EP1012106A1 - Dispositif pour fermer des contenants a boissons avec des elements de fermeture - Google Patents

Dispositif pour fermer des contenants a boissons avec des elements de fermeture

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EP1012106A1
EP1012106A1 EP98948902A EP98948902A EP1012106A1 EP 1012106 A1 EP1012106 A1 EP 1012106A1 EP 98948902 A EP98948902 A EP 98948902A EP 98948902 A EP98948902 A EP 98948902A EP 1012106 A1 EP1012106 A1 EP 1012106A1
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cap
caps
containers
conveyor
bottle
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EP1012106B1 (fr
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Dieter Schwenke
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KHS Maschinen und Anlagenbau AG
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Fehland Engineering GmbH
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B67—OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
    • B67B—APPLYING CLOSURE MEMBERS TO BOTTLES JARS, OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; OPENING CLOSED CONTAINERS
    • B67B3/00—Closing bottles, jars or similar containers by applying caps
    • B67B3/02—Closing bottles, jars or similar containers by applying caps by applying flanged caps, e.g. crown caps, and securing by deformation of flanges
    • B67B3/06—Feeding caps to capping heads
    • 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
    • B67C7/0026—Conveying; Synchronising the containers travelling along a linear path
    • B67C7/0033—Conveying; Synchronising the containers travelling along a linear path the operation being performed batch-wise
    • 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
    • B67C2007/0066—Devices particularly adapted for container closing

