WO2017144157A2 - Dispositif d'usinage, installation et procédé d'usinage pour des contenants de différents types - Google Patents

Dispositif d'usinage, installation et procédé d'usinage pour des contenants de différents types Download PDF

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WO2017144157A2
WO2017144157A2 PCT/EP2017/000168 EP2017000168W WO2017144157A2 WO 2017144157 A2 WO2017144157 A2 WO 2017144157A2 EP 2017000168 W EP2017000168 W EP 2017000168W WO 2017144157 A2 WO2017144157 A2 WO 2017144157A2
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    • 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
    • B65G47/847—Star-shaped wheels or wheels equipped with article-engaging elements the article-engaging elements being grippers
    • 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
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C49/00—Blow-moulding, i.e. blowing a preform or parison to a desired shape within a mould; Apparatus therefor
    • B29C49/42—Component parts, details or accessories; Auxiliary operations
    • B29C49/4205—Handling means, e.g. transfer, loading or discharging means
    • 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
    • B65G29/00—Rotary conveyors, e.g. rotating discs, arms, star-wheels or cones
    • 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
    • B67C7/002—General lay-out of bottle-handling machines
    • 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
    • B67C7/0046—Infeed and outfeed devices
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C49/00—Blow-moulding, i.e. blowing a preform or parison to a desired shape within a mould; Apparatus therefor
    • B29C49/42—Component parts, details or accessories; Auxiliary operations
    • B29C49/4205—Handling means, e.g. transfer, loading or discharging means
    • B29C49/42093—Transporting apparatus, e.g. slides, wheels or conveyors
    • B29C49/42095—Rotating wheels or stars
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C49/00—Blow-moulding, i.e. blowing a preform or parison to a desired shape within a mould; Apparatus therefor
    • B29C49/42—Component parts, details or accessories; Auxiliary operations
    • B29C49/4273—Auxiliary operations after the blow-moulding operation not otherwise provided for
    • B29C49/42808—Filling the article

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  • the invention relates to a processing device, a processing plant and a processing method for containers of different types or different provisions in the subsequent production process to the processing device. Furthermore, the invention relates to a control cam device and an adapter for the processing device for processing containers of different types.
  • rotary machines are used in processing and / or transport devices.
  • the rotary machines essentially consist of a turntable, distributed over the circumference of which are a plurality of container receptacles (to be understood as receiving devices or holders).
  • the containers are received in the receptacles, which are each associated with the processing stations in relation to the turntable, so that a container processing without stopping during the circulation is possible.
  • the rotary machine is charged, for example, at a first circumferential position with empty containers, and the containers are filled during circulation by means of the processing stations, at which filling valves are then arranged.
  • a removal point is provided at which the finished filled containers are removed.
  • a feed or removal device is used, which is often a transfer star, which can usually have a smaller diameter and tuned with the rotary rotates so fast that in the functional contact the same conveying speed, the corresponds to the peripheral speed results.
  • WO 2011/048508 A1 describes a conveying device for containers, which are fed via an inlet star a rotary and removed after passing through a processing section by means of discharge star.
  • Inlet and outlet spouts have recordings of different size or shape in order not to have to replace the inlet and outlet spiders when changing the type of vessel to be machined with the rotary.
  • the movement of the inlet and outlet star is synchronized with the rotary according to the positions of the container receptacle type used in each case.
  • a transport device for a container treatment machine in which to promote vessels of different diameters without retooling, the inlet and the outlet star sawtooth container receptacles having an elastic member having a container depending on the Diameter at a certain point in the recording can hold.
  • conveying devices are known in which the continuous transport star, in which receptacles located containers are processed, has differently shaped receptacles to record differently shaped container can.
  • DE 10 2006 033 511 A1 different, reversible grippers are distributed over the circumference of the transport star
  • DE 10 2010 053 476 A1 discloses a transport star with two star disks arranged vertically one above the other, each having receptacles for different types of containers.
  • the processing device has at least one charging device for containers as well as for each container type to be processed or for each container determination a correspondingly assigned removal device.
