KHS Innoclean Bottle Washer (2007)

Overview

This KHS Innoclean is a single-end bottle washer for returnable glass bottles, built in 2007. It cleans and de-labels empty bottles before filling. The bottles are pushed into the cells of the carrier baskets, run on heavy roller chains through a pre-soak, two pre-warming baths, the main caustic soak with under- and over-caustic label flushing and three water spray zones, and are handed back onto the bottle conveyor at the discharge.

Nineteen bottles are handled across the machine width in 4,275 cells. Output is adjustable between 2,800 and 14,500 bottles per hour; the machine was configured for 13,200 bottles per hour of 0.75 l glass bottles at 18.7 minutes total dwell time and 10.8 minutes of caustic contact.

In 2022 KHS modernised drive and operator station. The machine runs the Triple-i-Drive with individual servo-controlled geared motors and is operated from a capacitive multi-touch panel with a graphical, component-based interface and RFID user login. The modernisation is covered by a KHS manual supplement dated November 2022.

Technical data

• Manufacturer: KHS
• Model: Innoclean
• Machine type: single-end bottle washer (soaker)
• Year of manufacture: 2007
• Drive and control modernisation by KHS: 2022
• Output range: 2,800 - 14,500 bottles/h
• Design output: 13,200 bottles/h, 0.75 l glass bottle, 0.68 kg
• Bottles across machine width: 19
• Carrier baskets: 225, of which 217 loaded
• Cell pitch: 105 mm; carrier chain pitch 169 mm
• Bottle diameter: 54.0 - 89.5 mm (plastic cells)
• Bottle height: 180 - 340 mm
• Bath volumes: main caustic soak 23.0 m³, pre-soaks 0.9 and 1.1 m³, after-caustic 0.3 m³, spray zones 0.4 m³ each
• Power supply: 400 V, 50 Hz, TN-S, 113 A nominal current, 125 A slow supply fuse; control voltage 24 V DC
• Water consumption: 3.56 m³/h, 270 ml per bottle
• Compressed air: 1.0 Nm³/h at 3 bar
• Overall dimensions: 11,040 x 4,470 x H 3,438 mm (length including infeed table)
• Conveyor infeed height 720 mm, discharge height 1,690 mm
• Machine weight approx. 33.5 t, operating weight approx. 62.6 t
• Largest transport segment: 4,410 x 4,100 x 3,370 mm, approx. 7.3 t
• Enclosure type 12; CE marked

Equipment

• Triple-i-Drive: worm gearboxes with individual geared motors, each on its own servo inverter with synchronisation and individual overload protection
• Servo-driven infeed and discharge segments with brake motors
• Capacitive multi-touch operator panel, graphical interface with component views, RFID card reader
• Gearbox monitoring with torque protection
• Two pre-warming immersion baths and main caustic immersion bath
• Under-caustic and over-caustic label flushing, bottle base spray-off
• Automatic label discharge over a full-width sieve belt with brush take-off
• Sieve tub filtration and after-caustic circuit for long caustic service life
• Automatic level control and automatic caustic dosing
• Three water spray zones, internal and external, with rotating fresh-water spray
• Vapour extraction and plate heat exchanger
• Siemens SIMOTION D and SINAMICS drive cabinet
• Original KHS documentation: operating manual, 2022 supplement, spare parts list

Condition

Used, technically complete. The machine is still installed and under power at its production site; the photographs and the video show it in operation.

Availability

Immediately. The machine will be dismantled and relocated to Germany. Viewing by arrangement; dismantling, loading and transport can be quoted on request.