EP2789574A1 - Dispositif et procédé de traitement de bouchons de récipients et machine de remplissage aseptique - Google Patents

Dispositif et procédé de traitement de bouchons de récipients et machine de remplissage aseptique Download PDF

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Publication number: EP2789574A1
Authority: EP; European Patent Office
Prior art keywords: treatment; treatment section; molded parts; discharge; moldings
Prior art date: 2013-01-11
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Jürgen Söllner

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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
- B67B3/003—Pretreatment of caps, e.g. cleaning, steaming, heating or sterilizing
- 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
- B67B3/062—Feeding caps to capping heads from a magazine
- 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
- B67C7/0073—Sterilising, aseptic filling and closing

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the present invention relates to a device and a method for the treatment of moldings, preferably for sterilizing plastic screw caps for beverage containers in a beverage filling plant, as well as an aseptic filler for the aseptic filling of liquids in containers.
the plastic closures are sterilized before sealing.
different treatment options are available, such as, for example, physical sterilization by means of hot water, saturated steam, UV irradiation or plasma.
a chemical degerming with hydrogen peroxide, peracetic acid, chlorine dioxide or ozone can be performed. Combinations of these different sterilization methods are also conceivable.
the filling process into the containers and the closing of the completely filled containers takes place, in particular in the case of aseptic filling and in particular in cold aseptic filling, within a clean room.
This is a space substantially sealed from the environment, in which a defined germ-free atmosphere prevails, and whose inner surfaces are correspondingly cleaned and sterilized regularly.
a cold aseptic filling allows a particularly long shelf life of the bottled products and is used, for example, for the filling of dairy products.
the sterilization of the closures in front of the capper usually takes place in a sterilization chamber, into which the respective closures are introduced via a gutter system, and in which the corresponding treatment medium is present in order to achieve the sterilization of the closures.
Such a device is for example from the WO 2010/073064 A1 in which the individual container closures are subjected to a heat treatment.
the closures are pushed into the sterilization chamber via an actuator, which then exerts a corresponding dynamic pressure on the closures already in the sterilization chamber in such a way that the closures are driven through the sterilization chamber and exit at the end from the sterilization chamber.
a disadvantage of the known systems for sterilization sterilization is that in an interruption of the influx of fully filled containers, the closures present downstream of the sterilization chamber in a corresponding feed chute are usually discarded because they are fed to the capper regardless of the influx of containers and then ejected in the capper if they are not screwed onto a container. This results in a loss of plastic closures in the event of a disturbance in the container supply, in particular when supplying such a plastic closure to a container gap in the production process.
the device for the treatment of moldings preferably for sterilizing plastic screw caps for beverage containers, comprises a treatment line for treating the moldings with a treatment medium, and a supply device arranged upstream of the treatment line for feeding moldings to the treatment line.
a discharge device arranged downstream of the treatment section is provided for discharging molded parts from the treatment section.
the loss of mold parts can be minimized by interrupting the supply of containers to be closed or also at the end of the respective production, while ensuring that each individual molded part has the same receives each necessary treatment time in the treatment section and thus, for example, the prescribed sterilization is achieved.
the feeding device is controlled so that it gives up the individual molded part in time to the treatment route.
the molding then passes through the treatment section and, after the expiration of the predetermined treatment time or as needed, passed over the discharge device of the respective downstream machine station, such as a capper in an aseptic filler.
each molding that is output by the discharge device can also be further processed according to directly.
the molded part can thus be correspondingly fed so that each container is accurately provided with a plastic screw cap.
the treatment time which passes through a molded part in the treatment section, can be adjusted via a corresponding parameterization of the triggering of the feed device relative to the triggering of the discharge device.
the feed device and / or the discharge device are preferably driven by a stepping motor in such a way that a partial feeding or a partial exact discharge of the respective molded parts is made possible. In this way, moldings can be partially supplied to the treatment line and discharged from this again.
the treatment section is arranged in a treatment chamber which surrounds the treatment section, and in which a corresponding atmosphere with the treatment medium can be established.
