EP3248675A1 - Maschine zum füllen von behältern mit verschiedenen arten von produkten - Google Patents

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EP3248675A1
EP3248675A1 EP17169212.2A EP17169212A EP3248675A1 EP 3248675 A1 EP3248675 A1 EP 3248675A1 EP 17169212 A EP17169212 A EP 17169212A EP 3248675 A1 EP3248675 A1 EP 3248675A1
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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
    • B65B1/00—Packaging fluent solid material, e.g. powders, granular or loose fibrous material, loose masses of small articles, in individual containers or receptacles, e.g. bags, sacks, boxes, cartons, cans, or jars
    • B65B1/30—Devices or methods for controlling or determining the quantity or quality or the material fed or filled
    • B65B1/32—Devices or methods for controlling or determining the quantity or quality or the material fed or filled by weighing
    • 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
    • B65B3/26—Methods or devices for controlling the quantity of the material fed or filled
    • B65B3/28—Methods or devices for controlling the quantity of the material fed or filled by weighing
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01F—MIXING, e.g. DISSOLVING, EMULSIFYING OR DISPERSING
    • B01F33/00—Other mixers; Mixing plants; Combinations of mixers
    • B01F33/80—Mixing plants; Combinations of mixers
    • B01F33/84—Mixing plants with mixing receptacles receiving material dispensed from several component receptacles, e.g. paint tins
    • B01F33/846—Mixing plants with mixing receptacles receiving material dispensed from several component receptacles, e.g. paint tins using stored recipes for determining the composition of the mixture to be produced, i.e. for determining the amounts of the basic components to be dispensed from the component receptacles
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01F—MIXING, e.g. DISSOLVING, EMULSIFYING OR DISPERSING
    • B01F33/00—Other mixers; Mixing plants; Combinations of mixers
    • B01F33/80—Mixing plants; Combinations of mixers
    • B01F33/85—Mixing plants with mixing receptacles or mixing tools that can be indexed into different working positions
    • 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
    • B65B1/00—Packaging fluent solid material, e.g. powders, granular or loose fibrous material, loose masses of small articles, in individual containers or receptacles, e.g. bags, sacks, boxes, cartons, cans, or jars
    • B65B1/04—Methods of, or means for, filling the material into the containers or receptacles
    • B65B1/10—Methods of, or means for, filling the material into the containers or receptacles by rotary feeders
    • 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
    • B65B1/00—Packaging fluent solid material, e.g. powders, granular or loose fibrous material, loose masses of small articles, in individual containers or receptacles, e.g. bags, sacks, boxes, cartons, cans, or jars
    • B65B1/04—Methods of, or means for, filling the material into the containers or receptacles
    • B65B1/10—Methods of, or means for, filling the material into the containers or receptacles by rotary feeders
    • B65B1/14—Methods of, or means for, filling the material into the containers or receptacles by rotary feeders of centrifugal type
    • 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
    • B65B1/00—Packaging fluent solid material, e.g. powders, granular or loose fibrous material, loose masses of small articles, in individual containers or receptacles, e.g. bags, sacks, boxes, cartons, cans, or jars
    • B65B1/30—Devices or methods for controlling or determining the quantity or quality or the material fed or filled
    • 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
    • B67C3/00—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus; Filling casks or barrels with liquids or semiliquids
    • B67C3/02—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus
    • 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
    • B67C3/00—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus; Filling casks or barrels with liquids or semiliquids
    • B67C3/02—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus
    • B67C3/20—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus with provision for metering the liquids to be introduced, e.g. when adding syrups
    • B67C3/202—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus with provision for metering the liquids to be introduced, e.g. when adding syrups by weighing
    • 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
    • B65B2220/00—Specific aspects of the packaging operation
    • B65B2220/14—Adding more than one type of material or article to the same package

