Chainless Container Filling Device with Roller Support Frames
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing container filling devices face challenges with chain elongation, excessive friction, and contamination-induced summation errors, leading to inaccurate positioning and increased maintenance, particularly in chainless drive systems where friction and alignment issues persist.
Innovation Solution
A device with a chainless drive using support elements on a common frame supported by rollers, where frames are connected with coupling elements to maintain alignment and reduce friction, and a centering mechanism within the rollers ensures precise transverse centering, allowing for efficient and accurate container positioning.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a chain drive system is used to move support elements through the device, then the support elements can be transported reliably, but the chain elongates over time causing inaccurate positioning and requiring heavy components
Solution Approach 1:
The patent removes the chain drive system from the device, extracting the problematic element that causes elongation and positioning errors. Instead of using a chain to move support elements, the invention employs a chainless drive system where support elements are pushed through the device, eliminating the source of the contradiction between reliable transport and positioning accuracy.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the traditional chain drive mechanical system with an alternative mechanism. Rather than using a chain that inherently elongates, the invention uses a push-based mechanical system where support elements are propelled through the device, substituting the problematic chain mechanism with a system that maintains constant spacing and positioning accuracy.
2Manufacturing precision
If support elements are pushed through the device to eliminate chain elongation, then positioning accuracy improves, but excessive friction forces must be overcome requiring central supports
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces rollers with curved surfaces that interact with curved guide surfaces in the lateral elements. This curvature matching reduces the coefficient of friction between moving surfaces, allowing support elements to be pushed through the device with minimal friction forces while maintaining positioning accuracy, thereby resolving the contradiction between precision and required force.
3Manufacturing precision
If contamination particles collect between support elements in chainless drive systems, then summation errors occur causing distance deviations, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a中介 substance or mechanism that prevents direct contact between support elements and contamination particles. By incorporating protective barriers or cleaning mechanisms in the lateral elements, the system prevents particle accumulation between support elements, maintaining constant distances without requiring complex adjustment mechanisms.
4Productivity
If strong motors and heavy chains are used to move support elements at high velocity, then productivity increases, but the device becomes more massive and requires more energy
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs a dynamic push-based system where support elements are accelerated through the device using controlled forces applied at specific points. Rather than using heavy chains and large motors, the system uses lightweight, dynamically applied forces that propel support elements at high velocity without requiring massive components, thereby achieving high productivity with minimal device mass.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This configuration significantly reduces summation errors, minimizes maintenance, and enhances the accuracy and efficiency of container positioning, enabling faster and more precise filling operations while reducing noise and stress on materials.
Implementation Method 1
a plurality of support elements (16) which are moved on rollers (22) in an endless manner through the device
Data Source
AI summary
A device for filling containers, in particular bottles and beakers with food products, in particular with low viscosity to pasty dairy and fat products, juices, waters and similar, comprising: an upper main element, a lower main element and lateral elements connecting the upper main element and the lower main element; and a plurality of support elements which are endlessly supported on rollers through the device past operating stations along the upper main element, the lateral element and the lower main element, wherein the support elements include receivers for containers which receivers are arranged in series transversal to a feed direction, wherein at least two support elements are arranged on a common frame and are run by the frame on rollers through the device in an endless manner.