Agitating – Miscellaneous
Patent
1996-10-21
1999-08-31
Soohoo, Tony G.
Agitating
Miscellaneous
B01F 1300, B01F 1310
Patent
active
059444207
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to a plant for manufacturing and packaging liquid products, by mixing liquid- and/or powder-based constituents.
It finds application in particular for the manufacture of lubricants, by mixing petroleum-derived base oils and additives, and their packaging for the purpose of selling them.
It also finds application for the manufacture of products stemming from the agrifood industry, for example drinks, and more generally for the manufacture of liquids made by mixing liquid and/or solid constituents and their packaging, in order to sell them, in containers such as bottles, cans and barrels.
PRIOR ART
Many plants have been produced for manufacturing and packaging liquid products by mixing liquid- and/or powder-based constituents.
These plants, generally associated with a station for storing basic constituents, include: means for transferring these constituents and means for metering them; machines which automatically fill empty tanks; compressed air and water treatment means.
The equipment, such as the mixing vessels, the tanks and the storage vessels, are generally manufactured on the site of use in order to avoid the difficult and expensive operation of shipping them.
The reason for this is that this equipment, of cylindrical shape with a vertical or horizontal axis, which is provided with supporting means, fittings for the passage of filling and emptying pipework and, in the event of spillage, liquid-retaining means, cannot be mounted in standard freight containers or metal boxes of standardized dimensions in order to ship them. They are therefore exposed to degradation while they are being shipped and handled. In order to reduce the risk of degradation, expensive special tanks must be produced and special handling means must be employed.
The packaging machines are complicated site-mounted equipment always requiring, after assembly, difficult adjustment operations.
The equipment constituting the transfer means, the metering means, the steam and compressed-air production means and the water treatment means are manufactured in various separate locations away from the site of use. They must be shipped either by special transporters or by taking special packaging precautions in order to prevent them from becoming damaged.
All this equipment making up the units is integrated into metal and/or concrete supports which are suitable for a fixed and definitively installed plant and therefore cannot be shipped to another site. They are linked together hydraulically by many rigid pipes having the same length and electrically by cables connected to terminals in electrical housings which are directly fixed to them.
Such plants require work to be carried out by specialized labour on the sites of exploitation. In many geographical regions, such labour is not available. In this case, it is necessary for overseas technicians to carry out work far from their technical bases in order to construct the plants, mount the equipment and provide the start up operations. The cost of such work is very high.
For economic or contractual reasons, it may be necessary to stop the use of a plant which is in perfect running order.
The plants described hereinabove have the drawback of not being able to be taken down on a given site and re-erected on another site under conditions which are economically acceptable, especially because of their many non-disconnectable mechanical, hydraulic and electrical links to the external environment.
They also have the drawback of not lending themselves easily to variations in production and packaging capacity.
DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
The object of the present invention is precisely to remedy these drawbacks and, in particular, to provide a plant for mixing and packaging liquid products which is modular, capable of being shipped completely safely by ordinary means, and can be taken down and re-erected inexpensively.
To these ends, the invention provides a plant for mixing and packaging liquid products, which includes a production unit, a packaging unit
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Soohoo Tony G.
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