JP2014234237A - Bottle drinking water filling device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a bottle drinking water filling device of a small size and a low cost in which a series of processes such as washing of a container, filling of drinking water and putting on of a cap with respect to plural PET bottles can be simultaneously and concurrently carried out, and a wide installation space is not required.SOLUTION: A bottle drinking water filling device 1 has such a structure that a drum 6, drum covers 7, 8, a water supply nozzle 9, a washing nozzle 10, an air-supply nozzle 11, a cap feeding part 12, a cap seaming machine 13 and a control board 14 are installed in the interior of a housing 4 which is formed in a hollow rectangular parallelepiped by a frame body 2 and a panel 3 and in which casters 5 are attached to four corners of a lower surface thereof. Operations of the drum 6, the water supply nozzle 9, the washing nozzle 10, the air-supply nozzle 11 and the cap seaming machine 13 are controlled by the control board 14.

Description

  The present invention relates to a bottle potable water filling device for filling a PET bottle having an internal volume of about 500 cc, and in particular, a series of steps of washing a container, filling drinking water, etc., and attaching a cap. The present invention relates to a small bottle potable water filling device capable of performing batch processing.

In recent years, various types of drinking water have been sold in containers filled with PET resin (polyethylene terephthalate), so-called PET bottles. In order to fill this plastic bottle with drinking water, it is necessary to wash the container, fill it with drinking water, and then put a cap on the water supply port of the container and put it on. It is carried out individually using a device, a filling device and a lid fastening device. However, in such a method, since the apparatus is large, the manufacturing cost is high and a large installation space is required. That is, the conventional method is suitable for mass production in a large-scale factory or the like, but for example, drinking water containing the same components as a hot spring in a hot spring resort etc. It is not suitable for the case of selling plastic bottles.
Therefore, as a solution to such a problem, there is an increasing demand for a small potable water filling apparatus that does not require a wide installation space. In connection with this, several inventions and devices have already been disclosed.

For example, Patent Document 1 supplies a large bottle that can be used repeatedly under the name of “bottle drinking water filling device” and sells the bottle filled with drinking water. An invention relating to a small apparatus capable of performing washing, pouring of drinking water, and plugging with a single device is disclosed.
The invention disclosed in Patent Document 1 supplies a drum on which a bottle filled with potable water is placed and which is installed so that the direction of the water supply port of the bottle can be changed by rotation, a water supply nozzle part, and a cap It has a structure including a plugging machine, a plugging machine for plugging the cap with a hammer, a cleaning nozzle part, and a pipe for discharging cleaning water.
According to such a structure, a water supply nozzle part and a stopper can be arrange | positioned using a space efficiently around a drum. In addition, in order to wash the bottle by irrigating the bottle with the washing water from the lower side with the washing nozzle, the washing water is discharged as it is through the bottle water inlet. Has an effect.

Patent Document 2 discloses an invention relating to an apparatus for injecting and filling beverages into bottles for sale under the name of “beverage sales apparatus”.
The invention disclosed in Patent Document 2 includes a beverage injection box that accommodates a bottle, a cleaning nozzle and a beverage nozzle that are installed in the beverage injection box so as to be able to inject a cleaning liquid and a beverage into the bottle, and a grip that grips the bottle. A structure comprising: a device; a rotation support member that rotatably supports the gripping device around a substantially horizontal rotation axis that intersects the beverage pouring box; and a drive unit that rotates the gripping device about the rotation axis; It has become.
According to such a structure, the steps of bottle cleaning and drinking water filling can be performed in one beverage pouring box. Therefore, the operation mechanism can be simplified and the entire apparatus can be made compact.

Furthermore, Patent Document 3 discloses an invention relating to an apparatus for filling and selling drinking water in bottles brought by customers under the name of “bottle cleaning method and drinking water vending machine using the same”. Has been.
The invention disclosed in Patent Document 3 includes a bottle mounting plate on which a bottle is mounted, a holding unit that holds a neck of a bolt, and the like, and a reversal that reverses the bolt so that the spout portion is positioned below. It has a structure including an apparatus and a nozzle that injects drinking water or drinking water containing a bactericidal agent into the bottle.
In the vending machine having such a structure, the bottle can be easily and hygienically cleaned. In addition, since it has a drinking water injection function and a bottle cleaning function, there is an advantage that a large installation space is not required, unlike the case of separately using an apparatus having each function.

Japanese Patent No. 4837358 JP 2007-323374 A JP 2003-317144 A

  However, in the invention disclosed in Patent Document 1 which is the above-described prior art, the structure is such that bottles are processed one by one, and the next bottle cannot be set in the apparatus until filling of drinking water to the previous bottle is completed. There was a problem. Moreover, since the rotating shaft of the drum is installed in parallel with the width direction of the apparatus and the depth needs to be longer than the width direction of the apparatus, there is a problem that the installation location is limited.

  In the invention disclosed in Patent Document 2, there is a problem that a plurality of bottles cannot be processed simultaneously. Moreover, since it has the structure which injects and injects into the bottle the washing | cleaning liquid which wash | cleans a bottle, and the drink which should be filled with a bottle using the same injection | pouring nozzle, it cannot be used as a washing | cleaning liquid. There was a problem.

