Valve wear monitoring
AssigneeKrones AG
InventorFrank Winzinger
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Abstract
Disclosed is an apparatus and a method for treating containers with a transport device for transporting a container along a predetermined transport path, wherein the apparatus includes at least one container treatment device and preferably a plurality of container treatment devices, wherein the at least one container treatment device has at least one wear element, wherein the at least one container treatment device has a wear detection device for detecting wear data relating to wear of the at least one wear element. The wear detection device includes at least one sensor device for detecting the wear data relating to the wear of the at least one wear element.
Claims19
An apparatus for treating containers with a transport device for transporting a container along a predetermined transport path, wherein the apparatus comprises at least one container treatment device, wherein the at least one container treatment device comprises at least one wear element, wherein the at least one container treatment device comprises a wear detection device configured for detecting wear data relating to wear of the at least one wear element,
- wherein
- the wear detection device comprises at least one sensor device configured for detecting the wear data relating to wear of the at least one wear element, wherein the at least one wear element is a valve and/or a valve piston of a valve for supplying and/or discharging a flowable medium.
An apparatus for treating containers with a transport device for transporting a container along a predetermined transport path, wherein the apparatus has at least one container treatment device, wherein the at least one container treatment device has at least two valves via which a flowable medium can be supplied to a container and/or discharged from the container,
- wherein the at
- least one container treatment device is operable in a first and in a second operating mode,
- wherein in a first operating mode at least one valve is active and at least one valve is not active, and in a second operating mode all valves are active and/or the apparatus comprises a wear detection device configured for detecting wear data with respect to wear of one of the at least two valves, wherein an active valve is configured to be activated and/or switched by a machine control within the scope of its intended functions, and wherein a deactivated valve is configured to not be activated and/or switched by the machine control.
A method for treating containers with a transport device which transports a container along a predetermined transport path, with at least one container treatment device, wherein the at least one container treatment device has at least one wear element, wherein the at least one container treatment device has a wear detection device configured for detecting wear data relating to wear of the at least one wear element, wherein the wear detection device has a sensor device, and with a communication device for transmitting wear data relating to wear of the at least one wear element,
- wherein
- the sensor device directly detects the wear data relating to wear of the at least one wear element.
A method for treating containers with a transport device which transports a container along a predetermined transport path, with at least one container treatment device, wherein the at least one container treatment device has at least two valves configured to feed a flowable medium to a container and/or discharge it therefrom,
- wherein
- the at least one container treatment device is operable in a first operating mode in which at least one valve is deactivated and at least one valve is activated and/or is operable in a second operating mode in which all valves are activated.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.