US 2024/0199400 A1 · CLOSURE PROCESSING EQUIPMENT AND METHOD

Abstract

A closure processing equipment for closing openings of a number of containers includes a number of stopper members, a container holder and a set of compensation structures. Each of the stopper members is made of an elastic material, has a plug portion configured to fit into an opening of one of the number of containers and has a cover portion configured to abut a boundary surface adjacent to the opening of the one of the number of containers. The container holder has a number of container seats each configured to receive one of the number of containers in a predefined position. Each compensation structure of the set of compensation structures is configured to compensate a container manufacturing dimension tolerance. The set of compensation structures includes diverse compensation structures to compensate different container manufacturing dimension tolerances.

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Dependent claims

A closure processing equipment for closing openings of a number of containers, comprising:

a number of stopper members and a container holder;
and
a set of compensation structures, each compensation structure configured to compensate a container manufacturing dimension tolerance,
wherein each stopper member of the number of stopper members is made of an elastic material, has a plug portion configured to fit into an opening of one of the number of containers and has a cover portion configured to abut a boundary surface adjacent to the opening of the one of the number of containers, and
wherein the container holder has a number of container seats, each container seat configured to receive one of the number of containers in a predefined position,
wherein the set of compensation structures comprises diverse compensation structures to compensate different container manufacturing dimension tolerances.

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A method of closing openings of containers, comprising:

obtaining a number of containers, each container having an opening;
measuring a dimension of each one of the number of containers to determine a container manufacturing dimension tolerance for each of the number of containers;
obtaining a number of stopper members made of an elastic material, each stopper member having a plug portion configured to fit into an opening of one of the number of containers and a cover portion configured to abut a boundary surface adjacent to the opening of the one of the number of containers;
obtaining a container holder having a number of container seats, each container seat configured to receive one of the number of containers in a predefined position;
obtaining a set of compensation structures comprising diverse compensation structures to compensate different container manufacturing dimension tolerances;
based on the determined container manufacturing dimension tolerances of the number of containers, selecting a compensation structure of the set of compensation structures per container of the number of containers suitable to compensate the determined container manufacturing dimension tolerance of the container;
positioning the number of containers in the number of container seats of the container holder;
providing each container of the number of containers with one of the selected compensation structures being suitable to compensate the respective determined container manufacturing dimension tolerance;
and
closing each opening of the openings of the number of containers by fitting the plug portion of one of the stopper members into the respective opening and abutting the cover portion of the one of the stopper members to a boundary surface adjacent to the respective opening.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Closure processing equipment and method

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