EP0468008B1 - Ausgabeeinrichtung für beutel - Google Patents

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EP0468008B1
EP0468008B1 EP91902979A EP91902979A EP0468008B1 EP 0468008 B1 EP0468008 B1 EP 0468008B1 EP 91902979 A EP91902979 A EP 91902979A EP 91902979 A EP91902979 A EP 91902979A EP 0468008 B1 EP0468008 B1 EP 0468008B1
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Josef Koller
Rudolf Schmid
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Folag AG Folienwerke
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H35/00—Delivering articles from cutting or line-perforating machines; Article or web delivery apparatus incorporating cutting or line-perforating devices, e.g. adhesive tape dispensers
    • B65H35/0006—Article or web delivery apparatus incorporating cutting or line-perforating devices
    • B65H35/0073—Details
    • B65H35/008—Arrangements or adaptations of cutting devices
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47F—SPECIAL FURNITURE, FITTINGS, OR ACCESSORIES FOR SHOPS, STOREHOUSES, BARS, RESTAURANTS OR THE LIKE; PAYING COUNTERS
    • A47F13/00—Shop or like accessories
    • A47F13/08—Hand implements, e.g. grocers' scoops, ladles, paper-bag holders
    • A47F13/085—Shopping-bag holders
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47K—SANITARY EQUIPMENT NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; TOILET ACCESSORIES
    • A47K10/00—Body-drying implements; Toilet paper; Holders therefor
    • A47K10/24—Towel dispensers, e.g. for piled-up or folded textile towels; Toilet paper dispensers; Dispensers for piled-up or folded textile towels provided or not with devices for taking-up soiled towels as far as not mechanically driven
    • A47K10/32—Dispensers for paper towels or toilet paper
    • A47K10/34—Dispensers for paper towels or toilet paper dispensing from a web, e.g. with mechanical dispensing means
    • A47K10/38—Dispensers for paper towels or toilet paper dispensing from a web, e.g. with mechanical dispensing means the web being rolled up with or without tearing edge
    • A47K10/3809—Dispensers for paper towels or toilet paper dispensing from a web, e.g. with mechanical dispensing means the web being rolled up with or without tearing edge with roll spindles which are not directly supported
    • A47K10/3827—Dispensers for paper towels or toilet paper dispensing from a web, e.g. with mechanical dispensing means the web being rolled up with or without tearing edge with roll spindles which are not directly supported with a distribution opening which is parallel to the rotation axis
    • 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
    • B65B61/00—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages
    • B65B61/04—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for severing webs, or for separating joined packages
    • B65B61/12—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for severing webs, or for separating joined packages by tearing along perforations or lines of weakness
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47F—SPECIAL FURNITURE, FITTINGS, OR ACCESSORIES FOR SHOPS, STOREHOUSES, BARS, RESTAURANTS OR THE LIKE; PAYING COUNTERS
    • A47F9/00—Shop, bar, bank or like counters
    • A47F9/02—Paying counters
    • A47F9/04—Check-out counters, e.g. for self-service stores
    • A47F9/042—Shopping bags or carton-dispensing systems therefor
    • A47F2009/044—Shopping bags or carton-dispensing systems therefor dispensing from a roll
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T225/00—Severing by tearing or breaking
    • Y10T225/30—Breaking or tearing apparatus
    • Y10T225/393—Web restrainer

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  • the present invention relates to a dispenser for bags, with a container in which there is a supply of bags, and with a nozzle which is assigned to one of the walls of the container and through which the bags can leave the container.
  • the nozzle of this device has flexible and opposing elements which are pressed against each other and between which the bags leaving the container must pass.
  • the nozzle is essentially round and the bags are compressed into a strand as they pass through this nozzle, which should make it easier to separate the respective bag from the bag supply. It has been shown that, among other things, it is very cumbersome to insert bags from a new supply pack into such a nozzle.
  • the object of the present invention is to overcome these disadvantages of the prior art.
