EP0272751A2 - Machine d'assemblage pour un emballage - Google Patents

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EP0272751A2
EP0272751A2 EP87202522A EP87202522A EP0272751A2 EP 0272751 A2 EP0272751 A2 EP 0272751A2 EP 87202522 A EP87202522 A EP 87202522A EP 87202522 A EP87202522 A EP 87202522A EP 0272751 A2 EP0272751 A2 EP 0272751A2
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Manfred Lucht
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65BMACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B25/00Packaging other articles presenting special problems
    • B65B25/002Packaging other articles presenting special problems packaging of information carriers, e.g. records, CD, DVD
    • YGENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10TTECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T29/00Metal working
    • Y10T29/49Method of mechanical manufacture
    • Y10T29/49826Assembling or joining
    • Y10T29/49863Assembling or joining with prestressing of part
    • Y10T29/49876Assembling or joining with prestressing of part by snap fit
    • YGENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10TTECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T29/00Metal working
    • Y10T29/53Means to assemble or disassemble
    • Y10T29/53313Means to interrelatedly feed plural work parts from plural sources without manual intervention
    • Y10T29/53322Means to assemble container
    • YGENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10TTECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T29/00Metal working
    • Y10T29/53Means to assemble or disassemble
    • Y10T29/53313Means to interrelatedly feed plural work parts from plural sources without manual intervention
    • Y10T29/53374Means to interrelatedly feed plural work parts from plural sources without manual intervention including turret-type conveyor
    • YGENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10TTECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T29/00Metal working
    • Y10T29/53Means to assemble or disassemble
    • Y10T29/534Multiple station assembly or disassembly apparatus
    • Y10T29/53409Multiple station assembly or disassembly apparatus including converging conveyors

