EP0562304A1 - Procédé et dispositif pour attacher des étiquettes à ficelle aux récipients - Google Patents

Procédé et dispositif pour attacher des étiquettes à ficelle aux récipients Download PDF

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EP0562304A1
EP0562304A1 EP93103203A EP93103203A EP0562304A1 EP 0562304 A1 EP0562304 A1 EP 0562304A1 EP 93103203 A EP93103203 A EP 93103203A EP 93103203 A EP93103203 A EP 93103203A EP 0562304 A1 EP0562304 A1 EP 0562304A1
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Albert Hettler
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B31—MAKING ARTICLES OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER; WORKING PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31D—MAKING ARTICLES OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER, NOT PROVIDED FOR IN SUBCLASSES B31B OR B31C
    • B31D1/00—Multiple-step processes for making flat articles ; Making flat articles
    • B31D1/02—Multiple-step processes for making flat articles ; Making flat articles the articles being labels or tags
    • B31D1/023—Attaching wires or threads
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
    • B65C7/00—Affixing tags
    • 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
    • Y10T156/00—Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
    • Y10T156/10—Methods of surface bonding and/or assembly therefor
    • Y10T156/1089—Methods of surface bonding and/or assembly therefor of discrete laminae to single face of additional lamina
    • 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
    • Y10T156/00—Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
    • Y10T156/17—Surface bonding means and/or assemblymeans with work feeding or handling means
    • Y10T156/1702—For plural parts or plural areas of single part
    • Y10T156/1712—Indefinite or running length work
    • Y10T156/1734—Means bringing articles into association with web

