EP0438764B1 - Zigarettenverpackungsmaschine - Google Patents

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EP0438764B1
EP0438764B1 EP90125184A EP90125184A EP0438764B1 EP 0438764 B1 EP0438764 B1 EP 0438764B1 EP 90125184 A EP90125184 A EP 90125184A EP 90125184 A EP90125184 A EP 90125184A EP 0438764 B1 EP0438764 B1 EP 0438764B1
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Manfred Oberdorf
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B19/00—Packaging rod-shaped or tubular articles susceptible to damage by abrasion or pressure, e.g. cigarettes, cigars, macaroni, spaghetti, drinking straws or welding electrodes
    • B65B19/02—Packaging cigarettes
    • B65B19/22—Wrapping the cigarettes; Packaging the cigarettes in containers formed by folding wrapping material around formers
    • B65B19/24—Wrapping the cigarettes; Packaging the cigarettes in containers formed by folding wrapping material around formers using hollow mandrels through which groups of cigarettes are fed
    • B65B19/245—Wrapping the cigarettes; Packaging the cigarettes in containers formed by folding wrapping material around formers using hollow mandrels through which groups of cigarettes are fed carried by continuously driven endless conveyors

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  • the invention relates to a cigarette packaging machine with at least two conveyors continuously rotating about an axis, having cells open in the axial direction, axially offset from one another, in particular at least partially designed as a cell turret, and on one side of an associated conveyor with a slide revolver continuously rotating with the associated conveyor , which has a plurality of slider devices each comprising an axially movable slider, which are arranged in accordance with the cell division of the associated conveyor such that the slides are at least substantially aligned with the cells of the conveyor in a transfer area extending over a circular arc section, and on which Slide turret facing away from the associated conveyor with a pick-up turret continuously rotating with the associated conveyor, each having an axially movable pick-up n Collection devices in a division corresponding to that of the cells of the conveyor.
  • a cigarette packaging machine of this type in which cigarette blocks are conveyed by means of a chain conveyor having cells, which, over part of its way, rotates with its cells in alignment with cells of a folding turret.
  • a chain conveyor having cells, which, over part of its way, rotates with its cells in alignment with cells of a folding turret.
  • packages that are still open at the top are folded.
  • Adjacent to the folding turret is a smaller diameter turret with turrets, which dispenses the packs radially into a turret.
  • a pusher and a pick-up turret are arranged coaxially with the folding turret adjacent to the chain conveyor on one side and adjacent to the take-off turret on the other side, the slide and pick-up turrets having the same diameter as the folding turret.
  • the individual sponsors circulate continuously.
  • the cigarette blocks are removed from the respective cell of the chain conveyor by means of the pusher, taking the cell of the folding turret in alignment with them the folded package, which is held on the closed end face by a collector, is pushed into an equally aligned cell in the turret.
  • the direction of rotation of these conveyors is in the same direction.
  • this arrangement is not suitable for pushing objects from a turret into a subsequent conveyor rotating in the opposite direction to the turret.
  • a cigarette packaging machine in which, for the various operations to be carried out, axially offset, step-by-step and counter-rotating revolvers are provided, each overlapping slightly in a circular arc section such that the cells facing one another two adjacent revolvers are aligned with one another so that the respective objects can be handed over by means of a slide and possibly a pickup.
  • stepping drive especially at high packaging speeds, large moments of inertia that have to be overcome in each step occur and impair the maximum achievable packaging speed.
  • the object of the invention is to provide a cigarette packaging machine of the type mentioned at the outset, which makes it possible to operate counter-rotating conveyors, which only slightly overlap only in a circular arc section, at increased speed.
  • the radius of the pusher turret and / or the pick-up turret is so far smaller than that of the associated conveyor and the axis of the pusher turret or pick-up turret is offset so far from the axis of the associated conveyor that the cells on the opposite side of the transfer area are accessible from at least one side and the circles described by the centers of the cells of the conveyor and the centers of the pushers or collectors essentially overlap in the transfer area over an angular section sufficient for transfer during a predetermined time for the transfer process, so that the movements are practically synchronized in the transfer area.
  • Fig. 1 shows schematically a cigarette packaging machine.
  • FIG. 2 shows a section and the section of the cigarette packaging machine from FIG. 1.
  • FIG. 3 shows a cut-out and schematic of the transfer between the enveloping and head-closing revolvers of the machine from FIG. 1.
  • Fig. 4 shows a slide arrangement for the machine of Fig. 1 in side view.
  • FIG. 5 shows a front view as well as sections and schematically of the head-closing turret of the machine from FIG. 1.
  • FIG. 6 shows a section of a section through the head-closing turret from FIG. 5.
  • the cigarette packaging machine shown schematically in FIG. 1 comprises a cigarette hopper 1 with three outlets for one row of cigarettes each, which are successively inserted into cells 2 of a cell conveyor 3 for forming cigarette blocks to be packed.
  • the cigarette blocks are successively pushed into cells 4 of a transfer turret 5 by the cell conveyor, which moves one cell division at a time and which also rotates step by step at a cell division.
  • the cigarette blocks are transferred from the transfer turret 5 to a continuously revolving enveloping turret 6, which is provided with a multiplicity of cells 7, which are open in the axial direction and are equidistant and are arranged with their narrow sides perpendicular to the corresponding radial direction.
