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
  • B67C3/001—Cleaning of filling devices
  • B67C3/002—Cleaning of filling devices using cups or dummies to be placed under the filling heads
  • B67C3/004—Cleaning of filling devices using cups or dummies to be placed under the filling heads permanently attached to the filling machine and movable between a rest and a working position

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a device for filling containers.
• Filling plants usually have on a transport device arranged filling stations, which fill the containers with liquids and in particular with drinks.
• This filling device has filling caps, which are each pivotable and displaceable about an axis lying substantially parallel to the central axis of the associated filling member.
• a cleaning cap is likewise provided, which can be displaced between a cleaning position arranged at a mouthpiece and a standby position offset at least laterally from the mouthpiece, wherein a rotary motor with an output shaft which can be driven for rotation and coupled with the support lever is provided as the actuator ,
• the device has a stationary against the outlet opening arranged first magnetic or magnetizable element, which cooperates with a second magnetic or magnetizable region of the closing body to move the closing body.
• the magnetic or magnetizable elements cooperate to apply the closure body to the outlet opening.
• the closure body is in particular a closure cap which preferably completely seals the outlet opening.
• the outside of one of the filling elements enclosing Reinrau ⁇ tes or insulator provided without contact closure body, which allows to carry out an internal cleaning and / or sterilization on the device or on a filling machine, without causing CIP media or rinse water are driven into a clean room or insulator.
• the closure body is completely separated from the outlet opening or a support of the device in one position.
• Such a method for cleaning or sterilization is sometimes required officially in nationally different regulations. Furthermore, it would be necessary for such a required procedure to sterilize the insulator with gaseous hydrogen peroxide. Only by using a closure body, the insulator can be kept dry and thus can be sterilized again without loss of time.
• the inventively proposed electromagnetically actuated CIP cap or the closure body can continue to save a mechanically complex construction and there is a considerable maintenance advantage for the user. Furthermore, the structure proposed here is relatively easy to construct in terms of hygienic design and thus particularly suitable for those users who process microbiologically highly sensitive drinks.
• the first magnetizable element is an electromagnet.
• the first magnetizable element which is arranged stationarily opposite the outlet opening and in particular at the outlet opening, controllable, so that the closure of the outlet opening can be controlled starting from the outlet opening.
• the outlet opening is at one Carrier arranged and also the first magnetic or magnetizable element is arranged on this carrier.
• the closing body has a permanent magnet.
• the closure body it would be possible for the closure body to be made of a material that can be attracted to a permanent magnet, such as iron.
• a magnetizable element or magnetic element in the broadest sense is understood to mean an element attractable by a magnet.
• a coil is arranged around the outlet opening.
• This coil is part of the electromagnet on the support via which the closing body can be tightened.
• the outlet opening is arranged at the end of a tubular channel, wherein a wall of a magnetizable material is preferably arranged around the outlet opening here.
• the mentioned coil is preferably arranged around this wall.
• the discharge port is closed by the closing body to then perform internal cleaning and CIP cleaning, respectively.
• an electromagnet in the form of a ring is preferably incorporated in the bottom piece of the filling valve. This solenoid must be strong enough to press the closure body (ie the CIP cap) against the spout or fill valve. More precisely, the holding force should be sufficient to an internal pressure in the filling valve of about 5 bar to withstand.
• the device has a control device which also controls the said solenoid on the filling valve.
• the closure body is pivotable about a predetermined pivot axis. More specifically, preferably, the closing body or the CIP cap is connected via a rotary joint to the filling valve or the insulator and is freely movable with this rotary joint in a pivoting direction.
• the hinge is constructed so that it can be optimally cleaned with foam and also meets the requirements of a hygienic design otherwise.
• said ⁇ chwenkachse is fixed and laterally offset from the outlet opening.
• the pivot axis does not disturb the actual filling process for the drink.
• the pivot axis is perpendicular to a jet direction in which the liquid flows to fill the container.
• the device advantageously has an outlet line for a liquid medium.
• a cleaning medium for a CIP cleaning removed from the device and in this way the complete device to be cleaned.
• this outlet line is preferably in fluid communication with the outlet opening.
• the closing body is placed on the outlet opening and closes it with it. The backflowing liquid cleaning medium passes in this way via the outlet again to a return.
• liquid line can be closed with respect to the outlet opening.
• the device has a further, stationarily arranged, magnetizable element, which cooperates with the latter for moving the closing body.
• magnetizable element which cooperates with the latter for moving the closing body.
• it is preferably an electromagnet which is fastened to the stationary area of a system.
• the above magnets are activated on the filling valves.
• the filling machine rotates and the closing bodies pass the said stationary magnet whose polarity repels the caps in the direction of the filling valves. If a certain angle is exceeded, the closing bodies are attracted and held by the magnets of the filling valves.
• the magnets mentioned remain activated during the entire cleaning or sterilization. However, they can also be locked in their closed position by suitable hygienically designed locking elements, so that then the necessary for the generation of magnetic force electrical energy can be saved.
• the electromagnet is preferably switched off, which causes the caps to fall back. If the caps or occlusive bodies do not fall back by the action of gravity alone, it would also be possible to reposition the electromagnet at the outlet opening.
• the Verschegakappen itself not only have magnetizable elements but magnets. More precisely advantageous is the closure body, which is particularly preferably made of stainless steel, magnetized accordingly. Again, it is possible to hold the magnetic or magnetized closing elements by appropriate retention mechanisms, magnetic or mechanical, at each filling element in its open position.
• the present invention is further directed to an arrangement for filling containers with a liquid, which arrangement comprises a plurality of devices of the type described above and wherein these devices are guided with a transport device along a predetermined transport path.
