Overview 

The bottle washer was manufactured in 1998 by the German company Krones. It is located at a German mineral fountain and is part of a line that has been shut down because the operator will be bottling in glass in the future and no longer in PET. The bottle washer is still assembled. 

Technical data 

• Capacity: 44,000 bph 
• Control range: 17,000 - 50,000 bph 
• Bottles per row: 35 

The Machine in Detail / Equipment Features

• Residual emptying
• Pre-soak/ pre-caustic
• High pressure pre-spraying with automatic screen discharge
• Machine multi-part with 3 shocks
• Pre-soak, water zone incl. head section
• Discharge in V2A
• Post-leach immersion bath KES
• Post-leaching area in V2A 
• Bottle cell in steel with plastic mouth
• Feeding table in VA
• Insertion finger feed with safety shutdown
• Discharge with pick-up finger and safety cut-out
• Muzzle basket control at the ejector
• Shard ejector behind the delivery with
• Shard collecting tray
• Insulated area
  • the side walls in the area of the pre-liquor and main liquor as well as post-liquor
  • the roof in the area of the main liquor and the final liquor
  • the exchange lines
• Label collecting belt in V2A with plastic belt
• Sieves
  • Autom. fine screen discharge post leach, warm water 1 and 2
  • Cold water, with intermittent sieve belts and sieve belt rinsing for basic machine and pre-suds
  • Additional rinsing pipes in the screen boxes
• KRONES rotary pipe spray
• Degassing: steam exhaust fan in V2A with throttle valve
• Heating 
  • Designed for a heating water system with a flow temperature of less than 120 degrees C
  • Heating medium: heating water 108 degrees C inlet temperature
• Concentration measurement
  • Caustic concentration measuring system in the main caustic with display on the touch screen
  • Main leach concentration 1.5%
  • Caustic concentration measuring system in the pre-caustic tank with display on the touch screen
  • Pre-leach concentration min. 1%
  • Conductivity controlled post leach
• Central lubrication: 
  • Make Lincoln
  • Lubrication lines made of V2A (partly of plastic)
• Complete temperature control
• Jam - lack - regulation with autom. restart in stop and go mode