EP4554879A1 - Dispositif de chargement et/ou de déchargement et procédé de chargement et/ou de déchargement en parallèle de récipients - Google Patents

Dispositif de chargement et/ou de déchargement et procédé de chargement et/ou de déchargement en parallèle de récipients

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EP4554879A1
EP4554879A1 EP23730769.9A EP23730769A EP4554879A1 EP 4554879 A1 EP4554879 A1 EP 4554879A1 EP 23730769 A EP23730769 A EP 23730769A EP 4554879 A1 EP4554879 A1 EP 4554879A1
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container
feeding
disk
disk shaft
containers
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Engin GENCAN
Norbert Schwede
Thorsten Slowak
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KHS GmbH
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G47/00—Article or material-handling devices associated with conveyors; Methods employing such devices
    • B65G47/74—Feeding, transfer, or discharging devices of particular kinds or types
    • B65G47/82—Rotary or reciprocating members for direct action on articles or materials, e.g. pushers, rakes, shovels
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B08—CLEANING
    • B08B—CLEANING IN GENERAL; PREVENTION OF FOULING IN GENERAL
    • B08B9/00—Cleaning hollow articles by methods or apparatus specially adapted thereto
    • B08B9/08—Cleaning containers, e.g. tanks
    • B08B9/20—Cleaning containers, e.g. tanks by using apparatus into or on to which containers, e.g. bottles, jars, cans are brought
    • B08B9/42—Cleaning containers, e.g. tanks by using apparatus into or on to which containers, e.g. bottles, jars, cans are brought the apparatus being characterised by means for conveying or carrying containers therethrough
    • B08B9/44—Cleaning containers, e.g. tanks by using apparatus into or on to which containers, e.g. bottles, jars, cans are brought the apparatus being characterised by means for conveying or carrying containers therethrough the means being for loading or unloading the apparatus
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G29/00—Rotary conveyors, e.g. rotating discs, arms, star-wheels or cones
    • B65G29/02—Rotary conveyors, e.g. rotating discs, arms, star-wheels or cones for inclined or vertical transit
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G47/00—Article or material-handling devices associated with conveyors; Methods employing such devices
    • B65G47/74—Feeding, transfer, or discharging devices of particular kinds or types
    • B65G47/84—Star-shaped wheels or devices having endless travelling belts or chains, the wheels or devices being equipped with article-engaging elements
    • B65G47/846—Star-shaped wheels or wheels equipped with article-engaging elements

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  • the invention relates to a loading and/or dispensing device for the parallel loading and/or dispensing of containers, in particular for a container cleaning machine, with a disk shaft with a plurality of disks arranged on a common disk shaft axis for moving one container from a first position to a second position , wherein each disk has at least one finger for raising or lowering a container in the area of the container bottom and at least one back for resting on a container side wall.
  • the invention further relates to a device for treating, in particular for cleaning, containers, a method for the parallel feeding of containers and a method for the parallel dispensing of containers.
  • loading and/or dispensing devices for the parallel loading and/or dispensing of containers are known, which are commonly used for loading or feeding or for unloading or removing containers in the area of a container treatment device.
  • reusable bottles are cleaned before further use and are fed to a bottle cleaning system by a conveyor belt using a feeding device and, following cleaning, are removed again from the bottle cleaning system by means of a dispensing device in order to feed the then cleaned bottles to the renewed filling process using a further conveyor belt.
  • a rotatable disk shaft is typically arranged at the end of a pivotable rocker, the disk shaft having at least one finger and optionally also has a back for raising or lowering a bottle from a first position to a second position. Due to the arrangement of the rotatable disc shaft on a rocker, the possible movement when feeding or dispensing bottles is limited to an arc section with the radius corresponding to the length of the rocker. So there is a pivoting movement determined by the shape of the rocker arm and a rotation of the disk shaft about its axis.
  • This arrangement of the disk shaft means that high masses have to be moved along the lever of the rocker arm, which on the one hand leads to a high drive power required and, as a result, to high energy consumption and, on the other hand, to increased wear and thus also to high operating costs.
