Talking about the Development of Wine Filling Equipment

With the development of science and technology and the integration with the international market, products for the food industry must not only have high and new scientific and technological content, qualified product quality and exquisite appearance of packaging, and its quantitative packaging must be up to standard. Only in this way can we become brand-name products in similar products, products that consumers trust. Quantitative packaging is particularly important for manufacturers engaged in wine production. The selection and use of advanced filling machines, especially high-precision filling machines, will not only enable companies to easily achieve quantitative packaging, but also improve their image and product competitiveness. It also protects the rights and interests of consumers, relieves the worries of enterprises, and brings considerable benefits.

The current status of domestic wine filling equipment Currently, the filling machines used by domestic wine manufacturers can be roughly divided into two types from the principle of filling: negative pressure filling machines and quantitative fillings machine. For the wine industry, high-precision, high-efficiency, multiple specifications, multiple bottle types, and automation are their goals. However, at present, the filling sails of various equipment manufacturers have their own advantages and disadvantages in terms of filling capacity, efficiency, suitable bottle type range, and degree of automation. This restricts the product packaging quality and productivity of the wine industry in different degrees, especially the packaging capacity problem, it is the industry's confusion, and it is an urgent problem to be solved.

At present, many wineries use negative pressure and other liquid level fillers to control liquid level rather than control capacity. There are three drawbacks to the filling principle and structural characteristics.

Due to the combined effects of bottle height, bottle diameter, and wall thickness error, bottle volume error is more than ten milliliters or even tens of milliliters, resulting in great errors in filling. In order to achieve the filling volume standard, some wineries will adjust the average filling volume to be higher than the nominal capacity, resulting in some higher than the nominal capacity of a few milliliters or even a dozen millilitres, causing a large number of liquor loss in vain; some less than the nominal capacity Even milliliters or even more than ten milliliters, this kind of non-manual lack of Jinshao two strokes to complaints and fines, so many companies worry about the whole day.

The following three conditions (caused by the quality of the bottle or the recycling of the bottle) do not result in filling or insufficient filling, which increases the workload and affects the automation and productivity of the production.

Slight bottle error in the height of the bottle slightly tilted slightly uneven mouth The vacuum chamber has a large volatilization area, easy to get rid of the aroma, reduce the alcohol content, resulting in a lot of economic losses.

Based on the above situation, some wineries choose quantitative cup filling sails to solve the problem of inaccurate quantitative. For the quantitative cup filling machine, for the moment, the structure principle and filling accuracy are not ideal. (Filling accuracy is generally around ±0.5%). If we can develop a filling machine with a precision of 0.2%, it will undoubtedly be a boon to the wine industry.
The following uses a 16-head filling machine as an example to illustrate that the error of each bottle caused by different filling accuracy is △=500 (ml/bottle)×0.5%−500 (ml/bottle)×0.2%=1.5 (ml / Bottle) (calculated with the maximum deviation).

Calculated with 2.5 yuan/500ml wine. Single-year annual savings: 270 (days) × 16 (hours) × 4000 (bottles/hour) × 1.5 (m1/bottle) × 2.5 (yuan)/500 (ml) = 12.96 (ten thousand yuan), The benefits of high-end wine are even more impressive.

Prospects for future beverage filling equipment The current status of basic beverage filling equipment and the problems that the wine industry expects to solve will be forwarded to the development of filling equipment in the food and packaging machinery industry.

High-precision: The use of transfer type precision filling valve or electronic valve, so that the filling accuracy of ± 0.2%.

High efficiency: Frequency control, 250 to 350 bottles per hour per valve (Of course, in practice, the filling speed is related to the type of liquid, temperature, viscosity, foaming and bottle type);

Large range: Suitable for bottle size 100 ~ 430mm, bottle diameter Φ50 ~ 110mm, capacity 250 ~ 750ml multi-standard filling.

No fluid loss: The use of internal valve lift structure, filling valve seal tight and reliable, no leakage, no bottle no irrigation.

Automated, no broken bottle: The bottle height error automatically adapts, the bottle neck is automatically guided, the bottle is automatically tilted, the card bottle is automatically stopped, and the electrical protection function is complete.

Replacement of parts is convenient: For the bottle diameter and bottle type, it is convenient to replace the components of the mechanism.

Fully compatible: all kinds of glass, porcelain, plastic, ceramic bottles and cans can be automated or semi-automatic operations.

Low price: Strive for optimal design, compact structure, advanced performance, and low price.

From the above these assumptions and prospects are realistic and feasible. It is hoped that the food and packaging machinery industry will be able to integrate the advantages of all parties, optimize the design of the system structure, and make greater contributions to China's food and packaging industry. (Text / Li Guiping)