EP0397558B1 - Machine for applying tubular labels to bottles or similar - Google Patents

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EP0397558B1
EP0397558B1 EP90401220A EP90401220A EP0397558B1 EP 0397558 B1 EP0397558 B1 EP 0397558B1 EP 90401220 A EP90401220 A EP 90401220A EP 90401220 A EP90401220 A EP 90401220A EP 0397558 B1 EP0397558 B1 EP 0397558B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
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    • B65C3/06—Affixing labels to short rigid containers
    • B65C3/065—Affixing labels to short rigid containers by placing tubular labels around the container
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  • the invention relates to a machine for applying labeling sleeves to bottles or the like.
  • This machine is characterized in that it comprises a device for discontinuous presentation of the labeling sleeves, a device for the continuous scrolling of the bottles to be labeled, a set for transferring the sleeves from the device for presenting the sleeves and towards the bottles of the bottle scrolling device, this transfer assembly comprising several independent sleeves support carriages, these carriages being movable on an endless guide path, a flexible driving and endless band moving, on guide means, near the path guide, means ensuring the connection of the flexible strip and the carriages, this flexible strip locally having at least one zone which evolves perpendicular to the strip, in the form of a loop, for the momentary stop of the carriages successively in front of the device for discontinuous presentation of sleeves.
  • the carriages each comprise two supports for receiving the sleeves, these supports being movable towards each other on slides and cooperating each with a closed cam path to ensure the approximation and spacing of the supports.
  • the means ensuring the connection of the flexible strip and of each carriage are constituted by a movable cleat in a slide, this cleat and this slide being fixed, one to the carriage, the other to the band.
  • the machine comprises a set for laying the sleeves on the bottles scrolling continuously, this laying set receiving the sleeves of the transfer set and comprising several clamping devices for the sleeves , these devices being associated with means ensuring the translational movement of these clamping devices along a closed line.
  • the present invention therefore aims to achieve a machine which ensures the placement of labeling sleeves on bottles or the like and, in particular, on full bottles, which move continuously on a conveyor.
  • the machine shown in the attached drawings consists of four parts, namely a device 1 successively ensuring the discontinuous presentation of the sleeves, a transfer assembly 2 successively and discontinuously receiving the sleeves of the device 1 and transferring them continuously towards a device 3 which ensures the continuous positioning of the sleeves on the bottles, which run continuously on a device for scrolling the bottles 4.
  • This machine therefore makes it possible to obtain, from a successive and therefore discontinuous supply of sleeves, continuous positioning of these sleeves on bottles which pass on a conveyor.
  • the sleeve presentation device comprises a shaper 5 produced in the form of a cylinder whose cross section corresponds to that of the bottles 6 to be labeled.
  • this cylinder 5 On the periphery of this cylinder 5 are arranged several sets of rollers on which pairs of drive rollers 6 and 7 are applied.
  • the labeling sleeves threaded onto the former 5 are connected to each other by a circular line of perforations and these sleeves are brought between the rollers 51 on the one hand and the pairs of rollers 6 and 7, on the other hand, up to 'a line of perforations is placed between the rollers 6 and 7. At this time, the rollers 6 are immobilized, while the drive of the rollers 7 is maintained. This gives the separation of the sleeves up to their line of perforations.
  • These sleeves are then successively taken over by the transfer assembly 2 which comprises several independent carriages 8 moving via their rollers 9 in endless guide tracks 10 formed on two parallel flanges 11.
  • Each carriage 8 receives two bases 12 which are slidably mounted relative to each other on slides 13 transverse to the direction of movement of the carriage 8.
  • Each base 12 supports a blade 14 whose shape and dimensions correspond substantially to those of half a bottle 6.
