EP0038088A2 - Sorting machine for classifying individual articles - Google Patents

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EP0038088A2
EP0038088A2 EP81104397A EP81104397A EP0038088A2 EP 0038088 A2 EP0038088 A2 EP 0038088A2 EP 81104397 A EP81104397 A EP 81104397A EP 81104397 A EP81104397 A EP 81104397A EP 0038088 A2 EP0038088 A2 EP 0038088A2
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B07—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING
    • B07B—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS BY SIEVING, SCREENING, SIFTING OR BY USING GAS CURRENTS; SEPARATING BY OTHER DRY METHODS APPLICABLE TO BULK MATERIAL, e.g. LOOSE ARTICLES FIT TO BE HANDLED LIKE BULK MATERIAL
    • B07B13/00—Grading or sorting solid materials by dry methods, not otherwise provided for; Sorting articles otherwise than by indirectly controlled devices
    • B07B13/04—Grading or sorting solid materials by dry methods, not otherwise provided for; Sorting articles otherwise than by indirectly controlled devices according to size
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B07—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING
    • B07B—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS BY SIEVING, SCREENING, SIFTING OR BY USING GAS CURRENTS; SEPARATING BY OTHER DRY METHODS APPLICABLE TO BULK MATERIAL, e.g. LOOSE ARTICLES FIT TO BE HANDLED LIKE BULK MATERIAL
    • B07B13/00—Grading or sorting solid materials by dry methods, not otherwise provided for; Sorting articles otherwise than by indirectly controlled devices
    • B07B13/04—Grading or sorting solid materials by dry methods, not otherwise provided for; Sorting articles otherwise than by indirectly controlled devices according to size
    • B07B13/05—Grading or sorting solid materials by dry methods, not otherwise provided for; Sorting articles otherwise than by indirectly controlled devices according to size using material mover cooperating with retainer, deflector or discharger
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B07—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING
    • B07C—POSTAL SORTING; SORTING INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES, OR BULK MATERIAL FIT TO BE SORTED PIECE-MEAL, e.g. BY PICKING
    • B07C5/00—Sorting according to a characteristic or feature of the articles or material being sorted, e.g. by control effected by devices which detect or measure such characteristic or feature; Sorting by manually actuated devices, e.g. switches
    • B07C5/04—Sorting according to size
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B07—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING
    • B07C—POSTAL SORTING; SORTING INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES, OR BULK MATERIAL FIT TO BE SORTED PIECE-MEAL, e.g. BY PICKING
    • B07C2501/00—Sorting according to a characteristic or feature of the articles or material to be sorted
    • B07C2501/0081—Sorting of food items

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  • the invention relates to a machine for sorting lumpy goods, such as coated tablets, tablets, capsules or candies, in the high-performance range.
  • the products are then passed over several sorting belts so that several people can carry out a visual inspection of the surface.
  • pimples which are arranged on the surface in such a way that they can be found in the packaging, e.g. in a blister, must lead to crushing and thus to destruction in many products and cannot be detected during thickness control.
  • particularly highly effective pharmaceutical products such as coated tablets, pills or tablets are unusable or even dangerous for the consumer.
  • sorting machines By repeatedly vibrating the products, these sorting machines cause a noise level that is too high for people to stay. In many cases, the sorting machines are therefore set up in individual boxes separately from the sorting belts. Furthermore, the sorting accuracy depends on the inclination of the shaft pairs, which must be set depending on the curvature of the product. Incorrect measurements cannot be avoided if the product is strongly curved and the shafts are set too steeply. The surfaces must be visually visible to people controls are carried out. Due to the human characteristics, such as fatigue after a long, intensive control over several hours, there is a remaining uncertainty that cannot be completely satisfactorily resolved even by additional so-called jumpers.
  • the invention as characterized in the claims solves the problem of damage to health of the staff to be avoided by reducing the noise level by more than 1 00%, while simultaneously achieving a higher sorting capacity.
  • the machine is to achieve a complete, mechanical control of the surface in order to replace the optical person control.
  • the contour wheel control is low-noise and, when using light materials, such as plastic or plexiglass, does not put any pressure on the product of more than approx. 1o to 15g.
  • light materials such as plastic or plexiglass
  • fragments and products with missing corners can surprisingly be sorted out by photoelectric means.
  • the section of FIG. 1 shows a pair of sorting disks 1.
  • the sorting products are fed from the hopper 5 through the oscillating conveying element 16 and the hopper 17, a feed wheel 4, to a high-performance sorting disk pair 1.
  • a touch finger 6 is there, for example, for removing the test specimens that are too thick, the touch finger 7 for sliding the good goods and the touch finger 8 for completely emptying a high-performance sorting disc pair 1.
  • the sorted out material of the finger 6 is collected in the container 9, the product which is too small runs into the container 14. Only the dragee or a similar product that is caught and derived by the touch finger 7 is still sorted by the perforated disks 1 0 and 11 according to the outer contour, which in the most common cases consists of a circle in the dragee.
  • the too large diameters of coated tablets, for example, are collected in the container 12, the good goods in the Container 13, while the container 14 catches the too small products.
  • the perforated disks are driven by a motor 15.
  • a high-performance sorting disc pair 1 is shown by way of example in FIG. 2.
  • the pre-sorting surface 3 and the sorting surface 2 are particularly visible in this figure.
  • the products are derived, for example, from a pair of sorting disks 1 with the pre-sorting surface 3 and the sorting surface 2 via the three probe fingers 6, 7 and 8 into the associated containers 9 and 14 and into a lower contour wheel 31, which is in line with the contour wheel 27 rotates at the same peripheral speed, but in the opposite direction.
  • the fittings 32 used with one half of the test specimens are firmly seated in the wheel 31.
  • the counterparts 28 in the upper contour wheel 27 and the guide 26 are movably mounted and can move radially to the center of the contour wheel 27 if a test object should have a pimple.
  • This movement is scanned contactlessly via a contact rail 29.
  • An air jet of very low pressure and a few milliseconds in length in an opening 3o enables the sorting process to remove excessively large dragees into the container 12.
  • the tactile accuracy can be selected up to 0.1 mm, which is below the requirement of a packaging tolerance. The good goods fall into the container 13.

