Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B67—OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
  • B67B—APPLYING CLOSURE MEMBERS TO BOTTLES JARS, OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; OPENING CLOSED CONTAINERS
  • B67B3/00—Closing bottles, jars or similar containers by applying caps
  • B67B3/003—Pretreatment of caps, e.g. cleaning, steaming, heating or sterilizing
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B67—OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
  • B67B—APPLYING CLOSURE MEMBERS TO BOTTLES JARS, OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; OPENING CLOSED CONTAINERS
  • B67B1/00—Closing bottles, jars or similar containers by applying stoppers
  • B67B1/04—Closing bottles, jars or similar containers by applying stoppers by inserting threadless stoppers, e.g. corks
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B67—OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
  • B67B—APPLYING CLOSURE MEMBERS TO BOTTLES JARS, OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; OPENING CLOSED CONTAINERS
  • B67B3/00—Closing bottles, jars or similar containers by applying caps
  • B67B3/02—Closing bottles, jars or similar containers by applying caps by applying flanged caps, e.g. crown caps, and securing by deformation of flanges
  • B67B3/10—Capping heads for securing caps
• • 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
  • B67B2201/00—Indexing codes relating to constructional features of closing machines
  • B67B2201/08—Aseptic features

Definitions

• the invention relates to a method according to the preamble of claim 1, to a Verschdorfaggregat or a closing machine according to the preamble of claim 9 and to a closing element according to the preamble
• Processes and sealing machines or units for closing containers are known in different designs, in particular as machines or units for processing corks, bottle caps, screw caps, caps or caps, or as
• Sealers or sealers In any case, it is necessary to regularly clean and / or close the respective closing machine and, in particular, also its closing tools, in each case in a cleaning mode
• closing machines or units necessary to dismantle the closing elements at regular intervals for manual cleaning and especially internal cleaning, which is particularly expensive, since closing machines or units often in line with a filling machine or with a filling unit and with more
• Closing elements (DE 41 15 285 A1), wherein for supplying and discharging the Cleaning and disinfection media during the cleaning mode Connections are provided which are permanently connected with the respective closing element as well as with hose lines for the supply and removal of the cleaning and disinfection
• Disinfection medium are connected, which is structurally very expensive.
• the object of the invention is to provide a method with which an intensive interior cleaning and / or disinfection of the closing of a
• a closing machine or a Verschdorfaggregat are the subject of claim 9.
• a closing element is the subject of claim 14.
• closing rotor-bearing rotors are driven by a drive, for example servo or direct drive, which is not only independent of the drive of further units or machines, for example the filling machine or the filling unit of a system, but which also enables this rotor during normal production operation. ie while filling and
• the cleaning mode for example CIP cleaning and / or disinfection
• the treatment of the closing elements thus takes place individually or in groups one after the other.
• the cleaning mode is ended when all
• Closing elements were treated with the cleaning and / or disinfecting medium. During the treatment, the respective closing element, and in particular also the interior of the closing element and its
• the docking or cleaning station is effective only during the cleaning mode. If produced with the plant concerned, this station is without function and does not affect the normal production, in particular the docking or cleaning station does not interfere with the rotation of the capping machine or the
• the cleaning and / or disinfecting medium flows freely after flowing through the interior of the closing and after the flow around the closing tools and is preferably collected in a drip tray or trough, from which it then flow, for example via a return can.
• the cleaning and / or disinfecting medium can also be conveyed back to the CIP system or to the respective storage container.
• Cleaning and / or disinfecting medium serving coupling piece is automatically, i. mechanically coupled to the respective closing element and decoupled from this and is also part of the cleaning station.
• the automatic coupling and uncoupling of the at least one coupling piece to the respective closing element or from the respective closing element takes place, for example, by a robot, by a manipulator controlled by a drive or by a linear axis drive of the cleaning station.
• the cleaning and / or disinfecting agent is a liquid, vapor and / or gaseous medium.
• the treatment can also be carried out with several different media, preferably in chronological succession.
• Closing element during the treatment preferably from top to bottom.
• the cleaning or disinfecting medium is the interior of the
• Closing preferably supplied at an upper portion and discharged at a lower portion of the closing element.
• Container in the context of the invention, in particular bottles or cans made of metal, glass and / or plastic, but also other packaging, which are suitable for filling of liquid or viscous products.
