Aseptic tube double chamber filling and sealing machine

Abstract

The invention discloses an aseptic hose double-chamber filling and sealing machine, comprising a main machine, wherein the main machine comprises a tube positioning and confirmation mechanism, a tube detection and confirmation, a first filling mechanism, an intermediate sealing mechanism, a sealing detection mechanism, a second material filling mechanism, a tube tail sealing mechanism, an appearance and batch number detection mechanism, a product discharging mechanism, a product pushing out confirmation mechanism, a non-conforming product discharging mechanism, and a product rejection confirmation mechanism, and comprises the following process flows: S1, a hose silo, the hoses are uniformly placed in the silo in one direction, and then discharged from a single row outlet; S2, feeding, the tubes are grabbed by a manipulator, and after the tubes are arranged by a vibration plate, they are turned from horizontal to vertical and placed in a bottle drag; S3, tube positioning and confirmation, including height and position, using a high-precision optical fiber sensor; S4, tube detection and confirmation, using a high-speed feedback high-precision pressure sensor for detection, and the device solves the current problem of poor practicality.

Description

Technical Field

[0001] The invention belongs to the technical field of sealing machines, and in particular relates to a sterile hose double-cavity filling and sealing machine. Background Art

[0002] A sealing machine is a machine that seals containers containing products. After the product is loaded into the packaging container, in order to keep the product sealed and preserved, maintain product quality, and avoid product loss, the container needs to be sealed. This operation is completed by a sealing machine.

[0003] In the sealing machine used in the field of aseptic hose packaging, the existing equipment cannot achieve the goal of automatically completing bottle sorting, packaging, automatic inner plugging and outer capping in one machine, and the process is relatively complicated and has poor practicality. This phenomenon has become a problem that needs to be solved urgently by people in this field. Summary of the invention

[0004] The purpose of the present invention is to solve the problems raised in the above background technology with respect to the existing aseptic hose double-chamber filling and sealing machine for material collection devices.

[0005] In order to solve the above technical problems, the present invention provides the following technical solutions: an aseptic hose double-chamber filling and sealing machine, comprising a main machine, wherein the main machine includes a tube positioning and confirmation mechanism, a tube detection and confirmation mechanism, a first filling mechanism, an intermediate sealing mechanism, a sealing detection mechanism, a second material filling mechanism, a tube tail sealing mechanism, an appearance and batch number detection mechanism, a product discharging mechanism, a product ejection confirmation mechanism, an unqualified product discharging mechanism, and a product rejection confirmation mechanism.

[0006] The present invention further illustrates, comprises the following process flow:

[0007] S1. Hose silo, place the hoses in the silo in one direction, and then discharge them through a single outlet.

[0008] S2, feeding, the robot grabs the tube, and the vibrating plate arranges the tube and then turns it from horizontal to vertical and puts it into the bottle drag;

[0009] S3, pipe positioning and confirmation, including height and position, using high-precision fiber optic sensors;

[0010] S4. Tube inspection and confirmation, using high-speed feedback and high-precision pressure sensors for inspection. The pressure passes through the sterile air filter and enters the tube body. The pressure change value determines whether the cover is leaking without damaging the tube body.

[0011] S5, at the first filling station, those that fail the sealing test will not be filled or sealed, and will be rejected at the subsequent rejection station;

[0012] S6, middle sealing, ultrasonic sealing, the time is precisely controlled in milliseconds, no heat is generated, and no impact on the product;

[0013] S7, Sealing detection, using high-speed feedback high-precision pressure sensor detection, the pressure air pressure passes through the sterile air filter into the tube body, according to the pressure change value to determine whether the seal is complete, without damaging the sealing effect, to achieve the purpose of detection,

[0014] S8, second material filling; if any of the previous tests are unqualified, the second filling will not be carried out;

[0015] S9, tube tail sealing, this station includes the molding of hard embossed characters, up to 10 characters, which is determined according to the diameter of the tube, and the minimum width of the characters is 1.3mm.