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1. Sorting machine for the classifying of goods dealt with as individual items, in accordance with thickness and/or outer configuration, with two contour wheels (27, 31), shape elements intended for receiving the products and situated in the peripheral surface of the contour wheels, and with measuring devices recording and evaluating movements of the shape elements caused by the products, characterised in that the contour wheels (31, 27) are arranged one above the other, the shape elements (32) are arranged non-movably in the lower contour wheel (31) and the shape elements (28) are arranged to be movable in the upper contour wheel (27), and a comparative measuring of the travel of the movable shape element (28) is carried out.

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Die Erfindung betrifft eine Maschine zum Sortieren von stückigem Gut, wie Dragees, Tabletten, Kapseln oder Bonbons im Hochleistungsbereich.The invention relates to a machine for sorting lumpy goods, such as coated tablets, tablets, capsules or candies, in the high-performance range.

Bisher werden diese Produkte mit Maschinen sortiert, die die Produkte aus einem Vorratstrichter über eine Vibrationszuführung in lange, zylindrische, geneigte Wellenpaare mit verschiedener Drehrichtung einrütteln. Die Wellen haben am oberen Ende einen größeren Durchmesser als am unteren Ende. So fallen die Produkte nach dem Gleiten auf diesen Wellenpaaren entsprechend ihrer Dicke durch. Die Gutware wird abermals mit Vibration über Lochsiebe gefördert, um den Durchmesser zu kontrollieren. Dabei müssen die guten Produkte einen langen Gleitweg auf den Bahnen zurücklegen.So far, these products have been sorted with machines that shake the products from a hopper via a vibration feeder into long, cylindrical, inclined shaft pairs with different directions of rotation. The shafts have a larger diameter at the top than at the bottom. After sliding on these pairs of waves, the products fall through according to their thickness. The goods are again conveyed with vibration over perforated screens to control the diameter. The good products have to travel a long way on the tracks lay.

Anschließend werden die Produkte über mehrere Sortierbänder geleitet, damit mehrere Personen eine optische Kontrolle der Oberfläche vornehmen können. Bei diesem Kontrollvorgang müssen insbesondere Pickel gefunden werden, die so auf der Oberfläche angeordnet sind, daß diese bei der Verpackung, z.B. in einem Blister, zu einer Quetschung und damit bei vielen Produkten zu einer Zerstörung führen müssen und bei der Dickenkontrolle nicht erfaßbar sind. Besonders hochwirksame, pharmazeutische Produkte, wie Dragees, Pillen oder Tabletten sind in solchen Fällen einer Quetschung unbrauchbar oder gar gefährlich für den Konsumenten.The products are then passed over several sorting belts so that several people can carry out a visual inspection of the surface. In this control process, in particular pimples must be found which are arranged on the surface in such a way that they can be found in the packaging, e.g. in a blister, must lead to crushing and thus to destruction in many products and cannot be detected during thickness control. In such cases of crushing, particularly highly effective pharmaceutical products such as coated tablets, pills or tablets are unusable or even dangerous for the consumer.

