EP0712365B1 - Vorrichtung zum schliessen eines kunststoff-clips aus zwei teilen - Google Patents

Vorrichtung zum schliessen eines kunststoff-clips aus zwei teilen Download PDF

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EP0712365B1
EP0712365B1 EP94924784A EP94924784A EP0712365B1 EP 0712365 B1 EP0712365 B1 EP 0712365B1 EP 94924784 A EP94924784 A EP 94924784A EP 94924784 A EP94924784 A EP 94924784A EP 0712365 B1 EP0712365 B1 EP 0712365B1
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Herbert Niedecker
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Poly Clip System GmbH and Co KG
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D33/00—Details of, or accessories for, sacks or bags
    • B65D33/16—End- or aperture-closing arrangements or devices
    • B65D33/1658—Elements for flattening or folding the mouth portion
    • B65D33/1675—Hinged clips
    • 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
    • B65B51/04—Applying separate sealing or securing members, e.g. clips
    • 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
    • Y10T24/00—Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc.
    • Y10T24/15—Bag fasteners
    • 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
    • Y10T24/00—Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc.
    • Y10T24/44—Clasp, clip, support-clamp, or required component thereof
    • Y10T24/44641—Clasp, clip, support-clamp, or required component thereof having gripping member formed from, biased by, or mounted on resilient member
    • Y10T24/44744—Clasp, clip, support-clamp, or required component thereof having gripping member formed from, biased by, or mounted on resilient member with position locking-means for engaging faces
    • Y10T24/44752—Integral locking-means