  Furthermore, the invention disclosed in Patent Document 3 has a problem of low productivity because it has a structure in which each bottle is washed and filled with drinking water according to the customer's request. It was.

  The present invention has been made in response to such a conventional situation, and a series of processes such as washing of containers, filling of drinking water, and mounting of caps are performed on a plurality of PET bottles by batch processing. An object of the present invention is to provide a small and inexpensive bottle potable water filling apparatus that can proceed in parallel and does not require a large installation space.

  In order to achieve the above object, a bottle drinking water filling device according to a first aspect of the present invention includes a drum composed of a disk having a pivot shaft at the center and an annular shape in the circumferential direction on the front side of the drum. A plurality of bottle holders that are arranged and detachably hold the bottles radially with respect to the disk and with the water supply port facing outward, a frame that horizontally supports the rotating shaft so as to be rotatable, and a drum A water supply nozzle for injecting potable water into the bottle, which is installed just above the bottle water supply port arranged in parallel with the vertical direction at the upper part of the bottle, and a water which is installed directly under the water supply port at the lower part of the drum. The cleaning nozzle for pouring and a rotation mechanism for rotating the drum at a desired angle are provided.

In the bottle potable water filling device having such a structure, the cleaning water is injected into the bottle from below by the cleaning nozzle with respect to the bottle with the water supply port facing downward. Washing water that has been washed away has the effect of being discharged out of the bottle from the water supply port by its own weight.
Also, along with the rotation of the drum, the bottle is transported to a position where cleaning with the cleaning nozzle and drinking water can be injected with the water supply nozzle, and the water supply port faces downward with respect to the cleaning nozzle. On the other hand, it has the effect | action that a bottle rotates so that a water supply port may face upwards, ie, it may become an attitude | position suitable for each process.
Furthermore, since the bottle mounted on the front surface of the drum and transported so as to draw a circle around the rotation axis is sequentially structured such as washing and filling with drinking water, the front surface of the housing covering the device When the panel or the like is removed, the state of loading and transporting the bottle becomes clear at a glance. And this apparatus becomes a shape where the length of the axial direction of a rotating shaft is short compared with the width direction.
In addition, it has the effect | action that the washing | cleaning by a washing | cleaning nozzle and the filling of the drinking water by a water supply nozzle are advanced simultaneously by a batch process with respect to a some bottle.

Further, the invention according to claim 2 is the bottle drinking water filling device according to claim 1, wherein the cap tightening machine for attaching the cap to the bottle and the holding plate for integrally holding the cap tightening machine with the water supply nozzle And a guide member installed on the frame, the cap winding machine includes a chuck portion that releasably holds the cap of the bottle, and a rotation that rotates the chuck portion around an axis parallel to the vertical direction. The holding plate holds the chuck part so that it can be raised and lowered, and the guide member has one of the water supply nozzle and the cap tightener connected to the water supply port of the bottle. The holding plate is supported so as to be movable in the horizontal direction along the disk so as to be disposed above.
In the bottle potable water filling device having such a structure, in addition to the action of the invention according to claim 1, the potable water can be injected into the bottle by the water supply nozzle along with the horizontal movement of the holding plate along the disk. The state and the state in which the cap can be attached to the water supply port by the cap winder are switched.

The invention described in claim 3 is the bottle drinking water filling device according to claim 2, wherein the cap receiver is installed below the cap winder, and the cap supplier supplies the cap to the cap receiver. And the cap receiving portion is arranged at a location that is reached when the chuck portion is lowered in a state where the water supply nozzle is arranged right above the water supply port of the bottle.
In the bottle drinking water filling device having such a structure, in addition to the operation of the invention according to claim 2, the drinking mechanism is operated while the drinking water is being injected into the bottle by the water supply nozzle. Then, by lowering the chuck portion so as to reach the cap receiving portion, the cap already supplied to the cap receiving portion is loaded into the chuck portion.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the bottle drinking water filling device according to any one of the first to third aspects, an optical path is formed between the light projecting unit and the light receiving unit, and the light receiving unit receives light. And a photoelectric sensor that detects the presence of an object that blocks the optical path, and the light projecting unit and the light receiving unit are arranged so as to form an optical path in parallel to the disk.
In the bottle drinking water filling device having such a structure, in addition to the operation of the invention according to any one of claims 1 to 3, the light projecting unit and the light receiving unit are arranged so as to sandwich the bottle holder. By doing so, it is possible to detect that the bottle is loaded in the bottle holder.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the bottled water filling device according to any one of the first to fourth aspects, high-pressure air is parallel to the disk on the side of the drum and toward the center thereof. It is characterized by having an air supply nozzle installed in the vicinity of the water supply port so as to be able to inject fuel.
In the bottle drinking water filling device having such a structure, in addition to the action of the invention according to any one of claims 1 to 4, when high-pressure air is injected from the water supply port of the bottle, It has the effect that contaminants such as dust that may exist inside the bottle are blown away and eliminated.

