EP0329056B1 - Procédé et dispositif pour alimenter des bandelettes à une machine d'emballage - Google Patents

Procédé et dispositif pour alimenter des bandelettes à une machine d'emballage Download PDF

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EP0329056B1
EP0329056B1 EP89102453A EP89102453A EP0329056B1 EP 0329056 B1 EP0329056 B1 EP 0329056B1 EP 89102453 A EP89102453 A EP 89102453A EP 89102453 A EP89102453 A EP 89102453A EP 0329056 B1 EP0329056 B1 EP 0329056B1
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Roland Müller
Manfred Gries
Roland Klein
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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
    • B65B9/00—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material, e.g. liquids or semiliquids, in flat, folded, or tubular webs of flexible sheet material; Subdividing filled flexible tubes to form packages
    • B65B9/02—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material between opposed webs
    • 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
    • B65B35/30—Arranging and feeding articles in groups
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  • the invention relates to a method and an apparatus for feeding strips to a packaging machine, in particular a sealing machine, on which the strips are individually packaged, in particular sealed in foil.
  • the strips can be made of different materials, for example paper, cardboard or plastic, so that they are not completely rigid but have a certain flexibility and offer corresponding difficulties in handling.
  • the strips can be coated with different materials, e.g. with a single or with several different reagent materials. In particular, they are diagnostic test strips.
  • test strips have been predominantly housed in large numbers in multipacks, such as glasses or metal tubes, and removed individually for use.
  • the test strips cannot be kept hygienically clean over a longer period of time.
  • the test strips have therefore already been individually wrapped in foil with the aid of a corresponding machine, in particular sealed between two foil blanks.
  • These foils generally consist of a metal layer (aluminum) which can be coated and printed on the outside and which is coated on the inside, at least over part of the area which will later form the sealing area, with polyethylene or a heat-sealable lacquer.
  • the individual strips are protected against external influences, can be stored for a long time and are user-friendly, the price of the strips not being or hardly higher than that of the strips contained in the multipack. Removing the strips is made easier by suitable tear-open devices.
  • Suitable packaging machines in particular sealing machines, are known for producing such individual strip packs. These are fed on the one hand with the individual strips and on the other hand with two film webs between which the strips are sealed, the sealed film then being cut into the individual film packs.
  • the performance of such packaging machines was previously limited in that the individual strips could only be fed to the packaging machine at a limited speed or with a limited number of strips per unit of time. The strips were fed in one lane transversely to the running direction, the output being limited to approximately 300 strips per minute if the strips were to be fed to the packaging machine in a perfectly aligned manner in order to form proper individual packs.
  • the invention has for its object to provide a method and an apparatus with which it is possible to simultaneously feed a large number of strips with high clock frequency to a packaging machine in order to achieve high packaging performance with good accuracy. If, for example, the packaging machine with a clock frequency of 60 / min. works and if 25 strips can be fed simultaneously for each cycle, a packaging output of 1,500 / min. surrender.
  • the method according to the invention and the device according to the invention are designed so that for each individual strip to be fed to the packaging machine, a positive guidance is guaranteed starting with the cutting of the strips from a card-shaped material up to the entry and gripping of the individual strips in the packaging machine, a large one Number of strips can be cut in parallel next to each other and fed to the packaging machine at high clock frequency.
  • FIGS. 1 and 2 the overall arrangement of a packaging machine for individual strips is described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2.
  • the individual strips are not shown in FIGS. 1 and 2.
  • a suitable starting material in the form of individual cards K is fed to a card magazine 11 in which the cards K form a stack standing upright.
  • On the card magazine 11 is a level control 13 and gfs laterally. a switch for stopping the packaging machine when there is no replenishment of cards.
  • individual cards K are brought into a vertical position with the aid of an inserter 18 via the cutting rollers 17 of a cutting device 19.
  • individual strips K are produced from the cards K, which are produced with the aid of a transfer device, generally designated 14, which will be described later in is described individually, are fed to the inlet side of the packaging machine.
