EP0639503B1 - Machine d'encartonnage - Google Patents

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EP0639503B1
EP0639503B1 EP94112678A EP94112678A EP0639503B1 EP 0639503 B1 EP0639503 B1 EP 0639503B1 EP 94112678 A EP94112678 A EP 94112678A EP 94112678 A EP94112678 A EP 94112678A EP 0639503 B1 EP0639503 B1 EP 0639503B1
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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
    • B65B25/00—Packaging other articles presenting special problems
    • B65B25/14—Packaging paper or like sheets, envelopes, or newspapers, in flat, folded, or rolled form
    • B65B25/141—Packaging paper or like sheets, envelopes, or newspapers, in flat, folded, or rolled form packaging flat articles in boxes
    • 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
    • B65B43/00—Forming, feeding, opening or setting-up containers or receptacles in association with packaging
    • B65B43/42—Feeding or positioning bags, boxes, or cartons in the distended, opened, or set-up state; Feeding preformed rigid containers, e.g. tins, capsules, glass tubes, glasses, to the packaging position; Locating containers or receptacles at the filling position; Supporting containers or receptacles during the filling operation
    • B65B43/52—Feeding or positioning bags, boxes, or cartons in the distended, opened, or set-up state; Feeding preformed rigid containers, e.g. tins, capsules, glass tubes, glasses, to the packaging position; Locating containers or receptacles at the filling position; Supporting containers or receptacles during the filling operation using roller-ways or endless conveyors
    • 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
    • B65B5/00—Packaging individual articles in containers or receptacles, e.g. bags, sacks, boxes, cartons, cans, jars
    • B65B5/06—Packaging groups of articles, the groups being treated as single articles
    • 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
    • B65B51/00—Devices for, or methods of, sealing or securing package folds or closures; Devices for gathering or twisting wrappers, or necks of bags
    • B65B51/02—Applying adhesives or sealing liquids
    • B65B51/023—Applying adhesives or sealing liquids using applicator nozzles

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  • the invention relates to a cartoner for rectangular, large-sized containers with a conveyor that can be driven step by step and passes through several successive standstill positions for receiving erected carton blanks that are open on both sides, with tabs that protrude laterally on both sides and are arranged next to the conveyor to fold the tabs, and an insertion device for inserting at the top of the container and a gluing device, the conveyor having holding elements for the cardboard blanks.
  • DE-A-4 035 352 describes a cartoner for rectangular containers with a conveyor which can be driven step by step and which passes through several successive standstill positions for receiving erected carton blanks which are open on both sides, with tabs projecting laterally on both sides and adjacent to the conveyor for folding the tabs, one Insertion device for inserting the container at the head and a gluing device are known.
  • the conveyor in this case comprises two horizontally arranged, parallel belts which are vertically spaced apart from one another by the cardboard cutting height are each provided with holding elements for the cardboard blanks.
  • the holding elements are designed here as recesses which are connected to a suction air line so as to hold the cardboard blanks in their position.
  • Such a cartoner requires a large amount of space since the carton blanks are only conveyed horizontally overall, a lifting device also being required to transfer the erected carton blank to the conveyor.
  • the object of the invention is therefore to provide a cartoner of the type mentioned at the outset which, with a simple construction, has a considerably reduced area requirement.
  • the conveyor comprises two oppositely arranged groups of circumferential belts, each of which, as holding elements, carries holding strips for holding the erected cardboard blank to the front and to the rear, the holding strips engaging behind the cardboard blank in the inserted position for the cardboard blanks in place
  • the deflection area of the belts and the holding strips engaging the front of the cardboard blank in this insertion position are not in the deflection area of the belts.
  • the groups of circumferential straps are used, of which, if these groups each consist of three straps, the outer holding strips engaging on the underside and the middle one holding the holding strip engaging on the top for each cardboard blank.
  • the holding strips attacking the bottom of the carton blank are located in the deflection area of the straps in the inserted carton blanks.
  • Such a cartoner also enables an at least essentially symmetrical and thus structurally favorable and successive Arrangement of folders, glue nozzles, adhesive tape feeders and. Like. On both sides of a step-by-step, simply constructed conveyor, so that the individual components are easily accessible so that malfunctions can be easily remedied. In particular, erected cardboard blanks and / or packs to be packed can be fed alternately to the conveyor from two opposite sides, for example.
  • FIG. 1 and 2 show, in perspective, schematically and in detail, a cartoner for cuboid stacks of cigarette sticks.
  • the cartoner shown comprises an elevator conveyor 1 which is driven step-by-step and which forms a shaft corresponding to the width of an erected carton blank 4 by means of two oppositely arranged groups of belts 2, which are designed in particular as toothed belts and are each guided around upper and lower deflection rollers 3. If necessary, support rollers (not shown) for the belts 2 can be arranged between the standstill positions of the elevator conveyor 1.
