WO2021008879A1

WO2021008879A1 - Apparatus and method for handling containers

Info

Publication number: WO2021008879A1
Application number: PCT/EP2020/068612
Authority: WO
Inventors: Uwe Wolf
Original assignee: Khs Gmbh
Priority date: 2019-07-12
Filing date: 2020-07-02
Publication date: 2021-01-21
Also published as: DE102019118982A1; EP3996997A1

Abstract

The present invention relates to an apparatus (1) for handling containers. The apparatus (1) has at least one support unit (3) arranged on a supporting end (2) and designed as a stationary machine part, at least one top unit (5) arranged on an opposing free end (4) and designed as a machine part on the free end, and at least one main treatment unit (6) arranged between the support unit (3) and the top unit (5) and designed as a movable machine part. In operation, the main treatment unit (6) forms a vibration source region which generates vibration. The apparatus is equipped with a vibration-reducing device which comprises at least one dynamically-active vibration absorber (7) coupled to one of the machine parts, at least one acceleration sensor (8) coupled to one of the machine parts and at least one evaluation and control unit (9) connected communicatively to the acceleration sensor (8) and to the dynamically-active vibration absorber (7). By means of piezoelectrically coupled resonant vibration the vibration-reducing device compensates for the vibrations emanating from the vibration source region and occurring in at least one of the machine parts.

Description

Device and method for treating containers

The invention relates to a device for treating containers and to a method for treating containers in such a device.

Container treatment devices per se are well known. Such devices include, for example, devices for transporting or conveying containers, namely transporters or conveyors, as well as devices for filling, closing, labeling or printing containers, which are also referred to as filling, closing, labeling or printing machines. In the case of container treatment devices of the type mentioned at the outset, several individual machines or units can be coupled or interlocked to form a larger container treatment unit or system, with the containers being transferred between the individual machines via appropriately designed transporters or conveyors, for example by means of rotating conveyors on a transport route diverted several times. The containers thus cover a treatment and transport route during treatment.

It is also known that container treatment devices comprise work stations operated in a clocked manner. It is also known that devices of this type for treating containers work as so-called rotary machines and have machine parts that are driven in rotation for this purpose, which, for example, are rotatably mounted on stationary, supporting or load-bearing machine parts. As a rule, the stationary, supporting machine parts rest on a firm base, in particular on a trap floor, and thus form a machine base designed as a standing or anchoring structure or as a support structure or support frame.

The movable, in particular rotatingly driven, machine parts supported on such a lower machine part are therefore generally arranged in a vertical orientation above the lower machine parts. Known devices of this type can comprise further structures which are oriented vertically upwards over the movable machine parts protrude or cantilever. For example, in the case of closing machines known from the prior art, cap feeders and cap sorters represent such towering, cantilevered structures.

It goes without saying that when the device is in operation, more or less strong vibrations or oscillations are generated by the movable machine parts due to their movement and / or timing. These vibrations, which are, for example, the natural vibrations of the respective machine parts and are caused in particular by the number of cycles and performance data in cycle operation, are transmitted to other machine parts, in particular to the supporting, load-bearing machine parts and also to the superstructures. Since the vibrations of the machine parts can be amplified by resonance phenomena, a larger or stronger vibration is also transmitted to the other machine parts in such cases. In addition to the natural vibrations that occur as a result of its own movement, vibrations or vibrations from neighboring machines in a system, but also external vibrations or oscillations, can be transmitted to machine parts.

In particular, machine parts or superstructures that protrude or cantilever far upwards vibrate a lot, not least because of the reinforcement phenomena explained above. To stay with the example of the closing machine, these are in particular the closure cap feeder or the closure cap sorter, which are particularly strongly affected by the vibrations. Components also encompassed by closure cap feeders or closure cap sorters, such as, for example, widely projecting storage containers for closure caps, closure cap turner, feed channels or rails or the like, are particularly stressed. The increasing demand for material savings in the manufacture of machine parts also leads to increased or stronger natural vibration, which then has a particularly unfavorable effect on cantilevered structures and accelerates their wear and tear and impairs the basic operational safety of the device. Based on this, it is the object of the invention to specify a container treatment device in which undesired vibrations are reduced and in which the operational reliability is improved and the wear is reduced.