  • the individual strips run under a control device 12 into the area of two sealing rollers 25.
  • the two sealing rollers 25 are each supplied with a packaging film from a film roll 10, the film passing a control device 21 to the sealing rollers 25.
  • an adhesive table 22 is arranged, on which the start of a new film roll 10 is connected to the end of the used film.
  • the film running towards the lower sealing roller 25 also runs over a printing unit 24, on which it is provided with a print desired for the individual strip packs.
  • the individual strips fed in are sealed between the two films fed in from above and below.
  • the product thus produced then arrives at a take-off device 26, through which it is first cut into longitudinal strips, which are then cut into individual product strips 28 by a cross cutter 27.
  • a material strip cut from the cards K is sealed between two film sections. If the product strips 28 are not usable, they come out of the machine via a reject slide 29.
  • the properly sealed product strips 28 run via a transfer station 31 to a cartoning station 32, in which several product strips 28 are packed together in one carton.
  • the cutter 19 is illustrated in more detail in FIG. 5.
  • the cutting rollers 17 have cutting knives which intermesh like a comb and each take a supplied card K between them and cut them into individual strips S.
  • a material roll (not shown) could also be arranged in front of the card magazine 11, which roll could first be cut into individual cards K in an additional cutter.
  • wipers 36 are arranged between the comb-like circumferential cutting teeth of the cutting rollers 17, through which the strips S which are formed are guided vertically downward.
  • an expanding wedge is arranged, which follows the stripes S formed leads to the outside against the wipers 36, so that the strips S are guided downwards in two parallel paths in the space between the expansion wedge 37 and the two wipers 36.
  • the strips S are guided further down by elastic transport rollers 38 and spread apart against one another at the lower end of the expansion wedge 37 to such an extent that the strips S then enter a displacement magazine 41.
  • the strips S are guided at their rear ends in the cutting device 19 or between the cutting rollers 17 or the transport rollers 38 until the front, leading ends of the strips S have securely entered the displacement magazine 41, so that from the start of the strip formation on the cutting rollers 17 is given a forced guide for the strips S.
  • Fig. 3 illustrates in perspective the cutting process of the cards K by means of the cutting rollers 17, whereby it can be seen that the strips S which form spread out laterally from the plane of the cards K. Two strips lying next to one another are thus spread apart in opposite directions.
  • the displacement magazine 41 has individual vertical receiving compartments 43, each of which is assigned to a strip S. Because of the spread arrangement of the strips S, two parallel rows of receiving compartments 43 are provided in the displacement magazine 41, which are offset from one another by the distance between two adjacent strips S. This results in the arrangement of the receiving compartments 43 illustrated in FIG. 3 and in FIG. 6.
  • the receiving compartments 43 each extend in the direction of the movement paths of the strips S which are spread apart against one another by the cutting process and which are essentially perpendicular to one another by the described cutting device 19 track directed below.
  • the displacement magazine 41 or its receiving compartments 43 have a vertical length which corresponds at least to the length of the longest strip S to be accommodated. As particularly shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, the receiving compartments 43 are provided with bevels 45 at their upper ends facing the incoming strips S, which are generally approximately funnel-shaped in order to facilitate the entry of the strips S.
  • the displacement magazine 41 of two parts 41a and 41b arranged parallel to one another, each of which is intended for a row of receiving compartments 43 for receiving a row of the strips S cut from a card K.
  • Both parts 41a and 41b of the sliding magazine 41 thus have the same number of receiving compartments 43, which corresponds to half the number of strips S to be cut from a card K.
  • the parting plane between the two sub-magazines 41a and 41b lies in the cutting plane of the cutting rollers 17. From this position, designated by position d in FIG. 3, the two sub-magazines 41a and 41b can be displaced relative to one another in the direction of the cutting plane by a magazine length, as shown by arrows P1 and P2 in Fig. 3 is illustrated.