the feed device and / or the discharge device are arranged in the treatment chamber, preferably at the upstream or downstream end of the treatment section.
An increase in efficiency in carrying out the treatment in the treatment section can be achieved by at least two parallel grooves, so that a simultaneous treatment of at least two parallel guided moldings can be achieved.
an emptying device is particularly preferably arranged above the feeder, by means of which a molding supply can be completely emptied. In this way, it is possible to completely emptying a possibly existing molded parts storage without the moldings all having to go through the treatment section.
a sensor downstream of the supply device is preferably provided so that it serves to detect a backlog of molded parts in the treatment section.
the sensor can be provided for example in the form of a light barrier or another sensor so that it either detects the passage of the molded part through the treatment section, or only outputs a corresponding signal at a permanent interruption by a fixed molding. It can be determined via this sensor whether the molded parts dispensed on the treatment path via the supply device actually pass through the treatment path or whether there is a backflow, ie the molded parts have jammed within the treatment path.
a sensor is further preferably provided downstream of the discharge device, by means of which a backwater can be detected in a transfer region for the mold parts downstream of the discharge device.
Three operating states can be provided via these sensors and a corresponding stepper motor control of the feed device and the discharge device.
a first operating state all stepper motors are switched off, so that a promotion and treatment of the moldings does not take place.
the stepper motors are each driven via a reference point of a parallel or upstream process, that is, for example, when passing through a specific machine angle of a parallel or upstream unit.
This unit may for example be a filler of a beverage filling plant.
the control of the stepping motor is correspondingly triggered so that a closure is introduced via the feeding device into the treatment line.
passing through a second reference point of the stepper motor of the discharge device is actuated so that the corresponding molding is discharged and passed to the subsequent capper.
the stepper motors move per machine cycle or pulse from the corresponding system control by an imaginary revolution.
the control of the discharge device relative to the feed device can also be carried out via a time control, which always triggers the feeding of a molded part into the treatment section by at least the minimum treatment time, than the actual discharge process.
each closure is adequately treated and, for example, correctly sterilized closures are used accordingly.
this mode of operation makes it possible that a discharge device made of the insulator, for example an aseptic system, is no longer necessary, since here it is no longer necessary to discharge any closures.
a discharge device made of the insulator for example an aseptic system
costs can be saved and on the other hand the plant complexity can be reduced, whereby danger potentials in microbiological regard are reduced.
the device for the treatment of the moldings can be arranged outside the clean room.
the sensors and motors which are used to drive the feeder and the discharge device can be mounted outside of the clean room, which on the one hand the sterility of the respective insulator is not compromised and on the other hand, the life of the drives and the sensor can be increased because they are not exposed to the aggressive cleaning cycles inside the insulator.
the treatment section can be used with all known treatment media, for example with hydrogen peroxide, as well as with a peracetic acid immersion bath.
an aseptic filler for the aseptic filling of liquids into containers which comprises a capper arranged in a clean room for closing filled containers.
a device for the treatment of container closures, as described above, is provided.
the device for the treatment of container closures outside the clean room of the aseptic filling is arranged.
the method for treating molded parts comprises feeding molded parts into a treatment section by means of a feed device and treating the shaped parts in the treatment section with a treatment medium.
the molded parts are discharged downstream of the treatment section via a discharge device.
the shaped parts are preferably fed in part by means of the supply device of the treatment section and / or discharged in part by means of the discharge device.
the feeding of molded parts to the treatment section and / or the discharge of molded parts from the treatment section over the machine cycle is triggered, preferably in the presence of a trigger signal, particularly preferably taking into account a minimum treatment time.
the feeding of molded parts to the treatment section and / or the discharge of molded parts from the treatment section can also be triggered when a reference position is reached in a parallel process, preferably taking into account a minimum treatment time.
FIG. 1 schematically shows a device 1 for treating moldings, here shown in the form of a device for sterilizing plastic screw caps for closing beverage containers in a beverage filling plant.