  • Each base 12 is also provided with a roller 121 cooperating with a closed cam track 15 provided on each of the flanges 11 comprising the endless guide tracks 10 for the carriages 8.
  • a partition 16 which serves to support a set of sprockets 171 to 177 on which a flexible strip is stretched such as an endless chain 18.
  • This chain 18 is provided with regularly distributed tabs 19 which each come to be housed, by a rolling roller, in a U-shaped profile 20 fixed perpendicularly under each of the carriages 8.
  • the chain 18 is driven in displacement at a uniform speed by a not shown drive member and it drives the carriages 8 at this same uniform speed by means of the cleat 19 and of the profile 20 insofar as the distance between the chain 18 and the guide tracks 10 remains constant.
  • the rollers 176 and 177 the chain 18 moves away from the guide tracks 10, so that when a carriage is driven by the chain 18 between these two pinions 176 and 177 it sees its speed of movement slow down while the roller provided at the end of the cleat 19 moves in the profile 20.
  • the rollers 177 and 171 the speed of movement of the carriages increases .
  • the sprockets 173 and 174 in combination with the roller 175, give the chain 18 the form of a loop 181 at the height of which the chain evolves locally in a direction XX which is perpendicular to the path endless cam 10.
  • the rollers 7 have separated and driven one of the sleeves in order to place it on the blades 13 and 14 of this carriage.
  • the blades 13 and 14 are brought closer to each other by cooperation of the rollers 121 with the closed cam tracks 15.
  • This installation device 3 consists of a drum essentially comprising two circular parallel flanges 22 carrying at their periphery clamping devices for sleeves 23 axially movable and arranged opposite one another.
  • Each clamping device comprises a fixed part 24 placed opposite a movable part 25 driven in displacement by a motor member 26 constituted, for example, by an electromagnet with a plunger core.
  • Each clamping device is provided (see FIG. 3) with an arm 27 pivoting on an axis 273 and which has at its free end tabs 271 and 272 which are housed one, 271, in a circular groove 231 of the clamp corresponding 23 and the other, 27 l'autre, in a circular cam groove 281 formed at the periphery of a fixed ring 28.
  • This arrangement therefore makes it possible to bring the pinching devices 23 closer or further apart so as to to tighten or, on the contrary, to release the sleeve tight between the parts 24 and 25 of the clamps.
  • this device for fitting the sleeves 3 comprises means which ensure the translational movement of the clamping devices 23 during the rotation of the drum 22.
  • the clamps 24, 25 and the sleeves which they support, are thus moved parallel to themselves on a circular path, that is to say parallel to the axis of the bottles 6 which must receive these sleeves.
  • the transmission ratios of these pulley and belt assemblies are determined so that, for a given angular displacement of the flanges 22 of the drum, an identical angular displacement of the clamping devices 23 of the two flanges 22 is obtained, so that these are driven in a circular translational movement, parallel to the axis of the bottles 6.
  • the clamping devices 23 are separated from one another to allow their passage over a bottle and the establishment of a sleeve.
  • the motor member 26 is actuated in order to separate the parts 24 and 25 of the clamps, while the downward movement of the clamping members 23 continues due to the rotation of the flanges 22.
  • the fixed parts 24 of the clamps slide then on the lower part of the sleeves 21 which are themselves held on the bottles by simple friction.
  • the clamping devices are separated from each other, while they go up along a bottle to finally separate from it.
  • the clamping devices are brought together again while the moving parts 25 are moved away from the fixed parts 24 so as to continuously receive the sleeves which arise and which are each supported by a carriage 8.
  • the machine includes a device 3 for fitting the sleeves between the transfer assembly 2 for the sleeves and the device 4 for scrolling the bottles.
  • the device 3 can be omitted and in this case, the device 2 will ensure the direct transfer of the sleeve to the bottles 6.
  • the chain 18 will be driven at a uniform speed corresponding to the running speed of the bottles.
  • the underside of the device 2 will be of a suitable shape and structure so as to carry out the displacement by translation of the carriages during the removal of the sleeves on the bottles.