  • the sub-magazines 41a and 41b are freely displaceably mounted in a displacement station 47.
  • the partial magazines 41a and 41b simultaneously carry out a longitudinal displacement in the direction of the arrow P3, and furthermore, at the end of this displacement movement, the partial magazines 41a and 41b are additionally so perpendicular to the cutting plane of the cutting rollers 17 that the Plane K corresponds to the plane, movable in such a way that the receiving compartments 43 of the two partial magazines 41a and 41b come to lie next to one another on a straight line, as illustrated in FIG. 3 in position c.
  • a further magazine 51 for receiving the strips S is arranged at both ends of the shifting station 47 below the shifting magazine 41, which can be pivoted from position b into a position a by 90 ° according to arrow P5 and which is accordingly referred to below as a pivot magazine 51.
  • This swivel magazine 51 is provided with individual transfer compartments 53, which are assigned to the receiving compartments 43 of the displacement magazine 41 or its two parts 41a and 41b.
  • the receiving compartments 43 of the sliding magazine 41 are open at the bottom, but are closed by means, in particular, of hydraulically movable cover strips (not shown).
  • the transfer compartments 53 of the pivoting magazine 51 thus practically each form a lower extension of the receiving compartments 43 of the displacement magazine 41 arranged next to one another in one plane
  • the strips S can thus fall down or be transferred from the receiving compartments 43 into the transfer compartments 53.
  • the number of transfer compartments 53 of the swivel magazine 51 is equal to the number of those to be cut from a card K. Strip S and thus twice as large as the number of receiving compartments 43 of a part 41a or 41b of the displacement magazine 41.
  • the inlet ends of the transfer compartments 53 are also beveled in a funnel shape. This bevel 55 of the transfer compartments 53 is shown in FIG. 7a.
  • the cross section, seen transversely to the longitudinal direction of the strips S, of the receiving compartments 43 and the transfer compartments 53 is designed in such a way that the individual strips S are each movably held therein by frictional engagement, e.g. also results in that the individual strips S are inclined or tilted in the compartments 43 or 53. Even with vertically standing receiving compartments 43 or transfer compartments 53, the strips S do not necessarily fall freely or by themselves, but are removed from these compartments by special means, so that the forced guidance of the strips S is also maintained in this area of the device . Before the strips S are removed from the receiving compartments 43, their lower cover strips are moved away.
  • these receiving compartments 43 have open slots 49 on both sides (FIGS. 3 and 6) which pass through the height of the partial magazines 41a and 41b .
  • Ejection elements can engage in these slots 49 and can move along the slots 49 and thus along the receiving compartments 43.
  • These ejection elements can be arranged to the side of the partial magazines 41a and 41b below the cutting device 19 and, for example, consist of rotatably mounted ejection fingers which run from top to bottom through the slots 49 and the receiving compartments 43 in order to strip the strips S contained therein into the bottom Eject transfer compartments 53.
  • the slots 49 for the ejection elements are arranged both on the sides of the two partial magazines 41a and 41b to be pointed towards one another and on the opposite sides.
  • the slots 49 are then also next to one another on both sides of the two partial magazines 41a and 41b.
  • the ejection elements engaging in the slots 49 are also arranged on opposite sides of the partial magazines 41a and 41b or only on one side.
  • the transfer compartments 53 of the swivel magazine 51 have corresponding laterally open slots 59, which lie in the horizontal position of the swivel magazine 51 according to position a (FIGS. 7, 7a) on the underside of the swivel magazine 51.
  • Ejector slides 61 arranged in groups from below engage in these slots 59 and thus in the transfer compartments 53, which move together in the direction of arrow P7 in order to remove the strips S in groups from the swivel magazine 51.
  • a guide table 67 with individual, parallel guide tracks 68, which are formed by a plurality of guide surfaces 69 (FIG. 3).
