CA2457911A1 - Improved method and apparatus for packing flower bouquets - Google Patents

Improved method and apparatus for packing flower bouquets Download PDF

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CA2457911A1
CA2457911A1 CA002457911A CA2457911A CA2457911A1 CA 2457911 A1 CA2457911 A1 CA 2457911A1 CA 002457911 A CA002457911 A CA 002457911A CA 2457911 A CA2457911 A CA 2457911A CA 2457911 A1 CA2457911 A1 CA 2457911A1
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65BMACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
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Abstract

The invention relates to a work method and apparatus for packing flower bouquets (3), in which large amounts of flower bouquets (3) are transported transversely on a conveyor belt (9) to a lifting conveyer belt (7) to a mounted thereon transversely placed feeding belt (17), which has compartments (20) which constantly contain a flower bouquet (3), which is brought from a horizontal to a vertical position, in which a box-shaped cell space (22) is created and a cross partition turns away and subsequently the flower bouquet (3) falls through a trap door instrument (24) into an already opened cover (25) and is then further processed and brought to a collecting box for shipment.

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ID~PROYRD MET80D AND APPARATUS fOR pACKINC~ FLO~QSR 80VQ'QETS
S The present invention relates to s work method far packing flower bouquets and such, in which on the one hand the flowex bouquets are fed by means of a conveyor belt to a drive guiding instrument, on the ether hand, to be released above a fed opened cover, after which the flower 1o bouquet with closed cover is further transported and placed into shipping boxes.
A similar work method and apparatus is known from the European patent document nr. 0 590 269 A1, submitted 30-07-1993, titleds ~~Article Packaging System" of the applicant 15 Highland Supply Corporation, 1111 Sixth Street, Highland, Illinois 62249 (USA), inventors CRAIG Frank, 90 Inez, Val3ey Park, Missouri 63088 (USA); STRAETER, Joseph G., 3817 Praire Road, Highland Illinois 62249 (USA) and WEDER, Donald E., 621 Main Street, Highland Illinois 62249 (USA).
20 ~ Here, it concerns a modular system for packing artic7.es for shipment, especially potted plants, which axe put into a decorative cover and subsequently automatically placed into a protecting cover, after which the packed plants are ready for putting into a shipment box, in which the several 25 components of the system can also be adjusted to the different packing demands and circumstances, such as fragrance, gastightnese and such.
The work method for packing an article, mostly a plant or botanic item, consists of a number of steps such as:
30 applying or feeding the article with an external surface, then applying a decorative cover around the external surface of the article to form an attractively packed article, and then automatically applying a cover around the already decoratively covered article and th~ apparatus is also claimed for the execution of these specific Work methods.
With this invention the concerned potted plant is covered~and wfter that~held-above-aw opened cover which ie then sealed for, for example, shipment.
The above described work method and apparatus hoe disadvantages with regard to peaking Flower bouquets, being that loose flower bouquets must be brought from a to horizontal lying position as a bouquet into a vertical position, to, then be elided or dropped into an opened cover without losing the coherence of the bouquet, which with the known apparatus and work method is not possible.
In practice the packing or covering of large amounts of r5 loose flower bouquets ins mainly done manually, which ins very time-consuming or the flower bouquets are fec~ by means of a conveyor belt to a slanting chute, after which the flower bouquet falls into an opened cover and after which, with a binding azachine, a binding wire is wound around the 2o externs of the flower bouquet. Also this last method ie not very fast to efficiently process large amounts of flower bouquets.
The aim of the present inv~rition is to provide such a work method and appasatue that the disadvantages are z3 eliminated and which apparatus works efficiently, can cover very large amounts of flower bouquets in a short tame and which apparatus can be put onto the market in a very economically responsible way.
For this purpose a work method with a special apparatus 30 ie developed in a very inventive way, tlaat the mentioned flower bouquets are fed lying transversely in the movement direction by a first approximately horizontal set up conveyor belt, called the bouquet line, on which the flower ~3-bouquets are laid down with a suitable mutual distance L so that via a lifting conveyor belt, at the end of the mentioned first conveyor belt, then fall onto a second conveyor belt ar feeding belt placed at a right angle on 'the first conveyox belts in v~rhich~the mentioned feeding belt rotates at an angle a of the approximately horizontal position into the vertical position, in which on the.
mentioned feeding belt by means of lateral and cross partitions compartments are formed in which a flower bouquet is dropped continuously, in which when rotation the feeding belt over art angle a the compartments go from a horizontal to a vertical position and is closed by a vertical plate into a box shaped cell space, after which the cross partition turns away and the flower bouquet falls ~5 with its stems onto a trap door instrument, which opens subsequently and the flower bouquet drops into an already opened cover, after which the flower bouguet in the cover is wrapped with a band or tape around the stems and the thus packed flower bouquet is furthex transported by means of conveynx belts to collecting boxes for further shipment of the packed'flower bouquets.
