EP0055281B1 - Device for forming and packaging filled sweets or chewing-gums - Google Patents

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EP0055281B1
EP0055281B1 EP81901911A EP81901911A EP0055281B1 EP 0055281 B1 EP0055281 B1 EP 0055281B1 EP 81901911 A EP81901911 A EP 81901911A EP 81901911 A EP81901911 A EP 81901911A EP 0055281 B1 EP0055281 B1 EP 0055281B1
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  • the invention relates to a device for shaping and packaging filled candies or chewing gums from a soft mass, with squeeze bars that can be moved relative to one another, between which a mass strand provided with a soft or liquid filling is constricted and into a chain of candies or chewing gums which are still connected to one another by narrow mass webs is subdivided, which are cut off one after the other by cut-off knives which are operated synchronously with the squeeze bars and are arranged at a distance from the objects, and are fed to a packaging station.
  • the mass strand is tangentially fed to an embossing wheel, which has a plurality of successive chambers on its circumference, which are delimited by axially extending, mutually movable squeeze bars that constrict the mass strand in places and deform it into a coherent chain of filled candy pieces.
  • the pieces located between the squeeze strips are then pressed axially into mold openings arranged in the embossing wheel, the webs remaining between the pieces tearing off.
  • the candies that are subsequently ejected then go randomly to a removal device, where they first have to be sorted again before they can be fed one by one to a packaging machine.
  • a device for producing pillow-like containers made of thermoplastic material, which are filled with a liquid or pasty mass is also already known (French patent specification 1 344 129).
  • the covering is extruded as a plastic tube, which is continuously filled with a pasty or liquid mass during extrusion and then divided into individual sections and then cross-welded and cut off. In this case, the compression and welding at the rear end and the cutting off of the previous pillow at the front end of each container take place simultaneously.
  • the object of the invention is to provide a device for shaping and packaging filled candies and chewing gums of the type explained in the introduction in such a way that tearing or damage to the mass strand is avoided during the shaping and cutting of the individual pieces and the individual pieces simultaneously with the shaping and Clipping to get their final shape.
  • This object is achieved with the invention in that the cutting knives and a plurality of squeezing bars arranged at the same distance from one another are arranged on cutting shoes and in that the height of the squeezing bars increases from one squeeze bar to another in the direction of the cutting knives.
  • the mass strand provided with the liquid filling is always pressed a little further at the same time by a plurality of pairs of squeezing bars at a distance of the object length and is finally pressed completely together.
  • the soft or liquid filling contained in the mass strand can gradually recede and it is also prevented that when the candies are pressed in, more liquid or soft filling is contained in the candy than corresponds to the available volume in the casing.
  • a support rail for the ground strand is expediently arranged, which has recesses for the passage of crush strips.
  • One of the two cutting shoes which can be moved relative to one another expediently has a first shaping surface which is arranged between the crimping strips and the cutting knife and which interacts with the front part of the support rail which forms a second shaping surface and is delimited by the crimping strip and the cutting knife of the other cutting shoe.
  • This configuration has the advantage that when the pieces are squeezed and cut off, they are given a shape.
  • each cutting shoe 20 or 21 Arranged in the constricting and cutting station 16 are two opposing cutting shoes 20 and 21 which can be moved towards and away from one another by a drive (not shown here) in the direction of arrows 22 and 23 in time with the advance of the mass strand 11.
  • Each cutting shoe 20 or 21 has a carrier 24, to the surface of which the strand strand 11 faces 25 squeeze strips 28 and 27 are fastened.
  • the squeeze strips 28 and 27 extend transversely to the feed direction 15 and have tapered but blunt edges 26 and 29 which face each other.
  • the crimp strips 27a, 27b and 27c of the lower cutting shoe 21 and the crimp strips 28a, 28b and 28c of the upper cutting shoe 20 are arranged at the same distance L and that the height H or H 2 or H 3 of a crimping strip 27c, 28c or 27b, 28b to the other crimping strip 27b, 28b or 27a, 28a in the direction of arrow 15 is getting larger.
  • the edges of the crimp strips 27a and 28a which are closest to the cutting blades 33 and 32 arranged at the end of the cutting shoes, lie by the dimension d lower or higher than the cutting edges 35 and 34 of the blades 33 and 32, respectively. the dimension d being somewhat smaller than the diameter of the casing 12 of the mass strand 11.
  • the cutting knives 32 and 33 are attached to the end faces 30 and 31 of the cutting shoes 20 and 21 facing away from the feed rollers 13 and 14 and lie in the same plane. Their cutting edges 34 and 35 are directed towards each other. Furthermore, the knives 32 and 33 are arranged with respect to one another such that their cutting edges 34 and 35 touch when the blunt edges 26 and 29 of the squeeze strips 27a and 28a are still at a distance from one another which is slightly less than the total thickness of the compressed walls 36 and 37 of the sugar coating 12 of the mass strand 11.
  • the support rail 18 has at a distance from its front edge 38 a plurality of recesses 39, the size of which is adapted to the crimp strips 27a, 27b and 27c of the lower cutting shoe 21 and through which the crimp strips 27a, 27b and 27c can enter the movement path of the mass strand 11 .
  • the upper cutting shoe 20 has on its underside between the crimp strips 28a, 28b and 28c and between the crimp strip 28a and the cutting knife 32, shaped surfaces 40 which cooperate with shaped surfaces 41 which are formed by the upper side of the support rail between the recesses 39. These shaped surfaces can, for example, be corrugated or, depending on the desired shape of the candy, can also have a bulge.
  • edges 26 and 29 of the squeeze strips 28a and 27a closest to the knives 32 and 33 squeeze the walls 36 and 37 of the sugar coating of the mass strand firmly, while at the same time the knives 32 and 33 insert the previously formed and inserted into the channel 44 of the guide rail 43 Cut bonbon B 1 from the next bonbon B 2 located between the shaped surfaces 40 and 41 of the cutting shoes 20 and 21.
  • the cutting shoes 20 and 21 are then moved apart again in the direction of the arrows 22 and 23, while at the same time a plunger, not shown here, pushes the candy B i in the guide rail 43 perpendicular to the drawing plane to the packing head of the packaging machine and moves it back again, so that the spout the constricting and cutting device 16 opposite space in the channel 44 of the guide rail 43 is free again.
  • the feed rollers 13 and 14 advance the mass strand 11 again by the length L, the foremost candy B 1 of the chain entering the guide rail 43 and the subsequent candies B 2 and B 3 advancing by the dimension L.
  • the cutting shoes 20 and 21 then move towards one another again, the walls 36 and 37 being increasingly squeezed together by the edges 26 and 29 of the squeeze strips 28 and 27 and the foremost candy being cut off again by the knives 32 and 33. This process is then repeated in rapid succession, so that one candy after the other is shaped, gradually pressed on and cut off and then fed to the packaging.

