EP0631932A1 - Procédé et dispositif pour l'assemblage automatique de corps en forme de coques - Google Patents

Procédé et dispositif pour l'assemblage automatique de corps en forme de coques Download PDF

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EP0631932A1
EP0631932A1 EP94109003A EP94109003A EP0631932A1 EP 0631932 A1 EP0631932 A1 EP 0631932A1 EP 94109003 A EP94109003 A EP 94109003A EP 94109003 A EP94109003 A EP 94109003A EP 0631932 A1 EP0631932 A1 EP 0631932A1
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Silvano Cognigni
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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
    • B65B7/00—Closing containers or receptacles after filling
    • B65B7/16—Closing semi-rigid or rigid containers or receptacles not deformed by, or not taking-up shape of, contents, e.g. boxes or cartons
    • B65B7/28—Closing semi-rigid or rigid containers or receptacles not deformed by, or not taking-up shape of, contents, e.g. boxes or cartons by applying separate preformed closures, e.g. lids, covers
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61J—CONTAINERS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR MEDICAL OR PHARMACEUTICAL PURPOSES; DEVICES OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR BRINGING PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS INTO PARTICULAR PHYSICAL OR ADMINISTERING FORMS; DEVICES FOR ADMINISTERING FOOD OR MEDICINES ORALLY; BABY COMFORTERS; DEVICES FOR RECEIVING SPITTLE
    • A61J3/00—Devices or methods specially adapted for bringing pharmaceutical products into particular physical or administering forms
    • A61J3/07—Devices or methods specially adapted for bringing pharmaceutical products into particular physical or administering forms into the form of capsules or similar small containers for oral use
    • A61J3/071—Devices or methods specially adapted for bringing pharmaceutical products into particular physical or administering forms into the form of capsules or similar small containers for oral use into the form of telescopically engaged two-piece capsules
    • A61J3/074—Filling capsules; Related operations

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  • the surprise is of a type requiring assembly and a sheet of assembly instructions and/or a sheet of transfers to be applied to the surprise must be put into the container as well as the component parts: usually, this sheet or sheets are rolled into a tube for insertion in one of the two cup-like bodies, in contact with its inner surface.
  • a container (little barrel), generally indicated 1 is of the type commonly used to hold small toys, trinkets or the like ("surprises"), usually of a type requiring assembly, inside hollow products, for example hollow food products such as confectionery (chocolate eggs and the like).
  • surprises small toys, trinkets or the like
  • hollow food products for example hollow food products such as confectionery (chocolate eggs and the like).
  • the surprise, generally indicated S, is fitted into the body 3 (following various criteria, for example by adopting the solutions described in other patent applications for industrial invention filed on the same date by the same applicant) which is held with its open end upwards.
  • the component parts (elements) of the surprise S (put into the container loose 1) project from the neck portion 4 of the body 3.
  • the sheets F normally carry the instructions for assembling the surprise and/or transfers for applying to the surprise itself.
  • FIG 2 shows an apparatus (collector), generally indicated 10, for use according to the invention in the automatic assembly of containers such as the container 1 of Figure 1.
  • the apparatus of the invention is able to close a plurality of containers 1, for example four, simultaneously.
  • the apparatus 10 has a plurality of cavities 11 which define respective vertical-axis tubular ducts arranged in a gantry over a conveyor 12 (for example a motor-driven conveyor belt) on which the lower bodies 3 of the containers 1 advance horizontally in trays or pallets 13, the containers having been filled in advance (by means which are assumed to be known) with the surprises S and the sheets F.
  • a conveyor 12 for example a motor-driven conveyor belt
  • the trays 13 are constituted by matrix-type holding structures with several rows of vertical-axis apertures 14 for holding the bodies 3. In the embodiment illustrated, each row has four apertures 14 on which the apparatus 10 acts simultaneously.
  • this result may be achieved by ensuring that the conveyor 12 transports the trays 13 in a direction perpendicular to the longer axis of the apparatus 10 and that the conveyor 12 is advanced (according to well known criteria which do not need to be described here) in such a way that, at each step, a corresponding row of apertures 14 (containing a corresponding row of bodies 3) is brought into alignment with the four vertical-axis cavities 11 in the apparatus 10.
  • pusher members lower 15 and upper 16 respectively, constituted by pistons which are driven either pneumatically or electrically (for example electromagnetically).
  • the lower pushers 15 pass through corresponding apertures (typically in a plate 12a - Figures 3 to 6) in the conveyor plane in which the conveyor 12 operates.
  • the apertured plate 12a interrupts the active conveyor surface of the conveyor 12 itself: it is usually preferred for the conveyor 12, if it is constituted by a belt, to have a continuous surface which is thus free of openings through which the pusher members 15 could pass.
  • the pushers 16 may be able to move horizontally so that they can pick up the upper bodies 2 automatically from a supply, alignment and orientation structure (not shown).
  • the lower portion 18 of the chamber 11 is able to contract radially so that, at rest, its cross-section is at least marginally smaller than the cross-section of the (circular) open ends of the bodies 2 and 3.
  • the apparatus 10, or at least the parts constituting the vertical-axis chamber 11, is usually made of a material (such as TEFLON) which is resilient as well as self-lubricating, easily cleaned and suitable for contact with food products.
  • a material such as TEFLON
  • the lower portion 18 of the chamber 11 has a plurality of resiliently yielding tongues 20 integrally formed with the material defining the chamber 11 and equiangularly spaced around the periphery of the portion 18 itself, the tongues converging, in their unstressed or rest position, towards the inside of the chamber 11 but each being able to open resiliently towards the outside when a body, such as a body 3, moves upwardly through the chamber or duct 11.
  • the lower end of each tongue 20 is substantially aligned with the cross circumference of the lower end of the chamber 11 while, in the unstressed condition, the upper end projects distinctly into the chamber 11.
  • the inner edges of the various tongues 20 (for example six, each with an angular extent of around 60°) associated with each chamber 11 jointly define, in the unstressed condition shown in Figure 3, a lower portion 18 of the chamber 11 which, starting from a lower opening having the same cross-sectional shape as the apertures 14 in the trays 13, generally tapers upwards (in an approximately frustoconical shape in the embodiment illustrated).
  • the flexibility of the tongues 20 means that they offer flexible resistance, with the ability to widen, to any body passing upwardly through the chamber 11 (it will be seen that this is the case for the bodies 3).
  • each tongue 20 by an L-shaped body pivoted at its corner about a horizontal axis so that its main arm extends, overall, approximately along the axis of the chamber and its secondary arm extends radially from this axis away from the axis itself, the free end being acted on by resilient means which urge the L-shaped body into a rest position in which the side of the arm facing into the chamber 11 projects into the chamber 11 itself in an arrangement similar to that of the tongues 20.
  • the pushers 15 and 16 By controlling the pushers 15 and 16 to move simultaneously or virtually simultaneously (after the pushers have been aligned exactly with the row of apertures 14 holding the bodies 3), it is possible to insert the bodies 2 and 3 into the chambers 11.
  • the upper bodies 2 are transferred downwards by the pushers 16 which descend, pushing the bodies 2 into the upper portions 17 of the chambers 11, for example until the open end of each body 2 bears against the upper ends of the tongues 20 which project into each chamber 11.
  • the pushers 15 lift the bodies 3 (which contain the surprises S and the sheets F) into the lower portion 18 (see the sequence illustrated in Figures 3 and 4).
  • the container 1 When the assembly operation is completed, the container 1 is inside the chamber 11 and can, for example, be returned to the tray 13 in which it was held before by a downward movement of the pusher members 15, 16 ( Figure 6). Should this be desired, the container 1 may also be left for a moment inside the apparatus 10 (where it is held by the resilient action of the tongues 20) and discharged in a different position, possibly after the apparatus 10 as a whole has been moved by the action of additional pusher members.

