EP1002718B1 - Dispositif pour remplir des cartouches - Google Patents

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EP1002718B1
EP1002718B1 EP99117248A EP99117248A EP1002718B1 EP 1002718 B1 EP1002718 B1 EP 1002718B1 EP 99117248 A EP99117248 A EP 99117248A EP 99117248 A EP99117248 A EP 99117248A EP 1002718 B1 EP1002718 B1 EP 1002718B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B3/00—Packaging plastic material, semiliquids, liquids or mixed solids and liquids, in individual containers or receptacles, e.g. bags, sacks, boxes, cartons, cans, or jars
    • B65B3/04—Methods of, or means for, filling the material into the containers or receptacles
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B39/00—Nozzles, funnels or guides for introducing articles or materials into containers or wrappers
    • B65B39/001—Nozzles, funnels or guides for introducing articles or materials into containers or wrappers with flow cut-off means, e.g. valves
    • B65B39/004—Nozzles, funnels or guides for introducing articles or materials into containers or wrappers with flow cut-off means, e.g. valves moving linearly

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  • the invention relates to a filling device for cartridges, which has an annular Has outlet opening within a cartridge neck, in the There is a fixed center piece in the center, with a slidable one valve cap arranged on the neck, which in a first position, in the the valve cap is biased, the annular outlet opening with the help covers an inwardly projecting ring flange and in a second Position releases the outlet opening.
  • the invention relates in particular to a filling device for valve cartridges, as described in DE 197 05 201 C1.
  • cartridges are used to hold printing inks for printing machines, but also for other pasty materials, such as silicone, adhesives etc.
  • the cartridge mentioned has a valve cap that is on the neck of the Cartridge is arranged to be longitudinally displaceable and with an annular shape an annular projection opening of the cartridge releases or closes.
  • the valve cap is in the closed position biased so that it opens automatically when using a in the piston arranged in the cartridge has a sufficiently high delivery pressure is exercised without automatically closing the pressure.
  • a device for filling a provided with a dosing pump Container is described in document EP-A-0 098 978.
  • the object of the invention is a filling device to create the relatively simple structure and inexpensive to manufacture is and also economically used for relatively small filling batches can be.
  • the claws preferably have a cam surface on the radially outer side on when the sealing sleeve is pushed in the direction of the cartridge the sealing sleeve is gripped so that the claws are pressed inwards and reach behind the valve cap with hook-shaped projections.
  • the claws are resiliently biased outwards, so they only grip the valve cap, when the sealing sleeve is fully advanced.
  • the filler neck has an annular on the end face facing the cartridge Seal on.
  • the device according to the invention can therefore also devices for producing such a vacuum exhibit.
  • the vacuum in the filling device and the cartridge can be produced done in different ways.
  • At least one vacuum channel is preferably provided, which, starting from from a vacuum source, radially outside of the supply hole on that of the cartridge facing end area from the filler neck in a closable Exit opening exits.
  • An annular slide is preferably provided, which over at least an outlet opening is displaceable and at least one with the Has outlet opening to be covered through hole.
  • the slider is rotatable as concentric around the feed bore
  • Rotary valve formed of a number of appropriately arranged Has passage holes.
  • the rotary valve can be formed through an end piece of a rotatable one arranged in the feed bore Sleeve.
  • the sealing sleeve preferably has at the end facing the cartridge an annular seal.
  • the center piece within the cartridge neck is preferably dome-shaped and the end area of the filler neck facing the cartridge has a correspondingly drawn-in trough, in the center of which the feed channel is located.
  • FIG. 1 shows, as mentioned, the transition region in a vertical section between a cartridge 10 to be filled and a filler neck 12.
  • the cartridge 10 is approximately bottle-shaped and has overall a neck 14 directed downward in the position shown in FIG. 1, in the center of which is a web 16 distributed over the circumference with the inner one Wall of the neck 14 connected middle piece 18 is located. In this way an annular outlet opening between the neck 14 and the center piece 18 20 formed.
  • the middle piece 18 is arched, ie arched down in Fig. 1.
  • a piston 22 is shown, the total as can be called pot-shaped and a circumferential, cylindrical, against the inner surface of the cartridge 10 adjacent surface 24, a slight downward arch in FIG. 1 and one from above into the neck 14 protruding frustoconical recess 28 in the center of the bottom 26 includes.
  • the piston is used to squeeze the not shown in Fig. 1 pasty material and is in Fig. 1 in the lower end position within the cartridge in which a filling process can begin.
