US 2009/0211606 A1Published application

Method of cleaning bottles in a bottle cleaning machine, and an arrangement for performing the method, and a bottle cleaning machine

AssigneeKHS GmbH

InventorsBernd MOLITOR, Klaus JENDRICHOWSKI

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Abstract

A method of cleaning bottles in a bottle cleaning machine, and an arrangement for performing the method, and a bottle cleaning machine. The abstract of the disclosure is submitted herewith as required by 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b). As stated in 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b): A brief abstract of the technical disclosure in the specification must commence on a separate sheet, preferably following the claims, under the heading “Abstract of the Disclosure.” The purpose of the abstract is to enable the Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and gist of the technical disclosure. The abstract shall not be used for interpreting the scope of the claims. Therefore, any statements made relating to the abstract are not intended to limit the claims in any manner and should not be interpreted as limiting the claims in any manner.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method for the cleaning of bottles or similar containers in a cleaning machine, said method comprising the steps of:

arranging the containers in receptacles of container carriers;
moving the containers on a transport track of a transport system between a container inlet and a container outlet through multiple treatment zones, of which at least one is a dipping bath;
moving the containers to a deflector in the transport track inside the dipping bath, at which deflector the path of the transport track causes the containers to turn from an orientation with their container opening facing up to an orientation with their container opening facing down;
impinging the interior of each container in the dipping bath with a treatment jet of a treatment medium from a treatment nozzle arrangement, wherein the respective treatment jet is produced by a treatment nozzle arrangement at some distance from the container being treated and the container receptacle;
controlling the treatment jet such that only those containers, whose force component of the weight force acting in the direction of the treatment jet offsets the force imparted by the treatment jet at least to the extent that the container being treated is not moved by the treatment jet, are impinged by the at least one treatment jet;
and
said step of controlling the treatment jet further comprises adjusting and setting the pressure and/or volume of the treatment jets as a function of the mass or the weight force of the containers.

4 more elements

A method of cleaning containers in a container cleaning machine, said method comprising the steps of:

feeding containers into movable container receptacles in said container cleaning machine;
moving the containers to a cleaning area;
positioning the containers for cleaning with their closed portions at an equivalent or higher vertical position than their mouth portions;
impinging the interiors of the positioned containers with a jet of a cleaning medium from a nozzle arrangement disposed a distance from the containers, which jet has a spraying force which is one of:
insufficient to overcome the force of the weight of the containers and thus insufficient to push and move the containers from their resting position in their corresponding container receptacles;
and
sufficient to overcome the force of the weight of the containers and thus sufficient to push and move the containers from their resting position in their corresponding container receptacles, yet insufficient to move the containers to a position sufficient to interfere with the cleaning of the containers or the operation of the container cleaning machine.

4 more elements

An arrangement for cleaning containers in a container cleaning machine, said arrangement comprising:

a feeding arrangement being configured to feed containers into movable container receptacles in a container cleaning machine;
said movable container receptacles being configured to move containers to a cleaning area;
said movable container receptacles being configured to position containers for cleaning with their closed portions at an equivalent or higher vertical position than their mouth portions;
a nozzle arrangement being disposed a distance from containers and being configured to impinge the interiors of the positioned containers with a jet of a cleaning medium, which jet has a spraying force which is one of:
insufficient to overcome the force of the weight of containers and thus insufficient to push and move containers from their resting position in their corresponding container receptacles;
and
sufficient to overcome the force of the weight of containers and thus sufficient to push and move containers from their resting position in their corresponding container receptacles, yet insufficient to move containers to a position sufficient to interfere with the cleaning of containers or the operation of a container cleaning machine.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/389,937Filed 20 Feb 2009
Priority: DE 10 2006 039 599.923 Aug 2006
Published: 27 Aug 2009
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

B08B 9/20
Cleaning containers, e.g. tanks: by using apparatus into or on to which containers, e.g. bottles, jars, cans are brought
B08B 9/30
The apparatus cleaning by splash, spray, or jet application, with or without soaking: and having conveyors
B08B 9/34
The apparatus cleaning by splash, spray, or jet application, with or without soaking: arrangements of conduits or nozzles
B08B
Cleaning in general