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.