As explained above, according to the bottle drinking water filling device of the first aspect of the present invention, there is no need to provide a mechanism for forcibly discharging the washing water from the bottle. Further, since the bottle conveyance and the posture control can be realized by one operation of rotating the drum, the bottle conveyance mechanism is simplified. Therefore, the apparatus can be reduced in size and the manufacturing cost can be reduced.
Furthermore, when the front panel or the like of the housing covering the apparatus is removed, the state of loading and transporting the bottle can be confirmed at a glance, so that maintenance and inspection are easy. In addition, this apparatus can be installed even when the installation space is narrow.
Moreover, according to the bottle drinking water filling device of the present invention, the processing conventionally performed by a plurality of devices can be efficiently performed by one device, so that the installation space is reduced and the work efficiency is reduced. Will improve.

  According to the bottle potable water filling device of the second aspect of the present invention, in addition to the effect of the invention of the first aspect, the potable water filling step and the cap mounting step are efficiently and continuously performed on the bottle. There is an effect that is.

  According to the bottle drinking water filling device according to claim 3 of the present invention, in addition to the effect of the invention according to claim 2, the cap to the cap winder is filled during the step of filling the bottle with drinking water. By performing loading, there is an effect that work efficiency is increased.

  The bottled water according to claim 4 of the present invention, although a wasteful space is likely to be generated at, for example, the four corners of the frame, between the frame that is generally formed in a rectangular parallelepiped shape and the disk. According to the filling device, in addition to the effect of the invention according to any one of claims 1 to 3, the light projecting part and the light receiving part are respectively provided on the upper and lower sides of the disk. By installing it so as to be sandwiched between the two, there is an effect that this space can be used effectively. And by arrange | positioning the water supply opening of each bottle at substantially equal distance from the center of a disk, a light projection part and a light-receiving part can be arrange | positioned so that there may always be only one bottle which interrupts | blocks an optical path. In this case, there is no possibility that a bottle loaded in another bottle holder is erroneously detected. Therefore, malfunction of the apparatus can be prevented.

  According to the bottle drinking water filling device according to claim 5 of the present invention, in addition to the effect of the invention according to any one of claims 1 to 4, before the bottle is in a downward state, that is, Since the fine dust floating inside the bottle contains water due to washing with the washing water and adheres to the inner surface of the bottle, it can be washed with high-pressure air, so that the waste There is an effect that it can be eliminated well.

It is an elevation view which shows the internal structure of the bottle drinking water filling apparatus which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is an elevation view which shows the external appearance of the bottle drinking water filling apparatus which concerns on this Embodiment. (A) is a schematic diagram for demonstrating the rotation mechanism of the drum which comprises a bottle drinking water filling apparatus, (b) is AA arrow sectional drawing in the same figure (a). (A) is the perspective view which expanded partially and showed the upper part vicinity of the drum and the lower part vicinity in the bottle drinking water filling apparatus which concerns on this Embodiment, respectively. It is the enlarged view which abbreviate | omitted a part of component in FIG. (A) is a flowchart which shows the driving | operation procedure of the bottle drinking water filling apparatus which concerns on this Embodiment, (b) is a schematic diagram which shows the rotation state of the drum in step S2 of the same figure (a). (A) And (b) is a schematic diagram which shows the rotation state of the drum in step S4 and step S7 of Fig.6 (a), respectively. (A) And (b) is a schematic diagram which shows the rotation state of the drum in step S10 and step S11 of Fig.6 (a), respectively. (A) And (b) is a schematic diagram which shows the rotation state of the drum in step S12 and step S13 of Fig.6 (a), respectively. (A) And (b) is a schematic diagram which shows the rotation state of the drum in step S14 and step S16 of Fig.6 (a), respectively. It is a figure which shows the state by which the bottle was mounted | worn with all the bottle holders in Fig.5 (a).

The bottle drinking water filling apparatus of the present invention will be specifically described with reference to FIGS.
1 and 2 are elevation views showing the internal structure and appearance of the bottled water filling device according to the embodiment of the present invention. However, FIG. 1 corresponds to a state in which a part of the front panel is removed in FIG.
In this embodiment, it is assumed that the bottle is filled with drinking water, but the bottle drinking water filling device of the present invention is also used when a container other than a plastic bottle is filled with a liquid other than drinking water. Can be used. That is, the following description is similarly applied to such a case.

  As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, a bottle drinking water filling device 1 includes a drum 4 in a housing 4 that is formed into a hollow rectangular parallelepiped shape by a frame body 2 and a panel 3, and casters 5 are attached to four corners of the lower surface. 6, drum covers 7 and 8, water supply nozzle 9, cleaning nozzle 10, air supply nozzle 11, cap supply unit 12, cap winder 13 and control panel 14 are installed. The operation of the drum 6, the water supply nozzle 9, the cleaning nozzle 10, the air supply nozzle 11, and the cap winder 13 is controlled by the control panel 14.

