EP3717397A1 - Dispositif de fermeture de gazéification et de fermeture de récipients qui comportent une ouverture de remplissage - Google Patents

Dispositif de fermeture de gazéification et de fermeture de récipients qui comportent une ouverture de remplissage

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EP3717397A1
EP3717397A1 EP18811714.7A EP18811714A EP3717397A1 EP 3717397 A1 EP3717397 A1 EP 3717397A1 EP 18811714 A EP18811714 A EP 18811714A EP 3717397 A1 EP3717397 A1 EP 3717397A1
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closing
nozzle
container
rinsing
closure element
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Thomas NEBER
Daniel SPIELER
Tim GÖGELEIN
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Bausch and Stroebel Maschinenfabrik Ilshofen GmbH and Co KG
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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
    • 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
    • B65B3/003—Filling medical containers such as ampoules, vials, syringes or the like
    • 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
    • B65B31/00—Packaging articles or materials under special atmospheric or gaseous conditions; Adding propellants to aerosol containers
    • B65B31/04—Evacuating, pressurising or gasifying filled containers or wrappers by means of nozzles through which air or other gas, e.g. an inert gas, is withdrawn or supplied
    • B65B31/046—Evacuating, pressurising or gasifying filled containers or wrappers by means of nozzles through which air or other gas, e.g. an inert gas, is withdrawn or supplied the nozzles co-operating, or being combined, with a device for opening or closing the container or wrapper
    • 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
    • B67B1/00—Closing bottles, jars or similar containers by applying stoppers
    • 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
    • B67C3/222—Head-space air removing devices, e.g. by inducing foam