  • arranging the disk shaft on a rigid rocker arm does not allow precise control and only a single movement path predetermined by the rocker arm.
  • the invention is therefore based on the object of providing a method and a loading and/or dispensing device for the parallel loading and/or dispensing of containers, which allows a diverse design and precise control of a control curve, while having low energy consumption and generally low operating costs .
  • a feeding and/or dispensing device for the parallel feeding and/or dispensing of containers according to claim 1 by a device for treating containers according to claim 13, a method for the parallel feeding of containers according to claim 14 and by a Method for parallel dispensing of containers solved according to claim 15.
  • the loading and/or dispensing device for the parallel loading and/or dispensing of containers, in particular for one Container cleaning machine, has a disk shaft with a plurality of disks arranged on a common disk shaft axis for moving a container from a first position and / or position to a second position and / or position, each disk having at least one finger for raising and / or lowering one Container, in particular in the area of the container bottom, and preferably also has at least one back for contact with a container side wall and wherein the disk shaft is rotatably mounted and arranged to be linearly displaceable, so that the disk shaft can be moved along a linear-rotational control cam for loading and/or delivery or can be moved.
  • the device according to the invention for treating, in particular for cleaning, containers has a first conveying means for feeding containers, a container treatment device arranged downstream of the first conveying means, in particular a container cleaning machine, and a second conveying means for guiding away the treated containers, with between the first conveying means and the Container treatment device, a feeding device according to the invention for feeding the containers into the container treatment device and / or between the container treatment device and the second conveying means, a delivery device according to the invention for unloading the containers from the container treatment device is arranged.
  • the invention relates to two methods, one method for the parallel feeding of containers and the other method for the parallel delivery of containers. These are two possible uses of the dispensing and/or dispensing device according to the invention, the difference between the two methods preferably essentially being at which position the container comes into contact with the finger and at which position the container is dispensed or put down .
  • the method according to the invention for the parallel feeding of containers in particular by means of a feeding device according to the invention, the method steps include first feeding containers to a disk of a rotatable and linearly displaceable disk shaft of the feeding device, followed by picking up each container from a first position by means of a finger of the disk in the area of the container bottom and finally lifting the Container and / or rotating the container by means of the finger to move the container into a second position for feeding the container into a container treatment device, the lifting and / or rotating by rotating the disk shaft about a disk shaft axis and by linearly displacing the disk shaft he follows.
  • the method according to the invention for the parallel dispensing of containers has as method steps first feeding containers, in particular from a container treatment device, to a disk of a rotatable and linearly displaceable disk shaft of the dispensing device, then removing the container from a first position by means of a finger of the disk in the area of the container bottom and finally lowering the container and / or rotating the container by means of the finger to move the container into a second standing position for dispensing the container.
  • the container is supported laterally by a back of the disc during lowering and/or after lowering into a standing parking position it is moved away from the disc shaft by means of the back from the parking position in order to be able to lower another container.
  • the lowering and/or rotating takes place by rotating the disk shaft about a disk shaft axis and by linearly displacing the disk shaft.
  • the invention advantageously enables a container or format change without converting the device due to the flexible design of the control cam.
  • the inventors have fundamentally recognized that instead of a conversion, an exclusive software change or a change to the Control cam makes it particularly easy and quick to change containers or formats.
  • the design according to the invention reduces the number and mass of the moving parts, which reduces the manufacturing costs of the device and requires less drive power, which reduces energy consumption and can once again reduce operating costs. Finally, more precise control is possible due to the lower moving mass.
  • the loading and/or dispensing device is a device for moving several containers at the same time from one position to another position in order to deposit the containers into another device or to deliver them from another device.
  • the filling and/or dispensing device for containers is preferably used in the field of industrial filling of containers and particularly preferably on a container cleaning machine.
  • the parallel feeding of containers preferably involves picking up several containers at the same time, each by means of a disk of the disk shaft and in particular by means of a single finger of the disk shaft.
  • the parallel task also includes a spatial parallel arrangement of the containers, in particular in the first position, in the second position and/or during the displacement from the first to the second position.
