EP0395919A1 - Machine d'enveloppement automatique pour emballer des produits, spécialement des unités palettisées, qui doivent être enveloppées avec un film tubulaire thermorétractable - Google Patents

Machine d'enveloppement automatique pour emballer des produits, spécialement des unités palettisées, qui doivent être enveloppées avec un film tubulaire thermorétractable Download PDF

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EP0395919A1
EP0395919A1 EP90106872A EP90106872A EP0395919A1 EP 0395919 A1 EP0395919 A1 EP 0395919A1 EP 90106872 A EP90106872 A EP 90106872A EP 90106872 A EP90106872 A EP 90106872A EP 0395919 A1 EP0395919 A1 EP 0395919A1
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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
    • B65B9/10—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material, in preformed tubular webs, or in webs formed into tubes around filling nozzles, e.g. extruded tubular webs
    • B65B9/13—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material, in preformed tubular webs, or in webs formed into tubes around filling nozzles, e.g. extruded tubular webs the preformed tubular webs being supplied in a flattened state
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  • the present invention concerns important improvements in automatic machines for wrapping products, groups of products or materials of various types, particularly palletized units - for packaging purposes - with a thermoretractible film already in tubular form.
  • thermoretractibe film only just started on a ring positioned to the side of the material to be wrapped, is completed when overturning said ring onto the material itself, by the air which - due to overturning at high speed - swells the moving part of said tube, which is finally guided - as in the previous case - up to complete packaging, before the thermoretraction is carried out.
  • the present invention supplies in fact an automatic wrapping machine for packaging products and materials, particularly palletized units, to be wrapped with a thermoretractible tubular film, of the type comprising a casing, at the centre of which the material to be packaged is positioned in order to receive a wrapping of thermoretractible tubular film formed as a bag with bottom at the top, and which is possibly provi­ded with heating means to carry out the thermoretraction of said film after the material has been wrapped therewith, characterized in that it comprises a plurality of movable gripper members, by means of which said bag wrapping is picked up at the side of said casing, is lifted, is open­ed and is transferred into said casing above the material to be packaged - as a prismatic bag - and is then lowered so as to wrap said material, said gripper members consisting of pairs of grippers which grip the fold­ed tubular film on four edges.
  • Said machine preferably comprises, at the side of said casing housing the working section, a section feeding the thermoretractible tu­bular film.
  • the working section comprises a casing formed of four uprights and of two cross members projecting from the casing towards the feeding section, gripper members movable along said cross members, and bars to weld and cut the thermoretractible tubular film, acting between said gripper members and the machine feeding section, while the feeding section comprises a reel of thermoretractible tubular film wound onto a shaft rotatably supported between two end cones suspended by means of flexible elements to the ends of the portion of said cross members pro­ jecting from said casing, a roll to support said reel, and idle guide rollers.
  • said movable gripper members com­prise, in said working section, a carriage with two elements movable horizontally along said cross members with different laws, and each carrying a pair of vertically moving bars equipped with a pair of grip­pers, said pairs of bars drawing close when the carriage moves towards the feeding section, and drawing apart when the carriage moves towards the casing.
  • the wrapping machine comprises (fig. 1) a working section L and a section A feeding the tubular film PT.
  • the working section L comprises a stout metal casing 1 with four uprights 2, at the centre of which the palletized unit UP (fig. 4) - or other material or product, or group of products - to be wrapped with the thermoretractible tubular film PT is positioned for packaging purpo­ses.
  • the four uprights 2 of the casing 1 are connected in twos by means of upper cross members 3, parallel one to the other and strongly projec­ting from the casing 1 towards the section A feeding the thermoretracti­ble film PT.
  • each of the cross members 3 of the casing 1 there is slidably mounted a carriage 4 carrying pairs of vertical bars 5, movable both horizontally - so that their position and reciprocal distance along said cross members depends on the position of the carriage 4 - and verti­cally, said bars being equipped with pairs of grippers 6, one pair at the lower end and the other higher up, designed to grip the section of tubu­lar film PT with which the material being packaged has to be wrapped.
  • the working section L of the machine according to the inven­tion is completed with a pair of bars 7, for cutting and welding the film, and with a ring furnace 8.