The object is achieved by a device according to the features of independent patent claim 1. A corresponding method for treating containers is the subject matter of the independent patent claim 14. Advantageous further developments of the invention are specified in the dependent claims. All of the features described, individually or in any combination, are fundamentally the subject matter of the invention, regardless of how they are summarized in the claims or their reference. Furthermore, the claims are made part of the description.

The present invention provides a device for treating containers which has at least one support unit arranged on a supporting end and designed as a stationary machine part, at least one assembly unit arranged at an opposite free end and designed as a free-end machine part, and at least one between the carrier unit and the assembly unit arranged and designed as a movable machine part

Main treatment unit, which has a one in the treatment operation

Forms vibration source region generating vibration. The device is equipped with a vibration reducing device which has at least one dynamically active vibration damper which is coupled to one of the machine parts and which has at least one acceleration sensor which is also coupled to one of the machine parts. Furthermore, the

Vibration reduction device at least one connected to the acceleration sensor and the dynamically active vibration damper in a communicating manner

Evaluation and control unit on. The vibration reduction device compensates for the vibrations generated by the vibration source area by means of piezo-coupled resonance vibration.

In the device according to the present invention, a natural oscillation of the can particularly advantageously by piezo-coupled or piezo-controlled activation dynamic-active vibration damper are caused and regulated, which ultimately causes a vibration compensation. The vibration compensation is preferably effected by means of a piezo bending transducer. With such a piezo bending transducer, large deflections and high forces can advantageously be achieved with extremely short actuating times. With the present invention, a simple but nevertheless very powerful vibration or

Allows vibration compensation, which functions in particular as a function of power and natural vibration and is self-sufficient in relation to the overall machine or in relation to the general machine control.

The vibration reduction device according to the present invention, which can also be understood as a vibration reduction system, can very particularly advantageously be applied to any machine parts or machine assemblies

Container treatment devices or container treatment systems act on which vibrations or oscillations occur which are, for example, harmful to the function and / or the service life of the machine parts or machine assemblies themselves, in particular also harmful to the function and / or service life of individual components of the machine parts. According to the invention, this is ensured in particular by the fact that the dynamically active vibration damper is attached to any machine parts or machine assemblies of container treatment devices or systems on which the disruptive or harmful vibrations or

Vibrations occur, can be attached and thus become effective exactly where those that interfere or damage function and service life

Vibrations affect the machine parts.

For the purposes of the present invention, the vibration reduction system reduces or eliminates or compensates for oscillations and vibrations which occur on parts or assemblies of the device and which have a harmful and disruptive influence on these parts or assemblies themselves, especially with regard to their function and wear to take. In the context of the present invention, this is not a matter of special weighing fillers

intended vibration shielding or decoupling of the

vibration-sensitive weighing systems or weighing devices with respect to the machine parts, as is known from the prior art, for example from EP 2 574 886 A2 is known, in which in particular a low-pass filter

Compensation signal at an interface between machine part and

Weighing device is initiated.

At this point, it should be expressly pointed out that, according to the present invention, the vibration reduction device is not used for vibration decoupling of weighing devices from machine elements

Filling device is provided and suitable for the aforementioned special applications of weighing fillers.

According to an advantageous embodiment variant, the is dynamically active

Vibration absorber designed as a flexural oscillator and is formed in particular by a spring-mass system. The dynamic-active includes

Vibration absorber particularly preferably one or more leaf springs, with at least one mass element being arranged on each leaf spring in the region of a free end and with a piezo element attached, in particular glued on, to each leaf spring at a distance from the free end, preferably in a central region of the leaf spring. The piezo element is preferably designed in the form of a piezoelectric plate or a piezoelectric patch and is what is known as a piezo patch actuator.