  • the processing device has at least two removal devices which are each designed to remove a specific type of container, the types of containers that can be removed with the removal devices being different or being designed to remove the same type of container, but each of the removed containers being one particular one
  • removal devices for different types of containers and different provisions can be combined - so, for example, without limiting the scope of a sampling device for containers of a first type and two removal devices for containers of a second type can be provided, the latter being supplied to different provisions.
  • the charging device and the removal devices associated with the respective container type or the respective container determination are each arranged at predetermined circumferential positions of the processing star. At least part of a circulation path between the charging device and the removal device associated with the respective container type or the respective container determination is designed as a processing path for containers of the respective type or the respective destination.
  • the processing star can optionally be charged with containers via the at least one charging device, while processed containers can be removed according to their type or their destination via the associated removal device.
  • a single feeding device is sufficient for the one embodiment of the invention in which the processing device containers of the same type but different determination are processed, so that appropriate removal devices are provided, remove the container according to their destination and perform further processing in different production lines.
  • At least one charging device is provided for each type of container.
  • Processing station herein includes stations for a variety of possible processing steps, such as, in particular, all processing steps for bottling beverages, other liquids or pasty masses.
  • Separatate feed / unload devices means that for each type of container handled with the processing station, provided and arranged only for this type and arranged loading and unloading device is provided.
  • the functionality of the charging and removal can be combined in a single device, ie, the charging device or one of the charging devices and one of Sampling devices are integrated and implemented in a common device, or it may be provided a first device for feeding and a second device for removal.
  • An integrated loading and unloading device can be realized, for example, by a transfer star with a plurality of receiving pockets, which alternately convey containers for loading the processing star and for removal.
  • Processing line is not the entire conveyor line of containers of a certain type between their loading and unloading, but the route in which they can be processed productively, because, after loading and before unloading, a certain angle of rotation for clamping, pressing, Solving the contact pressure, etc. required in which can not be processed productively, this is the so-called blind spot.
  • the machining distance can be specified here both as a distance measure and as an angle range.
  • the processing device is made possible to use the processing star ideal for filling containers of several different types or different determination.
  • containers of two different types can be filled with the processing device according to the invention.
  • the processing device has a first loading device for the first container type, which corresponds to its associated removal device, and a second charging device for the second container type, which corresponds to a second, associated removal device. If the loading device and the removal device are combined in an integrated manner, there are accordingly two combined loading and unloading devices.
  • the same principle applies to three or more different types of containers that are to be handled with the processing star without the need for retooling.
  • the loading device (or combined loading and unloading device) for the containers of one type is arranged on the processing line of the containers of the other type, so that the processing lines of the two types of containers overlap.
  • the loading and unloading devices are arranged on the processing star that they are always operatively coupled to the processing star.
  • pen or container provisions take place, wherein in the case of different types of containers, the respective feeders can optionally be equipped in their idle state with the containers or container blanks to be processed, so makeready and costs are saved, but it can also container of different types or different determination be processed simultaneously or in parallel.
  • a processing device can be operated in different modes: For serial processing Containers of different types are first loaded onto the processing star via one of the loading devices with containers of a first type, which are then processed and removed by the associated removal device. Subsequently, the processing star is fed via at least one other of the charging devices with containers of at least one other type, which are then processed and removed by the associated removal device.
  • a single feeding device being sufficient for this purpose - first the containers transferred from the loading device to the processing star are processed and removed from the associated removal device according to a first determination, and after being switched over the processed ones Removed container according to a second determination of the associated removal device.
  • the processing device can be operated for parallel processing of the containers of different types or different determination.
  • the processing star is fed simultaneously via several of the feed devices with containers of different types and the containers are different. rather manipulates types during their promotion in the processing star simultaneously or in the processing sequence specified by the rotation of the processing star.
  • the number of container receptacles of the processing star corresponds to an integer multiple of the number of (simultaneously) to be processed container types, which is denoted by N.
  • the processing device can be operated in parallel processing of the same container types with different destination. The processed containers are removed according to their destination from the respective associated removal device.
  • the processing device has a control device with which the removal of the containers of different types or different determination can be controlled by the associated removal devices in the respective operating mode of the processing device.
  • the container receptacles of the processing star can be designed so that in each receptacle all of the intended container types can be accommodated. These can also be designed so that each processing station can process containers of different types.