  • the carton blanks 4 are taken, for example, from a carton blank magazine and in a carton erection station (as is known, for example, from German patent application P 42 10 813.6) to form a hollow body with a rectangular cross section that is open on both sides, possibly with the gluing of corresponding overlapping parts, and then erected in the formed between the straps 2 Shaft of the elevator conveyor 1 by means of a corresponding slide in a standstill phase of the elevator conveyor 1 to be inserted in its lowest position, namely between holding strips 5 which are attached to the belts 2 and capture the erected carton blank 4 on the top and bottom and thus the erected carton blank 4 keep erected in such a way that the outer and inner tabs 6, 7 and 8 and 9, which serve to close the carton on the bottom and top, are located on the circumferential side wall area and laterally protrude from the elevator conveyor 1.
  • the vertically extending tabs 6 and possibly 8 of the erected carton blank 4 are slightly exposed to the outside by corresponding guide strips (not shown).
  • the bottom-side, horizontally extending tabs 9 are also folded inwards by 90 ° in a vertical position to form a bottom by means of appropriate folders (not shown).
  • a large-sized container 10 to be picked up from the cardboard blank 4 (a cuboid block made of cigarette sticks 11) is pushed from the head side into the cardboard blank 4 that is set up by means of a slide (not shown), the container 10 being countered by the associated folders at that moment in their position turned by 90 ° inward brackets 9 is pushed as a stop.
  • the upper and lower tabs 7 on the head side are then closed.
  • Hot or cold glue can be used as glue.
  • Cold glue is used in particular when the finished cardboard 13 is subsequently glued using adhesive tape 14.
  • the now filled and closed carton 13 When transported to the fourth position from below, the now filled and closed carton 13 initially runs in its central region against the ends of two (wet or self-adhesive) adhesive tapes 14, each of which is provided by a corresponding adhesive tape feed 16. During further transport, the respective adhesive tape 14 is guided along the seam between the two pairs of adjacent outer tabs 6 and 8 and pressed on by means of a correspondingly pre-tensioned roller 17. After the carton 13 has been passed through, the respective adhesive tape 14 is cut to length and the free end is folded onto the side of the carton 13 located below by means of the roller 17.
  • the finished carton 13 is conveyed from the fourth position into a fifth and ejection position. From this ejection position, a pivotable ejector 18, which engages on the side of the carton 13 located below, rotates the carton 13 by 90 ° onto a conveyor belt 19.
  • the containers 10 are additionally packed in a tubular film 20 for protection against moisture.
  • This is fed by a bobbin 21 in a flat state, in which the tubular film 20 is provided with a wrap on both sides, gradually fed via rollers 22 to a welding and cutting station 23 lying in a horizontal plane, where a film section 24 of the flat lying tubular film 20 on the is welded and cut off in the conveying direction at the rear end by means of corresponding jaws 25 which can be moved and closed towards one another.
  • the step-by-step driven turret 27 comprises a turret disk 28 which extends perpendicular to the conveying direction of the film section 24 and which has a total of four substantially rectangular recesses 29 distributed uniformly over the circumference.
  • the turret disk 28 carries strips 30 extending perpendicularly thereto in an arrangement such that a stack 31 of cigarette sticks 11 to be filled into the cardboard blank 4 that is set up fits through the recess 29 delimited by four strips 30 at the corners .
  • the strips 30 can in particular be designed as angular strips and optionally as spreading strips. However, they can also form inwardly spring-loaded strips or pairs of strips, which are spread apart by inserting a container 10.
  • the turret 27 now rotates a step division into a transfer position to the elevator conveyor 1.
  • a conveyor 34 which acts on the underside, for example, the filled film section 24 is transported in the direction of the elevator conveyor 1 and, on the way to it, engages in the area of the conveyor which is reverse with respect to the transport direction Foil section 24 above and below each an angular Clamp 35 a.
  • the tensioners 35 are then moved vertically apart, so that the rear end of the film section 24 is stretched in the vertical direction in the region of the film projection 24a, so that there are two adjacent, vertical edge regions of the film projection 24a which are vertically movable by means of two horizontally mutually movable Welding jaws 36 are welded (the tensioners 35 being pulled out of the film projection 24a shortly before the welding jaws 36 are closed).
  • the container 10 thus formed, hermetically enclosed by the film section 24, is then inserted into the cardboard blank 4 already provided in the elevator conveyor 1.
  • the bundles 10 can also be formed on both sides of the elevator conveyor 1, the bundles 10 then being formed on both sides of the elevator conveyor 1, for example from rods 11 of different cigarette brands.
