WO1993004975A1 - Filling machine with automatic sterilisation and cleaning of the nozzles under aseptic conditions - Google Patents

Filling machine with automatic sterilisation and cleaning of the nozzles under aseptic conditions Download PDF

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WO1993004975A1
WO1993004975A1 PCT/IT1992/000111 IT9200111W WO9304975A1 WO 1993004975 A1 WO1993004975 A1 WO 1993004975A1 IT 9200111 W IT9200111 W IT 9200111W WO 9304975 A1 WO9304975 A1 WO 9304975A1
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Franco Dall'argine
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Manzini Comaco S.P.A.
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B67OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
    • B67CCLEANING, FILLING WITH LIQUIDS OR SEMILIQUIDS, OR EMPTYING, OF BOTTLES, JARS, CANS, CASKS, BARRELS, OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; FUNNELS
    • B67C3/00Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus; Filling casks or barrels with liquids or semiliquids
    • B67C3/001Cleaning of filling devices
    • B67C3/005Cleaning outside parts of filling devices

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  • the invention relates to a filler machine having automatic nozzle sterilisation and cleaning under aseptic conditions.
  • the filler machine is of the positive-displacement type.
  • filling machines are not equipped with sterilising devices inasmuch as the use of sterile containers is not generally requested and there is no problem with regard to aseptic conditions: it is generally after the filling of the containers that the operations of sterilisation and pasteurisation of the filled container is proceeded to.
  • Aim of the present invention is substantially to solve the problems existing in the prior art by means of a filler machine equipped with an automatic sterilisation and cleaning system of the nozzles under aseptic conditions.
  • a further aim is to provide a filler machine equipped with delivering nozzles able to operate in a sterile atmosphere completely separated from all the other mechanical movement organs.
  • a further aim to to equip the delivering nozzles with a steam-cleaning system for the said nozzles during operation, at the end of each filling phase.
  • a rotating filler head equipped with one or more delivering nozzles, each of which nozzles is predisposed to deliver a product into a container arranged inferiorly to the nozzle; - one or more plates, each of which is arranged coaxially and inferiorly to the said nozzle to hold the container during the filling operation, said plates being supported by a rotating platform which is synchronised with the rotating filler head; a support shaft for the rotating head, which shaft incorporates a tank containing the product to be delivered into the container, which tank is connected to one or more positive-displacement batching cylinders; - command organs for the nozzles and cylinders and movement organs for the plates (9) and the inlet and outlet stars of the containers, characterised by the fact of comprising: - a sterile chamber to house the filler heads with the tank, the batching cylinders, the mechanical organs for the closing and opening of the nozzles and for the command of the cylinders of the said filler head; - a tunnel arranged internally to the
  • the said filler machine also comprises an' automatic nozzle sterilising and cleaning device. Further advantages and characteristics of the present invention will better emerge from the detailed description that follows, made with reference to the accompanying drawings, which represent a preferred embodiment here illustrated in the form of a non-limiting example, and in whic : figure 1 shows the filler machine partially in section;
  • FIG. 2 shows a particular in enlarged scale and in section, of the nozzle sterilising and cleaning device of the filling machine.
  • 1 denotes a filler machine comprising a rotating filler head 2 equipped with one or more delivering nozzles 3 to deliver a product into a container 4 arranged inferiorly to a corresponding delivering nozzle 3.
  • the rotating filler head substantially of known type, comprises a central tank 5 containing the product to be delivered into the containers 4.
  • the tank 5 is connected with a pluraltiy of po ⁇ itive- displacement batching cylinders 6 predisposed to effect the batching of the product to be delivered into each container 4 by means of relative connecting conduits 7 leading to the delivering nozzles 3.
  • the rotating filler head 2 is inferiorly closed by a separating disc 8 out of which the delivering nozzles 3 project.
  • the filler machine 1 comprises one or more plates 9, each of which is arranged coaxially and inferiorly to a relative delivering nozzle 3 and is predisposed to receive a container 4 during the filling operation.
  • the plates 9 are supported on a platform 10 rotating in synchronisation with the rotating filler head 2.