  • the container receptacles each have the same basic structure, which is suitable and suitable for all different types of containers to be processed. But it can also be provided with the different types of containers corresponding adapter with which the container recordings - automatically controlled or manually - are adaptable to the respective container types.
  • the processing stations assigned to the container receptacles can likewise each have the same basic structure which can be adapted to suit all the different container types or via adapters corresponding to the different container types.
  • the container receptacles of a processing star have a different basic structure according to the types of containers to be processed, so that in each case a part number of the container receptacles of the processing star is adapted to accommodate a specific container type.
  • the processing star has different container receptacles.
  • the controller ensures that the containers of the respective type are transferred to the corresponding container receptacles by the respective loading device and, after being processed, are removed from the removal device assigned to the container type.
  • the associated processing stations may also have a different basic structure corresponding to the container types to be processed, so that in each case a part number of the processing stations of the processing star is adapted for processing a specific container type.
  • the container receptacles and the processing stations which have a different basic structure according to the types of containers to be processed, matched to each other on the processing star, so that processing stations for a particular type of container is associated with a container receptacle for receiving the same container type.
  • the processing star can have different types of container receptacles, which are each matched in shape and dimensions to the male type of container.
  • the adaptation to the different types of containers via corresponding adapter has the advantage that the number of parts is kept low and an adaptation to as many different types of container without deep modifications to the processing star is possible, in particular without having to remove the container shots.
  • the recordings may have container or bottle plates, or stand bases corresponding to other vessels, optionally with holding devices.
  • the loading and unloading devices arranged on the continuously driven processing star can have different designs: they can be conventional, continuously operated transfer stars, or inlet and outlet stars, infeed and outfeed conveyor belts as separate devices or in and Outlet screws as separate devices, but also around Combinations of the above-mentioned - inlet star with outlet screw or inlet star with outlet conveyor or vice versa - or around an inlet star, which also works as a discharge star, or an inlet screw, which also acts as a discharge screw.
  • An inlet or outlet conveyor belt can be advantageously arranged tangentially with respect to the circumferential direction of the processing star.
  • singling screws may have a variable pitch in the longitudinal direction to adjust the container spacing in the promotion therein so that it corresponds for example to a pitch of a transfer star used - the singling screws provide, so to speak, a "translation" ready.
  • one of the aforementioned charging devices and / or removal devices may also be a clocked driven device, for example a clocked driven handling system such as a robot arm. It can also be a conveyor belt both the input and the outlet with a robot arm, respectively. a gripper can be combined.
  • a feeder can, for.
  • a conveyor belt an inlet screw and an inlet star, wherein the conveyor belt conveys the container to the inlet screw, which passes the container at the correct distance to the inlet star.
  • the charging and in particular the removal devices may be selected depending on the type of container to be removed, so for example, for cans, a conveyor belt running tangentially with respect to the circumferential direction of the processing star may be preferred as the removal device.
  • Each processing station of the processing star has at least one treatment device.
  • At the processing stations of the processing star at least one processing station may be a filling station or emptying station, which preferably has a filling valve and / or emptying valve as a treatment device.
  • At least one of the processing stations may be an evacuation station, a rinsing station, a pretensioning station, an inspection station, a printing station, a cleaning station, a folding station, a closing station, a quality control station, a painting station, a container forming station, in particular a thermoforming station or container blowing station.
  • the treatment device such as the filling or emptying valve, may have a contact section with which it can be pressed in a fluid-tight manner onto a container opening for treating, respectively filling or emptying containers on the processing section.
  • the contact portion may be provided by an adapter adapted to the different types of containers.
  • centering bells In order to position the vessels in a suitable manner for each operation to be performed on them, centering bells can be used, which are adapted to the respective vessels. There are centering, which fit on several types of containers, and the person skilled in the centering bells are known, which aresadapt Schlierend with small deviations of the container sections to be taken.
  • the centering bells can be exchanged on the processing star.
  • a bottle type centering which are arranged on the filling valve to which the bottle, for example, is pressed by pneumatic lifting, exchanged against the need for a type of dosing centering.
  • the base of the can differs only slightly from the base of the bottle with respect to the diameter, this is only a minimal effort since the centering bells can be designed to be easily interchangeable by means of a quick-change device.
