METHOD FOR CLEANING CONTAINERS AND CLEANING MACHINE
First Claim
1. Method for cleaning containers, in a cleaning machine, in which in several stations and process steps, at least one cleaning medium is allowed to act on the containers conveyed by the cleaning machine, comprising intensively cleaning the containers in at least one station preferential for a final cleaning effect and/or in at least one process step selected in view of the final cleaning effect with at least one, essentially chemical-free cleaning medium.
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Abstract
A method for cleaning containers, in particular bottles of glass or plastics, and a cleaning machine with at least one cleaning medium, with the containers cleaned at least in one station preferential for the cleaning result and/or in a procedure step with at least essentially chemical-free cleaning media. The cleaning medium is advantageously a granular material, in particular granular ice, carried under pressure with compressed air or compressed water. The cleaning machine suited for carrying out the method includes downstream of an unpacking and presoaking station, a pre-cleaning station with a high pressure water blasting pre-cleaning section, and subsequently an intensive cleaning station with at least one intensive cleaning section to which a pressure blasting system for chemical-free, granular material and a carrier medium are associated, and a disinfection station following the intensive cleaning station.
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- 1. Method for cleaning containers, in a cleaning machine, in which in several stations and process steps, at least one cleaning medium is allowed to act on the containers conveyed by the cleaning machine, comprising intensively cleaning the containers in at least one station preferential for a final cleaning effect and/or in at least one process step selected in view of the final cleaning effect with at least one, essentially chemical-free cleaning medium.
- 11. Cleaning machine for containers having several stations arranged along at least one container handling and conveyor line, in which containers conveyed by the cleaning machines are cleaned, wherein in a pre-cleaning station arranged downstream of an unpacking and presoaking station, a high pressure water blasting and presoaking-pre-cleaning section is provided, followed downstream by an intensive cleaning station with at least one intensive cleaning section and at least one pressure blasting system including a chemical-free, granular material and a pressurized carrier medium for the granular material, associated with at least an initial region of the intensive cleaning section, and downstream of the intensive cleaning stations at least one container disinfection station is provided.
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