CA1186210A - Method for the feeding of continuous webs of wrapping material to an automatic cutter - Google Patents

Method for the feeding of continuous webs of wrapping material to an automatic cutter

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CA1186210A
CA1186210A CA000400103A CA400103A CA1186210A CA 1186210 A CA1186210 A CA 1186210A CA 000400103 A CA000400103 A CA 000400103A CA 400103 A CA400103 A CA 400103A CA 1186210 A CA1186210 A CA 1186210A
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Bruno Neri
Antonio Zullo
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65HHANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H26/00Warning or safety devices, e.g. automatic fault detectors, stop-motions, for web-advancing mechanisms
    • B65H26/02Warning or safety devices, e.g. automatic fault detectors, stop-motions, for web-advancing mechanisms responsive to presence of irregularities in running webs
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65HHANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H19/00Changing the web roll
    • B65H19/10Changing the web roll in unwinding mechanisms or in connection with unwinding operations
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65HHANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2301/00Handling processes for sheets or webs
    • B65H2301/30Orientation, displacement, position of the handled material
    • B65H2301/31Features of transport path
    • B65H2301/312Features of transport path for transport path involving at least two planes of transport forming an angle between each other
    • B65H2301/3124Y-shaped
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65HHANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2301/00Handling processes for sheets or webs
    • B65H2301/40Type of handling process
    • B65H2301/46Splicing
    • B65H2301/4601Splicing special splicing features or applications
    • B65H2301/46018Splicing special splicing features or applications involving location or further processing of splice

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  • Replacement Of Web Rolls (AREA)
  • Controlling Rewinding, Feeding, Winding, Or Abnormalities Of Webs (AREA)
  • Details Of Cutting Devices (AREA)
  • Advancing Webs (AREA)

Abstract

ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE

The method relates to the feeding of continuous webs of pre-printed wrapper material to an automatic cutter, for the production of single printed wrapper sheets. The defective portions of the continuous webs, resulting for example from printing defects, are not previously removed, but are marked with an initial spot mark of any type adapted to be sensed by sensor devices and with a visible termination mark. The rolls of pre--printed continuous web are mounted on a packaging machine which has an automatic roll shift-over and splicing device. Whenever an initial spot mark of a defective portion is sensed, the automatic shift-over device will interrupt the feeding of the defective web, and shift over to the reserve roll. In the meantime, the operator will manually remove the defective portion, the end of which is marked by the visible termination spot mark and will insert the leading end of the conti-nuous web, from which he has removed the defective portion, again into the automatic shift-over and splicing device.

Description

S UMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to a method for the feeding of continuous webs of pre-printed wrapper material to an automatic cutter, for the production of single printed wrapper sheets. The method is particu-larly adapted in the operation of devices for the production of single wrapper sheets in the cigarette packing machines J more particularly in the cigaret-te packing machines for the production of cigarette packs of the so-called "soft" or "american" type, in which there is precisely utilized a printed sheet of paper wrapper of rectangular shape, said single printed wrapper sheet being cut from a continuous web unreeled from a roll. The continuous web is pre-printed so as to present a continuous succession of identical imprints.

Practically, in the continuous printing process for the production of the pre-printed wrapper web, there may occur printing defects. The defective portions of the continuous web must be removed, and consequently the web must be spliced having regard to maintain the correct printing phase. Besides the printing defects, the web can present damaged portions which also require removal and splicing.

As a consequence, the continuous printin~
process presents inconveniences which lead to an in-crease of costs. Moreover, durin~ the utilization, the presence of spliced portions in the continuous web may ~' ~

lead to other inconveniences, such as the jamming of the weh during its passage through the cutter~

The method according to the present invention proposes:

- In the utilization of the continuous web of pre-printed wrapping material, the defective portions are not previously removed, but they are simply marked with an initial spot mark (of any type adapted to be sensed by sensor devlces) and with a visible termination mark.

The .rolls of pre-printed continuous web are mounted on a packaging machine which has an automatic roll shift-over and splicing device~

- Whenever an initial spot mark of a defective portion is sensed, the automatic shift over device will in~errupt the feeding of the defective web, and shift over to the reserve roll.

- In the meantime, the operator will manually remove the defective portion, the end of which is marked by the visible termination spot mark and will insert the leading end of the conti-nuous web, from which he has removed the defective portion, again into ~he automatic shift over and splicing device.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWI~G
The above and other characteristic features of 1-he invention will appear evident from the following detailed description of a preferred embodiment, made with reference to the attached sheet of drawings, in which the only Figure shows in diagrammatic side view an automatic splicing device of the type described in UOSO Patent No. 4,406,251 issued September 27~ 1983 to the same applicant~ and adapted to perform the method according to the present invention.
:DESCRIPTIO~ OF TH:E PREFERRED EMBODI~NT
With reference to the Figure, reference characters ~1 and ~2 indicate two webs of wrapping material being unreeled from a first roll Bl and from a second roll B2~ forming each one a respective buffer loop Al and A2 at the interior of a respective box 14.
Each box 14 :is provided with sensors,16, 17, 18, 19 sensing the length of the loops Al~ A2 cooperating with opposite light emitting means 20, 21, 22 23. The outgoing sections of the loops Al, A2 converge towards a single transversal cutter 26~ 27 and are suitably guided upstream of this cutter, inside a Y-shaped guide presenting converging ductso Along the path of each web Nl~ N2 there are provided an optical sensor 125, 225 7 which senses the presence of the respective web, and a pair of feeding rollers 11~ 12, as well as a manually operated cutter 54, 55 for neatly cutting the leading end of the web Nl or N2 coming from the roll Bl or B2.
Upstream of each buffer loop Al, A2, along the path of each web Nl, N2, there is provided a detecting device 56, 57, which indicates the depletion of the respective roll Bl, B2 and may consist,for example, of a photosen-sitive device/ of the transparency or reflection type.