  • the transfer of the cigarette blocks from the gradually rotating cells 4 into the continuously rotating cells 7 takes place, for example, in that a transfer turret 5 is used which has cells 4 which are in the transfer area for a time long enough for the cigarette blocks to be pushed in alignment with the respective one the cigarette block receiving cell 7 of the enveloping revolver 6 are held.
  • the enveloping revolver 6 is seated on a continuously rotating shaft 14, which on the end carries a gear wheel 15 which is in engagement with a pinion 16 which is arranged on an axis 17 which is connected to a stationary machine part 18 connected is.
  • a pinion 19 which is connected in a rotationally fixed manner to the pinion 16 and which meshes with a gear wheel 20 which in turn is connected to a shaft 21 which is mounted in the fixed machine part 18 and carries a slide turret 22.
  • the slide turret 22 is provided on its circumference with a plurality of slide arrangements 23, the division of the slide arrangements 23 corresponding to the division of the cells 7.
  • the radius of the revolving turret 22 is smaller than that of the enveloping revolver 6, so that the number of slider assemblies 23 is smaller than the number of cells 7 (for example, the enveloping revolver 6 has a total of 24 cells 7 and the slider revolver 22 has a total of 21 slider arrangements 23), and the shafts 14 and 21 are offset such that there is enough space on the side facing the transfer turret 5 for a slide 24 for pushing a cigarette block 25 out of a cell 4 into a cell 7 of the enveloping turret 6.
  • the radii of the enveloping and slide revolvers 6 and 22 are sufficiently large so that in the transfer area to the head-closing revolver 9 there is a sufficiently long synchronism of a slide arrangement 23 with a cell 7, which pushes a packet that is still open on the head side into a cell 8 of the turret 9, cf. Fig. 3, in which the orbits of the centers of the cells 7 are dash-dotted and the orbits of the centers of the slider 27 are shown in dashed lines, so that there is an essentially aligned synchronization over an angle of approximately 30 °.
  • the number of teeth of the gears 15, 20 and the pinion 16, 19 are chosen accordingly.
  • Each slide arrangement 23 comprises a slide 27 which is axially movable within a guide 26.
  • the guide 25 is formed in the exemplary embodiment shown by eight guide rollers 28, of which in each case two guide rollers 28 arranged at an axial distance from one another on a lateral inclined surface 29 in the form of an elongated one Attack hexagon trained slide 27.
  • the guide rollers 28 are from associated, on Slider turret 22 attached roller carriers 30 worn.
  • Each slide 27 is articulated via a coupling 31 to an actuating lever 32 which is fastened on a shaft 34 which is mounted in a bearing block 33 arranged in a revolver-resistant manner and which also carries a lever 35 which at its free end engages with a fixed curve 36 Role 37 carries.
  • the axial movement of the slide 27 is controlled such that it in the transfer area between the transfer and head-closing revolvers 6 and 9 during the synchronous movement there between the respective cell 7 and a slide arrangement 23, the pushing of the parcel in a cell 8 of the turret 9 and the retraction of the slide 27 from the cell 7 can take place.
  • a pick-up turret 38 which carries a number of pick-up devices 39 corresponding to the number of cells 7 and in alignment with them.
  • the pick-up revolver 39 is fastened on the shaft 14 and rotates with the enveloping revolver 6.
  • Each pick-up device 39 comprises a guide 40 for a pick-up 41, which can be designed like the guide 26.
  • the respective axially displaceable pick-up 41 is controlled in a manner corresponding to the respective slide 27 located in the transfer area by means of a fixed curve 42 such that from the moment the pushing begins to be pushed by the respective slide 27 against the pick-up 41 on the bottom of the packet to be pushed over until the end of the pushing over .
  • the movement transmission from the curve 42 to the pick-up 41 takes place analogously to that in the slide 27 in the exemplary embodiment shown.
  • the transfer to a continuously rotating revolver arranged on a shaft 43 for example a head-closing revolver 9
  • its cells 8 in the transfer area must be aligned with the respective cell 7 of the enveloping revolver 6 for a sufficient length of time.
  • the cells 8 of the head-closing turret 9, which are open in the axial direction and axially offset from the enveloping turret 6, are pivotably mounted in cell carriers 44.
  • the cell carriers 44 are radially movable via two pins 46 guided in radial guides 45, the cell carrier 44 also carrying a roller 47 which is held in engagement with a fixed curve 48.
  • the latter is done by a spring 49 arranged between the cell carrier 44 and the head-closing turret 9.
  • the cell 8 is in turn also in engagement with a stationary curve 53 via a roller 51 which is rotatably mounted on this roller due to a spring 52 arranged between the cell 8 and the head-closing turret 9.
  • the two curves 48 and 53 arranged on both sides of the head locking turret 9 are designed such that the cell 8 of the head locking turret 9 located in the transfer area in each case moves on an arc around the axis of the shaft 14, so that this cell 8 with a cell 7 of the enveloping turret 6 is aligned during the transfer.
  • the rotational speeds are accordingly the same.
  • a further slide turret 54 Coaxial with the drying turret 10 is a further slide turret 54 which actuates the slide arrangements 55 (corresponding to the slide arrangements 23) from a fixed curve 56 and carries them in a number corresponding to the cells of the dry turret 10 in order to continuously transfer the finished packages 57 from the head-closing turret 9 into the to pass revolving drying turret 10.
  • the cells 8 of the head-closing revolver 9 are moved over the curves 48, 53 in the transfer area on the circular arc traversed by the cells of the drying revolver 10 in order to ensure cell alignment.
  • a pick-up device for holding the packs 57 on their head side for example a single pick-up who can move back and forth over the transfer area, can be in the transfer area from the head-closing turret 9 to the drying turret 10 or a pick-up device corresponding to the device 38, 39, take effect.
  • the curves 36, 42, 56 are formed in the illustrated embodiment as circumferential grooves in which the respective roller runs.
  • the pick-up turret 38 can also be axially offset and be provided with a smaller number of pick-up devices 39 than the number of cells 7 of the enveloping turret 6.

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