• this transport device is a transport wheel or transport star, which guides the device along a circular path, in which way the filling of the containers takes place during this transport time.
• the devices run at least temporarily in a clean room. This means that in particular the filling with a beverage takes place within a clean room or under aseptic conditions.
• the microbiological safety existing aseptic plants are significantly increased, since much less mechanical components and thus microbiological trouble spots must be installed.
• considerable savings in manufacturing and manufacturing costs are saved by the above-described saving of mechanical components and the simplification of the Greventillies.
• the arrangement has a magnetizable element arranged in a stationary manner for moving the closing bodies.
• all closing bodies can be applied to the outlet openings before a cleaning process.
• the arrangement has a feed device for feeding the containers to the transport device, as well as a discharge device for picking up the filled containers from the transport device, and the stationarily arranged element is arranged in a region between the feed device and the discharge device, in which no containers are promoted.
• the feed device it would be possible for the feed device to transfer the containers to a filling wheel, and then to transport the containers with this filling wheel in a clockwise direction to the discharge device.
• the stationarily arranged element is in this case clockwise between the discharge device and the supply device arranged, that is in the area in which no containers are arranged on corresponding carriers.
• the additional solenoid is installed between an outlet star and an infeed star of the machine and attached to the stationary part.
• the present invention is further directed to a method for operating an arrangement for filling containers with liquids, wherein at predetermined times the containers are filled via a arranged on a support outlet opening with the liquid and at other predetermined times the outlet opening is closed by a closure body wherein the closure body is moved to close the outlet opening.
• a first magnetic or magnetizable element arranged on the carrier or stationarily opposite the outlet opening cooperates with the closing body.
• this element cooperates with a permanent magnet of the closing body.
• the closure of the outlet opening with the closing body to carry out a cleaning process.
• Fig. 1 shows an inventive arrangement for filling containers.
• Fig. 2 is a sectional view of a device for filling containers according to the invention.
• FIG. 1 shows an arrangement 50 according to the invention for filling containers 20.
• This arrangement 50 has a feed device 52 which feeds containers 20 to a transport device 40 (compare arrow Pl).
• the feed device 52 is a transport star or a transport wheel on which a plurality of gripper elements, such as gripping clamps, which grasp the containers and transfer them to the transport device 40, are arranged.
• a plurality of devices 1 for filling the containers 20 is provided with a liquid.
• a (not shown) reservoir is provided, from which the liquid is filled into the containers 10.
• the reference numeral 54 refers to a discharge device, which discharges the containers, as indicated by the arrow P2, from the system 50 again.
• the transport device 40 as well as the individual devices 1, the feed device 52 and the discharge device 54 are arranged in a clean space 42 shown only schematically. In this way, the filling of the containers can take place under aseptic conditions;
• the reference numeral 32 refers to a magnetizable element arranged in a stationary manner, in particular but not exclusively an electromagnet, which is arranged between the supply device 52 and the discharge device 54.
• FIG. 1 shows a sectional view of a device 1 according to the invention for filling containers (not shown) with liquid and in particular with drinks.
• This device 1 in this case has a liquid line 8, via which the beverage along the arrow P3 in the housing interior of the device and ultimately via an outlet opening 2 in the container ⁇ not shown) can be introduced.
• the reference numeral 38 refers to a displaceable in the longitudinal direction L piston device, at the end of a closing body or a valve device 34 is arranged, which can seal an opening 36 within a housing 30 to block in this way the supply of liquid into the container ,
• the containers are preferably plastic containers such as, for example, PET bottles.
• the reference numeral 24 refers to an outlet pipe or an outlet pipe for a further liquid medium, via which this liquid medium can be removed along the arrow P4.
• This outlet line 24 is used for CIP cleaning of the system.
• a closing body designated in its entirety by 10 is arranged at the outlet opening 2 in order to close it.
• a cleaning medium is introduced into the interior of the device 1 via the liquid line 8.
• This cleaning medium in turn rises and passes through the outlet line 24 along the arrow P4 again from the device 1. In this way, an internal cleaning of the entire device 1 is possible.
• the closing body 10 is shown here in an open position.
• the closing body 10 can be pivoted in its entirety about a pivot axis X in order to be able to rest against the outlet opening 2 in a further position (not shown).
• a magnetizable Element 12 is arranged, which here has a coil 18 which surrounds the outlet opening 2.
• the reference numeral 22 denotes a wall which likewise surrounds the outlet opening 2, which wall is preferably made of a magnetizable material in order to be magnetized when the coil 18 is energized.
• the closing body 10 pivots upwards along the arrow P5 and in this way seals the outlet opening 2 tightly.
• the closure body 10 is independent of the valve device 34 controllable.
• the closure body 10 has a cover section 10a which covers the outlet opening 2.
• an angled portion 10b is provided, which in turn opens into a rotary joint for pivoting about the axis X.
• the angled section 10b is arranged opposite the cover region 10a at an angle which is between 70 ° and 150 °, preferably between 80 ° and 140 ° and particularly preferably between 90 ° and 120 °.
• the reference numeral 16 refers to a magnetizable element of the cover body 10, which cooperates with the magnetizable element 12. These are, as mentioned above, in the magnetizable element 16 to a permanent magnet which is attracted to the corresponding energization of the coil 18 of this.
• the lower part of the figure shows a plan view from below of the invention Device or the outlet opening 2, which is surrounded by the coil 18.
• the further magnetizable element 32 shown in FIG. 1 causes the closing body 10 to be pivoted through a certain angle along the arrow P5 in order to be subsequently attracted by the magnetizable element 12. In this way, it is possible that for the implementation of a CIP cleaning, the magnetizable element 32 and the magnetizable element 12 cooperate.

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