The dynamically active vibration absorber is particularly well suited for a so-called active vibration system and can also be used as a

piezoelectric actuator, in particular as a so-called piezoelectric actuator

Inertial mass factor are understood. One end of the actuator is connected to the system, the vibrations of which are to be eliminated, in the present case in particular to a machine part of the device, and the other end of the actuator is connected to the inertial mass, namely the mass element. The actuator can move the inertial mass, which is formed, for example, by a small piece of metal. The force required to accelerate the inertial mass becomes effective on the system to be calmed, namely on the machine part of the device. As a result, it is particularly and advantageously possible to introduce forces into the device to be calmed even without support from a fixed environment, preferably also at any point on the device, for example depending on where on the device or on which machine part and at which point the

The dynamically active vibration absorber is attached to the machine part. A very specific, vibration compensation or

Vibration damping is possible, preferably precisely at the particularly critical or sensitive machine parts or at particularly critical points on the corresponding machine parts.

The vibration reduction device is preferably designed in the form of an adaptive, frequency-variable vibration reduction device and comprises an adaptive, frequency-variable vibration damper. As adaptive

Vibration absorber is to be understood here in particular that the

The resonance frequency of the vibration absorber follows the excitation frequency, in particular the frequency of the vibrations of the vibration source area, preferably automatically. As a result, an optimal compensation can always be achieved.

In the case of a spring-mass system, for example, the resonance frequency can be adjusted by changing the spring stiffness. One possibility of achieving this is, for example, that the mass elements arranged in the area of the free ends of the spiral springs or the leaf springs are mounted displaceably along the spiral spring via a corresponding drive. By shifting the mass elements, the stiffness of the leaf spring changes and thus the

Resonance frequency of the dynamic-active vibration absorber. As a result, the dynamically active vibration absorber can always die in an optimal range

Compensate for vibrations.

According to a preferred embodiment variant, the are dynamically active

Vibration absorber and the acceleration sensor at different

Machine parts arranged. It goes without saying that, according to alternative embodiments, it is also possible that the dynamically active

Vibration absorber and the acceleration sensor are arranged on the same machine part, preferably at different points or positions of the Machine part. The points or positions of the machine part at which the dynamically active vibration damper and the acceleration sensor are attached can be spatially adjacent or distant from one another.

The dynamic-active vibration absorber can be directly and rigidly connected to the

Be connected to the machine part, but it can also be connected indirectly or indirectly via additional components to the machine part.

The main treatment unit is preferably designed as a rotating machine part and the assembly unit as a non-rotating machine part, the dynamically active vibration absorber being connected directly or indirectly via a further component to the non-rotating assembly unit or the stationary support unit.

This allows the forces to compensate for the vibrations to be introduced directly into the non-moving or non-rotating machine parts and become effective there.

According to one embodiment variant, the support unit is formed by a lower part resting on the floor and the structural unit is formed by a structural and / or cantilevered upper part. The dynamically active vibration absorber is connected to the lower part and is spatially arranged at a level between the support unit and the area forming the vibration source area

Treatment main unit arranged. In this embodiment variant, the acceleration sensor can particularly preferably be connected to the lower part in a spatially separate manner from the dynamically active vibration damper, the

Acceleration sensor is arranged in a spatial arrangement at a height level between the acceleration sensor and the main treatment unit forming the vibration source area.

According to preferred design variants, it is also possible to provide several dynamically active vibration absorbers and / or several acceleration sensors. One or more acceleration sensors can be assigned to each dynamically active vibration damper. At least one acceleration sensor is preferably assigned to each dynamically active vibration damper per direction of movement. The main treatment unit is very particularly preferably used by at least the rotating part of a rotating closing machine

Closing of containers formed and the assembly unit comprises one

Closing machine structure, in particular a closure cap feeder or a closure cap sorter. The dynamically active vibration damper is particularly preferred in this embodiment variant on the

Closing machine structure arranged and is in particular with the

Closing cap feed and / or connected to the cap sorter.

According to a preferred embodiment variant, the evaluation and control unit is designed to receive and process data recorded by the acceleration sensor and, on the basis of the received and processed data, corresponding control signals for controlling the dynamically active

To calculate the vibration absorber and output it to the dynamic-active vibration absorber.