  • the guide surfaces 69 are aligned with the transfer compartments 53 of the pivot magazine 51 located in the horizontal position according to position a, so that the guide surfaces 69 of each guide track 68 can each take a strip S from the transfer compartments 53 of the pivot magazine 51.
  • the guide surfaces 69 are provided on the bottom with a slot 71 passing through the guide table 67.
  • the ejection slides 61 protrude from below through the slits 71, which at the same time protrude further upward into the open slits 59 and into the transfer compartments 53 of the swivel magazine 51, so that when the ejection slides 61 move in the direction of the arrow P7, the individual strips S to be transferred in groups from the transfer compartments 53 to the guideways 68. As a result, the positive guidance for the strips S is maintained even when the swivel magazine 51 is transferred to the guideways 68.
  • the pivoting magazine 51 has the funnel-shaped bevel 55 on the inlet side for the strips S, which at the same time also represents the outlet end for the strips S, which is not shown in FIG. 3.
  • 8 shows the guideways 68 of the guide table 67 in cross section.
  • the guide tracks 68 are partially covered on the upper side by corresponding partial surfaces of the guide surfaces 69 in order to prevent the strips S from escaping upwards.
  • the discharge slide 61 in 8 not shown), the slot 71 of the guideways 68 extends upwards between the guiding surfaces 69.
  • the guide surfaces 69 have a receiving opening 73 on their upper side (FIG. 7a), at which the top cover of the guideways 68 is interrupted.
  • the strips S can enter the guideways 68 through this receiving opening 73.
  • FIG. 7 a shows, the end of the receiving opening 73 that is distant from the horizontally lying swivel magazine 51 is provided with a bevel 74 pointing downwards and inwards in order to facilitate the entry and the guiding of the strip S into the guide track 68.
  • FIG. 7a shows, the end of the receiving opening 73 that is distant from the horizontally lying swivel magazine 51 is provided with a bevel 74 pointing downwards and inwards in order to facilitate the entry and the guiding of the strip S into the guide track 68.
  • an upper cover 75 is provided over the receiving opening 73 between the outlet end of the pivoting magazine 51 and the bevel 74 of the guideway 68, the cover 75 likewise being provided with a lower beveled guide surface 77, which is attached to its surface according to FIG right outer end forms an extension of the transfer compartment 53 of the swivel magazine 51 and is inclined downward from there to the bevel 74 of the guideway 68.
  • This arrangement thus practically forms a switch at the transition point for the strips S between the swivel magazine 51 and the guideways 68.
  • a strip S is transferred from the swivel magazine 51 into the guideway 68 by the ejection slide 61, as illustrated in FIG. 7a .
  • Fig. 7 shows that the packaging machine with its sealing rollers 25 connects to the end of the guideways 68. Between the sealing rollers 25, the individual strips advanced by the ejection slides 61 are grasped in groups and sealed between the foil webs 10 fed to the sealing rollers 25.
  • Fig. 7 and Fig. 7a also illustrate that the discharge slide 61 are arranged on a reciprocating and up and down movable lifting conveyor rail 63 and protrude from it up through the slots 71 of the guide table 67.
  • the lifting conveyor rail 63 is arranged below the guide table 67 with the guide tracks 68, and it works with the work cycle of the packaging machine. For each packaging process or sealing process between the sealing rollers 25, a group of strips S lying parallel next to one another is thus fed through the lifting conveyor rail 61.
  • the number of guideways 68 is half the number of strips S cut from a card K and half the number of transfer compartments 53 in the pivot magazine 51, because only every second transfer compartment 53 is assigned a guideway 68 is.
  • the number of guideways 68 is therefore equal to the number of receiving compartments 43 of one of the two sub-magazines 41a and 41b of the displacement magazine 41.
  • the mutual spacing of the guideways 68 transversely to the direction of advance of the strips S is determined by the width of the strips 28 which are packaged.
  • the distance between adjacent guideways 68 is 2a, which distance also corresponds to the width of the finished packaged product strips 28, then the distance between two adjacent transfer compartments 53 in the swivel magazine 51 is a.
