Beverage bottling plant for filling bottles with a liquid beverage material having an inspection apparatus for inspecting bottles

Abstract

A beverage bottling plant for filling bottles with a liquid beverage material having an inspection apparatus for inspecting bottles. 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.

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BACKGROUND [0001] 1. Technical Field [0002] The present application relates to a beverage bottling plant for filling bottles with a liquid beverage material having an inspection apparatus for inspecting bottles. [0003] 2. Background Information [0004] A beverage bottling plant for filling bottles with a liquid beverage filling material can possibly comprise a beverage filling machine with a plurality of beverage filling positions, each beverage filling position having a beverage filling device for filling bottles with liquid beverage filling material. The filling devices may have an apparatus designed to introduce a predetermined volume of liquid beverage filling material into the interior of bottles to a substantially predetermined level of liquid beverage filling material. The apparatus designed to introduce a predetermined flow of liquid beverage filling material further comprises an apparatus that is designed to terminate the filling of the beverage bottles upon the liquid bever...

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Problems solved by technology

When containers of this type are labeled, said dimensional variations or tolerances can result in the respective label not being in the desired position on the container in question, and in particular when labels are to be applied in different areas of a container, for example on the neck, shoulder or body of a bottle, said labels may not be oriented in the desired relationship with one another, i.e. the vertical axis of symmetry or center axis of the neck, shoulder and body labels no longer lies on the desired line, or the distances between the side edges of a shoulder label and a body label are no longer equal.

Variations in the position of the labels caused by variations in the dimensions of the respective container can thus have an adverse effect on the appearance or the visual attractiveness of the respective labeled container, to the point where the high quality requirements of a bottling plant or of the retail consumer are no longer met.

However, other inlets and outlets are possible which can further decrease outside originating light.

One essential disadvantage of the realizations of the prior art is that a uniform luminance cannot be achieved inside the housing or on the surface of the container to be inspected.

Because these different brightness values are caused only by the type of illumination and / or the geometric “normal contour” of the container being inspected, they make the analysis and the interpretation of the recordings more difficult, because the characteristics that are being looked for and inspected, such as for example the label (edges), container closures or surface defects in the container 1, also cause fluctuations in brightness.

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