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  • the invention relates to a device of the type mentioned in the preamble of claim 1.
  • Generic closing devices are used for the automatic closing of beverage containers in the winery industry and have to be used for high performance e.g. 20000 bottles per hour.
  • the caps are first placed on the containers and, for example, lightly pressed there and then brought to the actual sealing device, which, depending on the design of the cap, rotates or deforms the sealing process (e.g. for crown caps).
  • the capping heads take the caps and transport them onto the bottles in order to close them there immediately.
  • the caps are fed to the sealing device after sorting and checking the position on a single-track cap conveyor.
  • a transfer device takes the caps from the cap transporter and brings them to the container in the target position.
  • the closing heads themselves are used for pick-and-place machines.
  • the containers run single-track through the closing device, which is usually designed as a runner.
  • the transfer device thus supplies all the containers one after the other.
  • a single-track bottle transport from the row filler to the row capper is provided according to the state of the art Caps are placed one after the other on the bottles. Since with all generic devices, the containers are successively capped, the transfer device must work very quickly. In addition, the use of the received devices is limited to single-track container transport.
  • the object of the invention is to provide a generic device which can work more slowly at a high container throughput and is not subject to the restrictions with regard to single-track container transport.
  • the transfer device in a transfer process the transfer device supplies all the containers in a row of containers. Compared to the gotite single-track design, this gives me the same output for the work of the transfer device, so that it can pick up the caps relatively slowly and bring them into the target positions. There are also opportunities to parallelize the processes.
  • the device according to the invention is also particularly suitable for use in container handling machines with parallel container transport without a number of conventional transfer devices corresponding to the number of parallel container transport tracks being required.
  • the device according to the invention can be used to put caps, such as screw caps, crown caps or other caps, on bottles of all kinds, such as plastic bottles, but also to put lids on the usual beverage cans.
  • the containers can be empty for special applications. Usually, however, the caps are placed on filled containers in order to close them.
  • the caps brought into the target position by the transfer device can be gripped one after the other or advantageously according to claim 2 by the cap carriers and placed on the container, which results in a constructive simplification by the simultaneous work.
  • the caps can be placed on moving containers, for example with the cap carrier moving along.
  • the features of claim 3 are advantageously provided.
  • the rows of containers are e.g. cyclically transported and supplied at standstill under the target positions.
  • the caps can be brought to the target positions in different ways by the cap transporter, for example all the caps required at once in parallel tracks.
  • the features of the claim are advantageous 4 provided.
  • the transfer device has only a single-track cap conveyor, which simplifies the construction.
  • meluere drivers are provided, which hand each other over the caps and pass them on from target position to target position. This results in a very precisely working construction in which there is great security in reaching the target positions due to forced transport.
  • the features of claim 8 are advantageously provided.
  • the caps are transported on a floor which, after reaching the target positions, is removed at least there, ie under the caps, or as a whole.
  • the cap carriers can grip the caps and, after removing the bottom, put them down on the containers.
  • the bottom or the bottom pieces can be moved by a drive for removal or, for example, can also be designed to be resilient, so that the cap carriers with the caps push the bottom away when the caps move downward.
  • This design makes it possible to grasp the caps with the cap carriers and to deposit them on the containers in a simple downward movement. A complicated movement of the cap carrier, for example with gripping the caps, lateral movement and subsequent lowering movement, is avoided.
  • the features of claim 9 are advantageously provided. Suction plungers can suck the caps from above, put them down and press them lightly onto the containers to secure them.
  • the features of claim 10 are advantageously provided.
  • the cap carrier can itself be designed as a closing head, in order to pick up the caps in the pick-and-place process, put them on the containers and close them there immediately, depending on the cap shape, by screwing on or, in the case of, for example, crown caps or can lids, by deformation.
  • FIG. 1 is a plan view of a bottle conveyor for parallel bottle transport with a cap conveyor and a schematically shown transfer device
  • 3d a view in the bottle transport direction of a transfer device with transfer of the caps from target position to target position
  • Fig. 4 in plan view a transfer device with parallel transport of the caps from the cap transporter to the target positions
  • Fig. 5 in plan view a transfer device with a transfer bar, which brings the spaced caps in the target position.
  • Fig. 1 shows a top view of a bottle conveyor 1 which carries 2 bottle carriers 3 between chains moving in the direction of the arrow, in each of which five bottles 4 are held with mouths 6 to be closed by caps 5.
  • Devices arranged above the bottle conveyor 1 are shown in dashed lines, namely a bottle filling device 7, a transfer device 8 and a bottle closure device 9.
  • the bottles first pass under the bottle filling device 7, in which a row of five bottles in the exemplary embodiment are each filled at the same time. These then come under the transfer device 8, are supplied with caps 5 there and arrive at the bottle closure device 9, where the caps 5 already placed on the bottles are closed with five parallel closing heads, depending on the embodiment of the caps by rotating screwing or by deformation (e.g. with bottle caps).
  • the caps 5 are fed to the transfer device 8 with a cap conveyor 10 in one track.
  • the transfer device 8 must therefore take caps from the cap transporter 10, bring them into target positions over the bottles of a parallel row of five bottles in the exemplary embodiment and place them there on the bottles.
  • FIG. 2 shows an embodiment of a transfer device 28 with a conveyor belt 20 running around end rollers, on which 3 cap carriers 21 are arranged at a distance from the bottles 4 in the bottle carriers 3, not shown here.
  • the caps 5 arrive in the cap conveyor 10 of FIG. 1, are in at
  • the conveyor belt 20 running in the direction of the arrow is successively gripped by the cap carriers 21 and brought into the target positions above the bottles 4. There they are simultaneously placed down on the bottles 4 by a downward movement of a presser 22.
  • the cap carrier 21 can hold the caps magnetically, for example, or with claners, not shown. However, they can also be designed in the role of a roller as a suction plunger, which can be supplied with vacuum by the conveyor belt 20, which in turn can be connected to vacuum in a suitable manner, not shown.
  • the cap supports 21 can also be slidably mounted in the conveyor belt 20 so that they can be adjusted downward by the presser 22 relative to the conveyor belt 20 which remains fixed in height.
  • the cap carriers 21, which are in the target position above the bottles 4, can also be lowered one after the other onto the bottles 4, for which purpose the presser 22 e.g. Be designed to be movable over the row of bottles 4 in order to press the cap carriers 21 downwards one after the other.
  • the presser 22 e.g. Be designed to be movable over the row of bottles 4 in order to press the cap carriers 21 downwards one after the other.
  • 3a to 3d show a second embodiment of a transfer device 38 which in turn takes over the caps 5 from the cap transporter 10.
  • the caps 5 stand on an elongated band-shaped base 30, which first runs straight under the cap transporter 10 and then in semicircular arches which alternate to the left and right and finally ends in an actuating end 30 '.
  • vertical axes 31 are supported with bearings, not shown. Are on the axes Driver 32 and a first slightly differently shaped driver 32 'attached.
  • the axes 31 are driven in opposite directions, as indicated in FIG. 3a with arrows.
  • the drivers 32 and 32 ' are designed with driving pockets in order to grasp the caps 5 and to transport them via the semicircular tracks across the floor 30 when the drivers rotate.
  • the semicircular tracks are each secured on the outside by semicircular railings 33 in order to ensure a clean filling for the caps on the railings 33 on the one hand and in a pocket of the respective centerpiece 32, 32 '.
  • the positions are shown in FIG. 3a.
  • the first driver 32 'takes over a cap from the end point E of the cap transporter 10 and transfers it to the first target position Z at each 180 ° rotation. There the cap is like
  • Fig. 3a shows, picked up by the pocket of the next driver 32 and passed by this to the target position Z2.
  • the drivers are controlled in the position shown in FIG. 3b, so that the caps 5 are exactly in a target position in a row above the bottles 4 shown in side view in FIG. 3d.
  • the floor 30 is moved under the arcuate guideway secured by the railings 33 in the direction of the actuation end 30 ', from its position according to FIG. 3b to its position according to FIG. 3c.
  • the caps 5 in the target positions Z and Z5 are now free downwards.
  • cap carriers 36 shown in FIG. 3d for example again in the form of a suction plunger, grab the caps 5 and hold them while the base 30 is moved to the side. Now by moving one down all cap carriers 36 reverberant beam 37 all caps 5 are placed on the bottles 4 at the same time.
  • FIG. 4 shows another embodiment of a transfer device 48 which brings the caps 5 from the cap conveyor 10 over the bottles 4 into one of the bottle carriers 3 shown in FIG. 1.
  • a plurality of transport tracks 40 depart, which end above the bottles 4 in the target positions.
  • the transport tracks 40 are, for example, self-promoting. They can be channel-shaped for guiding the caps 5 with air nozzles for transporting the caps on the respective transport track 40.
  • the bottom of each transport track 40 is designed as a flap 41 in the target position.
  • the cap transporter 10 brings the required number of five caps in the exemplary embodiment to the beginning of the transport tracks 40.
  • the caps reach the flaps 41 in the target position via these.
  • Suction plunger take the caps 5 standing on the flaps 41 and hold them. Now the flaps 41 are folded away or yield resiliently downwards, and the cap carriers can place the caps 5 down on the bottles 4.
  • the transport tracks 40 can be arranged in a largely arbitrary curved manner, as shown, or run fan-like between their respective ends.
  • FIG. 5 shows, in a further embodiment, a transfer device 58, which from the cap transporter 10 has caps 5 with transport tracks 50, which can be designed similarly to the transport tracks 40 of the embodiment in FIG. 4, takes over in parallel and at the ends of the transport tracks 50 in a row in intermediate positions at which they are gripped by cap supports 56 which are seated on a bar 57 which can be designed in accordance with the bar 37 of FIG. 3d.
  • the bar 57 After gripping all the caps at the ends of the transport bars 50, the bar 57 is brought in the direction of arrow 60 into the movement path of a bottle carrier 3 (corresponding to FIG. 1).
  • the bottle carrier 3 moves in the direction of the arrow 59 to below the bar 57.
  • the bar 57 can now be lowered with the cap supports 56 and the caps lowered onto the mouths 6 of the bottles 4.
  • the containers shown are transported standing on their bottom. However, particularly in the case of plastic bottles with a neck collar, they can also be transported hanging with appropriately trained bottle conveyors.