[0016] S10, option, appearance and batch number inspection, the camera will take pictures to inspect the appearance and batch number,

[0017] S11, product discharge, qualified products will be pushed out from the discharge port onto the material tray or conveyor belt, which is convenient for later connection to the cartoning machine.

[0018] S12, product launch confirmation, this site confirms whether the good products are launched, whether the unqualified products are in place, and whether the qualified and unqualified products are mixed;

[0019] S13, unqualified products are discharged, including lid seal test, primary seal test, and appearance test unqualified products, which will be collected in a small hopper.

[0020] S14, product rejection confirmation, can confirm whether unqualified products are rejected and prepare for the next cycle of product production.

[0021] The present invention further illustrates that it also includes auxiliary equipment, and the auxiliary equipment includes auxiliary machine 1, auxiliary machine 2, a product buffer tank for primary filling, a product buffer tank for secondary filling, a laminar flow hood, a discharging belt, and a control component;

[0022] The auxiliary machine 1 includes a silo for the pipe, and a placement part;

[0023] The auxiliary machine 2 includes a loading robot, which is mainly used to place the pipes from the silo to the main machine;

[0024] The product buffer tanks for primary filling and secondary filling need to be confirmed in terms of capacity, placement, and sterilization method;

[0025] The discharging belt is arranged at the eleventh station;

[0026] The control components include PLC control, HMI operating system, three-level password, audit trail, data logging, and recipe setting.

[0027] The present invention further illustrates that the specific features of the auxiliary device include:

[0028] A, pilot-scale sterile tank that can be connected to the liquid preparation system. A 50-liter product tank with a stirrer can be used as a sterile storage tank at the back end of sterilization and filtration. The outer diameter of the storage tank is not more than 500mm. It can be connected to the factory's liquid preparation tank system for cip, sip, and then the inlet is connected to the sterilizing filter and the sterilizing pump. The sterilized product directly enters this tank. The outlet of the tank can be connected to the filling needle under Class A laminar flow.

[0029] B, including cip, sip, liquid preparation tank, product tank, and a complete set of ultrafiltration equipment. The pilot-scale 50L liquid preparation tank is connected to a 50L sterile liquid storage tank, and the liquid preparation tank and liquid storage tank are CIP / SIP on the main machine, and include the connection between the liquid preparation and product tanks and the ultrafiltration system, with agitator and respirator. It only needs to objectively provide sterile compressed air and pure steam to the equipment to carry out production, including cip / sip cleaning. All valves (except the main steam valve) are pneumatically controlled double-layer diaphragm diaphragm valves.

[0030] The present invention further describes that the above-mentioned specific features AB include:

[0031] A1, the product tank is equipped with a respirator interface and a product outlet, and the tank end cover is sealed with a quick-release card for easy disassembly and assembly.

[0032] A2, the lower end of the product tank is equipped with a magnetic stirrer (the magnetic stirring head is placed at the bottom of the tank, and the discharge port is not at the center of the tank bottom)

[0033] A3, sterile filtration uses sterile compressed air to supply liquid, manual pressure adjustment, pressure gauge and electronic digital display,

[0034] A4, sterilizing filter

[0035] A5, equipped with suspension circulation system,

[0036] A6, CIP / SIP system is started with one button. The system automatically detects the temperature, pressure, time, conductivity and other test data during operation according to the parameters set by the operator, determines the CIP and SIP operation results, and can generate records.

[0037] The present invention further illustrates that in the above step S10, the specific method of detection includes an online sampling detection station, a button, a collection box, a primary filling sampling, and a secondary filling sampling, and the specific steps are:

[0038] S10-1, IPC sampling station 1, for weight sampling and detection after primary filling, click the primary filling sampling button. After the primary filling is completed, the equipment will not perform primary sealing and secondary filling. After the secondary sealing, the product will be pushed into the collection box at this station;

[0039] S10-2, IPC sampling station 2, for weight sampling and detection after secondary filling, click the secondary filling sampling button, the primary filling will not be performed, and the primary sealing will not be performed. The equipment will skip the primary filling and sealing and perform secondary filling and secondary sealing. Then, the product will be pushed into the secondary filling sampling collection box at this station.

