EP3554985A1 - Machine de remplissage et procédé permettant de remplir des récipients - Google Patents

Machine de remplissage et procédé permettant de remplir des récipients

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EP3554985A1
EP3554985A1 EP17808453.9A EP17808453A EP3554985A1 EP 3554985 A1 EP3554985 A1 EP 3554985A1 EP 17808453 A EP17808453 A EP 17808453A EP 3554985 A1 EP3554985 A1 EP 3554985A1
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filling
container
camera
filling machine
machine according
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Ludwig Clüsserath
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KHS GmbH
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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
    • 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
    • B67C3/007—Applications of control, warning or safety devices in filling machinery
    • 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
    • B67C3/22—Details
    • B67C3/28—Flow-control devices, e.g. using valves
    • B67C3/282—Flow-control devices, e.g. using valves related to filling level control
    • B67C3/284—Flow-control devices, e.g. using valves related to filling level control using non-liquid contact sensing means

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  • the invention relates to a filling machine and a method for filling containers.
  • Filling machines for filling containers are known in principle. They typically have a revolving around a vertical vertical axis driven
  • a filling element is arranged, by means of which a controlled supply of the filling material to be filled is made possible in the container.
  • filling machines are known which have an output of more than 10,000 containers per hour, in particular more than 50,000 containers per hour.
  • free-jet filling machines are known in which the liquid product flows to the container to be filled in the flow direction after the liquid valve in a free Brownstrahl.
  • volumetric measuring methods and measuring methods directly determining the filling level within the filling container are known.
  • the volume of the filling material is measured before it is fed to the container to be filled, so that independent of the container volume, a defined volume of product is supplied to it.
  • glass bottles are mainly filled with level filling systems that measure the filling level in the container by means of probes or return gas tubes and depending on the liquid valve to control. However, this leads to lower filling performance.
  • the invention relates to a filling machine for filling containers with a liquid product.
  • the level is determined in the container to be filled by optical detection means.
  • a light source is provided for at least partial illumination of the container interior.
  • the filling level is detected either by optical detection means provided laterally next to the container or in the region of the filling element is directly provided a camera or a light guide which is connected to a camera, wherein at least one computer unit is provided with image processing program means by means of processing an image processing program the image information provided by the camera, the level in the container can be determined.
  • the light source is designed to emit light in the direction of the container vertical axis or substantially in the direction of the container vertical axis.
  • the light can be directed from below or from above onto the filling material located in the container, which positively influences the level detection in the container.
  • the light source is provided below the container bottom and / or the light source is in the region of the container mouth
  • the lighting can be from above, from below or else from one or both sides.
  • the underside is
  • lighting may be integrated into a container carrier (e.g., bottle plate). This ensures that the container is advantageously illuminated for the level detection.
  • the light source is provided on the side of the filling element facing the container mouth.
  • Be integrated light source in the valve body of the filling valve contained in the filling element may be provided in the housing of the filling element, in such a way that a radiation of light takes place in the direction of the container interior.
  • the light source has a light guide, which projects into the container interior via the container mouth and by means of which the light emitted by the light source can be fed to the container interior.
  • the light guide can be provided at least in sections in the valve body of the liquid valve.
  • the optical waveguide can project, for example, over the free end of the valve body downwards in the direction of the container interior and, for example, project through the container mouth into the latter.
  • the free end of the light guide can come to rest at the free end of the valve body.
  • the light source is designed to provide light having a wavelength in the visible range, in the infrared range or for providing light in the UV range.
  • the wavelength can be achieved depending on the particular filling material used, the container used (glass, PET, color of the wall) an efficient filling height measurement.
  • the filling machine has a plurality of
  • Filling elements which are provided on a circumferentially driven rotary transport element. Laterally next to the container optical detection means are provided which are formed by at least one non-rotatably co-moving optical sensor or a non-rotatably mitbewegte camera. Preferably, the number of optical sensors or cameras used is smaller than the number of filling elements. As a result, the effort for the level detection can be significantly reduced.