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  • the invention relates to a machine with an apparatus for assembling a packaging for an optically readable plate-shaped information carrier, which consists of a base part and a hinged lid part mounted thereon, with a base insert card and a tray which is in the base part on the floor Insert cards and on which the plate-shaped information carrier is detachably fixed, the base part serving as the assembly base during assembly and being held in a receptacle by the machine and being moved from position to position.
  • Such machines are known in various designs, u. a. also for assembling packaging for optically readable digital audio discs (compact discs).
  • the packaging of the plates is gradually assembled on the machine at several positions.
  • the bottom of the packaging is placed on a holder of the machine in a first position and held in place.
  • a cover part is hingedly mounted on the bottom part.
  • the Bottom and lid parts together form a box-shaped packaging.
  • the base part serves as the assembly base for the further assembly steps and is moved further from position to position by the machine.
  • an insert card is inserted into the bottom part, which can be read from below through the transparent bottom part and contains, for example, information about the contents of the plate.
  • a cover text book is inserted into the cover part, which also contains information about the program of the plate.
  • a tray is inserted into the bottom part in a fourth position.
  • This tray has lateral locking lugs which engage in corresponding receptacles in the side walls of the base parts, so that the tray is fixed in the base part.
  • the plate-shaped information carrier is then placed in the tray and releasably secured to it.
  • the tray has, for example, a central, peg-shaped holder on which the plate is clamped.
  • Such a machine is so designed that it allows to assemble a complete packaging for a plate-shaped information carrier with a base part, bottom insert card, cover part, cover text booklet, tray and insert a plate-shaped information carrier into the tray.
  • auxiliary plates are provided for the sole insertion of the plate-shaped information carriers into the trays on the receptacles, which have essentially the same dimensions as a packaging base part and are arranged on the receptacles in such a way that trays can be used in the auxiliary bottom parts and these can be removed from the auxiliary base parts after inserting a plate-shaped information carrier.
  • auxiliary floor parts have essentially the same dimensions as a normal packaging base part, so that they can accommodate the trays and these are positioned in the auxiliary base part so as to be non-movable. However, the trays are not clamped in the auxiliary base parts, so that they can be removed again at the top.
  • the machine otherwise works in an unchanged manner for loading the trays with plate-shaped information carriers.
  • the tray is inserted into the auxiliary base part, then the plate-shaped information carrier is detachably fixed in the tray in a further position, and in a final position the tray thus equipped can be removed from the auxiliary base part. Since the tray is only inserted into the auxiliary base part, but is not firmly connected to it, for example by means of a grid, the tray can easily be removed from the auxiliary base part.
  • a machine with a device for assembling a complete package for plate-shaped information carriers can also be used to only load the tray with plate-shaped information carriers.
  • the machine is suitable for assembling both types of packaging. It is not necessary to intervene in the control of the machine for this, since the first positions, in which the base and cover parts and the text booklets are normally assembled, run empty. The positioning when handling the tray and the plate-shaped information carrier also remains unchanged, since the trays are positioned in the auxiliary base part in the same way as in the normal packaging base parts.
  • Such a machine with an assembly device can thus be used very universally, so that its use is economical, even if in one operating mode some positions of the machine are not required and run empty.
  • such machines work very quickly and are usually only in operation for a relatively short time anyway, so that a further possible use in itself already increases the economy.
  • the side walls of the auxiliary base parts have open receptacles from the insertion side in those areas in which the corresponding areas of a packaging base part are provided with bores for receiving catches of an insertable tray.
  • the trays have locking lugs that are normally intended to engage in open receptacles of the normal packaging base parts. These recordings are provided in the side walls of the floor parts.
  • the auxiliary base parts which otherwise have essentially the same dimensions as a packaging base part, are provided with receptacles open from the insertion side in those areas of the side walls in which the corresponding areas of a tray are provided with locking lugs. This ensures that the Tray the auxiliary base part in the machine is easily removable.
  • each of the auxiliary bottom parts in the bottom and in at least one side wall has a recess which is dimensioned such that a manipulator, which normally lifts out the entire package including the bottom part of the package after its assembly, only one in the auxiliary bottom part, the tray is gripped and lifted out.
  • the manipulator can be used without any change to the machine or its device to merely detect and lift out the tray inserted into the auxiliary base part.
  • the recesses in the auxiliary floor parts are to be provided in such a way that the manipulator only grips a tray inserted into the auxiliary floor parts.
  • a packaging machine 1 shown schematically in FIG. 1 with a device for assembling a packaging for optically readable plate-shaped information carriers is normally provided for assembling a complete packaging for such an information carrier.
  • the packaging not shown in the figure, normally has a base part, a cover part which is hingedly mounted thereon, a base insert card, a cover text booklet and a tray into which a plate-shaped information carrier can be inserted.
  • the machine 1 shown in FIG. 1 has assembly positions 2 to 9.
  • a total of eight receptacles 10 are provided on a rotatably mounted disc 11, which receive the base part for the normal assembly process of a package. The receptacles 10 are moved further from position to position during the assembly process, so that the respective assembly process can take place in each of the positions 2 to 9.
  • Devices provided for this purpose on the machine are only shown schematically in FIG. 1.
  • the receptacle 10 is designed in a manner not shown in FIG. 2 such that it secures the base part 2 holds on.
  • the bottom part inserted in position 2 in a receptacle serves as an assembly base for the other positions.