[0040] The present invention further illustrates that the specific control method of the control component is:

[0041] D1. HMI operation panel: three-level password operation authority; equipment output adjustment, recipe parameter adjustment; operation data recording, storage and audit tracking function,

[0042] D2. Equipment safety control: drive overload protection, emergency switch protection, safety door control system, limit position

[0043] D3: Equipment monitoring function: positioning monitoring on hose conveyor belt, hose integrity detection, unqualified products - no matter loading - no sealing - automatic discharge rejection - monitoring confirmation, hose and lid sealing detection, unqualified products - no matter loading - no sealing - automatic discharge rejection - monitoring confirmation, hose middle sealing, ultrasonic temperature monitoring, sealing detection system monitoring, unqualified products - no matter secondary loading - no secondary sealing - automatic discharge rejection - rejection detection confirmation, product discharge station monitoring, unqualified products rejection, rejected products reconfirmation to prevent unqualified products from being correctly rejected.

[0044] The present invention further illustrates that the workstations corresponding to the main machine are: the positioning device corresponds to workstation 3, which is used to accurately position the hose at the corresponding position; the tube detection corresponds to workstation 4, which detects whether the hose is in place; the tube sealing detection, which detects the sealing of the tube itself corresponds to workstation 5; the primary filling corresponds to workstation 6, the middle part sealing and sealing state detection corresponds to workstation 7 / 8, the secondary filling corresponds to workstation 9, the tail sealing and batch number printing corresponds to workstation 10, the photographic detection corresponds to workstation 13, the IPC online sampling corresponds to workstation 11 / 12 / 18; the discharging device corresponds to workstation 14, the discharging confirmation is used to identify and confirm the qualified products and the discharging of the unqualified products and reconfirm 15; the rejection device corresponds to workstation 16; the waste collection corresponds to workstation 16, and the rejection confirmation ensures that the unqualified products are completely rejected corresponding to workstation 17.

[0045] Compared with the prior art, the beneficial effects achieved by the present invention are as follows: the present invention adopts components such as a tube positioning and confirmation mechanism and a tube detection and confirmation mechanism, so that one machine can automatically complete bottle sorting, packaging, automatic inner plugging, and outer cover installation, and adopts intermittent bottle feeding and packaging to ensure a high-speed packaging process and stable operation of the entire machine, and has strong practicality. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0046] The accompanying drawings are used to provide a further understanding of the present invention and constitute a part of the specification. Together with the embodiments of the present invention, they are used to explain the present invention and do not constitute a limitation of the present invention. In the accompanying drawings:

[0047] Figure 1 It is a schematic diagram of the overall top view of the workstation numbering of the present invention;

[0048] Figure 2 It is a schematic diagram of the overall top view structure of the present invention;

[0049] Figure 3 It is an axonometric view of the whole machine of the present invention. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0050] The following is a further non-limiting detailed description of the technical solution of the present invention in conjunction with the preferred embodiments and the accompanying drawings. Obviously, the described embodiments are only part of the embodiments of the present invention, not all of the embodiments. Based on the embodiments of the present invention, all other embodiments obtained by ordinary technicians in this field without creative work are within the scope of protection of the present invention.

[0051] See also Figure 1-3 The present invention provides a technical solution: a sterile hose double-chamber filling and sealing machine, comprising a main machine, the main machine comprising a tube positioning and confirmation mechanism, a tube detection and confirmation mechanism, a first filling mechanism, an intermediate sealing mechanism, a sealing detection mechanism, a second material filling mechanism, a tube tail sealing mechanism, an appearance and batch number detection mechanism, a product discharging mechanism, a product ejection confirmation mechanism, a non-conforming product discharging mechanism, and a product rejection confirmation mechanism;

[0052] The following process:

[0053] S1. Hose silo, place the hoses in the silo in one direction, and then discharge them through a single outlet.