  • the filler machine 1 also exhibits a supporting shaft 11 of the rotating filler head 2 and movement organs of the plates 9 (for the lifting and rotation of the said plates 9) and further exhibits inlet and outlet stars for the containers 4, not described herein since of known type.
  • the filler machine 1 comprises a sterile chamber 12 to house the tank 5, batching cylinders 6 and mechanical organs for opening and closing the delivering nozzles 3 and command.
  • the sterile chamber 12 is situated under a sterile laminar flow cap and is separated and isolated from the tunnel 13 by the separating disc 8.
  • the only components of the rotating filler head 2 in contact and in the same atmosphere as the container 4 are the delivering nozzles 3. Furthermore, in the tunnel 13, apart from the delivering nozzles 3 which effect the filling of the containers 4, there are the plates 9 supporting the containers 4 and a portion of the shaft 11 supporting the rotating filler head 2.
  • the tunnel 13 is inferiorly isolated from the sterile chamber 12 by the rotating platform 10 and, further, by steam jets.
  • the tunnel 13 further exhibits internally a pressure which is higher with respect to the sterile chamber 12 which, in its turn, is kept at a pressure which is slightly higher than that of the surrounding atmosphere, so that any passage of air can occur only from the inside towards the outside of the filling machine.
  • the tunnel 13 permits of realising the filling of the containers 4 under aseptic conditions.
  • the filler machine 1 also exhibits an automatic sterilisation and cleaning device 16 for the delivering nozzles 3, comprising an influx conduit 29 of steam jets on the delivering nozzles 3 to clean them at the end of each filling phase, when the container 4 is still below the corresponding delivering nozzle 3.
  • the filler machine 1 also comprises an automatic cleaning circuit for the machine itself, comprising a delivery conduit 17 of a cleansing fluid which, at the end of production of the filler machine 1 (for example the end of the working day) , is introduced in to the tank 5 and flows up to the delivering nozzles 3, through the tank 5, the cylinders and the conduits 7.
  • This circuit comprises a closing cone 18 arranged on the plate 9 and having the function of plugging the delivering nozzles 3, creating a connection with a flexible tube 19 which connects with the hollow supporting shaft 11 enabling the residual substance of the cleaning operation to escape.
  • the tunnel 13 is equipped inferiorly with escape zones for the steam, condensation and residues of the product, not illustrated.
  • the said escape zones coincide substantially with zones in which there are clearance spaces between moving and fixed organs.
  • the steam jets maintain the separation between tunnel 13 and sterile chamber 12.
  • 21 denotes a lifting and closing device arranged in the sterile chamber 12 and separated from the tunnel 13.
  • This lifting and closing device 21 which is activated during the cleaning phase of the filler machine 1, comprises movement means 22 which activate a lifter 23 which brings the plate 9 up to the delivering nozzle 3 so as to close the said delivering nozzle 3 during the cleaning operation.
  • the movement means 22 comprise a geared motor 24 whose shaft, by means of a pinion which meshes with a chain, moves a cogged wheel causing the lifting of the plate 9 and the closing cone 18 towards the delivering nozzle 3.
  • the lifting and closing device 21 thus is closed and separated from the remaining movement organs.
  • the product is taken from the tank 5 and passed into the batching cylinders 6, which pistons 30 effect the volumetric batching of the product into the containers .
  • the cleaning is effected by means of a circulation of water or other cleaning liquid which passes through the pistons, the conduits, the nozzles, the closing cone the flexible tube and is then removed into the hollow shaft, realising thus a circuit.
  • a circulation of water or other cleaning liquid which passes through the pistons, the conduits, the nozzles, the closing cone the flexible tube and is then removed into the hollow shaft, realising thus a circuit.
  • There follows a sterilisation phase through the circulation of steam which continues even when the plates have returned into their initial position so as to keep the slightly higher pressure of the tunnel atmosphere, which otherwise would diminish with the unloading of the condensation through the unloading zones of the tunnel 13.
