CA1172950A - Packing machine such as a packing table for wrapping up goods in a plastics foil - Google Patents
Packing machine such as a packing table for wrapping up goods in a plastics foilInfo
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Abstract
ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE
A packing machine such as a packing table for wrap-ping up goods, e.g. articles of food, in a plastics foil taken off from a supply has a heatable tear-off edge for separating from the supply, by thermal action on the foil, a piece of foil to be used for the wrapping.
With a view to avoiding that this thermal action on the foil should result in a combustion proper producing troublesome and possibly detrimental vapours or gases, without necessitating special temperature control cir-cuits, a tear-off edge, which can be provided on a rod-shaped tube having a triangular or rectangular profile, has as a heating body one or more PTC elements which can be inserted in this tube.
A packing machine such as a packing table for wrap-ping up goods, e.g. articles of food, in a plastics foil taken off from a supply has a heatable tear-off edge for separating from the supply, by thermal action on the foil, a piece of foil to be used for the wrapping.
With a view to avoiding that this thermal action on the foil should result in a combustion proper producing troublesome and possibly detrimental vapours or gases, without necessitating special temperature control cir-cuits, a tear-off edge, which can be provided on a rod-shaped tube having a triangular or rectangular profile, has as a heating body one or more PTC elements which can be inserted in this tube.
Description
} ! 729~n Packing machine such as a packing table for wrapping up goods in a plastics foil.
The present invention relates to a packing machine 5 such as a packing table for wrapping up goods in a plastics foil taken off from a supply, and where pro-vision is made of a heatable tear-off edge for separating from the supply, by thermal action on the foil, a piece of foil to be used for the wrapping.
For wrapping goods, in particular articles of food, in a plastics foil, it is known to use packing tables provided with a heating wire or heating rod for cutting the foil pieces used for wrapping up the indi-vidual articles.
The heating wire or rod which acts as a cutting or tear-off edge is a resistance wire or a hollow rod provided with a resistance heating element of con-ventional type heated by passage of current, and when the foil which for instance is drawn in the desired
The present invention relates to a packing machine 5 such as a packing table for wrapping up goods in a plastics foil taken off from a supply, and where pro-vision is made of a heatable tear-off edge for separating from the supply, by thermal action on the foil, a piece of foil to be used for the wrapping.
For wrapping goods, in particular articles of food, in a plastics foil, it is known to use packing tables provided with a heating wire or heating rod for cutting the foil pieces used for wrapping up the indi-vidual articles.
The heating wire or rod which acts as a cutting or tear-off edge is a resistance wire or a hollow rod provided with a resistance heating element of con-ventional type heated by passage of current, and when the foil which for instance is drawn in the desired
2~ lengths from a supply roller is brought into contact with the heating wire, it will be separated or cut at $he area of contact as a result of the decomposing action of the heat on the plastics material.
The temperature at which the heating wire or rod 25 acts on the plastics foil is, however, very critical.
If the temperature is too low, the cutting effect will be insufficient and if it is too high, the decomposition of the plastics material may result in a combustion producing vapours and/or gases and also in many cases 30 ashes, which is troublesome and sometimes detrimental to the operator of the machine and, in any case, unacceptable when the packing machine is used for wrapping up articles of food, e.g. meat products, which may be cont~minated thereby. Known packing machines of 35 the type in question are therefore provided with complicated control circuits to ensure that the correct temperaiure of the heating wire or rod is kept '~
~ I7295() accurately, which is however extremely difficult to achieve with an ordinary resistance wire or resistance heating element which is, moreover, cooled each time the ` plastics foil is cut, this taking place at varying 5 intervals, whereafter the heating wire or rod will have to be rapidly brought back to the desired temperature but not above this, so that in many cases, in particular in machines for wrapping up articles of food, the control circuits require accurate and quick-acting temperature 10 sensors or some other sensitive equipment.
These control circuits complicate the packing machines and make them more expensive and at the same time more vulnerable to damages and defects, so that regular periodic controls are necessary.
The invention has for its object to provide a packing machine such as a packing table which prevents effectively the formation of injurious gases or vapours, when plastics foil lengths are cut or torn off by thermal action thereon and which therefore can also be used for 20 packing articles of food, said machine being nevertheless of simple, cheap and robust construction, so that it can stand a rough treatment.
The machine according to the invention is charac-terized in that the tear-off edge is provided with one 25 or more PTC elements as a heating body.