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Method and device allowing to separate into objects (B1, B2), a paste puddening having a cavity (11) filled with a liquid substance (10) by means of cutting shoes (20, 21) moving towards each other. There is thus obtained a series of objects one after the other (B1, B2), each object being narrowed at its back end by nipping rods (26, 27) and at the same time cut at the front end of the preceding object (B1) by blades (32, 33). The object is then moved transversally with respect to the feed direction (15) of the puddening (11) towards a packaging station.

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Die Erfindung betrifft eine Vorrichtung zum Formen und Verpacken von gefüllten Bonbons oder Kaugummis aus einer weichen Masse, mit gegeneinander bewegbaren Quetschleisten, zwischen denen ein mit einer weichen oder flüssigen Füllung versehener Massestrang eingeschnürt und zu einer Kette von durch schmale Massestege noch miteinander verbundenen Bonbons oder Kaugummis unterteilt wird, die von synchron mit den Quetschleisten betätigten, im Abstand der Gegenstände angeordneten Abschneidemessern im Bereich der Massestege einer nach dem anderen abgetrennt und einer Verpakkungsstation zugeführt werden.The invention relates to a device for shaping and packaging filled candies or chewing gums from a soft mass, with squeeze bars that can be moved relative to one another, between which a mass strand provided with a soft or liquid filling is constricted and into a chain of candies or chewing gums which are still connected to one another by narrow mass webs is subdivided, which are cut off one after the other by cut-off knives which are operated synchronously with the squeeze bars and are arranged at a distance from the objects, and are fed to a packaging station.

