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WO2010000359A1 - Élément de remplissage et machine de remplissage pour remplir des récipients - Google Patents

Élément de remplissage et machine de remplissage pour remplir des récipients Download PDF

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WO2010000359A1
WO2010000359A1 PCT/EP2009/003836 EP2009003836W WO2010000359A1 WO 2010000359 A1 WO2010000359 A1 WO 2010000359A1 EP 2009003836 W EP2009003836 W EP 2009003836W WO 2010000359 A1 WO2010000359 A1 WO 2010000359A1
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Ludwig Clüsserath
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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
    • B67C3/001—Cleaning of filling devices
    • B67C3/002—Cleaning of filling devices using cups or dummies to be placed under the filling heads
    • B67C3/004—Cleaning of filling devices using cups or dummies to be placed under the filling heads permanently attached to the filling machine and movable between a rest and a working position

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  • the invention relates to a filling element according to the preamble of claim 1 and to a filling machine according to the preamble of claim 9.
  • Locking systems are also known, however, with closure elements formed on carriers which can be moved by moving the carriers provided on the rotor of the filling machine between a non-active starting position and a working position, in which the closing elements are attached tightly to the filling elements and form the respective washing compartment.
  • the object of the invention is to show a filling element which can be converted in a particularly simple manner from a normal state for the filling operation in a state for the CIP cleaning and / or sterilization.
  • a filling element according to the patent claim 1 is formed.
  • a filling machine is the subject of patent claim 9.
  • the filling element according to the invention is preferably such with a filling the filling level in each container and determining this reaching into the container probe.
  • a filling the filling level in each container In order to allow the transfer of the filling element from the normal state into the state for the CIP cleaning and / or sterilization, i. the case required closing the filling element in the region of its discharge opening to form the local Spülraumes to allow the probe is provided vertically movable, i. it is movable from a state in which it protrudes with its probe tip on the underside of the filling element or a centering tulip in a state in which it is raised so far that they with their probe tip within the filling element or within the formed by the closing element Dishwasher is located.
  • the filling element is preferably formed with a Zentrierglocke against which the closing element is sealed when activated Verschricsystem and in turn sealed by the closing element against the filling element or the discharge opening surrounding area of the filling element is applied and in the thus the washing compartment formed at least partially is.
  • FIG. 1 and 2 each in a simplified representation and partly in section, a filling element of a filling machine of rotating design, together with a closure system for a CIP cleaning and / or sterilization in the normal state, i. in an inactive state of the closure system ( Figure 1) and in a state for CIP cleaning and / or sterilization, i. in an active state of the closure system ( Figure 2);
  • FIG. 3 shows an enlarged partial view of a closing system in a further embodiment of the invention.
  • 1 is a filling element, which is provided with a plurality of similar filling elements on the circumference of a circumferentially about a vertical machine axis drivable rotor of a filling machine rotating type for filling bottles or similar containers 2 with a liquid product.
  • a ring vessel 3 is shown in the figures, which serves to receive the liquid filling material and on the periphery of the filling elements 1 are attached.
  • Each filling element 1 is formed in a manner known to those skilled within a Greelementgeophuses 4 with a liquid valve 5 having a liquid channel 6, on the one hand with the ring bowl 3 in conjunction and on the other hand at the bottom of the filling element 1, a discharge opening 7 for dispensing liquid filling material during filling at the respective arranged under the filling element 1 container serves.
  • different gas paths are further formed, which are connected via provided in a control block 8 control valves according to the respective filling method with formed in the rotor and common to all filling elements 1 ring channels 9 and 10 respectively.
  • Each filling element 1 further has a centering tulip 11, which is movable by a limited amount in the vertical direction by cams and on the one hand for centering and holding and also for a tight abutment of the respective container 2 during the filling process on the filling element 1 in the region of the discharge opening 7 serves, as is also known to the skilled person.
  • the centering tulip 11 is provided with at least one seal that ensures the sealing position of the respective container 2 on the filling element 1, or is designed as a seal in some areas.
  • Each filling element 1 is further formed with a filling height determining probe 12 which protrudes during filling with a predetermined length through the discharge opening 7 on the underside of the respective filling element 1 and extends into each container to be filled 2, so that under With the help of the probe 12, the respective filling process is interrupted or the liquid valve 4 is closed as soon as the lower probe end 12.1 is immersed in the liquid level of the filling material rising during filling in the container 2.
  • the probe 12 is height adjustable, i. designed so that it is axially displaceable in its probe axis (double arrow A), between an upper stroke position, in which the lower probe end 12.1 is received in the centering tulip 11, and lower stroke positions in which the probe 12 with its probe end 12.1 of each desired filling height according to the centering tulip 11 projects downward.
  • the probe 12 is formed by a tube which is open at its lower, the probe end 12.1 forming end and connected at its devise, also open end via a control or probe valve 12.2 with the interior of the ring vessel 3, namely, with a local gas space 3.1, which is formed in the only partially filled with the liquid product ring tank 3 above a occupied by the contents liquid space 3.2.