  • the swivel magazine 51 is therefore displaceable in the direction of the arrow P8 by the distance a transversely to the guide tracks 68.
  • a swivel magazine 51 is arranged under each end of the shift station 47, i.e. in position b the first swivel magazine 51 and in position f at the other end of the shift station 47, a second swivel magazine 51', which consists of the Position f can be pivoted through 90 ° into position g.
  • the position g corresponds to the position a of the first swivel magazine 51.
  • the swivel magazines 51 and 51' After emptying the swivel magazines 51 and 51 'in the positions a and g, the swivel magazines 51 and 51' can be swiveled back into the vertical positions b and f in order to move out of the shift magazines 41 and To be able to record 41 'new strips S.
  • the guideways 68 accordingly extend under the two swivel magazines 41 and 41 'from the rear end of the displacement station 47 (position f) over the front end of the displacement station 47 (position b) to the packaging machine .
  • strips 1 to 50 of the same width are cut from a material card K 50, narrow edge strips being produced as waste at the two ends of the card K.
  • the strips spread, as explained above, so that there are two parallel groups of 25 strips each, which are labeled with the numbers shown in FIG. 4 for illustration.
  • One row of strips with the numbers 1, 26, 2, 27, ... arrives in one part 41a of the sliding magazine 41, and the other row of strips with the numbers 38, 14, 39, 15, ... arrives in the other part 41b of the shift magazine 41 (position d).
  • the two rows of strips are pulled apart in the longitudinal direction of the magazine parts 41a and 41b (position c 1), the mutual spacing of the individual strips remaining unchanged. From position c1 the two are displaced relative to each other perpendicular to the cutting plane by moving the partial magazines 41a and 41b Bring rows of strips in a line next to each other (position c). From this position, the individual strips fall out of the partial magazines 41a and 41b downwards or are pushed out of these magazines downwards by ejection elements and reach the swivel magazine 51 arranged thereunder (position b). The pivoting magazine 51 now pivots through 90 ° into position a, which is not shown in the flowchart according to FIG. 4 by a change in the representation. The mutual spacing of the strips remains unchanged up to this point.
  • a first group of strips 1 to 25 is now transferred through the ejection slide 61 into the guideways 68, namely every second strip from the swivel magazine 51 is pushed into the guideway 68, so that the strips 26 to 50 still in the Swivel magazine 51 remain. Since the ejected strips 1 to 25 have a mutual distance of 2a, the strips 26 to 50 remaining in the pivot magazine 51 have the same distance 2a from one another. However, they are laterally offset from the ejected strips 1 to 25 by the distance a.
  • the pivoting magazine is now moved by this distance a into the position a 1 transverse to the direction of ejection of the strips, whereupon the next group of ejection slides 61 of the guide table 67 ejects the second group of strips 26 to 50 into the guideways 68.
  • Two groups of strips 1 to 25 and 26 to 50 thus pass into the guideways 68 and from there to the sealing rollers 25 of the packaging machine.
  • the empty swivel magazine 51 is then moved back by the distance a from position a 1 to position a and swiveled upwards by 90 ° into position b.
  • the swivel magazine 51 can then be filled again with a series of 50 strips that come from position c.
  • the 50 strips simultaneously cut from a card thus arrive in two groups of 25 strips one after the other in the guideways 68 and to the sealing rollers 25 of the packaging machine. If the machine works with a work cycle of 60 / min, accordingly 60x25, ie 1,500 strips / min, must be fed to the packaging machine through the lifting conveyor rail 63 with the ejection slides 61. This corresponds to a cutting performance of the cutting device 19 of 30 cards / min of 50 strips each. As a result, the work cycle of the shift magazines 41 and 41 'and the swivel magazine 51 and 51 'determined.
  • FIG. 5 shows a discharge electrode 39 provided for this purpose on the cutting device 19.