a molding supply 2 via which the individual moldings are supplied from a supply of moldings, the moldings go to a feeding device 3, which is adapted to the partially precise feeding of moldings to a treatment section 4.
the partially accurate feed is achieved for example by a control via a stepper motor.
the treatment section 4 is accommodated in a treatment chamber 40 and is designed in the form of a schematically indicated channel 42, through which the molded parts, which are supplied via the supply device 3, slide therethrough.
the channel 42 and thus also the treatment chamber 40 is arranged downhill, such that the respective molded parts pass through the groove 42 due to their own weight.
At least two grooves arranged parallel to one another are provided, so that at least two molded parts can be treated parallel to one another.
a discharge device 5 Downstream of the treatment section 4, a discharge device 5 is provided, which serves for partial removal of the respective mold parts to a corresponding transfer area 6.
the transfer area 6 is followed by a further treatment station. In the case of a bottling plant, this is typically followed by the corresponding capper, which is supplied with the then sterilized plastic screw caps.
the feed device 3 is arranged correspondingly upstream of the treatment section 4 and the discharge device 5 is arranged downstream of the treatment section 4. Accordingly, the supply of the respective molded parts into the treatment section 4 can be effected in part via the supply device 3.
the downstream of the treatment section 4 arranged discharge device 5 allows demand-controlled transfer of the respective molding to the transfer device 6 always exactly when a respective molding is needed here.
an individual plastic screw cap When used as a sterilization device for plastic closures in a beverage bottling plant, an individual plastic screw cap is accordingly placed on the treatment line 4 for each filled and sealed container via the feeding device 3 and, after passing through the corresponding treatment time, synchronized via the discharge device 5 to the respective capper, that the corresponding container to be closed can be closed. If there is no container to be sealed, no plastic screw cap is sterilized and discharged. In this way it can be avoided that, for example in the Interruption of the container flow must be discarded by a prior discharge of defective containers, closures that had been supplied to the capper.
an emptying device 7 is further provided above the feeding device 3, which can be opened after completion of the production process and by means of which the molded parts from the molded part storage, which are supplied via the molded part supply 2, can be completely emptied.
a first sensor 8 is preferably provided downstream of the feed device 3 in order to be able to detect a backflow of molded parts in the treatment section 4.
a further sensor 9 is preferably provided downstream of the discharge device 5 in order to be able to detect the detection of a backflow in a transfer region 6.
the sensors 8, 9 can be used to monitor whether the molded parts pass through the corresponding areas of the system and, in particular, the treatment section 4 in the form of the channel 42, or whether there is possibly a backlog or jamming of a molded part. Via the sensor 9 it is also possible to check whether the output of the molded parts to the transfer area 6 takes place in the predetermined manner, or whether, for example
the feed device 3 and the discharge device 5 are preferably driven by a stepping motor, by means of which a partially precise feeding of molded parts into the treatment section 4 and a partial removal of molded parts via the discharge device 5 is possible.
the feed device 3 and the discharge device 5 can be controlled in different ways.
the feed device 3 in connection with a beverage filling system, can be actuated when a particular container to be filled is inserted into the corresponding filling device, and when the corresponding container has passed through a further section of the treatment angle or moves in the inlet towards the capper, the discharge device 5 are operated.
the discharge device 5 are operated at predetermined points within the feed of the containers to be closed.
the feeding of a molded part into the treatment section 4 is triggered and, after passing through a second reference point, the discharge of the molded part from the treatment section 4 is triggered.
the treatment time which varies with the machine speed in this operating mode, must be taken into consideration. The minimum treatment time must not be undercut.
triggering of the feed device 3 and the discharge device 5 can take place, for example, via the machine cycle, wherein the machine cycle is delayed either for the feed device or for the discharge device in accordance with the intended treatment time.
a control over the general machine cycle is further necessary that a corresponding trigger signal is present, according to which closures are actually passed to the capper, in order to avoid unnecessary discarding container closures in the presence of a disturbance in the container flow.
the sensor signal of the sensors 8 and 9 continue to be considered in order to ensure that a backwater is not present and correspondingly a free flow of the molded parts takes place through the treatment section 4 into the transfer area 6.

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