EP0295557A1 - Procédé et dispositif pour l'emballage d'articles en forme de tige de l'industrie de tabac - Google Patents

Procédé et dispositif pour l'emballage d'articles en forme de tige de l'industrie de tabac Download PDF

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EP0295557A1
EP0295557A1 EP88109116A EP88109116A EP0295557A1 EP 0295557 A1 EP0295557 A1 EP 0295557A1 EP 88109116 A EP88109116 A EP 88109116A EP 88109116 A EP88109116 A EP 88109116A EP 0295557 A1 EP0295557 A1 EP 0295557A1
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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
    • B65B19/00Packaging rod-shaped or tubular articles susceptible to damage by abrasion or pressure, e.g. cigarettes, cigars, macaroni, spaghetti, drinking straws or welding electrodes
    • B65B19/02Packaging cigarettes
    • B65B19/22Wrapping the cigarettes; Packaging the cigarettes in containers formed by folding wrapping material around formers
    • B65B19/223Wrapping the cigarettes; Packaging the cigarettes in containers formed by folding wrapping material around formers in a curved path; in a combination of straight and curved paths, e.g. on rotary tables or other endless conveyors
    • B65B19/225Wrapping the cigarettes; Packaging the cigarettes in containers formed by folding wrapping material around formers in a curved path; in a combination of straight and curved paths, e.g. on rotary tables or other endless conveyors the conveyors having continuous movement
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65BMACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B11/00Wrapping, e.g. partially or wholly enclosing, articles or quantities of material, in strips, sheets or blanks, of flexible material
    • B65B11/06Wrapping articles, or quantities of material, by conveying wrapper and contents in common defined paths
    • B65B11/38Wrapping articles, or quantities of material, by conveying wrapper and contents in common defined paths in a combination of straight and curved paths
    • B65B11/40Wrapping articles, or quantities of material, by conveying wrapper and contents in common defined paths in a combination of straight and curved paths to fold the wrappers in tubular form about contents
    • B65B11/42Wrapping articles, or quantities of material, by conveying wrapper and contents in common defined paths in a combination of straight and curved paths to fold the wrappers in tubular form about contents and then to form closing folds of similar form at opposite ends of the tube

