METHOD AND DEVICE USED FOR THE SEPARATE TREATMENT OF INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS OF PACKAGING UNITS FORMED BY PRIMARY, SECONDARY AND TERTIARY PACKAGINGS

• Main Authors: GUT, Tobias, KIRZINGER, Johannes
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 06.10.2022
• Subjects: BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; CLEANING; CLEANING IN GENERAL; CLEANING, FILLING WITH LIQUIDS OR SEMILIQUIDS, OR EMPTYING, OFBOTTLES, JARS, CANS, CASKS, BARRELS, OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS, NOTOTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; CONVEYING; FUNNELS; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES; LIQUID HANDLING; OPENING, CLOSING; PACKING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PREVENTION OF FOULING IN GENERAL; STORING; TRANSPORTING

Disclosed is a treatment device and/or cleaning device (10), with at least three treatment stations and/or cleaning stations (26, 36, 42), as well as a method used for the separate treatment of individual components of packaging units (14) formed in each instance by primary, secondary, and tertiary packagings.The primary packagings are in each instance gathered together in secondary packagings as groups of two or more individual primary packagings. In addition, at least two such secondary packagings are accommodated in a tertiary packaging.The device (10) comprises at least one separating station (16, 20, 48) used for the separation of the packaging units (14) into their individual components to be treated, as well as at least three cleaning stations (24, 34, 40) and/or inspection stations used for the separate treatment of the primary, secondary, and tertiary packagings, said cleaning stations (24, 34, 40) and/or inspection stations being arranged downstream of the at least one separating station (16, 20, 48).The corresponding method provides the separation of the packaging units (14) into their individual components to be treated and the cleaning and/or inspection of at least the primary packagings as well as the cleaning and/or inspection of the secondary packagings performed separately therefrom and/or the cleaning and/or inspection of the tertiary packagings performed separately therefrom.