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  • Health & Medical Sciences (AREA)
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  • Veterinary Medicine (AREA)
  • Pharmacology & Pharmacy (AREA)
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  • Animal Behavior & Ethology (AREA)
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  • Automobile Manufacture Line, Endless Track Vehicle, Trailer (AREA)
  • Container Filling Or Packaging Operations (AREA)
  • Toys (AREA)
  • Lining Or Joining Of Plastics Or The Like (AREA)
  • Supplying Of Containers To The Packaging Station (AREA)
  • Auxiliary Devices For And Details Of Packaging Control (AREA)
  • Control And Other Processes For Unpacking Of Materials (AREA)
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EP94109003A 1993-06-29 1994-06-13 Procédé et dispositif pour l'assemblage automatique de corps en forme de coques Expired - Lifetime EP0631932B1 (fr)

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SI9430024T SI0631932T1 (en) 1993-06-29 1994-06-13 Method and apparatus for the automatic assembly of cup-like bodies

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ITTO930469A IT1260882B (it) 1993-06-29 1993-06-29 Dispositivo per l'assemblaggio di contenitori e relativo procedimento

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DE (1) DE4421982C2 (fr)
DK (1) DK0631932T3 (fr)
ES (1) ES2096975T3 (fr)
GR (1) GR3022676T3 (fr)
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WO2006092451A1 (fr) * 2005-03-02 2006-09-08 Discapa, Sl Installation et procede destines au remplissage, a l'assemblage et au conditionnement de capsules, et element de support pouvant etre utilise dans ce type d'installation
WO2010109370A1 (fr) 2009-03-27 2010-09-30 Magic Production Group S.A. Kit comportant un article de distraction, et procédé correspondant
WO2012001581A1 (fr) 2010-06-30 2012-01-05 Magic Production Group S.A. Dispositif et procédé pour fermer des récipients
WO2012001582A1 (fr) 2010-06-30 2012-01-05 Magic Production Group S.A. Dispositif et procédé permettant de remplir des récipients
WO2014174422A1 (fr) 2013-04-24 2014-10-30 Magic Production Group S.A. Élément pour articles d'amusement, système et procédé correspondants

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WO2003024566A1 (fr) * 2001-08-31 2003-03-27 Siemens Aktiengesellschaft Boitier
US7523838B2 (en) 2001-08-31 2009-04-28 Siemens Aktiengesellschaft Housing
WO2006092451A1 (fr) * 2005-03-02 2006-09-08 Discapa, Sl Installation et procede destines au remplissage, a l'assemblage et au conditionnement de capsules, et element de support pouvant etre utilise dans ce type d'installation
WO2010109370A1 (fr) 2009-03-27 2010-09-30 Magic Production Group S.A. Kit comportant un article de distraction, et procédé correspondant
WO2012001581A1 (fr) 2010-06-30 2012-01-05 Magic Production Group S.A. Dispositif et procédé pour fermer des récipients
WO2012001582A1 (fr) 2010-06-30 2012-01-05 Magic Production Group S.A. Dispositif et procédé permettant de remplir des récipients
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WO2014174422A1 (fr) 2013-04-24 2014-10-30 Magic Production Group S.A. Élément pour articles d'amusement, système et procédé correspondants

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IT1260882B (it) 1996-04-29
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ATE147340T1 (de) 1997-01-15
SI0631932T1 (en) 1999-02-28
EP0631932B1 (fr) 1997-01-08
ES2096975T3 (es) 1997-03-16
ITTO930469A1 (it) 1994-12-29
DE4421982C2 (de) 2000-03-02
DE4421982A1 (de) 1995-01-12
GR3022676T3 (en) 1997-05-31

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