[0054] S2, feeding, the robot grabs the tube, and the vibrating plate arranges the tube and then turns it from horizontal to vertical and puts it into the bottle drag;

[0055] S3, pipe positioning and confirmation, including height and position, using high-precision fiber optic sensors;

[0056] S4. Tube inspection and confirmation, using high-speed feedback and high-precision pressure sensors for inspection. The pressure passes through the sterile air filter and enters the tube body. The pressure change value determines whether the cover is leaking without damaging the tube body.

[0057] S5, at the first filling station, those that fail the sealing test will not be filled or sealed, and will be rejected at the subsequent rejection station;

[0058] S6, middle sealing, ultrasonic sealing, the time is precisely controlled in milliseconds, no heat is generated, and no impact on the product;

[0059] S7, Sealing detection, using high-speed feedback high-precision pressure sensor detection, the pressure air pressure passes through the sterile air filter into the tube body, according to the pressure change value to determine whether the seal is complete, without damaging the sealing effect, to achieve the purpose of detection,

[0060] S8, second material filling; if any of the previous tests are unqualified, the second filling will not be carried out;

[0061] S9, tube tail sealing, this station includes the molding of hard embossed characters, up to 10 characters, which is determined according to the diameter of the tube, and the minimum width of the characters is 1.3mm.

[0062] S10, option, appearance and batch number inspection, the camera will take pictures to inspect the appearance and batch number,

[0063] S11, product discharge, qualified products will be pushed out from the discharge port to the material tray or conveyor belt, which is convenient for connecting to the cartoning machine later;

[0064] S12, product launch confirmation, this site confirms whether the good products are launched, whether the unqualified products are in place, and whether the qualified and unqualified products are mixed;

[0065] S13, unqualified products are discharged, including lid seal test, primary seal test, and appearance test unqualified products, which will be collected in a small hopper.

[0066] S14, product rejection confirmation, can confirm whether unqualified products are rejected and prepare for the next cycle of product production

[0067] It also includes auxiliary equipment, including auxiliary machine 1, auxiliary machine 2, a product buffer tank for primary filling, a product buffer tank for secondary filling, a laminar flow hood, a discharging belt, and a control component;

[0068] Auxiliary machine 1 includes the silo and placement part of the pipe;

[0069] Auxiliary machine 2 includes a loading robot, which is mainly used to place the pipes from the silo to the main machine;

[0070] The product buffer tanks for primary filling and secondary filling need to be confirmed in terms of capacity, placement, and sterilization method;

[0071] The discharging belt is configured at the eleventh station;

[0072] The control components include PLC control, HMI operating system, including three-level password, audit trail, data logging, and recipe setting;

[0073] Specific features of assistive devices include:

[0074] A, pilot-scale sterile tank that can be connected to the liquid preparation system. A 50-liter product tank with a stirrer can be used as a sterile storage tank at the back end of sterilization and filtration. The outer diameter of the storage tank is not more than 500mm. It can be connected to the factory's liquid preparation tank system for cip, sip, and then the inlet is connected to the sterilizing filter and the sterilizing pump. The sterilized product directly enters this tank. The outlet of the tank can be connected to the filling needle under Class A laminar flow.

[0075] B, including cip, sip, liquid preparation tank, product tank, and a complete set of ultrafiltration equipment, a pilot-scale 50L liquid preparation tank, connected to a 50L sterile liquid storage tank, and a liquid preparation tank and liquid storage tank for CIP / SIP on the main machine, and including the connection between the liquid preparation tank and the product tank and the ultrafiltration system, with agitator and respirator. Only sterile compressed air and pure steam need to be objectively provided to connect to the equipment to start production, including cip / sip cleaning. All valves (except the main steam valve) are pneumatically controlled double-layer diaphragm valves;

[0076] The above specific features AB include:

[0077] A1, the product tank is equipped with a respirator interface and a product outlet, and the tank end cover is sealed with a quick-release card for easy disassembly and assembly.

