Possible causes for contamination of filled products:






In case such bottles, contaminated with foreign bodies, reach the customer undesired and expensive complaints, call back
actions up to claims for damages can not be excluded. The
resulting damage of the image for the product and the brand
is an unpredictable risk that should be avoided best possible.

   bottle bursts in the filler
   misadjusted filling valves
   faulty caps
   bad bottle material
   fmissing or insufficient empty bottle inspection

Traditional prevention procedures as bottle burst management or
optical inspections are only temporarily solutions or insufficient or
expensive. The descending of the critical foreign bodies (glass splinters)
to the bottom of the bottle disables the efficiency of standard X-Ray systems,
that radiographs the containers on the side whereby sufficient results can be reached only with extraordinary effort.

In BBULL PROTECX the bottles are turned upside down by a clamp conveyor. After
sufficient time the heavy foreign body has descented from the bottle bottom to the
closure where it will be detected reliably with X-Ray technology. The radiograph of the
top of the bottle has the advantage of constant conditions as well as less energy is
needed for the inspection.
Before turning the bottle an optional image processing system can be included which
inspects the top area of the bottle for floating foreign bodies (floaters).

FEATURES

low X-ray radiation for ultimate performances

linear, low-cost detector cells

low maintenance and spare part costs

minimum effort for changing the format

short-time changeovers, no change parts

automatic contrast calibration for self-adjustment      of the inspection software

continuous teach-in of test samples during      running process

integrated tracking module for tracing the bottles      through the system

scalable system design for different performances

modular design for integration of additional detections:      floating particle detection (floater)      fill level and cap inspection      filler management      rejection system

reliable and robust engineering

safe lifting and returning of the bottle

APPLICATION

detection of foreign bodies in filled and closed      beverage bottles

detection of glass objects down to 2 mm diameter

detection of metal bodies down to 1 mm diameter

detection of dense plastic and rubber parts

detection of floating particles by image processing