Beverage Bottling Setup Table Rod Frame and Direct Drive Capping
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing beverage bottling plant setup tables require significant material and are costly to manufacture and clean, with complex designs that facilitate contamination and require complex drive systems for capping machines, making them inefficient and prone to contamination.
Innovation Solution
The use of a simplified frame or brace construction with rod-shaped elements for setup tables and a non-rotating central pillar for capping machines, reducing surface area and complexity, and employing a direct drive system with servomotors to minimize mechanical coupling and enhance cleaning accessibility.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Strength
If traditional setup tables with complex designs are used, then structural stability is achieved, but manufacturing cost and material usage increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The setup table is divided into modular components including a base, vertical supports, and rod-shaped elements that can be assembled separately. This segmentation allows for simplified manufacturing of individual parts while maintaining overall structural stability through their coordinated arrangement.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of using uniform complex construction throughout, the patent applies different structural characteristics to different locations - rod-shaped elements with specific surface properties in critical areas, simplified brace constructions in non-critical areas, optimizing both stability and manufacturability.
2Strength
If traditional setup tables with multiple surfaces and edges are used, then structural support is provided, but contamination risk increases due to numerous cleaning starting points
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs rod-shaped elements with curved surfaces instead of flat plates with sharp edges. These rounded surfaces eliminate corners and crevices where contamination could accumulate, making the structure easier to clean while maintaining adequate structural support through the geometric arrangement of the rods.
Solution Approach 2:
Complex surfaces, edges, and corners that create contamination risks are removed from the design. The setup table uses only essential structural elements with smooth, continuous surfaces that can be easily cleaned, extracting away all non-essential geometric features that would harbor contaminants.
3Power
If complex drive systems with mechanical coupling are used for capping machines, then power transmission is achieved, but cleaning accessibility is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces complex mechanical coupling systems with direct-drive mechanisms using servomotors. This substitution eliminates intermediate mechanical components that would obstruct cleaning access, while still achieving the required power transmission and control through the direct connection between motor and driven elements.
Solution Approach 2:
The simplified drive system design allows cleaning operations to be performed more easily by reducing the number of components that need to be accessed and disassembled. The system's simplified architecture enables maintenance personnel to clean critical areas more effectively without complex disassembly procedures.
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AI summary
Container filling plant, such as a beverage bottling plant, for filling containers with a liquid beverage and for closing filled containers. 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.