The panel 3 installed so as to cover the front surface of the frame body 2 includes a front panel 3a provided with a start button 15, an emergency stop button 16 and a liquid crystal touch panel 17, and an upper stage, a middle stage, and a lower stage of the frame body 2, respectively. The front panel 3b to 3d are detachably attached. The front panel 3b is formed with a cap insertion opening 4e, and the front panel 3c is formed with a bottle loading opening 4a and a cap loading opening 4b. Opening / closing doors 19a and 19b each provided with a handle 18 on a transparent plate made of hard resin or hard glass are attached to the bottle loading port 4a and the cap loading port 4b using a hinge 20 so as to be opened and closed. The front panels 3c and 3d are formed with windows 4c and 4d so that a transparent plate is fitted into the opening.
The start button 15 is a button for starting the operation of the drum 5, and the emergency stop button 16 is a button for stopping all operations when some trouble occurs during operation of the apparatus. The liquid crystal touch panel 17 is used to display the operation state of the apparatus and to set the operation conditions of the apparatus.

  The drum 6 has a disk 22 in which a plurality of bottle holders 21 are annularly arranged at a predetermined pitch in the circumferential direction on the front side, and the front side of the disk 22 so as to partition between two adjacent bottle holders 21. And the disk 22 is supported at its center by a pivot shaft 24 that is pivotally installed on the frame body 2. That is, the drum 6 is attached to the frame 2 so as to be rotatable about the rotation shaft 24 as a rotation center.

  The partition member 23 is a long plate material, and is attached to the disk 22 so that the longitudinal direction thereof coincides with the radial direction except for the bent portion 23a that is bent. In this embodiment, in order to partition the six bottle holders 21 from each other, the partition member 23 having a bending angle of the bent portion 23a of 120 ° is used. Then, by installing the partition members 23 at six locations on the front side of the disk 22, six compartments in which the bottle holders 21 are individually stored are formed equally in the circumferential direction. A section that surrounds is formed in the center.

In order to prevent the drinking water supplied from the water supply nozzle 9 from splashing to the side of the drum 6, the drum cover 7 is installed so as to cover the upper side surface and the back surface of the drum 6. On the other hand, a drum cover 8 that functions as a container for receiving the cleaning water supplied from the cleaning nozzle 10 is installed below the drum 6. The drum cover 8 is provided with a drain funnel 25 for discharging the stored water to the outside.
Fixing brackets 26a and 26b for installing a light projecting portion and a light receiving portion of a photoelectric sensor, which will be described later, are attached to the frame 2 outside the drum covers 7 and 8.

Next, a mechanism for rotating the drum 6 will be described with reference to FIG.
3A is a view of the drum 6 as viewed from the back side, and FIG. 3B is an enlarged view of a part of the cross section taken along the line AA in FIG. 3A.
As shown in FIGS. 3A and 3B, a pair of rotating shafts 24 joined to the center of rotation of the disk 22 constituting the drum 6 are fixed to the frame 2 using bolts 28. The bearings 27 and 27 are held horizontally. The rotating shaft 24 is connected to a pinion 30 via a free wheel 29 in the vicinity of the center between the bearings 27, 27. A rod 31 of a cylinder 31 attached to the frame body 2 is connected to the pinion 30. A rack 33 fixed to the tip of 32 is engaged. Therefore, when the rod 32 is moved forward or backward by the cylinder 31, the pinion 30 that meshes with the rack 33 rotates in the forward direction (the direction indicated by the arrow B in FIG. 3A) or in the opposite direction. Then, due to the action of the free wheel 29, only the force for rotating in the forward direction from the pinion 30 is transmitted to the rotating shaft 24. That is, the drum 6 has a structure in which the drum 6 is intermittently rotated by a predetermined angle (60 ° in this embodiment) by moving the rod 32 of the cylinder 31 forward or backward.

4 (a) and 4 (b) are enlarged perspective views showing the vicinity of the upper part and the lower part of the drum 6 with the front panels 3c and 3d removed as shown in FIG. In FIG. 4, only one bottle holder 21 is shown for convenience. In addition, a two-dot chain line in the drawing schematically represents an optical path formed between a light projecting unit and a light receiving unit constituting the photoelectric sensor.
As shown in FIG. 4A, the drum cover 7 and the partition member 23 block the optical path formed between the light projecting portion and the light receiving portion of the photoelectric sensor when the drum 6 is not rotating. Through holes 7a and 23b are provided so as not to occur. Further, the bent portion 23a of the partition member 23 is provided with a through hole 23c for drainage so that potable water or the like supplied from the water supply nozzle 9 does not accumulate inside the above-mentioned compartment partitioned by the partition member 23. It has been.

As shown in FIG. 4B, the drum cover 8 is also provided with a through hole 8 a for the same purpose as the through hole 7 a of the drum cover 7. However, a cover 8b is provided so as to cover the upper part of the through hole 8a so that washing water, drinking water, etc. flowing down along the inner wall surface of the drum cover 8 are not discharged to the outside through the through hole 8a. It has been.
The bottle holder 21 connects a pair of sandwiching plates 34 and 34 erected on the disc 22 with a predetermined interval so as to be parallel to each other, and the sandwiching plates 34 and 34 and is parallel to the disc 22. A back plate 35 having a rectangular shape in plan view, a U-plate 36 erected on the disk 22 so as to be orthogonal to the sandwich plates 34, 34 and the back plate 35, and a sandwich plate parallel to the back plate 35 34 and 34, and includes a mounting portion 37 extending outward and a fixture 38 for screwing the mounting portion 37 into a screw hole (not shown) provided in the disk 22. The clamping plate 34 is provided with a through hole 34a for the same purpose as the through holes 7a and 8a.
As described above, in the bottle drinking water filling device 1, the water supply port 39a (see FIG. 10A) is held by the U-shaped plate 36, and the main body 39b (see FIG. 10A) is held by the sandwiching plates 34 and 34. ) Is sandwiched from both sides, and the bottle 39 (see FIG. 10A) is fixed. In addition, the holding plates 34 and 34 and the back plate 35 are detachable from the disk 22 so that the holding plates 34 and 34 and the back plate 35 having a size corresponding to the width of the main body 39b of the bottle 39 to be used can be appropriately replaced. It has become.

