DE1511549C3 - Device for combining and grouping bottles - Google Patents

Description

Conveyor belt exerted thrust can be moved in the transport direction of the conveyor belt, until they hit either the crossbar or an already braked bottle and move into continue to move in an oblique direction until their feed movement finally crosses the already existing ones Bottles is braked.

The device according to the invention is extremely simple and enables a regular arrangement of the

The conveyor belt C, which is made of a material such. B. rubber, and has a smooth surface, is stretched between two rollers 6, with its supporting surface, which rests, is completely flat. 5 One of the rollers is driven in the usual way.

Two parallel to the edges of the conveyor belt bars 7-7 α are on both sides of this on the frame E via a linkage, such as. B. shown at 8 attached. A cross bar 9, perpendicular to

Bottles without the use of complicated auxiliary equipment the first two, which is also arranged on this, directions such as guide ramps or partition walls. forms a stop element for those through the Trans-Da always the specified, honeycomb-like offset conveyor belt C carried along with the bottle 1. The liner arrangement is achieved, can be lifted and most are under an expediently selected off-onward transport A group of bottles was also attached to the conveyor belt and very simply designed transfer devices prevent the bottles from tipping over, which would otherwise occur turn. the transport that passes under the vials

An example embodiment of the invention could be evoked as soon as it is through dung, which is held on the packaging of small glass - the strips. With the description bottle refers, the cross bar 9 should now be based on the drawings and the example shown will be explained in more detail, in which 20 projections 10, which practically the shape of half,

F i g. 1 shows a perspective illustration of the vials cut open in advance along the central plane

own. The spaces between the protrusions are the same as those that make up the Vials of the same transverse row in the

Association.

Tests have shown that due to the continuous forward movement of the conveyor belt and because of that, consequently, on the not

direction is;

F i g. Figure 2 shows the electrical circuit for the device;

F i g. Figure 2a is a schematic illustration of the frontal chessboard layout.

direction, which can be seen in the arrangement of the in Fig. 2 - The first by the conveyor belt C

shows union contactor or relay switch; led vials take their place between

F i g. 3 is a schematic representation of the pneumatic protrusion 10 and the following

matic circuit of the device; Vials are automatically placed between the

F i g. Fig. 4 is a view of manifolds as they first 30 and thus lead to the checkerboard one used to control pneumatic lifting cylinders, and

Fig. 5 shows a distributor through which the Let the vial lift.

The different parts of the bottles shown in the figure, exerted thrust of this device, are displaced obliquely along two orthogonal angles until they are either arranged through directions x-x ', yy' . Along the x-x'- a lateral bar or through an already arranged axis, a conveyor belt A, a suspension bridge B, which leads the bottles and is fixed in their place, follows one another. In any case, the conveyor belt C, a device D that vertically vertically completes the rows, and the chess boxes that are finally obtained. 1 can be seen, the rear valley movement is carried out and afterwards the relocating device should be named in terms of the appearance and the number of attitudes present. Their overall arrangement is called regular. In addition, an identical repro is carried by a frame E. production in every case at every step towards education

In the direction of yy 'there is a stage for converting a layer of vials,

The transfer device D is formed by the packaging material intended for the bottles

nest. one of a pneumatic lifting cylinder 12

The endless conveyor belt A, conventional design and carrying box 11 with the interposition of a conventional drive, guides the vials 1, the metallic cross bracing 13. The box will emerge from an annealing channel, in series 50 via lines 14-15-16-17 a device along the center line towards the suspension bridge B , which closed, which draws air from the interior of the box essentially from two parallel planar slides; the downward facing side of the box appeared 2-2α above the conveyor belt A and consists of a flat track, which consists of a plurality of the conveyor belt C , the sliding small, checkerboard-like arranged holes are so far apart that the 55 points whose arrangement corresponds to that of the vial grouping formed on the transport neck of the vial and band C , this is held by the edge of its head piece so that by arranging the with perforations. The slide rails 2-2 ″ are applied to the plate above the grouped vials 3-3 α, which are seen on carriers and are suspended from the frame E via rods, as the arrangement of the perforations is opposite to that shown at 4. When passing the 60 heads or openings of the latter are located. The bridge moves the line of bottles due to the The pneumatic lifting jack 12 is carried by a push of the last carriage 18 standing on the conveyor belt A over the slide 19. The carriage 18 in front of the vials. Those lying on the conveyor belt A can be moved along the two slide rails 20-21, the par vials do not pass the bridge, since their necks are allel to the direction xx ' , cannot be moved between the two slide rails 2-2 a 65 The slide rails are carried by stands 22, can grab, and therefore fall into a container 5 a that sit firmly on the frame, and crossheads over a gap 5 between the conveyor belt A and z. B. 23 held. The movement of the carriage is left on conveyor belt C! controlled by a trestle 24, which is on

