EP0295557B1 - Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Verpacken von stabförmigen Artikeln der tabakverarbeitenden Industrie - Google Patents
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- EP0295557B1 EP0295557B1 EP88109116A EP88109116A EP0295557B1 EP 0295557 B1 EP0295557 B1 EP 0295557B1 EP 88109116 A EP88109116 A EP 88109116A EP 88109116 A EP88109116 A EP 88109116A EP 0295557 B1 EP0295557 B1 EP 0295557B1
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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
- B65B19/00—Packaging rod-shaped or tubular articles susceptible to damage by abrasion or pressure, e.g. cigarettes, cigars, macaroni, spaghetti, drinking straws or welding electrodes
- B65B19/02—Packaging cigarettes
- B65B19/22—Wrapping the cigarettes; Packaging the cigarettes in containers formed by folding wrapping material around formers
- B65B19/223—Wrapping 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
- B65B19/225—Wrapping 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
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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
- B65B11/00—Wrapping, e.g. partially or wholly enclosing, articles or quantities of material, in strips, sheets or blanks, of flexible material
- B65B11/06—Wrapping articles, or quantities of material, by conveying wrapper and contents in common defined paths
- B65B11/38—Wrapping articles, or quantities of material, by conveying wrapper and contents in common defined paths in a combination of straight and curved paths
- B65B11/40—Wrapping 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
- B65B11/42—Wrapping 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, which are continuously conveyed at regular intervals and are transferred from one conveyor section to another conveyor section during their conveyance for the purpose of continuous further conveyance by moving them transversely to the direction of conveyance and transversely to the longitudinal axes of the rod-shaped articles and are at least partially wrapped with a packaging blank.
- the invention also relates to a device for conveying rod-shaped articles to be packaged in the tobacco processing industry on conveying means which interact with a continuously drivable conveying means designed as a folding turret and which are provided with receiving pockets which successively accommodate groups of articles in the formation and size of the contents of a packaging.
- EP-A-30359 discloses a method and a device for packaging cigarettes, according to which block transfer takes place transversely to the longitudinal axes of the cigarettes between two tangent, continuously running conveyors, in that the large surface area of the cigarette blocks is radially displaced so that the radial transfer stroke is a distance corresponding to the width of the narrow side surfaces of the cigarette blocks.
- 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 transported in such an upright aligned block formation along a common conveying path of the two conveying sections that a broad side faces the respective conveying direction and a narrow side faces the transverse sliding direction.
- packaging operations are carried out on them during the continuous further conveyance of the article groups.
- a perfection of the procedure is that the continuous further conveyance of the article groups includes an additional transverse shift with integrated blank wrapping and continuous removal.
- 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 conveying means, the receiving pockets being embedded in the conveying means in such a way that their transfer opening corresponds to a narrow side face of a block-shaped article formation.
- the receiving pockets are each designed to hold one of the cooperating conveying means delimiting peripheral sections as holding surfaces for the transfer openings of the receiving pockets covering package blanks, the peripheral sections 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 in such a way that the one block of article groups delivering funds to the Faitrevoiver and the other article groups are partially wrapped by the folding turret, whereby according to a further proposal the arrangement is such that the conveying means delivering article groups with a first circular path section and the conveying means taking over the partially wrapped article groups with a second circular path section of the folding revolver are arranged to cooperate.
- 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 outer packaging 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 as well as a gentler handling with firm packing of the articles at the same time.
- 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, which on the underside has a synchronously and continuously driven conveying means in the form of an endless conveyor 4 and on the top side also a synchronously and continuously drivable one 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 away from the folding turret in the direction of the arrows 7 and 8, respectively, such that an essentially Z-shaped conveying path for those to be 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 26 and 17, which are arranged at equal intervals and in the same division and are used to hold the cigarettes to be packaged in the form of cigarette groups 18 arranged in blocks, by moving the cigarettes 1 one by one along the conveyor track of the endless conveyor 4, feed chutes 19 of a magazine 21 lying one behind the other are transferred in layers and transversely axially into the receiving pockets 17 via the receiving opening located on their upper narrow side. A free fall of the cigarettes 1 down to the bottom of the receiving pocket is prevented by a pusher member 22, which is lowered according to the successively 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 is pushed, the tappet member 24 of the folding turret 3 retreating in a controlled manner to the same extent as the tappet member 22 is pushed forward, so that the package blank 27 wraps around the cigarette group 18.