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  • the invention relates to a closing device for closing in particular automatically filled containers having a filling opening, such as bottles, cans, vials, cartridges or ampoules.
  • the closure device comprises
  • a positioning device for placing a container to be closed in a position for closing
  • a purging device with a nozzle device for injecting purging gas into a container to be closed through its filling opening before closing
  • a closure element setting device for attaching a closure element to a container to be closed in its filling opening and thus the container closing position
  • Closing devices of the type considered here are used, for example, in the chemical industry and in the pharmaceutical industry, in order to close respective containers after their filling with, for example, oxygen-sensitive, liquid chemicals or pharmaceuticals. It is already known to flush the headspace volume of the container with inert gas, for example nitrogen, as a purge gas in order to displace oxygen from the headspace before closing such filled containers.
  • inert gas for example nitrogen
  • Such closing devices exist in which nozzles of a nozzle device are positioned obliquely on the mouths of the containers while the inert gas flows into the containers.
  • the nozzles are withdrawn from the container mouths at the end of the respective rinsing fumigation to make room for the operation of a closure element setting device which attaches a respective closure, for example a respective rubber stopper, to the containers to be closed, ie introduces them into the filling opening to close the container concerned.
  • a closure element setting device which attaches a respective closure, for example a respective rubber stopper, to the containers to be closed, ie introduces them into the filling opening to close the container concerned.
  • the rinsing of the containers by means of the rinsing device and optionally also the closing of the containers may possibly take place during a transport movement of the containers, wherein the nozzles and possibly the closure setting means are moved along in the transport direction.
  • the relevant elements of the closing device can, for example, travel along one cycle step with the containers and then start again on the subsequent machine cycle.
  • Object of the present invention is to improve a closure device of the type mentioned in that they in the process of rinsing and closing an even further reduction of the Oxygen content in the headspace of the respective container in a well reproducible manner allows.
  • a closure device for closing containers having a filling opening such as bottles or cans
  • a positioning device for placing a container to be closed in a position for closing
  • a closure element setting device for attaching a closure element to a container to be closed in a position of its filling opening and thus the position closing the container
  • the nozzle device has a central nozzle arrangement and one of the
  • the nozzle device and a container to be sealed by the positioning so relative to each other in a rinsing position can be positioned bar, that the central nozzle assembly is arranged for introducing purge gas into the container at least mainly on the filling opening and the peripheral nozzle assembly a peripheral region of Einhellöff planning tion so that both the filling opening and its periphery are exposed to a purge gas, when the nozzle device discharges purge gas.
  • the purge gas is preferably inert gas, for example nitrogen, in question.
  • the central nozzle arrangement and the peripheral nozzle arrangement together form a gas discharge area which is larger than the filling opening of a relevant container to be closed.
  • purge gas is thus blown from the central nozzle arrangement into the filling opening of the respective container on the one hand.
  • the peripheral nozzle arrangement brings purge gas into the region of the periphery of the filling opening.
  • any possible suction effect of the central nozzle arrangement during the injection of the purge gas into the filling opening of the respective container does not introduce air and thus undesirable oxygen from the lateral environment into the filling opening, but at most any purge gas of the peripheral nozzle arrangement present there.
  • the very good results obtained with the closing device according to the invention are a good proof of this.
  • a residual oxygen content of ⁇ 0.5% in the headspace could be determined by means of the closing device according to the invention of sealed containers.
  • the central nozzle arrangement and the peripheral nozzle arrangement are each designed as a tubular element, wherein the tube element forming the central nozzle arrangement is accommodated in particular concentrically in the tubular element forming the peripheral nozzle arrangement.
  • the peripheral-nozzle arrangement may have a plurality of peripheral nozzles surrounding the central nozzle arrangement.
  • the central nozzle arrangement may optionally have a plurality of nozzles as a bundle.
  • the purge gas stream of the central nozzle arrangement and the purge gas stream of the peripheral nozzle arrangement can be controlled separately in order to set optimum conditions during rinsing.
  • the position for closing and the rinsing position for a respective container to be rinsed and sealed preferably correspond to one another, wherein the nozzle device moves between the rinsing position and a withdrawn position relative to a container brought into the position for closing by means of the positioning device Position is movable. In the rinsing position it is positioned with its Spülgasausementsde the filling opening of the container this overlapping opposite.
  • the final operation of attaching the closing element ie closing the container
  • the nozzle device has at least largely carried out its movement into the retracted position.
  • atmospheric oxygen can again reach the container through the filling opening.
  • the nozzle device is designed such that it is oriented in the rinsing position obliquely to the filling opening of a container positioned in position for closing and to be rinsed.
  • a nozzle device can be moved quickly from its rinsing position to the retracted position by the shortest route, such as by lateral pivoting and / or lateral withdrawal.
  • the nozzle device may be bevelled at its purge gas outlet end relative to the tube element longitudinal axis so that the purge gas outlet end in the purge position of the nozzle device is at least approximately in a plane parallel to the upper edge of the fill port of a nozzle respective container positioned in position for closure.
  • the closure element setting device can have a closure element holder that can be moved between a retracted passive position and an advanced closure element release position, which can be, for example, a stopper that can push a stopper as a closure element into the filling opening of a container to be closed ,
  • the closing device is preferably controllable by means of the control device such that the movement of the closure element holder from its retracted passive position into the advanced closure element dispensing position and the movement of the nozzle device from the rinsing position to its retracted position occur at least in regions simultaneously. This also serves the minimization of a period between the targeted rinsing and the subsequent attachment of the closure element to a respective container, so that hardly any air can flow into the container during this period.
  • the closing device has a supplementary nozzle device with at least one rinsing nozzle for discharging purge gas in the direction of the closure element holder, so that the rinsing nozzle can blow rinsing gas to a closure element held ready by the closure element holder for a current closing operation.
  • the positioning device is adapted to arrange a group of containers to be closed in a position for closing, further comprising the closure element setting means for attaching Ver gleichele- elements to a corresponding group of containers to be closed in one of the filling openings occlusive position is formed.
  • the nozzle device of the rinsing device is provided several times to form a group of similar nozzle devices.
  • the figure shows a partially schematic, fragmentary detail sectional view of a region of the closing device, in which the flushing of a respective container with inert gas and the closing of the container take place.
  • a vial 3 can be seen as a container, which is filled with an oxygen-sensitive liquid pharmaceutical agent 7 except for a headspace volume 5.
  • the vial 3 is located in a positioning device 9 of the closure device and has been introduced by means of this positioning device 9 in the position shown for closing, this position for closing also corresponds to the rinsing position, in the example inert gas as purge gas in the headspace fifth of the vial 3 is introduced.
  • Flierzu serves a purging device 11, of which in the figure essentially a nozzle device 13 in its rinsing position relative to the vial 3 can be seen.
  • the nozzle device 13 has, as a central nozzle arrangement, an inner cylindrical tubular element 15 which, in the rinsing position, is directed essentially onto the filling opening 18 of the vial 3 in order to inject the intergas there.
  • the nozzle device 13 further includes, as a peripheral nozzle assembly, a cylindrical tube member 17 coaxially surrounding the tube member 15, which also serves to apply inert gas. From the intermediate space 19 between the central tube element 15 and the peripheral tube element 17, inert gas can thus be blown into the periphery of the filling opening 18 of the vial 3, in order to displace air there and thus the air oxygen, so that it does not escape due to suction effects Rinsing process is sucked into the filling opening 18.
  • the tube element 17 and / or the tube element 15 at the outlet of the nozzle device 13 can be widened like a funnel.
  • the directed onto the filling opening 18 of the vial 3 gas flow 20 of the central tube member 15 and the outside of the peripheral tube element 17 limited gas flow 22 are separately controllable in their strength.
  • a control device 24 which also controls the other functions of the closing device is used.
  • the residual oxygen content in the headspace volume 5 of the vial 3 could be reduced to an extremely low value of ⁇ 0.5%.
  • Closure element in the form of a plug 30 is directed so that the purge gas enters the lower recess 32 of the plug 30 and can displace air there.
  • the frame 34 of the auxiliary nozzle device 26 is constructed so that the areas to be rinsed 5, 32 are well shielded against air ingress when the vial 3 and the nozzle device 13 are in the rinsing position shown. In this way it is prevented that air can flow in from the outside in critical quantities to the purged areas.
  • the plug 30 is located at the lower end of a push-in ram 36 as a closure member holder of a closure element setting device 38.
  • the push-in ram 36 is shown in a retracted passive position from which it is movable to an advanced closure element dispensing position to move the plug 30 in depress the filling opening 18 of the vial 3.
  • the nozzle device 13 has to be moved out of the way between the stopper 30 shown and the filling opening 18 of the vial 3. This takes place very quickly after the rinsing process, in that the nozzle device is moved to the side to the right by means of a relevant drive device (not shown) by using an at least approximately horizontal movement component in the figure to a retracted position.
  • a drive device of the closure element setting device 38 moves the push-in ram 36 from the retracted passive position shown in the figure into an advanced closure element dispensing position, in which it places the stopper 30 into the filling opening 18 of vial 3.
  • the vial 3 is then tightly closed and has at most extremely low residual oxygen content in its headspace 5.
  • the nozzle device 13 is oriented in its rinsing position obliquely to the filling opening of the vial 3 positioned in position for closing and to be rinsed.
  • the nozzle device 13 is beveled at its Spippogasausashesde relative to Rohrele- mentl Kunststoffsachse 42 so that the Spülgasausariade 40 in the rinsing position of the nozzle device 13 is at least approximately in a plane that is parallel to the upper edge of the filling opening 18 of the vial 3 extends.
  • these measures serve to improve the rinsing effect of the vial 3, on the other hand, the faster mobility of the nozzle device 13 from the space between the stopper 30 and the filling opening 18.

