EP0716637B1 - Procede et dispositif pour le formage et l'etiquetage de recipients d'emballage - Google Patents

Procede et dispositif pour le formage et l'etiquetage de recipients d'emballage Download PDF

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EP0716637B1
EP0716637B1 EP95917272A EP95917272A EP0716637B1 EP 0716637 B1 EP0716637 B1 EP 0716637B1 EP 95917272 A EP95917272 A EP 95917272A EP 95917272 A EP95917272 A EP 95917272A EP 0716637 B1 EP0716637 B1 EP 0716637B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
    • B65C3/00—Labelling other than flat surfaces
    • B65C3/06—Affixing labels to short rigid containers
    • B65C3/08—Affixing labels to short rigid containers to container bodies
    • B65C3/14—Affixing labels to short rigid containers to container bodies the container being positioned for labelling with its centre-line vertical
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
    • B65C9/00—Details of labelling machines or apparatus
    • B65C9/26—Devices for applying labels
    • 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
    • Y10T156/1705—Lamina transferred to base from adhered flexible web or sheet type carrier
    • 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
    • Y10T156/1705—Lamina transferred to base from adhered flexible web or sheet type carrier
    • Y10T156/1707—Discrete spaced laminae on adhered carrier
    • Y10T156/171—Means serially presenting discrete base articles or separate portions of a single article

