EP2733111A2 - Dispositif de transport de fermetures de récipients vers un système de fermeture - Google Patents

Dispositif de transport de fermetures de récipients vers un système de fermeture Download PDF

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Publication number: EP2733111A2
Authority: EP; European Patent Office
Prior art keywords: container closures; closure; inspection device; conveyor; capper
Prior art date: 2012-11-19
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EP13193237.8A

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Klaus Buchhauser

Sebastian Klepatz

Markus Schönefelder

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Krones AG

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2013-11-18

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2014-05-21

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2014-12-10 Publication of EP2733111A3 publication Critical patent/EP2733111A3/fr

2016-03-16 Application granted granted Critical

2016-03-16 Publication of EP2733111B1 publication Critical patent/EP2733111B1/fr

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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
- B65B57/00—Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices
- B65B57/02—Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices responsive to absence, presence, abnormal feed, or misplacement of binding or wrapping material, containers, or packages
- 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
- B65B7/00—Closing containers or receptacles after filling
- B65B7/16—Closing semi-rigid or rigid containers or receptacles not deformed by, or not taking-up shape of, contents, e.g. boxes or cartons
- B65B7/28—Closing semi-rigid or rigid containers or receptacles not deformed by, or not taking-up shape of, contents, e.g. boxes or cartons by applying separate preformed closures, e.g. lids, covers
- B65B7/2842—Securing closures on containers
- 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
- B65B55/00—Preserving, protecting or purifying packages or package contents in association with packaging
- B65B55/02—Sterilising, e.g. of complete packages
- B65B55/04—Sterilising wrappers or receptacles prior to, or during, packaging
- 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
- B65B7/00—Closing containers or receptacles after filling
- B65B7/16—Closing semi-rigid or rigid containers or receptacles not deformed by, or not taking-up shape of, contents, e.g. boxes or cartons
- B65B7/28—Closing semi-rigid or rigid containers or receptacles not deformed by, or not taking-up shape of, contents, e.g. boxes or cartons by applying separate preformed closures, e.g. lids, covers
- B65B7/2807—Feeding closures
- 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

