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
  • B67C3/02—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus
  • B67C3/22—Details
  • B67C3/26—Filling-heads; Means for engaging filling-heads with bottle necks
• • 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
  • B67C3/02—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus
  • B67C3/22—Details
  • B67C3/28—Flow-control devices, e.g. using valves
• • 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
  • B67C3/02—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus
  • B67C3/22—Details
  • B67C3/24—Devices for supporting or handling bottles
• • 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
  • 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
  • B67C3/02—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus
  • B67C3/22—Details
  • B67C3/26—Filling-heads; Means for engaging filling-heads with bottle necks
  • B67C2003/2671—Means for preventing foaming of the liquid

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a filling plant for filling a filling product into a container, for example for filling drinks in glass or plastic bottles.
• Filling plants are known in which the containers to be filled are guided in transport devices which are designed in the form of rotary travelers or carousels. It is known, for example, to make the filling of the container to be filled in a rotary, which rotates during filling around its axis, wherein the
• Filling product are provided in the container to be filled.
• different filling methods are known, which differ, inter alia, whether the container to be filled is pressed against the respective filling member and a fluid-tight connection between the filling member and the container to be filled is produced accordingly during the filling process, or whether the filling by means of a said free jet is performed, wherein the Greinstrahl falls from the filling valve in a container arranged below to be filled container without a fluid-tight seal between the container to be filled and the filling member is provided.
• the filling product falls during free jet filling in a free jet section unguided and unprotected in the container to be filled.
• the filling product jet Due to the rotation of the rotary rotor, the filling product jet is deflected radially outwards due to the centrifugal force which acts on the filling product during the filling process.
• Closing device can also be designed as Rund choirrverschpracticer.
• a filling plant for filling a container with a filling product which comprises a filling device for filling the container with the filling product.
• an electrostatic field deflection device is provided for deflecting the filling product relative to the container.
• Transport device to another or during the transfer of the filled container from the filling device to a transport device or from a
• Transport device to a closing device also a deflecting device with an electrostatic field can act on the filling product that it counteracts excessive deflection of the filling due to the impulses applied in the transfer areas or due to the change of each acting on the filling forces. It can thereby be achieved that a slosh tendency or an overflow tendency of the filling product present in the filled container in the area of the respective transfer points is reduced from one transport device to the next or can be completely prevented.
• Circular speed of a rotary machine to either improve the performance of the machine or reduce the necessary radius of the rotary machine.
• deflection device it is also possible by means of the deflection device to divert the free jet so that a preferred impact point of the free jet within the container to be filled by the provided receiving space can be taken. This is for example from then
• the AufJumneist during the filling process depends, inter alia, on the respective impact of the filling product in the container to be filled. It may be advantageous, for example, to align the filling product jet so that it first impinges on an inner wall of the container to be filled, at which it then slides to the bottom of the container, so that the filling product is quasi decanted, at least at the beginning of the filling. But it may also be advantageous to provide the point of impact directly at the bottom of the container to be filled in order to reduce the tendency to foaming in this way.
• the AufMumneist the filling product can be reduced so that the system performance can be increased overall. This is the case in particular because, given a reduced tendency to foaming, the filling process as a whole can be shortened and a possibly provided time for calming the filling product can be shortened.
• the output can be increased overall for a given plant size.
• the size of the system can be reduced because the rotational speeds of the individual transport devices, such as
• Rundschrs or the transport stars can be increased, so that according to their radii can be reduced.
• the filling device for filling the container is formed in the free jet and the deflection device acts on the free jet.
• the beneficial effects of free-jet filling can be combined with the requirements for increased plant performance or compact design of the plant.
• a transport device for transporting the filled container is provided and the deflection device acts on the filling product accommodated in the container.
• overflow or leakage of filling product due to the centrifugal forces occurring can be avoided, so that the system performance can be further improved.
• the filled container is transferred in a transfer area to a subsequent transport device and the deflection acts in the transfer area on the recorded in the container filling product.
• the performance of the system can be further improved because a clean transfer of the filled containers can be achieved and a loss of filling product can be avoided.