  • the container is preferably picked up by a conveyor, in particular a conveyor belt or the like.
  • each container is preferably moved into a bottle magazine and in particular into a receiving opening or a container cell of a bottle magazine.
  • the task is preferably carried out by lifting the container, in particular by means of the finger and/or in the area of the container bottom, and/or by rotating the container, preferably by at least 45°, particularly preferably by an angle between 45° and 135° and completely particularly preferably at an angle between 75° and 105°. This takes place Rotation of the container preferably together with a rotation of the disk shaft and/or in the direction of the linear displacement of the disk shaft.
  • the container is preferably inserted linearly into a receiving opening or a container cell of a bottle magazine, which is particularly preferably done by a linear displacement of the disk shaft and most preferably exclusively by a linear displacement of the disk shaft and/or without rotation of the disk shaft .
  • the displacement of each container from the first position to the second position during loading and/or delivery can be a change in the orientation and/or the spatial position of the container, with a pure rotation, a pure translation or a superposition of a rotation and a translation can be used to get from the first position to the second position.
  • the parallel delivery of containers preferably involves lowering several containers at the same time, each by means of a disk of the disk shaft and in particular by means of a single finger of the disk shaft.
  • the container is preferably delivered in a standing position of the container.
  • the container is also preferably delivered onto a conveyor, in particular a conveyor belt or the like, or onto a container receiving plate, onto which each of the containers is placed or positioned standing using the finger.
  • a conveyor for removing the containers is preferably arranged behind the container receiving plate and particularly preferably the containers are pushed from the container receiving plate in the direction of the conveying means, particularly preferably by means of the respective back of the disk or the disk shaft.
  • each container is preferably moved when dispensing from a bottle magazine and in particular out of a receiving opening or a container cell of a bottle magazine. Delivery is preferred by lowering the container, in particular by means of the finger and/or in the area of the container bottom, whereby the container can in principle also be rotated. However, it is preferred that the container is rotated during delivery by less than 20°, more preferably by less than 10° and most preferably by less than 5°.
  • the container can in principle be any vessel, the container preferably being made of plastic or glass and/or being intended to hold a food and in particular a drink. Accordingly, the container is preferably a bottle. Furthermore, the container is preferably part of a reusable system and, accordingly, particularly preferably a reusable bottle, in particular made of glass or plastic.
  • the disk shaft is formed from several disks arranged on the disk shaft axis.
  • the disks on the disk shaft are preferably arranged parallel to one another and/or have an identical angular orientation with regard to the position of the at least one finger, in particular in relation to the disk shaft axis. It is also preferred that all disks on the disk shaft are arranged at the same distance from one another or from the adjacent disk. This distance is preferably larger than the diameter of a container and/or smaller than twice the diameter of the container.
  • the disk shaft is preferably designed as a lightweight construction and has numerous recesses for this purpose.
  • the disk shaft or the disks are particularly preferably formed in the form of a truss or framework. It is particularly preferred that the material is removed from non-load-bearing areas and/or reduced to force-absorbing areas in the form of struts.
  • the disk shaft is preferably formed in such a way and particularly preferably the finger and/or the back are arranged and/or formed in such a way that the Task and delivery of the containers takes place in the same direction of rotation of the disc shaft.
  • the finger and/or the back are arranged and/or formed in such a way that the Task and delivery of the containers takes place in the same direction of rotation of the disc shaft.
  • the disk shaft, the disks, the fingers and/or the backs can in principle be made of any material.
  • the fingers and/or the backs are preferably made of a plastic.
  • the remaining components, in particular the disk shaft, the disks, a frame and/or further components, are also preferably made of metal and particularly preferably of stainless steel.
  • the at least one finger of the disk is intended to come into contact with a container in the area of the container base and thereby raise or lower the container or move it from the first position to the second position.
  • the finger preferably comes into contact with the container exclusively in the area of the container base and/or a lower container edge.