  • the feeding section A comprises means for simply suspending a reel B of thermoretractible tubular film PT, consisting of two flexible elements as chains 9 (or possibly ropes or cables) hanging from the free end of each cross member 3 of the casing 1, and of two supporting cones 10 into which are rotatably mounted the ends of the shaft 11 (fig. 18) of the reel B on which the film PT is wound up.
  • the feeding section A also comprises an element, consisting for example of an idle roll 12, to support and guide the reel B, and three idle guide rollers to deviate the unreeled film, of which a movable roller 13 and two fixed and coupled rollers 14, parallel and close to the base of the machine.
  • the carriage 4 consists of two elements 17 and 18, each carrying one of the two pairs of vertical bars 5 of said carriage.
  • the element 18 carries an idle sprocket 19 engaging with a toothing 20 fixed to the casing 1 and with a toothing 21 projecting from the element 17.
  • the piston rod 16A of the cylinder 16 is connected to the element 18 of the carriage 4.
  • the grippers 6 are mounted at the lower ends of the vertical bars 5, and about half way along their length, so as to grip the section of tubular film PT allowing to wrap the palletized unit UP (or other material to be packaged).
  • One of said grippers is shown in detail in figs. 10 to 13. It comprises a pair of jaws 29 reciprocally pivoted, about a vertical axis 30, onto a lever 31 which is in turn pivoted on the bar 5 about a horizontal axis 32.
  • the jaws 29 of the gripper are kept open by a pair of springs 33, while their closing is controlled by a lever 34, fulcrumed horizontally in 35 on the bar 5 and operated by the piston of a fluid pressure cylinder 36, and by a connecting rod 37 which connects the lever 34 to the lever 31.
  • an element 38 is provided to stop the movement of the lever 34.
  • the cutting and welding bars 7 form part of a more complex device shown in detail in figs. 14 to 16.
  • These bars comprise (fig. 14) a pair of longitudinal clamping shoes 39, pressed one towards the other by springs 40 and, fixed to said shoes, two resistor heating elements 41 and a cutting blade 42.
  • the bars 7 are each carried (figs. 15 and 16) by two saddles 43, 44, movable along the cross members 3 under the control of leverages operated by a fluid pressure cylinder 45 and comprising two sets of three levers 46, 47, 48, of which, the end levers 46 are con­trolled by the cylinder 45, the end levers 48 control the saddles 43, 44, while the intermediate levers 47 are pivoted to an end of the casing 1.
  • the ring furnace 8 is of a substantially conventional type, being formed as a large square metal frame, moving vertically inside the casing 1 and housing heating means, preferably in the form of gas flames to direct the heat towards the inside of said frame, and thus towards the palletized unit UP or other material to be packaged, designed to be fully and closely enveloped by said frame.
  • thermoretractible tubular film PT it should be noted that it is most important for the thermoretractible tubular film PT to be unreeled with the least lateral deviation, so as to make sure that the film is wrapped around the product being packaged without exceeding in size, as far as possible, the perimeter of said product.
  • the mounting of the reel by suspension with flexible elements allows to easily and promptly move said reel in the axial sense, as may be required by the unevenness of its winding up, while the lateral shoul­ders of the reel keep the tubular film guided in the wanted position.
  • the tubular film PT emerging - flattened and with inwardly folded sides - from the idle roll 12 supporting the reel B, winds onto the vertically moving roller 13 and onto the two fixed bottom rollers 14.
  • the roller 13 of the feeding section A moves first upward, unrolling said film from the reel B of which it causes the rotation (while, downstream, the film is kept stationary as seen hereinafter), and then downward when the film PT, drawn by the machine, starts moving.
  • the feeding to the working section L of the machine thus takes place without the reel B being dragged into rotation with negative stresses due to inertia.
  • the film is positioned as shown in fig. 1, still substantially flattened and closed at its free end, at the top of the machine, by the transversal welding performed in the previous cycle, while strikers (not shown) act on its lateral folds, below said free end, to hold it in position.
  • the roller 13 is in top position.
  • the cycle starts with the downward movement of the four bars 5 (fig. 1), while the carriages 4 are positioned in correspondence of the portion of the cross members 3 projecting from the casing 1 and said bars 5 are drawn close.
  • the grippers 6 (fig. 1) - with open jaws and spaced from the folded tubular film PT (as shown in figs. 10 and 11) - are operated so as to grip the edges of said film in correspondence of eight points, two for each bar 5.
  • This is obtained (figs. 10 to 13) by downstroke of the piston of the cylinder 36, and by anticlockwise rotation of the lever 34 and - thanks to the connecting rod 37 - of the lever 31; the grippers 6 - with the jaws kept open by the springs 33 - move from the position (figs. 10 and 11) far from the film, to the position (figs. 12 and 13) close to the edges of the film, and in this position the lever 31 stops against the element 38.
