Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
  • B65B55/00—Preserving, protecting or purifying packages or package contents in association with packaging
  • B65B55/02—Sterilising, e.g. of complete packages
  • B65B55/04—Sterilising wrappers or receptacles prior to, or during, packaging
  • B65B55/10—Sterilising wrappers or receptacles prior to, or during, packaging by liquids or gases
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
  • B65C3/00—Labelling other than flat surfaces
  • B65C3/06—Affixing labels to short rigid containers
  • B65C3/20—Affixing labels to short rigid containers to bottle closures
• • 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
  • B67B3/06—Feeding caps to capping heads
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
  • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
  • Y10T156/00—Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
  • Y10T156/17—Surface bonding means and/or assemblymeans with work feeding or handling means
  • Y10T156/1702—For plural parts or plural areas of single part
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
  • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
  • Y10T156/00—Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
  • Y10T156/17—Surface bonding means and/or assemblymeans with work feeding or handling means
  • Y10T156/1702—For plural parts or plural areas of single part
  • Y10T156/1744—Means bringing discrete articles into assembled relationship

Definitions

• the invention relates to; a method of applying advertising media to bottles.
• Bottles of this type can be formed in particular from mineral water bottles, fruit juice bottles, beer bottles or lemonade bottles.
• the bottles can in principle consist of glass or plastic, in particular PET.
• labels are applied to the bottle body in a known manner.
• they also serve as advertising medium, with the names and logos of the manufacturer and any other advertising slogans being applied to them.
• the labels on the empty bottles are removed from the bottle bodies during a cleaning process, after which the bottles are refilled and finally are given new labels.
• DE 102 28 292 A1 discloses a method for applying advertising media to bottles, in which, in a first method step, closures or closure parts for bottles are conveyed for their continuous conveying into predetermined target positions. There the labels forming the advertising medium are applied to the closures or closure parts. Finally, the fully manufactured closures provided with the advertising media are collected in storage containers, after which the closures stored in the storage containers can be discontinuously fed to a bottle filling system.
• This method enables closures of bottles to be used as carrier media for the advertising media, it being possible for the bottles to be generally designed as mineral water bottles, fruit juice bottles, beer bottles or lemonade bottles.
• the object of the invention is to provide a method and a device for applying advertising media to bottles, which can be carried out rationally in terms of production technology and nevertheless ensures compliance with the regulations to be observed when processing foodstuffs.
• the method according to the invention is used to apply advertising media to bottles and comprises the following method steps.
• closures or closures are continuously conveyed End parts for bottles in predetermined target positions.
• the labels forming the advertising medium are applied to the closures or the closure parts.
• the closures or closure parts with the applied labels are then sterilized.
• the closures can be applied to the bottles before the advertising media are applied to the closures.
• the labeling machines provided for this purpose and, if necessary, these downstream disinfection units for disinfecting the
• Labeled tops of the closures can be easily integrated as modular units in conventional bottle racking systems.
• closures or closure parts are supplied as separate units, individually via conveying means, labeling machines, in order to then apply the labels to them as advertising media.
• Each labeling machine is then followed by a disinfection unit, in which the closures or closure parts are conveyed in a continuous process and exposed to UV radiation or sprayed with disinfectants in order to disinfect these units on all sides.
• This device is preferably located in a clean room to ensure germ-free processing.
• Storage containers connect to the outputs of the disinfection units and are connected to the disinfection units via airtight connections.
• Plastic bags in particular can be provided as storage containers.
• the sterilized closures or closure parts are filled directly into the storage containers via the airtight connections without outside air contact and stored there aseptically.
• the closures or closure parts sterilized in this way are dried with clean air before they are filled into the storage container.
• closures or closure parts packaged in this way can easily be introduced into the production processes in bottle discharge systems, with these units being sterile at all times.
• the closures form a flexible medium for the advertising media.
• the advertising media can in particular be attached to the tops of the closures so that they are immediately visible to the respective buyer on the outside of the bottle. It is particularly advantageous here that the surfaces of the closures can be used almost completely as receptacles for the advertising media.
• closures themselves and the advertising media attached to them are extremely handy and easy to handle. This makes them particularly suitable for collection purposes.
• the closures are made of metal or plastic and can be made in one piece.
• the closures are formed in two pieces, a closure consisting of a closure body part and a separate cover which is mechanically connected to the closure body part.
• the advertising media are then placed on the cover of the locks before they are assembled.
• the covers are particularly advantageously releasably attached to the closure body parts, so that the covers with the advertising carriers can be removed manually and can thus be used for collection purposes.
• This embodiment is particularly suitable for closures which are made of plastic, in particular PET (polyethylene), and are designed as screw closures.
• closures can also be designed as roll-on closures, crown caps, tube cones or the like.