  • the displacement magazine 41 and the swivel magazine 51 can thus work with a work cycle of 30 / min with a simple arrangement of these magazines.
  • the ratio between the width of the material strip S and the width of the finished sealed package 28 is thus 1: 4. This information is only a preferred exemplary embodiment.
  • the separation of the individual strips S already begins in the cutting device 19 during the cutting process by spreading the individual strips S on the card K.
  • the strips S are held in a geometrically precisely defined position.
  • the displacement magazines 41, 41 'and in the swivel magazines 51, 51' the strips are constantly held and positively guided so that they arrive in the guideways 68 in a geometrically precise arrangement.
  • the positive guidance is taken over by the ejection slide 61, which move in cycles and which feed the strips S in cycles to the packaging machine.
  • the transfer device 14 consists of at least one sliding magazine 41 and a pivoting magazine 51 which is arranged separately and separately controllable therefrom.
  • the displacement magazine 41 forms a unitary component with the pivot magazine 51, so that the displacement magazine 41 itself could be pivoted by the required pivot angle.
  • the shift magazine 41 should not even be displaceable in the direction of the conveyor tracks 68 in the direction of the arrow P3, but the pivoting movement of the magazine could take place directly in a position below the cutting device 19.

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1. Procédé pour amener des bandes à une machine d'emballage, notamment une machine à sceller dans laquelle les bandes sont emballées séparément, notamment scellées dans un film, les opérations suivantes étant exécutées :
- plusieurs bandes (S) individuelles, posées en parallèle, sont d'abord découpées simultanément à partir d'un matériau en forme de carte (K),
- les bandes (S) sont immédiatement prises en charge après l'opération de coupe en position perpendiculaire, debout, par un dispositif de transfert (14),
- le dispositif de transfert est ensuite basculé de manière à ce que les bandes individuelles (S) soient couchées horizontalement l'une à côté de l'autre,
- les bandes (S) sont ensuite transférées par un guidage forcé en groupe à des bandes de guidage (68),
- à partir de ces bandes de guidage (68), les bandes (S) couchées l'une à côté de l'autre d'un groupe sont simultanément transférées par le maintien du guidage forcé jusqu'à ce qu'elles soient saisies par les éléments de transformation, notamment jusqu'à ce qu'elles soient insérées entre les rouleaux de scellement (25) de la machine d'emballage.
2. Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que les extrémités avant des bandes coupées (S) sont saisies pendant l'opération de coupe par le dispositif de transfert (14) alors que les extrémités arrière des bandes (S) ne sont pas encore séparées l'une de l'autre, ou sont -du moins- encore guidées par le guidage forcé dans le dispositif de coupe (19).
3. Dispositif pour amener des bandes à une machine d'emballage, notamment une machine à sceller dans laquelle les bandes emballées individuellement sont, notamment, scellées dans un film, le dispositif présentant les caractéristiques suivantes :
- un dispositif de coupe (19) pour couper un matériau (K) en forme de carte, en bandes individuelles posées en parallèle,
- un dispositif de transfert (14, 41, 51) disposé sous le dispositif de coupe (19) avec des compartiments individuels dont chacun est associé à une bande (S) coupée,
- au moins une partie (51) au dispositif de transfert (14, 41, 51) est logée de manière à pivoter de 90° et à ce qu'après le pivotement les compartiments (53) sont couchés horizontalement,
- un dispositif d'éjection (61) pour éjecter par groupe les bandes individuelles (S) à partir des compartiments (53) couchés horizontalement du dispositif de transfert (14, 41, 51),
- à l'extrémité de sortie des différents compartiments (53) suivent des bandes de guidage (68) pour les bandes individuelles (S), et
- à l'extrémité des bandes de guidage (68) la machine d'emballage est prévue pour saisir et emballer les bandes individuelles (S).