Assuming that the roll being unreeled is roll B2 and that the auxiliary roll is roll Bl, the shifting of the rolls ta~es place in the following mannero In consideration of the fact that the web of rolls Bl, B2 is previously printed, the manual cutting operation of the leading edge of the reserve roll web Nl must be effected on the predetermined cutting line.
Thereafter, said leading edge is inserted between the respective feeding rollers 11, 12 and the web is advanced manually in such a manner that the trimmed leading edge passies beyond the detector 125 which will be of the "spot" reading type. By depressing the actuation pushbutton, there is started an anomalous cycle of the stepping motor which drives the pair of feeding rollers 11~ 12 associated to the web Nl of the reserve roll B1. This cycle is effected at "start-stop"
speed, in such a manner that, after the sensing of the reference spot on the weh by the optical sensor 125, the said motor performs a number of steps so as to bring the leading edge of the reserve web Nl in proxi-mity of the zone of interference Zi, at a number "n" of steps from the cutting line of the cut~er 26, 27.

Whenever a shift~over command is given, by a control circuit actuated by suitable sensors, either in the case that the roll being unreeled (roll B2) is exhausted, or in the case that the sensor has sensed an initial spot mark indicating a defective portion in the web N2, and after completion of the cutting cycle of the last sheet F permitted by the buffer web N2 of the respective loop A2, there starts -the unoperative inter-val of the feeding rollers 11, 12 associated to web N2.

During this interval, the stop signal of the cutting cycle of the cutter 26, 27, gives the starting to an anomalous cycle of motor which controls the eeding rollers 11, 12 associated to web N2. This anomalous cycle consists in a backwards rotation of rollers 11, 12 contrary to the feeding direction of web N2, in such a manner as to withdraw from the cutter 26, 27, the terminal portion of the web N2 of the roll B2.
Simultaneously, or with a suitable time delay, the stepping motor which drives the feeding rollers 11, 12 associated to reserve web Nl, starts another anomalous cycle which brings the leading end of the web Nl in correspondence with the cutting line of the cutter 26, 27, thus causing it to advance of the above mentioned number "n" of steps. In this manner, when the next start signal arrives, the reserve web Nl is in condi-tion of being normally fed.

In order to provide for a correct operation of the apparatus, the defect.ive portions (printing defects) of the web mater.ial are marked by means of an initial spot mark and of a termination spot mark, this marking being effected upon winding of the web material for the formation of the roll. The initial spot mark (initial in the direction of unreel.ing of the web roll) can be in the form of a bore or cutting, or of a magnetic spot, or an electro-conductive spot, while the termination spot mark will be any visible mark adapted to be detect-ed by attracting the attention of the operator.
Correspondingly, the sensor means for sensing the initial spot mark of each defective portion will consists of auxiliary sensors 156 (for web Nl) and 157 (for web N2) said sensors being sensi~ive either to the bore or to the magnetic spot or to the electro-conductive spot in the web. In this manner, whenever the auxiliary sensors 156 or 157 detect an initial spot mark in the web being unreeled, a shift-over command is automati-cally given to the device, which leads to the shifting of the roll~ In t:he meantime, the operator can manually eliminate the defective portion and arrange again the respective web for a next shift-over operation which will take place upon sensing of a defective portion in the web previously acting as stand-by or reserve web, and so on.

The final depletion of either roll Bl or B2, indicated by a suitable depletion spot mark on the respective web, will be sensed by suitable sensors 56 ~for web Nll and 57 (for web N2), which wlll command the shift over to the reserve roll for the substitution of the exhausted roll with a full roll, as ahove described.

It is believed that the invention will have been clearly understood from the foregoing detailed description. Changes in the details of construction and operation may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of the invention, and it is accordingly intended that no limitation he implied and that the annexed claims be given the broadest interpretation to which the employed language fairly admits.

Claims (3)

The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property or privilege is claimed are defined as follow:
1) A method for the feeding of continuous webs of pre-printed wrapper material to an automatic cutter, for the production of single printed wrapper sheets, particularly adapted for use in the operation of cigarette packing machines of the type comprising at least two rolls (B1, B2) of wrapper material in conti-nuous webs (N1, N2) and an automatic shift-over and splicing device (14, 58) responsive to spot marks provided on the continuous webs for unreeling the continuous web from either one of the two rolls in a changeable manner, characterized by the fact that defective portions in the continuous webs of wrapper material are marked by means of an initial spot mark, auxiliary sensor means (156, 157) being provided in the said shift-over and splicing device, said sensor means being adapted to detect the said initial spot marks, and to control the said automatic shift-over and splicing device in such a manner that upon sensing an initial spot mark in the continuous web unreeled from one roll, there is automatically effected the change to the other roll, the defective portion being thereafter manually removed from the continuous web which is finally again inserted in the automatic shift-over and splicing device.
2) A method according to claim 1, in which the defective portions in the continuous webs of wrapper material are also marked with a termination spot mark, visible to the operator.
3) A method according to claim 1, in which the initial spot marks and the termination spot marks of the defective portions in the continuous web of wrapper material are made upon winding of the web on its respective roll.
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IT12493/81A IT1146017B (en) 1981-04-09 1981-04-09 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR THE SELF-SELECTIVE CONTINUOUS FEEDING OF TAPES EVEN WITH SCRAPS IN AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR THE PROGRESSIVE CUTTING OF SHEETS OF PAPER PRINTED IN SHEETS
IT12493A/81 1981-04-09

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BR (1) BR8202043A (en)
CA (1) CA1186210A (en)
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