EP0109266B1 - Commande d'une étiqueteuse par ordinateur - Google Patents

Commande d'une étiqueteuse par ordinateur Download PDF

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EP0109266B1
EP0109266B1 EP19830306848 EP83306848A EP0109266B1 EP 0109266 B1 EP0109266 B1 EP 0109266B1 EP 19830306848 EP19830306848 EP 19830306848 EP 83306848 A EP83306848 A EP 83306848A EP 0109266 B1 EP0109266 B1 EP 0109266B1
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Wolfgang Hoffmann
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B26—HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; SEVERING
    • B26D—CUTTING; DETAILS COMMON TO MACHINES FOR PERFORATING, PUNCHING, CUTTING-OUT, STAMPING-OUT OR SEVERING
    • B26D5/00—Arrangements for operating and controlling machines or devices for cutting, cutting-out, stamping-out, punching, perforating, or severing by means other than cutting
    • B26D5/20—Arrangements for operating and controlling machines or devices for cutting, cutting-out, stamping-out, punching, perforating, or severing by means other than cutting with interrelated action between the cutting member and work feed
    • B26D5/30—Arrangements for operating and controlling machines or devices for cutting, cutting-out, stamping-out, punching, perforating, or severing by means other than cutting with interrelated action between the cutting member and work feed having the cutting member controlled by scanning a record carrier
    • B26D5/32—Arrangements for operating and controlling machines or devices for cutting, cutting-out, stamping-out, punching, perforating, or severing by means other than cutting with interrelated action between the cutting member and work feed having the cutting member controlled by scanning a record carrier with the record carrier formed by the work itself
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
    • B65C9/00—Details of labelling machines or apparatus
    • B65C9/08—Label feeding
    • B65C9/18—Label feeding from strips, e.g. from rolls
    • B65C9/1865—Label feeding from strips, e.g. from rolls the labels adhering on a backing strip
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
    • B65C9/00—Details of labelling machines or apparatus
    • B65C9/40—Controls; Safety devices
    • B65C9/42—Label feed control
    • B65C9/44—Label feed control by special means responsive to marks on labels or articles

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  • This invention relates to a labelling machine which is controlled by a digital data processing system. More particularly, it relates to such a system in which mechanical camming mechanisms and similar components of a conventional labelling machine are replaced by electronic controls embodied in a digital data processing system connected to control tuning, feed and related operations of a labelling machine of the type which is able to apply labels of various sizes to packaging containers of various sizes.
  • labelling machines are very complex devices with many unique problems. Hitherto, it has not been known in the art to replace the mechanical control systems for main drive shafts used in labelling machines with digital data processing and electrical sensing circuits. Examples of such labelling machines are described, for example, in the following commonly assigned issued patents: U.S. 3,765,991; 4,108,709; 4,181,555; 4,188,843; 4,242,167; 4,336,095.
  • GB-A-2 096 795 discloses apparatus in accordance with the prior art portion of claim 1.
  • This prior document uses a sensor to sense the speed of advance of the web to enable the cutter to be operated when triggered by a signal indicative of the required cutting line on the web reaching the cutter.
  • the present invention which is characterised as specified in claim 1, provides apparatus more suited to cutting comparatively small sized labels where the cutter is operable continuously and the speed of feed of the web is controlled digitally in accordance with the positions of the registration marks thereon.
  • EP-A-0 074 165 is a document effective under Article 54(3) EPC which discloses a web cutting apparatus in which the speed of advance of the web is controlled by a stepping motor to cause alignment of the upper ends with the cutter. However, it does not provide the ready adjustability of the apparatus to different sized sheets as provided by the input means of the present invention.
  • the stepping motor used to advance the label in the machine is directed by a program in the digital data processing means to advance the label.
  • the stepper motor is directed by the program to make a predetermined number of steps per machine cycle or per container.
  • the ability of the user to select any desired label length and have the machine operate properly for that length label without any mechanical adjustments to the labelling machine means that changing labels in the labelling machine is reduced from an operation taking 30 minutes or so to about 30 seconds.
  • the system 50 includes a labelling machine 52 and a digital data processing system 54.
  • the digital data processing system 54 is implemented in this embodiment with a Gould Modicon-P190/484, although it should be understood that the digital data processing system 54 could be implemented with any one of a large number of commercially available control oriented data processing systems which, for example, utilize commercially available microprocessor integrated circuits, such as an Intel 8086, Intel 8088, Motorola 68000, Fairchild 9445, National Semiconductor 16000, or the like, to form the processing unit of such control oriented data processing systems.
  • microprocessor integrated circuits such as an Intel 8086, Intel 8088, Motorola 68000, Fairchild 9445, National Semiconductor 16000, or the like, to form the processing unit of such control oriented data processing systems.
  • the labelling machine 52 includes a cutter 56 having a shaft 58 including a mark 60, which is sensed by an encoder 62, which supplies shaft 58 position and rotation rate data signals as inputs to the digital data processing system 54 on line 63, through an interface 65.
  • the encoder 62 could be replaced with any suitable sensor, such as a magnetic sensing means, with a structure of the shaft 58 serving the function of the mark 60 by perturbing a magnetic field to which the magnetic sensing means is responsive.
  • the encoder 62 is preferably implemented with a C and A Model HT-11B encoder, obtainable from C and A Products.
  • the interface 65 is preferably implemented with a PCEF Encoder Interface Module, which converts the shaft 58 position and rate information to binary coded decimal (BCD) form.
  • the digital data processing system 54 supplies a rotation rate control signal at a rate of, for example, 2,000 pulses per revolution of a label- feed roll 66 on line 64 to a stepping motor 67, which is connected to feed roll 66 by a shaft 69, through a stepping motor control 71.
  • the rotation rate control signal on line 64 is such that the feed roll 66 will supply continuous label sheet 68 to the cutter at a proper rate so that the cutter 56 will separate an individual label 70 from the sheet 68 at the kerf 72 dividing each individual label from its next adjacent neighbors.
  • Each label 70 includes a positioning mark 74.
  • the positioning mark 74 is sensed by an optical sensor 76 as a means of preventing the sheet 68 from “creeping" with respect to the cutter 56, so that the cutter 56 begins to slit the sheet 68 at other locations than the kerf 72.
  • the optical sensor 76 is connected to the data processing system 54 by line 78.
  • the optical sensor 76 supplies a signal on line 78 when a mark 74 is sensed.
  • the digital data processing system 54 compares the shaft 58 at the time the mark 74 is sensed with the position shaft 58 should have in order for label 70 feed and shaft 58 position to be synchronized for proper label 70 slitting.
  • the optical sensor 76 is preferably implemented with a Banner CVG-1 sensor, obtainable from Banner, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota.
  • the length of the new labels in inches is entered into the digital data processing system 54 by means of thumbwheel switches 82 on the front panel 84.
  • An angular position in degrees for shaft 58 when a mark 74 should be sensed by sensor 76 is dialed in with thumbwheel switches 83.
  • a tolerance for the angular position in degrees is also entered by means of thumbwheel switch 85.
  • FIG 2 shows the data processing system 54 in the system of Figure 1 in more detail.
  • the system 54 includes a processor 100 and input modules 102,104, and 106 are connected to supply input to the processor 100.
  • An input/ output module 108 is also connected to supply inputs to the processor 100 and supply outputs from the system 54 on line 112 for certain machine control functions conventional in the art and not forming a part of this invention. However, these other control functions are provided using the same data processing system 54 used for the rest of the invention.
  • An output module 110 is connected to receive outputs from the processor 100, to be supplied to the stepper motor control on line 113.
  • Interface module 65 is connected to the input module 104 of data processing system 54 by line 63.
  • the thumbwheel switches 82, 83, and 85 are respectively connected to the input multiplexer module 102 by lines 114, 116, and 118.
  • Inputs from other sensors attached to the labelling machine 52 are supplied on line 120 to the I/0 module 108.
  • Outputs for labelling machine 52 control functions are supplied by the I/0 module 108 on line 112.
  • Optical sensor 76 supplies the input signal to input module 106 on line 78 when it senses the presence of a registration mark 74.
  • the system 50 feeds labels 70 from roll 80 on a continuous basis to the cutter 56 in such a manner that the cutter will cut the labels 70 at the kerf 72 and supply the cut labels 70 to a container in a consistent manner.
  • Changing the label machine 52 to accommodate different size labels is a simple matter of entering the new label length into the digital data processing system 54.
  • the mark 74 can be placed on any desired location on the label.