  • the contact pressure serves to produce a fluid-tight contact between the Greet. Emptying valve and an opening of the container to be filled.
  • each filling or emptying station may have a pressure cylinder, which is designed for a relative contact pressure movement between the filling valve or emptying valve and the container receptacle associated with the respective processing station to effect in the direction parallel to the axis of rotation of the processing star.
  • either the container receptacles or the filling valves / emptying valves can each have a power transmission section, preferably a cam roller, which is in operative contact with a control device of the processing star.
  • the processing star has at least one control cam device with a circumferential control cam, which has a guide lane for each type of container to be processed, is stationary and is not rotated with the processing star.
  • the control cam provided by the control cam device with the guide lug is preferably designed so that in a predetermined contiguous region of a contact angle, which is within the processing path for the respective container type, the container openings can be pressed against the contact portions of the filling valves or emptying valves.
  • the control cam provided by the cam device with the guide lane may further include a non-press-on angle range in which the container openings are not pressed against the contact portions of the treatment device such as filling valves or purging valves.
  • a non-press-on angle range in which the container openings are not pressed against the contact portions of the treatment device such as filling valves or purging valves.
  • an inlet region and an outlet region may be provided, wherein at the inlet region and the outlet region in each case a switching element, such as a flap or switch is arranged, via which the access to the Benanpresswinkel Bachelor for the power transmission section of a predetermined container receptacle or a treatment device such a predetermined filling valve / emptying valve can be released.
  • the different container types which can be processed with the inventive processing device can be, for example, reusable glass bottles, disposable glass bottles, cans, in particular small beverage cans with volumes up to 1.0 l and party cans with volumes in the range from about 3 l to 10 l, reusable plastic bottles, disposable plastic bottles, for example with crown cork mouth or screw cap mouth , With the According to the treatment device according to the invention, any combinations in the processing are possible, such as can and disposable plastic bottle, disposable plastic bottle and multi-way plastic bottle, etc., as examples of different container types.
  • An example of different container determination is the processing of similar reusable plastic bottles, which are provided after removal in different production lines, for example, with different closures and labels.
  • a processing system for containers of different types or different destinations has at least one container processing device, which is arranged upstream of at least one pre-table device and / or at least one post-processing device, wherein the processing device is a processing device according to the invention for containers of different types or different destinations.
  • the at least one pre-table device is assigned to the at least one loading device, and at least one of the removal devices associated with each type of container or for each container determination is associated with the at least one post-processing device.
  • An adapter according to the invention is provided for adapting container receptacles or processing stations of a processing device according to the invention to at least two container types which differ at least in one of the container receptacle or the processing station facing portion at least in terms of a diameter.
  • the adapter which is part of the container receptacle or processing station or is detachably connected thereto, is aligned in the axial direction with the container receptacle and the associated processing station. Further, the adapter sleeve-like provides a receiving opening for the containers of different types and has at least two remote and axially spaced contact portions with different diameters.
  • diameters are adapted to the diameters of the at least two types of containers and have just enough game that the respective container type accommodates well in the contact portion, but without wobbling therein.
  • the contact portion with the larger diameter is arranged closer to the receiving opening than the contact portion with a smaller diameter. This allows the adapter to accommodate both types of containers. With the staggered by diameter If contact sections are used, adapters for more than two different types of containers can also be realized.
  • the axial distance of the contact portions of the adapter corresponds to an axial length difference of the different container types.
  • a control cam device for a processing star of a processing device according to the invention for containers of different types, wherein the control cam device is stationary and is designed for operative contact with power transmission sections of the container receptacles or the processing devices of the processing stations such as filling valves or emptying valves to a pressing movement between the processing station and the associated To cause container receptacle in a direction parallel to the axis of rotation of the processing star.
  • the cam device has a guide lane for each type of container to be processed.
  • the inventive method for processing containers of different types or different provisions in a processing apparatus comprises the following steps:
  • the method may further comprise the step of:
  • a second alternative of the method for processing containers of different types comprises the steps:
  • step a2) loading the container receptacles of the processing star, which lie between the container receptacles fed in step a1), with containers of at least one other type by means of the further charging device (s).