The present invention also includes a method for treating containers in a device, the device having at least one support unit arranged at a supporting end and designed as a stationary machine part, at least one assembly unit arranged at an opposite free end and designed as a free-end machine part, and at least one having the main treatment unit arranged between the support unit and the structural unit and designed as a movable machine part. in the

The treatment operation of the apparatus becomes one in the treatment of the containers of the treatment main unit forming a vibration source area

Vibration generated. The one coming from the main treatment unit

Vibration is provided according to the method by means of a

Vibration reduction device compensated by piezo-coupled resonance vibration.

Corresponding measurement data about the from the

The main treatment unit detects outgoing vibration by means of an acceleration sensor coupled to one of the machine parts of the device. Further the data acquired by the acceleration sensor are transmitted to an evaluation and control unit connected to the acceleration sensor and processed there. Based on the transmitted, processed data, control signals are generated in the evaluation and control unit and output to control a dynamically active vibration absorber coupled to one of the machine parts of the device in order to set the dynamically active vibration absorber into corresponding resonance vibration and thereby the vibration of the device to compensate, in particular on that machine part of the device to which the dynamically active

Vibration absorber is coupled.

According to a preferred variant, the acceleration sensor provides an oscillation frequency that emanates from the main treatment unit

Vibration is detected and the control signal is dependent on the

Accelerometer detected vibration frequency calculated and

output to a frequency of the resonance vibration of the dynamic-active vibration damper to the vibration frequency of the

Adjusting the main treatment unit outgoing vibration.

Likewise, the oscillation frequency is preferably measured on the support unit and / or the mounting unit and the resonance vibration of the dynamic-active vibration absorber acts directly or indirectly on the mounting unit to reduce the

To compensate for vibration of the assembly unit. In the case of an

Closing machine trained device, the vibration frequency is, for example, on the support unit or the closing machine structure,

in particular on the closure cap feed and / or on the

Closure cap sorter measured and the resonance oscillation of the dynamically active vibration absorber acts directly or indirectly on precisely these components, namely on the closure cap feed and / or on the closure cap sorter.

The invention is explained in more detail below with reference to the figures using exemplary embodiments. Show it: Fig. 1 is a roughly schematically sketched view of a

Design variant of a device formed by a closing machine for closing containers for

Handling of containers,

Fig. 2 is a further schematic view of the device for

Treatment of containers according to Figure 1,

3 shows a perspective illustration of the device of FIG. 2,

4a is a schematic view of an embodiment of a

dynamic-active vibration absorber and

4b shows an embodiment of a dynamically active

Vibration absorber in plan view.

In FIGS. 1 and 2, an exemplary embodiment variant of a device 1 for treating containers is shown in a respective schematic view. Figure 3 shows the device 1 of Figure 2 in a perspective view. The exemplary device 1 is thus designed as a complex system for handling containers or forms a part or section of such a system and is to be understood as a machine with clocked workstations, the

Work stations over suitable transport routes or conveyors or

Transport devices are connected to one another in such a way that the containers to be treated can be moved between the workstations and the workstations can be passed through or fed in and removed. In the example of FIGS. 1 to 3, the device 1 is formed by a closing machine 15 for closing containers arranged in the immediate vicinity of a filling machine 14, for example interlocked with this.

The containers to be treated, in particular to be closed, can be transported, filled and finally closed in the system comprising the device 1 and pass through the system in a treatment direction R, the containers being closed by means of appropriately provided transport or conveying devices the filling machine 14 transported out and at an inlet point of the system by means of transfer devices such. B. be passed by means of appropriate transfer stars to the rotating driven filling machine 14 for filling. During the filling, the containers in the filling machine 14 are moved with their rotation on a circular circulation path and finally by means of another

Transfer devices handed over to the sealing machine 15.

In the device 1 shown, a support unit 3 designed as a stationary machine part is provided at a lower, load-bearing end 2, which forms a load-bearing machine lower part, which is designed as a standing or anchoring structure or as a support structure or support frame and on a solid, stationary surface, in particular stands up or rests on a trap floor. Loaded or supported on this support unit 3, the device 1 also has a main treatment unit 6 and a structural unit 5.