FIG. 5 is an enlarged view of FIG. 1 with some components such as the frame 2 and the front panels 3a to 3d omitted. In order to make the drawing easier to see, the bottles are hatched, and the front surface of the drum cover 8 and the unnecessary bottles are not shown. Further, an arrow D in the figure indicates a direction in which the drum 6 rotates (the same direction as the arrow B shown in FIG. 3).
As shown in FIG. 5, the bottle holder 21 is detachably installed on the disk 22 so that the bottle 39 is arranged radially with respect to the disk 22 and its water supply port faces outward. ing.
Above the drum 6, a water supply nozzle 9 for injecting drinking water supplied from a storage tank (not shown) through a water supply line (not shown) into the bottle 39 is arranged.

The water supply nozzle 9 is provided with a cap winding machine 13. The cap winder 13 includes a chuck portion 13a that releasably holds the cap 40 using a plurality of claws, a rotation mechanism 13b that rotates the chuck portion 13a around an axis parallel to the vertical direction, and a chuck portion 13a. And the raising / lowering mechanism 13c which moves the rotation mechanism 13b to an up-down direction is provided. Further, a cap receiver 41 is installed directly below the cap winder 13, and the cap receiver 41 is connected to the lower end of the cap supply unit 12. The cap supply unit 12 has a hollow shape so that the cap 40 can slide inside, and has an upper end opened near the cap insertion port 4 e and a lower end opened toward the cap receiving unit 41.
Accordingly, the cap 40 introduced from the cap insertion opening 4e (see FIG. 2) slides downward in the cap supply unit 12 due to its own weight, and is then supplied to the cap receiving unit 41 and lowered from above. It will be held by the part 13a.

The water supply nozzle 9 and the cap winder 13 are integrally held by a holding plate 42 slidably supported by a guide rail (not shown) attached to the frame 2 horizontally along the disk 22. The holding plate 42 can be moved in the horizontal direction as indicated by an arrow C by plate driving means (not shown).
That is, when the water supply nozzle 9 is disposed directly above the water supply port 39a of the bottle 39 disposed in parallel to the vertical direction, the cap tightening machine 13 has the chuck portion 13a directly above the cap receiving portion 41. It can be moved up and down. Further, the cap winder 13 moves in the horizontal direction along the disk 22 integrally with the water supply nozzle 9 as the holding plate 42 moves horizontally. In the bottle drinking water filling device 1, the cap winder 13 can move horizontally until the chuck portion 13 a is disposed right above the water supply port 39 a of the bottle 39.
In this specification, “the water supply nozzle 9 and the cleaning nozzle 10 are directly above or below the water supply port 39a of the bottle 39” means that the bottle 39 is installed so that the central axis in the longitudinal direction coincides with the vertical direction. In this case, it means that the water supply nozzle 9 and the cleaning nozzle 10 are arranged on the extended line of the central axis.

An air supply nozzle 11 provided on the side of the drum 6 so as to protrude into the drum cover 8 is a bottle capable of injecting high-pressure air parallel to the disk 22 and toward the center thereof. It is installed in the vicinity of 39 water supply ports 39a.
Further, below the drum 6, a cleaning nozzle 10 provided so as to protrude into the drum cover 8 is arranged directly below the water supply port 39 a of the bottle 39 so that cleaning water can be injected into the bottle 39. Yes. In the present embodiment, the tap water is used as the wash water by connecting the wash nozzle 10 to a tap or the like of the water supply. However, the present invention is not limited to this. For example, a wash liquid pump or the like from a tank in which the wash liquid is stored. A structure may be used in which the cleaning liquid is supplied to the cleaning nozzle 10.