  • the filling machine has a plurality of
  • Filling elements which are provided on a circumferentially driven rotary transport element.
  • at least one optical detection means in the form of an optical sensor or a camera per filling element is provided, which is permanently associated with the filling element and is moved along circumferentially. This allows a continuous, especially at the end of the filling process continuous
  • the light guide comprises a bundle of light-conducting
  • Fibers on and the camera is designed to detect the image information supplied by the bundle of photoconductive fibers.
  • an optical fiber constructed such that the image information can be transmitted through the optical fiber can be used.
  • an endoscope-like detection of the level in the container is possible.
  • the light guide has at least a first one
  • Optical fiber area for supplying light from a light source to Container interior and at least a second optical fiber area for transmitting optical information from the container interior to the camera.
  • the second light guide region can be formed by a fiber bundle containing a plurality of individual fibers.
  • the first and second light guide regions preferably run next to one another, in particular parallel to one another.
  • the light guide extends at least in sections in the filling jet of the filling medium. He stands, for example, on the underside of the valve body and dips, for example, in the container interior.
  • the free end of the light guide facing the container to be filled is provided above and spaced from the height level defining the fill target height, i. after completing the filling process, the free end of the light guide is spaced from the product level.
  • the light source is provided integrated in the filling element, in particular in the movably arranged valve body or in the housing surrounding the valve body of the filling element, and the optical sensor or the camera is provided laterally next to the container to be filled.
  • the optical sensor or the camera can either be moved or fixed. As a result, exact level measurement can be achieved with technically simple means.
  • a plurality of filling elements is provided, which are designed to fill the container in the free jet. This allows a high filling capacity can be achieved with accurate level measurement simultaneously.
  • a plurality of filling elements are provided, which are adapted to fill the container in a method at the filling material is passed before or during the inflow into the container via at least one flow guide to the inner container wall, and thus flows as a thin Gregutfilm to the container bottom. At least one
  • Flow guide may be, for example, a swirl body or a Abstrahltress. This embodiment is possible because cameras with sufficient (interior) illumination can also look through the filling material film located on the inner wall of the container onto the product level and clearly depict it. For such a design can advantageously be provided that the light guide at least partially within the spanned by Greinsky.
  • the invention relates to a method for filling containers with a liquid product. It is the
  • Container interior at least partially illuminated by a light source
  • the filling level is detected by optical detection means provided laterally next to the container;
  • a light guide is provided, which is connected to a camera, and by at least one computer unit is calculated by processing an image processing program based on the image information provided by the camera, the level in the container.
  • Containers according to the invention are in particular bottles, cans, barrels or other containers to be filled with a liquid product.
  • optical sensor any sensor by which
  • Brightness values or light intensity values can be detected.
  • camera is meant a measuring device, by which two-dimensional image information (for example by a matrix-like sensor array) can be detected
  • free-jet filling is understood to mean a filling process in which the liquid product is to be filled from the container to be filled
  • Liquid valve flows in a free filling jet or Medgutstrahl, wherein the flow of the filling material not by guiding elements such. Ableittrane, swirler, short or long filling tubes is influenced or changed. Free jet filling can take place both without pressure and under pressure.
  • the container In the pressureless free jet filling, the container has ambient pressure, the container is usually not applied to the filling element with its container mouth or opening, but is spaced from the filling element or from a designated discharge opening. If the container at the non-pressurized jet filling but with his container mouth on the filling element, so a gas path establishes a connection between the interior of the container and the environment, whereby a non-pressurized filling is made possible.
  • the gas contained in the container and displaced by the beverage flowing into the container escapes into the environment via this gas path. If the free-jet filling under a different pressure from the ambient pressure, the container is pressed with its mouth against the filling element and sealed, the pressure in the interior of the container is adjusted by applying a clamping gas or by applying a vacuum to this, deviating from the ambient pressure , which can be both above and below the ambient pressure.