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the present invention relates to an apparatus for feeding container closures to a capper in a beverage bottling plant, preferably for feeding plastic screw caps to a screw capper, for closing plastic bottle closure bottles with a screw cap.
container closures in particular plastic screw caps
the container closures are usually sorted in the correct position in a sorting plant, for example a cascade sorter, an inclined sorter, a vibration sorter or a centrifugal force sorter, wherein these sorting plants are usually arranged close to the ground.
the container closures sorted in this way are then raised via a height conveyor to the height necessary for the respective capper.
air conveyors or inclined belt conveyors are used as height conveyors. From the level reached in this way, usually in the region of 10 m above the ground, the closures are then further fed to the capper via an inclined closing channel, which also serves as a sealing buffer.
the capper Before the capper then takes place an inspection of the container closures with respect to possible damage and with respect to their positionally correct orientation, with erroneous container closures are then discharged. After the inspection device, the container closures are then fed to the actual capper, which closes the beverage containers to be closed via the corresponding capping heads.
a device for producing containers in which a closing device is provided, which closures are fed via a feed device in the form of a transport path or transport rail.
the device for feeding container closures to a capper in a beverage bottling plant comprises a sorting plant, a height conveyor and an inspection device.
the inspection device is arranged in front of the height conveyor.
the inspection device is arranged in front of the elevator, so before the container closures are transported to the height required by the capper, the inspection device is arranged in an area which is usually easily accessible to the operator. Particularly preferably, the inspection device is arranged correspondingly close to the ground.
the sorting plant which provides a special source of interference
the feed to the inspection device and the inspection device itself are arranged close to the ground, so that the mainly occurring defects for operators are easily accessible.
the defects can be eliminated, and appropriate interference can be remedied before the Container closures are conveyed via the elevator into a more difficult accessible area.
the height conveyor is designed as a chain conveyor, so that it is possible to dispense with the use of a maintenance and failure-prone air conveyor or belt conveyor.
a particularly compact structural dimension can also be produced by a chain conveyor, for example by a helical chain conveyor, with at the same time significantly reduced energy consumption, at least compared to an air conveyor.
the use of a chain conveyor is accordingly classified as much less prone to failure than the use of an air conveyor. Since the container closures are pre-sorted and correctly aligned prior to entry into the chain conveyor, and furthermore all defective container closures have been sorted out via the inspection device, trouble-free operation of the chain conveyor is furthermore ensured.
a separating device is provided between the sorting unit and the inspection device, which separates the individual container closures before entering the inspection device, so that a trouble-free inspection of each individual, individual container closure can be carried out.
the inspection device can be arranged in a further preferred embodiment, but also before the sorting, so that defective container closures are sorted out before entering the sorting, in which a correct alignment of the closures is made.
the inspection device is particularly preferably provided directly in front of the height conveyor, preferably a chain conveyor, to ensure that the container closures which reach the elevator and are correspondingly conveyed out of the immediate sphere of influence of the operators are correctly aligned and correctly dimensioned and thus not defective Container closures are transported.
a closure buffer connects to the chain conveyor, in which an intermediate storage of the container closures can take place when there is a difference between the supply of container closures and the consumption of container closures.
the closure buffer can either be provided directly adjacent to the chain conveyor, or between the chain conveyor and the closure buffer, a further cross-transport device may be present.
a further cross-transporting device here again offers a chain cross conveyor, which is particularly trouble-free.
the closure buffer is arranged between the inspection device and the height conveyor. Accordingly, it can also be ensured in this way that the container closures cached in the closure buffer are oriented both in the correct position and are dimensioned correctly and there are no defective closures in the closure buffer.
closures which are either conveyed to the closure buffer via the chain conveyor, or provided by the closure buffer via a further transverse transport device, for example a chain conveyor, are finally fed to the actual capper via a known closure trough from above with the necessary back pressure.
a treatment device for treating the container closures for example a rinsing device or a disinfecting device, can be provided in front of the capper in order to provide the capper with a hygienically perfect container closure.
the sealing treatment can also be carried out at any other point, for example in front of the height conveyor, in front of the closure buffer or in front of a transverse transport device, in which case the components provided after the respective closure treatment device are preferably guided within an insulator or a sterile housing in order not to jeopardize a once performed sterilization or initial cleaning of the container closure in the subsequent transport again.
FIG. 1 1 is a schematic illustration of a device 1 for feeding container closures to a capper 10.
the device 1 correspondingly leads the container closures (not shown here) to a capper 10, which applies the supplied closures via suitable capping heads to, for example, beverage-filled containers.
the capper 10 is a screw capper, which serves to unscrew plastic screw caps, for example, on the mouth thread of PET bottles or other plastic bottles, which have a screw thread.
screw cappers are known in principle from the prior art.
a closure treatment device 12 which serves to clean, sterilize and / or fill and / or to enclose the supplied container closures with a protective gas atmosphere.
This closure treatment device 12 for treating the container closures is particularly important if drinks are filled in a sterile environment and accordingly at least the container closure inside, which after closing in direct contact with the product bottled, must be sterile or germ-free and hygienic.
the container closures are first fed via a feed device, not shown, to a sorting unit 2, in which a positionally correct alignment of the container closures takes place.