• Fig. 1 in a simplified representation and in side view of a filled and
• Fig. 2 in a schematic functional representation and in plan view and in
• Fig. 3 in an enlarged detail two following the filling unit of the system of Figure 2 following Verschbisaggregate (capper) for closing the container.
• Fig. 4 in partial view and in side view of one of the two Verschnovaggregate the system of Fig. 2;
• FIG. 5 shows a longitudinal section through the upper region of a closing element together with a connection or coupling piece for supplying a cleaning and / or disinfecting medium for the internal cleaning of the closing element;
• FIG. 6 shows a longitudinal section through the lower region of the closing element of FIG. 5 together with a cap-like connecting or coupling piece placed on the closing element for discharging the cap
• Cleaning medium 7 and 8 in a perspective individual representation of the coupling closing piece for supplying the cleaning medium in a single representation and in section;
• Fig. 10 and 1 1 in a perspective view in side view and in partial section a printing cylinder of a closing element;
• Fig. 12 in partial view, the lower end of the printing cylinder with a local
• 1 is a plant which i.a. to fill and then
• Closing of containers 2 with container closures 3 is used, the containers exemplified as bottles and the closures 3 exemplified by
• the plant 1 comprises in a known manner a filling machine or a filling unit 4, to which the containers 2 are supplied for example by a rinser 5, as well as in the illustrated embodiment a Verschnovaggregat 6 and a
• the Verschffyaggregat 6 of the illustrated embodiment has at one to a vertical
• Machine axis circumferentially driven rotor 7 (arrow A) a plurality of closing elements 8, which are provided at a pitch on the rotor 7 for the processing of closures 3 in the form of crown caps each having the below described in more detail in connection with FIGS ,
• shoe-like extension 10.1 of the printing cylinder 10 or at a local annular portion 10.2 is held by a plate 1 1 (cork shoe) pull ring 12 interchangeable.
• a plate 1 1 (cork shoe) pull ring 12 In the interior of the printing cylinder 10 is also a mitbewegter with this cylinder, sprung by a compression spring 13 and arranged coaxially with the axis VA down device 14 is provided.
• the drawing ring 12 is provided with molded seals which prevent penetration of dirt and germs into the gap between the drawing ring 12 and the annular portion 10.2, in which the drawing ring 12 is held.
• the holding plate 1 1 is provided with a molded seal, which seals the gap between the plate 1 1, the drawing ring 12 and the extension 10.1.
• Closures 3 in the manner known to those skilled in the fact that the respective closing element 8 at a closure transfer position in each case receives a closure 3, which is then held magnetically, for example, at the lower end of the plunger-like hold-down 14. Subsequently, the closure is placed on the inserted under the closing element 8 container 2, by controlled movement of the printing cylinder 10 and the blank holder 14 down, with the result that the shutter 3 with the spring-loaded hold-down 14 first to the opening of the container. 2 pressed and then fixed by the drawing ring 12 on the container 3 by deforming.
• Lifting movement H of the impression cylinder 10 is cam-controlled, i. by arranged on the printing cylinder 10 cam rollers 15 which cooperate with a control cam 16.
• the sleeve-like guide bearing 9 ultimately also forms a housing part in which the impression cylinder 10 is received with an upper part length in the figures and at the upper and lower end of the pressure cylinder 10 at 17 sealed for the stroke H is performed.
• Movement path of the closing elements 8 a docking or cleaning station 18 is provided which does not rotate with the rotor 7 and the local closure elements 8 and u.a. a first, in the illustration of the figures upper coupling piece 19 and a second, in the representation of the figures lower coupling piece 20 which, in a cleaning mode of Verschnovaggregates. 6
• Closing tool i. To treat the pull ring 12 and the hold-down 14 on all surface areas flowing around cleaning and / or disinfecting agent.
• the coupling piece 19 is formed so that it is deliverable by a relative to the axis VA radial delivery to the drawing ring 12 remote upper end of the sleeve-like guide bearing 9, in such a way that the coupling piece 19, the guide bearing 9 at its
• Angular region greater than 90 °, but less than 180 ° rider-like overlaps and is arranged with two connection openings 21 each congruent with a connection opening 22 of the guide bearing 9, so that with coupled coupling piece 19 via the connection openings 21 and 22, a flow connection from the connection openings 21 associated channels 23.1 of terminals 23 of
• Coupling piece 19 in the interior of the guide bearing 9 consists.
