EP0391079B1 - Verfahren zum Lagern (Speichern) von (Packungs-) Zuschnitten und Zuführen derselben zu einem Faltaggregat einer Verpackungsmaschine - Google Patents

Verfahren zum Lagern (Speichern) von (Packungs-) Zuschnitten und Zuführen derselben zu einem Faltaggregat einer Verpackungsmaschine Download PDF

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EP0391079B1
EP0391079B1 EP90104252A EP90104252A EP0391079B1 EP 0391079 B1 EP0391079 B1 EP 0391079B1 EP 90104252 A EP90104252 A EP 90104252A EP 90104252 A EP90104252 A EP 90104252A EP 0391079 B1 EP0391079 B1 EP 0391079B1
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Heinz Focke
Kurt Liedtke
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65HHANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H1/00Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated
    • B65H1/30Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated with means for replenishing the pile during continuous separation of articles therefrom
    • 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
    • B65B19/228Preparing and feeding blanks
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65HHANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2701/00Handled material; Storage means
    • B65H2701/10Handled articles or webs
    • B65H2701/11Dimensional aspect of article or web
    • B65H2701/112Section geometry
    • B65H2701/1123Folded article or web
    • B65H2701/11231Fan-folded material or zig-zag or leporello

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  • the invention relates to a method for storing (storing) blanks and feeding them to a folding unit of a packaging machine, in particular blanks for producing hinged boxes (hinge-lid packs) for cigarettes, the blanks forming a continuous material web with one another are connected and are placed in a stack by zigzag folding of the material web, and wherein the zigzag folded material web is removed from the stack and separated into a stretched shape for separation and subsequent processing of the individual blanks.
  • blanks consisting of (thin) cardboard can also be made available to the packaging machine in the form of a continuous material web.
  • the blanks are preformed within the material web by punching and embossing, but are connected to one another via residual connections or thin webs to form the material web.
  • the remaining connections are arranged in this known proposal in the area of those parts of the blanks which remain hidden in finished packs (DE-A 37 16 897).
  • FR-A 2 072 216 a method for storing blanks and feeding them to a removal station is known, in which the blanks are connected to one another to form a continuous material web and are placed in a stack by zigzag folding of the material web. In order to separate and then process the individual blanks, the material web is pulled off the stack and brought into an elongated shape.
  • the invention is concerned with the meaningful storage or storage of blanks which are connected to one another in the sense of the prior art to form a continuous web of material.
  • the invention has for its object to store or store the material web so that it can be made available to the packaging machine or the packaging members thereof in a particularly efficient manner.
  • the method according to the invention is characterized in that the continuous, zig-zag folded material web extends over several adjacent and connected stacks, and in that the latter (lower) cutting of a stack over an upright, stretched web section of the material web is connected to a first (upper) blank of a subsequent stack, the web section running in the vertical position between the closely spaced stacks and the upright web section also serving as a separating element between adjacent stacks.
  • the arrangement of the material web in several stacks positioned next to one another with an accordion-like arrangement results in a particularly high storage capacity since the stacks can be arranged in a space-saving manner. Furthermore, the process is characterized by a high manufacturing output, since the stock of blanks consisting of several stacks can be processed in connection and without interruption.
  • the stacks formed from the material web are provided in several in groups and successively fed to a stationary removal station in or on the packaging machine.
  • the stacks are dismantled one after the other to form the continuous material web.
  • the removal station can be designed to be stationary, the stacks being conveyed to the removal station one after the other.
  • a take-off device for the material web can gradually move from one stack to the next in the removal station.
  • Another proposal of the invention is to store several groups of stacks arranged in a row on a base (pallet) and one after the other to be transferred from this document to a conveyor assigned to the packaging machine.
  • the details shown in the drawings relate to the supply of a packaging machine 10 with blanks 11 made of (thin) cardboard for the production of (cigarette) packs of the hinged-box type (hinge-lid pack).
  • the blanks 11 arrive in a blanking station 12 of the packaging machine 10 and here by downward movement in pockets of a plate-like folding turret 13 which is rotatable about a vertical axis.
  • the packaging machine 10 has a larger supply of blanks 14, namely a plurality of stacks 15 arranged closely next to one another from blanks 11 arranged one above the other successively fed to a fixed removal station 17.
  • the stack 15 lying at the front in the conveying direction is continuously dismantled.
  • the position of the stack 15 in the removal station 17 is determined by a fixed stop, namely by an upright stop wall 18.
  • the stacks 15 are formed from continuous material webs 19, which in turn consist of a plurality of blanks 11 connected to one another at the longitudinal edges. In the area of the cutting station 12, the blanks 11 are separated from the material web 19 and processed individually.
  • the material web 19 is folded in a zigzag shape to form the stacks 15.
  • Opposing fold edges 20 are formed on the edges of the blanks 11, respectively.
  • the material web 19 is here essentially designed as shown and described in DE-A-37 16 897.
  • Blanks 11 for the production of hinged boxes can be torn off at the longitudinal edges or shearable residual connections 21 connected to one another.
  • the blanks 11 are provided with an integrally connected collar.
  • the blanks correspond to the embodiment in EP-B-6 872.