  • the finger preferably has a rounding at its tip or at the position with the maximum distance from the disk shaft axis or in the area that comes into contact with a container bottom, the rounding preferably extending over an external angle or over an angular range on its surface of at least 90°, particularly preferably greater than 90° and less than 145° and most preferably between 100° and 135°.
  • the finger is preferably formed in such a way and in particular forms the outer edge of the disk, so that containers can be accepted from an elevated position, in particular the uppermost quadrant of the disk, by means of the finger, with the containers only being lifted over a small height until they come into contact with fall on the finger and preferably only over a height not greater than 25%, particularly preferably not greater than 15% and very particularly preferably not greater than 10% of the container height.
  • the at least one finger and the at least one back of a disk can in principle each be a separate component or can be formed in one piece and thus each be a section of a common component.
  • the finger and the back can continuously merge into one another.
  • a finger of a disk of the disk shaft is preferably longer in the radial direction, particularly preferably at least 1.5 times longer and most preferably 2 times longer than the back.
  • the back for contact with a container side wall is preferably provided when loading containers to stabilize the container when lifting the container, with additional or alternative stabilization of the container by means of a container guide, in particular a fixed container guide rail and/or arranged on both sides of the container can. Accordingly, it is also conceivable that the back has no function when placing containers, only takes on an auxiliary function and/or does not come into contact with the container or only comes into contact immediately at the beginning of lifting.
  • a container guide can also rotate with the disk shaft and/or be arranged in a stationary manner on it.
  • the back for contact with a container side wall is preferably intended to remove a container that has been lowered by means of the finger and has already been set down and/or is no longer in contact with the finger from the pivoting range of the disk or the finger, so that a subsequent container can be placed at the position and / or the container is fed to a conveyor.
  • This “pushing out” of the containers by means of the back has the advantage, in particular compared to positioning the container directly on a conveyor, that there is no disruption and in particular the jamming of contamination, such as shards, container closures, Labels and the like are effectively prevented.
  • the disk shaft is rotatably mounted and arranged to be linearly displaceable, with the disk shaft thus being both rotatable and linearly displaceable relative to a frame and/or a housing of the feeding and/or dispensing device, relative to the environment and/or relative to a conveying means.
  • the rotation takes place around the central longitudinal axis of the disk shaft, around the center of each of the disks and/or around the disk shaft axis.
  • the linear displacement of the disk shaft can basically take place at any angle.
  • the linear displacement preferably takes place along the horizontal or parallel to the floor in an installation position of the loading and/or delivery device.
  • the linear displacement takes place increasing or decreasing to the horizontal.
  • the disk shaft is moved along a linear-rotational control cam for feeding and/or dispensing, the course of the control cam not being predetermined by the components of the feeding and/or dispensing device, but rather being limited thereby.
  • the control cam can be programmed by freely controlling the rotation of the disk shaft as well as by freely controlling the linear displacement and particularly preferably to individual needs, such as the respective container shape and size as well as the geometric design of the individual components of the top and/or Dispensing device, in particular the finger and / or the back, can be coordinated.
  • control cam A wide variation of the control cam is therefore possible by means of the invention, with exemplary variables for its adjustment being the angular velocity and the adjustment angle of the disk shaft, the speed and the travel path of the linear adjustment, a combination of rotation and linear translation as well as an at least temporary, merely rotary or translational drive of the Disc shafts that can be adjusted individually and/or independently of one another or in combination.
  • the setting and/or programming of the control curve is preferably carried out in a control unit, which can be part of the feeding and/or dispensing device as well as a higher-level control.
  • control cam by freely controlling the rotation of the disk shaft and/or by freely controlling the linear displacement and particularly preferably to tailor the control cam to the individual needs, such as the respective container shape, the container size and/or the to coordinate the geometric design of the individual components of the feeding and/or dispensing device, in particular of the finger and/or the back.
  • a wide variation of the control cam is therefore possible by means of the invention, with exemplary variables for its adjustment being the angular velocity and the adjustment angle of the disk shaft, the speed and the travel path of the linear adjustment, a combination of rotation and linear translation as well as an at least temporary, merely rotary or translational drive of the disk shaft.