• the advertising media themselves are designed in the form of labels that are applied mechanically to the closures. All types of advertisements, especially third-party advertisements, can be applied to the labels by printing. For this purpose, in particular high-pressure, offset printing, screen printing processes as well as dracking processes and combinations thereof are used.
• the imprints on the labels include in particular logos and advertising slogans from third-party companies. Furthermore, the labels can be used as collectibles and / or game objects.
• the labels When used as collectibles, the labels are preferably peeled off the closures.
• the lids with the labels attached to them can serve as collector's items.
• the advertising media can be used, for example, to apply ticket numbers for raffles.
• the labels have, in particular, suitably selected coatings as advertising media in order to achieve additional additional advertising effects.
• thermosensitive layers on the labels.
• These temperature-sensitive layers can be designed, for example, in such a way that the color of a label changes as the temperature changes.
• the coatings can be designed such that patterns or imprints on a label only become visible from a certain limit temperature.
• the labels can be coated with scattering films.
• So-called wobble images are generated by light scattering effects, different image or print motifs being visible on the advertising medium depending on the viewing angle.
• the labels can be coated with reflective foils.
• the highly light-reflecting advertising media designed in this way can be used as signal marks in the leisure sector. In particular, these can be applied to bicycles, bicycle helmets, roller blades, roller skates, ice skates or even on clothing.
• fluorescent films can also be applied to the labels.
• these can be used as signal marks in dark rooms or generally in an unlit environment.
• the advertising media designed in this way can be used in unlit aisles of buildings for signaling escape routes, for marking light switches or the like.
• scratching surfaces can be applied to the labels as coatings.
• the labels then preferably have a stable intermediate layer, which mechanically protects the respective covering of a label. Then an upper layer forming the rubbing surface is applied, which completely covers this covering. When the top layer is removed, the printing underneath becomes visible.
• Such advertising media are preferably used for collecting or playing purposes.
• These labels can be stamped or embossed, which enhances the overall aesthetic impression of the labels.
• Suitable finishing processes are, in particular, foil hot stamping ?, hologram processes, in particular embossing holograms, relief embossing and blind embossing.
• the embossing process can be combined with die cuts, in particular front and back die cuts on the labels.
• Laminating processes are suitable as further finishing processes.
• the labels can also be siliconized.
• Figure la, lb Two embodiments of closures for beverage bottles.
• Figure 2 Block diagram of a first exemplary embodiment of a device for applying advertising media to closures for beverage bottles.
• Figure 3 Schematic representation of a first section of the device according to Figure 2 with funding for the transport of closures.
• Figure 4 Schematic representation of a first embodiment of a disinfection unit for the device according to Figure 2.
• FIG. 5 detailed representation of the disinfection unit according to FIG. 4.
• Figure 6 Schematic representation of a second embodiment of a disinfection unit for the device according to Figure 2.
• Figure 7 Detailed view of the disinfection unit according to Figure 6 a) in a longitudinal sectional view b) in a cross-sectional view.
• Figure 8 Schematic representation of a second exemplary embodiment of a device for applying advertising media to closures of beverage bottles.
• Figures la and lb show two exemplary embodiments of closures 1 of bottles, in particular beverage bottles.
• the closures 1 shown in FIGS. 1 a and 1 b consist of plastic, in particular PET, and are each used as screw closures. Such closures 1 are used in particular for plastic beverage bottles, in particular PET bottles.
• the closure 1 shown in FIG. 1 a is made in one piece
• the closure 1 according to FIG. 1 b consists of two separate parts, namely a closure body part 2 and a closure part in the form of a cover 3.
• the closure body part 2 is essentially hollow-cylindrical and indicates its inner wall has a thread 4 for screwing onto a bottle.
• the closure part is designed as a circular disk-shaped cover 3 which can be inserted into the opening at the top of the closure body part 2.
• the cover 3 can be clipped onto the closure body part 2.
• the edge delimiting the opening on the upper side of the closure body part 2 can be easily bent open in order to insert the cover 3 into the opening.
• a locking means is provided at the upper end of the edge. This consists of a reinforcing ring 5 which runs around the inside of the closure body part 2 in the circumferential direction and is formed in one piece with the wall of the closure body part 2.
• a receptacle is provided on the closure body part 2, on which the cover 3 can be fixed as a closure part, the cover 3 in particular also being able to be pushed and / or snapped onto the closure body part 2.
• the cover 3 can also be releasably connected to the closure body part 2.
• FIG. 2 shows an exemplary embodiment of a device 6 for applying advertising media to the closures 1 according to FIG.
• the device 6 has a roller conveyor belt 7 on which the closures 1 are fed unsorted to a separating unit. In the present case, this is formed by a centrifugal sorter 8.