Beim Formen und Verpacken von Bonbons müssen die einzelnen, auszuformenden Stücke zunächst von dem der Formgebungsmaschine zugeführten Massestrang abgeschnitten werden, bevor sie geformt und anschliessend verpackt werden können. Bei mit einer flüssigen oder weichen Füllung versehenen Bonbons oder Kaugummis besteht hierbei die Schwierigkeit, dass die flüssige Füllung beim Abschneiden entweicht. Es ist dehalb bekannt, den Massestrang an zwei aufeinanderfolgenden, späteren Schnittstellen so weit zusammenzuquetschen, dass die einander gegenüberliegenden Wandungen der Hülle aufeinanderliegen und die flüssige Füllung in der Umhüllung zwischen diesen beiden Quetschstellen eingeschlossen wird. Ein derartiges Verfahren und eine hierzu geeignete Vorrichtung ist beispielsweise durch die deutsche Auslegeschrift 1 196 056 bekanntgeworden.When molding and packaging candies, the individual pieces to be molded must first be cut off from the mass strand fed to the shaping machine before they can be molded and then packaged. In the case of candies or chewing gums provided with a liquid or soft filling, there is the difficulty that the liquid filling escapes when cut off. It is therefore known to squeeze the mass strand at two successive, later interfaces to such an extent that the opposing walls of the casing lie one on top of the other and the liquid filling is enclosed in the casing between these two pinch points. Such a method and a device suitable for this purpose have become known, for example, from German patent application 1 196 056.

Bei dieser bekannten Vorrichtung wird der Massestrang tangential einem Prägerad zugeführt, das an seinem Umfang mehrere, aufeinanderfolgende Kammern aufweist, welche durch axial verlaufende, gegeneinander bewegbare Quetschleisten begrenzt werden, die den Massestrang stellenweise einschnüren und zu einer zusammenhängenden Kette von gefüllten Bonbonstücken verformen. Die zwischen den Quetschleisten befindlichen Stücke werden dann axial in im Prägerad angeordnete Formöffnungen gepresst, wobei die zwischen den Stücken stehengebliebenen Stege abreissen. Die anschliessend ausgeworfenen Bonbons gelangen dann regellos auf eine Abfördervorrichtung, wo sie zunächst erst wieder geordnet werden müssen, bevor sie eines nach dem anderen einer Verpackungsmaschine zugeführt werden können.In this known device, the mass strand is tangentially fed to an embossing wheel, which has a plurality of successive chambers on its circumference, which are delimited by axially extending, mutually movable squeeze bars that constrict the mass strand in places and deform it into a coherent chain of filled candy pieces. The pieces located between the squeeze strips are then pressed axially into mold openings arranged in the embossing wheel, the webs remaining between the pieces tearing off. The candies that are subsequently ejected then go randomly to a removal device, where they first have to be sorted again before they can be fed one by one to a packaging machine.

Beim Einschieben der noch in einer Kette zusammenhängenden Bonbons in die Formöffnung des Prägerades besteht die Gefahr, dass sich die Nahtstelle zwischen den aufeinanderliegenden Flächen der Hülle wieder öffnet oder die Hülle aufgerissen wird, wobei die flüssige Füllung ganz oder teilweise austreten kann. Ein Austreten der flüssige Füllung führt zu einer Verschmutzung der Maschine, die hierdurch sehr rasch betriebsunfähig wird und gereinigt werden muss. Ausserdem ist es mühevoll, die axial ausgestossenen, regellos auf den Abförderer gelangenden Bonbons wieder zu ordnen, bevor sie über mehr oder weniger lange Wege der Verpackungsmaschine zugeführt werden, welche die einzelnen Bonbons einwickelt.When the candies still connected in a chain are pushed into the mold opening of the embossing wheel, there is a risk that the seam between the superimposed surfaces of the casing opens again or the casing is torn open, the liquid filling being able to escape wholly or in part. If the liquid filling escapes, the machine becomes contaminated, which quickly renders it unusable and must be cleaned. In addition, it is difficult to rearrange the axially ejected candies that arrive randomly on the conveyor before they are fed to the packaging machine, which wraps the individual candies, over more or less long distances.

Es ist auch bereits eine Vorrichtung zum Herstellen von kissenartigen Behältnissen aus thermoplastischem Kunststoff bekannt, die mit einer flüssigen oder pastösen Masse gefüllt werden (französische Patentschrift 1 344 129). Hierbei wird die Umhüllung als Kunststoffschlauch extrudiert, der beim Extrudieren fortlaufend mit einer pastösen oder flüssigen Masse gefüllt und dann in einzelne Abschnitte unterteilt und danach querverschweisst und abgeschnitten wird. Hierbei erfolgt das Zusammendrükken und Verschweissen am hinteren Ende und das Abschneiden von dem vorhergehenden Kissen am vorderen Ende eines jeden Behältnisses gleichzeitig. Um zu verhindern, dass durch die Volumenverkleinerung beim Zusammenpressen und Verschweissen eines Behältnisses am hinteren Ende das Kissen platzt und ein Teil der Füllung austritt, wird dieses von zwei Auswerfern beaufschlagt, so dass eine gewisse Menge des Inhalts des Kissens nach hinten wieder herausgedrückt wird, bevor die Quetschleisten der Schweissvorrichtung das Kissen am hinteren Ende schliessen.A device for producing pillow-like containers made of thermoplastic material, which are filled with a liquid or pasty mass, is also already known (French patent specification 1 344 129). Here, the covering is extruded as a plastic tube, which is continuously filled with a pasty or liquid mass during extrusion and then divided into individual sections and then cross-welded and cut off. In this case, the compression and welding at the rear end and the cutting off of the previous pillow at the front end of each container take place simultaneously. In order to prevent the cushion from bursting at the rear end and a part of the filling escaping due to the reduction in volume when a container is pressed together and welded, this is acted on by two ejectors, so that a certain amount of the contents of the cushion are pushed out backwards before the squeeze bars of the welding device close the cushion at the rear end.