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  • the invention is based on a method for molding and labeling of packaging containers according to the preamble of the claim 1.
  • known methods of this type are the labels with a transfer device at a defined point in a Forming tool for deep-drawing cup-shaped Packaging containers inserted and by means of negative pressure in them fixed. Then a previously heated zone becomes one Plastic film is molded into the mold so that in the final phase of forming the container with the labels their adhesive-coated sides on the lateral surfaces of the Adhere the packaging container.
  • Mold is complex because it Vacuum connections for sucking the labels onto the Has molding tool, as well as for inserting the labels must be moved up and down.
  • the device relatively difficult to access because the transfer device for the labels in the immediate vicinity of the mold is arranged.
  • the inventive method for molding and labeling Packaging containers with the characteristic features of the Claim 1 has the advantage that the attachment of the labels on the outer surfaces of the packaging containers is done outside of the mold, causing the Accessibility of the labeling device at after this Process working devices is improved.
  • a device with the features of claim 2 for Carrying out the method according to the invention has the Advantage that the structure of the mold is simplified because, for example, there are no divisions or suction channels for one Vacuum connection must be provided in the mold.
  • FIG. 1 shows a device for labeling of packaging containers simplified and schematically in Top view, Figure 2, the device of Figure 1 in one Section in the plane II-II of Fig.1, Fig.3 a part of 1 simplified in perspective View and the Fig.4 to Fig.7 a part of the device in a simplified top view during successive Phases of attaching a label to one Packaging container.
  • a film web 10 are made of thermoplastic material Packaging container in the form of cups 11 in for example eight rows 12 to arranged in parallel in the conveying direction 19 at equal or equal distances a, b molded into each other.
  • the bowls 11 are with a Food, for example filled with yogurt, and by means of a lid film, not shown, tightly closed.
  • the film web 10 is also cyclically by means of a Not shown conveyor in the area of a Labeling device 20 promoted.
  • the labeling device 20 has below the film web 10 and the cups 11 a label store in the form of eight vertically arranged label rolls 21.
  • labels 22 for the outer surfaces the bowls 11 connected in one piece, and in shape a label strip 26 rolled up.
  • the labels 22 are one-sided and full-surface in the embodiment Adhesive coated.
  • the label rolls 21 are in two parallel rows 23, 24, each with four label rolls 21 arranged laterally of the film web 10 so that the distance c between the eight rolled label strips 26 in Direction of delivery each the corresponding distance b two Bowls 11 corresponds in the conveying direction. To ensure, that this distance c between each Label strips 26 even when using Labels 22 changed, the smaller diameter of the Label rolls 21 always remains the same, everyone is Label roll 21 each have a fixed spacer roll 27 assigned over which the label strips 26 guided become.
  • Each label roll 21 is a puller in shape one of each pneumatically operated gripper 25 assigned.
  • the grippers 25 are transverse to the conveying direction of the Film web 10 in the plane of the label rolls 21 between two positions movable. In one position for rolling of labels 22 of the label rolls 21 are the grippers 25 in the immediate vicinity of the spacer rollers 27. In the other position in which the labels 22 as Rolled up label strips 26 from label rolls 21 are, the grippers 25 are partially to the side the film web 10 and opposite the label rolls 21.
  • the feed path of the film web 10 is selected so that the bowls 11 viewed in the conveying direction in the area between the preferred paths of the grippers 25 and the Label strips 26 come to a standstill.
  • the suction cups 32 have an elongated shape which corresponds to the height of the Labels 22 largely overlooked.
  • the suction slits of the Suction cups 32 are formed in the plates 30, 31 Channels 33 with a controlled, not shown Vacuum source connected.
  • the suction cups 32 In the lower end position of the Plates 30, 31 are the suction cups 32 in the amount of Label feed, and are in the upper end position they are in height and in the immediate vicinity of the lateral surfaces the bowls 11.
  • Each sucker 32 or each label 22 is one Assigned cutting device 34, for example to the each of the two lateral edges of each label 22 Knife 35 includes.
  • the blades 35 that can be moved up and down penetrate the plates 30, 31 in recesses 36.
  • Each suction cup 32 has the height of the lateral surfaces of the cups 11 a pressing device 40 for the labels 22.
  • Die Press device 40 is on the frame of the Labeling device 20 attached and penetrates the Plates 30, 31 in recesses, not shown.
  • Press device 40 belong in parallel alignment the lateral surfaces of the cups 11 on both sides of each suction cup 32 one each rotatably arranged about its longitudinal axis Pressure roller 41, which is below the cups 11 by means of a Tension spring 42 are non-positively connected. Below the tension spring 42 roll the outer surfaces of the Pressure rollers 41 on an arranged between them, driven eccentric 43.
  • the shape of the Eccentric disc 43 is the shape of the lateral surface or adapted to the diameter of the cups 11. Furthermore, the Rotational speed of the eccentric 43 on the Feed speed of the film web 10 matched.
  • the device for labeling packaging containers works as follows: In a first basic position of the labeling device 20, the two plates 30, 31 are in their lower end position, so that the suction devices 32 arranged on them are at the level of the label rolls 21. To pull off the label strips 26 from the label rolls 21, the grippers 25 are moved near the spacer rolls 27 and the ends of the label strips 26 are gripped by a corresponding control of the grippers 25. The grippers 25 are then moved transversely to the conveying direction of the film web 10 into their respective end position with respect to the spacer rollers 27.
  • the suction devices 32 are activated via a corresponding control of the vacuum source, so that the labels 22 are sucked and held in place by the associated suction devices 32 in their respective central region.
  • the film web 10 is simultaneously moved over the labeling device 20, so that, seen in the conveying direction, the cups 11 come to a stop immediately in front of the respectively assigned labels 22.
  • the first feed path of the film web 10 is selected such that the (unlabelled) bowls 11, viewed in the conveying direction, come to a standstill immediately before the third last of the eight label strips 26.
  • the plates 30, 31 are moved into their upper end position, so that the suction cups 32 and the labels 22 are at the level of the lateral surfaces of the cups 11 assigned to them.
  • the labels 22 are separated from the label strips 26 by a corresponding control of the knives 35 of the cutting device 34.
  • the film web 10 is then slowly started up in the conveying direction, so that the labels 22 come into adhesive contact with the lateral surfaces with the associated cups 11.
  • the vacuum of the suction devices 32 is switched off and the plates 30, 31 are moved into their original lower end position, whereupon the above-described removal of labels 22 from the label rolls 21 is repeated.
  • the pressure rollers 41 of the pressure device 40 roll on the lateral surfaces of the cups 11, the movement of the pressure rollers 41 is controlled by the eccentric discs 43 and the tension springs 42 so that the pressure rollers 41 are always in contact with the lateral surfaces of the cups 11.
  • the end pressing of the labels 22 takes place, that is to say the feed movement of the film web 10 is interrupted for a moment, for example, and the contact pressure of the pressure rollers 41 on the lateral surfaces is determined by a suitable geometry of the eccentric disks 43, for example by recesses in the eccentric disks 43, increased.
  • the pressure rollers 41 are brought back into their original position in the vicinity of the suckers 32. A new work cycle then begins, as described above. In the chosen arrangement of the suction cups 32 or the plates 30, 31, after two rows of naps have been labeled in the direction of conveyance, a feed cycle of five rows of naps takes place.
  • the suction cups 32 or the cups 11 in the film web 10 can also be arranged on a carrier paper strip or the like. In this case, a peeling device must be provided in the area of the spacer rollers 27.