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Machine characterised in that it comprises a device (1) for discontinuous presentation of the label sleeves, a device (4) for the continuous moving-past of the bottles to be labelled, an assembly (2) for transferring the sleeves comprising several independent carriages which are movable over an endless guiding track (10), a driven and endless flexible band (18) rotating over guiding means (171, 177) in the vicinity of the guiding track (10), means (18, 19, 20) providing the linkage of the flexible band and the carriages, this flexible band (18) having locally at least one zone (181) which moves perpendicular to the band, in the form of a loop, for the instantaneous stopping of the carriages so that they can receive a sleeve from the device (1). The machine may optionally comprise an assembly (3) which receives the sleeves from the transfer assembly (2) and, by the agency of gripping devices (23), places these sleeves over the bottles. <IMAGE>

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L'invention concerne une machine pour la pose de manchons d'étiquetage sur des bouteilles ou similaires.The invention relates to a machine for applying labeling sleeves to bottles or the like.

Cette machine est caractérisée en ce qu'elle comprend un dispositif de présentation discontinue des manchons d'étiquetage, un dispositif pour le défilement continu des bouteilles à étiqueter, un ensemble de transfert des manchons depuis le dispositif de présentation des manchons et vers les bouteilles du dispositif de défilement des bouteilles, cet ensemble de transfert comportant plusieurs chariots indépendants de support de manchons, ces chariots étant mobiles sur un chemin de guidage sans fin, une bande souple motrice et sans fin évoluant, sur des moyens de guidage, à proximité du chemin de guidage, des moyens assurant la liaison de la bande souple et des chariots, cette bande souple présentant localement au moins une zone qui évolue perpendiculairement à la bande, sous la forme d'une boucle, pour l'arrêt momentané des chariots successivement devant le dispositif de présentation discontinue des manchons.This machine is characterized in that it comprises a device for discontinuous presentation of the labeling sleeves, a device for the continuous scrolling of the bottles to be labeled, a set for transferring the sleeves from the device for presenting the sleeves and towards the bottles of the bottle scrolling device, this transfer assembly comprising several independent sleeves support carriages, these carriages being movable on an endless guide path, a flexible driving and endless band moving, on guide means, near the path guide, means ensuring the connection of the flexible strip and the carriages, this flexible strip locally having at least one zone which evolves perpendicular to the strip, in the form of a loop, for the momentary stop of the carriages successively in front of the device for discontinuous presentation of sleeves.

Suivant une forme de réalisation preferée de l'invention, les chariots comportent chacun deux supports de réception des manchons, ces supports étant mobiles l'un vers l'autre sur des glissières et coopérant chacun avec un chemin de came fermé pour assurer le rapprochement et l'écartement des supports.According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, the carriages each comprise two supports for receiving the sleeves, these supports being movable towards each other on slides and cooperating each with a closed cam path to ensure the approximation and spacing of the supports.

Suivant une autre forme de réalisation preferée de l'invention, les moyens assurant la liaison de la bande souple et de chaque chariot sont constitués par un taquet mobile dans une glissière, ce taquet et cette glissière étant fixés, l'un au chariot, l'autre à la bande.According to another preferred embodiment of the invention, the means ensuring the connection of the flexible strip and of each carriage are constituted by a movable cleat in a slide, this cleat and this slide being fixed, one to the carriage, the other to the band.

Suivant une autre forme de réalisation preferée de l'invention, la machine comporte un ensemble de pose des manchons sur les bouteilles défilant en continu, cet ensemble de pose recevant les manchons de l'ensemble de transfert et comportant plusieurs dispositifs de pinçage pour les manchons, ces dispositifs étant associés à des moyens assurant le déplacement en translation de ces dispositifs de pinçage suivant une ligne fermée.According to another preferred embodiment of the invention, the machine comprises a set for laying the sleeves on the bottles scrolling continuously, this laying set receiving the sleeves of the transfer set and comprising several clamping devices for the sleeves , these devices being associated with means ensuring the translational movement of these clamping devices along a closed line.

L'invention est représentée à titre d'exemple non limitatif sur les dessins ci-joints dans lesquels :

  • la figure 1 est une vue en bout partiellement coupée d'une machine conforme à l'invention,
  • la figure 2 est une vue de gauche partiellement coupée de la figure 1,
  • la figure 3 est une vue partielle du tambour des machines des figures 1 et 2.
The invention is shown by way of nonlimiting example in the accompanying drawings in which:
  • FIG. 1 is a partially cut end view of a machine according to the invention,
  • FIG. 2 is a partially cut left view of FIG. 1,
  • FIG. 3 is a partial view of the drum of the machines of FIGS. 1 and 2.