Eine solche Quetschverformung zur Verringerung der flüssigen oder pastösen Füllung in jedem der herzustellenden Gegenstände ist bei Bonbons und Kaugummis nicht möglich, da deren Hülle nicht aus thermoplastischem Kunststoff, sondern aus einer Zukkermasse besteht und die Bonbons zugleich mit dem Schliessen und Abschneiden vom Strang ihre endgültige Form erhalten müssen. Ein vorheriges Eindrücken zum Entlasten von einem Füllungsüberschuss würde die Bonbons oder Kaugummis verunstalten.Such crushing to reduce the liquid or pasty filling in each of the objects to be produced is not possible with candies and chewing gums, since their casing is not made of thermoplastic, but from a sugar mass, and the candies at the same time with the closing and cutting off of the strand their final shape must receive. A previous push to relieve excess filling would deface the candy or chewing gum.

Aufgabe der Erfindung ist es, eine Vorrichtung zum Formen und Verpacken von gefüllten Bonbons und Kaugummis der eingangs näher erläuterten Art so auszubilden, dass ein Reissen oder Beschädigen des Massestranges beim Formen und Abschneiden der einzelnen Stücke vermieden wird und die einzelnen Stücke zugleich mit dem Formen und Abschneiden ihre endgültige Gestalt erhalten.The object of the invention is to provide a device for shaping and packaging filled candies and chewing gums of the type explained in the introduction in such a way that tearing or damage to the mass strand is avoided during the shaping and cutting of the individual pieces and the individual pieces simultaneously with the shaping and Clipping to get their final shape.

Diese Aufgabe wird mit der Erfindung dadurch gelöst, dass die Abschneidemesser und mehrere, im gleichen Abstand voneinander angeordnete Quetschleisten auf Schneidschuhen angeordnet sind und dass die Höhe der Quetschleisten von einer Quetschleiste zur anderen in Richtung auf die Schneidmesser hin immer grösser wird.This object is achieved with the invention in that the cutting knives and a plurality of squeezing bars arranged at the same distance from one another are arranged on cutting shoes and in that the height of the squeezing bars increases from one squeeze bar to another in the direction of the cutting knives.

Hierdurch wird erreicht, dass der mit der flüssigen Füllung versehene Massestrang gleichzeitig von mehreren Quetschleistenpaaren im Abstand der Gegenstandslänge immer ein klein wenig weiter zusammengedrückt und schliesslich ganz zugedrückt wird. Hierdurch kann die im Massestrang enthaltene weiche oder flüssige Füllung schrittweise zurückweichen und es wird auch verhindert, dass beim Zudrükken der Bonbons mehr Flüssigkeit oder weiche Füllung im Bonbon enthalten ist, als dem vorhandenen Rauminhalt in der Hülle entspricht.It is hereby achieved that the mass strand provided with the liquid filling is always pressed a little further at the same time by a plurality of pairs of squeezing bars at a distance of the object length and is finally pressed completely together. As a result, the soft or liquid filling contained in the mass strand can gradually recede and it is also prevented that when the candies are pressed in, more liquid or soft filling is contained in the candy than corresponds to the available volume in the casing.

Im Bereich der Schneidschuhe ist zweckmässig eine Auflageschiene für den Massestrang angeordnet, die Ausnehmungen für den Durchtritt von Quetschleisten aufweist. Hierdurch hatdie nurdurch schmale Massestege noch miteinander verbundene Bonbonkette beim Vorschieben stets eine gute Auflage.In the area of the cutting shoes, a support rail for the ground strand is expediently arranged, which has recesses for the passage of crush strips. As a result, the only narrow webs still connected to each other Candy chain always a good circulation when advancing.