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Claims (8)

  1. Procédé de formage et d'étiquetage de récipients d'emballage (11), selon lequel on forme dans une bande pelliculaire en matière plastique (10) au moins une rangée (12-19) de récipients (11) en forme de godets sur la surface périphérique externe desquels on pose des étiquettes (22),
    caractérisé en ce que
    les étiquettes (22) sont déposées sur les récipients (11) après le formage de ceux-ci, à savoir que pendant un temps d'immobilisation de la bande pelliculaire (10) les étiquettes sont amenées à proximité immédiate des récipients (11) puis, lors d'un mouvement consécutif d'avancement de la bande pelliculaire (10) sont mises en contact avec la surface périphérique externe des récipients (11).
  2. Dispositif de formage et d'étiquetage de récipients d'emballage (11), dans lequel dans une bande pelliculaire en matière plastique (10) est formée au moins une rangée (12-19) de récipients en forme de godets sur la surface périphérique externe desquels sont posées des étiquettes (22),
    caractérisé en ce qu'
    il comporte sous la bande pelliculaire (10) au moins un accumulateur d'étiquettes (21) assurant l'alimentation en étiquettes (22), et associé à cet accumulateur un dispositif de prise (25) et un dispositif de transfert (32) amenant les étiquettes sur les surfaces périphériques externes des récipients (11), ainsi qu'un dispositif (40) d'application des étiquettes (22), mobile au moins transversalement à la direction d'avancement des récipients (11).
  3. Dispositif selon la revendication 2,
    caractérisé en ce que
    le dispositif de prise et de transfert (32) est composé d'au moins un dispositif de traction (25), mobile transversalement à la direction d'avancement de la bande pelliculaire (10) dans un plan situé entre les surfaces périphériques des récipients, ce dispositif prélevant au moins une étiquette (22) dans l'accumulateur d'étiquettes (21) pour la déplacer en dessous et en direction du récipient (11) associé, tandis que des têtes d'aspiration (32) pouvant se déplacer verticalement jusqu'à la hauteur des surfaces périphériques des récipients (11), sont alignées chacune, selon la direction d'avancement d'un récipient (11), avec celui-ci.
  4. Dispositif selon la revendication 3,
    caractérisé en ce que
    les têtes d'aspiration (32) ont une forme recouvrant pour la plus grande partie, la hauteur des étiquettes (22).
  5. Dispositif selon l'une quelconque des revendications 2 à 4,
    caractérisé en ce que
    le dispositif d'application (40) est composé de deux rouleaux d'application (41) mobiles l'un par rapport à l'autre, orientés comme les têtes d'aspiration (32) et placés de part et d'autre de chacune d'elles.
  6. Dispositif selon la revendication 5,
    caractérisé en ce que
    les rouleaux d'application (41) peuvent monter et descendre entre une première position extrême située en dessous des récipients (11) et une seconde position extrême située à la hauteur des surfaces périphériques externes des récipients (11) .
  7. Dispositif selon l'une quelconque des revendications 2 à 6,
    caractérisé en ce que
    l'accumulateur d'étiquettes est un rouleau d'étiquettes (21) dans lequel les étiquettes (22) se suivent en formant une seule pièce, et dans le plan du dispositif de traction (25) à chaque récipient (11) est associé un dispositif de coupe (34) servant à séparer individuellement les étiquettes (22).
  8. Dispositif selon l'une quelconque des revendications 2 à 6,
    caractérisé en ce que
    l'accumulateur d'étiquettes est un rouleau d'étiquettes (21) dans lequel celles-ci se trouvent sur une bande porteuse, un dispositif d'effeuillage de cette bande étant prévu dans le plan du dispositif de traction (25).
EP95917272A 1994-05-20 1995-05-05 Procede et dispositif pour le formage et l'etiquetage de recipients d'emballage Expired - Lifetime EP0716637B1 (fr)

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DE4417648A DE4417648A1 (de) 1994-05-20 1994-05-20 Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Etikettieren von Verpackungsbehältern
PCT/DE1995/000589 WO1995032124A1 (fr) 1994-05-20 1995-05-05 Procede et dispositif pour l'etiquetage de recipients d'emballage

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