  • Fig. 1 by way of example a filling element with a container to be filled in a
  • FIG. 2 shows a filling element with a container to be filled in one
  • FIG. 3 shows a filling element with a container to be filled in one
  • FIG. 4 shows an example of a filling element with a container to be filled in a
  • Fig. 5 shows an example of a filling element with a container to be filled in a
  • Circulating filling machines have a transport element on which a plurality of filling stations, each with a filling element 1, are provided.
  • the containers 2 to be filled are fed to the filling machine (container mouth oriented upward) and received at a filling station in such a way that the container 2 is moved through the respective one during the rotation of the transport element
  • Filling element 1 is filled. Subsequently, the filled container of the filling station is removed and suitably to the next processing stations
  • Figure 1 shows schematically a filling element 1 of a filling machine according to a first embodiment.
  • a container 2 is arranged below a filling element 1 shown in section.
  • the filling element 1 consists in a conventional manner of a valve body 1 .1 in the vertical direction axially displaceable in a housing 1 .2 is provided.
  • a valve seat is formed, so that upon contact of the valve body 1 .1 relative to the valve seat, the liquid valve of Filled element 1 and when lifting the valve body 1 .1 of the
  • Valve seat the liquid valve is open so that contents can get into the container 2.
  • the filling element 1 is in particular for free jet filling of the
  • Container 2 is formed.
  • the filling of the container 2 can take place when the container mouth 2.2 bears against a sealing surface formed on the filling element 1 or even when the container mouth 2.2 is spaced apart from the filling element 1.
  • the filling machine is designed to detect the fill level within the container 2 to be filled with optical detection means 4.
  • the optical detection means 4 are provided laterally next to the container 2 to be filled, in particular in such a way that they detect the region in which the nominal filling height FS of the container 2 is to lie.
  • the optical detection means 4 can be formed in particular by at least one optical sensor or by a camera.
  • the optical detection means 4 can be provided either stationary and or with the respective filling element 1 moved. For example, circumferentially around the plurality of filling elements 1 having
  • Transport element distributed one or more optical detection means 4 may be provided, by means of which the level in the container 2 can be determined.
  • a detection means 4 to be assigned to a filling element 1 and be moved with this, so that the level in the container 2 during its movement is measurable.
  • Light source 3 is provided, is emitted by means of the light in the container interior.
  • the light source 3 is integrated in or provided on the valve body 1 .1.
  • the light source 3 can also be provided in the region of the housing 1 .2, in particular on the free end of the housing 1 .2 facing the container 2. This ensures that the level measurement and the illumination of the container interior no protruding into the container interior or similar probe. needed, so that the entire free Cross-section of the container mouth 2.2 is available for introducing the contents.
  • Figure 2 shows a filling element 1 of a filling machine according to a second
  • Embodiment The structure of the filling machine according to the second
  • Embodiment is substantially identical to the structure of the embodiment described above. Therefore, only the differences between the embodiments will be described below. Incidentally, the statements made above with regard to the first exemplary embodiment also apply to the embodiment according to FIG. 2.
  • Embodiment according to Figure 1 is that the light generated by the light source 3 is passed by means of a light guide 3.1 in the container interior.
  • the light guide 3.1 in this case preferably extends at least in sections within the valve body 1 .1.
  • the light guide 3.1 can in this case over the free end of the
  • Valve body 1 .1 project downwards in the direction of the container 2, but still within the housing 2.1 end, i. do not protrude beyond the container mouth 2.2 in the container interior.
  • the light guide at the free end of the valve body 1 .1 ends or on the container mouth 2.2 in the
  • Container interior end of the light guide but preferably above the nominal filling height FS.
  • a bundled light beam can be supplied to the container interior, whereby a higher detection accuracy is achieved.
  • Fig. 3 shows a filling element 1 of a filling machine according to a third
  • Embodiment The structure of the filling machine according to the third
  • Embodiment is identical in essential parts to the structure of the previously described embodiments of FIGS. 1 and 2. Therefore, only the differences between the embodiments will be described below. Incidentally, the statements made above with regard to the first and second exemplary embodiment also apply to the embodiment according to FIG. 3.