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  • the invention relates to a method for packaging block-shaped article groups from rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry.
  • the invention also relates to a device for conveying rod-shaped articles to be packaged in the tobacco processing industry on conveying means interacting with a continuously drivable conveying means designed as a folding turret with successively receiving article groups in the form and size of the contents of the packaging.
  • the object of the invention is to increase the performance of such methods and devices for packaging tobacco articles, such as cigarettes.
  • the article groups are continuously fed at regular intervals, that the article groups are moved transversely to the feed direction during their conveyance for the purpose of continuous further conveyance and are thereby at least partially wrapped with a packaging blank.
  • relatively short transfer paths and a transfer that is gentle on the items, ie, prevents a tobacco failure is achieved in that the item groups are conveyed, shifted and conveyed transversely to the longitudinal axes of the rod-shaped items.
  • packaging operations are carried out on them during the continuous further conveyance of the article groups.
  • a perfection of the procedure consists in the fact that the continuous further conveyance of the article groups includes an additional transverse shift with integrated blank wrapping and continuous removal.
  • a smooth transition between the individual movement sequences of feeding, transferring and further conveying is best achieved by transporting the article groups in such an upright aligned block formation that a broad side faces the respective conveying direction and a narrow side of the transverse shift direction is facing.
  • the device for carrying out the method described at the outset is characterized in that the conveying means are designed as continuously drivable endless conveyors which, with the circumferential surface of the folding turret, which also has receiving pockets, have a common conveying section, each with receiving pockets which are aligned radially with respect to the axis of rotation of the folding turret and are aligned in pairs Form folding turret and the funding
  • the circumferential sections delimiting the receiving pockets of each of the cooperating conveying means being designed as holding surfaces for the packaging openings covering the transfer openings of the receiving pockets
  • the circumferential sections according to a further development of the folding turret are designed as holding surfaces.
  • the common conveying section is formed by a conveying strand of the conveying means running parallel to its circumferential surface over part of the orbit of the folding turret, the conveying strand of the conveying means being guided by a stationary roller conveyor.
  • the integration of transport or transfer and packaging processes is arranged according to a further development in that the one conveying block-shaped article groups delivering to the folding turret and the other conveying article groups being partially wrapped by the folding turret, whereby according to a further proposal the arrangement is such that the conveying means delivering the article groups with a first circular path section and the conveying means taking over the partially encased article groups are arranged to cooperate with a second circular path section of the folding turret.
  • An arrangement reducing the overall length of the device consists in the fact that the conveying tracks of the conveying means and the folding turret run essentially in a Z-shape.
  • the folding turret along its conveying path is assigned impactors for forming an inside, outside, narrow side and broad side wrapping of the inner packaging blanks.
  • the conveying means for the partially encased article groups along its conveyor path are also assigned impactors for forming an inside, outside, narrow side and broad side wrapping of the outer package blanks.
  • the advantage achieved by the invention consists in such coordinated movements of cooperating conveying means that a continuous flow of conveyance can be consistently maintained and that packaging processes are integrated into this conveying flow in such a way that, with a more balanced speed profile, without abrupt delays and accelerations of the articles to be packaged, one overall Performance increase of the packaging organs or a gentler handling of the articles can be achieved.
  • the device for packaging cigarettes 1 shown in the drawing has a conveying means in the form of a folding turret 3 which is driven continuously in the direction of the arrow 2 and which on the underside has a synchronously and continuously driven conveying means in the form of an endless conveyor 4 and on the upper side also with a synchronously and continuously drivable Endless conveyor cooperates 6 trained funding.
  • the two endless conveyors 4 and 6 are arranged relative to the folding turret 3 with their conveying strands 9 and 11 leading to or from the folding turret in the direction of the arrow 7 and 8, respectively, in such a way that a substantially Z-shaped conveying path for the packaged Results in cigarettes.
  • the two endless conveyors 4 and 6 each have a common conveying section 12 and 13 over part of the conveying path along a first, lower circular path section or along a second, upper circular path section of the folding turret 3, which is achieved according to FIGS. 2 and 3 is that the conveyor strands 9 and 11 of the endless conveyors 4 and 6 are guided in fixed roller conveyors 14 so that they follow the orbit of the folding turret 3 over a section or are adapted to run in parallel.
  • the folding turret 3 and the endless conveyors 4 and 6 are provided with receiving pockets 16 and 17, which are arranged at equal intervals and in the same division and serve to receive the cigarettes to be packaged in the form of cigarette groups 18 which are put together in blocks, by passing the cigarettes 1 along the conveyor track of the endless conveyor 4, feed shafts 19 of a magazine 21 lying one behind the other are transferred in layers and transversely axially via the receiving opening located on their upper narrow side into the receiving pockets 17. This causes the cigarettes 1 to fall freely to the bottom of the receiving pocket prevented by a plunger member 22, which is lowered according to the sequentially entered cigarette layers down to the position shown below.
  • Corresponding tappet members 23 are also assigned to the receiving pockets 17 of the upper endless conveyor 6 and 3 tappet members 24 to the receiving pockets 16 of the folding turret.
  • the outer circumference of the folding turret 3 serves at the same time as a holding surface 26 for pack blanks 27 of an inner block wrapper and for pack blanks 28 of an outer block wrapper, wherein the holding surface can be acted upon by suction air.
  • the pack blanks 27 are cut off by a knife roller arrangement 29 from a wrapping material web 32 fed in the direction of the arrow 31 and placed on the holding surface 26 of the folding turret 3 by means of a suction roller 33 such that they cover the receiving pockets 16 thereof.
  • the receiving pockets 16 of the folding turret 3 with the packaging blanks 27 covering them and the receiving pockets 17 with the cigarette groups 18 located therein with their broad side facing the conveying direction are continuously fed to the common conveyor section 12 on which the receiving pockets 17 of the endless conveyor 4 and the receiving pockets 16 des Folding turret 3 aligned in pairs and radially aligned with the axis of rotation of the folding turret 3.
  • the cigarette group 18 is transversely to the feed direction with a narrow side ahead through the pusher member 22 together with the package blank 27 located between the receiving pocket 17 of the endless conveyor 4 and the receiving pocket 16 of the folding turret 3 into the receiving pocket 16 of the folding turret 3 pushed, the plunger member 24 of the flat turret 3 retreats to the same extent as controlled Ram member 22 is advanced so that the package blank 27 wraps around the cigarette group 18.
  • This sequence of movements has ended in the area shown in FIG. 3.
  • the broad side of the cigarette groups 18, as already previously on the endless conveyor 4 with its broad side facing the conveying direction and now partially encased, are then fed to a folding station 34 of the folding turret 3, on which two wefts 36 and 37 have an inner wrap 38 and an outer wrap 39 on the Run cigarette group 18.
  • the narrow side fold 43 is carried out by an impactor 42 and at a subsequent folding station 44, the wide side fold 47 is carried out by means of an impactor 46.
  • the pack or blank blanks 28 are separated from a blank strip 49 in the direction of the arrow 48 for the outer wrapping of the cigarette groups 18 by means of a knife roller arrangement 51, glued by a gluing device 52 and transferred to the folding turret 3 while covering the receiving pockets 16.
  • a knife roller arrangement 51 glued by a gluing device 52 and transferred to the folding turret 3 while covering the receiving pockets 16.
  • the partially wrapped cigarette groups 18 are now also transversely to their direction of conveyance, in each case by a pusher member 24 of the folding turret 3 together with a blank blank 28 into an aligned receiving pocket 17 of the endless conveyor 6.
  • the endless conveyor 6 is just like the folding turret 3 rackets 58 and 59 and impactors 61 and 62 assigned.
  • 77 is a rejection station at which defective article groups 18 are ejected.
EP88109116A 1987-06-19 1988-06-08 Procédé et dispositif pour l'emballage d'articles en forme de tige de l'industrie de tabac Expired - Lifetime EP0295557B1 (fr)

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AT88109116T ATE59822T1 (de) 1987-06-19 1988-06-08 Verfahren und vorrichtung zum verpacken von stabfoermigen artikeln der tabakverarbeitenden industrie.

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