fig. 6 u. 7 in a simplified schematic partial representation of the profiled wall (cell casing) in different embodiments of the container cell of FIG. 5.
• the container basket generally designated 1 in FIG. 1, consists essentially of a box-type cell carrier 2 made of preferably corrosion-resistant sheet steel and of a plurality of bottle or container cells 3, which are respectively fitted in receptacles 2.1 of the cell carrier 2 and fitted thereto, e.g. are held by locking twist-proof and firmly positioned.
• the container basket 1 is part of a container cleaning machine, not shown, for cleaning bottles or similar bottle-like containers and in particular 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 mounting tabs 2.2 on rotating transport elements, for example are held on circulating transport chains and with which the containers to be cleaned are moved through cleaning and treatment zones of the cleaning machine.
• the general shape of the container cells 3 is adapted as optimally as possible to the shape of the containers or bottles to be cleaned, ie the wall 4 (cell jacket) of each container cell 3 consists of two tubular, adjoining sections 4.1 and 4.2 and of a truncated cone , section 4.3, following section 4.2.
• the container cell 3 In the area of sections 4.1 and 4.2, the container cell 3 has a substantially polygonal or square outer and inner cross section with rounded corners.
• Against the section 4.3 is the respective, received in the container cell 3 container with its mouth area.
• the peculiarity of the container cells 3 is that they are made of a very thin high strength sheet metal, e.g. Steel sheet (for example, stainless steel sheet) are made, in the illustrated embodiment in the entire region of the cell wall or its wall 4 with a metal sheet whose thickness is 0.7 mm, but preferably is well below 0.7 mm, for example only about 0.5 mm, so as to keep the total mass and thus the heat capacity of the container cells 3 as small as possible.
• Steel sheet for example, stainless steel sheet
• the wall 4 of the container cells 3 is at least at the critical regions, i. at such areas, which are subjected to an increased load under the action of force in the operation of a container cleaning machine, reinforced by a suitable structuring of the metal sheet.
• beads 7 - 10 which are introduced by embossing or rolling in the metal sheet, namely the beads 7, 8 and 9, which are each annularly designed to enclose the longitudinal axis of the container cell 3, at the edge region of Opening 5 (rib 7), between the upper and lower end of the container cell 3 and at the bottom of the above the cell carrier 2 projecting portion 4.1 (rib 8) and at the lower end of the section 4.3 (rib 9). Furthermore, 3 extending beads are introduced into the metal sheet of the wall 4 in the longitudinal direction of the container cell, as shown in the figure
• FIGS. 2 and 3 show further possibilities for reinforcing the container cell 3 by profiling.
• the specified there with 4a wall is stiffened by ribs or beads 11 and 12, which in turn are introduced by embossing or rolling in the metal sheet, in the illustrated embodiment such that these ribs on a common Surface side of the non-deformed portions 13 of the metal sheet protrude.
• the ribs or beads 11 and 12 are further introduced so that the longitudinal extent of the ribs or beads 11 with the longitudinal extent of the ribs or beads 12 forms an angle, for example the ribs or beads
• ribs or beads 12 are perpendicular or transverse to the ribs or beads 12, for example, between two ribs or beads 11 each have a plurality of ribs or beads 12 are provided, and that all ribs or beads 11 and all ribs or beads 12 each with their longitudinal extent in a common direction or substantially common direction, for example ribs or beads 11 in the direction of the longitudinal extent of the respective container cell 3 and the ribs or beads 12 in the circumferential direction of this container cell.
• the side of the metal sheet over which the ribs or beads 11 and 12 protrude then forms e.g. the outer surface of the respective container cell 3, so that the open side of the ribs or beads 11 and 12 within the container cells 3 form additional flow paths, via which can flow during cleaning cleaning medium or drain.
• FIG. 3 shows a wall 4b in which the metal sheet forming this wall has a multiply corrugated structure with a multiplicity of, for example, pillow-like or dome-like projections 14 which are produced by embossing the metal sheet and originally fla on a common side of the sheet before embossing - projecting metal sheet.
• the wall 4b can also be structured in such a way that it has projections 14 projecting over both the outside and the inside of the container cell.
• FIG. 4 shows, as a further embodiment, a wall 4c which is produced from a metal sheet which is stamped by rolling, in such a way that the metal sheet forming the wall 4c is provided on at least one surface side with intersecting web-like regions or ribs 15 and 16 is that form a the mechanical strength of the container cells 3 substantially determining grid-like structure in which the regions 17 between the ribs 15 and 16 are designed with a particularly small plate thickness, for example, with a plate thickness even less than 0.5 mm.
• a group of the ribs, for example the ribs 15, extend for example in the longitudinal direction of the container cells 3, while the ribs 16 of the other group run in the circumferential direction of the container cells 3.
• the metal sheet forming the wall 4c tailor-made for the tank cells 3, i. with regard to their profiling (eg arrangement, shape, also cross-sectional shape, shape, size of the ribs 15 and 16) of the shape of the container cells 3 according to form optimally, for example in such a way that in the longitudinal direction of the container cells 3 extending ribs 15 in their shape and / or their course are adapted to the shape of the container cells 3, and of course with appropriate adaptation of the ribs 16 and taking into account also the possible manner partially different loading of the container cells.
• profiling eg arrangement, shape, also cross-sectional shape, shape, size of the ribs 15 and 16
• FIG. 5 shows a partial view of a container cell 18 in the region of its upper, open end, which differs from the container cells 3 in that the container cell 18 at least in their tubular, so far the sections 4.1 and 4.2 corresponding sections of a tailor made for the container cells 18th produced metal sheet is produced by punching and bending.
• the metal sheet forming the respective wall 19 is made of a starting material (metal sheet) using a suitable molding technique, eg hydroforming, Rolling, embossing, etc.
• the container cells 18 are made of the blank material provided with the projections 20-23, the beads 25, etc. by punching at least one blank having these projections, beads, etc., and then bending this blank to the three-dimensional container cell 18, wherein the edge portions 26 adjacent one another after bending are suitably connected to each other.
• the manufacture of the container cells from custom-made profiled sheets has u.a. the advantage that the profiling can be optimally provided in terms of their shape and / or arrangement of the container cells 18, and in particular partially different and not only for the stiffening, but also for other functions, for example, for an optimal connection of the container cells 18 with Cell carriers etc.
• Figures 6 and 7 show in partial representation further examples of a wall 19a and 19b for container cells 18, which (walls) are made by a custom profiling of the metal sheet used as starting material, namely at the wall 18a of Figure 6 in the form that this wall at which the opening 24 surrounding edge region is reinforced by a circumferential, over the outside of the container cells 18 projecting rib 27 and in this rib 27 further, in the longitudinal direction of the container cells 18 extending ribs 28 open at its upper end, the ribs 28th protrude beyond the ribs 27.
• FIG. 7 shows a similar embodiment of the tailor-made structuring of the wall 19b, however, in the form that the ribs 27 and 28 each have the same height or project beyond the outside of the container cells 18 to the same extent.
• All versions have in common that the wall of the container cells 3 and 18 each consist of a thin high-strength metal sheet, for example made of sheet steel and is reinforced by corresponding profiling at least in some areas, and that by the thin-walled design of the container cells 3 and 18, the mass of these Container cells and thus their heat capacity is kept small.

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