  • the rotary head 11 then rotates one position further, so that the receptacle 10 previously located at position 2 is now moved further to position 3.
  • a floor insert card (not shown in FIG. 2) is inserted at position 3, which is brought to position 3 via a feeder 22 shown schematically in FIG.
  • a cover text booklet which is not shown in the figure, is inserted into the cover of the packaging in the next position 4 by means of a manipulator 23 which is shown schematically in the figure.
  • the lid is closed by means of a suitable device 24.
  • a tray shown in FIG. 3 is inserted into the bottom part of the packaging from a tray not shown in the figure.
  • a schematically represented plate-shaped information carrier 26 is inserted into the tray in position 7 and detachably fixed in it.
  • the plate-shaped information carrier is removed from a box-shaped magazine 28 by means of a manipulator 27, in which plate-shaped information carriers that have not yet been packaged and come from production are stored.
  • the packaging is closed, ie the lid part is folded onto the bottom part.
  • the packaging is now completely assembled and can be removed from the machine in the next position 9.
  • one is not shown in the figure ter manipulator provided, which grips the bottom part from below, lifts it out of the assembly position 9 and places it on a schematically illustrated transport line 29.
  • the finished packaged plate-shaped information carriers can then be removed from this transport line 29.
  • This machine which is normally provided for assembling a complete package, can also be used according to the invention to insert plate-shaped information carriers into a tray without the tray and the information carrier being assembled in a complete package with the base part and cover part.
  • an auxiliary base part shown in FIG. 4 is inserted into each of the receptacles 10.
  • the auxiliary base part is firmly connected to the receptacles 10 and remains in them during the assembly process.
  • the auxiliary base parts can advantageously be detachably fastened again in the holders 10. This can be done for example by screw connections, by gluing or the like.
  • the auxiliary base part is provided with a recess in the area that the manipulator could grip, so that the manipulator only grips the tray inserted into the auxiliary base part together with the plate-shaped information carrier which is detachably fixed in it and placed on the transport line 29.
  • the machine 1 shown in FIG. 1 with the assembly device can be used both for assembling a complete package with an information carrier inserted therein and for loading trays with information carriers without any other packaging.
  • FIG. 2 shows a base part 30, as is normally used for the packaging of compact discs.
  • the bottom part is transparent and has a bottom 31, two transverse side walls 32 and 33 and two longitudinal side walls 34 and 35.
  • the two longitudinal side walls 34 and 35 are each provided with a handle recess 36 in their central regions.
  • Both longitudinal side walls 34 and 35 have bores 37 toward the transverse side wall 32 in which a cover part, not shown in the figure, can be rotatably supported.
  • the base part 31 has two in each of the two longitudinal side walls 34 and 35 somewhat smaller bores 38, one of which is arranged at a predetermined distance from the transverse side wall 32 or the transverse side wall 33.
  • Fig. 3 the bottom part 31 shown in Fig. 2 is shown with a tray 41 inserted therein.
  • the tray 41 has a peg-shaped holder 42 in a central area, on which a plate-shaped information carrier can be detachably fixed.
  • the tray 41 is latched into the bottom part 31.
  • the detent works in such a way that engaging notches of the tray 41, not shown in the figure, engage in the bores 38 of the base part 31. This ensures that the tray 41 is fixed in the bottom part 31 in such a way that it does not become detached from the packaging during normal use.
  • FIG. 4 shows an auxiliary base part 51 which has essentially the same dimensions as the packaging base part 31 shown in FIG. 2.
  • the auxiliary base part 51 has a base 52, one longitudinal side wall 53, 54 each and one transverse side wall 55 and 56 on.
  • the basic dimensions are the same as the packaging base part 31 shown in FIG. 2.
  • the longitudinal or transverse side walls are arranged at the same distance from one another as the corresponding walls of the packaging base part 31.
  • the two longitudinal side walls 53 and 54 of the auxiliary base part 51 face approximately the same shape as the longitudinal side walls 34 and 35 of the packaging base part 31.
  • the longitudinal side walls 53 and 54 are in those areas with receptacles open at the top 57 provided in which the corresponding areas of the side walls 34 and 35 of the packaging base part 31 are provided with bores 38.
  • the upwardly open receptacles 57 thus prevent the locking lugs of the tablet 41, which otherwise engage in the bores 38 of the packaging base part 31, from engaging in the auxiliary base part. This must be prevented so that the trays 41 can be easily removed from the auxiliary base parts 51 after the assembly process.
  • the transverse side wall 56 and the bottom 52 of the auxiliary bottom part 51 are provided with a recess 58.
  • This recess 58 can be designed in various forms, but must in any case be dimensioned such that a manipulator or the like, which in the last assembly position normally lifts the packaging base part, does not grip the auxiliary base part 52, but only one into it inserted tray 41.
  • the recess 58 in the base 52 has an elongated shape which widens towards the transverse side wall 56, which is interrupted to the same width.
  • the precise design of the side walls is not important.
  • the only decisive factor is that the tray is immovably received in the auxiliary base part, so that the further assembly, in particular the insertion of the plate-shaped information carrier into the tray, can be carried out with precise positioning of the tray.
  • the auxiliary base part must be designed in such a way that the tray can be easily removed again, that is to say that it does not jam too strongly in the auxiliary base part.
  • An auxiliary base part shown in FIG. 4 can be fastened in various ways in the receptacles 10 of the machine shown in FIG. 1. Since the machine should generally remain suitable for assembling a complete package after the shortest possible changeover time, it is advantageous to fasten the auxiliary base parts 52 in the receptacles 10 in the machine 1 in such a way that they can be detached again. This can be done for example by screwing, but possibly also by gluing or the like.

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EP0725006A1 (fr) * 1995-01-26 1996-08-07 TAPEMATIC S.p.A. Procédé et appareil pour emballer des disques compacts dans leurs boîtes respectives

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DE3774852D1 (de) 1992-01-09
US4852327A (en) 1989-08-01

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