  • the filling of the container 2 is carried out with the filling elements 1 according to the so-called "Trinox method", in which the during filling of the liquid product from each with an inert gas, such as CO2 gas biased container 2 displaced inert gas over the Probe 12 is returned to the gas space 3.1 and the filling process is automatically terminated when the probe end 12.1 is immersed in the level of contents in the respective container 2. Subsequently, by applying the not occupied by the contents residual volume of the container 2 with an inert gas slightly higher pressure Filling material from the container interior is pressed into the probe 12 until the probe end 12.1 has been emptied out of the filling material level and thus the exact fill level has been reached.
  • Trinox method in which the during filling of the liquid product from each with an inert gas, such as CO2 gas biased container 2 displaced inert gas over the Probe 12 is returned to the gas space 3.1 and the filling process is automatically terminated when the probe end 12.1 is immersed in the level of contents in the respective container 2.
  • probe 12 is conceivable, for example, as an electrical probe with one or more but the respective filling height determining probe contacts.
  • the liquid channels 6 and arranged in these channels functional elements, the discharge openings. 7 , the centering tulips 11, the gas or return gas channels within the filling elements 1 and the probes 12 at least in the region of their probe ends 12.1 and a possibly existing probe channel, etc. is assigned to each filling element 1, a closure system, which generally designated in Figures 1 and 2 with 13 is.
  • the closure system 13 is in an initial state or deactivated state, as shown in FIG. 1 is shown.
  • the closure system 13 is activated such that the respective centering tulip 11 bears in a sealed manner against the associated filling element 1 in a region surrounding the dispensing opening 7 and is tightly sealed on its underside facing away from the filling element 1.
  • an outwardly closed wash compartment 14 is formed within the respective centering tulip 11, in which not only the discharge opening 7, but also existing return gas channels, ie in the formation of the probe 12 as probe tube of the probe channel or else in the filling 1 formed gas or return gas channels open, so that the washing compartment 14 and other formed in the respective filling element 1 flow paths, in particular with open valves can be traversed by a liquid cleaning and / or sterilization medium.
  • Each closure system 13 each consists of a carrier 15, which is designed as a plate in the illustrated embodiment.
  • a disc or piston-like, circular-cylindrical on its peripheral surface formed closing element 16 is provided, which is arranged axially displaceable in an open at the top of the carrier 15, but otherwise closed cylinder opening 17 in a vertical axis (double arrow B).
  • Each carrier 15 is movably provided on a provided on the rotor or on the ring bowl 2 of the filling machine holder and guide means 18, namely in the embodiment shown in Figures 1 and 2 radially displaceable to the machine axis (double arrow C), so that the carrier 15, including its region having the closure element 16, in the inactive state of the closure system 13 is laterally offset from the associated filling element 1 or the centering tulip 11 of this filling element, radially inwardly offset with respect to the vertical machine axis, and in the activated state is arranged with the closing element 16 below the corresponding filling element 1 and the associated centering tulip 11.
  • the cylinder opening 17 is below the Verschndiatas 16 with a pressure medium, preferably with a gas and / or vaporous pressure medium, for example, acted upon by compressed air.
  • a channel 19 opening into the cylinder opening 17 is formed in the interior of the carrier 15, which is controlled via a control valve 20 connected to a pressure medium supplying source 21 or a pressure medium leading line.
  • the closing element 16 thus forms the piston of a pneumatic piston-cylinder arrangement.
  • the centering tulips 11 are usually moved with rotating rotor controlled by cams up and down, is the transfer of the respective Verschoudresystems 13 from the non-activated state to the activated state in preparation for CIP cleaning and / or - sterilization or vice versa from the activated state to the non-activated state after completion of CIP cleaning and / or sterilization only possible on such filling elements 1 of a filling machine, which at an angular position of the rotational movement of the rotor, for example, between a container outlet and a Container inlet of the filling machine are located on which the centering tulips 11 are raised.
  • FIG. 3 shows a simplified representation of a closure system 13a, which differs from the closure system 13 essentially in that the closure element 16a is formed with a sleeve-like portion 23 of the interior 24 of which is open at the top of the closure element 16a, but otherwise is tightly closed.
  • the coaxially arranged with the axis of the closing element 16a portion 23 is piston rod-like sealed led out of the cylinder opening 17.
  • the closing element 16a offers the possibility of inserting the respective probe 12 during the CIP cleaning and / or sterilization in the interior 24, which is also traversed by the cleaning and / or sterilization medium, so that thereby a particularly intensive treatment also at least during filling in the respective container 2 reaching into the partial length of the respective probe 12 takes place on the inner and outer surfaces.
  • each closure system 13 or 13a has an independent valve 20.
  • the respective carrier 15 is displaceable radially between the starting position and the working position to the vertical machine axis. It is understood that other movements for the carrier 15 are possible, for example, a pivoting of the carrier 15 about a relative to the associated filling element 1 offset pivot axis, etc.

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Abstract

L'invention concerne un élément de remplissage (1) de machine de remplissage pour remplir des récipients (2) avec un produit de remplissage liquide. Il est prévu une ouverture de distribution au niveau de la face inférieure de l'élément de remplissage, pour assurer une distribution régulée du produit, ainsi qu'un système de fermeture (13) comportant au moins un élément de fermeture (16) qui est prévu sur un support (15) et se situe, lorsque le système de fermeture (13) est à l'état actif, en position d'étanchéité sur l'élément de remplissage (1) et/ou sur un élément fonctionnel extérieur (11) de l'élément de remplissage, afin de créer un espace de rinçage (14) fermé vis-à-vis de l'extérieur et renfermant au moins l'ouverture de distribution (7).
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