The invention utilizes the fact that whereas the resistance/temperature characteristic of ordinary resistance materials is practically continuous, this characteristic shows for PTC materials, which are ceramic 30 materials on the basis of barium titanate, an abrupt and very steep increase at a definite temperature, the so-called Curie temperature, the level of which can be adjusted when preparing the material, the resistance Yalue increasing very strongly when the temperature 35 exceeds this Curie temperature. The passage of current is thereby limited correspondingly and the production of heat connected therewith too, so that a temperature ' !7295~
balance is established at th~ Curie temperature. ~'hen using a PTC mate~ial whose Curie temperature has pre-cisely the value adequà te to the purpose, or when using a suitable number of PTC elements spaced from one 5 another at an appropriate distance which can be deter-mined experimentally, it is thus possible to obtain at the tear-off edge a constant temperature at which the plastics material to be cut is not burnt but decomposes without producing gases or vapours, no special circuits 10 or temperature sensors being required for keeping this temperature constant. Due to the properties of the PTC material, no special demands are made either / regarding feed voltage stability.
The invention will in the following be explained 15 in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawing in which Fig. 1 shows a packing table having a tear-off edge in the form of a heating rod according to the invention, Fig.2 the heating rod dismounted from the packing table shown in Fig.1, and Fig.3 a sectional view of the heating rod of Fig.2.
The packing table shown in Fig.l comprises a packing surface A provided, on its side turning away 25 from the operator, with a supply roll B with the plastics foil to be used for wrapping up goods such as articles of food. The supply roll B rests on two rollers E
extending across the width of the packing table, and the free end of the foil is led down in front of the 30 rollers E or between these and passes underneath the packing surface A until it reaches the front of said surface, where provision is made of an additional roller F over which the foil can be drawn up to the top side of the packing surface. The operator places the 35 article to be wrapped up on the packing surface A and then draws a suitable length of foil towards the front of the packing surface, over the roller F and over the ' 1 7295~) artlcle which is then taken from above and moved towards the operator onto a surface C which may possibly be a heat plate, if the foil is of the shrinking type. During - this last-mentioned movement of the article now 5 surrounded by the foil, the plastics foil is brought into contact with a heating rod D extending transversely to the table in front of the roller F, the temperature of said heating rod D being such that the plastics material is decomposed in the area of contact with the 10 rod, whereby the wrapped article is separated from the supply of wrapping material.
The heating rod D is shown dismounted and with a current supply wire in Fig. 2, and a longitudinal section of a central part of the heating rod is shown 15 in Fig.3.
In the embodiment shown, the heating rod D
comprises a tubular envelope 1 which may be of aluminium or any other heat resistant material and may have a triangular, circular or rectangular profile. On the 20 inside of the envelope 1, provision is made of an insulating layer 2 which may be an extruded silicone rubber profile inserted in the envelope 1.
On opposite sides, electric conductors 3 are inserted in the rubber profile, which conductors may 25 be aluminium or brass foil strips extending along the whole length of the heating rod and being insulated from each other. These conductors 3 are connected each to one pole of the electric feed voltage source (not shown), e.g. via a wire with a plug as shown in Fig.2.
Between the electric conductors 3 and in contact therewith, heating elements 5 of PTC material are inserted in the heating rod, said elements being, in the embodiment shown, kept at a distance from each other by means of insulating spacers 4 which may be made of 35 silicone rubber and are practically filling up the intervals between the PTC elements. In principle, the heating rod could also be filled up with PT~ material, ~ i 72~5~3 the electric conductors 3 and the insulating spaccrs 4 being then superfluous. The number of PTC heating elements 5 per unit of length or the degree of filling ` of the heating rod depends on the Curie temperature of 5 the PTC material and of the desired surface temperature of the heating rod. If the Curie temperature of the PTC material corresponds practically to the desired cutting temperature determined by the plastics foil material, the heating rod can be filled up with this 10 PTC material, and if the Curie temperature is higher than the desired cutting temperature, the degree of filling of the heating rod is chosen proportionally lower, which can take place by inserting two or more smaller PTC elements at a suitable distance from each ~ 15 other in the heating rod, for instance as shown in Fig.3.
When the packing table whereon the heating rod is mounted, for instance as shown in Fig.1, is to be used, the heating rod D is connected to the feed voltage, e.g.
via an electric wire as shown in Fig.2, and the rod will 20 very quickly reach the desired surface temperature at which the plastics used as wrapping material is just decomposed but not burnt. By choosing the PTC material and the degree of filling of the heating rod with said material as explained in the previous paragraph, the 25 heating rod is so dimensioned as to produce this surface temperature depending on the wrapping material used.
