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EP4665663A1 - Dispositif pour le stockage temporaire de contenants - Google Patents

Dispositif pour le stockage temporaire de contenants

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EP4665663A1
EP4665663A1 EP24707104.6A EP24707104A EP4665663A1 EP 4665663 A1 EP4665663 A1 EP 4665663A1 EP 24707104 A EP24707104 A EP 24707104A EP 4665663 A1 EP4665663 A1 EP 4665663A1
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Prior art keywords
containers
elevation
extension
command
movement
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EP24707104.6A
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German (de)
English (en)
Inventor
Alessandro PAINI
Mirco Massari
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SACMI Beverage SpA
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Acmi Beverage SpA
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G47/00—Article or material-handling devices associated with conveyors; Methods employing such devices
    • B65G47/34—Devices for discharging articles or materials from conveyor 
    • B65G47/46—Devices for discharging articles or materials from conveyor  and distributing, e.g. automatically, to desired points
    • B65G47/51—Devices for discharging articles or materials from conveyor  and distributing, e.g. automatically, to desired points according to unprogrammed signals, e.g. influenced by supply situation at destination
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C49/00—Blow-moulding, i.e. blowing a preform or parison to a desired shape within a mould; Apparatus therefor
    • B29C49/42—Component parts, details or accessories; Auxiliary operations
    • B29C49/4205—Handling means, e.g. transfer, loading or discharging means
    • B29C49/42069—Means explicitly adapted for transporting blown article
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C49/00—Blow-moulding, i.e. blowing a preform or parison to a desired shape within a mould; Apparatus therefor
    • B29C49/42—Component parts, details or accessories; Auxiliary operations
    • B29C49/4205—Handling means, e.g. transfer, loading or discharging means
    • B29C49/42093—Transporting apparatus, e.g. slides, wheels or conveyors
    • B29C49/42107—Transporting apparatus, e.g. slides, wheels or conveyors with accumulator or temporary storage, e.g. while waiting for the blowing apparatus
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G29/00—Rotary conveyors, e.g. rotating discs, arms, star-wheels or cones
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G60/00—Simultaneously or alternatively stacking and de-stacking of articles
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29L—INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASS B29C, RELATING TO PARTICULAR ARTICLES
    • B29L2031/00—Other particular articles
    • B29L2031/712—Containers; Packaging elements or accessories, Packages
    • B29L2031/7158—Bottles
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G2201/00—Indexing codes relating to handling devices, e.g. conveyors, characterised by the type of product or load being conveyed or handled
    • B65G2201/02—Articles
    • B65G2201/0235—Containers
    • B65G2201/0244—Bottles
    • 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
    • B67C3/02—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus
    • B67C3/22—Details
    • B67C2003/227—Additional apparatus related to blow-moulding of the containers, e.g. a complete production line forming filled containers from preforms

