Profiled Cone Centering Element for Container Torque Transmission
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing container processing machines face challenges in ensuring precise centering and effective torque transmission for containers with varying diameters, leading to inefficient processing and the need for multiple centering rings and high costs.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of a centering element with a profiled cone-shaped centering opening featuring tooth-like projections and indentations, which provides a force-locked connection between the container and the turntable, ensuring centering and torque transmission regardless of container diameter deviations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a friction lining is provided at the bottom of the centering opening to ensure slip-free turning, then torque transmission is improved, but the system becomes sensitive to container diameter deviations causing insufficient contact
Solution Approach 1:
The centering opening is provided with profiled centering surfaces featuring tooth-like projections and indentations that create localized force-locked connection points. This local structural differentiation enables both reliable torque transmission through the profiled surfaces and adaptability to various container diameters, resolving the contradiction between torque transmission reliability and adaptability to container variations.
Solution Approach 2:
The centering element combines a conical centering opening with profiled centering surfaces that integrate both centering and torque transmission functions. This composite structural approach replaces the separate friction lining with an integrated profiled surface system that achieves both objectives simultaneously.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple centering rings with different diameters are used to accommodate different container sizes, then adaptability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
A single centering element with a conical centering opening and profiled centering surfaces serves multiple container sizes and types. The profiled surfaces with tooth-like projections and indentations provide universal adaptability across different container grades, eliminating the need for multiple specialized centering rings while maintaining compatibility with various container dimensions.
Solution Approach 2:
The profiled centering surfaces feature tooth-like projections and indentations that dynamically adapt to different container diameters. This dynamic structural design allows the same centering element to accommodate various container sizes through the flexible interaction of the profiled features, providing universal adaptability without requiring multiple fixed-diameter centering rings.
3Reliability
If superior containers with low tolerances are required to ensure proper contact with the friction lining, then torque transmission is improved, but manufacturing costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The profiled centering surfaces with tooth-like projections and indentations create localized force-locked connection points that ensure reliable torque transmission even with containers having larger diameter tolerances. This local structural enhancement eliminates the need for high-precision container manufacturing while maintaining effective torque transmission.
Solution Approach 2:
The profiled centering element design allows for the use of standard-tolerance containers rather than expensive precision containers. By enhancing the centering element itself with profiled surfaces, the system accepts less precise (and therefore cheaper) containers while maintaining reliable operation, effectively shifting the precision requirement from the container to the centering element.
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 enables reliable centering and torque transmission for containers of different sizes, eliminating the need for multiple centering rings and reducing operational complexity and costs, while ensuring smooth and slip-free operation.
Implementation Method 1
a profiled, cone-shaped centering opening (13) featuring tooth-like projections (14) and indentations (15)... providing a force-locked connection between the container and the turntable
Implementation Method 2
implement the container holder at the bottom of the centering opening with a friction lining with the aim that the container centred in the centering opening also rests, with its container bottom, against the friction lining and thus that the container is not only centered but, for transmitting the driving forces or drive torques necessary for its turning or swivelling through force-lock or friction-lock, is also connected with the container holder
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AI summary
Disclosed is a centering element for use with container holders or turntables on container processing machines, comprising a centering cone that has a cone-type or taper-type centering surface for receiving and centering each container on the bottom of the container.