- This sequence of movements has ended in the area shown in FIG.
- 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 are made by means of a knife roller arrangement 51 Blanks 28 separated, glued by a gluing device 52 and transferred to the folding turret 3 while covering the receiving pockets 16.
- the partially encased 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 is assigned 6 impactors 58 and 59 as well as impactors 61 and 62, respectively.
- 77 is a rejection station at which defective article groups 18 are ejected.
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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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DE3720290 | 1987-06-19 | ||
DE3720290 | 1987-06-19 | ||
DE3722999 | 1987-07-11 | ||
DE3722999 | 1987-07-11 |
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EP0295557A1 EP0295557A1 (de) | 1988-12-21 |
EP0295557B1 true EP0295557B1 (de) | 1991-01-09 |
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EP88109116A Expired - Lifetime EP0295557B1 (de) | 1987-06-19 | 1988-06-08 | Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Verpacken von stabförmigen Artikeln der tabakverarbeitenden Industrie |
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US (1) | US4866912A (ja) |
EP (1) | EP0295557B1 (ja) |
JP (1) | JPS6470321A (ja) |
CN (1) | CN1013488B (ja) |
DE (1) | DE3861493D1 (ja) |
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DE3824316A1 (de) * | 1988-07-18 | 1990-01-25 | Hauni Werke Koerber & Co Kg | Verfahren und vorrichtung zum herstellen einer quaderfoermigen packung |
IT1232103B (it) * | 1989-05-24 | 1992-01-23 | Ferrero Spa | Macchina incartatrice,particolarmente per caramelle e simili prodotti alimentari |
DE3929982C1 (ja) * | 1989-09-08 | 1991-02-28 | Maschinenfabrik Alfred Schmermund Gmbh & Co, 5820 Gevelsberg, De | |
IT1235957B (it) * | 1989-12-07 | 1992-12-09 | Gd Spa | Metodo di alimentazione e piegatura di materiale in foglio in una macchina impachettatrice |
DE4012114A1 (de) * | 1990-04-14 | 1991-10-17 | Hauni Werke Koerber & Co Kg | Vorrichtung zum ueberfuehren von stabfoermigen artikeln der tabakverarbeitenden industrie |
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US5442894A (en) * | 1992-01-28 | 1995-08-22 | Tokyo Automatic Machinery Works, Ltd. | Packaging device |
JP3085768B2 (ja) * | 1992-01-28 | 2000-09-11 | 株式会社東京自働機械製作所 | 包装機の耳折り装置 |
DE4332810A1 (de) * | 1993-09-27 | 1995-03-30 | Focke & Co | Verpackungsmaschine für die Fertigung von Zigaretten-Packungen |
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IT1285940B1 (it) * | 1996-06-12 | 1998-06-26 | Gd Spa | Metodo ed unita' per la formazione e l'incarto di gruppi di sigarette |
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US6373519B1 (en) * | 1998-10-15 | 2002-04-16 | Philip Morris Incorporated | System and method for visually inspecting a cigarette packaging process |
IT1320970B1 (it) * | 2000-04-04 | 2003-12-18 | Gd Spa | Macchina per realizzare pacchetti di sigarette e metodo di controllodella macchina. |
ITBO20000735A1 (it) * | 2000-12-21 | 2002-06-21 | Gd Spa | Macchine e metodo per l'incarto di prodotti |
ITBO20030706A1 (it) * | 2003-11-21 | 2005-05-22 | Gd Spa | Unita' di incarto di prodotti. |
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US3899865A (en) * | 1973-10-03 | 1975-08-19 | Haensel Otto Gmbh | Wrapping apparatus |
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- 1988-06-08 EP EP88109116A patent/EP0295557B1/de not_active Expired - Lifetime
- 1988-06-15 US US07/207,294 patent/US4866912A/en not_active Expired - Fee Related
- 1988-06-16 CN CN88103730A patent/CN1013488B/zh not_active Expired
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EP0295557A1 (de) | 1988-12-21 |
US4866912A (en) | 1989-09-19 |
CN1013488B (zh) | 1991-08-14 |
DE3861493D1 (de) | 1991-02-14 |
CN1031681A (zh) | 1989-03-15 |
JPS6470321A (en) | 1989-03-15 |
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