  • the present dispensing device comprises a container 1, which has a base body 2 that can be fastened to a wall, for example, and a front flap 3.
  • the front flap 3 is pivotally connected to the container body by means of a hinge 4.
  • a cutout 5 In the front flap 3 there is a cutout 5, to which an output nozzle 10 is assigned.
  • the bags can leave the container 1 through this nozzle 10. The aforementioned assignment is carried out in such a way that the nozzle 10 of the outside covers the recess 5.
  • the bags 7 of the stock 6 can form a roll, they can lie on top of one another in a zigzag manner or similar.
  • the bag 7 lying at the top in the storage pack 6 is passed through the opening in the nozzle 10 and can be torn away from the next bag 7 of the supply 6 on the outside of the front flap 3.
  • the nozzle 10 is designed as an independent unit which can be attached to the front flap 3.
  • the nozzle 10 has a hollow, bowl-shaped cover 11, in the bottom of which an elongated and practically rectilinear opening 12 is made.
  • the edges 13 and 14 of this opening 12 run at a distance from one another which is substantially greater than the thickness of the bags.
  • the opening edges 13 and 14 run practically parallel to one another.
  • a brake member 15 is associated with the lid opening 12, in such a way that the member 15 is attached to the inside of the lid 11.
  • the braking member 15 comprises two sections or lips 16 and 17 which cooperate when the bags 7 are dispensed.
  • Each of these lips 16 and 17 has practically parallel to each other and perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the Opening 12 extending elements 20, which are held at one end in a version 18 or 19. The other ends of such elements 20 are freely movable.
  • the lips 16 and 17 of the braking member 15 are arranged such that the sockets 18 and 19 are on the outside and the free ends of the braking elements 20 are in the middle of the braking member 15.
  • the distance between the lips 16 and 17 is dimensioned such that the free ends of the braking elements 20 are at a small distance from one another or that they even rest on one another.
  • the lips 16 and 17 can also be arranged such that the free end part of the braking elements 20 of one lip 16 or 17 extend into the area of the free end parts of the braking elements 20 of the opposite lip 17 or 16.
  • the gap which is available for the passage of the bags 7 between the lips 16 and 17 runs in a straight line and the length of this gap is shorter than the width of the bags 7 located in the storage pack 6.
  • the lips 16 and 17 can be designed like brushes, bristles being the active elements of the lips 16 and 17. One ends of the bristles are held in the sockets 18 and 19.
  • the active elements of the lips 16 and 17 can also be designed as strips made of a flexible material such as rubber or plastic. Depending on the stiffness of the braking elements 20 and on the size of the force required to tear off the bag 7 lying in front, the dimensions and / or the number of braking elements 20 in the respective lip 16 and 17 are selected. It is understood that the lips 16 and 17 of a braking member 15 can be designed differently.
  • the main advantage of the present dispensing device is that the smooth braking elements 20, each of which can be, for example, 10 mm to 20 mm long, allow the person operating this device to put fingers through the nozzle 10 when introducing the first bag of a new storage pack can and so it can easily insert the bag into the nozzle 10.
  • the present device is equipped with a device 25 which also exerts a braking effect on the web consisting of the bags if one of the bags is to be torn off this web.
  • This braking device 25 is housed inside the housing 1 and is assigned to the inside of the nozzle 10.
  • Fig. 3 shows a first embodiment of this braking device 25. It has a strip 26 made of sheet metal, for example. One of the longitudinal edges of this strip 26 is attached to the inside of the front flap 3.
  • This strip edge is advantageously fastened to the inclined section 27 of the front flap 3, which lies below the dispensing nozzle 10.
  • the opposite, free longitudinal edge 28 of the strip 26 is rounded, specifically from the inside to the outside, approximately as shown in FIG. 4.
  • the bags 7 are guided to the nozzle 10 via the rounded edge 28.
  • the sliding surface of the rounded edge 28 is offset from the slot in the nozzle 10. This offset arrangement is such that the free longitudinal edge of the material strip 26 covers the gap or slot in the nozzle 10.