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Weigh 25-26 rests. These are on the slide rails. The relay switch 55 is due to the by the

20-21 and serve as crossheads for the first row of vials exerted pressure.

the latter. closed;

On the carriage 18 there is an extension piece 27, the relay switch 45 is through the last bottle

which carries a cylinder 28 at its end, the 5 row of counters closed;

Piston is equipped with arms 29, which in turn is the relay switch 44 in the presence of one

wear suction cups 30 at their ends. The suction cups cardboard boxes 40 are closed in the filling position;

are connected to a vacuum source via lines the relay switch 3-2 is structurally

31-32 connected. The length of the approach 27 is so closed.

dimensioned that the suction cups 30 are vertical to io The relay switches 55 and 45 can by a

a stack of cards or sheets of paper 33 is manual control CM. be short-circuited, where-

find when the sliding box 11 comes about by "idling", i.e., the

vertical to the packing box 40 (in the drawing moving parts of the machine are in motion

indicated by dashed lines) at the moment of filling, without a vial being fed,

position is located; is located in the middle part of stage F 15 If the above five conditions are met, then

the box when the suction cups are fed vertically to the relay 5, and its contact tilts out

Stage are arranged vertically to the part of the position SR in the position ST order. That so excited

of the conveyor belt C, where the grouping of the pulse generator GI supplies an electrical im-

Vial going on. pulse that feeds coils 75 and 71. The pistons

In the direction yy ' the cardboard boxes on 20 of the cylinders 12 and 28 are arranged in the lower Steleiner stage F , which is brought down in its middle part ment.

one by actuating a cylinder arrangement 35 touches the control rod of the relay switch 47,

having moved carriage 34. The end of the column with which the caisson 11 (Fig. 1) is equipped,

The rod of this cylinder arrangement is connected to the conveyor belt C while passing through the chess-

Stop piece 36 connected, which interrupts the bottle, which is fixedly arranged like a board on the carriage 25

sits. An upwardly open packaging box of this relay switch 47 supplies the motor MT,

37, one flap 38 of which is folded down, which drives the conveyor belt C; this continues to feed

is in the rest position against an angle iron 39, the coil 73, which applies a vacuum to the box 11

that their displacement and positioning along the and the vacuum to the suction cups 29 through

Axis yy ' ensures. 30 Action by one of the companies shown in FIG. 4 shown distributor

The exact position of the box 40 in the filling position, which will be described below, is transferred to the relocating device D in the direction yy ' lateral guides 42-43, whose neatly grouped vials suck, whereas ends move away from the axis yy ' . The stops 41 attached to the lifting of the vacuum in the suction cups 29 on the slide 34 causes the full cartons to slide in the y-y 'direction when the carton is in the filling position, if the bottle position previously stored therein is in this direction moves, before, in the previous operation from the stack 33 but can be placed under the bottom of the empty accommodated intermediate piece. The packing boxes disappear when the relay switch 47 continues to feed via a presso the filling point due to the thrust of the angular stat "PST" the coils 70 and 74, which were brought up the iron 39 and when the sliding stroke of the piston of the cylinder 12 and 28 control the carriage 34 in its starting position at the end of the wherein the pressostat closes its contact when stage F returns. a sufficient negative pressure can be found in the box 11

When operating the inventive, above-45 has been set. When raising the piston of the The described packaging device is attached to cylinders 12 and 28 firmly attached to the box suggest related for the moving parts as well as 11 (Fig. 2a) connected slider the contact the electrical circuit built-in contactor 49, which feeds the coil 77 and the relay 4, transmitter or relay switch, which is shown schematically in Fig. 2a, but provided that the contactor 56 in connection with the electrical circuit diagram according to FIG. 50 (FIG. 2 a) is closed, but this is the case there F i g. 2 are shown. Their operation is as follows: the piston of cylinder 28 is in its

First there is the arrangement D, that is, the raised position is located. That way