4. Dispositif selon la revendication 3, caractérisé en ce que le dispositif de transfert (14, 41, 51) présente un premier magasin (magasin mobile 41) avec des compartiments (43) de réception individuels, perpendiculaires, ainsi qu'un deuxième magasin (magasin de pivotement 51) disposé au-dessous et pivotant de 90° en aller/retour, qui est pourvu de différents compartiments de transfert (53) qui sont associés aux compartiments de réception (43) du magasin mobile (41).
5. Dispositif selon les revendications 3 ou 4, caractérisé en ce que :
- le dispositif de coupe (19) présente deux rouleaux tranchants (17) s'engageant réciproquement à la manière d'un peigne avec des séparateurs (36) intermédiaires perpendiculaires,
- un coin d'écartement (37) étant prévu sous le point de contact des rouleaux tranchants (17) pour les bandes (S) coupées, et
- le cas échéant, au niveau du coin d'écartement (37) des rouleaux de transport (38) sont prévus pour le transport des bandes (S) coupées (fig. 5).
6. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications 3 à 5, caractérisé en ce que le côté d'entrée des bandes du dispositif de transfert (14, 41, 51) ou le premier magasin de celui-ci (magasin mobile 41) est disposé immédiatement au-dessous du dispositif de coupe (19) à faible distance par rapport aux rouleaux tranchants (17) ou des rouleaux de transport (38), distance qui est inférieure à la longueur des différentes bandes (S) à couper ou à transformer (fig. 5).
7. Dispositif selon les revendications 4 et 5, caractérisé en ce que :
- le magasin mobile (41) consiste en deux magasins partiels (41a, 41b) disposés en parallèle l'un derrière l'autre, qui présentent chacun un certain nombre de compartiments de réception (43) dont la dimension est de la moitié du nombre des bandes (S) à couper simultanément à partir d'une pièce de matériau (K), le plan de séparation entre les deux magasins partiels (41a, 41b) se trouvant dans le plan de coupe,
- les compartiments de réception (43) des magasins partiels (41a, 41b) s'étendent chacun environ en direction de la bande de mouvement des bandes (S) réciproquement écartées, les compartiments de réception (43) voisins des deux magasins partiels (41a, 41b) étant réciproquement décalés, en direction du plan de coupe, de la distance entre deux bandes (S) voisines (fig. 3 et 6).
8. Dispositif selon la revendication 7, caractérisé en ce que les deux magasins partiels (41a, 41b) peuvent être déplacés réciproquement dans le sens longitudinal, à partir de la position parallèle en succession, en direction du plan de coupe de la longueur d'un magasin et sont verticalement mobiles par rapport au plan de coupe de manière à ce que les compartiments de réception (43) des deux magasins partiels (41a, 41b) soient posés sur une ligne droite l'un à côté de l'autre (fig. 3).
9. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications 4 à 8, caractérisé en ce que :
- les compartiments de réception (43) du magasin mobile (41) peuvent être ouverts en bas et les compartiments de transfert (53) du magasin pivotant (51) sont ouverts en haut,
- les compartiments de transfert (53) du magasin pivotant (51) forment un prolongement des compartiments de réception (43) du magasin mobile (41) disposés en ligne droite l'un à côté de l'autre.
10. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications 7 à 9, caractérisé en ce que le nombre des compartiments de transfert (53) du magasin pivotant (51) est identique au nombre des bandes (S) à couper à partir d'une pièce de matériau (K) et, par conséquent, sont le double du nombre des compartiments de réception (43) d'une des deux parties (41a, 41b) du magasin mobile (41).
11. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que les extrémités d'entrée des compartiments de réception (43) du magasin mobile (41) et/ou les extrémités d'entrée des compartiments de transfert (53) du magasin pivotant (51) sont pourvues d'un chanfrein (45, 55) à la manière d'un entonnoir.
12. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que la coupe transversale des compartiments de réception (43) et des compartiments de transfert (53) a une configuration telle à ce que les différentes bandes (S) puissent y être maintenues de manière mobile sous friction.
13. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que les compartiments de réception (43) du magasin mobile (41) présentent latéralement des fentes ouvertes (49) pour l'engagement par groupe d'éléments d'éjection.