  • the present invention reaches thus the proposed aims. It is able to perform a filling operation in sterile conditions, permitting the excellent conservation of the natural characteristics of the packed product, that is, vitamins, proteins, looks and colour. Furthermore, a delivering nozzle 3 can be brought into contact with the container which nozzle operates in an aseptic tunnel, while the remaining mechanical parts of the machine are kept in a different environment, separated however also from the outside.

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The invention relates to a filler machine (1) equipped with an automatic and aseptic nozzle (3) sterilisation and cleaning device (16). The filler machine (1) comprises a rotating filler head (2) equipped with one or more delivering nozzles (3), to deliver a product into a container (4) arranged inferiorly to the nozzle (3) and supported on a plate (9). The rotating filler head (2) incorporates a tank (5) containing the product to be introduced, which tank (5) is connected to one or more batching cylinders (6) and command organs for the various components of the filler machine (1). The filler machine (1) further comprises a sterile chamber (12) to house the tank (5), the batching cylinders (6) and the mechanical parts of the rotating filler head (2); a tunnel (13) arranged internally to the sterile chamber (12) and separated from it hermetically in which the filling of the containers (4) is effected in aseptic conditions.

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Filling machine vith automatic sterilisation and cle.anijιg of the nozzles under aseptic conditions.
Description.
The invention relates to a filler machine having automatic nozzle sterilisation and cleaning under aseptic conditions. In particular, the filler machine is of the positive-displacement type.
As is known, filling machines are not equipped with sterilising devices inasmuch as the use of sterile containers is not generally requested and there is no problem with regard to aseptic conditions: it is generally after the filling of the containers that the operations of sterilisation and pasteurisation of the filled container is proceeded to.
Similarly, there are no automatic cleaning devices for the filling pipes since the cleaning is done manually.
Furthermore, at present the different container packing operations are made in free, and therefore polluted conditions, for which reason, once the filling of the containers has been effected, sterilisation operations are necessary which can be performed at high temperature and for long periods.
Such procedures imply however the alteration of the characteristics of the packed product, both as regards the conservation of the vitamin contents and as regards the exterior aspect of the product. In the continuous and constant research for improvements in the conserved products, while maintaining their characteristics, including looks, taste, colour, vitamin content, proteins etc.Λ the need to effect the filling operation under sterile conditions has been affirmed, so as to obtain a perfect and optimal conservation of the packed products without needing to eff ct energy sterilising processes downstream of the packing.
Aim of the present invention is substantially to solve the problems existing in the prior art by means of a filler machine equipped with an automatic sterilisation and cleaning system of the nozzles under aseptic conditions. A further aim is to provide a filler machine equipped with delivering nozzles able to operate in a sterile atmosphere completely separated from all the other mechanical movement organs. A further aim to to equip the delivering nozzles with a steam-cleaning system for the said nozzles during operation, at the end of each filling phase. These aims and others besides, which will better emerge during the course of the present description, are fully attained by the filler machine, object of the present invention, having automatic nozzle sterilisation and cleaning under aseptic conditions, of the type comprising:
- a rotating filler head equipped with one or more delivering nozzles, each of which nozzles is predisposed to deliver a product into a container arranged inferiorly to the nozzle; - one or more plates, each of which is arranged coaxially and inferiorly to the said nozzle to hold the container during the filling operation, said plates being supported by a rotating platform which is synchronised with the rotating filler head; a support shaft for the rotating head, which shaft incorporates a tank containing the product to be delivered into the container, which tank is connected to one or more positive-displacement batching cylinders; - command organs for the nozzles and cylinders and movement organs for the plates (9) and the inlet and outlet stars of the containers, characterised by the fact of comprising: - a sterile chamber to house the filler heads with the tank, the batching cylinders, the mechanical organs for the closing and opening of the nozzles and for the command of the cylinders of the said filler head; - a tunnel arranged internally to the said chamber and separated hermetically from it, at least in its superior part, in which the delivering nozzles are housed and also the support plates (9) of the containers, the said tunnel being under higher pressure than the chamber, which is in its turn at a higher pressure than the surrounding atmosphere. The said filler machine also comprises an' automatic nozzle sterilising and cleaning device. Further advantages and characteristics of the present invention will better emerge from the detailed description that follows, made with reference to the accompanying drawings, which represent a preferred embodiment here illustrated in the form of a non-limiting example, and in whic : figure 1 shows the filler machine partially in section;
- figure 2 shows a particular in enlarged scale and in section, of the nozzle sterilising and cleaning device of the filling machine.