  • a pickup can also be assigned to the slide for inserting the container 10 on the opposite side, the pickup possibly being used as a slide and the slide as a pickup when inserting from the other side.
  • the conveyor 1 can also convey horizontally, although an elevator conveyor is particularly advantageous because of its small space requirement.
  • Electric drives are suitable as drive units for the individual parts. On the one hand, this offers the possibility to change the format dimensions via programming and, on the other hand, to optimize the movements (controlled by stepper motors) through the program and thereby increase the performance.

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  1. Machine à encartonner des lots parallélépipédiques et de grandes dimensions (10), comprenant un convoyeur (1) entraîné pas à pas, présentant plusieurs positions d'immobilisation consécutives, recevant des découpes de carton (4) mises en forme et ouvertes aux deux extrémités avec, du côté des volets latéraux ouverts (6, 7, 8, 9) aux deux extrémités, des organes de pliage agencés à côté du convoyeur (1) pour plier les volets (6, 7, 8, 9), un dispositif d'introduction pour l'introduction par l'avant d'un lot (10) et un dispositif d'encollage (12), dans laquelle le convoyeur (1) comporte des organes de support des découpes de carton (4), caractérisée en ce que le convoyeur (1) comporte deux ensembles de courroies rotatives (2) disposés en vis à vis, lesquelles portent respectivement comme organes de support des plaquettes d'appui (5) destinées à maintenir par devant et par derrière la découpe de carton mise en forme (4), cependant que, dans la position de mise en place de la découpe de carton mise en forme (4), les plaquettes d'appui (5) venant s'appuyer sur l'arrière de la découpe de carton (4) se trouvent dans la zone de retour des courroies (2) et, dans cette position de mise en place, les plaquettes d'appui (5) venant s'appuyer sur l'avant de la découpe de carton (4) ne se trouvent pas dans la zone de retour des courroies (2).
  2. Machine à encartonner selon la revendication 1, caractérisée en ce que les courroies (2) sont des courroies crantées.
  3. Machine à encartonner selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisée en ce que le dispositif d'encollage (12) est agencé entre deux positions d'immobilisation du convoyeur (1).
  4. Machine à encartonner selon l'une des revendications 1 à 3, caractérisée en ce qu'il est prévu, dans la position d'immobilisation du convoyeur (1) faisant suite au dispositif d'encollage (12), des plaques de pressage (15) pour les volets (6, 7, 8, 9).
  5. Machine à encartonner selon l'une des revendications 1 à 4, caractérisée en ce que, entre deux positions d'immobilisation du convoyeur (1), une amenée de bande adhésive (16) est prévue de part et d'autre de ce dernier.
  6. Machine à encartonner selon l'une des revendications 1 à 5, caractérisée en ce que les découpes de carton (4) et/ou les lots (10) peuvent être amenés sur des côtés opposés.
  7. Machine à encartonner selon l'une des revendications 1 à 6, caractérisée en ce qu'il est prévu un dispositif de soudage de film destiné à constituer des lots (10) soudés dans une découpe de film (24) d'un film en gaine (20).
  8. Machine à encartonner selon la revendication 7, caractérisée en ce que le dispositif de soudage de film comporte un poste de découpe et de soudage (23) d'un film en gaine (20) reposant à plat, destiné à réaliser une découpe de film (24) fermée à une extrémité.
  9. Machine à encartonner selon la revendication 7 ou 8, caractérisée en ce que le dispositif de soudage de film comprend un carrousel (27) entraîné pas à pas, lequel comporte des moyens de réception pour une découpe de film (24) ouverte mais dont une extrémité est fermée par un cordon de soudure, les moyens de réception étant formés par des barrettes (30) délimitant un espace de réception pour un lot (10).
  10. Machine à encartonner selon la revendication 9, caractérisée en ce qu'il est prévu des moyens de succion (26) pour ouvrir, à l'extrémité non fermée, la découpe de film (24) fermée à une extrémité par un cordon de soudure et pour la disposer sur un moyen de réception du carrousel (27).
  11. Machine à encartonner selon la revendication 9 ou 10, caractérisée en ce que les barrettes (30) sont des cornières.
  12. Machine à encartonner selon l'une des revendications 9 à 11, caractérisée en ce que les barrettes (30) sont des barrettes d'écartement.
  13. Machine à encartonner selon l'une des revendications 7 à 12, caractérisée en ce qu'il est prévu, dans un poste de soudage destiné à fermer l'extrémité non fermée de la découpe de film fermée à une extrémité par un cordon de soudure et contenant un lot (10), des tendeurs (35) pouvant s'éloigner l'un de l'autre et se plaquer sur des faces opposées d'une partie de film en débordement (24a).
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