Der eine der beiden gegeneinander bewegbaren Schneidschuhe hat zweckmässig eine erste, zwischen Quetschleisten und Abschneidemesser angeordnete Formfläche, die mit dem vorderen, von der Quetschleiste und dem Abschneidemesser des anderen Schneidschuhes begrenzte, eine zweite Formfläche bildenden Teil der Auflageschiene zusammenwirkt. Diese Ausgestaltung hat den Vorteil, dass zugleich mit dem Abquetschen und Abschneiden der Stücke diese eine Formgebung erfahren.One of the two cutting shoes which can be moved relative to one another expediently has a first shaping surface which is arranged between the crimping strips and the cutting knife and which interacts with the front part of the support rail which forms a second shaping surface and is delimited by the crimping strip and the cutting knife of the other cutting shoe. This configuration has the advantage that when the pieces are squeezed and cut off, they are given a shape.

Weitere Merkmale und Vorteile der Erfindung ergeben sich aus der nachfolgenden Beschreibung und der Zeichnung, in denen eine bevorzugte Ausführungsform einer Vorrichtung zum Formen und Verpacken von flüssig gefüllten Bonbons nach der Erfindung in einer Teildarstellung in einem schematischen Längsschnitt gezeigt ist.Further features and advantages of the invention result from the following description and the drawing, in which a preferred embodiment of a device for molding and packaging liquid-filled candies according to the invention is shown in a partial illustration in a schematic longitudinal section.

Ein mit einer flüssigen Füllung 10 versehener Massestrang 11, dessen Zuckermantel 12 die flüssige Füllung 10 nach Art eines Schlauches umgibt, wird von zwei in der Zeichnung nur angedeuteten, gegensinnig umlaufenden Vorschubwalzen 13 und 14 in Richtung des Pfeiles 15 in eine kombinierte Einschnür-, Abschneide- und Formstation 16 und daran anschliessend in eine Verpackungsstation 17 vorgeschoben. Die Vorschubwalzen 13 und 14, denen noch zwei weitere, seitlich angeordnete Formgebungswalzen zugeordnet sein können, die in der Zeichnung jedoch nicht dargestellt sind, schieben den Massestrang 11 absatzweise zwischen einer unteren Auflageschiene 18 und einer oberen Ablöseschiene 19 um ein der Länge L eines Bonbons B entsprechendes Stück in die Einschnür- und Abschneidestation 16 vor, die in ihrer Gesamtheit jedoch nicht näher dargestellt ist.A mass strand 11 provided with a liquid filling 10, the sugar coating 12 of which surrounds the liquid filling 10 in the manner of a hose, is indicated by two feed rollers 13 and 14 in the direction of arrow 15 in a combined constriction and cut-off in the direction of arrow 15, which are only indicated in the drawing - And molding station 16 and then advanced into a packaging station 17. The feed rollers 13 and 14, to which two further, laterally arranged shaping rollers can be assigned, but which are not shown in the drawing, push the mass strand 11 in steps between a lower support rail 18 and an upper release rail 19 by a length L of a candy B. corresponding piece in the necking and cutting station 16, which is not shown in its entirety, however.

In der Einschnür- und Abschneidestation 16 sind zwei einander gegenüberliegende Schneidschuhe 20 und 21 angeordnet, die von einem hier nicht näher dargestellten Antrieb in Richtung der Pfeile 22 bzw. 23 im Takt des Vorschubes des Massestranges 11 aufeinander zu und voneinander wegbewegbar sind. Jeder Schneidschuh 20 bzw. 21 hat einen Träger 24, an dessen dem Massestrang 11 zugewandter Fläche 25 Quetschleisten 28 bzw. 27 befestigt sind. Die Quetschleisten 28 und 27 erstrecken sich quer zur Vorschubrichtung 15 und haben konisch zulaufende, aber stumpfe Kanten 26 und 29, die einander gegenüberstehen.Arranged in the constricting and cutting station 16 are two opposing cutting shoes 20 and 21 which can be moved towards and away from one another by a drive (not shown here) in the direction of arrows 22 and 23 in time with the advance of the mass strand 11. Each cutting shoe 20 or 21 has a carrier 24, to the surface of which the strand strand 11 faces 25 squeeze strips 28 and 27 are fastened. The squeeze strips 28 and 27 extend transversely to the feed direction 15 and have tapered but blunt edges 26 and 29 which face each other.

