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AssigneeSeitz Enzinger Noll
InventorsEgon Ahlers, Herbert Bernhard, Clusserath, Axel Theine
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A rotary-type capping machine is provided for capping bottles with closure caps. A plurality of capping elements are provided that rotate about a vertical machine axis and can be raised and lowered in the vertical direction. To clean the capping elements, rinsing caps can be secured thereon, each of which, when secured on a capping element, closes off toward the outside a rinsing chamber in which are disposed at least those surfaces of the capping element for which cleanliness is particularly critical. To avoid a connection and loosening of hoses or conduits during cleaning, each capping element is provided above a rinsing cap connection area with fixed connections for the supply and withdrawal of a cleaning or rinsing agent. If the capping machine has a cap transfer mechanism with a rotating transfer element, to clean the same a tray-like element for a cleaning agent is provided in which the transfer element can be immersed by lowering the cap transfer mechasnism and/or by raising the tray-like element.
In a capping machine of rotary design to cap bottles that have lips on their mouths with closure caps that are supplied from a magazine via a cap feeding channel that leads therefrom, with the capping being effected via a plurality of capping elements that rotate about a vertical axis of said machine and can each be raised and lowered in a vertical direction, whereby to press and subsequently permanently deform or set the closure caps on the bottle mouths, each of said capping elements is provided with a deforming member accommodated in a capping element part and with a hold-down device that extends centrally through said deforming member and to the region of the lower end of which said closure caps are fed via a cap transfer mechanism that is disposed downstream of said cap feeding channel, the improvement comprising:
In a capping machine of rotary design to cap bottles that have lips on their mouths with closure caps that are supplied from a magazine via a cap feeding channel that leads therefrom, with the capping being effected via a plurality of capping elements that rotate about a vertical axis of said machine and can each be raised and lowered in a vertical direction, whereby to press and subsequently permanently deform or set the closure caps on the bottle mouths, each of said capping elements is provided with a deforming member and a hold-down device that extends centrally through said deforming member, with said deforming member and said hold-down device being movable relative to one another, and with a member of a cap transfer mechanism, which member is disposed downstream of said cap feeding channel and is driven synchronously with the rotation of said capping elements, transferring a respective one of said closure caps to holding means at the lower end of said hold-down device of each capping element that moves past a transfer position of said cap transfer mechanism, the improvement wherein:
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