WO2017005458A1 - Système de guidage de récipients dans une machine de traitement de récipients - Google Patents

Système de guidage de récipients dans une machine de traitement de récipients Download PDF

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WO2017005458A1
WO2017005458A1 PCT/EP2016/063460 EP2016063460W WO2017005458A1 WO 2017005458 A1 WO2017005458 A1 WO 2017005458A1 EP 2016063460 W EP2016063460 W EP 2016063460W WO 2017005458 A1 WO2017005458 A1 WO 2017005458A1
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Dieter-Rudolf Krulitsch
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    • 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
    • B67C7/00—Concurrent cleaning, filling, and closing of bottles; Processes or devices for at least two of these operations
    • B67C7/0006—Conveying; Synchronising
    • B67C7/004—Conveying; Synchronising the containers travelling along a circular path
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G47/00—Article or material-handling devices associated with conveyors; Methods employing such devices
    • B65G47/74—Feeding, transfer, or discharging devices of particular kinds or types
    • B65G47/84—Star-shaped wheels or devices having endless travelling belts or chains, the wheels or devices being equipped with article-engaging elements
    • B65G47/846—Star-shaped wheels or wheels equipped with article-engaging elements

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  • the invention relates to a positioning, holding and / or guide system according to the preamble of claim 1, to a container conveyor according to
  • Container diameter to be adjusted which is highly undesirable in practice because of the associated time-consuming manual activities.
  • each filling element is associated with a closing element on the rotor, which is movable between a parking position within a movement path on which the filling elements, and a working position in which the respective closing element is arranged coaxially with the associated filling element under this.
  • a common actuator is provided with which the closing elements between the parking position and the working position to be moved.
  • the object of the invention is to show a positioning, holding and / or guiding system for containers, with which it is possible, provided for positioning, holding and / or guiding the container on the conveyor or rotor format parts depending on the respective transportable and / or to be treated container type, in particular as a function of the respective container diameter simplified and time-saving.
  • a positioning-holding and / or guide system for containers according to the patent claim 1 is formed.
  • a container conveyor is the subject of claim 12.
  • a container handling machine is the subject of claim 13.
  • the invention thus basically relates to a positioning, holding and / or guiding system for containers with adjustable format parts on a conveyor or transport element or transport star and / or on a gyro or rotor of a container treatment machine.
  • the container parts forming format parts of the positioning, holding and / or guide system can be different
  • the containers with the adjustable format parts for example, in hot filling of the contents of the thermal expansion of the rotor with the filling elements following a larger pitch circle diameter are positioned around the machine axis, so that even in this case, each container is centrally under a filling element.
  • Format parts of the positioning, holding and / or guide system is carried out in each case via a common actuator manually or preferably motor and thereby usefully with a servo technology, with a high accuracy and
  • tainers are preferably cans, but also bottles, tubes, pouches, in each case made of metal, glass and / or plastic, as well as others
  • Packaging suitable for filling liquid or viscous products.
  • container treatment machines are machines or devices which are used for treating and / or processing packaging materials and which require precise positioning of the containers in the treatment, for example filling machines, capping machines, machines for printing on packaging materials, labeling machines, etc.
  • Container treatment machine which is exemplified as a filling machine. Show it:
  • Fig. 1 in a very simplified schematic representation and in side view of the filling machine for filling containers in the form of cans with a liquid product or product
  • Fig. 2 and 3 in a simplified partial view and in plan view of an annular, a container footprint forming machine element of the filling machine of Fig. 1, together with several format parts in the form of container receptacles, in a setting for the treatment of containers with the smallest container diameter to be processed (Fig. 2) and in a setting for the treatment of the largest containers
  • FIGS. 2 and 3 representations similar to FIGS. 2 and 3 in another
  • 1 is a filling machine for filling containers 2 in the form of cans with a liquid filling material.
  • the filling machine 1 comprises i.a. one
  • Transport element in the form of a rotor 3 which is circumferentially drivable about a vertical machine axis MA in the direction of the arrow A and in the illustrated embodiment, inter alia, consists of an upper machine element 3.1 and a lower machine element 3.2.
  • the upper machine element 3.1 which is for example designed as a product vessel or has a Grecorekessel, a plurality of filling elements 4 is provided, the specialistssbe respectively.
  • Form filling positions and with their axes FA parallel to the machine axis MA oriented on a machine axis concentrically enclosing transport path (Pitch circle 5) are arranged at a predetermined pitch a from each other.
  • the lower Masch inenelement 3.2 forms, inter alia, below the filling elements 4, a container footprint 6, which is common in the illustrated embodiment for all filling elements 4 or treatment positions and on the open at its top container 2 with its bottom of the container opening stand up.