With reference to the drawings, 1 denotes a filler machine comprising a rotating filler head 2 equipped with one or more delivering nozzles 3 to deliver a product into a container 4 arranged inferiorly to a corresponding delivering nozzle 3. The rotating filler head 2, substantially of known type, comprises a central tank 5 containing the product to be delivered into the containers 4. The tank 5 is connected with a pluraltiy of poεitive- displacement batching cylinders 6 predisposed to effect the batching of the product to be delivered into each container 4 by means of relative connecting conduits 7 leading to the delivering nozzles 3. The rotating filler head 2 is inferiorly closed by a separating disc 8 out of which the delivering nozzles 3 project. The filler machine 1 comprises one or more plates 9, each of which is arranged coaxially and inferiorly to a relative delivering nozzle 3 and is predisposed to receive a container 4 during the filling operation. The plates 9 are supported on a platform 10 rotating in synchronisation with the rotating filler head 2. The filler machine 1 also exhibits a supporting shaft 11 of the rotating filler head 2 and movement organs of the plates 9 (for the lifting and rotation of the said plates 9) and further exhibits inlet and outlet stars for the containers 4, not described herein since of known type. Originally, the filler machine 1 comprises a sterile chamber 12 to house the tank 5, batching cylinders 6 and mechanical organs for opening and closing the delivering nozzles 3 and command. organs for the batching cylinders 6, and a tunnel 13 arranged internally to the sterile chamber 12 and separated from the same sterile chamber 12 hermetically, at least in its superior part, by means of gaskets 14 made in elastomer material. According to the present embodiment, the sterile chamber 12 is situated under a sterile laminar flow cap and is separated and isolated from the tunnel 13 by the separating disc 8. The only components of the rotating filler head 2 in contact and in the same atmosphere as the container 4 are the delivering nozzles 3. Furthermore, in the tunnel 13, apart from the delivering nozzles 3 which effect the filling of the containers 4, there are the plates 9 supporting the containers 4 and a portion of the shaft 11 supporting the rotating filler head 2.
In addition to the above-described, the tunnel 13 is inferiorly isolated from the sterile chamber 12 by the rotating platform 10 and, further, by steam jets. The tunnel 13 further exhibits internally a pressure which is higher with respect to the sterile chamber 12 which, in its turn, is kept at a pressure which is slightly higher than that of the surrounding atmosphere, so that any passage of air can occur only from the inside towards the outside of the filling machine.
In these conditions, the tunnel 13 permits of realising the filling of the containers 4 under aseptic conditions. The filler machine 1 also exhibits an automatic sterilisation and cleaning device 16 for the delivering nozzles 3, comprising an influx conduit 29 of steam jets on the delivering nozzles 3 to clean them at the end of each filling phase, when the container 4 is still below the corresponding delivering nozzle 3. The filler machine 1 also comprises an automatic cleaning circuit for the machine itself, comprising a delivery conduit 17 of a cleansing fluid which, at the end of production of the filler machine 1 (for example the end of the working day) , is introduced in to the tank 5 and flows up to the delivering nozzles 3, through the tank 5, the cylinders and the conduits 7. This circuit comprises a closing cone 18 arranged on the plate 9 and having the function of plugging the delivering nozzles 3, creating a connection with a flexible tube 19 which connects with the hollow supporting shaft 11 enabling the residual substance of the cleaning operation to escape. The tunnel 13 is equipped inferiorly with escape zones for the steam, condensation and residues of the product, not illustrated. The said escape zones coincide substantially with zones in which there are clearance spaces between moving and fixed organs. The steam jets maintain the separation between tunnel 13 and sterile chamber 12. 21 denotes a lifting and closing device arranged in the sterile chamber 12 and separated from the tunnel 13. This lifting and closing device 21, which is activated during the cleaning phase of the filler machine 1, comprises movement means 22 which activate a lifter 23 which brings the plate 9 up to the delivering nozzle 3 so as to close the said delivering nozzle 3 during the cleaning operation. In particular, the movement means 22 comprise a geared motor 24 whose shaft, by means of a pinion which meshes with a chain, moves a cogged wheel causing the lifting of the plate 9 and the closing cone 18 towards the delivering nozzle 3. The lifting and closing device 21 thus is closed and separated from the remaining movement organs. As regard the functioning, when- the filling operation is effected, the