• the closures 1 are sorted in such a way that they are individually discharged one after the other and with cover surfaces lying on top onto a conveyor path 9 forming a conveying means.
• This conveyor line 9 has on its lateral edges not shown separately, by which a lateral position fixation of the closures 1 is guaranteed. So that the closures 1 are transported exactly one behind the other on the conveyor 9.
• the conveyor section 9 has a switch 10, by means of which the closures 1 conveyed one behind the other are divided into two parallel sections 11, 11 '.
• the switch 10 preferably has deflection means, not shown, by means of which the delivered closures 1 are alternately fed to the two sections 11, 11 '.
• the closures 1 transported on the sections 11, 11 ' are each fed to a labeling machine 12, 12'.
• the sections 11, 11 'on the one hand and the labeling machines 12, 12' on the other hand have an identical structure.
• labels 13, which form the advertising media are applied to the cover surfaces of the closures 1.
• the labels 13 are preferably designed as self-adhesive labels and preferably consist of paper and / or plastic.
• the labels 13 can be formed in one or more layers and, depending on the field of application, have a plurality of carrier layers, to which are printed, coated, punched, embossed or the like.
• the labels 13 are applied in a known manner to band-shaped supports 14. These carriers 14 are guided to the respective closures 1 by means of suitable conveyor systems, to which the labels 13 are then glued onto the lid surfaces of the closures 1 by means of known techniques.
• the labels 13 as advertising media are applied exactly and centrally to the cover surfaces of the closures 1, the labels 13 can be applied as a function of sensor signals.
• the sensor signals are generated by means of suitable sensors which detect whether a closure 1 is in a predetermined target position in which the respective label is to be applied.
• FIG. 3 shows a largely mechanical arrangement for introducing the closures 1 into the respective desired positions.
• the closures 1 are individually requested in the area of the labeling machine 12, 12 'on a conveyor belt 15 in the direction of transportation indicated by the arrow.
• the conveyor belts 15 are designed as extensions of the respective sections 11, 11 'of the conveyor section 9.
• closures 1 are guided laterally on the conveyor belt 15, but the distances between successive closures 1 can vary.
• the plane of the gripper arms 17 runs in the transport plane of the gripper arms 17.
• the direction of rotation of the gripper arms 17 is adapted to the transport direction of the closures 1 such that the gripper arms 17 are moved towards the closures 1 at the beginning of the side of the endless conveyor 16 facing the conveyor belt 15 and finally engage laterally in the spaces between two successive closures 1.
• the closures 1 are positively guided such that two closures 1 lying one behind the other are separated by a gripping arm 17.
• the shapes of the gripping arms 17 are adapted to the shapes of the closures 1, so that they are mounted between two gripping arms 17 without play.
• This control and a coordination of the movements of the conveyor belt 15 and the endless conveyor 16 ensure that the closures 1 are fed to a processing head 18 for applying a label 13 in a desired position.
• the device 6 according to FIG. 2 is also suitable for applying advertising media to the two-part closures 1 according to FIG.
• the covers 3 of the closures 1 can be applied to the closure body parts 2 before they are fed to the device 6 according to FIG. 2.
• the labels 13 are applied to the completely manufactured closures 1.
• the covers 3 are fed to the device 6 alone, the advertising media then being applied to the covers 3 as individual parts.
• the individual components of the device 6, in particular the sorting and separating unit and the conveyor section 9, are modified accordingly and adapted for the individual processing of the covers 3.
• the final assembly of the closures 1 then takes place after the labeling processes in the labeling machines 12, 12 '.
• closures 19, 19 'each have a disinfection unit 20, 20' in which the closures 1 with the applied labels 13 are disinfected.
• this processing is preferably carried out under clean room conditions.
• the sterilized closures 1 are introduced via airtight connections 21, 21 'at the outputs of the disinfection units 20, 20' into storage containers 22, 22 'and are stored there aseptically.
• FIGS. 4 and 5 show a first embodiment of such a disinfection unit 20.
• the closures 1, to which the labels 13 are applied by means of the labeling machine 12 are fed to the disinfection unit 20, with the conveyor belt 19 running obliquely upwards for this purpose is provided.
• the disinfection unit 20 is shown in detail in FIG. 5.
• the walls of the disinfection unit 20 that delimit the closed interior are provided with UV radiation sources 23 that emit UV (ultraviolet) radiation.
• the UV radiation sources 23 are formed in the form of surface radiators, each of which consists of an array of UV lamps, in particular also semiconductor UV sources.
• the individual radiation sources are controlled by a control unit, not shown, which is formed by a microprocessor or the like.
• the UV radiation sources 23 can be operated both in pulsed operation and in continuous operation. In particular, the radiation intensity of the UV radiation sources 23 can be adjusted via the control unit.