  • the movement of the disk shaft or the course of the control cam is not fixed to a movement along an arc section, as was the case when the disk shaft was fixed to a pivotable, rigid arm or rocker in the prior art. Rather, it is preferred that the control cam or the movement of the disk shaft is a reciprocal orbital rotation. Furthermore, the disk shaft is moved along its linear-rotative control cam for loading and/or delivery, i.e. the disk shaft is on the one hand rotated at least temporarily and at least temporarily displaced linearly, in particular in a direction orthogonal to the disk shaft axis.
  • a container is preferably fed to the disk shaft and in particular to the finger to the subsequent one Lowering the container via a delivery plate, which can be adjusted manually or by motor and in particular can be adjusted to the respective container format.
  • the angle of the dispensing plate and/or the distance of an edge of the dispensing plate from the tip of the finger can be adapted to the respective container format.
  • the delivery plate can also be arranged in a fixed manner and adaptation to the respective container format can be achieved exclusively by adapting the control cam of the disk shaft or by an adapted rotation and/or an adapted linear displacement.
  • each disk of the disk shaft has several pairs of a finger and a back arranged evenly distributed over the circumference of the disk.
  • a finger and a back are preferably arranged alternately along the circumference of the disk.
  • a design of the disk with two fingers and two backs is particularly preferred, since a particularly large variety of different container formats can be handled.
  • each disc of the disc shaft has an identical number of fingers and/or backs, with one finger and one disc particularly preferably forming a cooperating unit for loading and/or dispensing an individual container.
  • all disks of the disk shaft are formed identically to one another.
  • the rotation and the linear displacement of the disk shaft can be controlled independently of one another, whereby a particularly high variety of possible control cams can be programmed in an advantageous manner, in particular the rotation and/or the linear displacement also can be discontinuous and/or only temporarily superimposed.
  • the controllable variables of the rotation are in particular the rotation or angular speed and/or the rotation angle.
  • the controllable variable of the linear displacement is in particular the speed, the direction and/or the adjustment path, with control of the angle of the linear displacement also being conceivable.
  • An advantageous embodiment of the feeding and/or dispensing device provides that the linear displacement of the disk shaft is carried out by means of a rack arranged on a stationary frame of the feeding and/or dispensing device and/or extending along the direction of the linear displacement and by means of a rack thereon rolling gear and/or connected to the disk shaft.
  • a drive for linear displacement by means of a rack advantageously leads to a reduction in the drive torque and correspondingly to a low mechanical load on the device.
  • the gear preferably does not rotate with the disk shaft or the disk shaft axis.
  • the gear is preferably connected to the disk shaft directly or indirectly via a bearing and particularly preferably also via other frame components, so that independent control of the linear displacement from the rotation of the disk shaft is possible.
  • the gear and/or the rack preferably have straight teeth and/or no helical teeth.
  • the toothing can basically run along a straight path or along a curved path.
  • the toothing particularly preferably runs along a path parallel to the linear guide or to the guide rail or rails.
  • the gear is preferably made of plastic, which means that it can advantageously be operated without lubricant.
  • the rotation can basically be driven in any way, with a one-sided rotation drive and/or a drive by means of an electric motor being preferred, which is particularly preferably designed as a servo motor or as a stepper motor and very particularly preferably identical to the motor or motors of the linear displacement drive is.
  • the rotation drive continues directly, ie the motor is directly connected to the disk shaft axis, although in principle a drive, for example via a gearbox, would also be conceivable.
  • the disk shaft and in particular the disk shaft axis is mounted on both sides, in particular by means of a ball or roller bearing, although a plain bearing is also fundamentally conceivable.
  • the rack is arranged with one toothed side oriented downwards in the set-up position of the loading and/or dispensing device, in particular on the frame, in order to prevent contamination of the teeth.
  • the indication of direction “downward” refers in particular to the effective direction of gravity, with a deviation from this direction of up to 15°, but preferably not more than 10° and in particular less than 5°, being conceivable.