  • container receptacles which are "between" the container receptacles loaded in step a1), with reference to the loading of the container receptacles in step a2), the container receptacles are meant which have been left free by the loading of each Nth container receptacle for example, each (N + 1) -th container receptacle with containers of a second type, each (N + 2) -th container receptacle with containers of a third type, etc.
  • step c provision may be made for the containers to be moved past their assigned loading device at least once during conveying in the processing star and for processing at the processing stations in step b), before they are removed in step c).
  • the blind spot is a constructive absolute measure, which depends on the exact design of the loading and transfer device and their interaction with the processing star. Based on the respective total residence time of the containers of one type in the processing star, the proportion of the time duration during the passage through the blind spot when more than one revolution is set back on the processing star is smaller than with only one revolution on the processing star.
  • FIG. 1 shows a schematic representation of a processing device according to the invention with a charging device and two removal devices for containers with different determination
  • FIG. 2 shows a schematic illustration of a further processing device according to the invention with two charging devices for one container type and one removal device assigned to each type of container,
  • FIG. 3 shows a schematic representation of a further processing device according to the invention for different types of containers or determinations
  • FIG. 4 shows a schematic illustration of a further processing device according to the invention, in which (at least) one of the removal devices simultaneously forms the charging device,
  • FIG. 5 is a plant diagram with a processing device according to the invention corresponding to FIG. 2 in plan view,
  • FIG. 6 shows a perspective view of a control cam device for a processing device according to the invention
  • FIG. 6 is another perspective view of the cam device of FIG. 6,
  • Fig 8 is a transparent persp. View of the control cam device of Fig. 6,
  • FIG. 9 shows a schematic side view of container receptacles with assigned filling Stations and adapters adapted to the different containers.
  • the invention relates to a processing device for containers, with a low cost of equipment with minimized or no downtime more economical processing with different container types of containers to be processed is possible. Furthermore, similar containers can be processed with this device and be continued directly after processing in different production lines.
  • a processing device according to the invention enables maximum variability of the operating modes, without requiring major changes in the apparatus.
  • FIG. 1 schematically some embodiments of inventive processing devices 10 are outlined.
  • a simplest variant of the processing device 10 is shown in FIG.
  • a charging device 4 and two removal devices 2,3 are arranged, which are designed as transfer stars.
  • Both processing star 1 and the transfer stars of the feeder 4 and the removal devices 2,3 each have a plurality of container receptacles, which are not shown here.
  • containers B1 and B2 which are similar in their container type but are to be supplied to different determinations, are fed to the processing star 1, where they pass through a processing path during the rotation r of the processing star 1.
  • the removal of similar containers B1, B2 according to their determination by the respective removal devices 2,3 in the different production lines can be done in parallel, ie simultaneously. It is also possible with this processing device, if necessary, to operate only one of the removal devices 2 or 3, if only one of the continuing production lines of the container B1.B2 is required. This can also take place alternately, that is to say that production cycles with removal of the containers are alternately driven either via the first removal device 2 or via the other removal device 3.
  • FIG. 2 shows a further embodiment of the processing device 10 according to the invention, which can also be used for similar containers with different determination, but is primarily intended for the processing of containers B1.B2 of different types.
  • Container B1 can z.
  • B. Bottles and and B2 containers can be.
  • the bottles B1 are fed by a feeder 4, z.
  • As a transfer star passed to the processing star 1 and passing through rotation r of the processing star a processing route to the removal by the removal device 2.
  • the cans B2 are transferred to another circumferential position with the feeder 5 to the processing star 1, also go through a processing section and leave the processing star 1 via a tangential conveyor belt 3, which is a preferred removal device for cans.
  • Loading and unloading devices 2, 3, 4, 5 are each arranged in such a way that the containers cover as long a circumference as possible on the processing star 1.
  • the processing apparatus 10 may be both serial, d. H. be operated sequentially either with bottles or cans, or run in parallel, in which the loading of the container receptacles of the processing star 1 by the two feeders 4, 5 is adjusted accordingly.
