EP0697362A1 - Méthode et dispositif pour former une pile d'articles groupés en lots - Google Patents

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EP0697362A1
EP0697362A1 EP95202091A EP95202091A EP0697362A1 EP 0697362 A1 EP0697362 A1 EP 0697362A1 EP 95202091 A EP95202091 A EP 95202091A EP 95202091 A EP95202091 A EP 95202091A EP 0697362 A1 EP0697362 A1 EP 0697362A1
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Maximilian R. Seidl
Manfred Adler
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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
    • B65H33/00—Forming counted batches in delivery pile or stream of articles

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  • the invention relates to a method and a device for forming a stack of grouped material sections, in particular labels.
  • the raw material for the labels is regularly available in roll form, strips, sheets or fan folds. This raw material is printed with the desired information.
  • Groups of labels and material sections relate to corresponding groups of different goods, so that the labels must be retained in their groups to facilitate further processing.
  • Another proposal from the prior art is to group the labels in a group in a different size from those in the following group, so that groups of labels with different labels can be distinguished by the size differences visible from the outside .
  • the control processes required here for separating sections of material of different sizes, however, are disproportionately complex compared to the desired effect of the grouping.
  • a method and a device are to be proposed which are able to group material sections permanently in a simple but effective manner.
  • a separating tape is understood to mean a one-piece, elongated, flexible medium, such as, for example, a thin tape, ribbon, a thread, paper strips, plastic strips or the like.
  • the separating belt is laid in such a way that the direction in which an area of the separating belt is deposited between two material sections of different groups changes with each change of group, so that the separating belt runs in a serpentine or meandering manner in the finished stack.
  • the lowest material section of the stack is already placed on the first area of the separating belt. If the separating belt is later also passed over the last material section of the stack and is guided around the stack at least once, the stack can then be held together permanently by connecting the two ends of the separating belt.
  • the base of the stack can advantageously be gradually lowered after the placement of sections of material so that the surface of the stack remains essentially always at the same height, at least when a separating belt section is deposited.
  • a device which has means for fixing an end of a separating belt, means for aligning the material sections on the support and a device for moving sequential regions of the separating belt over the uppermost stored material section of each group.
  • the device is capable of either moving around the stack being formed or oscillating over the respective stack surface.
  • the separating tape can either be wrapped around the stack at each group change or laid so that it runs in a serpentine or meandering manner in the stack.
  • the separating belt is guided by an arm which can be moved back and forth over the circumferential surface of the stack and over its surface.
  • the arm has a guide, which can be designed, for example, as an eyelet, fork or the like.
  • the arm can, for example, be guided linearly along a rail or, as is preferred according to the present invention, can be pivoted back and forth by means of a pivot lever over the stack that is being formed.
  • the drive for the arm is arranged so that the placement of material sections is not hindered.
  • the drive preferably has a swivel lever, the pivot axis of which is arranged below the plane containing the stack surface and parallel to it. Arm and swivel lever together form an L-shaped structure.
  • the stack is formed on a base which is mounted such that it can be adjusted in height, so that the position of this base with respect to the guide for the separating belt can be adjusted.
  • the guide slot extends from the upper boundary of the side guide to the base and allows an area of the separating tape to be guided to the surface of the base or a section of material.
  • the guide slots each have a converging section starting from their free end. This section can also guide the separating tape into the guide slot if for some reason the guide on the arm does not move the separating tape quite exactly into the guide slot.
  • a preferably fixed holder is provided for a supply of the separating tape, for example in the form of a spool.
  • a grouping process can take place in such a way that material sections in the form of labels with a specific inscription are separated from a roll or a stack and are fed to a storage area of the device according to the invention defined by the side guides and the support or the stack surface.
  • the device according to the invention receives an activation pulse and guides an area of the separating tape over the last label of the relevant label group.
  • the subsequent label with a different label is placed on the separating tape, while the following labels of the same group are placed label on label directly.
  • the device according to the invention again receives an activation pulse in order to place a further area of the separating tape on this group of labels.
