Lid shaping device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9296499-B2
Application number	US-201113578144-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 10, 2011
Priority date	Feb 16, 2010
Publication date	Mar 29, 2016
Grant date	Mar 29, 2016

Abstract

The lid shaping device includes: container placing table 111 ; container lifter; lid shaping unit 112 including container mouth press 119 , annular coil spring 123 arranged in a cylindrical holder, and pusher provided above the annular coil spring and having spring pressing inner circumferential surface 127 ; and pusher driver. The device operates in the order of first lifting by the container lifter until upper part or middle part of the lid skirt is located on the inner side of the annular coil spring, lowering of the pusher for lowering the container until the spring pressing inner circumferential surface reduces the diameter of the annular coil spring, and second lifting by the container lifter for lifting the container until the lower end of the lid skirt is located on the inner side of the annular coil spring.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A lid shaping device that shapes a lid skirt of a sealed-container hermetically sealed by covering a bottomed cylindrical container body made of synthetic resin filled with liquid contents, with a molded lid made of synthetic resin having the lid skirt suspended from a peripheral edge of a disc-like lid body, the lid shaping device comprising:
a container placing table on which the sealed container is placed;
a container lifting and lowering means for lifting and lowering the container placing table;
a lid shaping unit arranged on an upper side of the container placing table, the lid shaping unit comprising a cylindrical holder having a fitting recess in which the lid skirt of the sealed container can be fit in a center of the bottom part, an annular coil spring supported on a bottomed outer edge of the cylindrical holder and capable of expanding and contracting to caulk the lid skirt of the sealed container, a pusher capable of rising and falling, provided on an upper side of the annular coil spring, having a tapered spring pressing inner circumferential surface inclining toward an upper center at its lower end that can reduce a diameter of the annular coil spring when lowering, and a container mouth pressing means provided in the fitting recess of the cylindrical holder, including a container mouth pressing member at its lower end, urged downward and capable of rising and falling; and
a pusher lifting and lowering means for lifting and lowering the pusher of the lid shaping unit, wherein
the container lifting and lowering means is a means for lowering the sealed container after performing a first lifting for lifting the sealed container until an upper part or a middle part of the lid skirt is located on an inner side of the annular coil spring and a second lifting for lifting the sealed container until a lower part of the lid skirt is located on the inner side of the annular coil spring, wherein the container lifting and lowering means comprises a lower cam including a first rising step and a second rising step, the lower cam being engaged with a cam follower provided in the container placing table to guide the container placing table,
the pusher lifting and lowering means is a means for, after lowering the pusher until the spring pressing inner circumferential surface reduces the diameter of the annular coil spring, lifting the pusher until the spring pressing inner circumferential surface releases the annular coil spring from the diameter reduction, wherein the pusher lifting and lowering means is an upper cam including a falling step provided between the first rising step and the second rising step, the upper cam being engaged with a cam follower provided in the pusher of the lid shaping unit to guide the pusher, and
the device operates in the order of the first lifting of the sealed container, the lowering of the pusher, the second lifting of the sealed container, the lifting of the pusher, and the lowering of the sealed container.

2. A liquid filling and packaging machine comprising:
a lid shaping device that shapes a lid skirt of a sealed-container hermetically sealed by covering a bottomed cylindrical container body made of synthetic resin filled with liquid contents, with a molded lid made of synthetic resin having the lid skirt suspended from a peripheral edge of a disc-like lid body;
a container supplying device that supplies a bottomed cylindrical container body made of synthetic resin to a filling device;
the filling device that fills the supplied container body with contents;
a primary lid cold molding device that molds a molded lid made of synthetic resin including a skirt suspended from a peripheral edge of a lid body from a sheet-like lid material;
a lid supplying device that supplies the molded lid to an upper end opening of the container body filled with the contents; and
a sealing device that seals the upper end opening of the container body with the molded lid to form a sealed container,
wherein the container supplying device, the filling device, the primary lid cold molding device, the lid supplying device and the sealing device are provided upstream of the lid shaping device,
wherein the lid shaping device comprises:
a container placing table on which the sealed container is placed;
a container lifting and lowering means for lifting and lowering the container placing table;
a lid shaping unit arranged on an upper side of the container placing table, the lid shaping unit comprising a cylindrical holder having a fitting recess in which the lid skirt of the sealed container can be fit in a center of the bottom part, an annular coil spring supported on a bottomed outer edge of the cylindrical holder and capable of expanding and contracting to caulk the lid skirt of the sealed container, a pusher capable of rising and falling, provided on an upper side of the annular coil spring, having a tapered spring pressing inner circumferential surface inclining toward an upper center at its lower end that can reduce a diameter of the annular coil spring when lowering, and a container mouth pressing means provided in the fitting recess of the cylindrical holder, including a container mouth pressing member at its lower end, urged downward and capable of rising and falling; and
a pusher lifting and lowering means for lifting and lowering the pusher of the lid shaping unit, wherein
the container lifting and lowering means is a means for lowering the sealed container after performing a first lifting for lifting the sealed container until an upper part or a middle part of the lid skirt is located on an inner side of the annular coil spring and a second lifting for lifting the sealed container until a lower part of the lid skirt is located on the inner side of the annular coil spring, wherein the container lifting and lowering means is a lower cam including a first rising step and a second rising step, the lower cam being engaged with a cam follower provided in the container placing table to guide the container placing table,
the pusher lifting and lowering means is a means for, after lowering the pusher until the spring pressing inner circumferential surface reduces the diameter of the annular coil spring, lifting the pusher until the spring pressing inner circumferential surface releases the annular coil spring from the diameter reduction, wherein the pusher lifting and lowering means is an upper cam including a falling step provided between the first rising step and the second rising step, the upper cam being engaged with a cam follower provided in the pusher of the lid shaping unit to guide the pusher, and
the device operates in the order of the first lifting of the sealed container, the lowering of the pusher, the second lifting of the sealed container, the lifting of the pusher, and the lowering of the sealed container.

3. The liquid filling and packaging machine according to claim 2 , wherein the sealing device is an ultrasonic sealing device that, while the container body on which the molded lid is placed rotationally moves, ultrasonically seals the upper end opening of the container body with the molded lid to form a sealed container.

4. A method for producing a lid shaped sealed container comprising shaping a lid skirt using a lid shaping device, after covering a bottomed cylindrical container body made of synthetic resin filled with liquid contents with a molded lid made of synthetic resin including the lid skirt suspended from a peripheral edge of a disc-like lid body to hermetically seal the bottomed cylindrical container body, the method comprising:
placing the sealed container on a container placing table;
lifting the sealed container placed on the container placing table with a container lifting and lowering means, fitting the lid skirt of the sealed container in a cylindrical hol

Assignees

• Masuda Tomoyuki
• Miki Yoshifumi
• Okamoto Takakazu
• Yakult Honsha Kk
• Shikoku Kakoki Co Ltd

Inventors

• Masuda Tomoyuki
• Miki Yoshifumi
• Okamoto Takakazu

Classifications

• B65B7/285 Primary

  by deformation of the closure · CPC title

• B67B3/026

  the caps being made of thermoplastic material (B67B3/023 takes precedence) · CPC title