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  • the invention relates to a method for attaching tags to the necks of containers according to the preamble of claim 1. Furthermore, the invention relates to an apparatus for performing this method.
  • tags are often used to mark the contents of containers on their necks.
  • Typical examples of use are containers for food, mineral oil products, other liquids or bulk goods.
  • the tags are usually slipped by hand over the necks of the containers passing on an assembly line. This requires a separate person, and the work is also extremely monotonous and tiring.
  • the automatic label maker 1 is used to uniformly align and line up the labels 14 provided with closed loops 34, with their Loops 34 attached to two carrier tapes 16 and, together with a carrier film 15, rolled up to form a label roll 18.
  • This label roll 18 is then inserted into the transfer station 33, where it is unrolled and the released labels 14 are attached to the necks of containers 27.
  • the automatic label maker 1 comprises a housing with a control panel 3 pivotably mounted thereon. Raw labels are pushed from a stack of supplies by means of a label pusher 6 to a punching station 5 and punched there. The perforated labels 14 are then held by label tongs 7 and a thread 12 is pushed over the thread guide 4 through the punched-out hole of each label 14. This thread 12 is fed to the automatic label maker 1 from a thread spool 11 via a thread store 10 in the direction of arrow 29. When the thread 12 is in the hole of the label 14, the knotter 8 takes action and knots the two free ends of the thread together, thereby forming a loop 34.
  • the closed loops 34 of these labels 14 are then aligned and lined up uniformly and at a constant distance from one another along a guide plate 9 and in contact with two adhesive tapes running parallel to one another 16 brought, which slide along the guide rail 9. These adhesive tapes 16 are unwound from a supply roll in the direction of the arrow 31.
  • a carrier film 15 is unwound from a further supply roll in the direction of arrow 32 and deflected such that it slides between the guide plate 9 and the two adhesive tapes 16.
  • the speed of the carrier film 15 along the guide plate 9 is identical to that of the adhesive tapes 16 and the labels 14.
  • the loops 34 of the labels 14 are located between the adhesive tapes 16 and the carrier film 15.
  • These three layers are applied via a pressure and deflection roller 17 performed, with a firm but releasable adhesive bond between the adhesive tapes 16 and the loops 34 of the labels 14 and between the adhesive tapes 16 and the carrier film 15 takes place.
  • the conglomerate of carrier film 15, loops 34 and adhesive tapes 16 is then wound up to form a label roll 18 in the direction of arrow 30.
  • the first process stage is thus ended and the label roll 18 can now be temporarily stored until the second process stage is carried out.
  • This transfer station 33 has a horizontally running conveyor belt 19 which moves at a constant speed and on which the containers 27 to be labeled are arranged at constant intervals. Above this conveyor belt 19 there is a turntable 23, the axis 37 of which is essentially vertical, but slightly inclined. The lowest point of this turntable 23 is located above the center of the conveyor belt 19. On the underside of the turntable 23, a plurality of grippers 24 and thread wipers 35 are attached, evenly distributed along the circumference.
  • the label roll 18 is located in a suitable receptacle, from which the tape made of carrier film 15, labels 14 is unwound with loops 34 and adhesive tapes 16 and is fed to the turntable 23 essentially tangentially.
  • the feed takes place at the currently highest point of the turntable 23, that is to say opposite to the aforementioned lowest point of the turntable 23, also above the center of the conveyor belt 19th
  • FIGS. 2 and 4 show a side view of the transfer station 33 and a detailed view (detail X).
  • the conveyor belt 19 runs in the direction of the arrow 36, that is to say from left to right in FIG.
  • the axis of rotation 37 of the turntable 23 is arranged substantially vertically, but slightly inclined. The angle to the vertical is about 15 ° in the illustrated embodiment.
  • the axis of rotation 37 forms a plane together with the running direction 36 of the conveyor belt 19, i.e. the axis of rotation 37 is not inclined to the side but in the direction of travel 36.
  • the currently lowest point of the turntable 23 is further ahead with respect to the running direction 36 of the conveyor belt 19 than its currently highest point.
  • grippers 24 are eight grippers 24, each with a thread wiper 35 at regular intervals.
  • the structure of such an arrangement of gripper 24 and thread wiper 35 is best seen in FIG. 4.
  • the gripper 24 is fastened with a threaded rod in a bore of the turntable 23 and comprises three uniformly arranged spreading arms 38 which can be spread outwards. In the rest position, these spreading arms 38 are essentially parallel to one another and can be extended by a first lifting cylinder 25 to that shown in FIG Spread position and move axially.
  • This first lifting cylinder 25 is actuated, for example, hydraulically or by compressed air.
  • a thread wiper 35 which comprises a second lifting cylinder 26, is arranged close to the gripper 24 on the turntable 23.
  • this second lifting cylinder 26 By actuating this second lifting cylinder 26, the blade of this thread stripper 35 is pressed downward in the direction of arrow 39 and comes into contact with one of the spreading arms 38 of the gripper 24, engaging under the loop 34 and pushing it downward. All thread wipers 35, viewed from the associated grippers 24, are arranged radially inward on the turntable 23.
  • the carrier film 15, together with the labels 14 provided with loops 34 and the adhesive tapes 16 is fed tangentially to the turntable 23 in the region of the grippers 24.
  • FIG. 6 it can be seen that the adhesive tapes 16 together with the labels 14 are detached from the carrier film 15 with the aid of the deflection roller 22, whereupon the carrier film 15 is then wound onto the rewinding roll 20.
  • the carrier film 15 only touches the deflecting roller 22 tangentially, that is to say runs essentially straight ahead to the rewinding roller 20.
  • the adhesive tapes 16 with the labels 14 are guided over the deflecting roller 22 over a certain angular range, in the exemplary embodiment shown this is approximately 90 °.
  • the adhesive tapes 16 now run together with the labels 14 over a deflecting roller 28 below the turntable 23.
  • the labels 14, as will be described below, are separated from the adhesive tapes 16 and the adhesive tapes are wound onto rewinding rollers 21.
  • the adhesive tapes 16 are deflected in the deflection roller 28 by approximately 180 ° before they reach the rewinding rollers 21.
  • the rewinding rollers 21 are attached laterally next to the course of the adhesive tapes 16 between the deflection roller 22 and the deflection roller 28.
  • the transfer station 33 works as follows: Simultaneously with the linear transport of the containers 27 on the conveyor belt 19, the turntable 23 rotates about its axis 37. Furthermore, the label roll 18 and the rewinding rolls 20 and 21 rotate.
  • the tape made of carrier film 15, labels 14 and adhesive tapes runs from the label roll 18 16 to the deflection roller 22. With this deflection roller 22, the adhesive tapes 16 are separated together with the labels 14, the carrier film 15 continues to run alone and is wound onto the rewinding roller 20.
  • the adhesive tapes 16 run together with the labels 14 from the deflecting roller 22 to the deflecting roller 28. Shortly before reaching the deflecting roller 28, the labels 14 with the loops 34 are removed from the adhesive tapes 16, the adhesive tapes 16 are strongly deflected and onto the two rewinding rollers 21 spooled.
  • the labels 14 provided with loops 34 are removed from the adhesive tapes 16 by the grippers 24 arranged on the turntable 23. These are in the closed position in the area of the label acceptance, that is to say the spreading arms 38 are essentially parallel to one another.
  • the gripper 24 is then inserted into the loop 34 of the label 14 by actuating its lifting cylinder 25 and then spread apart. This also spreads the loop 34 and the label 14 hangs with this loop 34 securely on the spreading arms 38 of the gripper 24. If the turntable 23 has rotated through 180 ° in the course of its continuous movement, the gripper 24 with the label 14 is located on lowest point of its orbit.
  • the total height of the turntable 23 is adjusted so that the two lower spreading arms 38 of the gripper 24 just overlap the neck of the container 27 in the lowest path point. If containers of a different height (27A) are to be used, the total height of the turntable 23 must be adapted to the height of these containers 27A.
  • gripper 24 and thread wiper 35 are attached to the turntable 23.
  • the one in Figure 3 in the upper half of the rotary plate 23 to be seen grippers 24 are spread apart and carry loops 34 of labels 14. This state of the grippers 24 is shown in detail in FIG.
  • the lower grippers 24 from FIG. 3 have moved together and are ready to receive new labels 14 at the transfer point.
  • the speeds of the label roll 18, turntable 23 and conveyor belt 19 as well as the spacing of the loops 34 on the adhesive tapes 16, the gripper 24 with one another and the container 27 on the conveyor belt 19 are exactly matched to one another such that the next gripper 24 the next label 15 can take up and the grippers 24 can transfer the labels 14 in turn to the container 27.
  • the automatic label production machine 1 can be integrated in the transfer station 33.
  • the output of the automatic label maker 1 is not fed to a label roll 18, but directly to the input of the transfer station 33.
  • a closed conveyor belt can be used instead of the turntable 23.
  • This conveyor belt preferably runs above the conveyor belt 19 and at an angle thereto and is located in one plane with the conveyor belt 19.
  • grippers 24 and thread wipers 35 On the outside of the belt there are grippers 24 and thread wipers 35.
  • the course of the belt approaches the course of the containers 27 on the conveyor belt 19 thereby asymptotically and the speed of the belt corresponds approximately to that of the conveyor belt 19.
  • the loading of the grippers 24 arranged on the belt is carried out analogously to the exemplary embodiment discussed in detail above.
  • the distances between two successive grippers 24 must be identical to the distances between two successive containers 27.
  • the distances of the grippers 24 must also be different from those of the containers 27 differentiate accordingly, so that a gripper 24 always reaches a container 27 on time during operation.

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