• the two connection openings 21 and also the two connection openings 22 are offset relative to the axis VA by an angle greater than 90 °, for example by an angle of about 120 ° to each other.
• the coupling piece 20 is during the cleaning and disinfection mode also with respect to the axis VA radially on the respective closing element 8 deliverable, in such a way that it after delivery in cooperation with the extension 10.1, which surrounds the axis VA part-shell, a to
• this axis is coaxial with the axis VA of the closing element 8 to be treated.
• Coupling piece 20 of the washing chamber 24 is sealed to the outside.
• the closing element 8 is flowed through during the cleaning mode from top to bottom of the cleaning and / or disinfecting medium, which is then supplied via the two terminals 23 of the coupling piece 19 and discharged via the terminal 25 of the coupling piece 20.
• the two connection openings 22 each formed by a plurality of individual openings, or at the two connection openings 22, a preferably also adjustable aperture is provided in each case having these individual openings.
• the cleaning and disinfection of the closing elements 8 takes place during the cleaning mode in succession in the form that each
• Filling unit 4 drives, while the cleaning mode but a gradual, exact further rotation of the rotor 7 by one pitch allows, the provided on the rotor 7 closing elements 8 from each other. After positioning a closing element 8 at the cleaning station 18, the two previously arranged outside the movement path of the closing elements 8 coupling pieces 19 and 20 to be treated
• the coupling pieces 19 and 20 are moved back to their original position and the rotor 7 for the treatment of the next closing element 8 further rotated by a pitch by the drive, so that then the coupling pieces 19 and 20 can be delivered to the other, to be treated closing element 8 and coupled.
• the movement of the coupling pieces 19 and 20 takes place by machine or
• a drive for the rotor 7 of the Verschnovaggregates 6 is a direct drive with a servo motor, in particular with a torque motor, which allows an accurate gradual indexing or rotation of the rotor 7 without delay.
• a positioning aid 31 is provided for the exact positioning of the coupling piece 19 to the respective closing element 8, which is assigned to the outer contour of this positioning 31 complementary coupling portion 32 of the coupling piece 19 so that when recorded by the coupling portion 32 positioning aid 31 an exact positioning of the coupling piece 19 on Closing element 8 is ensured.
• the cleaning station 18 also for a simultaneous
• the number of coupling pieces 19 and 20 then corresponds, for example, the number of locking elements to be treated 8 of each group or the coupling pieces 19 and 20 are each as
• Closing elements 8 formed. After the treatment of the closing elements 8 a group then the rotor 7 by the angular distance of
• Moving closure element groups further.
• closing unit 6 or closing elements 8 which are designed for the processing of closures 3 in the form of crown caps.
• closing elements 8 which are designed for the processing of closures 3 in the form of crown caps.
• the invention is also suitable for Verschnovaggregate or closing machines for
• Closing elements designed so that they form in the interior of a permeable by the cleaning and / or disinfecting medium space with
• Coupling pieces for supplying and / or discharging the cleaning medium is connectable, otherwise closed to the environment, in turn, e.g. one of the coupling pieces cap-shaped or part-cap-like and forms a washing chamber in which the actual closing tool of the respective closing element is arranged and is thus flows around during the cleaning and / or disinfection mode of the cleaning and / or disinfecting medium intensive.
• the treatment of Verschegaetti either individually or in groups successively with successive stepwise further rotation of the closing elements bearing rotor and under machine feed the serving for supplying and preferably also for discharging the cleaning and / or disinfecting medium coupling pieces to the
• Coupling piece 20 can be omitted.
• connection openings 21 via which the cleaning and / or disinfecting medium is supplied, i. in such a way that these connection openings 21 only with the delivery of the respective coupling piece 19 or only through this
• Cleaning and / or disinfecting media e.g. first with a liquid and then with a gas and / or vapor cleaning and / or
• Disinfecting medium it may be appropriate to supply the treatment medium of each type via its own coupling piece 19 and its own
• Disengage coupling piece 20 as far as coupling pieces 20 are used.
• the couplings are for the different cleaning and / or
• Disinfection media are then part of a cleaning station 18, but effective at different rotational positions of the rotor 7, so that each
• Disinfecting medium e.g. with the liquid medium, and at another
• Disinfecting medium e.g. with the gas and / or vapor medium, is treated.
• the cleaning station 18 is preferably arranged in an angular range of the rotational movement of the rotor 7 formed between a container outlet and a container inlet.

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