The advantage is an efficient work method to pack large amounts of flower bouquets with a relatively compact machine.
Further, the apparatus according to the invention is further developed in such a way, that this device consists of the following parts, such as a first conveyor belt and a lifting conveyor belt ~ second conveyor belt or feeding belt placed at a right angle, provided with lateral and 3o cross partitions with height to form compartments into which the flower bouquet has been dropped, in which the mentioned feeding pelt is transferred from the horizontal position into the vertical position and rune along a vertical plate. ~so Chat a box-shaped cell space is created including the flower bouquet, after which the cross partition below the flower bouquet is turnable and the flower bouquet lands on a trap door inatrurnent, which can ~wbe~opened and the flower~bouquet drops into an opened cover, after which further pxoeessing takes place and discharging is done via conveyor belts to the packing of the flower bouquets, in which the material of the apparatus can be stainless steel.
to The advantage is s compact machine ox apparatus to execute the work method in the mraet efficient way.
The preferred cor~struction of the irwention will be described by way of example, and with reference to the accompanying drawing.
Tn which:
~'ig. 1 shows a schematic top view of the peeking procedure with the apparatus according to the invention for executing the specific work tnothod for packing large amounts of flower Zo bouquets.
Flg. 2 shows a schematic aide v~.ew of the apparatus for packing flower bouquets; and Fig. 3A anal 3H show schernatieally in oblique pro~eation the trap door instrument in clased (figure 3A) and in opened position tfigure 38).
Figure 1 shows in a schematic way the whole procedure for packing large amounts of flower bouguets with the special apparatus 1 according to the invention. The 30 procedure begins with laying down flower bouguets 3 tranavergely on the conveyor belt or bouquet line 4 by person 2, and this with a suitable ,interval specified by not ind~i.cated carriers on the bouquet line. The width of .$_ the mentioned conveyor belt is approximately 800 gym, ~n view of the flowex bouquets.
On this conveyor belt 4 the flower bouquets undergo more processes, such as the binding and cutting of the stems etc. at the sections 5 and 6. After~that the flower bouquets go onto a lifting conveyor belt 7 to the actual packing machine or apparatus 1 according to the invention, of which the working is shown in figure 2. After that discharging B of the packed flower bouguete is done and on 1o the bouquet line 9 some more processes are done such as applying ~ChrysalN at 10, taping at il and applying a sticker at 12. All packed or covered flower bouquets 3 are put onto a collecting conveyor 13 and can be packed into boxes by persona 15 and 16.
t5 Figure 2 shows a echerns.tie side view of the actual apparatus 1 according to tha invention.
From the lifting conveyor belt 7 (see figure 1) the flower bouquets 3 fall on the feeding conveyor belt 17 which turns from the horizontal position A into a vertical zo position H, i.e. rotating at an angle a of approximately 90 degrees. The feeding conveyor belt 17 is approximately 20 am wide and is supplied with raised plates or lateral partitions s8 at the sides to avoid falling off sideways of the flower bauguete 3. To create compartments 20, Cross 25 partitions I9 have also been applied. Tha flower bouquets 3 fall onto the feeding belt 17 accordingly into the compartrnente 20 and are thug rotated from the horizontal position into the vertical position and then a box shaped cell space 22 is created by the vertical plate 21.
3o Subsequently, by turning away the cross partition 19 the flower bouquet 3 with its stems falls onto the trap door instrument 24, which is 3n closed positron and then opens (see figures 3A and 38) and the flower bouquet falls in the -(.
already operaed cover 25 and the whole is finished according to the process described in figure 1.
