(19)
(11) EP 1 262 447 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
05.03.2003 Bulletin 2003/10

(43) Date of publication A2:
04.12.2002 Bulletin 2002/49

(21) Application number: 02011751.1

(22) Date of filing: 27.05.2002
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)7: B67C 7/00
(84) Designated Contracting States:
AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE TR
Designated Extension States:
AL LT LV MK RO SI

(30) Priority: 30.05.2001 EP 01830347

(71) Applicant: PROCOMAC S.p.A.
43038 Sala Baganza (IT)

(72) Inventor:
  • Nervo, Giovanni
    43036 Fidenza (Parma) (IT)

(74) Representative: Gotra, Stefano 
Bugnion S.p.A. Via Garibaldi 22
43100 Parma
43100 Parma (IT)

   


(54) Apparatus for sterilising movable means in bottling machines


(57) An apparatus for the sterilisation of movable means (12, 50) and provided with alternating motion and able to pass from a sterile area (23) to a non sterile area, is characterised in that it comprises heating means (25, 26) acting in correspondence with a localised and restricted area of the movable means (12, 50) proximate to the sterile area (23) to keep it at such a temperature as to guarantee its sterility so that the remaining part of each movable means (12, 50) is not heated by the heating means (25, 26).
The movable means can be the drawing rods of a blower, the stems (50) of a jack for lifting containers in a filling machine, or the shafts (12) supporting a capping head.






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