Closure treatment machine
AssigneeGist-Brocades N.V.
InventorArie van der Lugt
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Abstract
A closure treatment machine having one or more caskets (1) for holding the closures (9); said caskets comprise a number of parallel bars (2, 3, 4), which are connected at both ends to each other by coupling plates (5, 6), whereby the parallel bars are arranged in such a way that the closures are held between said bars but still do have such a tolerance, that the cleansing liquid sprayed from nozzles (23) towards the closures may reach any side of the closures. For filling and emptying the caskets at least one of the coupling plates has an opening (7, 8) for passing the closures. The caskets which are moved by means of chains (16) may be led after a cleansing station to a drying station or a sterilization station.
Claims13
Machine for the treatment of head-shaped closures especially rubber closures fit for vials for containment of infusion or injection liquids provided with at least a means holding said closures during the cleansing stage and with nozzles in such positions that the cleansing liquid may be sprayed under several angles towards the closures characterized in that the means holdig the closures comprises one or more caskets having a number of parallel bars which are connected at both ends to each other by coupling plates whereby the parallel bars are arranged in such a way that the closures may find a place there between in the form of a row of a previously defined number and thereby held in such a way that the closures cannot be moved out of the space between the bars but do have such a tolerance that the cleansing liquid can reach any side of the closures whereby at least one of the coupling plates has an opening for passing the closures and the other coupling plate may form an eventual temporary barrier for the closures whereas a carrying means may lead the caskets filled with closures along nozzles spraying cleansing liquid.
Machine according to any one of the preceding claims characterized in that the carrying means and the caskets carried therewith do pass at least one more station for instance a drying station.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.