product is taken from the tank 5 and passed into the batching cylinders 6, which pistons 30 effect the volumetric batching of the product into the containers . Both in the conduits 7 and in the delivering nozzles 3 product residues remain. Between one filling phase of a container 4 and the next there is an inverval which is necessary for the filling of the relative batching cylinder 6. In this interval, while the delivering nozzle 3 is still above the container 4 and before the product is newly introduced into the conduit 7, a passage of steam is enacted which cleans and sterilises the delivering nozzle 3 through the delivery conduit 17. In this phase the container 4 remains below the delivering nozzle 3, so that the product resides fall into the container itself permitting thus of reaching a greater precision withregard to the batching, in that the said residues do not
.stay attached to the delivering nozzle 3. At this point the filling of a successive container 4 or group of containers can be proceeded to.
At the end of the work cycle of the machine, for example daily, a general automatic cleaning of the machine is effected, during which the plate 9, activated by the movement means 22, rises up until the closing cone 18 closes the delivering nozzle
3. At this point, the cleaning is effected by means of a circulation of water or other cleaning liquid which passes through the pistons, the conduits, the nozzles, the closing cone the flexible tube and is then removed into the hollow shaft, realising thus a circuit. There follows a sterilisation phase through the circulation of steam which continues even when the plates have returned into their initial position so as to keep the slightly higher pressure of the tunnel atmosphere, which otherwise would diminish with the unloading of the condensation through the unloading zones of the tunnel 13.
All of the above-described operations are effected in aseptic conditions, but in particular, in order to obtain better sterility conditions, only the elivering nozzle 3 which delivers the product has been introduced into the tunnel 13, while all the rest of the rotating filler head 2 stays out of the tunnel 13, and furthermore, when the lifting and closing device 21 is lifted to close the delivering nozzle 3 there is no contact between the sterile chamber 12 and the tunnel 13 thanks to the closed conformation of the device. The originality of the invention consists in haivng used and combined components which, though substantially of known type, realise a machine with totally new characteristics able to realise the filling of containers under sterile conditions and also able to sterilise and clean the nozzles automatically after each filling operation. The present invention reaches thus the proposed aims. It is able to perform a filling operation in sterile conditions, permitting the excellent conservation of the natural characteristics of the packed product, that is, vitamins, proteins, looks and colour. Furthermore, a delivering nozzle 3 can be brought into contact with the container which nozzle operates in an aseptic tunnel, while the remaining mechanical parts of the machine are kept in a different environment, separated however also from the outside.
All of the preceding brings to a better efficiency of the machine, which requires no manual cleaning interventions.

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A filler machine having automatic nozzle sterilisation and cleaning under aseptic conditions, of the type comprising: - a rotating filler head (2) equipped with one or more delivering nozzles (3), each of which nozzles (3) is predisposed to deliver a product into a container (4) arranged inferiorly to the nozzle (3); one or more plates (9), each of which is arranged coaxially and inferiorly to the said nozzle (3) to hold the container (4) during the filling operation, said plates (9) being supported by a rotating platform (10) which is synchronised with the rotating filler head (2); a support shaft (11) for the rotating head (2), which shaft (11) incorporates a tank (5) containing the product to be delivered into the container (4), which tank (5) is connected to one or more positive-displacement batching cylinders (6); - command organs for the nozzles (3) and cylinders (6) and movement organs for the plates (9) and the inlet and outlet stars of the containers (4), characterised by the fact of comprising:
- a sterile chamber (12) to house the filler head (2) with the tank (5), the batching cylinders (6), the mechanical organs for the closing and opening of the nozzles (3) and for the command of the cylinders (6) of the said filler head (2); a tunnel (13) arranged internally to the said chamber (12) and separated hermetically from it, at least in its superior part, in which the delivering nozzles (3) are housed and also the support plates (9) of the containers (4), the said tunnel (13) being under higher pressure than the chamber (12), which is in its turn at a higher pressure than the surrounding atmosphere.
