EP0816230B1 - Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum opto-elektrischen Abtasten von Verpackungen, insbesondere Zigaretten-Packungen - Google Patents

Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum opto-elektrischen Abtasten von Verpackungen, insbesondere Zigaretten-Packungen Download PDF

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EP0816230B1
EP0816230B1 EP97110362A EP97110362A EP0816230B1 EP 0816230 B1 EP0816230 B1 EP 0816230B1 EP 97110362 A EP97110362 A EP 97110362A EP 97110362 A EP97110362 A EP 97110362A EP 0816230 B1 EP0816230 B1 EP 0816230B1
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Burkard Rösler
Henry Buse
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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
    • B65B19/00—Packaging rod-shaped or tubular articles susceptible to damage by abrasion or pressure, e.g. cigarettes, cigars, macaroni, spaghetti, drinking straws or welding electrodes
    • B65B19/28—Control devices for cigarette or cigar packaging machines
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B07—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING
    • B07C—POSTAL SORTING; SORTING INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES, OR BULK MATERIAL FIT TO BE SORTED PIECE-MEAL, e.g. BY PICKING
    • B07C5/00—Sorting according to a characteristic or feature of the articles or material being sorted, e.g. by control effected by devices which detect or measure such characteristic or feature; Sorting by manually actuated devices, e.g. switches
    • B07C5/04—Sorting according to size
    • B07C5/10—Sorting according to size measured by light-responsive means

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  • the invention relates to a method for opto-electrical scanning of individual, at a distance packaging transported from one another, such as cigarette packs, the Packaging is transported precisely and correctly along a conveyor line and the conveyor line between a feed conveyor and a discharge conveyor Has test area with at least one test organ, and wherein the packaging or whose packaging walls are scanned in the test area by the test body.
  • the invention further relates to a corresponding device.
  • Packaging especially cigarette packs
  • the Packaging is checked photographically, especially with the help of stationary installed cameras. The cameras scan the outer surfaces of the packaging. in this connection determined data are compared with reference data, in the case of undesired data Deviations become defective packaging from the production flow discharged.
  • the cuboid packs of cigarettes are attached Packing wall on a conveyor belt loaded with suction air on test organs moved past. Free pack walls of the cigarette pack can be separated by one test organ arranged along the transport route are recorded.
  • One on a first conveyor belt subsequent second conveyor belt which can also be supplied with suction air, detects the cigarette packs on an opposite pack wall.
  • the second test device detects the now exposed one, which is covered by the first conveyor belt Packing wall of the cigarette pack.
  • the device according to DE-A-38 01 388 requires a great deal of design effort. Those that can be supplied with suction air Conveyor belts require an increased, permanent expenditure of energy.
  • the invention is therefore based on the problem of a method and a device Propose for opto-electrical scanning of packaging with low constructive effort an optimal, all-round scanning of the packing walls of the Enable packaging.
  • the method according to the invention is thereby to solve this problem characterized that the packaging between the feed conveyor and the discharge conveyor moved along a trajectory or drop distance and scanned by the test organ become. With this measure, all packaging walls of the packaging can can be scanned at the same time with little effort.
  • the invention is therefore based on the idea of packaging with the help of an oblique, horizontal or vertical Throw or with the help of free fall to the Move test organs without contact.
  • As a result lie all packaging walls of the packaging in the area of Test organs free.
  • the test organs can unhinder the packing walls, i.e. without the disruptive influence of guides or Conveyor belts, scan.
  • the device according to the invention is characterized by the Features of claim 4. It enables with little constructive effort the simultaneous, all-round scanning of the packaging.
  • a second conveyor section preferably has a feed conveyor a lower endless conveyor and an upper endless conveyor on the packaging on opposite packaging walls to capture. This ensures exact guidance and acceleration of the packaging and thus an exact Throw track of the same.
  • Test devices are used for the opto-electrical scanning of Packets of cigarettes with the aid of test organs, namely cameras.
  • Fig. 1 and 2 schematically show cigarette packs with Be scanned using the device according to the invention can.
  • 1 is the cigarette pack around a folding box 10, which is also available as a hinge-lid pack referred to as.
  • the folding box 10 consists of a Box part 11 and from one with the box part 11 over a hinge line 12 pivotally connected lid 13.
  • Die Hinged box 10 is different due to packing walls Size limited, namely by a not shown Front wall, a rear wall 14, relatively narrow, elongated Side walls 15, an end face 16 in the area of Cover 13 and through a bottom wall, not shown in the area of the box part 11.