  • FIG. 3 An alternative processing device 10, each having two loading and unloading devices 2, 3, 4, 5, is shown in FIG. 3. Also, this device 10 is suitable for operation in all operating modes listed - memorill and parallel, with containers B1.B2 different types of containers or container provisions. For containers B2 of a first type or a first determination, transfer sterns as loading device 4 and removal device 2 are shown at predetermined circumferential positions of the processing star 1. In contrast to FIG. 2, the further charging device 5 for the further containers B1 of a second type or a second determination is realized by a conveyor belt 55 and a robot device 56, which cyclically pushes the container B1 conveyed with the conveyor belt into the respective receptacle on the processing star 1 , The associated removal device 3 is shown as a transfer star.
  • the charging device 4 for container B1.B2 also forms a removal device 2 for one of the container types or container provisions B1.
  • the containers B2 of the further container type or the further container determination are removed from the processing star 1 by the further removal device 3.
  • this removal device 3 can also be designed as a charging device 5 for the further containers B2, so that only containers B1 of the first type or destination are supplied by the first charging device 4 become.
  • the processing installation 15 shown in FIG. 5 comprises an embodiment of the inventive processing apparatus 10 corresponding to FIG. 2, which has a processing star 1 as a central element in which containers of two types, here cans and bottles, can be processed. If, in the following, cans and bottles are mentioned, this is only to be understood as an example and can be applied to all other container combinations mentioned herein.
  • the processing star 1 is fed via a first feeder 4 with bottles and a second feeder 5 with cans.
  • the feed devices 4, 5 are each arranged at different angular positions of the processing star 1, so that the cans and bottles are dispensed at different points of the processing star 1.
  • the bottles are removed from the first removal device 2 and the cans are removed again from the processing star 1 by the second removal device 3.
  • the respective feed devices 4, 5 and unloading devices 2, 3 are combined in pairs, i. h., The supplied with the feeder 4 bottles are removed only from the associated removal device 2; The same applies to the cans with the mating feeder 5 and removal device. 3
  • bottles and cans are processed in parallel, so that the feed takes place at the same time via the feed devices 4, 5.
  • cans and bottles can be processed serially, i. h., First, for a first processing time of the processing star 1 via one of the feeders 4.5 charged and then for a further processing time on the other feed device 4,5.
  • the containers, bottles and cans each received in a container receptacle 1, at each of which a processing processing station, here a filling valve, is present, while the containers are filled while.
  • the productive working distance is slightly lower than the absolute conveying angle due to the principle-based dead angle.
  • the machining distances for the cans and bottles are dictated by the angular positions of their feeders 4, 5 and unloaders 2, 3, and partially overlap.
  • the filling processes carried out in the processing station 1 at the processing stations can differ for cans and bottles: While the steps flushing with CO2, tempering, filling and relieving are carried out to fill the can, the filling process for bottles has at least the steps of pre-evacuation, tempering, filling and relieving on.
  • the first charging device 4 which is provided here for feeding the bottles, in the present case has a singling screw 41, the empty bottles via a transport line 65, z. B. a conveyor belt are fed and which has a longitudinally variable pitch and thus brings the container in a suitable longitudinal distance corresponding to the pitch of the receptacles of the transfer star 42 and thus also the processing star 1.
  • the first removal device 2 is a combined handling system that extracts the bottles, not only by means of a transfer star 21, after they have been conveyed on the processing star 1, at least from the first charging device 4 to the first removal device 2, but in conjunction with the downstream closure device 8 also closes before the sealed bottles are transferred to a conveyor belt to the first container outlet 2 '.
  • the bottles are transferred from the processing star 1 through the transfer star 21 to a small processing star 22, in which the bottles are closed in conjunction with the capper 8, for example, with bottle caps. From this closure starter 22, the now closed bottles reach the discharge conveyor belt 2 'by means of an output star 23.
  • the sealed bottles can now be supplied in the further production line, for example, still a labeling machine before they are packaged in boxes or boxes.
  • the mode of operation of the second charging device 5 for the cans proceeds analogously via a separating screw 51, which separates the cans fed by means of the transport line 55 to a predetermined distance, and a transfer star 52, which picks up the separated cans and transfers them to the processing star 1.
  • a tangentially with respect to the circumferential direction of the processing star 1 extending outlet 3 is provided with appropriate conveyor technology. With the tangential outlet 3 can be avoided in the filled cans differently than when using a transfer star overspill. From the tangential outlet 3, the cans are fed directly to a can sealer 7 as a downstream processing device of the system 15, and from there conveyed by means of conveyor belt 3 'in order, if appropriate, to be further printed in the further course of production.