La présente invention a en conséquence pour but la réalisation d'une machine qui assure la pose des manchons d'étiquetage sur des bouteilles ou similaires et, notamment, sur des bouteilles pleines, qui se déplacent en continu sur un transporteur.The present invention therefore aims to achieve a machine which ensures the placement of labeling sleeves on bottles or the like and, in particular, on full bottles, which move continuously on a conveyor.

L'étiquetage de ces bouteilles doit en effet être effectué au cours de leur déplacement car il est impensable d'obtenir des cadences d'étiquetage importantes si l'on doit immobiliser successivement les bouteilles pour les étiqueter puis les faire redémarrer.The labeling of these bottles must indeed be carried out during their movement because it is unthinkable to obtain high labeling rates if one must successively immobilize the bottles to label them and then restart them.

De tels arrêts et redémarrages brutaux ne sont en effet pas envisageables sur des bouteilles pleines, compte tenu de leur poids.Such sudden stops and restarts cannot be envisaged on full bottles, given their weight.

La machine représentée sur les dessins ci-joints se compose de quatre parties, à savoir un dispositif 1 assurant successivement la présentation discontinue des manchons, un ensemble de transfert 2 recevant successivement et de manière discontinue les manchons du dispositif 1 et les transférant de manière continue vers un dispositif 3 qui assure la mise en place en continu des manchons sur les bouteilles, lesquelles défilent de manière continue sur un dispositif de défilement des bouteilles 4.The machine shown in the attached drawings consists of four parts, namely a device 1 successively ensuring the discontinuous presentation of the sleeves, a transfer assembly 2 successively and discontinuously receiving the sleeves of the device 1 and transferring them continuously towards a device 3 which ensures the continuous positioning of the sleeves on the bottles, which run continuously on a device for scrolling the bottles 4.

Cette machine permet donc d'obtenir à partir d'une alimentation successive et donc discontinue de manchons, une mise en place continue de ces manchons sur des bouteilles qui défilent sur un transporteur.This machine therefore makes it possible to obtain, from a successive and therefore discontinuous supply of sleeves, continuous positioning of these sleeves on bottles which pass on a conveyor.

Le dispositif de présentation de manchons comprend un conformateur 5 réalisé sous la forme d'un cylindre dont la section transversale correspond à celle des bouteilles 6 à étiqueter.The sleeve presentation device comprises a shaper 5 produced in the form of a cylinder whose cross section corresponds to that of the bottles 6 to be labeled.

Sur la périphérie de ce cylindre 5 sont disposés plusieurs jeux de rouleaux sur lesquels viennent s'appliquer des paires de galets moteurs 6 et 7.On the periphery of this cylinder 5 are arranged several sets of rollers on which pairs of drive rollers 6 and 7 are applied.

Les manchons d'étiquetage enfilés sur le conformateur 5 sont reliés les uns aux autres par une ligne de perforations circulaire et ces manchons sont amenés entre les galets 5₁ d'une part et les paires de galets 6 et 7, d'autre part, jusqu'à ce qu'une ligne de perforations soit placée entre les rouleaux 6 et 7. A ce moment, les galets 6 sont immobilisés, alors que l'entraînement des galets 7 est maintenue. On obtient ainsi la séparation des manchons à hauteur de leur ligne de perforations. Ces manchons sont alors pris successivement en charge par l'ensemble de transfert 2 qui comprend plusieurs chariots indépendants 8 se déplaçant par l'intermédiaire de leurs galets de roulement 9 dans des chemins de guidage sans fin 10 formés sur deux flasques parallèles 11.The labeling sleeves threaded onto the former 5 are connected to each other by a circular line of perforations and these sleeves are brought between the rollers 5₁ on the one hand and the pairs of rollers 6 and 7, on the other hand, up to 'a line of perforations is placed between the rollers 6 and 7. At this time, the rollers 6 are immobilized, while the drive of the rollers 7 is maintained. This gives the separation of the sleeves up to their line of perforations. These sleeves are then successively taken over by the transfer assembly 2 which comprises several independent carriages 8 moving via their rollers 9 in endless guide tracks 10 formed on two parallel flanges 11.