As a consequence of the above-mentioned special properties of the PTC material, the desired surface temperature of the heating rod will be reached but not 30 exceeded to an appreciable extent, so that even after an operative break where no cutting and thus nG cooling of the heating rod has taken place, the wrapping foil will be cut solely by decomposition of the plastics material but without combustion of said material and 35 consequently, without formation of unpleasant and possibly injurious vapours and gases, and without production of ashes. A packing table according to the t I 72~5~
invention is thus extremely cleanly in use, because the cutting of the plastics foil produces no waste at all, and even very severe sanitary regulations as those - imposed in particular by the veterinary services for the 5 packing of articles of food may be met safely and without difficulty. Further adjustment or control of the temperature beyond that resulting from the self-adjust-ment o~ the PTC material at the Curie temperature is not necessary, and consequently, the invention provides a 10 tear-off edge of very simple construction, working in a safe and reliable manner and requiring practically no maintenance.
The abbreviation PTC as used hereln means Positive Temperature Co-efficient.
The temperature at which the heating wire or rod 25 acts on the plastics foil is, however, very critical.
If the temperature is too low, the cutting effect will be insufficient and if it is too high, the decomposition of the plastics material may result in a combustion producing vapours and/or gases and also in many cases 30 ashes, which is troublesome and sometimes detrimental to the operator of the machine and, in any case, unacceptable when the packing machine is used for wrapping up articles of food, e.g. meat products, which may be cont~minated thereby. Known packing machines of 35 the type in question are therefore provided with complicated control circuits to ensure that the correct temperaiure of the heating wire or rod is kept '~
~ I7295() accurately, which is however extremely difficult to achieve with an ordinary resistance wire or resistance heating element which is, moreover, cooled each time the ` plastics foil is cut, this taking place at varying 5 intervals, whereafter the heating wire or rod will have to be rapidly brought back to the desired temperature but not above this, so that in many cases, in particular in machines for wrapping up articles of food, the control circuits require accurate and quick-acting temperature 10 sensors or some other sensitive equipment.
These control circuits complicate the packing machines and make them more expensive and at the same time more vulnerable to damages and defects, so that regular periodic controls are necessary.
The invention has for its object to provide a packing machine such as a packing table which prevents effectively the formation of injurious gases or vapours, when plastics foil lengths are cut or torn off by thermal action thereon and which therefore can also be used for 20 packing articles of food, said machine being nevertheless of simple, cheap and robust construction, so that it can stand a rough treatment.
The machine according to the invention is charac-terized in that the tear-off edge is provided with one 25 or more PTC elements as a heating body.
The invention utilizes the fact that whereas the resistance/temperature characteristic of ordinary resistance materials is practically continuous, this characteristic shows for PTC materials, which are ceramic 30 materials on the basis of barium titanate, an abrupt and very steep increase at a definite temperature, the so-called Curie temperature, the level of which can be adjusted when preparing the material, the resistance Yalue increasing very strongly when the temperature 35 exceeds this Curie temperature. The passage of current is thereby limited correspondingly and the production of heat connected therewith too, so that a temperature ' !7295~
balance is established at th~ Curie temperature. ~'hen using a PTC mate~ial whose Curie temperature has pre-cisely the value adequà te to the purpose, or when using a suitable number of PTC elements spaced from one 5 another at an appropriate distance which can be deter-mined experimentally, it is thus possible to obtain at the tear-off edge a constant temperature at which the plastics material to be cut is not burnt but decomposes without producing gases or vapours, no special circuits 10 or temperature sensors being required for keeping this temperature constant. Due to the properties of the PTC material, no special demands are made either / regarding feed voltage stability.
The invention will in the following be explained 15 in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawing in which Fig. 1 shows a packing table having a tear-off edge in the form of a heating rod according to the invention, Fig.2 the heating rod dismounted from the packing table shown in Fig.1, and Fig.3 a sectional view of the heating rod of Fig.2.
The packing table shown in Fig.l comprises a packing surface A provided, on its side turning away 25 from the operator, with a supply roll B with the plastics foil to be used for wrapping up goods such as articles of food. The supply roll B rests on two rollers E
extending across the width of the packing table, and the free end of the foil is led down in front of the 30 rollers E or between these and passes underneath the packing surface A until it reaches the front of said surface, where provision is made of an additional roller F over which the foil can be drawn up to the top side of the packing surface. The operator places the 35 article to be wrapped up on the packing surface A and then draws a suitable length of foil towards the front of the packing surface, over the roller F and over the ' 1 7295~) artlcle which is then taken from above and moved towards the operator onto a surface C which may possibly be a heat plate, if the foil is of the shrinking type. During - this last-mentioned movement of the article now 5 surrounded by the foil, the plastics foil is brought into contact with a heating rod D extending transversely to the table in front of the roller F, the temperature of said heating rod D being such that the plastics material is decomposed in the area of contact with the 10 rod, whereby the wrapped article is separated from the supply of wrapping material.
