Package making – Depositing articles and arranging material in preformed... – With movement of receptacle to or from filling station
Reexamination Certificate
1999-03-31
2001-08-21
Vo, Peter (Department: 3721)
Package making
Depositing articles and arranging material in preformed...
With movement of receptacle to or from filling station
C053S331500, C053S317000, C053S319000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06276113
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a setup table for bottle handling machines with feed-end and delivery-end star wheels and associated guide tracks for the bottles, as well as drive devices for individual star wheels and handling stations, and a support plate that covers the drive devices.
2. Background Information
Setup tables of the type described above are found on bottle handling machines upstream of the actual large handling rotary bodies which can have a number of circular handling spaces located next to one another for the individual bottles. To feed and remove the bottles, such a setup table can have a feed-end worm gear which is used to establish the spacing of the bottles as a function of the distance between the handling spaces on the rotary bodies. The feed-end worm gear can then transfer the bottles with the appropriate distance between them into circulating intermediate star wheels, which then in turn can deliver the bottles to the handling spaces. After the bottles have been cycled through to the outlet-side area of the rotating bodies, corresponding transfer start wheels can be provided to remove and transport the bottles further.
Additional handling stations, e.g. capping machines, labeling machines etc. can be located in this setup table area. As a result of the high speed of circulation, fragments of glass and residual fluids are often found in this overall area, which means that periodic cleanings are correspondingly necessary.
In particular when such machines are combined into large units or assemblies, with the conventional layout and sequencing of these machines, there are a plurality of transfer points and feed-end and delivery-end start wheels, which on one hand represent bottlenecks on high capacity machines, and on the other hand form problem zones, in particular from the hygienic point of view, as a result of the accumulation of glass fragments and residual fluids.
OBJECT OF THE INVENTION
The object of the present invention is therefore to realize a setup table, in particular when a plurality of machines are combined into a unit, with substantially optimal bottle guidance and the substantial elimination of additional intermediate star wheels.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention teaches that this object can be accomplished by a setup table of the type described above in which a plurality of handling machines are joined together to form a unit, and, the axis of rotation of a rinser is located on a first line, and the axes of rotation of the feed-end and delivery-end star wheel and of the filling machine can be located on a second line running at some distance from the first line, and the axis of the outlet star of the filling machine and the axis of a crown corker are located on an additional line that can run at an angle to the second line, and the axis of an additional capping machine and the axis of the deliver-end star wheel of the crown corner and of the additional capping machine can be located on an additional line that runs parallel to this third line.
The present invention also teaches that the delivery-end star wheel of the filling machine can be realized in the form of the feed-end star wheel of the crown corker and of an additional capping machine.
Additional features are described hereinbelow and in the subclaims.
As a result of this configuration, a particularly advantageous hygienic configuration is achieved which is substantially free of any dirt-catching corners etc., and can be cleaned easily. The fragments of glass can be collected and removed immediately upstream of the rotary bodies that handle the machines. At the same time, there is a substantially optimal guidance of the containers being handled.
The above discussed embodiments of the present invention will be described further hereinbelow with reference to the accompanying figures. When the word “invention” is used in this specification, the word “invention” includes “inventions”, that is, the plural of “invention”. By stating “invention”, the Applicant does not in any way admit that the present application does not include more than one patentably and non-obviously distinct invention, and maintains that this application may include more than one patentably and non-obviously distinct invention. The Applicant hereby asserts that the disclosure of this application may include more than one invention, and, in the event that there is more than one invention, that these inventions may be patentable and non-obvious one with respect to the other.
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KHS Maschinen-und Anlagenbau AG
Nils H. Liungman & Associates
Paradiso John
Vo Peter
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