The structural unit 5 is designed as a free-end machine part and is provided at an upper, free end 4 of the device 1 opposite the supporting end 2. In the example shown, the structural unit 5 is a capping machine structure 16, in particular a cap feeder and / or a cap sorter of a known type. Such a capping machine structure 16 is known to have upwardly extending and / or cantilevered components. For example, storage containers for closure caps, closure cap rotators or closure cap orienting devices, feed channels or feed rails or similar protruding, cantilevered components are included in such a capping machine structure 16.

The main treatment unit 6, which is designed as a movable, in particular rotating machine part, is arranged between the support unit 3 and the structural unit 5. In the example of FIGS. 1 to 3, the main treatment unit 6 is formed by a known closing machine 15 configured as a rotary machine, namely by a rotatingly driven carousel with several closing tools arranged on the circumference. In the treatment mode of the device 1, the main treatment unit 6 forms, for example due to the rotation at a given rotation speed and / or due to the timing or due to the machine cycle, a vibration source area in which oscillations or vibrations are generated and from which these oscillations or vibrations are transmitted to the other machine parts be transmitted. Such vibrations emanating from the vibration source area of the main treatment unit 6 are particularly serious for the cantilevered structural unit 5, which extends far upwards, since the amplitude of the oscillations or vibrations increases with the extent of the projection. In order to reduce or compensate for or eliminate such oscillations or vibrations, the device 1 is therefore equipped with an oscillation reducing device which compensates for the oscillations by means of piezo-coupled resonance oscillation.

In particular, the oscillations and vibrations acting on the machine parts, for example on the structural unit 5, in particular on the closing machine structure 16, namely the oscillations and vibrations occurring on the machine parts themselves, which are detrimental to their function and reduce their service life, are effectively compensated or eliminated. In particular, the compensation acts exactly where the harmful oscillations and vibrations occur.

The vibration reduction device comprises a dynamically active vibration damper 7 which is coupled to the assembly unit 5 and which is connected to the closing machine assembly 16 in the example shown. The vibration reduction device also includes an acceleration sensor 8, which in the example shown is also arranged in the area of the closing machine structure 16. The dynamically active vibration absorber 7 and the acceleration sensor 8 are connected in a communicating manner to an evaluation and control unit 9 which is also provided.

Due to the arrangement of the dynamically active vibration absorber 7 on the closing machine structure 16, the vibration compensation in the example shown thus acts directly on the particularly critical or critical points of the device 1, namely on the structural unit 5 which is particularly stressed by the vibrations.

In the example shown, the dynamically active vibration damper 7 is firmly and rigidly connected to cantilevered components attached to the structural unit 5 and is therefore coupled to the structural unit 5 via these components. In the present case, this can also be understood as an indirect connection or coupling to the free-end machine part formed by the assembly unit 5. It goes without saying that a direct, immediate coupling of the dynamically active vibration absorber 7 to the machine part on the free-end side can also be provided.

The dynamic-active vibration damper 7 is preferably in the form of a

Flexural oscillator, in particular designed as a spring-mass system and is explained in more detail below with reference to FIGS. 4a and 4b. FIG. 4a shows a dynamically active vibration damper 7 in a side view and FIG. 4b shows a plan view from above.

The dynamically active vibration damper 7 comprises a leaf spring 10, which can also be referred to as a spiral spring, as well as a mass element 12 connected to the leaf spring 10 at its free end 11. In the dynamically active vibration damper 7 shown by way of example in FIGS. 4a, 4b four

Leaf springs 10 and consequently four mass elements 12 are also provided.

The mass elements 12 are so-called inertial masses and are mechanically coupled to the system to be absorbed via the leaf springs 10 fastened in a coupling area 17 of the dynamically active vibration absorber 7.