  • the linear displacement can basically be driven in any way, for example by means of a spindle drive
  • a preferred development of the feeding and/or dispensing device according to the invention provides that a drive for the linear displacement of the disk shaft is arranged on both sides of the disk shaft and/or relative to one another synchronously operated electric motors.
  • the electric motors are preferably servo motors or stepper motors.
  • the two motors are preferably operated in synchronous operation, i.e. the speed and/or the angle of rotation of both motors are controlled identically or, particularly preferably, are operated in a controlled manner in relation to one another.
  • a feeding and/or dispensing device which has a linear guide of the disk shaft for linear displacement with at least one and preferably two mutually parallel guide rails and one, preferably two guide rollers rolling thereon, the Linear guidance by means of the guide rails and the guide rollers is preferably a forced guidance.
  • at least two guide rollers are particularly preferably arranged on opposite sides of the guide rails and roll in particular on surfaces of the two guide rails facing away from one another.
  • the positive guidance is preferably carried out in such a way that movement orthogonal to the guide rails is not possible.
  • the guide rails are also preferably arranged parallel to one another and/or to the rack.
  • the toothed rack is also a guide rail and, for this purpose, particularly preferably has a surface on a side opposite the toothing on which at least one guide roller rolls.
  • the guide rollers are preferably formed as grooved rollers and roll on a correspondingly formed surface of the guide rail.
  • the rack and the gear and/or the linear guide are arranged between a stationary frame and a motor holding plate for the motor for linear displacement and/or for the motor for rotating the disk shaft, whereby the Area for the linear drive, in particular the area of the gear, is not accessible from the area of the container on the disk shaft and / or from an outside of the feeding and / or dispensing device and is therefore protected.
  • the entire drive for rotation and linear displacement is preferably arranged outside an area that is accessible to containers and particularly preferred is at least one component of the feeding and/or dispensing device, in particular the stationary frame and/or a motor holding plate, between the containers and the parts of the drive, in particular the motors, the linear guide and/or the rack and the gear.
  • the entire drive for rotation and linear displacement is arranged to the side of the disk shaft or outside the area of the disks.
  • both motors for the linear displacement and rotation of the disk shaft are arranged, at least on one side of the feeding and/or dispensing device, on a common motor holding plate or on two motor holding plates that are fixed relative to one another.
  • the frame is preferably stationary or immovable in relation to the installation position of the loading and/or delivery device.
  • the rack is preferably arranged on the frame.
  • a further drive in particular a further linear drive, is arranged for linearly displacing the disk shaft in a second direction and/or at an angle to the direction of the first linear displacement, whereby in a simple manner Even more complex control curves can be implemented and the feeding and/or dispensing device can be used in a much more versatile manner.
  • the linear displacement preferably takes place by means of the further drive at an angle between 45° and 90°, particularly preferably between 75° and 90° and most preferably exactly at right angles to the direction of the first linear displacement.
  • the first linear displacement occurs horizontally in an installation position of the loading and/or dispensing device and/or the second linear displacement occurs vertically or along a vertical axis.
  • the further drive for linear displacement also preferably has a gear that rolls on a rack.
  • the further drive for linear displacement also has at least one, particularly preferably two, linear guides, which are most preferably identical to the linear guide(s) of the linear guides for the first linear displacement. It is particularly preferred that both drives for linear displacement are identical to one another.
  • a preferred embodiment provides that the back in the radial direction of the disk or to the disk shaft axis is so long or extends so far that a container placed by the finger in a parking position can be pushed away by a distance that is larger than the diameter of a container, in particular larger than the diameter of the largest possible means the container to be loaded and/or delivered to the loading and/or delivery device.
  • the finger and/or the back are formed as independent components and/or are attached to the disc or to the disc shaft in an interchangeable manner.
  • one finger and one back can also be attached as a unit to the disc or to the disc shaft in an exchangeable manner.
  • the fixing is preferably carried out in a form-fitting and/or non-positive manner, in particular by locking, screwing and/or by securing using a split pin or pin.
  • each disk of the disk shaft is formed from several parts, preferably identical to one another. Each part preferably has exactly one finger and one back.