Diese Sortiermaschinen verursachen durch mehrmalige Vibrationsförderung der Produkte einen für Personenaufenthalt zu hohen Lärmpegel. In vielen Fällen werden daher die Sortiermaschinen in Einzelboxen getrennt von den Sortierbändern aufgestellt. Weiterhin hängt die Soriergenauigkeit von der Neigung der Wellenpaare, die in Abhängigkeit von der Wölbung des Produktes jeweils eingestellt werden muß, ab. Bei einer starken Wölbung des Produktes und einer zu steilen Einstellung der Wellen können Fehlmessungen nicht vermieden werden. Die Oberflächen müssen optisch durch Personenkontrollen vorgenommen werden. Durch die menschlichen Eigenschaften, wie Ermüdung bei längerer, intensiver Kontrolle über mehrere Stunden ist hier eine verbleibende Unsicherheit, die auch durch zusätzliche, sogenannte Springerpersonen nicht restlos befriedigend gelöst werden kann.By repeatedly vibrating the products, these sorting machines cause a noise level that is too high for people to stay. In many cases, the sorting machines are therefore set up in individual boxes separately from the sorting belts. Furthermore, the sorting accuracy depends on the inclination of the shaft pairs, which must be set depending on the curvature of the product. Incorrect measurements cannot be avoided if the product is strongly curved and the shafts are set too steeply. The surfaces must be visually visible to people controls are carried out. Due to the human characteristics, such as fatigue after a long, intensive control over several hours, there is a remaining uncertainty that cannot be completely satisfactorily resolved even by additional so-called jumpers.

Die Erfindung, wie sie in den Ansprüchen gekennzeichnet ist, löst die Aufgabe, gesundheitliche Schäden des Personals durch Verminderung des Lärmpegels um mehr als 100 % zu vermeiden,unter gleichzeitiger Erreichung einer höheren Sortierleistung. Die Maschine soll eine vollständige, maschinelle Kontrolle der Oberfläche erreichen, um die optische Personenkontrolle zu ersetzen.The invention, as characterized in the claims solves the problem of damage to health of the staff to be avoided by reducing the noise level by more than 1 00%, while simultaneously achieving a higher sorting capacity. The machine is to achieve a complete, mechanical control of the surface in order to replace the optical person control.

Erfindungsgemäß werden diese Aufgaben wie folgt gelöst:

  • Das Produkt wird in je zwei Konturräder mit entgegengesetztem Drehsinn so zwischen die Stirnflächen geleitet, daß je eine Halbschale der Produktoberfläche die Oberfläche der Ware abtastet. Die Elemente mit den Halbschalen der oberen Räder sind beweglich angeordnet. Ist das Produkt an einer Stelle zu groß, so hebt sich das Segment mit der Halbschale und löst eine Aussortierung aus. Es kann zusätzlich eine Bruchstückkontrolle mit einer photoelektrischen Einrichtung erfolgen, wie zum Beispiel mit einer Ultrarot-Kontrolleinrichtung.
According to the invention, these tasks are solved as follows:
  • The product is guided in two contour wheels with opposite directions of rotation between the end faces so that a half-shell of the product surface scans the surface of the goods. The elements with the half-shells of the upper wheels are movably arranged. If the product is too large at one point, the segment with the half-shell rises and triggers a sorting out. It can also break Pieces control with a photoelectric device, such as with an infrared control device.

Die Konturräderkontrolle ist geräuscharm und bringt bei Verwendung von leichten Werkstoffen, wie zum Beispiel Kunststoff oder Plexiglas, keine Druckbeanspruchung von mehr als ca. 1o bis 15g für das Produkt. Bei Verwendung von Plexiglas können überraschenderweise auf photoelektrischem Wege, Bruchstücke sowie Produkte mit fehlenden Ecken aussortiert werden.The contour wheel control is low-noise and, when using light materials, such as plastic or plexiglass, does not put any pressure on the product of more than approx. 1o to 15g. When using plexiglass, fragments and products with missing corners can surprisingly be sorted out by photoelectric means.

