Machine and method to automatically prepare fluid coloring products
AssigneeCorob S.p.A.
InventorsAndrea Alvisi, Fabrizio Benatti
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Abstract
A machine (10) to automatically prepare a fluid coloring product inside a container (15), which can already contain a base product, comprises a loading station (26), a perforating device to make an aperture in the upper part of the container (15), a delivery device (21) configured to deliver coloring substances inside the container through such aperture, and a closing device configured to automatically closed such aperture with a closing element, after the delivery of the coloring substances.
Claims17
Machine to automatically prepare a fluid coloring product inside a container, configured to already contain a base product, comprising delivery means configured to deliver at least one or more coloring substances inside said container through an aperture provided in the upper part of said container, perforating means configured to make said aperture, and closing means configured to automatically and hermetically close said aperture with at least one closing element when said container is in a delivery position, said machine also comprises mixing means configured to shake said container and therefore mix said coloring substances, possibly with said base product, inside said container when the latter is in a mixing position, wherein said machine comprises a support member configured to support said container, both in said delivery position, and also in said mixing position.
Method to automatically prepare a fluid coloring product inside a container, configured to contain a base product inside it, by means of a machine comprising delivery means configured to deliver at least one or more coloring substances inside said container through an aperture made in the upper part of the latter, wherein said method comprises, when said container is in a delivery position, at least a perforation step in which perforating means are activated in order to make said aperture, a subsequent delivery step in which said delivery means deliver said at least one or more coloring substances inside said container through said aperture, and a subsequent closing step in which closing means are activated in order to automatically and hermetically close said aperture of said container with at least one closing element, wherein said method further comprises a mixing step, in which mixing means mix said at least one or more coloring substances, possibly together with said base product and/or other non-coloring substances, in which it is provided that said container is supported by a support member both during said delivery step, when said container is in said delivery position, and also during said mixing step, when said container is in said mixing position.
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