On the upper and lower portions of the drum 6, a light projecting portion 43 and a light receiving portion 44 of a photoelectric sensor are installed between the drum covers 7 and 8 and the frame 2 using fixing brackets 26a and 26b, respectively. The photoelectric sensor used in this embodiment uses a light emitting diode as the light source (light projecting element) of the light projecting unit 43, and uses a phototransistor, photodiode, PSD (position detection photodiode) as the light receiving element of the light receiving unit 44. ) Is used.
When the drum 6 is not rotating, the through hole 7a of the drum cover 7 and the through hole 23b of the partition member 23, and the through hole 8a of the drum cover 8 and the through hole 23b of the partition member 23 are arranged in a straight line. The light projecting unit 43 and the light receiving unit 44 are also arranged in a straight line. That is, the light projecting unit 43 and the light receiving unit 44 are arranged so that the optical path formed between them is substantially parallel to the disk 22.
Therefore, when the bottle 39 is not loaded in the bottle holder 21 that is parallel to the vertical direction, an optical path as indicated by a two-dot chain line in FIG. 5 is provided between the light projecting unit 43 and the light receiving unit 44. It is formed. On the other hand, when the bottle 39 is loaded in the bottle holder 21 described above, the optical path between the light projecting unit 43 and the light receiving unit 44 is blocked by the bottle 39, and therefore generated according to the amount of light received by the light receiving unit 44. The electrical signal that changes. Then, this electric signal is processed by a signal processing circuit built in the control panel 14, and it is detected that the bottle 39 is loaded in the bottle holder 21.
In addition, between the frame 2 and the disk 22, useless spaces are easily generated at the four corners of the frame 2, but the light projecting unit 43 and the light receiving unit 44 are installed in this space as described above. Therefore, it is used effectively. Further, as in the present embodiment, when the water supply ports 39a of the bottles 39 are arranged at substantially equal distances from the center of the disk 22, the light projecting unit 43 so that there is always only one bottle that blocks the optical path. And the light receiving part 44 can be arranged. In this case, there is no possibility that a bottle 39 other than the bottle 39 arranged just below the water supply nozzle 9 or just above the cleaning nozzle 10 is erroneously detected by the photoelectric sensor. Therefore, malfunction of the apparatus can be prevented.

Next, the operation procedure of the bottle drinking water filling device 1 will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 6A is a flowchart showing the operation procedure of the bottle drinking water filling device 1, and FIGS. 6B to 10B are schematic views showing the rotating state of the drum 6. In addition, in order to make a figure legible, the component which does not need illustration for description is abbreviate | omitted.
6B corresponds to step S2 in FIG. 6A, and FIGS. 7A and 7B correspond to step S4 and step S7, respectively. Further, FIGS. 8A and 8B correspond to Step S10 and Step S11, respectively, and FIGS. 9A and 9B correspond to Step S12 and Step S13, respectively. FIG. 10A and FIG. 10B correspond to step S14 and step S16, respectively. FIG. 11 shows a state in which the bottles 39 are attached to all the bottle holders 21 in FIG.

As shown in FIG. 6A, first, in step S1, the apparatus is turned on. In step S2, the open / close door 19a of the bottle loading port 4a is opened, the bottle 39 is loaded into the bottle holder 21, and the open / close door 19a is closed (see FIGS. 2 and 6B). Next, when the start button 15 (see FIG. 2) is pressed in step S3, the drum 6 rotates 60 ° in the forward direction (see arrow D in FIG. 6B) in accordance with a command from the control panel 14.
In step S4, after the drum 6 is stopped, high-pressure air is injected from the air supply nozzle 11 in accordance with a command from the control panel 14. The high-pressure air is injected from the water supply port 39a of the bottle 39, so that contaminants such as dust that may be present inside the bottle 39 are blown away and removed (see FIG. 7A). ). In this case, fine dust or the like floating inside the bottle 39 contains water by washing with the washing water and efficiently removes the dust or the like by high-pressure air before it adheres to the inner surface of the bottle 39. can do.
Thereafter, when the start button 15 is pressed in step S5, the drum 6 rotates 60 ° in the forward direction (see arrow D in FIG. 7A) in accordance with a command from the control panel 14.

  In step S6, after the drum 6 is stopped, if the bottle 39 loaded in the bottle holder 21 is detected by the photoelectric sensor including the light projecting unit 43 and the light receiving unit 44 arranged in the lower part of the drum 6, step S7 is performed. , The cleaning water is discharged from the cleaning nozzle 10 in accordance with a command from the control panel 14. The cleaning water is injected into the bottle 39 from the water supply port 39a, whereby the inner surface of the bottle 39 is cleaned. Thereafter, the washing water is again discharged to the outside of the bottle 39 through the water supply port 39a, and discharged from the drain funnel 25 of the drum cover 8 to the outside of the bottle drinking water filling device 1 (see FIG. 7B). In step S6, when the bottle 39 is not detected, the process of step S7 is omitted.

In step S8, by pressing the start button 15 three times, the drum 6 is rotated 180 ° in the forward direction (see arrow D in FIG. 7B) in accordance with a command from the control panel 14.
In step S9, after the drum 6 is stopped, if the bottle 39 loaded in the bottle holder 21 is detected by the photoelectric sensor including the light projecting unit 43 and the light receiving unit 44 disposed on the drum 6, the step S10 is performed. Then, in accordance with a command from the control panel 14, drinking water is injected from the water supply nozzle 9 into the bottle 39 through the water supply port 39a (see FIG. 8A).
At this time, in step S11, the raising / lowering mechanism 13c of the cap tightening machine 13 is actuated in accordance with a command from the control panel 14, whereby the chuck portion 13a is lowered as shown by an arrow E in FIG. . Then, as shown in FIG. 8B, in the cap receiving portion 41, the cap 40 supplied from the cap supply portion 12 is held by the chuck portion 13 a of the cap winding machine 13. When the loading of the cap 40 into the cap winder 13 is completed, the lifting mechanism 13c of the cap winder 13 is actuated again according to a command from the control panel 14, and the chuck portion 13a is lifted as indicated by an arrow F.
Thereafter, in step S12, a plate driving means (not shown) is operated in accordance with a command from the control panel 14. As a result, the holding plate 42 moves horizontally in the direction indicated by the arrow G, and the chuck portion 13a of the cap tightening machine 13 loaded with the cap 40 is disposed immediately above the water supply port 39a of the bottle 39 (FIG. 9 ( a)).