  • the direction in which the next area of the separating tape is deposited on the last label of a group should be opposite to the direction in which a separating tape area was previously deposited.
  • the subsequent group of labels with a different label is then again not placed directly on the label below, but on the separating belt. Since the direction in which the separating tape is put down changes with each group change, because it is guided from one edge of the stack to the other during a group change and then returned again at the next, there is a serpentine course of the separating tape in the stack.
  • the respective stack with different groups of labels has reached its predetermined height, the stack can be removed with the separating tape between the successive groups of labels.
  • the laying of the separating tape in the form of a serpentine line then represents a permanent grouping measure that can hardly be destroyed unintentionally.
  • FIG. 1 shows a device 10 according to the invention for forming a stack of material sections, such as labels on a base 12. It is provided with a device 14, 16 for laying a separating tape 30, which has an arm 14 which is connected to a drive in the form of a pivot lever 16 with a pivot axis 19 positioned below the stack surface 17 and parallel to it. Arm 14 and pivot lever 16 together form an L-shaped structure.
  • the arm 14 has a guide 18b for the separating belt 30 at its free end. Guide elements for guiding the separating belt 30 are provided between the guide 18b and a supply 26 of the separating belt.
  • a guide element 18a is located in the region of the transition from the arm 14 to the pivot lever 16.
  • the device 10 has two parallel side guides 20a, 20b. Between these side guides 20a, 20b, the base 12 is mounted such that it can be adjusted in height.
  • the side guides each have a vertical guide slot 22a, 22b, each with a converging starting section 24a, 24b.
  • Each converging initial section 24a and 24b starts from the upper boundary of the side guide 20a and 20b, is the widest there and narrows downwards.
  • the guide slots 24a, 24b are arranged so that they are penetrated by the plane on which the separating belt 30 is moved by the guide 18b. In the case of a fluttering separating belt 30, they serve to position the separating belt 30 laterally. Furthermore, they are necessary to be able to deposit an area of the separating belt 30 on the surface of the base 12 or the stack.
  • a rear wall 25 is provided as a supplementary means for aligning, as a connection between the two side guides 20a, 20b and two tabs 27a, 27b, which each attach to one edge of the side guides 20a, 20b and lie together in a plane parallel to the rear wall 25.
  • a shoulder 28 is provided on one edge of the base 12.
  • the extension 28 extends from the inside through one of the guide slots 22 to the outside and serves to fasten the free end of the separating tape 30.
  • the supply 26 of the separating belt e.g. a bobbin is fixedly attached to the device 10 with the aid of a holder.
  • the separating tape is guided from the supply 26 via at least one guide element 18a and the guide 18b to the shoulder 28 on the base 12 and fastened there with its free end.
  • the pivot lever 16 is mounted on the outside of the rear wall 25 such that its pivot axis 19 runs parallel to and centrally between the side guides 20a, 20b and approximately at the level of a lower surface of the device 10.
  • the arm 14 can be pivoted back and forth between two extreme positions using the pivot lever 16. In each of its extreme positions, the arm 14 together with the guide 18b is located outside a torus which contains the lateral peripheral surfaces of the stack being formed.
  • the first extreme position is the one in which the arm 14 is located next to the side guide 20a, that is to say at the front in the drawing.
  • the second extreme position is the one in which the arm 14 is located next to the other side guide 20b, that is to say at the rear in the drawing.
  • Fig. 1 the arm is shown exactly in the middle between the two extreme positions.
  • the guide 18b attached to it exerts a force on the separating belt. Since this is held stationary in the area of its free end, the force mentioned leads to an area of the separating tape being drawn off from the supply 26 during the duration of the force.
  • the motor or motors and a control for driving and controlling the device 14, 16 and for controlled height adjustment of the base 12 are not shown.
  • FIG. 2 shows the device 10 with the device comprising the pivoting lever 16 and arm 14.
  • the device 14, 16 is pivoted into its second extreme position.
