EP1299304B1 - Verfahren und produktionsanlage zum füllen, verschliessen, ausstatten und/oder verpacken von gefässen - Google Patents

Verfahren und produktionsanlage zum füllen, verschliessen, ausstatten und/oder verpacken von gefässen Download PDF

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EP1299304B1
EP1299304B1 EP01940581A EP01940581A EP1299304B1 EP 1299304 B1 EP1299304 B1 EP 1299304B1 EP 01940581 A EP01940581 A EP 01940581A EP 01940581 A EP01940581 A EP 01940581A EP 1299304 B1 EP1299304 B1 EP 1299304B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B67—OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
    • B67C—CLEANING, FILLING WITH LIQUIDS OR SEMILIQUIDS, OR EMPTYING, OF BOTTLES, JARS, CANS, CASKS, BARRELS, OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; FUNNELS
    • B67C7/00—Concurrent cleaning, filling, and closing of bottles; Processes or devices for at least two of these operations
    • B67C7/0006—Conveying; Synchronising
    • 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
    • B67C2007/006—Devices particularly adapted for container filling

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  • the invention relates to a method and a production plant for filling, closing, equipping and packaging vessels or the like according to the preamble of claims 1 and 10.
  • a process and such a plant are known, for example, from US-A-5,366,063 ,
  • Containers are used production equipment, which are usually formed from a variety of machines linked by transporters to a complete line. Which machines are used in detail depends, among other things, on whether disposable or reusable containers are to be processed. Furthermore, the type of packaging (box, tray, display, shrink wrap, carton wrap, carton, etc.), which in turn is influenced by the vessel material and ultimately the product to be filled, also plays a role. From a crude product store, vascular materials (bottles, cans, jars or the like) and others (jars, labels, adhesives, packaging material, bottoms, cleaners) are provided. The fully labeled, packed and palletized vessels at the end of a filling line are then usually taken to a delivery warehouse. This warehouse can be a picking warehouse, which is equipped with repacking and sorting facilities for the individual compilation of deliveries.
  • FIG. 2 An example of a production plant typical of reusable bottle systems is shown in schematic form in FIG. 2 of German Patent DE 196 12 652 C1.
  • the transporters connecting the individual machines are designed as so-called buffer transporters having a high storage capacity in order to prevent the propagation of disturbances.
  • This solution is not only space consuming, but also causes high costs for acquisition, operation and maintenance.
  • buffer transporters and buffer storage devices themselves are an additional source of interference, for example, due to overturned or jammed bottles.
  • the achievable buffer times are relatively narrow, since the buffer capacities can not be sized arbitrarily for economic reasons, ie only comparatively short-lasting disturbances can be successfully buffered, while longer-lasting interruptions penetrate yet on adjacent machines with time delay and reduce the efficiency of the system.
  • machine buffer storage facilities e.g. Example, from US 5,366,063, which are integrated between machines in a line, without spatially separating the continuous flow of material and allows a relatively short buffering within the line.
  • Bottling drinks in particular is a process that ideally should be continuous so as not to affect the quality of the drinks.
  • changing filling rates influence the foaming behavior and the oxygen uptake in a negative way.
  • a filler stop triggered, for example, by a labeling or packaging machine arranged after a filling machine disadvantageously leads mostly to a discharge of a complete filler round.
  • the invention is therefore based on the object to provide a method for filling, closing, equipping and / or packaging of vessels and a production plant for this, which / which allows a low efficiency while maintaining high flexibility.
  • the separation of the hitherto continuous material flow in the area between the filling, sealing and the equipment and / or packaging machines also allows high flexibility on the equipment and packaging side without reducing the output of the filling, sealing machine.
  • An intermediate storage can also be used for the equipment and packaging part of the production plant to fulfill order picking tasks, so that the storage volume to be kept ready packed containers or containers in the distribution warehouse can be reduced, or such can possibly be dispensed with entirely, especially if
  • the equipment and packaging area of the production plant several equipment and packaging lines can be designed to work in parallel.
  • the order-picking area can begin after the equipment machines, so that the vessels coming from the various equipment machines can be selectively fed to specific packaging machines in such a way that at the same time the load required for the shipment is given. Under this condition, a direct loading of transport vehicles (trucks or the like.) Without an intermediate distribution warehouse or segregated picking warehouse for the packaged Vollgut conceivable.
  • the vessels For temporary storage of the filled and closed vessels in the intermediate storage, it is expedient to palletise the vessels in batches of several layers, e.g. in displays or boxes.
  • the pallets as a whole, the displays, boxes or even individual vessels can be coded for reliable recognition of the bottled product.
  • a marker which is invisible under normal circumstances can be used.
  • the FIG. Shows a production plant P for bottling drinks or the like.
  • Containers the entire production plant P having essentially four sections or regions: a first storage area 1, a filling area 2, a second storage area 3 and an equipment and packaging area 4.
  • the filling area 2 forms a first section
  • the furnishing and packaging area 4 forms a second section of the actual vessel treatment.
  • the picking area 5 is identified by a dash-dotted line. By way of derogation from the illustration, it may possibly extend into the storage area 3 serving for intermediate storage, including the equipment machines (labeling machines).