  • Each container 2 arranged below a filling element 4 is arranged with its container axis coaxially or substantially coaxially with the axis FA of this filling element 4.
  • Filling element 4 container receptacles 7 are provided, i. Each filling element 4 is assigned its own container receptacle 7. These effect with respect to the rotational movement A of the rotor 3 in the illustrated embodiment with a section 7.1 a tangential guide and support each container 2 at the (relative to the direction of rotation A) trailing portion of its container lateral surface and a section 7.2 with respect to the machine axis MA Radial or substantially radial support on a machine axis of this region facing its container lateral surface.
  • the container receptacles 7 are format parts, which are respectively adjusted in dependence on the diameter of the container 2 in position relative to the machine axis MA, so that the axis of each container is located on the pitch circle 5.
  • the container receptacles 7 in their entirety form a positioning, holding and / or guiding system for the containers 2 on the rotor 3.
  • the containers 2 on the rotor 3 or the machine element 3.2 are also secured by outer, non-rotating with the rotor 3 guides or guide means, as indicated in Fig. 1 at 8 in broken lines.
  • each container receptacle 7 essentially consists of a head piece 9, on which the two sections 7.1 and 7.2 of the respective container receptacle 7 are formed, in the form of two legs, for example, include an angle of 90 ° or about 90 ° with each other and of which the one, the section 7.1 forming legs radially or substantially radially relative to the machine axis MA and the other leg forming the section 7.2 extends tangentially or substantially tangentially to a circular line enclosing the machine axis MA, wherein the angle corner formed by the sections 7.1 and 7.2 is open to the outside with respect to the machine axis MA.
  • the head piece 9 is provided on a relative to the machine axis MA radially outer end of a lever or tab-like slide 10, which together with the
  • Head piece 9 for a format adjustment in the direction of its parallel to the plane of the base 6 oriented longitudinal axis L10 by a predetermined longitudinal stroke (double arrow B) slidably provided on the machine element 3.2, in the illustrated embodiment guided on bolt 1 1, provided on the machine element 3.2 slots 12 in slide 10 pass through.
  • the container receptacles 7 are further oriented with their slide 10 each obliquely to the direction of rotation A of the rotor 3, that the longitudinal axis L10 with a tangent at the intersection of the longitudinal axis L10 with the pitch circle 5 includes an angle smaller than 90 °, which is opposite to the direction of rotation A. opens, in the illustrated embodiment
  • Each head piece 9 is designed so that the container 2 with the smallest container diameter to be processed are supported tangentially and radially at a distance from the free end of the sections 7.1 and 7.2 forming legs, ie in the region of a concave transition between these legs (Fig 2), while the containers 2 with the largest diameter to be processed are supported radially and tangentially in each case in the region of the free ends of the legs forming the sections 7.1 and 7.2.
  • the angular distance between the container peripheral areas supported on sections 7.1 and 7.2 is for example about 90 °, relative to the container axis.
  • the container receptacles 7 By moving the container receptacles 7 in the direction of the longitudinal axis L10, it is now possible to set them as format parts so that even with different container diameter, the container 2 are arranged with its container axis respectively on the pitch circle 5, ie with a small container diameter Container receptacles 7 based on the machine axis MA outward and moved inward with a large container diameter.
  • the axial distance, the container 2 arranged on the pitch circle 5 from each other equal to the pitch a, regardless of the setting.
  • an actuator is provided on the machine element 3.2, which has a control ring 13 or is formed by this.
  • the control ring 13 cooperates with a respective driver 13.1, which is formed in the illustrated embodiment of a pin, with a control surface 14 of each container receptacle 7 together.
  • the control surface 14 extends substantially transversely to the longitudinal axis L10 and is formed in the illustrated embodiment of a slot.
  • Container handling machine e.g. in the filling machine 1, in which case in turn each filling element 4 is associated with a container receptacle 7a.
  • the sections 7a.1 corresponding to sections 7.1 and 7.2 (for the tangential support of the containers 2) and 7a.2 (for the radial support of the containers 2) are in this
  • each container receptacle 7a has at the inner end a broadening, on which the cooperating with the driver 13.1 of the control ring 13 control surface 14 is formed.
  • Control surface 14 relative to the direction of rotation A the respective pivot bearing 15.1 after.
  • all the container receptacle 7a of the positioning, holding and / or guiding system with its sections 7a.1 and 7a.2 are pivoted outward relative to the machine axis MA.
  • all the container receptacle 7a with its sections 7a.1 and 7a.2 are pivoted inwardly with respect to the machine axis MA.
  • Container receptacles 7a turn to be set with the control ring 13 so that the container 2 held on these format parts with their container axes are exactly on the pitch circle 5 and have an axial distance which is equal to the pitch a.
