A cap sterilization device (50) includes an introduction unit (52), a sterilant spraying unit (53) that sprays a sterilant onto a cap (33) supplied from the introduction unit (52), an air-rinsing unit (54) that subjects the cap (33) onto which the sterilant has been sprayed by the sterilant spraying unit (53) to air-rinsing, and a conveyance guide (70) that is disposed to extend successively through the introduction unit (52), the sterilant spraying unit (53), and the air-rinsing unit (54) and along which the cap (33) is conveyed from the introduction unit (52) toward the air-rinsing unit (54). The air-rinsing unit (54) is provided with an air-rinsing nozzle (83) that supplies hot air to the cap (33). The air-rinsing nozzle (83) is disposed such that a distal end (83a) thereof is in front of a proximal end (83b) thereof in a conveying direction of the conveyance guide (70).

A palletizing device of container packs, being of a sliding table type, including a structure and a loading surface of the packs with side-by-side parallel rollers mounted on mobile frames with a freely rotation, with two side parts movable from a closed position to an opened position, and reversely, wherein when a locking system of the rollers with a locking means with a cart with a locker mobile from a folded position to an unfolded position, and reversely, is in the unfolded position, the locker is blocking the freely rotation of the rollers, and the locking system has a fixed locking actuator cooperating with the locking actuator to move the locker from the folded position to the unfolded position to lock the rollers of the two sides parts during the movement from the closed to the opened position.

A plant for producing and treating containers includes a clean room, a production machine for producing preforms, a blow-molding machine arranged downstream of the production machine for shaping the preforms into containers and a container treatment machine arranged downstream of the blow-molding machine for treating the containers. The production machine, the blow-molding machine and the container treatment machine are arranged in the clean room, and each component of the production machine, the blow-molding machine and the container treatment machine that comes into physical contact with a preform or a container consists of or comprises sterilization-proof material.

A preform is heated, the heated preform is sealed in a sealing apparatus including a neck portion mold, a trunk portion mold and a bottom portion mold at a predetermined temperature range, and the heated preform sealed in the molds is blow-molded into a bottle. Any molded bottle is removed if the mold surface temperature of the neck portion mold, the trunk portion mold and the bottom portion mold are outside of the predetermined temperature range. A sterilizer is blasted to any molded bottle not removed when the mold surface temperature of all of the molds is in the predetermined temperature range.

The present invention relates to a compact bottle processing device comprising: an automatic bottle conveyor unit for moving a plurality of bottles along a closed circuit, a gripping area enabling an operator to place a bottle from the plurality of bottles on the conveyor unit and/or to pick up a bottle from the plurality of bottles on the conveyor unit, a bottle cleaning station, a bottle filling station, a bottle encapsulation station,
each of these stations being arranged along the closed circuit, so that a bottle passes successively through the cleaning station, the filling station and the encapsulation station as it is moved by the conveyor unit, wherein a length of the closed circuit is less than or equal to 20 m, preferably less than 15 m.

The invention also relates to a method of processing bottles using the device described above.

The present disclosure provides a fully automated filling line for tissue culture flasks and a control method therefor. The line covers stations for material loading, flask loading, flask sorting, flask righting, degreasing, cleaning, filling, cap screwing, material unloading, transferring, sterilization, etc. Through the collaborative operation of a mechanical arm and a conveying line, an automatic processing flow of tissue culture flasks is achieved. The flask righting station accurately detects and processes a fallen flask through an image recognition algorithm. A visual detection mechanism includes steps of image collection, preprocessing, and feature extraction and matching, where camera parameters are optimized according to a conveying speed and a light intensity, image quality is improved through a composite filtering and correction algorithm, and a plurality of feature group vectors are extracted and input into a model to recognize a flask posture.

A content-filling system (10) includes a water sterilization line (50) that sterilizes water, an undiluted-solution sterilization line (70) that sterilizes a product undiluted solution, a water-filling device (21) that is connected to the water sterilization line (50) and is disposed in a first sterile chamber (70f), an undiluted-solution-filling device (22) that is connected to the undiluted-solution sterilization line (70) and is disposed in a second sterile chamber (70h), and a control unit (90) that controls the water-filling device (21) and the undiluted-solution-filling device (22). The control unit (90) causes the inside of the second sterile chamber (70h) to be cleaned with the inside of the first sterile chamber (70f) kept sterile. The control unit (90) causes the inside of the second sterile chamber (70h) to be sterilized with the inside of the first sterile chamber (70f) kept sterile.

A sterile filling method for an additive product container defining a product chamber adapted for containing an additive product can include forcing a first gas at a first temperature into the product chamber over a first threshold period to heat the product chamber to a first threshold temperature, such as to sterilize the product chamber. The sterile filling method can further include dispensing the additive product at a second temperature into the product chamber, sealing the product chamber; and, rotating the additive product container from a first position to a second position, such as to bring the additive product into contact with a sealing member sealing the product chamber.

A sterilization line comprising upstream-side and downstream-side tanks for storing liquid which are connected by a conduit for transferring the liquid, holding tubes for sterilizing the liquid which are disposed in an intermediate section of the conduit, heating units for heating the liquid in stages which are disposed in a section of the conduit from the upstream-side tank to the holding tubes, and cooling units for cooling the product liquid in stages which are disposed in a section of the conduit from the holding tubes to the downstream-side tank. A swing bend is used to perform switching between a section of a liquid flow path located on the upstream side of multiple intermediate piping systems and a cleaning solution path for a cleaning-in-place operation and switching between a section of the liquid flow path located on the downstream side and the cleaning solution path for the cleaning-in-place operation.

The present disclosure provides a fully automated filling line for tissue culture flasks and a control method therefor. The line covers stations for material loading, flask loading, flask sorting, flask righting, degreasing, cleaning, filling, cap screwing, material unloading, transferring, sterilization, etc. Through the collaborative operation of a mechanical arm and a conveying line, an automatic processing flow of tissue culture flasks is achieved. The flask righting station accurately detects and processes a fallen flask through an image recognition algorithm. A visual detection mechanism includes steps of image collection, preprocessing, and feature extraction and matching, where camera parameters are optimized according to a conveying speed and a light intensity, image quality is improved through a composite filtering and correction algorithm, and a plurality of feature group vectors are extracted and input into a model to recognize a flask posture.