A piezo element 13 is attached to each leaf spring 10. The piezo element 13 is preferably formed by a piezoelectric plate or by a piezoelectric patch and is glued onto the leaf spring 10. Depending on the type and design of the leaf spring, in particular depending on the flexural rigidity or a predetermined curvature, the piezo element 13 can also be configured, for example, in the form of a piezo film, for example made of PVDF. The piezoelectric plates 13 or patches can be used to introduce a bending moment by applying an alternating voltage. The mass elements attached to the leaf spring 10 12 are deflected in a bending direction B, which in the present case can also be understood as a compensation oscillation. The present dynamically active vibration absorber 7 is therefore also particularly suitable as

Targeted introduction of opposing forces into a structure. At the same time, a bending moment in the structure can lead to an electrical voltage, and the free charge of the piezoceramic can be diverted by applying an external impedance. By using suitable circuits, vibration energy can be extracted from the system to be eliminated.

In the case of a dynamically active one as outlined in FIGS. 4a and 4b

The vibration absorber 7 absorbs the excitation of the basic structure in its mechanical natural frequency and can compensate for vibrations of the device 1 by accelerating the mass elements 12 in antiphase. A change in the oscillation to be eliminated, for example a

Change in the oscillation frequency detected by the acceleration sensor 8.

The evaluation and control unit 9 provided in the vibration reduction device can then be used to adapt the natural frequency of the dynamically active vibration absorber 7, for example via a

Acceleration feedback of the mass elements 12, so that the dynamically active vibration absorber 7 can always work in its optimal repayment frequency.

Above its natural frequency, the dynamically active vibration damper 7 can also be used as an inertial mass exciter, in which case the piezo element

13 introduced moment a force acts through which a targeted compensation of the excitation is possible. A correspondingly adapted compensation signal is in turn calculated and output by the evaluation and control unit 9. List of reference symbols

1 device for treating containers

2 bearing end

3 carrying unit

4 free end

5 assembly unit

6 Main treatment unit

7 dynamic, active vibration absorbers

8 accelerometer

9 Evaluation and control unit

10 leaf spring

1 1 free end

12 mass element

13 piezo element

14 filling machine

15 capping machine

16 Sealing machine structure

17 Coupling area

B bending direction

R direction of treatment

Claims

1. Device (1) for treating containers, comprising at least one support unit (3) arranged on a supporting end (2) and designed as a stationary machine part, at least one arranged at an opposite free end (4) and designed as a free-end machine part

Construction unit (5) and at least one between the support unit (3) and the

The main treatment unit (6) arranged as a structural unit (5) and designed as a movable machine part, the main treatment unit (6) in the

Treatment operation forms a vibration source region generating a vibration and wherein the device is provided with a vibration reduction device

is equipped, characterized in that the vibration reduction device has at least one dynamically active vibration damper (7) coupled to one of the machine parts, at least one acceleration sensor (8) coupled to one of the machine parts and at least one with the acceleration sensor (8) and the dynamically active vibration damper (7) has communicating connected evaluation and control unit (9), wherein the vibration reduction device uses piezo-coupled vibrations emanating from the vibration source area and occurring in at least one of the machine parts

Resonance oscillation compensated.

2. Device according to claim 1, characterized in that the dynamically active vibration damper (7) is designed as a flexural vibrator and is in particular formed by a spring-mass system.

3. Device according to claim 2, characterized in that the dynamically active vibration damper (7) comprises one or more leaf springs (10), at least one mass element (12) being arranged on each leaf spring (10) in the region of a free end (11) and wherein at least one piezo element (13) is fastened, in particular glued on, to each leaf spring (10) at a distance from the free end (11).

4. Device according to one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the vibration reduction device is designed in the form of an adaptive, frequency-variable vibration reduction device and an adaptive,

includes variable frequency vibration damper (7).

5. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized

characterized in that the dynamic-active vibration damper (7) and the

Acceleration sensor (8) are arranged on various machine parts.

6. Device according to one of the preceding claims 1 to 4, characterized in that the dynamic-active vibration damper (7) and the

Acceleration sensor (8) are arranged on the same machine part, the dynamically active vibration damper (7) and the acceleration sensor (8) being attached to spatially adjacent or distant locations on the machine part.

7. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized

characterized in that the main treatment unit (6) is designed as a rotating machine part and the assembly unit (5) is designed as a non-rotating machine part, the dynamically active vibration damper (7) being directly or indirectly connected to the non-rotating assembly unit (5) via a further component or the fixed

Support unit (3) is connected.

8. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized

characterized in that the support unit (3) by a resting on the ground

The lower part and the structural unit (5) are formed by a structural and / or cantilevered upper part, the dynamically active vibration damper (7) being connected to the lower part and in a spatial arrangement at a level between the supporting unit (3) and the area forming the vibration source area

Treatment main unit (6) is arranged.

9. The device according to claim 8, characterized in that the acceleration sensor (8) spatially separated from the dynamically active

Vibration damper (7) is connected to the lower part, the

The acceleration sensor (8) is arranged in a spatial arrangement at a height level between the acceleration sensor (8) and the main treatment unit (6) forming the vibration source area.

10. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized

characterized in that several dynamically active vibration absorbers (7) are provided and / or that several acceleration sensors (8) are provided, with each dynamically active vibration absorber (7) having one or more

Acceleration sensors (8) are assigned.

11. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized

characterized in that the main treatment unit (6) is formed by at least one rotationally driven closing machine (15) for closing containers and the assembly unit (5) is a closing machine assembly,

in particular a closure cap feed and / or a

Includes cap sorter.

12. The device according to claim 11, characterized in that the dynamically active vibration damper (7) is arranged on the closure machine structure, in particular with the closure cap feed and / or the

Cap sorter is connected.

13. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized

characterized in that the evaluation and control unit (9) is designed to receive and process data recorded by the acceleration sensor (8) and to calculate corresponding control signals for controlling the dynamically active vibration damper (7) on the basis of the received and processed data and to output to the dynamically active vibration damper (7).

14. A method for treating containers in a device (1), wherein the device (1) has at least one support unit (3) arranged on a supporting end (2) and designed as a stationary machine part, at least one on an opposite free end (4 ) arranged and as a free-end

A machine part designed assembly unit (5) and at least one between the support unit (3) and the assembly unit (5) arranged and movable

Machine part trained main treatment unit (6), wherein in

Treatment operation of the device (1) in the treatment of the containers from the treatment main unit (6) forming a vibration source area

Vibration is generated, characterized in that the

Treatment main unit (6) outgoing and at least one of the

Machine parts occurring vibration by means of a provided

Vibration reduction device is compensated by piezo-coupled resonance vibration.

15. The method according to claim 14, characterized in that corresponding measurement data about the vibration emanating from the main treatment unit (6) by means of one coupled to one of the machine parts of the device (1)

Accelerometer (8) are detected that the

Acceleration sensor (8) recorded data is transmitted to an evaluation and control unit (9) communicating with the acceleration sensor (8) and processed there so that control signals are generated based on the transmitted, processed data in the evaluation and control unit (9) and for Control of a dynamically active vibration absorber (7) coupled to one of the machine parts of the device (1) are output to the dynamically active vibration absorber (7) in order to activate the dynamically active vibration absorber (7) in

to offset corresponding resonance oscillation and thereby compensate for the oscillation, in particular on that machine part of the device (1) to which the dynamically active vibration damper (7) is coupled.

16. The method according to claim 15, characterized in that the acceleration sensor (8) has an oscillation frequency of the

Treatment main unit (6) outgoing vibration is detected and that the control signal is calculated and output as a function of the vibration frequency detected by the acceleration sensor (8) in order to match a frequency of the resonance vibration of the dynamic-active vibration damper (7) to the vibration frequency of the treatment main unit (6 ) to adapt the outgoing oscillation.

17. The method according to claim 16, characterized in that the

Vibration frequency is measured on the support unit (3) and / or the assembly unit (5) and that the resonance vibration of the dynamic-active vibration absorber (7) acts directly or indirectly on the assembly unit (5) to compensate for the vibration of the assembly unit (5) .