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Chemical & Material Sciences (AREA)
  • Dispersion Chemistry (AREA)
  • Filling Of Jars Or Cans And Processes For Cleaning And Sealing Jars (AREA)
  • Vacuum Packaging (AREA)

Abstract

L'invention concerne un dispositif de fermeture pour fermer des récipients (3) qui comportent une ouverture de remplissage (18), comme par exemple des bouteilles ou des canettes, contenant une installation de positionnement (9) pour disposer un récipient (3) à fermer en position de fermeture, une installation de rinçage (11) équipé d'un dispositif à buses (13) pour souffler du gaz de rinçage, notamment du gaz inerte, dans un récipient (3) à fermer par son ouverture de remplissage (18) avant de le fermer, un dispositif de réglage d'élément de fermeture (38) pour attacher un élément de fermeture (30) à un récipient à fermer (3) afin d'être fermé dans une position fermant son ouverture de remplissage (18) et fermant ainsi le récipient (3), et - un dispositif de commande. Le dispositif à buses (13) comporte un agencement de buse centrale (15) et un agencement de buses périphériques (17) entourant l'agencement de buse central. Le dispositif à buses (13) et un récipient (3) à fermer sont positionnés dans une position de rinçage l'un par rapport à l'autre, de sorte que l'agencement de buse centrale (15) soit orientée pour introduire du gaz de rinçage dans le récipient (3) au moins principalement sur son ouverture de remplissage (18) et que l'agencement de buses périphériques (17) soit dirigé vers une zone périphérique de l'ouverture de remplissage (18), de telle sorte que l'ouverture de remplissage (18) ainsi que ses périphéries soient exposées à un courant de gaz de rinçage (20, 22) quand le dispositif à buses (13) produit le gaz de rinçage.
EP18811714.7A 2017-11-27 2018-11-07 Dispositif de fermeture de gazéification et de fermeture de récipients qui comportent une ouverture de remplissage Active EP3717397B1 (fr)

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PCT/EP2018/080479 WO2019101525A1 (fr) 2017-11-27 2018-11-07 Dispositif de fermeture de gazéification et de fermeture de récipients qui comportent une ouverture de remplissage

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