  • Over a portion of the back wall 14 and a side wall adjacent to the rear wall 14 15 extends a banderole 17.
  • the banderole 17 covers partially the hinge line 12 in the area of the rear wall 14 and a butt joint 18 between box part 11 and lid 13 in Side wall area 15.
  • the cigarette pack according to FIG. 2 is a Soft cup pack 19.
  • a cup 20 open at the top Soft cup pack 19 is made of an inside wrap Foil or similar wrapped cigarette block 21 positioned.
  • the soft cup pack 19 is also through Packing walls of different sizes limited. It is about here around a front wall 22 and one not shown Back wall. Front wall 22 and rear wall are proportionate narrow, elongated side walls 23 joined together. Furthermore, the soft cup pack 19 is not replaced by one bottom wall shown in the area of the cup 20 and a End wall 24 delimited in the area of the cigarette block 21. On strip-shaped area of the end wall 24 and thereon adjacent portions of the front wall 22 and the rear wall are covered by a banderole 25.
  • Packaging machine manufactured cigarette packs 10, 19 can be transported along a conveyor line 26 and in the area of a test station 27 with respect to its correct one Training verifiable.
  • the conveyor section 26 is through a Feed conveyor 28 and a discharge conveyor 29 are formed.
  • Feeder 28 With the help of Feeder 28, the cigarette packs 10, 19 in the Proximity of the test station 27, namely in a test area 30, transported.
  • the conveyor line 26 In the area of the test area 30 or Test station 27, the conveyor line 26 is interrupted.
  • the Cigarette packs 10, 19 pass through the test station 27 along a throwing track. After passing the test station 27 or the test area 30 become the cigarette packs 10, 19 taken from the conveyor 29.
  • the conveyor 29 transports the cigarette packs 10, 19 from the invention Device out, while maintaining the predetermined Distances of the cigarette packs 10, 19 from each other.
  • the feed conveyor 28 consists of a horizontal, first conveyor section 31 and one compared to the first Conveying section 31 inclined and thus inclined second conveyor section 32.
  • the second conveyor section 32 is opposite the first Conveying section 31 inclined upward by approximately 5 °.
  • the cigarette packs 10, 19 are from the second conveyor section 32 of the Feed conveyor 28 accordingly along a slightly rising, inclined plane in the test area 30 moves.
  • the conveying speed of the first conveying section 31 of the Feed conveyor 28 is approximately 1 meter per second.
  • the second Conveying section 32 of the feed conveyor 28 is of a larger size Speed driven as the first conveyor section 31.
  • the second conveyor section 32 is in the Comparison with the first conveyor section 31 of the feed conveyor 28 twice the conveying speed, i.e. approximately 2 meters per Second, driven.
  • the discharge conveyor closes at a distance from the feed conveyor 28 29 on.
  • the removal conveyor 29 consists of the same as the feed conveyor 28 from a horizontally running first conveyor section 33 and an inclined with respect to the first conveyor section 33 and thus inclined second conveyor section 34 second conveying section 34 is preferably opposite by 5 ° the first conveyor section 33 inclined.
  • the conveyor speeds the conveyor sections 33, 34 of the discharge conveyor 29 are preferably at the conveyor speeds of the conveyor sections 31, 32 of the feed conveyor 28 adapted.
  • the second Conveying section 34 of the discharge conveyor 29 is accordingly opposite the first conveyor section 33 with double conveyor speed, in the present case at 2 meters per second.
  • the conveyor section 26 is interrupted.
  • the test station 27 is arranged in this area.
  • the ends 35, 36 are spaced apart. The distance is preferably 80 mm.
  • the angle of inclination of the second conveyor section 32 of the feed conveyor 28, its conveying speed and the distance between the Ends 35, 36 of feed conveyor 28 and discharge conveyor 29 are of this type adapted to each other that the cigarette packs 10, 19 after passing the test area 30 safely along the trajectory and in the correct position on the conveyor 29, or its second Land conveyor section 34.
  • the conveying speed of the second Conveying sections 32, 34 vary.
  • the necessary conveying speed of the second conveyor section 32 of the feed conveyor 28 for one adapted to the width of the test area 30 The throw results from the basic physical equations about an upward, oblique throw.
  • the movement of the Cigarette packs 10, 19 along the test area 30 the throw path is therefore determined by the initial parameters Inclination angle and conveyor speed of the second conveyor section 32 determined.