  • the containers are conveyed in each case more than one revolution on the processing star 1, d. h., They are given by the respective feeder 4.5 on the processing star 1 and pass exactly this charging device 4,5 again and are removed from the processing star 1 at the earliest at the second reaching the removal device 2.3.
  • a pre-table 6 Upstream of the feeding device 4 for the bottles, a pre-table 6 is arranged, which has a processing star 64 on which the bottles are subjected to a pretreatment, here for example rinsed, conceivable but also inspected or only inflated if they are plastic bottles. How to build such a processing star 64 is well known to those of ordinary skill in the design of rotary machines.
  • the processing star 64 of the pre-table 6 is fed from the first container inlet 4 'via a conveyor belt and the separating screw 61 and the transfer star 62 with bottles or bottle blanks, which are then conveyed (just) one revolution on the processing star 64, the pretreatment being carried out , Thereafter, the pretreated bottles are removed by the transfer star 63 and placed on the conveyor belt 65, via which they reach the feeder 4 of the processing star 1.
  • the cans can also be supplied from the container inlet 5 'initially to a pretreatment device 50, for example likewise a flushing apparatus, before they reach the loading device 5 via the conveyor belt 55.
  • a pretreatment device 50 for example likewise a flushing apparatus
  • FIGS. 6 to 8 schematically show a control cam device 100, as used for controlling the contact states of filling valves of a processing star 1 can.
  • the cam device 100 is formed as a hollow cylindrical ring member and provides with its upwardly facing, frontal annular surface 110 and the guide lanes 101, 106 which are formed in the annular wall of the hollow cylindrical annular member, control cams for controlling the filling valves for both bottles and cans.
  • the cam device 100 is stationary in relation to the processing star 1 inserted there and does not rotate with the rotating processing star 1 with.
  • the cams provided by the cam device 00 are provided with power transmission sections, such as cam rollers 115, only two of which are exemplified in FIG. 6 - each processing station on the processing star has a movable component with a power transmission section - operatively in contact with the respective mobile component; which is the container receptacle 1 or the treatment device, for example a filling valve 111.
  • the processing star 1 slide or roll the power transmission sections or the cam rollers 115 on a cam from - during the Anpressphase on the upwardly facing frontal annular surface 110.
  • the contact pressure is released when the power transmission sections or the cam rollers 115 in the respective guide lane 101, 106, whereby a movement of the movable component is effected parallel to the axis of rotation of the processing star 1.
  • the respective force transmission section or the cam roller 115 again emerges from the guide track 101, 106 on the end-side annular surface, so that a container received by the container receptacle 11 is pressed against the filling valve.
  • the container receptacle may be the movable component and is moved away from the rolling on the cams cam roller (or other power transmission section) for pressing in the direction of the filling valve.
  • An alternative cam device may be formed so that in the reverse direction a treatment device of the processing star, such. B. a filling valve for pressing in the direction of the container receptacle or the container standing on it and is moved away again.
  • the cam device 100 shown here has two guide lanes 101, 106, a guide lane 101 for processing, for example filling, of bottles and a shorter guide lane 106 corresponding to cans.
  • the arrangement of the pressing and Brockanpress Schemee the cam device 100 and the arrangement of the cam device 100 on the processing star 1 with respect to the loading and unloading devices is of course tuned so that the container receptacles 11 and the associated processing stations go through the non-Anpress Scheme when the container be fed and removed.
  • the guide streets 101, 106 have an inlet area and an outlet area. Both at the inlet regions of the guide lanes 101, 106 and at the outlet regions, a switching element 102, 103, 104, 105, in each case formed here as a controllable flap, is arranged.
  • a switching element 102, 103, 104, 105 in each case formed here as a controllable flap, is arranged.
  • flap 103 access to the guide lane 101 for bottles and over flap 105 can be released according to the access to the guide lane 106 for cans. Accordingly, flaps 102 and 104 release the spout from the guide lane 101 for bottles and 106 for cans.
  • the flaps 02, 103 for the bottle outlet and inlet are permanently closed, so that the force transmission sections slide over them without passing the guide lane 101 for bottles, so that the contact pressure is maintained.
