Inverting Bottle Rinsing Machine (Air or Wet Rinsers)

Bottle Rinsing Machines that invert bottles for container cleaning purposes can use air, water or other cleaning solutions to remove debris from containers prior to the filling process. These inverting bottle rinsing machines use soft pad bottle grippers to prevent marring or scratching of containers as they are inverted over the rinse basin. Inverting rinsing machines can handle a wide variety of containers and materials, including both glass and plastic.

Inverting Wet Bottle Rinsing Machine

The automatic inverting wet bottle rinsing machine uses anywhere from 2 to 16 rinse heads to wash contaminants and debris from bottles prior to entering a filling machine. Depending on the product or industry, such container cleaning may be necessary to ensure that debris and remnants left in the container during the manufacturing of the container itself do not contaminate the product being filled. The wet rinser indexes bottles into the rinse area using gates (or pins), a starwheel or other indexing principles in unique cases. The number of bottles indexed into the rinsing machine during each cycle will equal to the number of rinse heads on the machine. Once in place under the rinse nozzles, the soft pads grip bottles and the rinsing carriage inverts containers over a rinse basin. Once inverted, the automatic wet rinsing machine sprays water or cleaning solution into the containers to rinse away dust, debris and contaminants. When the pre-set rinse time concludes, bottles will be returned to the conveyor to move to the filling machine.

Inverting Air Bottle Rinsing Machine

The automatic inverting air bottle rinsing machines are very similar to the wet rinsing machines. The key difference is that bottles are blasted with air, rather than water or other liquid cleaning solution, to remove dust and debris. The rinsing process remains basically the same however. Bottles are indexed into the container cleaning machine, gripped by soft pads and inverted over the rinse basin. Prior to the rinse, however, an air rinsing machine may make use of a curtain of ionized air. Bottles that pass through this curtain will lose any static charge that they may carry, insuring that dust and debris do not cling to the container and allowing for a more thorough rinse. Obviously, when using air, the need for an air knife after the rinsing process is removed.

Air rinsers can also handle a wide variety of bottles and materials, including glass and plastic. For unique containers, an air rinser can be combined with a bottle vacuum to remove the need to invert containers. The air rinser/bottle vacuum utilizes dual action nozzles that first blast containers with air and then vacuum out dust and debris into an easily removable waste reservoir. This process is completed while containers remain on the belt conveyor system. Custom container cleaning equipment can also be designed and manufactured for unique containers, production environments or packaging processes.

Working Video

Parameter

Power	220V 1Phase, 1KW
Applied Container	Plastic Bottles, Glass Bottles, Jars
Speed	25-30 bottles/min (Related to the number of rinsing heads)
Rinsing Heads	6 heads(Can be customized 2-16 heads)
Air Pressure	0.6MPA(Customized according to production)

One of the more popular rinsing machines manufactured by VKPAK is the inverting bottle rinsing machine. The bottle cleaner lifts containers from the conveyor to invert them over a rinse basin, at which time the bottles will each be blasted with air, water or other rinse media to remove the dust and debris that may contaminate the products when introduced into the bottle.

The inverting bottle rinsing machine is an automatic packaging machine that uses an indexing system to rinse multiple bottles at once. Once bottles enter the rinsing area, the machine secures the bottles with a clamp. Once secured, the containers are inverted over a rinse basin, with one nozzle for each bottle in the cycle. The nozzles then rinse the inside of the bottles using air, water, or other liquid cleaning agent, allowing the dust and debris to flow out of the bottles and in to the rinse basin. Once the rinse is complete, the bottles are returned to the conveyor, the clamp opens and clean containers can move to the filling machine to receive product. Inverting rinsing machine can handle both glass and plastic, including a range of shapes and sizes.

Operators control the rinsing machine from a simple to use touchscreen interface, allowing the setting of indexing times, rinse times and more, relayed to the machine through PLC signals. In addition, a recipe can be saved for each bottle that is rinsed, making changeover quick and simple, consisting of the pressing of several buttons and minimal physical modifications for bottle widths and heights.