Definitions

  • the present invention relates to a device for the temporary storage of containers.
  • buffers where the containers can be stored temporarily, for example in the event of malfunctions or of stoppages/shutdowns of the system.
  • Such buffers are required in particular in those types of system which have, upstream of a filling machine, a machine for producing containers, for example a blowmolding machine for producing plastic containers starting from preforms by means of blow molding.
  • intermediate storage units are therefore provided which are constituted by variable- speed accumulator mats which have an inlet, typically constituted by conveyor belts, connected to a conveyor originating from for example the blow-molding unit, and an outlet connected to the filling machine.
  • a disadvantage of the known storage units is their considerable bulk and, as a consequence, the need to allocate a considerable space in the environment where the system is installed in order to ensure a sufficient storage capacity.
  • the containers are unstable and, as a consequence, it is possible for them to fall and for the system to stop as a consequence;
  • the aim of the present invention is to provide a device for the temporary storage of containers which is capable of improving the known art in one or more of the above-mentioned aspects.
  • an object of the invention is to make available a device for the temporary storage of containers which is characterized by reduced bulk.
  • Another object of the invention is to provide a device for the temporary storage of containers which is highly reliable, easy to implement and at low cost.
  • Figure 1 is a schematic view from above of the device for the temporary storage of containers according to the invention
  • Figure 2 is a cross-sectional view of the device according to the invention taken along the plane of arrangement identified by the line II-II of Figure 1;
  • Figure 3 is a schematic view from above of the device according to the invention.
  • Figure 4 is a perspective view of the flow of containers fed to the temporary storage device
  • Figure 5 is a perspective schematic view of the storage unit
  • Figure 6 is a side view of the storage unit
  • Figure 7 is a perspective view, from a first viewpoint, of a further embodiment of the device according to the invention in which, for greater clarity, only one accommodation body is shown;
  • Figure 8 is another perspective view, from another viewpoint, of the embodiment of the device shown in Figure 7;
  • Figure 9 shows a storage unit presenting the embodiment of Figures 7 and 8.
  • the device for the temporary storage of containers comprises at least one feeder conveyor 2 of containers 10 and at least one unloading conveyor 3 of the containers 10.
  • the device 1 comprises a storage unit 11 comprising a plurality of accommodation bodies I la which extend substantially parallel to each other along a substantially vertical direction of extension 100 and are each configured to accommodate a plurality of containers 10 stacked on top of each other with their longitudinal axis of extension 101 arranged parallel to the direction of extension 100 of the respective accommodation body I la.
  • the device 1 comprises means for movement on command 20 of the containers 10 along the direction of extension 100.
  • the means for movement on command 20 are adapted to move the containers 10 arriving from the feeder conveyor 2 from a first elevation to a second elevation along the direction of extension 100.
  • the means for movement on command 20 are configured to act when placed under the bottom of the respective containers 10 during the transition from the first elevation to the second elevation.
  • the containers 10 comprise containers 10 that are already filled.
  • the means for movement on command 20 define a resting surface for the bottom of the respective container 10 in fact makes it possible to store and manage a container of a certain weight, such as the containers 10 after they are filled and capped, while a movement acting on other portions would in any case be difficult and unreliable.
  • Means for temporary locking 30 of the container 10 at the second elevation are furthermore provided.
  • the accommodation bodies I la are arranged at the peripheral region of a carousel 12 and can rotate on command about the axis 103 of the carousel 12.
  • the axis 103 of the carousel is, in particular, arranged substantially parallel to the directions of extension 100.
  • the means for movement 20 comprise a movement pan 21 which is arranged below a respective accommodation body I la and can be moved on command along a vertical direction in order to bring a respective container arriving from the feeder conveyor 2 from the first elevation to the second elevation.
  • the second elevation is arranged above the first elevation.
  • the means for temporary locking 30 are substantially arranged at the second elevation and are configured to retain the container 10 at the second elevation when the pan 21 is brought back to the lowered condition so that it can then lift another container 10.
  • the means for temporary locking 30 are functionally associated with actuation means adapted to allow their transition from an active condition, in which they retain the container 10 at the second elevation, to an inactive condition, in which they disengage from the container 10 to allow the latter to be unloaded from the storage unit 11.
  • the containers 10 arranged at each accommodation body I la and arranged above the container at the second elevation are supported directly by the container 10 that is arranged directly below.
  • the means for temporary locking 30 are furthermore adapted to pass from the active condition to the inactive condition in order to allow the transfer of the container 10 from the first elevation to the second elevation.