Im folgenden wird die Erfindung beispielhaft näher erläutert. Es zeigt

  • Fig. 1 einen Schnitt durch eine Sortiermaschine mit Lochscheiben,
  • Fig. 2 eine Ansicht eines Hochleistungssortierscheibenpaares und
  • Fig. 3 einen Schnitt durch ein Hochleistungssortierscheibenpaar mit einem Satz Konturräder.
The invention is explained in more detail below by way of example. It shows
  • 1 shows a section through a sorting machine with perforated disks,
  • Fig. 2 is a view of a high performance sorting disc pair and
  • Fig. 3 shows a section through a pair of high-performance grading discs with a set of contour wheels.

In den Fig. 1 und 2 ist die Sortiermaschine dargestellt.1 and 2, the sorting machine is shown.

Der Schnitt der Fig. 1 zeigt ein Sortierscheibenpaar 1. Dadurch sind die Vorsortierfläche 3 und die Sortierfläche 2 sichtbar. Von dem Trichter 5 werden die Sortierprodukte durch das oszillierende Förderelement 16 und den Trichter 17, einem Zuteilrad 4, einem Hochleistungssortierscheibenpaar 1 zugeführt.The section of FIG. 1 shows a pair of sorting disks 1. As a result, the pre-sorting surface 3 and the sor animal area 2 visible. The sorting products are fed from the hopper 5 through the oscillating conveying element 16 and the hopper 17, a feed wheel 4, to a high-performance sorting disk pair 1.

Über die Regelung der Umfangsgeschwindigkeit dieses Zuteilerrades 4 kann eine genau dosierte Menge zugeführt werden, da die Leistung aller Sortiermaschinen von der Form und dem Durchmesser des Sortiergutes beeinflußt wird. Ein Tastfinger 6 ist beispielsweise für das Entnehmen der zu dicken Prüflinge da, der Tastfinger 7 für ein Abgleiten der Gutware und der Tastfinger 8 für ein restloses Leeren eines Hochleistungssortierscheibenpaares 1.By controlling the peripheral speed of this metering wheel 4, a precisely metered quantity can be supplied, since the performance of all sorting machines is influenced by the shape and diameter of the goods to be sorted. A touch finger 6 is there, for example, for removing the test specimens that are too thick, the touch finger 7 for sliding the good goods and the touch finger 8 for completely emptying a high-performance sorting disc pair 1.

Das aussortierte Gut des Tastfingers 6 wird im Behälter 9 gesammelt, das zu kleine Produkt läuft in den Behälter 14 ein. Nur das Dragee oder ein ähnliches Produkt, das vom Tastfinger 7 aufgefangen und abgeleitet wird, wird noch durch die Lochscheiben 10 und 11 sortiert nach der äußeren Kontur, die beim Dragee in den häufigsten Fällen aus einem Kreis besteht.The sorted out material of the finger 6 is collected in the container 9, the product which is too small runs into the container 14. Only the dragee or a similar product that is caught and derived by the touch finger 7 is still sorted by the perforated disks 1 0 and 11 according to the outer contour, which in the most common cases consists of a circle in the dragee.

Die zu großen Durchmesser von Dragees beispielsweise werden im Behälter 12 gesammelt, die Gutware im Behälter 13, während der Behälter 14 die zu kleinen Produkte auffängt. Der Antrieb der Lochscheiben erfolgt über einen Motor 15.The too large diameters of coated tablets, for example, are collected in the container 12, the good goods in the Container 13, while the container 14 catches the too small products. The perforated disks are driven by a motor 15.

In Fig. 2 ist beispielhaft ein Hochleistungssortierscheibenpaar 1 dargestellt. Es sind in dieser Figur bsonders die Vorsortierfläche 3 sowie die Sortierfläche 2 sichtbar.A high-performance sorting disc pair 1 is shown by way of example in FIG. 2. The pre-sorting surface 3 and the sorting surface 2 are particularly visible in this figure.

In Fig. 3 werden die Produkte beispielsweise aus einem Sortierscheibenpaar 1 mit der Vorsortierfläche 3 und der Sortierfläche 2 abgeleitet über die drei Tastfinger 6, 7 und 8 in die zugehörigen Behälter 9 und 14 sowie in ein unteres Konturrad 31, das sich mit dem Konturrad 27 mit gleicher Umfangsgeschwindigkeit, aber entgegengesetztem Drehsinn dreht.In FIG. 3, the products are derived, for example, from a pair of sorting disks 1 with the pre-sorting surface 3 and the sorting surface 2 via the three probe fingers 6, 7 and 8 into the associated containers 9 and 14 and into a lower contour wheel 31, which is in line with the contour wheel 27 rotates at the same peripheral speed, but in the opposite direction.