• the closures 1 provided with the labels 13 are guided lying on the conveyor belt 19 into the disinfection unit 20 via an insertion opening 24. There, the closures 1 are conveyed along a predetermined path by means of a web conveyor 25. In principle, the path can run in one plane. In the present case, the closures 1 are guided along a three-dimensional path by means of the web conveyor 25 before they are led out of the disinfection unit 20 via an outlet opening 26.
• the path runs in such a way that the shutters 1 are guided with their entire surfaces at predetermined target intervals to the UV radiation sources 23, so that the shutters 1 are subjected to the UV rays uniformly on all sides over a predetermined radiation time with predetermined radiation levels. This ensures uniform disinfection over the entire surfaces of the closures 1.
• the web conveyor 25 can preferably consist of UV-transparent materials, so that the components of the web conveyor 25 do not lead to shadowing of the UV radiation.
• adjusting mechanisms such as rotating, tilting, swiveling and lifting mechanisms can be provided on the web conveyor, by means of which the closures 1 are positioned within the disinfection unit 20 in such a way that their surfaces are evenly exposed to UV radiation.
• An airtight connection 21 with a flange 27 is located at the outlet opening 26 of the disinfection unit 20. Via the airtight connection 21, the sterilized closures 1 are introduced from the disinfection unit 20 into the storage container 22 directly and without contact with the external air atmosphere.
• the storage container 22 consists of a germ-free treated plastic sack 28 which is stored in an octabine 29 which is seated on a Euro pallet 30.
• closures 1 provided with advertising media and sterilized are fed to the respective bottle removal systems. There, the closures 1 are applied to the respective beverage bottles.
• the latter has a predetermined breaking point 31 at its lower end.
• the closures 1 can be removed from it and discharged from the storage container 22 via an outlet opening 32 of the octabine 29.
• FIGS. 6 and 7a, b show a second embodiment of a disinfection unit 20.
• the coupling of the disinfection unit 20 on the input side to the labeling machine 12 via the conveyor belt 19 and the coupling on the output side to the storage container 22 correspond to the embodiment according to FIGS. 4 and 5.
• FIGS. 4 and 5 The same applies to FIGS the formation of the storage container 22 as a plastic bag 28.
• the disinfection unit 20 shown in detail in FIGS. 7a and 7b has, analogously to the embodiment, a insertion opening 24, via which the closures 1 convey to a web conveyor 25 in the interior of the disinfection unit. unit 20 - In addition, an outlet opening 26 is again provided for exporting the sterilized closures 1.
• disinfection units 33 are provided in the disinfection unit consisting of flat multiple arrangements with nozzles, by means of which liquid disinfectants such as per-acetic acid or hydrogen peroxide are sprayed onto the closures 1 for disinfection thereof.
• closures 1 conveyed on the web conveyor 25 can be immersed in a bath with disinfectants.
• the arrangement of the spray units 33, on the one hand, and the design of the web conveyor 25, in turn, is designed in such a way that the closures 1 are uniformly applied to the disinfectant on all sides.
• the disinfectant is passed over the nozzles of the spray unit 33 with a predetermined drain and is thus directed against the closures 1.
• the path of the web conveyor 25 in the present case runs spirally in one plane. Generally, they are also meandering
• the closures 1 sterilized in the disinfection unit 20 are supplied to a compressed air unit 20a via the outlet opening 26 via an airtight encapsulated feed line 34.
• the sterilized closures 1 are dried there.
• the compressed air unit 20a is part of the disinfection unit 20.
• the flange 27 At the outlet of the compressed air unit 20a is the flange 27 to which the plastic bag 28 is connected.
• the dry and sterilized closures 1 are collected analogously to the embodiment according to FIGS. 4 and 5.
• the closures 1 are supplied to the bottle discharge systems as a discontinuous process. It is essential here that the advertising media are applied to the closures 1 completely independently and decoupled from the processes taking place in the bottle removal systems. The work processes taking place in the bottle removal systems are thus completely unaffected by the application of the advertising medium according to the invention.
• FIG. 8 shows an alternative embodiment of the device 6 according to the invention.
• the closures 1 are supplied to a labeling machine 12 not as separate units, but rather already applied to the respective bottles.
• the bottles are labeled F in FIG.
• the bottles with the closures 1 are conveyed on a conveyor belt 35.
• Positioning means are also assigned to this, by means of which the bottles are positioned in predetermined target positions.
• the labels 13 are applied to the closures 1 as advertising media.
• the labeling machine 12 shown in FIG. 8 is preferably followed by a disinfection unit 20, by means of which the tops of the closures 1 are treated aseptically.
• the tops of the closures 1 are preferably formed with UV radiation.
• the device 6 designed in this way according to FIG. 8 can be integrated as a modular unit simply and without great adaptation effort.

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