EP0811327B1 - Procédé et dispositif pour manipuler des récipients à cigarettes - Google Patents

Procédé et dispositif pour manipuler des récipients à cigarettes Download PDF

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EP0811327B1
EP0811327B1 EP97108424A EP97108424A EP0811327B1 EP 0811327 B1 EP0811327 B1 EP 0811327B1 EP 97108424 A EP97108424 A EP 97108424A EP 97108424 A EP97108424 A EP 97108424A EP 0811327 B1 EP0811327 B1 EP 0811327B1
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Matthias Horn
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
    • A24C—MACHINES FOR MAKING CIGARS OR CIGARETTES
    • A24C5/00—Making cigarettes; Making tipping materials for, or attaching filters or mouthpieces to, cigars or cigarettes
    • A24C5/35—Adaptations of conveying apparatus for transporting cigarettes from making machine to packaging machine
    • A24C5/352—Adaptations of conveying apparatus for transporting cigarettes from making machine to packaging machine using containers, i.e. boats

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  • the invention relates to a method and an apparatus for handling in several Storage compartments of a container transported cigarette trays.
  • Containers of the type described in the introduction, as shown and described in DE-OS 44 04 901 and the corresponding US Pat. No. 5,597,219, represent a flexible means of transport and storage for empty trays or trays filled with cigarettes, with the help of which cigarettes removed from the manufacturing process, if necessary temporarily stored and returned to the further processing process, in particular for the purpose of packaging.
  • the containers are usually emptied or loaded with the mentioned trays at handling stations which, on the one hand, exchange trays with container conveyors in the form of floor vehicles or roller conveyors and, on the other hand, are assigned loading and unloading means for the trays.
  • the handling stations themselves are operatively connected, for example, on the production side and on the processing side, in superimposed floors, with empty collar stations and full collar stations of tray fillers or tray emptiers, as shown and described in DE-OS 44 04 902 and the corresponding US Pat. No. 5,553,988.
  • the invention has for its object the methods and devices mentioned above to make it more rational.
  • a trouble-free transfer is prepared according to advantageous embodiments in that several cigarette trays are collected into a group before the transfer, a defined orientation of the cigarette trays relative to the receiving compartments being achieved in that the cigarette trays within the group are at a defined mutual distance from each other Storage compartments of the container are positioned.
  • a defined distance positioning is supported by that the cigarette sticks are individually transferred to the group formation.
  • the device described at the outset each has a group of tappet elements which remove cigarettes from the container or transfer them into the container and move them along a thrust plane.
  • a synchronous movement of the tappet elements is most easily achieved according to an advantageous development in that the tappet elements are arranged on a common tappet carrier provided with drive and guide means.
  • the handling of the trays is facilitated by the fact that the tappet elements which take out or transfer the cigarette trays and are designed as suction tappets or pushing tappets are each assigned a lifting platform arranged between conveyor belts, which on the other hand supplies or removes problem-free connection to trays Conveyor belts enabled.
  • the lifting platform assigned to the pushing plungers is expediently designed as a collecting station for the cigarette trays.
  • the cigarette trays can be positioned in a simple, effective manner with the same mutual spacing in that the lifting platform is provided with self-regulating spacers which can be run over by the cigarette trays and which are designed according to a particularly simple embodiment as a rocker, each of which has a pressure lever acted upon by a leading cigarette collar and a stop blocking a trailing cigarette collar.
  • the advantage achieved by the invention is that by shortening and minimizing of transport routes in container and tray handling within the
  • the handling station 1 shown in FIG. 1 for cigarette trays 2 according to FIG. 2 has a receiving platform 4 for tray containers 6 which can be moved in height by means of a lifting drive means 3 and which are fed or removed, for example, by means of a roller conveyor or monorail conveyor, not shown.
  • the roller conveyor itself can also be provided with an up and down movable roller conveyor section.
  • a double-decker industrial truck with tray containers for the delivery of empty trays or for receiving full trays can dock onto the handling station 1.
  • the tray containers 6 are divided into a plurality of receiving compartments 8 by partitions 7 for the purpose of receiving, transporting and, if appropriate, the climate-tight intermediate storage of cigarette trays 2.
  • the handling station 1 connected to a tray filler (not shown) in the exemplary embodiment is furthermore provided with an upper tray station 9 for cigarette trays 2 removed from the container 6, empty trays in the present example and a lower tray station 11 for cigarette trays 2 transferred into the container 6, full trays in the present example , are provided, which are operatively connected in the conveying direction (arrow 12) or in the counter-conveying direction (arrow 13) with corresponding empty collar or full collar stations of the container filler and between which the receiving platform 4 for the containers 6 can be moved back and forth.
  • tappet elements 14 designed as suction tappets are provided, which are arranged on a common tappet carrier 16, which with the aid of drive means 17 and guide means 18 in the direction of the Double arrow 19 can be moved back and forth.
  • a lifting platform 22 arranged between two conveyor belts 21 which can be driven by a motor 20.
  • ram elements 23 designed as push plungers are provided, which are arranged on a common plunger carrier 24, which is driven by drive means 26 and guide means 27 in the direction of the double arrow 28 back and forth is.
  • the tray station 11 is also provided with a lifting platform 31 which is arranged between two conveyor belts 30 which can be driven by a motor 29 and which is designed as a collecting station for cigarette trays 2 fed in the direction of the arrow 13.
  • the lifting platform 31 shown in more detail in FIGS.
  • lifting platform 2 to 4 like the lifting platform 22, can be raised or lowered below this level to the transport level of the conveyor belts 30 and 21 by means of an actuating cylinder 32 and a parallel toggle lever system 33.
  • a push rod 34 of the actuating cylinder 32 engages on a cross rod 36 of the toggle lever system mounted on two shafts 37 of a fixed frame 38, which on the other hand carries the lifting platform 31.
  • Both lifting platforms 22, 31 are provided with a collar stop 39 at one end.
  • the lower lifting platform 31 which is designed as a collecting station for a group of cigarette sticks 2, also has on both sides a row of spacers 41 one behind the other, which are designed as a rocker mounted on a shaft 42 in such a way that they have a pressure lever 43 on the one hand and a stop 44 on the other hand whose mode of operation is described below.
  • a stationary base plate 46 or 47 is additionally provided on each tray station 9 or 11.
  • the mode of action is as follows: Starting from the container 6, which is provided on the receiving platform 4 at the level of the tray station 9 and is filled with empty trays, the lifting platform 22 is raised to the transport level of the conveyor belts 21.
  • the tappet carrier 16 moves toward the container 6, the tappets 14 capturing all cigarette sticks located in the container 6 and pulling them out of the container with the return stroke of the tappet carrier 16 and transferring them to the lifting platform 22.
  • the empty collars rest only on the conveyor belts 21, by starting them up they are conveyed in the direction of arrow 12 to the empty collar station of the filler.
  • the receiving platform 4 with the empty container 6 to the lower one Collar station 11 lowered.
  • the first arriving full slope runs over all spacers 41 to the system on the collar stop 39 of the lifting platform 31, the pressure lever 43 of the immediate spacer 41 located in front of the collar stop 39 is loaded and pressed down, so that their stops 44 swing up into the conveyor track and the next one Stop the slats.
  • the same process is repeated for the other feeders Slants so that all lined up slants with a mutual distance and aligned to the receiving compartments 8 of the tray container 6 are accumulated.
  • the group of full slabs formed in this way is then replaced by the ancestors Tappet elements 23 transferred into the container container 6, which either in an intermediate storage or is transported directly to further processing facilities.