  • the stacks 15 formed from the folded material web 19 are dissolved in the removal station 17 in that the material web 19 drawn off at the top of a stack is brought back to the stretched position.
  • a plurality of stacks 15 arranged side by side, namely a group 22, are formed from a continuous, uninterrupted material web 19.
  • the stacks 15 belonging to such a group 22 are connected to one another, specifically via an elongated, that is to say unfolded, web section 23.
  • this runs from the lower end of a stack 15 or from the lower blank 11 thereof to the upper one End or upper blank 11 of the next stack 15.
  • the web section 23 is arranged in an upright plane, namely as a separating element between the closely adjacent stacks 15 (FIG. 6).
  • the entire group 22 from z. B. seven stacks 15 (FIG. 3) can be dismantled one after the other without manual intervention as a continuous material web.
  • a movable support frame namely a pallet 24 which is designed in a special way. In the present exemplary embodiment (FIGS. 3 and 4), this is suitable for accommodating four groups 22 of connected stacks 15.
  • the pallet 24 is in front of a loading end 25 of the stacking conveyor 16 movable transversely to the latter, such that a group 22 of stacks 15 arranged next to one another is always aligned with the stack conveyor 16.
  • a group 22 of stacks 15 on the pallet 24 is grasped on the underside by a lifting conveyor 26, lifted from the pallet 24, moved in the longitudinal direction and placed on the stack conveyor 16.
  • the lifting conveyor 26 is designed as an elongated support arm with a stop increase 27 at the free end.
  • the lifting conveyor 26 can be moved back and forth in the longitudinal direction of the stacking conveyor 16 to below a group 22, the stop elevation 27 laterally engaging a stack 15 on the edge.
  • the pallet 24 is designed in a special manner for the above conveying movement of the lifting conveyor 26.
  • a base plate 28 of the pallet 24 is provided with recesses 29 on the top. These channel-like recesses 29 each extend in the longitudinal direction of a group 22 below the same, the width of the recess 29 being significantly smaller than the length of a stack 15 and thus as the length of a blank 11.
  • the stack 15 can have edge or end regions rest on the base plate 28.
  • the stack 15 is exposed in the central region, so that the lifting conveyor 26 can be moved below the stack 15 to capture a group 22.
  • the stacking conveyor 16 is also adapted to the mode of operation of the lifting conveyor 26, namely consists of two lateral, Belt conveyors 30, 31 arranged at a distance from one another. The stacks 15 with lateral or end regions rest on these. At the loading end 25, the two material conveyors 30, 31 run over non-interconnected deflection rollers 32, 33, between which there remains a distance for the conveying movement of the lifting conveyor 26.
  • the pallet 24 is provided on the underside with rollers 34, 35. With the help of the same, the exact relative position of the pallet 24 to the stacking conveyor 16 can be determined by at least one pair of the rollers 34, 35 entering recesses 36 of a running surface for the pallet 24.
  • the individual groups 22 are separated from one another on the pallet 24 by partitions 37. These are removably arranged on the pallets 24 for the return transport of the same to the place of manufacture of the blanks 11 or the material web 19.
  • the partition walls 37 here consist of corrugated cardboard.
  • FIG. 6 shows an alternative with respect to the design of the removal station 17.
  • the removal of the material web 19 and thus the dismantling of the stacks 15 is not stationary. Rather, a puller 38 for the material web 19 is slidably arranged above the stack 15. The puller 38 is moved according to the dismantling of the stacks 15 (intermittently) from stack to stack. During the pulling off of the material web 19, the pulling member 38 is located centrally above the stack 15 to be dismantled.
  • the pulling-off element 38 consists of a pair of pulling rollers 39, 40.
  • the material web 19 is pulled off the stack 15 by stretching them.
  • the (driven) pull rollers 39, 40 are arranged on a carriage 41 which is displaceable above the row or group 22 of the stacks 15.
  • two guide rods 42 are moved.
  • a traction element namely a traction cable 43, is arranged on the carriage 41 for carrying out the actuating movement.
  • the pull cable 43 is actuated in cycles by a suitable drive element.
  • FIGS. 7 and 8 Another special feature is shown in FIGS. 7 and 8 in detail. It is primarily about the connection to one another, that is to say the connection of successive groups 22 of stacks 15.
  • an adhesive element namely an adhesive strip
  • This adhesive strip 44 is arranged on the outer, free edge of the last cut 11 of the material web 19 or the upright web section 23 44.
  • This adhesive strip 44 provided on one side with an adhesive layer is applied in a central region of the (last) blank 11, namely on an inner side tab 45.
  • the adhesive strip 44 is arranged to form a free projection on the edge of the side tab 45, namely on the from the subsequent stack 15 remote side.
  • the part of the adhesive strip 44 projecting upward beyond the blank 11 is folded over for connection to the upper, horizontally lying blank 11 of a subsequent stack 15 and thus glued onto the top of the blank - likewise in the region of the side tab 45.
  • the connection between the material webs is thus established and a continuous dismantling of an uninterrupted material web is guaranteed.
  • holding means which fix the relevant exposed web section 23 to the side surface of the assigned stack 15.
  • double-sided adhesive connecting strips 46 are arranged in the region of the connection point between adjacent blanks 11 on the web section 23 on the side facing the stack 15. These are on the one hand adhesively connected to the web section 23 and on the other hand also adhesively connected to the folded edges of the stack 15. The upright path section 23 is thus releasably fixed in position.

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  • Supplying Of Containers To The Packaging Station (AREA)
  • Wrapping Of Specific Fragile Articles (AREA)
EP90104252A 1989-04-05 1990-03-06 Verfahren zum Lagern (Speichern) von (Packungs-) Zuschnitten und Zuführen derselben zu einem Faltaggregat einer Verpackungsmaschine Expired - Lifetime EP0391079B1 (de)

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