Patent ID: 7509786
Filing Date: 2009-03-31
Classification: B65C,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A beverage bottling plant for filling beverage bottles with liquid beverage material, said beverage bottling plant comprising: a beverage bottle cleaning machine being configured and disposed to clean beverage bottles; a feed arrangement to supply beverage bottles to said beverage bottle cleaning machine; a beverage filling machine being configured and disposed to fill beverage bottles with liquid beverage material; said beverage filling machine comprising a plurality of beverage filling devices for filling beverage bottles with liquid beverage material; at least one storage unit being configured and disposed to store a supply of liquid beverage material; at least one supply line being configured and disposed to connect said at least one storage unit to said beverage filling machine to supply liquid beverage material to said beverage filling machine; a first conveyer arrangement being configured and disposed to move beverage bottles from said beverage bottle cleaning machine into said beverage filling machine; a beverage bottle closing machine being configured and disposed to close filled beverage bottles; a second conveyer arrangement being configured and disposed to move filled beverage bottles from said beverage filling machine into said beverage bottle closing machine; a beverage bottle labeling station being configured and disposed to label filled, closed beverage bottles; a third conveyor arrangement being configured and disposed to move filled, closed beverage bottles from said beverage bottle closing machine into said beverage bottle labeling station; a beverage bottle packing station being configured and disposed to package labeled, filled, closed beverage bottles; a fourth conveyor arrangement being configured and disposed to move labeled, filled, closed beverage bottles from said beverage bottle labeling station to said beverage bottle packing station; a computer control system being configured and disposed to monitor and control operation of said beverage bottling plant; said beverage bottle labeling station comprising: said computer control system being operatively connected to said transmission arrangement to control the operation of said transmission arrangement in the movements of (A), (B), (C), (D), (E), and (F), and combinations thereof, and thus to control the movement of said support table to thus orient said gripper cylinder with respect to bottles in said rotary bottle carrier to permit smooth attachment of labels in a desired position on the bottles; and said computer control system being configured and operatively connected to send signals to actuate said transmission arrangement to adjust the position of said support table, and thus said gripper cylinder, upon receipt of inspection data from said label position control device indicating an error in the attachment of labels, or upon receipt of data indicating a change in the type of labels being used or the type of bottles being labeled, to thus orient said gripper cylinder with respect to bottles in said rotary bottle carrier to permit smooth attachment of labels in a desired position on the bottles.