In step S13, the rotation mechanism 13b and the lifting mechanism 13c of the cap winder 13 are operated in accordance with a command from the control panel 14. Accordingly, the chuck portion 13a is lowered as indicated by an arrow E in FIG. 9A while rotating around an axis parallel to the vertical direction while holding the cap 40. As a result, as shown in FIG. 9B, the cap 40 is screwed with a predetermined torque into the water supply port 39a of the bottle 39 in which the male screw is formed. When the attachment of the cap 40 to the bottle 39 is completed, the chuck portion 13a releases the cap 40 and rises as indicated by the arrow F by the operation of the elevating mechanism 13c in accordance with a command from the control panel 14.
In step S14, the plate driving means (not shown) is actuated again in accordance with a command from the control panel 14. As a result, the holding plate 42 moves horizontally in the direction indicated by the arrow H, and the water supply nozzle 9 is disposed immediately above the water supply port 39a of the bottle 39 (see FIG. 10A). In step S9, when the bottle 39 is not detected, steps S10 to S14 are omitted.

In step S15, pressing the start button 15 causes the drum 6 to rotate 60 ° in the forward direction (see arrow D in FIG. 10A) in accordance with a command from the control panel 14.
In step S16, after the drum 6 is stopped, the opening / closing door 19a of the bottle loading port 4a is opened, the bottle 39 is removed from the bottle holder 21, and the bottle 39 is taken out from the apparatus as shown in FIG. Then, after closing the open / close door 19a, in step S17, the apparatus is turned off.

The above description assumes a state in which only one bottle 39 is loaded on the disk 22 in order to facilitate understanding of the operation procedure of the apparatus. As shown in FIG. 11, the bottle 39 is used with all the bottle holders 21 mounted.
That is, in the bottle drinking water filling device 1, a plurality of bottles 39 are cleaned by the air supply nozzle 11 and the cleaning nozzle 10, filled with drinking water by the water supply nozzle 9, and by the cap tightener 13 by batch processing. A series of steps of mounting 40 is performed in parallel. That is, according to the bottle potable water filling device 1, since the processing conventionally performed by a plurality of devices can be efficiently performed by one device, the installation space is reduced and the work efficiency is improved. To do.

And in the bottle drinking water filling device 1, since the cleaning water sprayed from the water supply nozzle 9 is injected into the bottle 39 from the water supply port 39a with the water supply port 39a of the bottle 39 facing downward, the bottle 39 The washing water that has washed away the dust and the like inside 39 has the action of being discharged out of the bottle 39 through the water supply port 39a again by its own weight. In this case, since it is not necessary to provide a mechanism for forcibly discharging the cleaning water from the bottle 39, the cleaning mechanism is simplified.
Further, as the drum 6 rotates, the bottle 39 is transported directly above the cleaning nozzle 10 and directly below the water supply nozzle 9, and the water supply port 39 a faces downward with respect to the cleaning nozzle 10. The bottle 39 rotates so that the water supply port 39a faces upward, that is, in a posture suitable for each treatment. As described above, according to the bottle drinking water filling device 1, since the conveyance and the posture control of the bottle 39 can be realized by one operation of the rotation of the drum 6, the conveyance mechanism of the bottle 39 is simplified. Therefore, this apparatus can be reduced in size and manufacturing cost.

Further, in the bottle drinking water filling device 1, the bottle 39 that is mounted on the front surface of the drum 6 and conveyed in a circle around the rotation shaft 24 is washed, filled with drinking water, and the cap 40 is mounted. Since the processes are sequentially performed, the state in which the bottle 39 is loaded into the bottle holder 21 or the state in which the bottle 39 is conveyed becomes obvious by removing the front panels 3b to 3d. That is, since the loaded state and the transported state of the bottle 39 can be confirmed at a glance, maintenance and inspection are easy.
Furthermore, since the length of the rotating shaft 24 in the axial direction is shorter than the width direction, the bottle drinking water filling device 1 can be installed even when the installation space is narrow.

Furthermore, in the bottle drinking water filling device 1, the holding plate 42 moves horizontally along the disk 22, so that the drinking water can be injected into the bottle 39 by the water supply nozzle 9, and the cap tightener 13 There is an effect that the state in which the cap 40 can be attached to the water supply port 39a is switched. Thereby, the process of filling the bottle 39 with potable water and the process of attaching the cap 40 are performed efficiently and continuously.
In addition, in the bottle drinking water filling device 1, while drinking water is being injected into the bottle 39 by the water supply nozzle 9, the elevating mechanism 13 c of the cap tightening machine 13 is operated, and the chuck portion 13 a is moved to the cap receiving portion 41. The cap 40 that has already been supplied to the cap receiving portion 21 is loaded into the chuck portion 13a. That is, according to the bottle drinking water filling device 1, since the cap 40 is loaded into the cap tightening machine 13 during the step of filling the bottle 39 with drinking water, the working efficiency is high.