  • valve cap 34 engages around collar 30 with its upper edge 36 in FIG. 1. This edge is also conical on its inner surface the outer surface 32 of the collar.
  • the outer surface of the valve cap 34 is an inward Ring flange 38, which is first horizontally inwards and then after a kink runs conically downwards and inwards.
  • the ring flange 38 serves to close the outlet opening 20 of the cartridge, when the valve cap 34 assumes the position shown in FIG. 1.
  • the valve cap can consist of an elastic material and thus be extensible in the radial direction to such an extent that they from the 1 in the position shown in Fig. 2 on the right side Position down on the neck 14 can be moved. It is also alternative or additionally possible, the valve cap in the area of the upper edge 36 to be provided with a number of radial slots for a radial Ensure elasticity.
  • the cooperating sloping surfaces of the collar 30 and the upper edge 36 of the valve cap cause the valve cap 34 upwards in the drawing, d. H. biased into the closed position is.
  • valve cap 34 The displacement of the valve cap 34 into the lower, the outlet opening 20th releasing position occurs when using the cartridge due to the Pressure of the piston 22 on the pasty mass. During the filling process this pressure is not available, so the valve cap 34 in another Way must be opened.
  • a number of claws distributed around the circumference are in the Upper area of the filler neck 12 is provided. These claws become 40 pressed by springs 42 in a manner not shown, so that they assume the position shown on the right in Fig. 1. The one on the the left side in Fig. 1 claw 40 is shifted inwards, so that the valve cap with an inward, hook-shaped projection 44 34 overlaps from above.
  • Fig. 1 is the raised position of the sealing sleeve on the left side 46 and on the right side the lower starting position is shown.
  • the sealing sleeve 46 lies in its upper end position against the 48 designated end wall of the cartridge 10, as shown on the left in Fig. 1, and in this way surrounds the entire filling area at the transition from Filling neck 12 to the cartridge 10.
  • a circumferential seal 50 is inserted, which is used for a tight seal Completion towards the cartridge ensures. The purpose of this seal will come later explained.
  • Both the sealing sleeve 46 and the filler neck 12 have separate Drive devices that move up and down allow. It can be automatic or semi-automatic, In the case of small systems, this may also include manual drive devices act.
  • the filler neck 12 has a cylindrical outline and a concentric Feed hole 52 inside.
  • the feed hole 52 opens at the upper end in a recess 54 drawn down, the shape of which the Curvature of the middle piece 18 is adapted.
  • Located outside of the trough 54 a circumferential seal 56 in the end face of the filler neck 12 when the filler neck and cartridge meet against the underside of the annular flange 38 of the valve cap 34.
  • the sealing sleeve 46 has radial bores 58, 60, the outlet openings of which surrounded on the side of the filler neck 12 by seals 62, 64 are. At the bores 58, 60 there is a not shown from the outside Vacuum source connected. In the fully advanced against the cartridge Position of the sealing sleeve 46 meet the bores 58, 60 with vacuum channels 66.68 together, from the outside diagonally through the filler neck 12 into the trough 54 at the end of the filler neck 12 on the cartridge side run into it.
  • the outlet openings of the vacuum channels 66, 68 in the trough 54 are surrounded by seals 70, 72.
  • the entire transition area between the cartridge 10 and the filler neck 12 can through the sealing sleeve 46 in connection with their seal 50 and the cartridge 10 airtight be completed.
  • rotatable sleeve 74 located at the exit end of the sleeve 74 within the trough 54 goblet-shaped and in this way against the bottom of the hollow 54 is present.
  • the cup-shaped extension of the rotatable sleeve 74 forms one annular slide 76, which has a number of bores 78.80, that in a predetermined angular position of the sleeve 74 with the outlet openings of the vacuum channels 66.68 are aligned.
  • This angular position is in Fig. 1 and shown on the left in Fig. 2.
  • the sleeve 74 twisted, so the outlet openings of the vacuum channels 66,68 with the help of the annular slide 76 are closed, as on the right Page is shown in Fig. 2.
  • a cartridge 10 to be filled against the filler neck 12, namely such that the center piece 18 lies in the trough 54, as shown in FIG. 1 is.
  • the sealing sleeve 46 is then advanced against the cartridge 10 until the seal 50 on the front edge of the sealing sleeve 46 against the not designated Face of the cartridge 10 is present.
  • the sealing sleeve 46 runs with an internal chamfer, not designated on a cam surface of the claws 40, also not shown, on and pushes it inside.
  • the hook-shaped projections overlap 44 the valve cap 34 from its cartridge end.