  • the flaps 104,105 remain closed for the inlet and outlet of the Dosen Operationssgasse 106.
  • the flaps 102,103,104, 05 are driven according to the opening and closing, so that the respective power transmission sections, which are associated with a can or bottle filling station or the respective container receptacle 11 on the processing star 1, correspondingly in the associated Samuelsgasse101 for bottles and 106 for Cans arrive.
  • the force transmission section assigned to a filling valve or a container receptacle does not pass through the associated guide lane during each revolution, but for example only every second or third or N-th circulation in the leading lane for the initiation of Brockanpressphase occurs, so that the Anpressphase lasts more than one revolution.
  • the force transmission sections guided on the front-side annular surface maintain the contact pressure phase between the filling valve and the container received on the receptacle until the flap is actuated to open the inlet of the respective guide lane.
  • the flaps 102,103, 04,105 may be hinged to the main body of the cam device 100 and be controlled to open and close via a pneumatic motor or other actuator.
  • the flaps are designed so that they complement the frontal annular surface in the closed arrangement, so that the power transmission sections can unroll smoothly over the flaps in the closed arrangement / slide.
  • FIG. 9 shows schematically an adapter 112 according to the invention for a filling valve 111 of a processing device according to the invention.
  • the arranged on the filling valve 11 1 adapter 112 is shown twice, left in the Anpressan Aunt with a bottle B1 and right in the Anpressan Aunt with a can B2, which are each arranged on a receiving plate 11 'as part of a container receiving a processing star.
  • the adapter 112 is shaped to provide two contact portions 113, 114. In this case, it is used that the respective container section with the filling opening, in this case the bottleneck and the can end side, have different diameters.
  • the contact portion 114 for cans B2 whose diameter at the filling opening is larger than that of the bottles B1, are formed by an outer annular shoulder of the adapter 112, which is located on the side facing away from the filling valve 11 1, facing the container end of the adapter.
  • the contact portion 113 for bottles B1 is also formed by an annular shoulder, which, however, is offset radially inwardly and axially upwardly with respect to the contact portion 114 for cans B2.
  • the adapter 112 thus serving as a centering bell for various containers B1, B2 can also take into account the axial difference in length of the different types of containers, in that the two contact sections 113, 114 are correspondingly axially spaced apart from one another.
  • a corresponding adapter may alternatively or additionally be provided for the container receptacle 11 or the receiving plate 11 ', but is not shown figuratively. Furthermore, an adapter can also be designed for more than two different types of containers whose diameters differ at their respective filling opening. LIST OF REFERENCE NUMBERS
  • Container holder 62,63 Delivery stars of the pre-table 11 'Receiving plate 64 Processing star of the pre-table
  • Second container inlet 113,114 contact section adapted to bottles, cans

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L'invention concerne un dispositif d'usinage (10) pour contenants (B1, B2) de différents types ou de différentes désignations. Le dispositif d'usinage (10) comprend une étoile de traitement (1) qui présente un nombre prédéfini de logements (11) de contenant. Une station de traitement est associée à chaque logement (11) de contenant, de manière fixe par rapport au logement (11) de contenant. En outre, le dispositif de traitement (10) comprend au moins un dispositif de chargement (4, 5) de contenant, ainsi qu'un dispositif de prélèvement (2, 3) associé pour chaque type de contenant ou pour chaque désignation de contenant. Le ou les dispositifs de chargement (4, 5) et chaque dispositif de prélèvement (2, 3) sont agencés respectivement dans des positions périphériques prédéfinies de l'étoile de traitement (1). Au moins une partie d'un parcours de circulation entre le ou les dispositifs de chargement (4, 5) et le dispositif de prélèvement (2, 3) associé au type respectif de contenant ou à la désignation respective de contenant est réalisée sous la forme d'un parcours de traitement pour les contenants du type respectif de contenant ou de la désignation respective de contenant. L'étoile de traitement (1) peut être chargée en contenants (B1, B2) par le ou les premiers dispositifs de chargement (4, 5) et des contenants (B1, B2) traités peuvent être prélevés par le dispositif de prélèvement (2, 3) associé en fonction de leur type ou de leur désignation.
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