[0078] A2, the lower end of the product tank is equipped with a magnetic stirrer (the magnetic stirring head is placed at the bottom of the tank, and the discharge port is not at the center of the tank bottom)

[0079] A3, sterile filtration uses sterile compressed air to supply liquid, manual pressure adjustment, pressure gauge and electronic digital display,

[0080] A4, sterilizing filter

[0081] A5, equipped with suspension circulation system,

[0082] A6, CIP / SIP system is started with one button. The system automatically detects the temperature, pressure, time, conductivity and other test data during operation according to the parameters set by the operator, determines the CIP and SIP operation results, and can generate records;

[0083] In the above step S10, the specific method of detection includes online sampling detection station, button, collection box, primary filling sampling, secondary filling sampling, and the specific steps are:

[0084] S10-1, IPC sampling station 1, for weight sampling and detection after primary filling, click the primary filling sampling button. After the primary filling is completed, the equipment will not perform primary sealing and secondary filling. After the secondary sealing, the product will be pushed into the collection box at this station;

[0085] S10-2, IPC sampling station 2, for weight sampling and detection after secondary filling, click the secondary filling sampling button, the primary filling will not be performed, and the primary sealing will not be performed. The equipment will skip the primary filling and sealing and perform secondary filling and secondary sealing. Then, the product will be pushed into the secondary filling sampling collection box at this station;

[0086] The specific control method of the control component is:

[0087] D1. HMI operation panel: three-level password operation authority; equipment output adjustment, recipe parameter adjustment; operation data recording, storage and audit tracking function,

[0088] D2. Equipment safety control: drive overload protection, emergency switch protection, safety door control system, limit position

[0089] D3: Equipment monitoring function: positioning monitoring on hose conveyor belt, hose integrity detection, unqualified products - regardless of loading - not sealed - automatically rejected at discharge - monitoring confirmation, hose and lid sealing detection, unqualified products - regardless of loading - not sealed - automatically rejected at discharge - monitoring confirmation, hose middle sealing, ultrasonic temperature monitoring, sealing detection system monitoring, unqualified products - regardless of secondary loading - not secondary sealing - automatically rejected at discharge - rejection detection confirmation, product discharge station monitoring, unqualified products rejected, rejected products reconfirmed to prevent unqualified products from being rejected incorrectly;

[0090] The positioning device corresponds to station 3, which is used to accurately position the hose at the corresponding position; the tube detection corresponds to station 4, which detects whether the hose is in place; the tube sealing detection, which detects the sealing of the tube itself, corresponds to station 5; the primary filling corresponds to station 6, the middle part sealing and sealing status detection corresponds to station 7 / 8, the secondary filling corresponds to station 9, the tail seal and batch number printing corresponds to station 10, the photographic inspection corresponds to station 13, and the IPC online sampling corresponds to stations 11 / 12 / 18; the discharging device corresponds to station 14, the discharging confirmation is used to identify and confirm the qualified products and the discharging of the unqualified products, and reconfirmation 15; the rejection device corresponds to station 16; the waste collection corresponds to station 16, and the rejection confirmation ensures that the unqualified products are completely rejected corresponding to station 17.

[0091] The tube positioning and confirmation mechanism, tube detection and confirmation and other components are adopted to achieve the goal of automatically completing bottle sorting, filling, automatic inner plugging and outer cover installation in one machine. In addition, the intermittent bottle feeding and filling are adopted to ensure the high-speed filling process and the stable operation of the whole machine, which is highly practical.