Transfer device, in its rear position and fed coil controls the advance of the cylinder

holds a relay switch 54 in the closed position; this 24, which takes the arrangement D with it, while this enables the supply of the relays ReIl and Rel2, 55 relays 4 to restart the assembly line C

and causes the five contactors 1-1 T, 1-2 T, 1-3 T, 1-4 T controlling motor,

and 2-1 T are closed (Fig. 2). As soon as the arrangement!) Shows its in Fig. 1

When pressing a button, not shown, leaves the rear position, the relay opens, a motor driving the assembly line C opens in switch 54, and the relays ReIl, ReIT, are out of gear, and the vials that power bridge B 60 are no longer fed. From this it follows that the five contacts have passed, arrange themselves like a chessboard in the encoder 1-1 T, 1-2 T, 1-3 T, 1-4 T, 2-1 T open frames 7-7 a-9 , as explained above. and that the five contactors 1-IjR, 1-2 / ?, 1-3 R,

In order for the caisson 11 to be brought down 1-4 R, 2-1 R close.

and vial, it is necessary, At the end of its path of movement, the Andaß closes the following five relay switches 65 order D the contactor 48, which feeds relay 5,

are: The contact of this latter falls out of the

The relay switch 1-1 T (Fig. 2) is constructive position SR in the position 5-Γ; who was so excited

normally closed, relay 1 powered. Pulse generator G-I supplies an electrical im-

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pulse feeding coils 71-75; the piston that slides to supply a medium to be distributed.

Cylinders 12, 28 are turned back into their lower position. He also has openings G, H for input and

lowers; touches the control rod 46 of the contactor outlet of the working medium. Two coils G

47 the bottom of the box or an intermediate piece, and H, which respond to an electrical impulse,

so the contact 47 closes and feeds the coil 5 control the opening and closing movement of G

72, which breaks the vacuum in box 11 and and H by acting on a magnetic core,

it attaches to the suction cups 29, which on the one hand causes the body M to have a distributor plate N with

that the four openings W, X, Y, Z open in the box that is in the filling position. Is the

transported vial layer is deposited, the other slide L in the left position, the

on the other hand, an intermediate piece at the top of the stack 33 ent- io openings F, Z on the one hand and W, X on the other hand in

is taken. The contactor 47 feeds via the connection. The

Pressostat PST the coils 70, 74, the high openings F, W on the one hand and Y, Z on the other hand in

drive the pistons of cylinders 12, 28 control. Connection when the slider L is in the right

When starting up, the slide 50 closes the position it is in.

Contactor 49 feeding coil 76; these 15 The type P distributors are used to control the

Coil 76 controls the return of the assembly D related to pneumatic cylinders; a distributor Q

in the rear position. is used to apply the negative pressure for the

Once the assembly D is used in its retracted suction cups or the box.
Position has been brought back, the contact Fig. 3 explains the mode of operation of these two transmitters 54 is closed again, and the process ao distributor types in the device sequence according to the invention can be repeated. tion and during one of the work phases that was selected for example when putting down the last vial layer. At the beginning of this phase in the cardboard box 40, the contactor 47 is closed, there are box 11 and suction cups 30 in the, so the contactor 52, which is in the upper position, closes. To lower this movable slide 53 comes into contact, the parts of which the coils 71 and 75 receive an impulse, position previously selected as a function of the number of vials to be inserted into the packaging of the type P to the left in such a way that under pressure air supplied via F. through the opening Z and into the upper parts. The simultaneous closing of the two contacts the cylinder 12, 28 arrives, whereby a lowering transducer 47, 52 causes the supply of the relay 3; the 30 of the piston of this cylinder is caused.
Contactor 3-2 opens and prohibits the operation of a distributor, for example, to start a new work cycle during the Q type, it should be assumed that the contactor 3-1 closes and the supply of the slide L of this distributor is in the relay 3 maintains; In order to be able to begin with a new work right position corresponding to the application of the cycle, the feed for the negative pressure on the suction cups 29 must be located. If relay 3 can be interrupted by an electrical impulse of the coil H, which causes an opening button RM to be pressed after the full box of the opening H , the compressed air presses the 40 has been replaced by an empty one. This goes from the slide to the left and thus brings the negative pressure hand in front of it, but could also automatically with opening F in connection with opening Z, where the aid of the cylinder 35 through the coil set, which is placed on the box 11 by negative pressure , is not shown in the electrical circuit diagram, so if negative pressure is applied to the box 11, this will be effected. The device shown schematically in FIG. 3, the suction cups 29 with ambient pressure, comprises a compressed air source 5, and vice versa, which is based on the fact that to feed the working cylinders, which control the moving parts when the vials from the conveyor belt C, as well as a vacuum source V are received by the box to 45, a Zvi energization of the caisson 11 and the suction cups 29, rule blade simultaneously into the box during the filling control systems and vice versa via distributor which is stored P, Q, when the caisson, respectively 4 and 5 are shown in FIGS. The one vial layer in the box to be filled distributor consists essentially of a slide, the suction cups lift an intermediate sheet over L, which is in a body M with an opening F 50 from the stack 33.