Chaque chariot 8 reçoit deux embases 12 qui sont montées à coulissement l'une par rapport à l'autre sur des glissières 13 transversales au sens de déplacement du chariot 8. Chaque embase 12 supporte une lame 14 dont la forme et les dimensions correspondent sensiblement à celles de la moitié d'une bouteille 6. Chaque embase 12 est également pourvue d'un galet 12₁ coopérant avec un chemin de came fermé 15 prévu sur chacun des flasques 11 comportant les chemins de guidage sans fin 10 pour les chariots 8.Each carriage 8 receives two bases 12 which are slidably mounted relative to each other on slides 13 transverse to the direction of movement of the carriage 8. Each base 12 supports a blade 14 whose shape and dimensions correspond substantially to those of half a bottle 6. Each base 12 is also provided with a roller 12₁ cooperating with a closed cam track 15 provided on each of the flanges 11 comprising the endless guide tracks 10 for the carriages 8.

Dans le plan médian des flasques 11, il est prévu une cloison 16 qui sert de support à un ensemble de pignons 17₁ à 17₇ sur lesquels est tendue une bande souple telle qu'une chaîne sans fin 18.In the median plane of the flanges 11, a partition 16 is provided which serves to support a set of sprockets 17₁ to 17₇ on which a flexible strip is stretched such as an endless chain 18.

Cette chaîne 18 est pourvue de taquets régulièrement répartis 19 qui viennent chacun se loger, par un galet de roulement, dans un profilé en U 20 fixé perpendiculairement sous chacun des chariots 8.This chain 18 is provided with regularly distributed tabs 19 which each come to be housed, by a rolling roller, in a U-shaped profile 20 fixed perpendicularly under each of the carriages 8.

Le fonctionnement de ce dispositif de transfert est le suivant.The operation of this transfer device is as follows.

La chaîne 18 est entraînée en déplacement à une vitesse uniforme par un organe moteur non représenté et elle entraîne les chariots 8 à cette même vitesse uniforme par l'intermédiaire du taquet 19 et du profilé 20 dans la mesure où la distance entre la chaîne 18 et les chemins de guidage 10 reste constante. Par contre, entre les galets 17₆ et 17₇ la chaîne 18 s'éloigne des chemins de guidage 10, si bien que lorsqu'un chariot se trouve entraîné par la chaîne 18 entre ces deux pignons 17₆ et 17₇ il voit sa vitesse de déplacement ralentir tandis que le galet prévu à l'extrémité du taquet 19 se déplace dans le profilé 20. Au contraire, entre les galets 17₇ et 17₁, la vitesse de déplacement des chariots augmente.The chain 18 is driven in displacement at a uniform speed by a not shown drive member and it drives the carriages 8 at this same uniform speed by means of the cleat 19 and of the profile 20 insofar as the distance between the chain 18 and the guide tracks 10 remains constant. On the other hand, between the rollers 17₆ and 17₇ the chain 18 moves away from the guide tracks 10, so that when a carriage is driven by the chain 18 between these two pinions 17₆ and 17₇ it sees its speed of movement slow down while the roller provided at the end of the cleat 19 moves in the profile 20. On the contrary, between the rollers 17₇ and 17₁, the speed of movement of the carriages increases .

Comme on le remarque sur la figure 2, les pignons 17₃ et 17₄ en combinaison avec le galet 17₅, donnent à la chaîne 18 la forme d'une boucle 18₁ à hauteur de laquelle la chaîne évolue localement dans une direction X-X qui est perpendiculaire au chemin de came sans fin 10.As can be seen in FIG. 2, the sprockets 17₃ and 17₄ in combination with the roller 17₅, give the chain 18 the form of a loop 18₁ at the height of which the chain evolves locally in a direction XX which is perpendicular to the path endless cam 10.

Ainsi, lorsqu'un chariot 8 est amené verticalement en-dessous le dispositif de présentation 1, par la chaîne 18, le taquet 19 d'entraînement de ce chariot se déplace dans la glissière correspondante 20, tout en maintenant immobile le chariot. Le galet de ce taquet quitte ensuite le profilé 20 pendant tout le temps où il parcourt la boucle 18₁ autour du pignon 17₅ puis est introduit à nouveau dans ce profilé 20 pour provoquer le redémarrage du chariot 8.Thus, when a carriage 8 is brought vertically below the presentation device 1, by the chain 18, the cleat 19 for driving this carriage moves in the corresponding slide 20, while keeping the carriage stationary. The roller of this cleat then leaves the profile 20 during the whole time when it travels through the loop 18₁ around the pinion 17₅ then is again introduced into this profile 20 to cause the restart of the carriage 8.