  • the demarcation of the picking area depends i.a. depending on whether only one or different types of beverage should be filled into uniform or individual containers.
  • To control the picking tasks a computer control center 7 is present.
  • storage area 1 there are provided for filling empty containers or containers, such as disposable bottles made of glass or plastic, which are palletized in layers and wrapped with serving as a transport protection film supplied by a bottle manufacturer to the camp.
  • empty containers or containers such as disposable bottles made of glass or plastic
  • the storage area 1 can also serve for the provision of further raw materials, such as labels, closures, packaging material, adhesives, bottled goods, equipment cleaning agents, etc.
  • a Entfoliermaschine 8 is present. From there, the stack of bottles standing on pallets reach a new-glass spout 9, which initially first picks up a slip cover lying on the uppermost bottle layer and drops it into a cover lid press 10 before the layer-by-layer expulsion of the individual bottle layers begins in successive work cycles. Always between two adjacent bottle layers is an intermediate layer of cardboard or plastic. These intermediate layers are collected in a designated container 11. The remaining after the removal of the bottommost bottle layer empty pallet enters an empty pallet magazine 12th
  • the successively deported bottle layers are transferred to the bottles in a single-lane continuously conveyed bottle row transforming conveyor (conveyor belts) and transported by this in the direction of arrow to a standing in the filling area 2 inspection machine 13, the damaged or foreign body having bottles and ejects.
  • transport means the further transport of useful bottles to a rinser 14 and from there into a filler 15 with integrated capper takes place.
  • Rinser, filler and capper can be combined in a conventional manner to a block unit. In the area after the capper, an unillustrated pasteurizer can be provided.
  • the bottles After rinsing, filling and sealing (with a neutral or uniform closure), the bottles pass through a control and coding station 16, where, for example, filling level, closure, impermeability or other quality criteria are checked and, if necessary, an encoding indicating the content is applied.
  • the Filling and sealing can be done continuously with high performance (60,000 to 80,000 bottles / hour).
  • the filled and controlled bottles are fed by means of a conveyor to a display palletizer 17.
  • a display palletizer 17 For batchwise storage of the bottles they are converted by this machine into displays and palletized in several layers.
  • the loaded display pallets can now be transported in a conventional manner by forklift or even with a computer-controlled industrial truck to certain parking spaces A, B, C in the warehouse, e.g. depending on the beverage and / or bottle type.
  • the display pallets from the aforementioned parking lots A, B, C targeted Bntpalettiertnaschinen 19a to 19c supplied, wherein the layers depalletized and removed from the displays Bottles can be fed via corresponding conveyors in three equipment and packaging lines 18a to 18c. Empty pallets released during the depalletizing process enter an empty pallet magazine 20, while the empty displays can be returned to the display palletizing machine 17.
  • a labeling machine 21a to 21c wherein the three labeling machines can be arranged so that the bottles - depending on which of the machines they are fed - can be provided with different equipment.
  • the labeling machines are followed by packing machines 23a to 23c, as seen in the bottle flow direction, wherein in the line 18a the packer 23a is preceded by a so-called cluster packer 22, which is used to encase groups of bottles in each case a carton blank (six-packs) is provided.
  • the conveyor which feeds the bottles from the labeling machine is designed such that the bottles can optionally be supplied to the cluster packer 22 or packer 23a.
  • the packaging machines 23a to 23c can also be of different designs, depending on which type of packaging (box, carton, tray, display, shrink wrapping, etc.) is desired. Also adapted accordingly are the following in the packaging lines 18a to 18c palletizing 24a to 24c, for their supply an empty pallet magazine 25 is ready. After the layered palletizing the pallets for transport security downstream stretch wrapping machines 26a to 26c supplied where each loaded pallet is wrapped with an elastic film or other strapping provided.
  • the ready-to-consume pallets ready to be despatched after leaving the stretch wrappers 26a to 26c can now be loaded directly onto transport vehicles 27 (trucks or the like) which are ready to be loaded in the loading area 6.
  • transport vehicles 27 trucks or the like
  • the equipment and packaging lines produce 18a to 18c on the just-in-time principle, so that the individually adjustable packaging mix and the desired packaging variants are commission-produced, in such a way that the transport vehicles 27 be loaded as directly as possible for their delivery routes.
  • the commissioning area 5 is assigned the computer control station 7, which is in communication with the controllers of the machines located in the picking area.
  • the order picking area 5 deviating from the graphical representation to the storage area 3, so that the labeling 21a to 21c and the depalletizers 19a to 19c belong to the picking area.
  • bottles after leaving one of the labeling machines 21a to 21c can change the transport path by means of controllable switches or the like, not shown, and thus selectively selectively fed to one of the following packing machines 23a to 23c.
  • a bearing, not shown, assigned to the picking area 5 can be provided which advantageously can, however, manage with significantly less floor space than conventional conventional production facilities.
  • the equipment can also be done immediately after filling / closing, i. before the intermediate storage, for example, if only one type of product is filled into a single vessel and provided with the same equipment, but the packaging is different.

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