[0092] In the description of the present invention, it is necessary to understand that the terms "up", "down", "front", "back", "left", "right", etc. indicate directions or positional relationships based on the directions or positional relationships shown in the accompanying drawings, and are only for the convenience of describing the present invention, rather than indicating or implying that the device or element referred to must have a specific direction, be constructed and operated in a specific direction, and therefore cannot be understood as a limitation on the present invention.

[0093] Finally, it should be pointed out that the above embodiments are only used to illustrate the technical solutions of the present invention, rather than to limit them. Although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the above embodiments, a person skilled in the art should understand that the technical solutions described in the above embodiments can still be modified, or some of the technical features can be replaced by equivalents, and these modifications or replacements do not deviate the essence of the corresponding technical solutions from the spirit and scope of the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention.

Claims

1. Aseptic hose double chamber filling and sealing machine, Features: The main machine includes a tube positioning and confirmation mechanism, a tube detection and confirmation mechanism, a first filling mechanism, an intermediate sealing mechanism, a sealing detection mechanism, a second material filling mechanism, a tube tail sealing mechanism, an appearance and batch number detection mechanism, a product discharging mechanism, a product ejection confirmation mechanism, a non-conforming product discharging mechanism, and a product rejection confirmation mechanism; Including the following process: S1. Hose silo, place the hoses in the silo in one direction, and then discharge them through a single outlet. S2, feeding, the robot grabs the tube, and the vibrating plate arranges the tube and then turns it from horizontal to vertical and puts it into the bottle drag; S3, pipe positioning and confirmation, including height and position, using high-precision fiber optic sensors; S4. The tube detection and confirmation mechanism uses a high-speed feedback high-precision pressure sensor for detection. The pressure air passes through the sterile air filter and enters the tube body. The pressure change value determines whether the cover is leaking without damaging the tube body. S5, at the first filling station, those that fail the sealing test will not be filled or sealed, and will be rejected at the subsequent rejection station; S6, middle sealing, ultrasonic sealing, the time is precisely controlled in milliseconds, no heat is generated, and no impact on the product; S7, Sealing detection, using high-speed feedback high-precision pressure sensor detection, the pressure air pressure passes through the sterile air filter and enters the tube body, and the seal is judged according to the change in pressure value, without damaging the sealing effect, to achieve the purpose of detection; S8, second material filling; if any of the previous tests are unqualified, the second filling will not be carried out; S9, tube tail sealing, this station includes the molding of hard embossed characters, up to 10 characters, which is determined according to the diameter of the tube, and the minimum width of the characters is 1.3mm. S10, Appearance and batch number inspection, the camera will take pictures to inspect the appearance and batch number, S11, product discharge, qualified products will be pushed out from the discharge port to the material tray or conveyor belt, which is convenient for connecting to the cartoning machine later; S12, product launch confirmation, this site confirms whether the good products are launched, whether the unqualified products are in place, and whether the qualified and unqualified products are mixed; S13, unqualified products are discharged, including the unqualified products of lid sealing test, primary sealing test, appearance and batch number test, and there will be a small hopper to collect them; S14, product rejection confirmation, can confirm whether unqualified products are rejected and prepare for the next cycle of product production.

2. The aseptic hose double-chamber filling and sealing machine according to claim 1, Features: It also includes auxiliary equipment, which includes auxiliary machine 1, auxiliary machine 2, a product buffer tank for primary filling, a product buffer tank for secondary filling, a laminar flow hood, a discharging belt, and a control component; The auxiliary machine 1 includes a silo for the pipe, and a placement part; The auxiliary machine 2 includes a loading robot, which places the pipes from the silo onto the main machine; The capacity, placement and sterilization method of the buffer tank for primary filling and the buffer tank for secondary filling need to be confirmed; The discharging belt is arranged at the eleventh station; The control components include PLC control and HMI operating system, and the HMI operating system includes three-level passwords, audit tracking, data logging, and recipe settings.

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