14. Dispositif selon la revendication 13, caractérisé en ce que les fentes (49) pour les éléments d'éjection sont disposées des deux côtés des deux magasins partiels (41a, 41b) de manière à ce qu'après le déplacement des magasins partiels (41a, 41b) et la disposition des compartiments de réception (43) sur une ligne droite l'un à côte de l'autre, les fentes (49) des deux magasins partiels (41a, 41b) se trouvent également juxtaposées.
15. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que les compartiments de transfert (53) du magasin pivotant (51) présentent du côté inférieur, s'ils sont en position horizontale, des fentes ouvertes (59) pour l'engagement par groupe de poussoirs d'éjection (61).
16. Dispositif selon la revendication 15, caractérisé en ce que :
- les bandes de guidage (68) sont formées par un plateau de guidage (67) avec des surfaces de guidage (69) disposées en parallèle l'une à côté de l'autre pour les bandes individuelles (S),
- les bandes de guidage (68), lorsque le magasin pivotant (51) est en position horizontale, sont alignées sur les compartiments de transfert (53) de ce dernier,
- les bandes de guidage (68) présentent au fond une fente (71) à travers laquelle s'engagent d'en bas les poussoirs d'éjection (61) qui, simultanément, s'étendent vers le haut dans les fentes (59) ouvertes en bas des compartiments de transfert (53) pour le transfert par groupe des bandes individuelles (S) des compartiments de transfert (53) sur les bandes de guidage (68).
17. Dispositif selon la revendication 16, caractérisé en ce qu'au point de transfert des bandes (S) entre le magasin pivotant (51) couché horizontalement et les bandes de guidage (68), les surfaces de guidage (69) présentent, côté supérieur, une ouverture de réception (73) chanfreinée vers l'intérieur à la manière d'un cône pour les bandes (S) avec un couvercle supérieur (75), avec une surface de guidage (77) à la manière d'un aiguillage (fig. 7 et 7a).
18. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que les poussoirs d'éjection (61) s'étendent en saillie vers le haut à partir d'un transporteur en élévation se déplaçant en va-et-vient ainsi que vers le haut et vers le bas, qui est disposé sous les bandes de guidage (68) pour les bandes (S) et qui travaille au rythme de la machine d'emballage.
19. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que le nombre des bandes de guidage (68) est égal à la moitié du nombre des bandes (S) à couper à partir d'une pièce de matériau (K) et est égal à la moitié du nombre des compartiments de transfert (53) dans le magasin pivotant (51) et ainsi, égal au nombre des compartiments de réception (43) d'une partie (41a, 41b) du magasin mobile (41).
20. Dispositif selon la revendication 19, caractérisé en ce que le magasin pivotant (51) peut être déplacé d'une distance (a), transversalement par rapport à la direction de transport des bandes de guidage (68), qui est égale à la moitié de la distance (2a) entre deux bandes de guidage (68) correspondant à la largeur des bandes (S) emballées.
21. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que :
- sous le dispositif de coupe (19), deux magasins mobiles de même type (41, 41′) sont logés de manière espacée dans un poste mobile (47), qui peuvent être déplacés du milieu du poste mobile (47) ensemble, simultanément, alternativement vers l'une ou l'autre extrémité du poste mobile (47),
- à chaque extrémité de la course de déplacement, un magasin pivotant (51, 51′) est disposé dont chacun coopère avec un des magasins mobiles (41, 41′),
- les bandes de guidage (68) pour les bandes individuelles (S) s'étendent sous les magasins pivotants (51, 51′) en direction du déplacement des deux magasins mobiles (41, 41′) vers la machine d'emballage.
22. Dispositif selon la revendication 9, caractérisé en ce que, sur le coté inférieur du magasin mobile (41), une barre de verrouillage mobile est disposée pour fermer et libérer les extrémités inférieures des compartiments de réception (43).
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