EP0127459A2 - Machine d'emballage - Google Patents

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EP0127459A2
EP0127459A2 EP84303546A EP84303546A EP0127459A2 EP 0127459 A2 EP0127459 A2 EP 0127459A2 EP 84303546 A EP84303546 A EP 84303546A EP 84303546 A EP84303546 A EP 84303546A EP 0127459 A2 EP0127459 A2 EP 0127459A2
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Richard Payne
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Thurne Engineering Co Ltd
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B35/00—Supplying, feeding, arranging or orientating articles to be packaged
    • B65B35/10—Feeding, e.g. conveying, single articles
    • B65B35/24—Feeding, e.g. conveying, single articles by endless belts or chains
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B57/00—Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices
    • B65B57/10—Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices responsive to absence, presence, abnormal feed, or misplacement of articles or materials to be packaged

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  • This invention relates to packaging machines and in particular relates to packaging machines for packaging sliced meats in vacuum packs.
  • Groups of slices of meat have to be placed accurately in pockets of a pocketed web or in particular locations on a plain web of plastics material upstream from a vacuum packaging machine so that as the web and groups pass through the vacuum packaging machine they are formed into evacuated sealed plastics packs.
  • the groups of slices of meat are usually placed in the pockets or placed in a precise location on the plastics web manually.
  • Groups of slices are brought, after being sliced, grouped and weighed, to a belt .conveyor which terminates immediately above the web of material leading to the packaging machine with the conveyor being arranged to feed the groups of slices until they reach its downstream end and then hold the groups in this position until they are transferred manually. It is also known to feed groups of slices onto the plastics web leading to the vacuum packaging machine directly from an upstream conveyor coupled to the vacuum packaging machine to move in synchronism with the web leading to the vacuum packaging machine. In this case, the groups of slices are placed manually into precise locations on this upstream conveyor but having been placed on the upstream conveyor they are then deposited in the required position on the web leading to the vacuum packaging machine automatically.
  • the groups of slices have to be transferred manually at some point or other into a precisely controlled location to ensure that they are subsequently placed in the correct position to enable conveyor has been stopped when the first product reaches the second detector and the first conveyor has been stopped after the second product reaches the first detector, the second and transfer conveyors again move together to move the second product from adjacent the first detector onto the transfer conveyor and to stop the transfer conveyor when the first product reaches the third detector, the first conveyor being stopped when a third product reaches the first detector.
  • the transfer conveyor move together with the first conveyor to feed both the first and second products into locations on the first conveyor.
  • the packaging machine packages more than two products simultaneously the transfer conveyor and the second conveyor move together to transfer more than two products to the transfer conveyor before discharging the contents of the transfer conveyor onto their corresponding locations on the first conveyor.
  • the pitches of the products on the first and second conveyors is completely immaterial provided that, where the transfer conveyor has to convey more than one product,, at a time, it has sufficient length to accommodate the appropriate number of products to be packaged at the spacing corresponding to that of the locations on the first conveyor.
  • the transfer conveyor may have its own separate and indpendent drive and be coupled to the first and second conveyors by conventional electronic, pneumatic or hydraulic methods to ensure that the transfer conveyor runs at precisely the same speed as either the first or second conveyor.
  • the transfer conveyor may be a free running conveyor and the means to match the movement of the transfer conveyor with that of either the first or the second conveyor may include a pair of clutches coupling the transfer conveyor to the drive of the first or second conveyors so that the transfer conveyor is directly mechanically coupled through the clutches to either the first or the second conveyor.
  • the packaging line comprises a slicer 10 which includes a jump conveyor to form shingled groups of slices. From the jump conveyor the groups of slices are fed to a check weigher 11 which is connected in a feedback loop with the slicer 10 to ensure that groups of the correct weight are cut by the slicer 10. The groups of slices are then fed to a channeliser 12 which directs the groups of slices into one of three separate lanes formed on a row synchroniser 13. When each of the lanes in the row synchroniser 13 are loaded with a product the synchroniser 13 moves forward to transfer the three lanes of product on to a two tier storage conveyor 14.
  • the three lanes of product are fed from the two tier storage conveyor to the infeed conveyor 15 and then via a transfer conveyor 16 to a plastics web 17 leading into a vacuum packaging machine 18.
  • the vacuum packaging machine 18 handles products in each of the three lanes simultaneously and may be arranged to handle two successive groups of three products simultaneously.
  • Transfer conveyor 16 is a slave conveyor and has its drive roller 19 connected to a double clutch unit 20.
  • the double clutch unit 20 may be that sold by Simplatroll Ltd., of Bedford, England under their stock no. 17195. It consists of a central shaft 21 which is connected to the drive roller 19 and which can be driven from the pulley 22 or the pulley 23 depending upon the state of electromagnetically actuated clutches connected between them.
  • the infeed conveyor 15 is driven by a drive belt 24 from a motor 25.
  • the movement of the web 17 through the vacuum packaging machine 18 is driven by a motor 26.
  • the driven shaft of the motor 25 is coupled to the pulley 22 of the double clutch unit 20 by a drive belt 27, and the driven shaft of the motor 26 is coupled to the pulley 23 of the double clutch unit 20 by a drive belt 28.
  • the motor 25 drives the infeed conveyor 15 and the transfer conveyor 16 at the same speed.
  • the motor 26 drives the vacuum packaging machine 18 and the web 17 and also drives the transfer conveyor 16 with the transfer conveyor 16 moving at the same speed as the web 17.
  • the next operation that takes place is the movement of the web 17 into the vacuum packaging machine.
  • the transfer conveyor 16 is coupled to the web 17 to move together with the web 17 to transfer the product a from the conveyor 16 onto the web 17 as shown in Figure 8.
  • the transfer conveyor 16 is once again decoupled from the web 17 and coupled to conveyor 15 so that it moves with conveyor 15 to transfer the next product b, from conveyor 15 to conveyor 16 as shown in Figure 9.
  • Both conveyors 15 and 16 continue to move until the next product, c, reaches detector D1 as shown in Figure 10 which is analogous to the situation shown in Figure 6 and the process described with reference to Figures 6 to 9 is then repeated for each product.
  • the second detector D2 is located part of the way along the transfer conveyor 16 and an additional detector, D3 is located at the downstream end of the transfer conveyor 16.
  • Groups of products a, b, and c are fed along the conveyor 15 as shown in Figure 11 until the leading product a, reaches the detector Dl.
  • conveyor 15 is stopped as shown in Figure 12.
  • Conveyors 15 and 16 are then coupled together and moved together to transfer the first product a from the conveyor 15 to the conveyor 16 as shown in Figure 13.
  • the transfer conveyor 16 is stopped but the conveyor 15 continues to operate until the second product b reaches detector Dl as shown in Figure 14.
  • the conveyor 15 is stopped as shown in Figure 15.
  • the conveyors 15 and 16 are then coupled together again and moved together to transfer the second product b onto the transfer conveyor 16.
  • Transfer conveyor 16 continues to move with the conveyor 15 until the first product a reaches the third detector D3. As soon as this happens the transfer conveyor 16 is stopped but the conveyor 15 continues to operate as shown in Figure 17 until the third product c reaches the detector D1 as shown in Figure 18.
  • the transfer conveyor 16 is then coupled to the web 17 to transfer both the product a and the product b from the transfer conveyor 16 onto the locations 2 on web 17 as shown in Figures 19 and 20.
  • the transfer conveyor 16 is again coupled to the conveyor 15 and both are operated together to transfer the product c from the conveyor 15 onto the conveyor 16 as shown in Figure 21.
  • the transfer conveyor 16 is stopped as shown in Figure 22 which corresponds to Figure 13. The cycle of steps as described with reference to Figures 13 to 20 is then repeated to transfer products c and d onto the web 17.