the sorting plant 2 can be, for example, a cascade sorting plant, an inclined sorting plant, a vibrating sorting plant or a centrifugal sorting plant.
the said sorting plants use the asymmetric mass distribution of container closures, for example plastic container closures, in order to achieve a corresponding orientation.
the container closures pre-sorted by the sorting unit 2 are fed via a closing channel 20 to a separating device 3, which then places the correspondingly separated container closures on a transverse conveyor belt 30.
the separating device is designed, for example, in the form of a catch having a wheel, which correspondingly ensures a separation of the supplied container closures.
the transverse transport device 30 is particularly preferably designed as a chain conveyor, wherein such a horizontally oriented chain conveyor has a low noise source potential.
the correspondingly correctly aligned and separated container closures are then fed to an inspection device 4, which controls the container closures, inter alia, for defects.
defects may be, for example, imperfect roundness of a container closure, breakouts, or casting noses.
defects can also be caused by Contain collisions and / or abrasion caused deformations of the container closure and / or torn off guarantee strips.
it can also lead to a general dimensional deviation of the container closures, or to other material defects, which, for example, result in a reduced weight.
the inspection device 4 incorrectly recognized container closures are discharged.
the container closures which are not recognized as defective by the inspection device 4 are then fed to a height conveyor 5, by means of which the container closures are then raised to the height necessary for the subsequent feed operation to the capper 10.
the height conveyor 5 is particularly preferably designed as a chain conveyor, which has a particularly low compared to the commonly used air conveyors disturbance potential.
the inspection device 4 is arranged directly in front of the elevator 5, so as to ensure that the container closures supplied to the elevator 5 have been classified by the inspection device as faultless.
the container closures supplied have the intended orientation, dimension and surface finish. Accordingly, it does not interfere in the elevator 5, which would result from the insertion of faulty container closures.
the arrangement of the sorting unit 2, the separating device 3 and the inspection device 4 in front of the elevator 5 further implies that these components are arranged in a plant area, which is substantially lower than the upper end 50 of the elevator.
the sorting unit 2, the separating device 3 and the inspection device 4 are arranged close to the ground or in the bottom region of the device 1, so that a simple access for the operating personnel is possible.
the plant areas, which are classified as susceptible to failure, namely in particular the sorting unit 2, the separating device 3 and the inspection device 4 with their discharge device, can therefore be arranged in the floor area, so that a direct access from the operating personnel is possible and corresponding faults can be quickly resolved ,
the container closures lifted by the elevator 5 to the upper end 50 of the elevator 5 are then fed to a closure buffer 6 which serves to close the container closures upon the occurrence of a difference in container closure feed from the sorter 2 and container closure removal by the capper 10 buffer.
the arrangement of the closure buffer 6 above the height conveyor 5, but in particular after the inspection device 4, ensures that even in the closure buffer 6 only correctly oriented, properly sized and properly designed container closures are included.
the container closures are then supplied from the closure buffer 6 via a closure channel 60 in accordance with the above-described closure treatment device 12.
the closure channel 60 is usually arranged inclined, so that a gravitational supply takes place. Since the container closures, which are passed through the closure channel 60, but previously recognized by the inspection device 4 as correctly oriented, properly sized and formed formed in the correct material condition, the disturbance potential in the closure channel 60 is also significantly reduced compared to the conventional arrangements.
FIG. 2 shows in a further embodiment, a device 1 ', in which the sorting unit 2 with the downstream closure channel 20 provides the presorted closures of a separating device 3, wherein the separating device 3 hangs the thus isolated closures on a transverse transport device 30.
the correctly oriented and isolated closures are then fed to the inspection device 4, which passes the closures considered correct to a chain conveyor 5 directly.
the chain conveyor 5 transports the shutters back to the upper end 50 of the chain conveyor, and then transfers them to a transverse transport device 52, which is preferably designed in the form of a chain conveyor or a belt conveyor.
the transverse transport device 52 which subsequently opens into the closure buffer 6, does not interfere. Downstream is again a closure channel 60, which allows the supply of the container closures to a closure treatment device 12 and then finally to the capper 10.
the arrangement of the inspection device 4 in front of the elevator 5 is crucial for the fact that both the sorting unit 2, the separating device 3 and the inspection device 4 are arranged with their discharge device in an area, which is easily accessible to the operating personnel. Accordingly, the most common defects are easily accessible, so that in the event of a system failure, a quick intervention is possible.
FIG. 3 is a further embodiment of the device 1 "shown, in which case again the container closures are sorted from a sorting unit 2 from the correct position, are fed via a closing channel 20 of a separating device 3, the isolated container closures are then fed via a transverse transport device 30 of the inspection device 4, and accordingly the container closures considered to be correctly oriented and correctly designed are conveyed via the height conveyor 5, which in turn is particularly preferably designed as a chain conveyor, to which closure buffers 6 arranged at the upper end 50 of the elevator are fed from the closure buffer 6 via a transverse transport device 62 which, for example, again serves as a chain conveyor Chain conveyor or as a belt conveyor is formed, which in accordance with the correct position and correctly dimensioned container closures of the closure channel 60 is supplied, which then finally the Be fiscalerverschl sse the closure treatment apparatus 12 and then feeds the capper 10th
closures of any other type can be promoted with the appropriate device, such as natural corks, bottle caps or other types of screw caps.
the promotion of preforms and bottles is also an option.

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EP13193237.8A 2012-11-19 2013-11-18 Dispositif de transport de fermetures de récipients vers un système de fermeture Active EP2733111B1 (fr)

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SI201330184A SI2733111T1 (sl)	2012-11-19	2013-11-18	Naprava za dovajanje zamaškov za posodo v zapiralni stroj

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