The heating rod D is shown dismounted and with a current supply wire in Fig. 2, and a longitudinal section of a central part of the heating rod is shown 15 in Fig.3.
In the embodiment shown, the heating rod D
comprises a tubular envelope 1 which may be of aluminium or any other heat resistant material and may have a triangular, circular or rectangular profile. On the 20 inside of the envelope 1, provision is made of an insulating layer 2 which may be an extruded silicone rubber profile inserted in the envelope 1.
On opposite sides, electric conductors 3 are inserted in the rubber profile, which conductors may 25 be aluminium or brass foil strips extending along the whole length of the heating rod and being insulated from each other. These conductors 3 are connected each to one pole of the electric feed voltage source (not shown), e.g. via a wire with a plug as shown in Fig.2.
Between the electric conductors 3 and in contact therewith, heating elements 5 of PTC material are inserted in the heating rod, said elements being, in the embodiment shown, kept at a distance from each other by means of insulating spacers 4 which may be made of 35 silicone rubber and are practically filling up the intervals between the PTC elements. In principle, the heating rod could also be filled up with PT~ material, ~ i 72~5~3 the electric conductors 3 and the insulating spaccrs 4 being then superfluous. The number of PTC heating elements 5 per unit of length or the degree of filling ` of the heating rod depends on the Curie temperature of 5 the PTC material and of the desired surface temperature of the heating rod. If the Curie temperature of the PTC material corresponds practically to the desired cutting temperature determined by the plastics foil material, the heating rod can be filled up with this 10 PTC material, and if the Curie temperature is higher than the desired cutting temperature, the degree of filling of the heating rod is chosen proportionally lower, which can take place by inserting two or more smaller PTC elements at a suitable distance from each ~ 15 other in the heating rod, for instance as shown in Fig.3.
When the packing table whereon the heating rod is mounted, for instance as shown in Fig.1, is to be used, the heating rod D is connected to the feed voltage, e.g.
via an electric wire as shown in Fig.2, and the rod will 20 very quickly reach the desired surface temperature at which the plastics used as wrapping material is just decomposed but not burnt. By choosing the PTC material and the degree of filling of the heating rod with said material as explained in the previous paragraph, the 25 heating rod is so dimensioned as to produce this surface temperature depending on the wrapping material used.
As a consequence of the above-mentioned special properties of the PTC material, the desired surface temperature of the heating rod will be reached but not 30 exceeded to an appreciable extent, so that even after an operative break where no cutting and thus nG cooling of the heating rod has taken place, the wrapping foil will be cut solely by decomposition of the plastics material but without combustion of said material and 35 consequently, without formation of unpleasant and possibly injurious vapours and gases, and without production of ashes. A packing table according to the t I 72~5~
invention is thus extremely cleanly in use, because the cutting of the plastics foil produces no waste at all, and even very severe sanitary regulations as those - imposed in particular by the veterinary services for the 5 packing of articles of food may be met safely and without difficulty. Further adjustment or control of the temperature beyond that resulting from the self-adjust-ment o~ the PTC material at the Curie temperature is not necessary, and consequently, the invention provides a 10 tear-off edge of very simple construction, working in a safe and reliable manner and requiring practically no maintenance.
The abbreviation PTC as used hereln means Positive Temperature Co-efficient.
Claims (3)
1. A packing machine such as a packing table for wrapping up goods in a plastics foil taken off from a supply, and where provision is made of a heatable tear-off edge for separating from the supply, by thermal action on the foil, a piece of foil to be used for the wrapping, wherein the tear-off edge is provided with one or more PTC elements as a heating body.
2. A packing machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein the tear-off edge is provided on a tubular, preferably triangular, circular or rectangular profile in which are inserted one or more PTC elements.
3. A packing machine as claimed in claim 1 or 2, wherein two or more PTC elements are disposed at a dis-tance from each other along the tear-off edge and con-nected in parallel to the feed voltage source via contact strips disposed on either side of the PTC elements and extending practically along the length of the tear-off edge.
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| CA000392904A CA1172950A (en) | 1981-12-22 | 1981-12-22 | Packing machine such as a packing table for wrapping up goods in a plastics foil |
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