Pendant tout ce temps d'immobilisation du chariot, les galets 7 ont séparé et entraîné l'un des manchons afin de le placer sur les lames 13 et 14 de ce chariot. A ce stade, les lames 13 et 14 sont rapprochées l'une de l'autre par coopération des galets 12₁ avec les chemins de came fermés 15.During this immobilization time of the carriage, the rollers 7 have separated and driven one of the sleeves in order to place it on the blades 13 and 14 of this carriage. At this stage, the blades 13 and 14 are brought closer to each other by cooperation of the rollers 12₁ with the closed cam tracks 15.

Lorsque ce chariot pourvu d'un manchon est entraîné à nouveau en déplacement par la chaîne 18, les chemins de came 15 provoquent l'écartement des lames 13 et 14 pour tendre le manchon 21 puis lorsque ce chariot arrive au-dessus du dispositif de pose de manchons 3, les lames 14 se rapprochent à nouveau l'une de l'autre afin de permettre le transfert en continu de ces manchons vers le dispositif de pose 3.When this carriage provided with a sleeve is again driven in displacement by the chain 18, the cam tracks 15 cause the blades 13 and 14 to spread apart in order to tension the sleeve 21 and then when this carriage arrives above the laying device sleeves 3, the blades 14 again approach one another in order to allow the continuous transfer of these sleeves to the fitting device 3.

Ce dispositif de pose 3 se compose d'un tambour comprenant essentiellement deux flasques parallèles circulaires 22 portant à leur périphérie des dispositifs de pinçage de manchons 23 mobiles axialement et disposés en regard l'un de l'autre. Chaque dispositif de pinçage comprend une partie fixe 24 placée en regard d'une partie mobile 25 entraînée en déplacement par un organe moteur 26 constitué, par exemple, par un électro-aimant à noyau plongeur. Chaque dispositif de pinçage est pourvu (voir figure 3) d'un bras 27 pivotant sur un axe 27₃ et qui comporte à son extrémité libre des taquets 27₁ et 27₂ venant se loger l'un, 27₁, dans une rainure circulaire 23₁ de la pince correspondante 23 et l'autre, 27₂, dans une rainure circulaire de came 28₁ formée à la périphérie d'une couronne fixe 28. Cette disposition permet donc de rapprocher ou d'écarter l'un de l'autre les dispositifs de pinçage 23 afin de tendre ou, au contraire, de relâcher le manchon serré entre les parties 24 et 25 des pinces.This installation device 3 consists of a drum essentially comprising two circular parallel flanges 22 carrying at their periphery clamping devices for sleeves 23 axially movable and arranged opposite one another. Each clamping device comprises a fixed part 24 placed opposite a movable part 25 driven in displacement by a motor member 26 constituted, for example, by an electromagnet with a plunger core. Each clamping device is provided (see FIG. 3) with an arm 27 pivoting on an axis 27₃ and which has at its free end tabs 27₁ and 27₂ which are housed one, 27₁, in a circular groove 23₁ of the clamp corresponding 23 and the other, 27 l'autre, in a circular cam groove 28₁ formed at the periphery of a fixed ring 28. This arrangement therefore makes it possible to bring the pinching devices 23 closer or further apart so as to to tighten or, on the contrary, to release the sleeve tight between the parts 24 and 25 of the clamps.

Egalement, ce dispositif de pose 3 des manchons comporte des moyens qui assurent le déplacement en translation des dispositifs de pinçage 23 au cours de la rotation du tambour 22. Les pinces 24, 25 et les manchons qu'elles supportent, sont ainsi déplacés parallèlement à eux-mêmes sur une trajectoire circulaire, c'est-à-dire parallèlement à l'axe des bouteilles 6 qui doivent recevoir ces manchons.Also, this device for fitting the sleeves 3 comprises means which ensure the translational movement of the clamping devices 23 during the rotation of the drum 22. The clamps 24, 25 and the sleeves which they support, are thus moved parallel to themselves on a circular path, that is to say parallel to the axis of the bottles 6 which must receive these sleeves.