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Claims (2)

1. Appareil pour découper une bande en feuilles individuelles comprenant un moyen d'entraînement (66) pour faire avancer une bande à travers l'appareil, un couteau (56) pour découper la bande (68) en feuilles individuelles (70), un moyen (54) de traitement de données numériques, un détecteur optique (76) pour détecter des repères d'alignement (74) sur le bande (68) correspondant aux feuilles (70) à découper de celle-ci, un moyen d'entrée (82) relié au moyen de traitement pour introduire un intervalle que peut choisir l'utilisateur entre les repères d'alignement sur la bande correspondant à la longuer des feuilles à découper, le moyen de traitement servant à maintenir pendant le fonctionnement de l'appareil des relations voulues entre la progression des repères d'alignement sur la bande et le fonctionnement du couteau, caractérisé en ce que l'appareil est un appareil d'étiquetage où le couteau (56) comporte un arbre moteur (58) dont la position en rotation correspond au stade de fonctionnement du couteau et l'appareil comporte un détecteur (60, 62) pour détecter la position de l'arbre moteur (58) et coopérant avec le moyen de traitement (54), et un moteur pas-à-pas (67) monté entre le moyen de traitement (54) et le moyen (66) d'entraînement de bande, ledit moyen de traitement (54) réagissant aux données d'entrée provenant du détecteur (60, 62) de position de l'arbre moteur, du détecteur optique (76) de repères d'alignement et du moyen d'entrée (82) pour fournir au moteur pas-à-pas (67) des impulsions d'entrée pour commander la vitesse du moyen d'entraînement afin de maintenir un alignement voulu entre les extrémités des feuilles d'étiquettes (70) et le couteau à l'instant du fonctionnement du couteau déterminé par la position de l'arbre moteur.
2. Appareil selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que le moyen de traitement de données est relié à un moyen d'entrée (83) pour introduire la position requise de l'arbre moteur quand le détecteur optique (76) doit détecter un repère d'alignement (74).
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US06/441,040 US4519868A (en) 1982-11-12 1982-11-12 Computer controlled labelling machine
US441040 1982-11-12
US532783 1983-09-16
US06/532,783 US4552608A (en) 1983-09-16 1983-09-16 System for computer controlled labeling machine

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