Container Closure Transport Disk With Ceiling Guide
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing devices for disinfecting container closures in beverage bottling plants face issues such as wedging and tilting due to gravitational conveyance and require large hall heights, leading to inefficiencies and potential blockages.
Innovation Solution
A device featuring a rotatable transport disk with a helical closure guide and a ceiling guide that maintains container closures in a correct orientation, preventing tilting and wedging, and allows for adjustable height settings to accommodate different container types, along with a perforated transport disk for effective disinfection medium distribution.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If container closures are conveyed by gravitational acceleration through an inclined channel, then throughput can be increased, but tilting and wedging occur leading to blockages
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the gravitational mechanical conveyance system with a controlled transport device that moves container closures horizontally. This substitution eliminates the uncontrolled gravitational force that causes tilting and wedging, while maintaining throughput through controlled horizontal transport mechanisms.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs horizontal transport paths that maintain constant gravitational potential energy throughout the conveyance process. By keeping the transport path horizontal rather than inclined, the system eliminates gravitational components that would otherwise cause container closures to tilt or wedge during movement.
2Productivity
If multiple container closures are guided simultaneously through the channel to obtain necessary throughput, then productivity increases, but dynamic pressure causes wedging or jamming
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the container closure flow into individually controllable units by using separate transport elements (such as belts, rollers, or plates) that can be independently controlled. This segmentation allows precise control over each container closure's movement, preventing dynamic pressure buildup while maintaining high throughput through coordinated operation of multiple segments.
3Adaptability or versatility
If distance between displacement bodies is set for largest container closure type, then various container types can be treated, but smaller container closures experience tilting or wedging
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs adjustable transport elements whose spacing, size, or configuration can be dynamically modified to match different container closure types. This dynamic adaptability ensures that smaller container closures receive appropriate support without excessive gaps, preventing tilting and wedging while maintaining versatility across different container types through simple reconfiguration.
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AI summary
A device for treating container closures, for example for disinfecting container closures in a beverage bottling plant, includes a transport disk, rotatable about a vertical rotational axis, for transporting the container closures, and a helical closure guide, arranged above the transport disk, for laterally guiding the container closures, wherein the closure guide has a ceiling guide for guiding the container closures from above.