  • the rotor 3 is formed so that the machine elements 3.1 and 3.2 can be adjusted by rotating about the machine axis MA relative to each other, which is achieved for example with a between the machine elements 3.1 and 3.2 acting gear and / or actuator, eg electric actuator, and / or that for each machine element 3.1 and 3.2 a independent electric drive, for example, is also provided in the form of a torque motor.
  • 6 and 7 show as a further embodiment formed as a format parts container receptacles 7b, which in turn in its entirety form a positioning, holding and / or guide system for the container 2, but which are of the
  • Container receptacles 7 and 7a differ in that the serving for tangential and radial support of the container 2 sections 7b.1 and 7b.2 each container receptacle 7b are not formed on a common, adjustable element, such as head piece, but two relatively adjustable elements , On the machine element 3.2 are in this embodiment two the
  • Machine axis MA concentrically enclosing control rings 16 and 17
  • protrusions i. provided in the illustrated embodiment, finger-like projections 19 which protrude relative to the machine axis MA from the control ring 16 and from its outer annular surface radially outward.
  • the control ring 17 forms at its relative to the machine axis MA outer periphery of their function the
  • Section 7.2 corresponding sections 7b.2 for radial support and is for this purpose on its outer periphery in plan view a sawtooth with a plurality of alternately consecutive sections or flanks 20.1 and 20.2 formed in Drehtchtung A.
  • Each flank 20.1 is concaved around axes parallel to the machine axis MA and has an increasingly reducing distance from the machine axis MA in the direction of rotation A.
  • Each flank 20.2 following a radially inward transition 21 onto a flank 20.1 has an increasing distance in the direction of rotation A from the machine axis MA and is at its end on which it lies on a radially outer side
  • Transition 22 merges into another flank 20.1, is rectilinear or substantially rectilinear.
  • the transitions 22 are based on the
  • Machine axis MA outer regions of the sawtooth-like structure.
  • the distance between two successive transitions 22 in the direction of rotation A is again equal to the pitch a.
  • Each transition 21 is concavely curved in the illustrated embodiment about axes parallel to the machine axis MA, in such a way that the curvature of the portion 20.1 at this
  • the sections or flanks or 20.2 of the sawtooth structure form the sections 7b.2 for the radial support of the container 2.
  • the two control rings 16 and 17 are pivoted about the machine axis MA against each other that
  • each container 2 is tangentially supported on a projection 19 following the direction of rotation A of this container, and the flank 20.2 is supported radially in the vicinity of a respective transition 22.
  • the two control rings 16 and 17 are pivoted about the machine axis MA against each other, that each container 2, as shown in FIG.
  • this container subsequent projection 19 is tangential and radially supported at the transition 21.
  • two control rings 16 and 17 it is not only possible to adapt all the receivers 7b or the positioning, holding and / or guiding system to the diameter of the containers 2 so that they are actually arranged on the pitch circle 5 with their axes are, but there is also the Possibility to adjust the container receptacles 7b in the direction of rotation A or counter to this direction of rotation with respect to their angular position with respect to the transport element or the rotor 3, that each container 2 is arranged for filling with its container axis coaxially with the axis FA of a filling element 4. This is achieved, for example, in that both control rings 16 and 17 are rotated together and by the same angular amount about the machine axis MA relative to the rotor during or after the format adjustment.
  • Expansion movement of the Greinkessel having machine element 3.1 are positioned with the filling elements 4 following a larger pitch circle diameter, so that even in this case, the container 2 are centrally under each one filling element 4.
  • the control rings 16 and 17 form the actuator or are part of this drive.
  • the pivoting or rotation of the control rings 16 and 17 is done manually or by motor and thereby preferably with a servo technology to a high accuracy and
  • Format parts are not limited to use in filling machines, but are basically suitable for all container treatment machines and / or
  • Container transporters in which for safe, clear and / or positionally accurate guidance and / or positioning and / or mounting of containers a variety of format parts are required, which must be adjusted to adapt to the size and / or diameter of the container.
  • the format parts according to the invention are basically suitable for container treatment machines and / or container transporters with a circulating transport element or rotor. LIST OF REFERENCE NUMBERS

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Système de positionnement, de retenue et/ou de guidage de récipients (2) sur un élément transporteur, par exemple sur un élément de transport ou rotor tournant autour d'un axe machine (3) d'une unité de transport en étoile ou d'une machine de traitement de récipients comprenant une pluralité de pièces de format (7, 7a, 7b), constituant des élément de contact pour les récipients, par exemple sous forme de logements de récipients, pour positionner, maintenir et/ou guider avec précision les récipients sur un trajet de transport (5) prédéterminé.
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