Ces moyens sont constitués (voir figure 3) par une courroie sans fin 29 qui passe sur des poulies 30 prévues sur chacun des dispositifs de pinçage 23 ainsi que sur des poulies de renvoi 31. Cette courroie 29 passe également sur une poulie 32 sur l'axe de laquelle est montée une seconde poulie 33 (voir figure 3).These means are constituted (see FIG. 3) by an endless belt 29 which passes over pulleys 30 provided on each of the clamping devices 23 as well as over return pulleys 31. This belt 29 also passes over a pulley 32 over the axis of which is mounted a second pulley 33 (see Figure 3).

Sur cette seconde poulie 33 est tendue, par une poulie 34, une courroie 35 qui passe également sur une poulie 36 fixe en rotation sur l'arbre 22₁ supportant les flasques 22 du tambour.On this second pulley 33 is tensioned, by a pulley 34, a belt 35 which also passes over a pulley 36 fixed in rotation on the shaft 22₁ supporting the flanges 22 of the drum.

Les rapports de transmission de ces ensembles à poulies et courroies sont déterminés de façon que, pour un déplacement angulaire donné des flasques 22 du tambour, on obtienne un déplacement angulaire identique de l'ensemble des dispositifs de pinçage 23 des deux flasques 22, de façon que ceux-ci soient entraînés suivant un mouvement circulaire de translation, parallèlement à l'axe des bouteilles 6.The transmission ratios of these pulley and belt assemblies are determined so that, for a given angular displacement of the flanges 22 of the drum, an identical angular displacement of the clamping devices 23 of the two flanges 22 is obtained, so that these are driven in a circular translational movement, parallel to the axis of the bottles 6.

Ainsi, en entraînant les flasques 22 du tambour à une vitesse périphérique correspondant à la vitesse de défilement des bouteilles 6 sur le dispositif de défilement 4 et en synchronisant l'arrivée des bouteilles, par une vis 4₁, avec la descente des dispositifs de pinçage 23, on obtient la mise en place automatique et en continu des manchons 21 supportés par les dispositifs de pinçage 23 sur les bouteilles qui se présentent sans que ces bouteilles soient ralenties dans leur mouvement.Thus, by driving the flanges 22 of the drum at a peripheral speed corresponding to the speed of movement of the bottles 6 on the scrolling device 4 and by synchronizing the arrival of the bottles, by a screw 4₁, with the descent of the clamping devices 23 , one obtains the automatic and continuous positioning of the sleeves 21 supported by the clamping devices 23 on the bottles which are present without these bottles being slowed down in their movement.

Bien entendu, au cours de cette opération de pose des manchons sur les bouteilles, les dispositifs de pinçage 23 sont manoeuvrés à partir des chemins de came 27 pour produire leur écartement ou rapprochement.Of course, during this operation of fitting the sleeves to the bottles, the clamping devices 23 are maneuvered from the cam tracks 27 to produce their spacing or approximation.

Ainsi, en 23₁ et 23₂, les dispositifs de pinçage 23 sont écartés l'un de l'autre pour permettre leur passage sur une bouteille et la mise en place d'un manchon. En 23₃ l'organe moteur 26 est actionné afin d'écarter les parties 24 et 25 des pinces, tandis que le mouvement de descente des organes de pinçage 23 se poursuit du fait de la rotation des flasques 22. Les parties fixes 24 des pinces glissent alors sur la partie inférieure des manchons 21 qui sont eux-mêmes maintenus sur les bouteilles par simple friction. En 23₄ les dispositifs de pinçage sont écartés l'un de l'autre, tandis qu'ils remontent le long d'une bouteille pour finalement s'en séparer. En 23₅ les dispositifs de pinçage sont à nouveau rapprochés tandis que les parties mobiles 25 sont écartées des parties fixes 24 afin de recevoir de manière continue les manchons qui se présentent et qui sont supportés chacun par un chariot 8.Thus, at 23₁ and 23₂, the clamping devices 23 are separated from one another to allow their passage over a bottle and the establishment of a sleeve. At 23₃ the motor member 26 is actuated in order to separate the parts 24 and 25 of the clamps, while the downward movement of the clamping members 23 continues due to the rotation of the flanges 22. The fixed parts 24 of the clamps slide then on the lower part of the sleeves 21 which are themselves held on the bottles by simple friction. In 23₄ the clamping devices are separated from each other, while they go up along a bottle to finally separate from it. At 23₅, the clamping devices are brought together again while the moving parts 25 are moved away from the fixed parts 24 so as to continuously receive the sleeves which arise and which are each supported by a carriage 8.

