KHS Innoclean Bottle Washer (2007)

Overview

This KHS Innoclean single-end bottle washer for returnable glass bottles was built in 2007. It cleans and de-labels empty bottles before filling: bottles are pushed into carrier-basket cells, 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, then handed back onto the bottle conveyor at discharge.

Nineteen bottles run across the machine width in 4,275 cells; output range and design output are given below under Technical data. At design output, total dwell time is 18.7 minutes, including 10.8 minutes of caustic contact.

KHS modernised the drive and operator station in 2022: Triple-i-Drive and a capacitive multi-touch panel with RFID login, detailed under Equipment. A KHS manual supplement dated November 2022 covers the upgrade.

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, 125 A slow 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 (incl. infeed table)
• Conveyor heights: infeed 720 mm, discharge 1,690 mm
• Weight approx.: 33.5 t machine, 62.6 t operating
• 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 and main caustic immersion baths, with under- and over-caustic label flushing and bottle base spray-off
• Automatic label discharge over a full-width sieve belt with brush take-off
• Automatic level control and caustic dosing; sieve tub filtration and after-caustic circuit for long caustic service life
• 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. Still installed and under power at its production site; photographs and video show it running.

Availability

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