Distribution system of pet bottle for drinking water and beverage

Abstract

A system for a PET bottle body for drinking water and beverage using a container in a bellows shape, in which a series of steps for housing and transporting a large quantity of PET bottle bodies at one time from a manufacturing step, to a charging factory of content and after the PET bottle bodies are emptied are performed accurately, reliably and easily is proposed. When the PET bottle body charged with mineral water or juice are purchased and the mineral water or juice is drunken, the volume and height of the PET bottle body can be reduced corresponding to the emptied amount, and after the PET bottle body is emptied, the PET bottle body is compressed in the vertical direction by being crushed, so that the PET bottle body can be discarded in a state in which its volume is much smaller than the predetermined volume and its height is very low.

1 . A distribution system for PET bottles for drinking water and beverage in a process of an operation of manufacturing the PET bottle bodies for mineral water, juice and the like to disposal of the PET bottle bodies after the mineral water, the juice and the like are drunken up, comprising: 
 (1) a step of forming a PET bottle body, in which a part or all of the PET bottle body except for vertical width of a mouth section of an upper end portion is in a bellows shape in a horizontal direction, into a predetermined volume and height;    (2) a step of performing a forming work to compress this formed PET bottle body in a vertical direction to be much smaller in volume than said predetermined volume and very low in height, and to make it possible to keep the compression state at a normal temperature;    (3) a step of transporting the compressed PET bottle bodies to a charging factory of mineral water, juice and the like while keeping the state;    (4) a step of expanding the PET bottle body again to the volume and height at the time of the above-described forming when air is forced into the PET bottle body, or the PET bottle body is sterilized or cleaned, or on the occasion of an operation of charging the PET bottle body with mineral water, juice and the like in the charging factory; and    (5) a step of transporting the PET bottle bodies with the predetermined volume and height, which are charged with the mineral water, juice and the like, to wholesalers or retailers,    wherein when the PET bottle body charge with the mineral water, juice or the like is purchased and the mineral water or juice is drunken, the volume and height of the PET bottle body can be reduced corresponding to an emptied amount, and after the mineral water, juice or the like is finished, the PET bottle body is compressed in a vertical direction by being crushed, so that the PET bottle can be discarded in a state with a much smaller volume than said predetermined volume and very low height.