Man erkennt aus der Zeichnung, dass die Quetschleisten 27a, 27b und 27c des unteren Schneidschuhes 21 und die Quetschleisten 28a, 28b und 28c des oberen Schneidschuhes 20 im gleichen Abstand L angeordnet sind und dass die Höhe H bzw. H2 bzw. H3 von einer Quetschleiste 27c, 28c bzw. 27b, 28b zur anderen Quetschleiste 27b, 28b bzw. 27a, 28a in Richtung des Pfeiles 15 immer grösser wird. Hierbei liegen die Kanten der Quetschleisten 27a bzw. 28a, die den am Ende der Schneidschuhe angeordneten Schneidmessern 33 bzw. 32 am nächsten liegen, um das Mass.d tiefer bzw. höher als die Schneidkanten 35 bzw. 34 der Messer 33 bzw. 32, wobei das Mass d etwas kleiner ist als der Durchmesser der Hülle 12 des Massestranges 11.It can be seen from the drawing that the crimp strips 27a, 27b and 27c of the lower cutting shoe 21 and the crimp strips 28a, 28b and 28c of the upper cutting shoe 20 are arranged at the same distance L and that the height H or H 2 or H 3 of a crimping strip 27c, 28c or 27b, 28b to the other crimping strip 27b, 28b or 27a, 28a in the direction of arrow 15 is getting larger. Here, the edges of the crimp strips 27a and 28a, which are closest to the cutting blades 33 and 32 arranged at the end of the cutting shoes, lie by the dimension d lower or higher than the cutting edges 35 and 34 of the blades 33 and 32, respectively. the dimension d being somewhat smaller than the diameter of the casing 12 of the mass strand 11.

Die Abschneidemesser 32 und 33 sind an den den Vorschubwalzen 13 und 14 abgewandten Stirnseiten 30 und 31 der Schneidschuhe 20 und 21 befestigt und liegen in der gleichen Ebene. Ihre Schneidkanten 34 bzw. 35 sind gegeneinander gerichtet. Ferner sind die Messer 32 und 33 derart zueinander angeordnet, dass ihre Schneidkanten 34 und 35 sich berühren, wenn sich die stumpfen Kanten 26 und 29 der Quetschleisten 27a und 28a noch in einem Abstand voneinander befinden, der geringfügig kleiner ist als die Gesamtdicke der zusammengepressten Wandungen 36 und 37 des Zuckermantels 12 des Massestranges 11.The cutting knives 32 and 33 are attached to the end faces 30 and 31 of the cutting shoes 20 and 21 facing away from the feed rollers 13 and 14 and lie in the same plane. Their cutting edges 34 and 35 are directed towards each other. Furthermore, the knives 32 and 33 are arranged with respect to one another such that their cutting edges 34 and 35 touch when the blunt edges 26 and 29 of the squeeze strips 27a and 28a are still at a distance from one another which is slightly less than the total thickness of the compressed walls 36 and 37 of the sugar coating 12 of the mass strand 11.

Die Auflageschiene 18 hat im Abstand von ihrem vorderen Rand 38 mehrere Ausnehmungen 39, die in ihrer Grösse den Quetschleisten 27a, 27b und 27c des unteren Schneidschuhes 21 angepasst sind und durch die die Quetschleisten 27a, 27b und 27c in die Bewegungsbahn des Massestranges 11 eintreten können. Der obere Schneidschuh 20 hat an seiner Unterseite zwischen den Quetschleisten 28a, 28b und 28c und zwischen der Quetschleiste 28a und dem Abschneidemesser 32 Formflächen 40, die mit Formflächen 41 zusammenwirken, die von der Oberseite der Auflageschiene zwischen den Ausnehmungen 39 gebildet werden. Diese Formflächen können beispielsweise geriffelt sein oder je nach der gewünschten Form des Bonbons auch eine Ausbauchung haben.The support rail 18 has at a distance from its front edge 38 a plurality of recesses 39, the size of which is adapted to the crimp strips 27a, 27b and 27c of the lower cutting shoe 21 and through which the crimp strips 27a, 27b and 27c can enter the movement path of the mass strand 11 . The upper cutting shoe 20 has on its underside between the crimp strips 28a, 28b and 28c and between the crimp strip 28a and the cutting knife 32, shaped surfaces 40 which cooperate with shaped surfaces 41 which are formed by the upper side of the support rail between the recesses 39. These shaped surfaces can, for example, be corrugated or, depending on the desired shape of the candy, can also have a bulge.

