Automatic bottle wash-up line

a bottle wash and bottle technology, applied in the field of automatic bottle wash up lines, can solve the problem of limited plant capacity

Inactive Publication Date: 2012-07-26
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[0006]Another object of the invention is to provide a means which makes it possible to perform the method according to the invention.

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The above process is a rather circumstantial procedure and the capacity of the plant is limited because bottles and nipples are washed in separate baskets and the baskets intended for the nipples have to be returned to the bottle wash-up filling station.

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[0011]An automatic bottle wash-up line for performing of the method according to the present invention is shown schematically in FIG. 1. This bottle wash-up line is primarily intended for washing of drinking bottles for laboratory animals. The bottles can have different sizes. The bottles are transported in bottle baskets within the plant. A suitable basket content would be 18 bottles (3×6). This number can vary, but all baskets in one plant should contain the same number of bottles, irrespective of any variations in size of the bottles.

[0012]According to the invention, a back side of the baskets is designed to accommodate nipples removed from the bottles and to retain said nipples during the washing procedure.

[0013]The bottle baskets are transported on a conveyor 1 through the plant. When a basket is placed on the conveyor, it first encounters a nipple removal means 2 comprising a number of tools corresponding to the number of bottles in a basket. This tool will be described more i...

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A method and means for handling of laboratory animal drinking bottles (17) provided with nipples (17) in an automatic bottle wash-up line, wherein the nipples (16) of all the bottles (17), arranged in a basket, are removed from the bottles with the aid of compressed air in a nipple removal means (2) and are washed and dried together with the drinking bottles and are subsequently put back onto filled bottles in a nipple reassembly means (4), which operates with similar tools (6) as the nipple removal means (2).

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FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0001]The present invention relates to an automatic bottle wash-up line and more specifically a method and a means for handling drinking bottles having nipples intended for laboratory animals in an automatic bottle wash-up line.BACKGROUND [0002]Drinking bottles for laboratory animals are provided with nipples. The spout of the nipple can have different lengths. In order to obtain a rational handling the drinking bottles are today placed in baskets, the baskets are placed on carriages and the carriages are transported to a bottle wash-up line. The baskets are placed on a conveyor, the nipples are dismounted from the bottles and are placed in a separate basket adapted to the nipples, which is then also placed on the conveyor. Bottles and nipples are washed and dried in a washing machine, whereupon the bottles are filled with water and the nipples are again mounted on the bottles.[0003]The above process is a rather circumstantial procedure and the capacity of the...

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Patent Type & AuthorityApplications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): B65B55/02
CPCB08B9/20B08B9/30B67B7/14B67B7/00B67B3/22B08B9/423A01K9/00B67C7/0033
InventorNILSSON
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