  • the respective bag 7, which is to get into the nozzle 10, is therefore deflected around the rounded edge 28.
  • a braking effect associated with the deformation of the bag 7, which is necessary for tearing the bag lying foremost away from the other bags and which is sufficient for this purpose.
  • Such a braking device 25 is extremely simple and it is also quite effective.
  • the introduction of the first bag from a new supply pack into the gap in the nozzle 10 presents no significant problems because it is easy to deflect the first bag around the rounded edge 28, for example downwards, and to insert it into the nozzle 10.
  • This brake device 30 has, inter alia, the already mentioned fixed brake strip 26, which is also fastened below the nozzle 10 in this device 30.
  • This braking device 30 also has a second material strip 32, which is arranged above the nozzle 10. The edge part of this strip 32 facing away from the nozzle is pivotably attached to the container 1, as is indicated in FIG. 4 by the three individual positions shown. That edge part of the movable strip 32, which is located in the region of the nozzle 10, also has a rounded edge 28.
  • the rounded edges 28 run from the inside to the outside so that the bags can slide over them without damage and unimpeded. Between the edges 28 of the brake members 26 and 32 there is a gap through which the bags leaving the container must pass. The width of this gap is set according to the desired size of the braking effect on the bags 7. For this purpose, at least one of the brake members 26 and 32 can be adjustably and adjustably attached to the housing 1.
  • the gap between the braking edges 28 is aligned with the gap in the nozzle 10 because the braking effect results from the interaction of the two braking edges 28.
  • the folding away of the upper brake member 32 enables the first bag 7 to be introduced quickly and easily from a supply pack 6 into the nozzle. After this introduction has been completed, the upper brake member 32 is folded back and the dispenser is ready for operation again.
  • FIG. 5 shows a front view of a second embodiment of the lips 16 and 17 of a braking member 15 of the nozzle 10 according to FIG. 1.
  • FIG. 6 shows this braking member 15 in a rear view.
  • the lips 16 and 17 of this braking member 15 comprise at least one strip 35 made of a resilient material, e.g. made of rubber or plastic.
  • One of the longitudinal edges 36 of this strip 35 is held in the version 18 or 19.
  • incisions 38 are made in the remaining section 37 of strip 35, i.e. in that part 37 of the same, which protrudes from the version 18 or 19, incisions 38 are made. These incisions 38 are or run practically perpendicular to the gap 40 between the end parts of the lips 16 and 17.
  • the incisions 38 separate fingers 39, which are individually freely movable.
  • the size of the Bag web 7 lying on the end face of the respective finger 39 are also influenced. If desired, a plurality of strips 35 lying one on top of the other or one behind the other can be fastened in a holder 18 or 19, so that there are then several rows of fingers 39 lying one behind the other in a holder 18 or 19. The direction of these fingers 39 lying one behind the other coincides with the direction of movement of the bag web.

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  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Health & Medical Sciences (AREA)
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  • Containers And Packaging Bodies Having A Special Means To Remove Contents (AREA)
  • Cartons (AREA)
  • Control And Other Processes For Unpacking Of Materials (AREA)
  • Air Bags (AREA)
  • Coating Apparatus (AREA)
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CH457/90A CH680428A5 (enrdf_load_stackoverflow) 1990-02-13 1990-02-13
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PCT/CH1991/000031 WO1991011942A1 (de) 1990-02-13 1991-02-07 Ausgabeeinrichtung für beutel

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JP (1) JPH04506950A (enrdf_load_stackoverflow)
AT (1) ATE107842T1 (enrdf_load_stackoverflow)
AU (1) AU7143791A (enrdf_load_stackoverflow)
CA (1) CA2051370A1 (enrdf_load_stackoverflow)
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DE (1) DE59102060D1 (enrdf_load_stackoverflow)
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WO1991011942A1 (de) 1991-08-22
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