  • a first area of the separating belt is once guided over the base 12 by a first pivoting movement of the pivoting lever 16 with the arm 14 from the first into the second extreme position and is placed directly on this. From this point on, labels can be placed on the base 12 and the first area of the separating tape 30.
  • the device 14, 16 with the guide 18b remains in this second extreme position until all the labels of the first group have been placed on top of one another on the base 12 and the first region of the separating belt 30.
  • FIG. 3 shows the state after which all the labels of the first group 40 have been filed.
  • the bottom label lies on the first area of the separating tape 30, which in turn has been placed on the base 12 (FIG. 2).
  • This first area of the separating tape 30 is determined by the weight of the labels of the first group.
  • the pivot lever 16 with the arm 14 is on the way back to its first extreme position. In doing so, it guides a second area of the separating tape 30 over the last label of the first group 40. At the same time, a corresponding length of the separating tape is drawn off from the supply 26.
  • Fig. 4 shows the pivot lever 16 with the arm 14 in its first extreme position.
  • the second area of the separating tape 30 now lies on the last label of the first group 40 of labels.
  • the support 12 is - as indicated by the arrow - now lowered so far that the distance between the plane containing the surface of the stack being formed and the guide 18b is approximately the same as before the second pivoting movement of the device 14, 16 (Fig. 2).
  • the labels of the second group are then deposited over the second area of the separating belt 30.
  • the pivot lever 16 is pivoted with the arm 14 back into its second extreme position.
  • a further length of the separating tape is withdrawn from the supply and a third area of the separating tape is guided over the last label of the second group.
  • the direction in which the separating tape is guided is again the same as when the first separating tape area was put down.
  • FIG. 5 shows the state after four groups of labels have already been deposited.
  • the pivot lever 16 with the arm 14 is in its first extreme position.
  • the fourth area of the separating tape lies between the last label of the third group and the first label of the fourth group 40 'and is held by the weight of the labels of the fourth group 40'. It can be seen that the pad 12 has already been lowered so far that the The plane containing the stack surface again has approximately the same distance from the guide 18b as before the second pivoting movement.
  • Figure 6 shows how the top set of labels can be removed from the stack by gripping and pulling up the release tape 30 between the guide 18b and its last defined area. This raises the last group of labels on one side to the extent that they can be easily removed from the stack.
  • the label stack as a whole is to be removed from the device 10, it can first be wrapped with a further region of the separating tape before the separating tape is cut off from the supply of separating tape and a second free end of the separating tape is created. Subsequently, the attachment of the first free separating tape end to the shoulder 28 of the base 12 is released and the two free ends together, e.g. connected with the help of a knot. This ensures that the labels on the stack are held together. If the connection of the two ends of the separating tape is released again later, the individual groups can be easily removed from the stack as described.
  • the described preferred method and the corresponding device are characterized in that the separating belt is moved by a guide which oscillates back and forth over the stack being formed.
  • the movement of the stack is only limited to a relatively small, gradual lowering movement.
  • the stack forming on the base can also be moved back and forth between two extreme positions.
  • the separating belt is attached to a shoulder on the support for the stack and extends from there to a stationary guide or a fixed supply, which is located approximately in the middle of the path of the stack between the two extreme positions just above the surface containing the stack Level is attached.
  • Sections of material from a group are placed on the stack while it is in one of the extreme positions. After the last material section of a group has been deposited, the stack is moved to the second extreme position. The stack takes the separating tape laterally and a corresponding length of the separating tape is withdrawn from the supply. If the Stack has reached the second extreme position, there is an area of the separating belt above the last material section of the last group that was deposited. The first label of the next group is placed on this area of the separating belt. After the last material section of this group has been deposited, the stack is moved back into the first extreme position, with the result that there is then a further area of the separating belt over this material section, on which material sections can then be deposited. After this process has been completed, the stack of material sections and separating belt is constructed in exactly the same way as when the process described first has been completed.
  • the alternative method is useful if the material sections are to be fed to the stack from different locations because, e.g. can be produced by different machines.
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