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  • the invention relates to a device for closing plastic clips of a clip chain consisting of two articulated parts, the device comprising a fixed first holder for a clip part, a second holder pivotable about the hinge axis of the clip parts for the other clip part and the pivoting movement of the second holder from an open drive leading into a closed clip position.
  • Plastic clips are known for example from DE-OS 41 37 478.9 and the PCT application PCT / EP92 / 02634.
  • Another type of such two-part plastic clips, in which the two parts are connected to one another in an articulated manner by means of a film hinge, has been described in German patent application P 43 27 064.6; these can also be connected to longer chains of contiguous clips by easily separable webs.
  • Such magazineable chains or strands of plastic clips are particularly suitable for use in machine-operated closing devices, and the subject of the present invention is such a clip closing device (for the purpose of closing sausage casing braids or the like).
  • the brackets consist of receiving troughs, which are adapted in their configuration to the outer shape of the two clip parts, so that the closing force is uniformly introduced into the clip and the two clip parts are locked in a position firmly surrounding the braid. While the first holder for one clip part is stationary and positions this clip part in such a way that the braid can be inserted into this clip part through a correspondingly arranged and designed feed slot, the other clip part is (as soon as this has been done) by means of the movable second holder pivoted around the articulated connection of the two clip parts and made the locking.
  • the described device additionally has a feed channel for a sequence of clips opening into the brackets perpendicular to the pivot axis and an abutment which interacts with the pivotable second bracket for separating the clip to be closed from a clip chain (see also claim 1).
  • the clip that has just been processed is, as it were, automatically removed from the strand fed through the feed channel during the closing process.
  • the clips known from EP-A-0 356 850 for plastic clips have already been supplied with the clips individually.
  • the device according to the invention thus differs from the prior art in that the pivoting movement of the second pivotable holder is used both for separating a clip from the clip chain and for closing the separated clip.
  • the drive carrying the second holder has a gearwheel which can be rotated by means of a meshing engaging drive member (toothed rack, pinion or the like) by a certain angle from the open to the closed position of the clip.
  • a pneumatic cylinder can be used as the drive source, for example, which moves the drive member back and forth.
  • a positioning device which in each case advances the clip to be closed into the holders.
  • a driver which engages in each part of the clip held in the feed channel with each feed cycle, moves it into the first holder and then moves out of the clip and back into the starting position in an arcuate way.
  • Via the feed section of the driver movement which runs to a certain extent tangentially from the mouth of the feed channel, there is a positive connection between the driver and the one clip part until it is positioned in its holder. Then the driver - perpendicular to the longitudinal extent of this clip part - is moved out, so that it clears the space for the bag plait to be inserted and leaves the clip untouched on its way back to the starting position.
  • the feed cycle of the driver is preferably cam-controlled, and advantageously in such a way that the driver sits on the piston of a pivotably mounted pressure medium cylinder and a guide pin, which is also attached to the piston, engages in a backdrop determining the driver movement.
  • a feed channel 32 for plastic clips in a chain or strand-like sequence is provided, as are known from German patent application P 43 27 064.6 (FIGS. 9, 10). 2 and 3, such a (partial) strand is located in the feed channel 32; each clip consists of one part 33 and the other part 34, which are hinged together at 35 by a film hinge. Easily separable webs 36 connect adjacent plastic clips to one another.
  • the positioning device - to be described further below - has inserted the foremost plastic clip of the strand into the locking mechanism, which has a holder arranged in the housing in the form of a receiving recess 37 for one clip part 33 and one on a gear wheel 38 (see also FIG. 4) arranged second holder also in the form of a receiving trough 39 for the other clip part 34.
  • the articulated connection between the two clip parts 33, 34 in the form of the film hinge 35 lies in the axis of rotation 40 of the gear 38.
  • a toothed rack 41 mounted in a longitudinally displaceable manner in the housing 31 can move from its rest position shown in FIG. 2 into the working position shown in FIG. 3 are moved, with the aid of a pneumatic cylinder indicated only by the dash-dotted line 42 in FIG. 1 (the rack 41 is also only indicated with a schematic outline).
  • FIG. 2 Previously - while the parts were still in their relative position shown in FIG. 2 - the plait 43 of a packaging bag, a sausage casing or the like, shown with a black circular area in FIGS. 1-3, through the slot 44 in the housing 31 and have been guided into the opening of the clip part 33 ready for recording.
  • a correspondingly shaped recess 45 is provided in the gear 38 so that the pigtail 43 and the packing sections adjoining in its longitudinal direction do not collide with the gear 38 when the pigtail is inserted into the plastic clip and its pivoting movement is not in the way when it is closed (FIGS c).
  • the positioning device for the plastic clips in the receiving troughs 37, 39 can be seen in total from FIG. 1. It has a pneumatic cylinder 50 which is pivotally mounted in a pivot bearing 51 on the housing 31 about an axis running perpendicular to its longitudinal axis.
  • the piston rod 52 continues in a slide 53, the design of which is shown in detail in FIG. 5.
  • a guide pin 54 is attached to the side of the slide 53 (near the piston) in a protruding manner and engages (by means of a roller mounted on it) in a link 55, which is shown in more detail in FIG. 6.
  • the slider 53 carries a driver 56 which laterally protrudes in the same direction as the guide pin and which actually positions the clips in the receiving troughs 37, 39.
  • the design of the slide 53 can be seen in FIG. 5.
  • the piston rod 52 is fastened in the threaded bore 53a.
  • the guide pin 54 is to be inserted into the blind hole 53b, while the blind bore 53c serves to receive the driver 56.

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Package Closures (AREA)
  • Food-Manufacturing Devices (AREA)
  • Clamps And Clips (AREA)
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EP94924784A 1993-08-12 1994-07-19 Vorrichtung zum schliessen eines kunststoff-clips aus zwei teilen Expired - Lifetime EP0712365B1 (de)

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EP97200629A EP0786416B1 (de) 1993-08-12 1994-07-19 Kunststoff-Clip aus zwei Teilen

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DE4327064A DE4327064C3 (de) 1993-08-12 1993-08-12 Kunststoff-Clip aus zwei Teilen
DE4327064 1993-08-12
DE4401111 1994-01-17
DE19944401111 DE4401111A1 (de) 1994-01-17 1994-01-17 Verschließvorrichtung für Kunststoffclips
PCT/EP1994/002367 WO1995005320A1 (de) 1993-08-12 1994-07-19 Kunststoff-clip aus zwei teilen und vorrichtung zu seinem schliessen

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EP97200629.0 Division-Into 1997-03-04

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WO1995005320A1 (de) 1995-02-23
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AU7494794A (en) 1995-03-14
DE59404439D1 (de) 1997-11-27
ES2146950T3 (es) 2000-08-16
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