In Vorschubrichtung 15 ist hinter den Schneidschuhen 20 und 21 eine im Querschnitt U-förmige Führungsschiene 43 angeordnet, deren Führungskanal 44 in Höhe und Breite der Grösse des Bonbons B angepasst ist, die in der Einschnür- und Abschneidevorrichtung 16 von dem Massestrang 11 getrennt worden ist. Die Führungsschiene 43 erstreckt sich quer zur Vorschubrichtung 15 in Richtung auf einen hier nicht näher dargestellten Packkopf der Verpackungsmaschine hin, der zweckmässig unmittelbar neben der Einschnür- und Abschneidevorrichtung 16 angeordnet ist. Ein senkrecht zur Zeichenebene arbeitender Stössel schiebt dann ein Bonbon B nach dem anderen in den Packkopf, wo es eingewickelt und dann weitertransportiert wird. Die dargestellte Einrichtung arbeitet wie folgt:

  • Der Massestrang 11 wird von den Vorschubwalzen 13 und 14 in Richtung des Pfeiles 15 zwischen die auseinandergefahrenen Schneidschuhe 20 und 21 dreimal um die Länge L vorgefahren und zwischendurch angehalten. Während des Stillstandes bewegen sich die Schneidschuhe 20 und 21 aufeinander zu, bis sie ihre in der Zeichnung dargestellte Stellung einnehmen. Beim Gegeneinanderbewegen der Schneidschuhe 20 und 21 werden hierbei gleichzeitig drei Bonbons in der Weise vorgeformt, dass bei dem am weitesten von den Schneidmessern 32 und 33 entfernten Bonbon die Wandungen der Zuckerhülle 12 von den Quetschleisten 28c und 27c nur wenig eingedrückt werden, da die Kanten 26 und 29 dieser hintersten Quetschleisten 28c und 27c einen verhältnismässig grossen Abstand von etwa 6 d haben, wenn die Quetschleisten vollständig gegeneinandergefahren sind und die Schneidkanten 34 und 35 der Messer 32 und 33 einander berühren. Wenn dann beim nächsten Arbeitsgang die Schneidschuhe 20 und 21 zurückgezogen werden und der Massestrang 11 um die Länge L weiter vorgeschoben wird, quetschen die Kanten 26 und 29 der folgenden Quetschleisten 28b und 27b die Wände der Zuckerhülle 12 weiter zusammen, jedoch noch nicht so weit, dass sie festzusammengepresst werden. Die in den vorgeformten Bonbons befindliche flüssige Füllung kann deshalb in dem Spalt zwischen den nur angenäherten Hüllenwandungen entgegen der Vorschubrichtung 15 weiter nach hinten strömen, so dass die an ihren Rändern behutsam zusammengequetschten Bonbons nicht platzen können.
Arranged in the feed direction 15 behind the cutting shoes 20 and 21 is a guide rail 43 with a U-shaped cross section, the height and width of the guide channel 44 being adapted to the size of the candy B, which has been separated from the mass strand 11 in the constricting and cutting device 16 . The guide rail 43 extends transversely to the feed direction 15 in the direction of a packing head, not shown here, of the packaging machine, which is expediently arranged directly next to the constricting and cutting device 16. A pestle working perpendicular to the plane of the drawing then pushes one candy B after the other into the packing head, where it is wrapped and then transported on. The device shown works as follows:
  • The mass strand 11 is advanced by the feed rollers 13 and 14 in the direction of arrow 15 between the extended cutting shoes 20 and 21 three times by the length L and stopped in between. During standstill, the cutting shoes 20 and 21 move towards one another until they assume the position shown in the drawing. When the cutting shoes 20 and 21 are moved against one another, three candies are preformed at the same time in such a way that in the case of the candy which is the most distant from the cutting knives 32 and 33, the walls of the sugar coating 12 are only slightly pressed in by the crimp strips 28c and 27c, since the edges 26 and 29 of these rearmost squeeze bars 28c and 27c are at a relatively large distance of about 6 d when the squeeze bars have moved completely against one another and the cutting edges 34 and 35 of the knives 32 and 33 touch each other. Then when the next step the cutting shoes 20 and 21 are withdrawn and the mass strand 11 is advanced by the length L, the edges 26 and 29 of the following squeeze strips 28b and 27b further squeeze the walls of the sugar coating 12, but not yet so far that they are pressed together tightly. The liquid filling in the preformed candies can therefore flow further backwards in the gap between the only approximate shell walls against the feed direction 15, so that the candies gently squeezed at their edges cannot burst.