Dans l'exemple représenté et pour des raisons de commodité sur le plan dimensionnel, la machine comporte un dispositif 3 de mise en place des manchons entre l'ensemble de transfert 2 pour les manchons et le dispositif 4 de défilement des bouteilles. Cependant, suivant un autre mode de réalisation, le dispositif 3 pourra être supprimé et dans ce cas, le dispositif 2 assurera le transfert direct du manchon sur les bouteilles 6. La chaîne 18 sera entraînée à une vitesse uniforme correspondant à la vitesse de défilement des bouteilles. Egalement, la face inférieure du dispositif 2 sera d'une forme et d'une structure adaptées de façon à réaliser le déplacement par translation des chariots pendant la dépose des manchons sur les bouteilles.In the example shown and for reasons of dimensional convenience, the machine includes a device 3 for fitting the sleeves between the transfer assembly 2 for the sleeves and the device 4 for scrolling the bottles. However, according to another embodiment, the device 3 can be omitted and in this case, the device 2 will ensure the direct transfer of the sleeve to the bottles 6. The chain 18 will be driven at a uniform speed corresponding to the running speed of the bottles. Also, the underside of the device 2 will be of a suitable shape and structure so as to carry out the displacement by translation of the carriages during the removal of the sleeves on the bottles.

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  1. Machine for fitting labelling sleeves over bottles or the like, characterized in that it comprises a device (1) for discontinuously offering up labelling sleeves, a device (4) for continuously filing the bottles to be labelled past, an assembly (2) for transferring the labels from the device (1) for offering up the sleeves and towards the bottles of the device (4) for filing the bottles past, this transfer assembly including several independent sleeve-support carriages (8), these carriages being movable on an endless guide path (10), a motorized and endless flexible belt (18) progressing, over guide means (17₁, 17₇), in proximity to the guide path (10), means (18, 19, 20) providing the connection of the flexible belt and of the carriages, this flexible belt (18) locally exhibiting at least one zone (18₁) which progresses perpendicularly to the belt, in the form of a loop, for momentarily halting the carriages (8) in succession in front of the device (1) for discontinuously offering up the sleeves.
  2. Machine in accordance with Claim 1, characterized in that the carriages (8) each include two supports (14) for receiving the sleeves, these supports being movable towards one another over slideways (13) and each interacting with a closed cam path (15) in order to bring the supports together and move them apart.
  3. Machine in accordance with Claim 1, characterized in that the means providing the connection of the flexible belt (18) and of each carriage (8) are made up of a driver (19) which can move in a slideway (20), this driver and this slideway being fixed, one to the carriage (8), the other to the belt (18).
  4. Machine in accordance with Claim 1, characterized in that it includes a device (3) for fitting the sleeves onto the bottles filing past continuously, this fitting assembly receiving the sleeves from the transfer assembly (2) and including several gripping devices (23) for the sleeves, these devices being associated with means (29, 30, 32, 35, 36) ensuring the translational displacement of these gripping devices in a closed line.
  5. Machine in accordance with Claim 4, characterized in that the device ensuring the translational displacement of the gripping devices (23) comprises a drum rotatably mounted and composed of two end flanges (22) including, at their periphery, the gripping devices (23) for the sleeves, these gripping devices (23) being provided with pulleys or the like over which there passes a belt (29) which is also connected to a fixed pulley (36) coaxial with the axis of the drum.
  6. Machine in accordance with Claim 4, characterized in that each end flange (22) of the drum is associated with a fixed annulus (28) provided, at its periphery, with a circular cam groove (28₁), drivers (27₁, 27₂) connected to the gripper devices becoming housed in these cam paths in order to move the gripper devices apart or bring them together.
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