  • the sleeve 74 is rotated inside the feed bore 52, until the annular slide 76 at the end of the sleeve 74 the vacuum channels 66,68 closes, as shown on the right in Fig. 2. In the filling process can begin at this moment. By rotating the Sleeve 74 ensures that the fill mass does not enter the vacuum system is sucked.
  • the device according to the invention is only a small one structural effort required, so that they can be used economically can be filled, for example, when small batches of special colors are filled should be.
  • Cartridges that have already been emptied can be refilled. The filling takes place through the outlet opening. An additional fill opening not necessary.

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  1. Dispositif de remplissage de cartouches qui comportent un orifice de sortie (20) de forme annulaire à l'intérieur d'un col de cartouche (14), au centre duquel se trouve une pièce centrale (18) fixe, avec un capuchon de soupape (34) disposé coulissant sur le col, lequel, dans une première position dans laquelle le capuchon de soupape (34) est précontraint, recouvre l'orifice de sortie (20) de forme annulaire à l'aide d'une bride annulaire (38) faisant saillie vers l'intérieur, et qui, dans une deuxième position, libère l'orifice de sortie (20), caractérisé en ce que le dispositif de remplissage comprend
    une tubulure de remplissage (12) cylindrique avec perçage d'alimentation (52) concentrique pour la matière de remplissage à l'intérieur,
    une douille d'étanchéité (46) entourant concentriquement la tubulure de remplissage (12) et pouvant coulisser longitudinalement par rapport à la tubulure de remplissage,
    des griffes (40) dans une zone terminale de la tubulure de remplissage (12) destinée à l'application de cartouches, qui permettent de saisir le capuchon de soupape (34) et de le tirer dans la position ouverte, par retrait de la tubulure de remplissage (12), et
    des dispositifs d'entraínement pour un coulissement longitudinal indépendant de la tubulure de remplissage (12) et/ou de la douille d'étanchéité (46).
  2. Dispositif de remplissage selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que les griffes (40) comportent, sur le côté radialement extérieur, une surface de came, sont saisies pendant le coulissement de la douille d'étanchéité (46) et pressées vers l'intérieur en direction de la cartouche, par la douille d'étanchéité (46) et passent derrière le capuchon de soupape (34) à l'aide de saillies (44) en forme de crochet.
  3. Dispositif de remplissage selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisé en ce que les griffes (40) sont précontraintes élastiquement vers l'extérieur.
  4. Dispositif de remplissage selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que la tubulure de remplissage (12) comporte, dans la zone terminale prévue pour l'application de la cartouche, une garniture d'étanchéité (56) de forme annulaire coopérant avec la surface frontale du capuchon de soupape (34).
  5. Dispositif de remplissage selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé par au moins un canal à vide (66, 68) qui, partant d'une source de vide, sort, radialement à l'extérieur du perçage d'alimentation (52), dans la zone terminale tournée vers la cartouche, de la tubulure de remplissage (12), dans un orifice de sortie qui peut être fermé.
  6. Dispositif de remplissage selon la revendication 5, caractérisé par un coulisseau (76) de forme annulaire qui peut coulisser sur le ou les orifices de sortie d'au moins un canal à vide (66, 68), et qui comporte au moins un perçage (78, 80) à amener en recouvrement avec le ou les orifices de sortie.
  7. Dispositif de remplissage selon la revendication 5 ou 6, caractérisé en ce que sont prévus plusieurs orifices de sortie de canaux à vide (66, 68), répartis sur le pourtour autour du perçage d'alimentation (52), et en ce que le coulisseau (76) est réalisé en tant que coulisseau tournant pouvant tourner concentriquement autour du perçage d'alimentation (52).
  8. Dispositif de remplissage selon la revendication 7, caractérisé en ce que le coulisseau (76) forme l'embout d'une douille (74) tournante disposée dans le perçage d'alimentation (52).
  9. Dispositif de remplissage selon l'une des revendications 5 à 8, caractérisé en ce que la douille d'étanchéité (46) comporte une garniture d'étanchéité (50) à l'extrémité tournée vers la cartouche.
  10. Dispositif de remplissage selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que la pièce centrale (18) à l'intérieur du col de cartouche (14) est pré-bombée en forme de coupole et en ce que dans la zone terminale de la tubulure de remplissage (12), destinée à l'application de cartouches, il est prévu un creux (54) de section transversale correspondante, dans lequel débouchent le perçage d'alimentation (52) et le ou les canaux à vide (66, 68).
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