A filler machine of the type comprising:
- a rotating filler head (2) equipped with one or more delivering nozzles (3), each of which nozzles (3) is predisposed to deliver a product into a container (4) arranged inferiorly to the nozzle (3);
- one or more plates (9), each of which is arranged coaxially and inferiorly to the said nozzle (3) to hold the container (4) during the filling operation, said plates being supported by a rotating platform (10) which is synchronised with the rotating filler head (2); a support shaft (11) for the rotating head (2), which shaft (11) incorporates a tank (5) containing the product to be delivered into the container (4), which tank (5) is connected to one or more positive-displacement batching cylinders (6);
- command organs for the nozzles (3) and cylinders (6) and movement organs for the plates (9) and the inlet and outlet stars of the containers (4), characterised by the fact of comprising an automatically-operating sterilisation and cleaning device (16) for the delivering nozzles (3) 3.
A filler machine of the type comprising: a rotating filler head (2) equipped with one or more delivering nozzles (3), each of which nozzles (3) is predisposed to deliver a product into a container (4) arranged inferiorly to the nozzle (3);
- one or more plates (9), each of which is arranged coaxially and inferiorly to the said nozzle (3) to hold the container during the filling operation, said plates (9) being supported by a rotating platform (10) which is synchronised with the rotating filler head (2) ;
- a support shaft (11) for the rotating head (2), which shaft (11) incorporates a tank (5) containing the product to be delivered into the container (4), which tank (5) is connected to one or more positive-displacement batching cylinders (6);
- command organs for the nozzles (3) and cylinders (6) and movement organs for the plates (9) and the inlet and outlet stars of the containers (4), characterised by the fact of comprising an automatic cleaning circuit of the filler machine (1).
4. A filler machine according to claim 1, characterised by the fact that the tunnel (13) is equipped with gaskets (14) in elastomer material for the hermetic separation of the tunnel (13) from the sterile chamber (12) superior part.
5. A filler machine according to claim 2, characterised by the fact that the said nozzle sterilisation and cleaning device (16) comprises an influx conduit (29) of jets of steam jetting on to the said delivering nozzles (3) to clean and sterilise them at the end of each filling phase, during the functioning of the filler machine (1).
A filler machine according to claim 3, characterised by the fact that the said automatic cleaning circuit of the machine comprises: - a delivery conduit (17) of a cleansing fluid which is introduced into the tank (5) and flows in the delivering nozzles (3) through the cylinders (6) and the conduits (7); a closing cone (18) arranged on the plate (9) and having the function of plugging the delivering nozzles (3), creating a connection with a flexible tube (19) which connects with the hollow supporting shaft (11) enabling the residual substance of the cleaning operation to escape.
A filler machine according to claims 1 and 6, characterised by the fact of comprising a lifting and closing device (21) arranged in the sterile chamber (12) and separated from the tunnel (13), to bring the closing cone' (18) up to the delivering nozzles (3).
8. A filler machine according to claim 1, characterised by the fact that the delivering nozzle (3) or nozzles (3) are the only component of the rotating filler head (2) in contact with and in the same environment as the container (4) .
9. A filler machine according to claim 1, characterised by the fact that the tunnel (13) is equipped inferiorly with steam, condensation and product residue escape zones.
10. A filler machine according to claim 1, characterised by the fact that the sterile chamber (12) is situated under a sterile laminar flow cap.
11. A filler machine according to claim 7, characterised by the fact that the said lifting and closing device (21) is closed and separated from the remaining movement organs and comprises a rotating platform (10) on which the piste (9) is arranged, and movement means (22) which activate a lifter (23) which brings the plate (9) and the closing cone (18) up to the delivering nozzles (3) so as to close it.
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