  • this passage is determined directly by lifting the arriving container 10, or independent actuation means can be provided.
  • the means for movement on command 20 comprise, at each accommodation body I la, at least one elongated element 50 which extends substantially parallel to the direction of extension 100.
  • the elongated element 50 is associated with a plurality of supporting bodies 51 which are spaced apart from each other along the direction of extension 100 and are designed to define a resting surface for the bottom of a respective container 10.
  • the means for movement on command 20 are, in particular, adapted to move on command the supporting bodies 51 along the direction of extension 100.
  • the elongated element 50 is wound around at least one movement pulley 52 which is kinematically connected to actuation means. More conveniently, the elongated element 50 has a closed extension and is wound around a lower pulley 52a and around an upper pulley 52b.
  • Motor means act, for example, on one of the two pulleys 52, in one direction of rotation or in the opposite direction, to move the supporting bodies 51 upward or downward along the direction of extension 100.
  • the device 1 In order to allow the storage of containers 10 of different transverse dimensions, it is possible for the device 1 to comprise means for adjusting the transverse dimensions of the accommodation bodies I la.
  • the device could have sets of accommodation bodies I la of different transverse dimensions, which can be selectively associated with the storage unit 11.
  • the accommodation bodies I la could comprise a plurality of elongated elements 11b which extend parallel to the direction of extension 100.
  • the means for adjusting the transverse dimensions of the accommodation bodies I la comprise means for the radial movement of the elongated elements 11b.
  • the present invention relates to a system for processing containers 10 which comprises an apparatus for the production of plastic containers by means of blow molding preforms of plastic.
  • the system comprises, downstream of the apparatus for the production of the containers 10, at least one device 1 for the temporary storage of the containers 10 which has the characteristics described above.
  • the system comprises, downstream of the apparatus for the production of the containers 10, at least one apparatus for filling and capping the containers: the device 1 is, in particular, arranged downstream of the filling and capping apparatus.
  • the system comprises an apparatus for labeling the containers.
  • the device 1 is arranged upstream of the labeling apparatus.
  • blow-molded containers are normally immediately filled, capped and then labeled.
  • the operation of the device 1 for the temporary storage of containers 10 according to the invention is the following.
  • the containers produced by the apparatus for the production of containers are sent to the filling and capping apparatus and then, once filled and capped, to the feeder conveyor 2.
  • the feeder conveyor 2 brings the containers 10 to the peripheral region of the carousel 12 and, in particular, to the pans 21, or alternatively to the supporting bodies 51 which, by moving along the peripheral region of the carousel about the axis 103, without performing any vertical movement, take the containers 10 directly to the unloading conveyor 3.
  • the pans 21, or the supporting bodies 51 while they rotate about the axis 103 of the carousel 12, are lifted in order to bring the containers 10 from the first elevation to the second elevation. Once it has reached the second elevation, the container can be retained by the means for temporary locking 30. In this manner, the pan 21 can be lowered in order to return to the first elevation and receive a new container 10 arriving from the feeder conveyor 2 and lift it toward the second elevation as well.
  • this container 10 exerts an upward thrust on the container 10 that is temporarily at the second elevation, and so on.
  • the means for temporary locking 30 are provided by the supporting bodies 51, which retain and support, from below, the containers 10 arranged one on top of the other.
  • the storage unit 11 thus structured is extremely compact and presents reduced bulk, making it possible in any case to store a number of containers 10 substantially corresponding to the number of the preforms contained in the conditioning oven and therefore preventing the discarding of containers produced on systems that involve continuous flows of preforms/containers.

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Abstract

L'invention concerne un dispositif (1) pour le stockage temporaire de contenants (10), qui comprend au moins un transporteur d'alimentation (2) des contenants (10) et au moins un transporteur de déchargement (3) des contenants (10), caractérisé par le fait qu'il comprend une unité de stockage (11) comprenant une pluralité de corps de réception (I la) qui s'étendent sensiblement parallèlement les uns aux autres le long d'une direction d'extension (100) sensiblement verticale et sont chacun configurés pour recevoir une pluralité de contenants (10) empilés les uns sur les autres avec leur axe d'extension (101) longitudinal agencé parallèlement à la direction d'extension (100) du corps de réception (I la) respectif.
EP24707104.6A 2023-02-17 2024-02-15 Dispositif pour le stockage temporaire de contenants Pending EP4665663A1 (fr)

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IT202300002703 2023-02-17
PCT/IB2024/051433 WO2024171102A1 (fr) 2023-02-17 2024-02-15 Dispositif pour le stockage temporaire de contenants

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