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EP84303546A 1983-05-27 1984-05-25 Packaging machine Withdrawn EP0127459A3 (en)

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GB838314763A GB8314763D0 (en) 1983-05-27 1983-05-27 Packaging machine
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GB2182299A (en) * 1985-10-28 1987-05-13 Fmc Corp Regulating spacing of articles on conveyors
EP0237299A1 (fr) * 1986-03-12 1987-09-16 Cambridge Consultants (Systems Engineering) Limited Appareil d'alimentation
EP0412432A1 (fr) * 1989-08-09 1991-02-13 OSTMA Maschinenbau GmbH Procédé et dispositif pour l'emballage de produits sensibles à la pression
GB2244039A (en) * 1990-05-18 1991-11-20 Hobart Corp Shingling packages onto a tray
US5341915A (en) * 1992-11-06 1994-08-30 Kliklok Corporation Article phasing, transfer and squaring system for packaging line
WO2003065818A1 (fr) * 2002-02-06 2003-08-14 Azionaria Costruzioni Macchine Automatiche A.C.M.A. S.P.A. Appareillage permettant la remise en ordre de confiseries, notamment de bonbons et analogue
CN100443388C (zh) * 2005-11-25 2008-12-17 贵阳铝镁设计研究院 炭块编组的方法

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FR2343652A1 (fr) * 1976-03-12 1977-10-07 Carle & Montanari Spa Appareil pour l'alimentation de machines automatiques de traitement, en particulier de machines a emballer ou a envelopper

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GB2182299A (en) * 1985-10-28 1987-05-13 Fmc Corp Regulating spacing of articles on conveyors
GB2182299B (en) * 1985-10-28 1989-09-27 Fmc Corp Marshalling device for an article processing machine
AU589425B2 (en) * 1985-10-28 1989-10-12 Sasib Packaging North America, Inc. Computer controlled non-contact feeder
US4921092A (en) * 1985-10-28 1990-05-01 Fmc Corporation Computer controlled non-contact feeder with space-control device responsive to item-sensing device
EP0237299A1 (fr) * 1986-03-12 1987-09-16 Cambridge Consultants (Systems Engineering) Limited Appareil d'alimentation
GB2187697B (en) * 1986-03-12 1990-02-14 Cadbury Ltd An apparatus and method for feeding articles to a processing machine
EP0412432A1 (fr) * 1989-08-09 1991-02-13 OSTMA Maschinenbau GmbH Procédé et dispositif pour l'emballage de produits sensibles à la pression
GB2244039A (en) * 1990-05-18 1991-11-20 Hobart Corp Shingling packages onto a tray
FR2662139A1 (fr) * 1990-05-18 1991-11-22 Hobart Corp Dispositif et procede pour le depot d'articles emballes sur un plateau.
GB2244039B (en) * 1990-05-18 1994-03-30 Hobart Corp Package plattering device and method
US5341915A (en) * 1992-11-06 1994-08-30 Kliklok Corporation Article phasing, transfer and squaring system for packaging line
WO2003065818A1 (fr) * 2002-02-06 2003-08-14 Azionaria Costruzioni Macchine Automatiche A.C.M.A. S.P.A. Appareillage permettant la remise en ordre de confiseries, notamment de bonbons et analogue
CN100443388C (zh) * 2005-11-25 2008-12-17 贵阳铝镁设计研究院 炭块编组的方法

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