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Granted Patent B2
US 11,027,956 · App. 16/360,452 · Granted Jun 8, 2021

Drink filling system

Inventor: Atsushi Hayakawa (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
B67C7/0073B67C3/22B67C3/24B67C7/004B67C2003/227B67C2003/228B67C2003/2688
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 11,027,956
App. No.
16/360,452
Granted
Jun 8, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

A drink filling system including: a bottle molding section; a sterilizing section that sterilizes a molded bottle; a rinsing section that rinses the bottle; a filling section that fills and seals the bottle; and a conveying unit that conveys the bottle from the molding section to the filling section. A chamber covers a portion extending from the sterilizing section to the filling section, an atmosphere shut-off chamber is between a sterilizing section chamber and a rinsing section chamber, an exhaust unit for exhausting the atmosphere shut-off chamber and/or the sterilizing section chamber, a clean air supply unit for flowing a clean air from a filling section chamber into the atmosphere shut-off chamber through the rinsing section chamber or for further flowing the air into the sterilizing section chamber, and the air-flow flowing therein is exhausted by the exhaust unit.

Claims (13)

1. A drink filling system comprising:

a molding section that molds a bottle from a heated preform by a blow-molding treatment;

a sterilizing section that contacts a sterilizer to the molded bottle:

a rinsing section that rinses the bottle discharged from the sterilizing section;

a filling section that fills the bottle rinsed in the rinsing section with a drink and then seals the bottle filled up with the drink;

a bottle conveying path that continuously conveys the bottle from the molding section to the filling section through the sterilizing section and the rinsing section,

a chamber that covers a portion extending from the molding section to the filling section;

an atmosphere shut-off chamber that shuts off an atmosphere between the sterilizing section chamber and the rinsing section chamber;

an exhaust blower that exhausts out at least one of the atmosphere shut-off chamber and the sterilizing section chamber;

an exhaust duct that is connected to the exhaust blower;

a conveyor for discharging the bottle near a side of an exhaust port of the filling section chamber, the conveyor for discharging the bottle extending from a discharge wheel toward the exhaust port of the filling section chamber;

a sterilizing tank for sterilization of the conveyor by dipping; and

a duct connected to the exhaust duct for exhausting a sterilizer evaporated from the sterilizing tank by the exhaust blower.

Priority Claims (1)
JP 2013-267063 · Dec 25, 2013 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation 15104440
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