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  • the present invention relates to a weight filling machine suitable for filling containers with two or more products of different type.
  • a particularly felt problem in the field of filling machines, in particular of weight filling machines, is the one of filling containers with products of different type to form a composition.
  • a typical example occurs for household products such as detergents for home hygiene, for washing clothes and similar products.
  • Such products comprise a base composition, which typically amounts to about 99% of the weight of the product, and fragrances and/or dyes which are added to the base composition to give the product a range of different organoleptic features so as to please different user tastes.
  • a detergent may be introduced to the market with a pink color and a rose scent, or have the color and scent of lavender, and so on.
  • machines which are capable of simultaneously filling containers with mixtures of different products, by drawing from diversified tanks, one for each product, but managing the filling procedure is complex and the bulk of the equipment is significant.
  • the problem addressed by the present invention therefore is to provide a filling machine, in particular a weight filling machine, which allows optimally managing the simultaneous filling operation of containers with diversified products and which has a reduced bulk.
  • the invention relates to a weight filling machine comprising a filling unit and a supply unit for one or more products of different final composition for filling containers, where said one or more products comprise the same base composition for all the products and one or more additives, different for each different final composition, where the supply unit comprises a tank for the base composition and a plurality of mixing units, one for each different product, each of the mixing units being connected by means of respective supply lines to the filling unit.
  • the filling machine indicated as a whole with numeral 1, comprises a filling unit 2 and a supply unit 3 for the various products P for filling containers.
  • the filling unit 2 comprises a rotating table 4 hinged on a shaft 5 moved by the drive of the machine.
  • the rotating table 4 comprises a plurality of plates 6 for supporting containers C.
  • the containers C may be held on the plates 6 in a conventional manner, for example held at the neck by suitable grippers 7.
  • each plate 6 There is positioned, above each plate 6, a filling valve 8, also of the conventional type, selected according to the type of filling liquid (for example, for foaming products, or for high density products, etc.).
  • the filling unit 2 in preferred embodiments is a weight filling unit, hence it will be provided with suitable devices, also of the conventional type, which allow this type of filling.
  • the plates 6 or gripper 7 (if container C is suspended to gripper 7) are connected to a suitable loading cell which in turn is operatively connected with a command and control unit (not shown) of machine 1 so as to interrupt the filling of each individual container C once the predetermined weight is reached.
  • Each filling valve 8 is connected with a distribution line 9, 9', 9", 9"' of a product P with different final composition.
  • a first distribution line 9 may supply a rose-scented detergent
  • a second line 9" may supply a lavender-scented detergent, and so on.
  • Each of such products P will therefore be defined by a recipe which provides mixing a base composition B with suitable additives, which are different from one recipe to the next.
  • Figure 1 depicts four different distribution lines 9, 9', 9", 9"', but it is apparent that there may be fewer or more of them. Moreover, the various distribution lines 9, 9', 9", 9"' in the drawings are arranged in alternate order, but nothing prevents them from being grouped so as to fill, in order, a first series of containers C with a same product, a second series with a different product, and so on.
  • the plurality of distribution lines 9, 9', 9", 9"' is connected to a distribution manifold 10 which provides to distribute the different products between the different filling valves 8 according to the predetermined order.
  • the construction details of the distribution manifold 10 are known to those skilled in the art because such a manifold is used on conventional filling machines which allow a multi-product type of filling.
  • the distribution manifold 10 comprises a pressure sensor 27 for each product supplied, the function of which will be apparent later in the description.
  • the distribution manifold 10 is connected to the supply unit 3 for the products P by means of respective supply lines 11, 11', 11", 11"', one for each different product P.
  • the supply unit 3 comprises a tank 12 containing the base composition for making product P, which will be equal for all the various products P dispensed by means of the supply lines 11, 11', 11", 11"', and a plurality of mixing units 13, 13', 13", 13"'.
  • Each of the mixing units 13, 13', 13", 13"' is connected to a supply line 11, 11', 11", 11"' of product P to the distribution manifold 10.
  • each of the mixing units 13, 13', 13", 13"' comprises a receptacle 19 which comprises an outlet opening 14 connected to one of said supply lines 11, 11', 11", 11"' for dispensing the final composition of a product P obtained according to one of the aforesaid recipes.
  • Receptacle 19 further comprises an inlet opening 20, connected to a connection line 15, 15', 15", 15"' with tank 12 of the base composition, and one or more delivery lines 16 of one or more additives (in the drawing, two delivery lines 16 for a dye and for a fragrance are shown by way of example).
  • the receptacle preferably has a small volume, for example 3 to 6 liters.
  • the mixing unit 13, 13', 13", 13"' comprises a device 18 for adjusting the level of product P inside receptacle 19.
  • the level adjustment device 18 comprises a float valve 22 connected to a duct 23 for venting the air above the product P head inside receptacle 19.
  • the level of product P reaches the level desired dictated by the float valve 22, the latter closes thus preventing the air to exit, and the pressure of the air (or other gaseous fluid, for example an inner gas in the case of care-sensitive products) in the free space of receptacle 19 blocks the introduction by gravity of further base composition and therefore the raising of the level.
  • the float valve 22 typically is an air vent valve with a straight float.
  • a valve may consist of a cup with cavity facing downwards which branches off from the lower end of the vent duct 23, in which cup a float is accommodated, for example a ball-float, which is free to move between an open position and a closed position of the duct.
  • the delivery lines 16 of the additive (s) are intercepted by pumping means 24.
  • the pumping means 24 are peristaltic pumps.
  • connection lines 15, 15', 15", 15"' is intercepted by valve means 25, in particular by an on-off valve, while each of the supply lines 11, 11', 11", 11"' is intercepted by a displacement pump 26.
  • the filling machine 1 comprises a command and control unit which manages the operating conditions of the machine, with particular reference to the supply unit 3.
  • the command and control unit controls the following functions:
  • a typical final composition of a cleansing liquid may comprise, by way of example, about 99% in volume of the base composition, about 0.3% in volume of a dye and about 0.7% in volume of a fragrance.
  • the pumping means 24 are then operated according to such predetermined volume ratios.
  • valve means 25 are replaced by pumping means 28 for loading the base composition into receptacle 19.
  • the pressure of the head volume of receptacle 19 induces a closing of the pressure limiter 29 at the connection line 15, 15', 15", 15'" downstream and the selection of the recirculation duct 30.
  • the introduction of further base composition into receptacle 19, and therefore, the raising of the liquid level is avoided.
  • command and control unit controls the following functions:

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