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  • Sealing Of Jars (AREA)
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Abstract

L'invention concerne un dispositif pour fermer des contenants à boissons avec des éléments de fermeture. Ce dispositif comprend une unité de transfert servant à prélever les éléments sur un transporteur à une voie, pour les placer sur les bouteilles. L'invention est caractérisée en ce qu'il est prévu un convoyeur de bouteilles sur lequel les bouteilles sont transportées sur plusieurs voies, en rangées parallèles. En outre, l'unité de transfert est conçue de façon à recevoir sur le transporteur le nombre d'éléments de fermeture nécessaire à chaque fois pour alimenter une rangées de contenants, à placer les éléments de fermeture en position cible au-dessus des contenants d'une rangée, et à les saisir, en position cible, par le haut, avec des supports d'éléments de fermeture, avant de les placer sur les contenants.
EP98948902A 1997-09-09 1998-09-03 Dispositif pour fermer des contenants a boissons avec des elements de fermeture Expired - Lifetime EP1012106B1 (fr)

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DE19739327 1997-09-09
DE19739327A DE19739327C2 (de) 1997-09-09 1997-09-09 Vorrichtung zum Verschließen von Getränkebehältern mit Verschlußkappen
PCT/EP1998/005586 WO1999012841A1 (fr) 1997-09-09 1998-09-03 Dispositif pour fermer des contenants a boissons avec des elements de fermeture

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