  • the lever 34 continues to rotate, controlled by the further downstroke of the piston 36, and thus overcomes the resistance of the springs 33, causing the closing of the jaws 29 of the grippers 6, which hence grip in correspond­ence of eight points (fig. 1) the edges of the thermoretractible tubular film PT, thereby opening it slightly.
  • the bars 5 are then caused to move upward by operating the electric motors 26 (fig. 9) while the carriages 4 are still stationary.
  • the film (fig. 2) moves to the top, while being kept still folded but slightly open at the edges.
  • the roller 13 of the feed­ing section L moves downward to shift forward the film without causing the rotation of the reel B, which remains still.
  • the cylinder 45 causes, through the already described leverage, the mutual approach of the cutting and welding bars 7, until (fig. 3) the shoes 39 clamp the folded tubular film, the heating elements 41 provide for the welding thereof, and the blade 42 provides to cut said film above the welding point.
  • the section of tubular film PT already gripped by the grippers 6, takes up the configuration of a bag - open at the bottom and closed at the top - positioned in the upper part of the machine and apt to wrap the material to be packaged, but still folded (fig. 3).
  • the end of the tubular film coming from the feeding section A is clamped and closed at the top.
  • the aforementioned bag must now be carried over the material to be packaged: this is obtained through a horizontal movement of the carriage 4 caused by operating the fluid pressure cylinders 16 (fig. 8).
  • the elements 17 and 18 of the carriage 4, carrying the bars 5, are moved - as seen - with different laws, so that the two front bars 5 move away from the rear ones causing the opening of the bag formed by the film PT, the opening being completed when said bag is positioned - taking up a prismatic square shape SP - at the centre of the casing 1, above the material UP to be wrapped (fig. 4).
  • the roller 13 of the feeding section is slowly moved upward from the previously reached lowered position. Since the free end of the folded tubular film is still clamped - and thus pre­vented from moving - by the shoes 39 of the welding and cutting bars, the upward movement of the roller 13 allows to unroll new film from the reel B - slowly caused to rotate - so as to form the bag for the successive cycle.
  • the bars 5 are moved downward (fig. 5) by operating the motors 26 in a reversed sense from the previous one (fig. 9); the palletized unit UP is then wrapped with the bag SP formed by the thermoretractible tubular film PT. At the same time, the ring furnace 8 moves down, while the welding and cutting bars 7 (fig. 5) draw apart.
  • the jaws 29 of the grippers 6 are now opened and the bars 5 are again moved upward (fig. 6), thereby releasing the palletized unit UP finally wrapped with the thermoretractible tubular film formed as a pris­matic bag.
  • the ring furnace 8 is turned on, while being in its lowest position, and is then slowly moved upward (fig. 7) at a speed allowing to obtain the desired degree of retraction of the film wrapping the unit UP.
  • the machine ends its working cycle with the return of the carriage 4, and thus of the bars 5, into the initial position in which said bars are drawn close, next to the feeding section A of the machine (fig. 1).
  • the solution adopted in the machi­ne according to the invention prevents this risk because, thanks to the grippers, the top part of the bag takes up a prismatic shape of rectangu­lar or square section SP, and is kept in that shape.
  • the movement of the two elements 17 and 18 of the carriage 4 could be obtained (instead of using the aforedescribed and illustrated toothing and sprocket system) by means of two fluid pressure cylinders, suitably offset in operation, while the cutting system of the bars 7 could have a different configuration.
  • the feeding section A of the machine could be simplified by eliminating the movable guide roller 13.

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EP90106872A 1989-05-02 1990-04-10 Machine d'enveloppement automatique pour emballer des produits, spécialement des unités palettisées, qui doivent être enveloppées avec un film tubulaire thermorétractable Expired - Lifetime EP0395919B1 (fr)

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AT90106872T ATE92419T1 (de) 1989-05-02 1990-04-10 Automatische maschine zum verpacken von gegenstaenden, insbesondere palettenladungen, mit einer heissschrumpfbaren schlauchfolie.

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IT8920343A IT1229317B (it) 1989-05-02 1989-05-02 Macchina incappucciatrice automatica per l'imballaggio di prodotti, in particolare di unita' pallettizzate, con pellicola tubolare termoretraibile.
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EP2377762A1 (fr) * 2010-04-15 2011-10-19 MSK - Verpackungs-Systeme GmbH Dispositif et procédé destinés à l'enveloppement d'une pile de marchandise à l'aide d'une feuille
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WO2012069712A1 (fr) 2010-11-22 2012-05-31 Thimon Procédé et machine d'emballage par robot d'une charge palettisée au moyen d'une housse en matière plastique souple.
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DE69002529T2 (de) 1994-02-17
IT1229317B (it) 1991-08-08
IT8920343A0 (it) 1989-05-02

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