  • a preferred embodiment of at least one of the methods according to the invention for the parallel feeding and/or for the parallel dispensing of containers provides that the linear movement of the disk shaft is adjusted, with preference being given to the adjustment path, the adjustment speed and/or the acceleration of the disk shaft, in particular along the linear guide or along the rack, can be adjusted.
  • an adjustment or a variation of the linear movement and in particular of the adjustment path, the adjustment speed and / or the acceleration can take place during a movement sequence or along the course of the linear-rotational control cam.
  • the disk shaft is preferred at least moved in sections over the course of the control curve along a linear and/or non-curved trajectory.
  • FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a feeding and/or dispensing device
  • FIG. 2 is a view of a first side of the feeding and/or dispensing device shown in FIG. 1,
  • Fig. 3 is a view of the side of the feeding and/or dispensing device shown in Fig. 2,
  • FIG. 4 shows a detailed view of a disk shaft unit with associated motors for rotating and linearly displacing the feeding and/or dispensing device
  • FIG. 5 is a view of the top of the disk shaft unit shown in FIG. 4,
  • FIG. 6 is a view of the front of the disk shaft unit shown in FIG. 4,
  • FIG. 7 is a side view of the disk shaft unit shown in FIG. 4,
  • Fig. 8 is an enlarged perspective view of a section of the in
  • FIG. 9 is a sectional view of the area of the linear guide of the section shown in FIG. 8,
  • FIG. 10 is a side sectional view of the feeding and/or dispensing device shown in FIG. 1,
  • Fig. 11 is an enlarged partial view of the area of the disk shaft of the loading and / or dispensing device shown in Fig. 10 with a container in a storage position, and
  • Fig. 12 is a schematic sectional view from one Bottle receiving area along the disk shaft of the feeding and/or dispensing device.
  • a feeding and/or dispensing device 1 shown in FIG. and/or the delivery of the containers 2 by means of a motor for linear displacement 12 and by means of a motor for rotation 13 along a freely programmable, linear-rotational control cam.
  • the disk shaft 3 has a disk shaft axis 4 that can be rotated directly by means of the motor for rotation 13.
  • the disk shaft axis 4 In the embodiment shown in the figures, for example, four disks 5 are arranged on this disk shaft axis 4 at the same distance from one another and in the same orientation to one another.
  • Each disk 5 is formed from two mutually identical parts 19 arranged next to each other, which are screwed together and completely lift the disk shaft axis 4 and are secured to the disk shaft axis 4 in a twisted manner due to the shape adapted to the square cross-sectional area of the disk shaft axis 4 (see Fig. 12).
  • Each part 19 of the disk 5 has a finger 6 and a back 7, which are formed from a single piece of plastic that merge into one another.
  • the remaining parts of the feeding and/or dispensing device 1 are made of stainless steel.
  • the finger 6 is intended to support a container 2 on its bottom surface and thereby raise or lower it and to guide it during rotation. Accordingly, the task of the finger 6 is to absorb the weight of the container 2.
  • a container 2 is picked up on the finger 6 for lowering the container 2 via a delivery plate 24 (see FIG. 11). can be both fixed and movable in order to be able to adapt to the respective format of the container 2.
  • the back 7 is basically designed and arranged to stabilize the container 2, in particular in the area of a container side wall, and to push a container 2 that has already been placed in a storage position 18 out of the storage position 18, in particular when it is delivered or lowered, in such a way that another , subsequent container 2 can be placed again in the storage position 18 without both containers 2 colliding with one another. In this way, the containers 2 in particular can then push each other out of the storage position 18 up to a conveyor 23 for transporting the containers 2 away (see FIG. 2).
  • the container 2 can also be stabilized and/or guided when it is moved from a first position to a second position by the disk shaft 3 by means of a container guide 20 (see FIG. 10 and 11).
  • the rotation and linear displacement of the disk shaft 3 can be controlled independently of one another, with rotation not occurring continuously during the movement of a container 2 from a first position to a second position and a linear displacement must take place, but only one of the two movements can take place temporarily, while preferably both a rotation and a linear displacement take place at times.