  • the essential difference of the embodiment according to FIG. 3 to the embodiments according to FIGS. 1 and 2 is that the at least partial illumination of the container interior is not effected by a light source 3 provided above the container 2 but the light source 3 is provided below the container 2. As a result, the radiated from the light source 3
  • the optical detection means 4 can in turn be provided laterally next to the container 2, either rotationally moved with the filling element 1 or fixed.
  • FIG. 4 shows a fourth exemplary embodiment of a filling element 1 of a filling machine.
  • the illumination of the container interior is analogous to that
  • the optical detection unit 4 is not arranged laterally adjacent to the container but the detection of the filling level FS in the container 2 by means of a light guide 3.1, the first free end 3.1 .3 of the container mouth 2.2 facing or projecting through this container mouth 2.2 in the container interior and is connected to the opposite free end with a camera 6.
  • the first free end 3.1 .3 of the light guide 3.1 can, as shown in FIG. 4, end within the housing 1 .2 of the filling element or protrude beyond the container mouth 2.2 into the interior of the container such that the free end 3.1 .3 is above that of the filling material to reach desired filling level FS ends.
  • the light guide 3.1 forms together with the camera 6 endoscope-like
  • Detection means by means of which the level in the container 2 is optically determinable.
  • the camera 6 is supplied with image information via the light guide 3.1, which is detected by a sensor array provided inside the camera 6 (eg CCD sensor or the like). These recorded by the camera 6 information is then by suitable image processing means, in particular one on a Processing unit provided image processing program processed and based on the level of the contents determined within the container 2.
  • the light guide 3.1 is for transmitting image information from
  • the light guide 3.1 can have a fiber bundle with a plurality of individual fibers or be formed by a single optical fiber containing a glass fiber or a gel or liquid light guide.
  • the camera 6 may also be provided on the container 2 facing the bottom of the valve body 1 .1 or on a probe-like from the valve body 1 .1 downwardly projecting element.
  • the image information does not need to be supplied via an optical fiber 3.1 of the camera 6, but the camera 6 takes the image information directly in the vicinity of the container mouth 2.2.
  • the camera 6 is in this case liquid-protected, in particular provided encapsulated.
  • the light guide 3.1 has a first light guide region 3.1 .1 and a second light guide region 3.1 .2.
  • the first light guide region 3.1 .1 is provided for supplying light from a light source 3 to the container interior, i. Light is at a the container 2
  • the light guide in this case preferably extends at least in sections within the valve body 1 .1.
  • the second light guide region 3.1 .2 may in turn comprise a fiber bundle with a plurality of individual fibers or be formed by a single optical fiber containing a glass fiber or a gel or liquid light guide.
  • the first and second optical waveguide areas 3.1 .1, 3.1 .2 run
  • the light source 3 can emit light in the visible wavelength range, but also light in the infrared range or in the UV wavelength range (eg UV black light) in the embodiments described above depending on the needs and application.
  • the invention has been described above by means of exemplary embodiments. It is understood that a variety of changes or modifications are possible without thereby departing from the inventive concept underlying the invention.

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Abstract

L'invention concerne une machine de remplissage permettant de remplir des récipients (2) avec un produit de remplissage liquide, le niveau de remplissage dans le récipient (2) à remplir pouvant être déterminé grâce à des moyens de détection optiques, caractérisée en ce que l'espace intérieur de récipient est éclairé au moins partiellement par une source de lumière (3), et en ce que - le niveau de remplissage est détecté grâce à des moyens de détection optiques (4) situés latéralement à côté du récipient (2) ; ou - une caméra (6) ou un guide de lumière (5) relié à une caméra (6) est situé(e) dans la région de l'élément de remplissage (1), et en ce qu'il est prévu au moins une unité de calcul dotée de moyens programmes de traitement d'image au moyen desquels la hauteur de remplissage (FS) dans le récipient (2) peut être déterminée à partir des informations d'image fournies par la caméra (6) en exécutant un programme de traitement d'image.
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