Die Kanten 26 und 29 der den Messern 32 und 33 am nächsten liegenden Quetschleisten 28a und 27a quetschen die Wände 36 und 37 der Zuckerhülle des Massestranges fest zusammen, während gleichzeitig die Messer 32 und 33 das vorher gebildete und in den Kanal 44 der Führungsschiene 43 eingeschobene Bonbon B1 von dem nächstfolgenden, sich zwischen den Formflächen 40 und 41 der Schneidschuhe 20 und 21 befindlichen Bonbon B2 abschneiden.The edges 26 and 29 of the squeeze strips 28a and 27a closest to the knives 32 and 33 squeeze the walls 36 and 37 of the sugar coating of the mass strand firmly, while at the same time the knives 32 and 33 insert the previously formed and inserted into the channel 44 of the guide rail 43 Cut bonbon B 1 from the next bonbon B 2 located between the shaped surfaces 40 and 41 of the cutting shoes 20 and 21.

Die Schneidschuhe 20 und 21 werden dann wieder in Richtung der Pfeile 22 und 23 auseinandergefahren, während gleichzeitig ein hier nicht näher dargestellter Stössel das Bonbon Bi in der Führungsschiene 43 senkrecht zur Zeichenebene dem Packkopf der Verpackungsmaschine zuschiebt und wieder zurückfährt, so dass der dem Auslauf der Einschnür- und Abschneidevorrichtung 16 gegenüberliegende Platz im Kanal 44 der Führungsschiene 43 wieder frei wird. Danach schieben die Vorschubwalzen 13 und 14 den Massestrang 11 wiederum um die Länge L vor, wobei das vorderste Bonbon B1 der Kette in die Führungsschiene 43 eintritt und die anschliessenden Bonbons B2 und B3 um das Mass L weiter vorrücken. Anschliessend bewegen sich die Schneidschuhe 20 und 21 wieder aufeinander zu, wobei die Wände 36 und 37 von den Kanten 26 und 29 der Quetschleisten 28 und 27 wieder zunehmend zusammengequetscht werden und das vorderste Bonbon von den Messern 32 und 33 wieder abgeschnitten wird. Dieser Vorgang wiederholt sich dann in rascher Folge, so dass ein Bonbon nach dem anderen geformt, allmählich immer weiterzugedrückt und abgeschnitten wird und anschliessend der Verpakkung zugeführt wird.The cutting shoes 20 and 21 are then moved apart again in the direction of the arrows 22 and 23, while at the same time a plunger, not shown here, pushes the candy B i in the guide rail 43 perpendicular to the drawing plane to the packing head of the packaging machine and moves it back again, so that the spout the constricting and cutting device 16 opposite space in the channel 44 of the guide rail 43 is free again. Then the feed rollers 13 and 14 advance the mass strand 11 again by the length L, the foremost candy B 1 of the chain entering the guide rail 43 and the subsequent candies B 2 and B 3 advancing by the dimension L. The cutting shoes 20 and 21 then move towards one another again, the walls 36 and 37 being increasingly squeezed together by the edges 26 and 29 of the squeeze strips 28 and 27 and the foremost candy being cut off again by the knives 32 and 33. This process is then repeated in rapid succession, so that one candy after the other is shaped, gradually pressed on and cut off and then fed to the packaging.

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1. Device for forming and packing filled sweets or chewing-gums from a soft material, with pinch strips (28, 27) which are movable towards one another and between which a strand of material (11) provided with a soft or liquid filling (10) is constricted and subdivided to form a chain of sweets or chewing-gums (B1, B2) which are still connected to one another by narrow webs of material and which are severed one after the other in the material web region in each case by severing knives (32 and 33 respectively) operated synchronously with the pinch strips (28, 27) and situated at a spacing (L) corresponding to the article length and are fed to a packaging station (17), characterised in that the severing knives (32 and 33) and a plurality of pinch strips (27a to 27c) situated at the same spacing (L) from one another are arranged on cutting shoes (20, 21) and that the height (H to H3) of the pinch strips increases in each case from one pinch strip (26c to 26a, 27c to 27a respectively) to the other in the direction towards the severing knives (32 and 33).
2. Device according to claim 1, characterised in that in the region of the cutting shoes (20, 21) a supporting bar (18) is provided for the strand of material (11), and comprises apertures (39) for the pinch strip (27) to pass through.
3. Device according to claims 1 and 2, characterised in that one of the two cutting shoes (20, 21) movable towards one another comprises a first forming surface (40) which is arranged between pinch strips (28) and severing knife (32) and which co-operates with the front portion (42) of the supporting bar (18), said portion forming a second forming surface (41) and being bounded by the pinch strip (27) and the severing knife (33) of the other cutting shoe (21).
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