Filling plant and method for filling bottles as required
OwnerVolker Tillinventor
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Abstract
A filling plant for handling bottles as required, has at least one bottle handling device, a first supply line which supplies a first bottle type and at least one further supply line which provides a first further bottle type, the first further bottle type differing in shape and/or size from the first bottle type. In order to increase the flexibility, to reduce the inventory and nevertheless to meet the requirements for mass production, the filling plant also has a sorter which is configured to remove bottles selectively and arbitrarily from each of the supply lines, to line up the bottles in a predetermined order on a forward section and to deliver them to the bottle handling device in the predetermined order. The predetermined order can be chosen freely.
Claims14
A method for feeding bottles as required into a bottle treating device of a filling plant, wherein, by means of a sorter,
- bottles of a first bottle type are removed from a first supply line and
- at least bottles of a first further bottle type, are removed from a first further supply line,
- wherein the first further bottle type differs in at least one of shape and size from the first bottle type,
- wherein the sorter lines up the bottles on an infeed section in a predetermined order,
- wherein the bottles are fed from the infeed section in the predetermined order to the bottle treating device,
- wherein the predetermined order can be selected freely,
- wherein the sorter has several movers, which are driven independently and individually,
- wherein the bottle treating device is formed as a carousel device,
- wherein the filling plant has a removal system for removing the bottles from the bottle treating device,
- wherein a number of cycles in the bottle treating device is controlled individually for each bottle, and
- wherein each mover has a gripper for at least one of removing a bottle from the supply lines and feeding the bottle into the bottle treating device.
A filling plant for treating bottles as required, having:
- at least one bottle treating device;
- a first supply line, which supplies a first bottle type;
- at least one further supply line, which supplies a further bottle type, wherein the further bottle type differs in at least one of shape or size from the first bottle type;
- and
- a sorter, which is configured to remove bottles selectively arbitrarily from each of the supply lines, and to line up the bottles arranged in a predetermined order on an infeed section, and to feed the bottles to the bottle treating device in the predetermined order,
- wherein the sorter is configured such that the predetermined order is chosen freely, and
- wherein the sorter has several movers, which are driven independently and individually,
- wherein the at least one bottle treating device is formed as a carousel device,
- wherein the filling plant has a removal system for removing the bottles from the at least one bottle treating device,
- wherein a number of cycles in the at least one bottle treating device controllable individually for each bottle, and
- wherein each mover has a gripper for at least one of removing a bottle from the supply lines or feeding the bottle into the at least one bottle treating device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.