• a particularly cost-effective design of the deflection device can be achieved in that the deflection device at least one electrostatically charged element, such as
• plastic or hard rubber used to achieve a deflection of the Greinsky sky sky sky sky sky sky sky sky sky sky sky sky sky sky sky sky sky sky sky sky sky sky sky sky sky sky sky sky sky sky sky sky sky sky sky sky sky sky sky sky sky sky sky sky sky sky sky s, a stea stea steasteasteasteasteasteastea stea stea stea stea stea stea stea stea stea stea stea stea stea stea stea stea stea stea stea stea stea stea stea stea stea stea stea stea stea stea stea stea stea stea stea stea stea
• the deflection device may also comprise a capacitor, preferably a plate capacitor. Between the capacitor plates then the electrostatic field is built up.
• a capacitor preferably a plate capacitor.
• the strength of the electrostatic field can be controlled by the applied voltage and accordingly the applied electrostatic field and thus the resulting spatial deflection of the filling product to the respective filling product, its viscosity and water content and to the corresponding Plant application, for example, the rotational speeds of a rotor of a filler, star transport or capper can be adjusted. Accordingly, by regulating the strength of the applied electrostatic field also a control of the achieved deflection and thus a flexible system control, which on different Ausbringitch, different products and also different
• the deflection device is used together with a transport device for
• the intended deflection device can be moved, for example, together with the respective rotating transport device.
• it may be arranged in each case in the region of the container receptacles or filling elements and be moved with them together.
• each container holder is equipped with a deflection device.
• the deflection device may also extend stationarily along a transport area in which a deflection is required. This can be, for example, in the transport area of a rotary traveler in which the actual filling of the container with the filling product takes place in the free jet. This is usually not the entire scope, but the filling usually takes place only in a predetermined treatment angle.
• the deflection device can furthermore be provided in areas in which the transfer of containers from a transport device to a further transport device is provided.
• FIG. 1 shows a schematic representation of a filling process in the free jet in a resting at rest container
• FIG. 2 shows a schematic representation of a filling process in the free jet in a filler designed as a rotary at a slow rotational speed according to the prior art
• FIG. 3 a schematic representation of a filling process in the free jet in a filler designed as a rotary at a high rotational speed according to the prior art
• Figure 4 is a schematic representation of a filling process in the free jet in a designed as a rotary filler at a high rotational speed, the here
• FIG. 5 a schematic representation of a container filled with a filling product in the stationary state
• FIG. 6 shows a schematic representation of a container filled with a filling product in a transport device designed as a rotary machine at a high rotational speed according to the prior art
• Figure 7 is a schematic representation of the transfer of a filled with a filling product
• Figure 8 is a schematic representation of the transfer of a filled with a filling product
• Container from a trained as a rotary transport device to a subsequent trained as a rotary transport device, wherein the deflection device proposed here is provided.
• FIG. 1 schematically shows a section of a filling installation 1, wherein the filling installation 1 has a filling device designed as a rotary device with a filling element 10, which has a filling product outlet 12.
• the filling product flows out of the filling element 10 or the filling product outlet 12 of the filling element 10 and flows as a filling product jet 14 into a container 2 to be filled, which has a neck region 20 which defines a container mouth 22.
• the filling product jet 14 flows through the container mouth 22 of the container 2 to be filled into the interior of the container 2 to be filled. If the container 2 to be filled is still completely empty, the filling product jet 14 impinges on an impact point 24 on the bottom 26 of the container 2 to be filled.
• FIG. 1 is a section of a bottling plant 1, which has a plurality of conventional filler bodies 10, which are arranged on the circumference of a rotary runner. During the circulation of the filling elements 10, the filling product is placed in the container 2 arranged underneath and circulating together with the filling elements.
• the filling members 10 are provided in the embodiments shown here for the free-jet filling. Accordingly, the container to be filled 2 is not pressed against the filling member 10, but there is a free section therebetween, through which the Gear Bachstrahl 14 from the Art.auslauf 12 of the filling member 10 runs out before it enters the container mouth 22 of the container 2 to be filled , In other words, there is at least one portion of the filling product jet 14, in which the filling product jet 14 is not directly surrounded by the filling member 10 or the container 2, but virtually “free” falls through the room in the resting state described in Figure 1 falls Medtechnikstrahl 14 corresponding centrally in the container to be filled 2 and meets with its point of impact 24 centrally on the floor 26.