In this embodiment, an air cylinder is used as the cylinder 31 that constitutes the rotation mechanism of the drum 6. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and an electric cylinder or a hydraulic cylinder may be used instead of the air cylinder. Further, the drum 6 can be rotated using an electric motor or a hydraulic motor instead of a mechanism for driving the rack 33 meshing with the pinion 30 by the cylinder 31 and rotating the drum 6.
Furthermore, the number of bottle holders 21 installed on the disk 22 is not limited to the six shown in the present embodiment, and can be changed as appropriate. When the number of bottle holders 21 installed on the disk 22 is changed, the angle at which the drum 6 is rotated by one operation of the start button 15, the number of partition members 23, and the installation location are also changed accordingly. Need to change.
Moreover, it can also be set as the structure which abbreviate | omitted the partition member 23. FIG. However, in order to prevent splashing of washing water and drinking water, it is desirable to provide a partition member 23 for the disk 22 as shown in the present embodiment.
And when the light projection part 43 and the light-receiving part 44 are installed so that the air supply nozzle 11 is sandwiched therebetween, and the bottle 39 is not loaded in the bottle holder 21, high-pressure air is supplied from the air supply nozzle 11. It can also be set as the structure which is not injected.

  The inventions described in claims 1 to 5 are particularly suitable for selling small lots of plastic bottles filled with potable water in small stores or facilities.

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Bottle drinking water filling apparatus 2 ... Frame body 3 ... Panel 3a-3d ... Front panel 4 ... Housing 4a ... Bottle loading port 4b ... Cap loading port 4c, 4d ... Window part 4e ... Cap loading port 5 ... Caster 6 ... Drum DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 7 ... Drum cover 7a ... Through-hole 8 ... Drum cover 8a ... Through-hole 8b ... Cover 9 ... Water supply nozzle 10 ... Washing nozzle 11 ... Air supply nozzle 12 ... Cap supply part 13 ... Cap winding machine 13a ... Chuck part 13b ... Rotation Mechanism 13c ... Elevating mechanism 14 ... Control panel 15 ... Start button 16 ... Emergency stop button 17 ... Liquid crystal touch panel 18 ... Handle 19a, 19b ... Opening / closing door 20 ... Hinge 21 ... Bottle holder 22 ... Disc 23 ... Partition member 23a ... Bending part 23b, 23c ... Through hole 24 ... Rotating shaft 25 ... Drainage funnel 26a, 26b ... Fixing bracket 27 ... Bearing 28 ... Bolt 29 ... Free wheel 30 ... Pinion 31 ... Cylinder 32 ... Rod 33 ... Rack 34 ... Holding plate 34a ... Through hole 35 ... Back plate 36 ... U-shaped plate 37 ... Mounting part 38 ... Fixing tool 39 ... Bottle 39a ... Water supply port 39b ... Main body 40 ... Cap 41 ... Cap receiving part 42 ... Holding plate 43 ... Light projecting part 44 ... Light receiving part

Claims (5)

A drum consisting of a disk with a pivot shaft in the center;
A plurality of bottle holders that are annularly arranged in a circumferential direction on the front side of the drum and that detachably hold the bottle radially with respect to the disk and with the water supply port facing outward.
A frame that horizontally supports the pivot shaft so as to be pivotable;
A water supply nozzle that is installed directly above the water supply port of the bottle disposed in parallel with the vertical direction above the drum and injects drinking water into the bottle;
A cleaning nozzle that is installed directly below the water supply port below the drum and injects cleaning water into the bottle;
A bottle drinking water filling device comprising: a rotation mechanism for rotating the drum at a desired angle. A cap winder for attaching a cap to the bottle;
A holding plate for holding the cap winder integrally with the water supply nozzle;
A guide member installed on the frame,
The cap tightening machine is:
A chuck portion for releasably holding the cap of the bottle;
A rotation mechanism for rotating the chuck portion around an axis parallel to the vertical direction;
An elevating mechanism for elevating and lowering the chuck part,
The holding plate holds the chuck part up and down freely,
The guide member supports the holding plate so as to be movable in the horizontal direction along the disk so that either the water supply nozzle or the cap tightener is disposed directly above the water supply port of the bottle. The bottle potable water filling device according to claim 1. A cap receiver installed below the cap winder;
A cap supply part for supplying the cap to the cap receiving part,
The said cap receiving part is arrange | positioned in the location which reaches | attains when the said chuck | zipper part descend | falls in the state in which the said water supply nozzle was arrange | positioned just above the said water supply port of the said bottle. Bottle drinking water filling device. A photoelectric sensor that detects the presence of an object that forms an optical path between the light projecting unit and the light receiving unit and blocks the optical path based on the amount of light received in the light receiving unit,
The bottled water according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the light projecting unit and the light receiving unit are arranged so as to form the optical path in parallel with the disk. Filling equipment. 2. An air supply nozzle installed in the vicinity of the water supply port so as to be able to inject high-pressure air in parallel to the disk on the side of the drum and toward the center thereof. The bottle potable water filling device according to claim 4.

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