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  1. Procédé pour manipuler des bacs à cigarettes (2) transportés dans plusieurs casiers de rangement d'un réceptacle, caractérisé en ce qu'un groupe de plusieurs bacs à cigarettes est chaque fois extrait en bloc du réceptacle (6) ou transféré en bloc dans le réceptacle.
  2. Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce qu'avant chaque transfert, plusieurs bacs à cigarettes sont rassemblés en un groupe.
  3. Procédé selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisé en ce que les bacs à cigarettes sont, à l'intérieur du groupe, positionnés avec un écartement mutuel défini devant les casiers de rangement du réceptacle.
  4. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 1 à 3, caractérisé en ce que les bacs à cigarettes sont transférés individuellement dans la configuration en groupe.
  5. Dispositif pour manipuler des bacs à cigarettes transportés dans plusieurs casiers de rangement d'un réceptacle, caractérisé par des organes formant coulisseau (14 ou 23) qui extraient du réceptacle (6) ou transfèrent dans le réceptacle un groupe respectif de bacs à cigarettes (2) et qui sont déplacés conjointement le long d'un plan de glissement.
  6. Dispositif selon la revendication 5, caractérisé en ce que les organes formant coulisseau (14 ou 23) sont disposés sur un support de coulisseaux commun (16 ou 24), pourvu de moyens d'entraínement et de moyens de guidage (17, 18 et 26, 27).
  7. Dispositif selon la revendication 5 ou 6, caractérisé en ce qu'aux organes formant coulisseau (14 ou 23) qui procèdent à l'extraction, respectivement au transfert, des bacs à cigarettes (2) et sont conçus sous forme de coulisseaux aspirants, respectivement de coulisseaux pousseurs, est associée une plate-forme élévatrice respective (22 ou 31) disposée entre des bandes transporteuses (21 ou 30).
  8. Dispositif selon la revendication 7, caractérisé en ce que la plate-forme élévatrice (31) associée aux coulisseaux pousseurs (23) est aménagée sous forme d'un poste de rassemblement pour les bacs à cigarettes (2).
  9. Dispositif selon la revendication 8, caractérisé en ce que la plate-forme élévatrice (31) est équipée d'écarteurs auto-commandés (41), sur lesquels les bacs à cigarettes peuvent passer.
  10. Dispositif selon la revendication 9, caractérisé en ce que les écarteurs (41) sont conçus sous la forme d'une bascule qui comporte un levier à presser (43), sollicité par un bac à cigarettes respectif (2) qui avance, et une butée (44) arrêtant le bac à cigarettes respectif qui arrive juste après.
  11. Dispositif selon la revendication 10, caractérisé en ce que les écarteurs (41) sont, par paires respectives, montés sur un axe (42) de part et d'autre de la plate-forme élévatrice (31), d'une manière telle que les butées (44), lorsque les leviers à presser (43) ne sont pas sollicités, soient abaissées en dessous du plan de transport.
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