Figures 3A arid 38 show achernatically in oblique projection the trap door instrument 24 in closed (figure 3A) and~opened poaitio~n (figure 38). The trap door instrument 24 coneieta of two conical halves 26 and 27, which are welded in the plate parts 2a and 29. The plate parts 28 and 29 are fastened by rneanr~ of screws 30 on the rotating shafts 31 and 32. The shafts 31 and 32 can rotate 1a in the directions X and Y through which the trap door instrument 24 opens and goes from the positrion in figure 3A
to the poaitiox~ in figure 3E. 8y the apparatus 1 with the matching work ttuethod accordi~tg to the invention a very efficient pacl~cing machine for flower bouquets 3 is created.
t5 finally it has to be emphaeixsd, that the above description constitutes a preferred embodiment of the present invention and that further variations and modifications are still possible without departing the scope of this patent description.
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1. Work method for packing flower bouquets and such, in which on the one hand the flower bouquets are fed by means of a conveyor belt to a drive guiding instrument, on the other hand, to be released above a fed opened cover, after which the flower bouquet with closed cover is further transported and placed into shipping boxes, characterised in that, the mentioned flower bouquets (3) are fed lying transversely on the movement direction by a first approximately horizontal set up conveyor belt (4), called the bouquet line, on which the flower bouquets (3) are laid down with a suitable mutual distance L in order to, via a lifting conveyor belt (7) at the end of the mentioned first conveyor belt (4), fall onto a second conveyor belt or feeding belt (17) placed at a aright angle on the first conveyor belt (4), in which the mentioned feeding belt (17) rotates at an angle a of the approximately horizontal position into the vertical position, in which on the mentioned feeding belt (17) by means of lateral (18) and cross-partitions (19) compartments (20) are formed in which a flower bouquet is dropped continuously, in which when rotating the feeding belt (17) over an angle .alpha. the compartments (20) go from a horizontal to a vertical position and is closed by a vertical plate (21) into a box shaped cell space (22), after which the cross partition (19) turns away and the flower bouquet (3) falls with its stems onto a trap door instrument (24), which after that opens and the flower bouquet drops into an already opened cover (25), after which the flower bouquet (3) in the cover (25) is wrapped with a bard or tape around the stems and the thus packed flower bouquet (3) is further transported by means of conveyor belts (8, 9, 13) to collecting boxes for further shipment of the packed flower bouquets (3).
2. Work method asp claimed in claim 1, characterized in that, the width of the first conveyor belt (4) and the lifting conveyor belt (7) is approximately 700 mm and the mutual distance L between. the flower bouquets is approximately 500 mm.
3. Work method as claimed is claims 1 and 2, characterized in that, the angle .alpha. can be approximately 90 degrees.
4. Work method as claimed in claims 1 - 3, characterized is that, the mentioned opened cover (2) is fed by an automatized cover feeding machine adapted to the packing process.
5. Work method as claimed in aforementioned claims, characterised in that, the band or tape wound around the packed sterns of the flower bouquet (3) are fed by an automatized taping machine adapted to the packing process.
6. Apparatus for executing the work method according to the aforementioned claims, characterized is then, this device consists of the following parts, such as a first conveyor belt (4) and a lifting conveyor belt (7) a second conveyor belt or feeding belt (17) placed thereon at a right angle, provided with lateral and cross partitions (18, 19) with height to form compartments (20) into which the flower bouquet (3) has been dropped, in which the mentioned feeding belt (17) is transferred from the horizontal position into the vertical position and runs along a vertical plate (21), so that a box-shaped cell space (22) ie created including the flower bouquet (3), after which the cross partition (19) below the flower bouquet (3) is turnable and the flower bouquet (3) lands on a trap door instrument (24), which can be opened and the flower bouquet drops into an opened cover (25), after which further processing takes place and discharging is done via conveyor belts to the packing of the flower bouquets (3), in which the material of the apparatus (1) can be stainless steel.
7. Apparatus ae claimed in claim 6, characterized in that, the mentioned height H of the lateral and cross partitions is approximately 100 mm and the distance between the cross partitions (19) is approximately 700 mm.
8. Apparatus as claimed in claim 6, characterized is that, the mentioned first conveyor belt (4) and lifting conveyor belt (7) as approx 80 mm wide and a second conveyor belt or feeding belt (17) is approximately 200 mm wide.
9. Apparatus as claimed in claims 6 - 8, characterized is that, the mentioned trap door instrument (24) consists of two conical constructed halves (26, 27), which open simultaneously with the below ted opened cover (25), so that the flower bouquet (3) falls into the cover (25) with the stem side.
10. Apparatus as claimed in aforementioned claims, characterized in that, the apparatus (1) with cover feeding machine, taping machine and such are fully intermating.
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