Die eingesetzten Formstücke 32 mit einer Formhälfte der Prüflinge sitzen fest im Rad 31.The fittings 32 used with one half of the test specimens are firmly seated in the wheel 31.

Die Gegenstücke 28 im oberen Konturrad 27 sowie die Führung 26 sind beweglich gelagert und können in radialer Bewegung zum Mittelpunkt des Konturrades 27 ausweichen, falls ein Prüfling einen Pickel haben sollte.The counterparts 28 in the upper contour wheel 27 and the guide 26 are movably mounted and can move radially to the center of the contour wheel 27 if a test object should have a pimple.

Diese Bewegung wird über eine Kontaktschiene 29 berührungslos abgetastet. Ein Luftstrahl von sehr niedrigem Druck und wenigen Millisekunden Dauer in eine öffnung 3o ermöglicht den Sortiervorgang zum Ausscheiden von zu großen Dragees in den Behälter 12. Die Tastgenauigkeit kann bis zu o,1 mm gewählt werden, was die Forderung einer Verpackungstoleranz gesichert unterschreitet. Die Gutware fällt in den Behälter 13.This movement is scanned contactlessly via a contact rail 29. An air jet of very low pressure and a few milliseconds in length in an opening 3o enables the sorting process to remove excessively large dragees into the container 12. The tactile accuracy can be selected up to 0.1 mm, which is below the requirement of a packaging tolerance. The good goods fall into the container 13.

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1. Sortiermaschine zum Vereinzeln von stückigem Gut nach der Dicke und/oder äußeren Kontur, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß in Konturrädern (27, 31) das vorsortierte Produkt der gesamten Oberfläche und/oder dem Durchmesser nach klassifiziert wird.1. Sorting machine for separating lumpy goods according to the thickness and / or outer contour, characterized in that the pre-sorted product of the entire surface and / or the diameter is classified according to contour wheels (27, 31). 2. Maschine nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Produkte in je ein unteres Konturrad (31) und ein oberes Konturrad (27) so eingeleitet . werden, daß die äußere Kontur in je einem festen Formstück (32) und einem beweglichen Formstück (28) durch Abtastung gemessen wird.2. Machine according to claim 1, characterized in that the products are introduced into a lower contour wheel (31) and an upper contour wheel (27). be that the outer contour is measured in a fixed fitting (32) and a movable fitting (28) by scanning. 3. Maschine nach Anspruch 1- und 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß eine vergleichende Messung des Weges des jeweiligen Formstückes (28) mit der Kontaktschiene (29) erreicht wird und beim überschreiten einer.einstellbaren, zulässigen Toleranz ein Meßsignal zum Aussortieren des jeweiligen Prüflings gewonnen wird.3. Machine according to claim 1- and 2, characterized in that a comparative measurement of the path of the respective fitting (28) with the contact rail (29) is achieved and a measurement signal for sorting out the respective test specimen is obtained when an adjustable, permissible tolerance is exceeded becomes. 4. Maschine nach Anspruch 1 bis 3, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Meßsignale der zu großen Produkte beliebig gespeichert werden, um je nach Umfangsgeschwindigkeit der Konturräder (27, 31) nach einer Drehung der Räder von ca. 3o bis 60° in Ausstoßfunktionen umgewandelt zu werden.4. Machine according to claim 1 to 3, characterized in that the measurement signals of the oversized products are stored arbitrarily, depending on the peripheral speed of the contour wheels (27, 31) after a rotation of the wheels of about 3o to 6 0 ° converted into ejection functions to become. 5. Maschine nach Anspruch 1 bis 4, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Ausstoßfunktionen sowohl einen mechanischen oder elektrischen Ausstoß aus einem Formstück (32), als auch einen pneumatischen Ausstoß oder Vakuumausscheidung zulassen.5. Machine according to claim 1 to 4, characterized in that the ejection functions allow both a mechanical or electrical ejection from a fitting (32), and a pneumatic ejection or vacuum separation. 6. Maschine nach Anspruch 1 bis 5, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß eine Bruchstückaussortierung auf photoelektrischem Wege vorgenommen wird.6. Machine according to claim 1 to 5, characterized in that a fragment sorting is carried out photoelectrically.
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