• Container mouth 22 in the container 2 in it Accordingly, a situation is shown here in which an overspray or overflow of the filling product jet 14 due to the centrifugal force induced deflection of the product jet 14 is observed. That's it
• FIG. 4 shows a filling installation 1 according to the present proposal, which has a filling element 10 arranged on a rotary, which in turn is provided for filling a container 2 with a filling product by means of a filling product jet 14.
• Deflection device 3 is provided at least in the region of the free falling distance of the filling product jet 14, ie at least in the region from which the filling product jet 14 emerges from the filling product outlet 12 of the filling element 10 and before the filling product jet 14 reenters the container mouth 22 of the container 2 to be filled ,
• the deflecting device 3 can also act on further sections of the filling product jet 14 and also on the entire filling product jet 14.
• the deflection device 3 provides an electrostatic field 30, which is so on the
• Impact point 24 at the bottom 26 of the container to be filled 2 can also be returned so far that the AufMumneist is reduced correspondingly advantageous.
• Rotation speeds of the rotary machine can be operated without it comes to the emigration of the Gear Treatstrahls 14 shown in Figure 3, so that there is a loss of filling product, an inaccurate filling of the container to be filled 2 and a
• the deflection device 3 is formed in the embodiment shown in the form of a capacitor plate of a plate capacitor, which is correspondingly charged so that an attraction of the Gear Bachstrahls 14 is achieved against its deflection by the centrifugal forces.
• the deflection device 3 is arranged stationary in the embodiment shown and does not rotate with the rotary. Rather, the deflection device 3 is provided stationary only in the areas of the rotary traveler, in which actually takes place a filling of the filling product in the free jet in the container to be filled. In particular, the deflection device 3 is not provided where the container 2 is received in the rotary device, or in those sections in which the filling product settles before the filled container is transferred to a subsequent transport device.
• the deflection device 3 is preferably provided in the form of a capacitor, in which case the electrostatic field acting on the filling product can then be adjusted via the voltage applied to the capacitor. Accordingly, the deflection made via the deflection device 3 can also be applied to the respective machine speeds, in particular the
• an optimized impact point 24 can always be approximated or maintained to the Times, which are provided for the calming of the filling product in the container to reduce.
• the deflection device 3 can also be provided by an electrostatically charged element, for example an electrostatically charged plate.
• the electrostatically charged element can be provided for example in the form of a plastic or hard rubber material.
• An advantage of such a design is that here no separate voltage source is required to charge the element. It is possible, for example, an electrostatic charge of a stationarily arranged electrostatically charged element by the
• FIGS. 5 to 8 show a filled container 2, which is already filled with filling product 16. Such a state of a filled container 2, for example, to the conclusion of
• the filling product 16 is up to a filling product level 18 in the filled container 2 and the container mouth 22 is still open. In other words, the container 2 is already filled with the filling product, but not yet closed. If the filled container is at rest, as is schematically shown, for example, in FIG. 5, then the filling product level 18 is oriented substantially horizontally.
• FIG. 6 shows the container from FIG. 5 in a circulating transport device.
• the filled container 2 is held on the outer circumference of a transport carousel, a transport star or, for example, the filling device and then runs around the axis of the respective carousel around. Accordingly, the filling product mirror 18 is pushed outwardly due to the centrifugal force acting and forms a meniscus.
• Transport device deflected in a different direction, so that it comes to an opposite deflection 19 of the filling product level.
• This opposite deflection 19 is due to the fact that the direction in which the centrifugal force on the filling product 16 in the filled container 2 acts, is changed due to the abruptly changing axes of rotation in the transfer of a transport device to the subsequent corresponding abruptly.
• the fill product level 18 can be deflected from the position shown by reference numeral 18 to the position shown in FIG Forces to spill over the filling product through the container mouth 22 come through.
• This spillover results inter alia also by the fact that with a change of the force acting on the filling product, a superposition of forces takes place, which can lead to a spill.
• the deflection device 3 proposed in the present case is again indicated, by means of which the respectively acting centrifugal forces can be counteracted.
• Carousel axis was deflected around, by the application of the deflection device 3 quasi, as shown at reference numeral 19, influenced and pulled straight. Accordingly, in the subsequent transfer of the filled container to a subsequent
• the sloshing movement can be reduced.
• the occurrence of sloshing movements can be further reduced or even largely prevented.
• Rotation speeds and the spillover of filling product in the transfer of a rotating transport device to a subsequent rotating transport device can be reduced or avoided.

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