Dynamic Contact Element for Container Diverting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing container rejection systems in the beverage manufacturing industry face inefficiencies due to varying container distances, leading to longer idle strokes, uneven impacts, and increased spinning during ejection, particularly caused by machine and terrain guides, resulting in inconsistent and potentially rough container discharge.
Innovation Solution
A device with a movable contact element and position detection system adjusts the basic position of the contact element based on container position and movement direction, ensuring consistent contact and ejection, utilizing a drive device like a position-controlled linear motor for precise and dynamic movement, allowing for real-time control and adaptation to different container sizes and positions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the containers arrive at the discharge device with arbitrary distances, then the system can handle various container positions, but the idle stroke increases and the impact becomes rougher
Solution Approach 1:
The basic position of the contact element is made variable and can be adjusted dynamically depending on the detected position of the containers. This allows the system to adapt to different container positions while maintaining optimal discharge parameters, resolving the contradiction between handling position variations and minimizing idle stroke time
Solution Approach 2:
A detection device determines the lateral deviation of containers from an ideal position, and this information is used to adjust the basic position of the contact element. The feedback loop ensures that the system compensates for position variations, maintaining consistent discharge performance without increasing idle stroke time
2Adaptability or versatility
If the containers arrive at the discharge device with arbitrary distances, then the system can handle various container positions, but the contact point shifts from center causing wobbling
Solution Approach 1:
The contact element's basic position is dynamically adjustable based on real-time detection of container positions. This ensures that the contact point remains centered on the container regardless of variations in container arrival positions, preventing wobble and maintaining discharge precision
Solution Approach 2:
The detection device provides continuous feedback on container lateral deviation, which is used to adjust the contact element position. This closed-loop control ensures that the contact point remains precisely centered, eliminating wobble even when containers arrive at arbitrary distances
3Ease of operation
If the contact element travels for some time before contact, then the system can reach distant containers, but the impact becomes rougher
Solution Approach 1:
The contact element's basic position is dynamically adjusted based on detected container positions. This allows the system to reach containers at various distances while minimizing the travel time and distance of the contact element, thereby reducing impact roughness while maintaining reachability
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 solution ensures consistent and precise container discharge with reduced spinning and the ability to handle mixed container materials and sizes, eliminating the need for frequent adjustments and allowing for seamless changes between container varieties, enhancing system reliability and efficiency.
Implementation Method 1
it is proposed to determine the lateral deviation in the direction of travel (in particular to be determined perpendicular to the transport direction) of the containers or containers and in particular of each individual container from an ideal position
Implementation Method 2
utilizing a drive device like a position-controlled linear motor for precise and dynamic movement
Data Source
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AI summary
Device for diverting containers from a container stream, comprising a transport device (2) which transports the containers along a predetermined transport direction (T) and a diverting device (4) which is suitable and intended to divert individual containers (10) from the container stream and transversely to the transport direction, wherein the diverting device (4) has a contact element (42) which is movable transversely to the transport direction between a home position in which it does not contact a container (10) and a diverting position in which it contacts a container (10) in order to divert it from the container stream, and wherein the diverting device (4) has a drive device (44) for moving the contact element (42), characterized in thatthat the basic position is variable depending on the position of the containers (10) relative to the transport device and in the direction of movement of the contact element (42).