DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF USER DEFINED

GRAVITY BASED LIQUID FILLING MACHINE

Fillers (or filling machines) are used for packaging, mainly for
food/beverage but for other products as well. These are used to fill either a
bottle or a pouch, depending on the product.
There are several types of fillers used by the packaging industry. The
following are the most common:

Auger/agitator flling machines: designed to fill dry mixes, such as

flour and sugar. The fillers have a hopper shaped like a cone that holds
the mix and puts it in a pouch using an auger screw that is controlled
by the agitator. The mix is filled in a pouch that is made of paper or
poly that is formed in a collar and the pouch gets sealed by a series of
heaters and dies.

Flow filling machines: designed for liquids, oils, and thin food
products. These fillers are designed when they fill a bottle or tub that
enters the machine, the ejects the open bottle back onto another
conveyor for sealing.

Tablet fillers: These are designed for products that are counted by
pieces instead of weight. These are designed for small bottles (similar
to some of the flow fillers), but the hopper of the filler is set up to
permit scan counting of tablets or candy pieces.

Positive displacement pump fillers: positive displacement, pump

filling machines easily handle a wide range of container sizes, fill
volumes and product types. While originally designed for filling creams,
gels and lotions these fillers also handle water thin and heavy paste
products. Some of the products this machine easily fills are cosmetic
creams, heavy sauces, thick shampoo and hair conditioners, honey,
hair gels, paste cleaners, and car wax. With simple tool-less cleaning
and our PLC control system, product changeover is fast and easy
making these our most versatile fillers.

Vertical form fill sealing machine

In this project the liquid filling process is simplified and user defined
so as to accomplish accurate and easy filling process.

MODEL

Funnel

Stan
d

Nozzl
e

Floa
t

Solenoid
valve

Control
panel

Major parts
Funnel
Stand
Nozzle
Solenoid
Control panel to control the timing of operation of solenoid valve

Description
The upper head that is the tunnel is filled with any liquid (oil, juice etc) upto
the mark of the float.
The liquid passes through the pipe below the funnel but the flow is restricted
by the solenoid.
The solenoid flow control valve operates on the basis of time required to fill a
cup or bottle.
The timing of the control valve is controlled by a controller.
Initially any container to be filled is placed below the nozzle and time is set
on the control panel.
After the time is set any number of containers can be filled by placing it one
after another.
A switch is pressed for the liquid to flow for a predefined time. The switch has
to be pressed only once to begin the process for each container.

Advantages
Filling process is easy to operate by any unskilled operator.
Maintenance is easy since fewer parts are involved.
Filling is accurate and user defined.