  • the control cam is programmed by freely controlling the rotation of the disk shaft and by freely controlling the linear displacement, whereby the control cam is tailored to the respective needs, such as the respective container shape, the container size and/or the geometric design of the individual components of the support. and/or delivery device, in particular the finger and/or the back.
  • the magnitudes of the angular velocity as well as the adjustment angle of the disk shaft, the speed and the travel path of the linear adjustment are controlled independently of one another.
  • the disk shaft axis 4 is rotatably mounted on a motor holding plate 17.
  • the motor 13 is also fixed to rotate relative to the motor holding plate 17 and thereby drives the disk shaft axis 4 directly (see FIGS. 4 - 9).
  • the motor holding plate 17 is formed in several pieces from several individual plates attached to one another (see Fig. 8). The rotation drive only takes place on one side on the disk shaft axis 4.
  • the motor holding plate 17, on which the disk shaft 3 is rotatably fixed is displaceably arranged on a frame 8 of the feeding and/or dispensing device 1 by means of a linear guide 14, the frame 8 being fixed in place on the feeding and/or dispensing device 1 is.
  • a motor 12 for linear displacement is arranged on both sides of the disk shaft 3 or the disk shaft axis 4 on the motor holding plate 17 located there, with both motors 12 being operated synchronously with one another.
  • a gear 10 is arranged on a motor shaft, which has straight teeth and rolls relative to a rack 9.
  • the gear 10 is made of plastic, which enables lubrication-free operation of the drive for linear displacement.
  • the rack 9 is fixed in place on both sides of the disk shaft 3 on the frame 8 and in the set-up position of the loading and/or delivery device
  • a toothing 11 of the rack 9 points downwards or towards the ground, so that there is no dirt on the teeth
  • the disk shaft 3 is linear by means of the linear guide 14 forcibly guided, for which two mutually parallel guide rails 15 are arranged on both sides of the disk shaft 3 on the frame 8, the upper of the two guide rails 15 forming a unit with the respective rack 9 (see FIGS. 6 - 9).
  • Two guide rollers 16 formed as grooved rollers roll on each of the guide rails 15, the guide rollers 16 each being arranged on the outside of the guide rails 15, so that positive guidance results.
  • the linear guide 14 is arranged horizontally to an installation position of the feeding and/or dispensing device 1.
  • the linear guide 14 is arranged at an angle to the horizontal of, for example, 10° - 15°, whereby a correspondingly different design of the linear-rotary control cam is possible.
  • the angle of the linear guide 14 can be both fixed and adjustable.
  • a second linear guide can be provided, which enables the disk shaft 3 to be displaced in the horizontal direction with respect to the installation position of the loading and/or dispensing device 1, with both linear guides 14 preferably being arranged at right angles to one another.

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L'invention concerne un procédé et un dispositif de chargement et/ou de déchargement pour le chargement et/ou le déchargement en parallèle de récipients, en particulier pour une machine de nettoyage de récipients, comprenant un arbre de disque avec de multiples disques disposés sur un axe d'arbre de disque commun pour déplacer un récipient respectif d'une première position à une seconde position, chaque disque ayant au moins un doigt pour lever ou abaisser un récipient dans la région de la base de récipient et au moins un dos pour entrer en contact avec une paroi latérale de récipient. Afin de fournir un procédé et un dispositif de chargement et/ou de déchargement pour le chargement et/ou le déchargement en parallèle de récipients, ce qui permet une conception diverse et une commande précise d'une courbe de commande, et a une faible consommation d'énergie et des coûts de fonctionnement généralement faibles, selon l'invention, l'arbre de disque est monté de manière rotative et est agencé de façon mobile de façon linéaire de telle sorte que l'arbre de disque peut être déplacé le long d'une courbe de commande rotative linéaire pour le chargement et/ou le déchargement.
EP23730769.9A 2022-07-13 2023-06-02 Dispositif de chargement et/ou de déchargement et procédé de chargement et/ou de déchargement en parallèle de récipients Pending EP4554879A1 (fr)

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