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Claims (1)

1 2 is located, to be introduced. The crossbar has PatentansDructr protrusions that go into every second of the chambers 'tower. This results in a honeycomb arrangement of the bottles, although the bottle device for combining and grouping rows are separated by the longitudinal strips. Respectively pieren of bottles or similar objects a group of bottles or rows of bottles that with a circular cross-section in several par- are located in the frame, are of the relocating parallel Rows, the number and dimensions of which are added to the device consisting of grippers, corresponds to a packaging box, as well as which are articulated and controlled in this way, lifting and inserting the io in groups so that they keep the bottles at a mutual distance Bottles in the packaging box, in which one can grasp arranged rows of bottles and They are arranged in a fixed position over a conveyor belt in a honeycomb arrangement in close packing Frame that can insert a transverse box into the packaging box above the conveyor belt. the Bar with the necessary constructive and control technology, arranged at regular intervals Projections or depressions and two 15 niche effort is considerable. Has parallel longitudinal strips, as well as a Um- In another known device (US-PS Setting device that lifts a group of objects (25 35 880) is provided with projections transversely, transported horizontally and arranged in the packaging in a honeycomb strip between two longitudinal strips in a displaceably offset arrangement. The bottles are placed on a transport box, provided that they are transported in front of the transport device between longitudinal guides up to a stop. Then the transverse strip band (C) a feed device (A; 2, 2 a) is arranged in front of the ends protruding beyond the holding device with a conveyor belt (A) , which displaces the longitudinal guides, with the articulated objects (1) on the conveyor belt (C) see the longitudinal guides engage in projections connected to the transverse strip, on the common center line 25. After the conveyor belt (C) and the frame are loosened, the holding device is arranged at the end of the pulling row, and that the distances between the retraction of the crossbar and simultaneous front projections (10) on the crossbar (9), which are pushed in by the conveyor belt which between the ends essentially have the shape of bottles emerging in the longitudinal center of the longitudinal guide between flat cut-open bottles, equal to the two longitudinal strips in a honeycomb Andean spacing of the objects that are in order. In this device, too, the conical staggered arrangement is a transverse row in terms of structural and control engineering effort. Packing considerable. Furthermore, devices are known in which the 35 bottles are not combined with optimal packing density, grouped and packaged (OE-PS 2 27 168, US-PS 28 19 576). With these devices the frame has several longitudinal strips to form chambers for receiving 40 rows of bottles. The bottles are transported to the frame in a disordered manner on a jogging belt. Through this, that the bottles transported over the entire width of the pushing belt between the Longitudinal strips slide, they are arranged in rows of bottles, but with an optimal packing density The invention relates to a device for access that is not accessible. summarizing and grouping of bottles or The invention is based on the object in the Similar objects with a circular cross-section, the device described at the outset, the effort in several parallel rows, noticeably reducing their number and packaging when packing the bottles measurements of a packaging box, 50 and dividing devices that were previously considered necessary to avoid lifting and inserting in groups in the grouping station, of the bottles in the packaging box, in which this object is achieved according to the invention a stationarily arranged above a conveyor belt releases that in front of the conveyor belt a feed frame, which a transverse device with a conveyor belt is arranged above the conveyor belt, which bar with regularly spaced 55 the objects on the conveyor belt in one-projections or depressions and two parallel zigs on the common center line of the transport longitudinal strips has, as well as a transfer device, tape and the frame lying row stores, and which lifts a group of objects horizontally - that the distances between the projections on the transverse bar, quite transported and in a honeycomb-like offset area which essentially has the shape of in the longitudinal order Put them in the packaging box, have 60 bottles cut open in the middle, the same are seen. the distances between the objects that are Such a device is known (DT-PS-like offset arrangement form a transverse row.
72 185). In this known device, the advantages achieved by the invention are the frame several longitudinal strips, between which can be seen in particular that the individual and a plurality of chambers open on one side are formed, which are deposited one after the other on the conveyor belt each take rows of bottles that differ from bottles without the use of guide or a conveyor belt, over which one of the number of control means becomes a honeycomb-like offset confider Rows arrange the corresponding number of longitudinal guides guration, because they are based on the of the