  • the first conveyor section 31 of the feed conveyor 28 and the first Conveying section 33 and second conveying section 34 of the Abannaers 29 are each by an endless conveyor, namely a belt conveyor 43, 44, 45 formed. On the belt conveyors 43, 44, 45 are the cigarette packs 10, 19 with her Transport through conveyor line 26.
  • the second Conveying section 32 of the feed conveyor 28 is through an upper one Endless conveyor and a lower endless conveyor formed, namely by an upper belt conveyor 46 and a lower one Belt conveyor 47. Between the facing conveyor strands the belt conveyor 46, 47 of the second conveyor section 32 of the The cigarette packs 10, 19 become the feed conveyor 28 conveyed. In the area of the second conveyor section 32 of the feeder 28, the cigarette packs 10, 19 accordingly on two opposing packing walls of the belt conveyors 46, 47 detected. This will make the position of the cigarette packs 10, 19 before leaving the Feed conveyor 28 and thus before it is thrown over the test area 30 stabilized.
  • the upper belt conveyor 46 and lower belt conveyor 47 of the second conveyor section 32 of the feed conveyor 28 driven at the
  • All belt conveyors 43..47 are guided over deflection rollers 55.
  • the deflection rollers 55 of the belt conveyor 43..47 are over Pins 56 in the support bars 49, 50 of feed conveyor 28 and Abier 29 stored.
  • In the area of the second funding section 32 of the feed conveyor 28 is the support bar 39 to the Area of the upper belt conveyor 46 pulled.
  • the conveyor dreams of the belt conveyor 43, 44, 45, 47 are through one guide plate 57 is stabilized.
  • the guide plates 57 in the area of Belt conveyors 43, 44, 45, 47 prevent that of the to be transported Cigarette packs 10, 19 facing conveyor belt sags down.
  • pressure members 59 On the conveyor plate 58 of the upper Belt conveyor 46 of the second conveyor section 32 of the Feed conveyor 28, pressure members 59, namely leaf springs, are arranged. With the help of the pressure members 59 or leaf springs, the Conveyor run of the upper belt conveyor 46 to the top pointing pack wall of the cigarette pack 10, 19 pressed. This ensures that cigarette packs 10, 19 different formats exactly transported and accelerated become.
  • the belt conveyors 44, 46, 47 of the second conveyor sections 32, 34 of feed conveyor 28 and discharge conveyor 29 are common Drive 60, namely a motor, with the same conveying speed driven.
  • the drive belt 61 is over several deflecting rollers 62 in the area of the belt conveyor 44, 46, 47 out. Coaxial with the deflecting rollers 55
  • Belt conveyors 44, 46, 47 transfer drive rollers 63 mounted ultimately the drive power of the drive 60 to the Belt conveyors.
  • the test station 27 is arranged in the test area 30. This consists of several test organs 64. In the exemplary embodiment 3, the test station 27 has three test organs 64. These are designed as cameras.
  • the test station 27 When throwing the cigarette packs 10, 19 through the test area 30 are the cigarette packs 10, 19 on the test organs 64 along a leaning lane moving past. During this movement the cigarette packs 10, 19 from the test organs 64 sampled. Because the cigarette packs 10, 19 on the throwing track neither supported by belt conveyors nor other guides the test organs 64, the cigarette packs 10, 19 Scan freely on all sides.
  • a sensor 65 is arranged at the testing area 30 or the testing station 27 End 35 of the feed conveyor 28 or its second conveyor section 32.
  • the sensor 65 is on here one of the guides 37 attached.
  • the sensor 65 monitors the Transport of the cigarette packs 10, 19 along the Conveyor line 26. If a pack of cigarettes 10, 19 from second conveyor section 32 of the feed conveyor 28 in the Test area 30 is moved in, so by the sensor 65 Control signal for the test organs 64 of the test station 27 generated.
  • the control signal of the sensor 65 activates the test organs 64 if necessary, staggered from each other so that the packing walls the pack of cigarettes 10, 19 at the right time be scanned.
  • a second embodiment of a device according to the invention for electro-optical scanning of cigarette packs 10, 19 shows FIG. 6.
  • a conveyor line 66 for the cigarette packs 10, 19 is formed by a tube 67.
  • the tube 67 In a vertical, that is, vertical section the tube 67 is interrupted.
  • the tube 67 In the conveying direction 71 in front of the test station 68 The tube 67 accordingly forms a feed conveyor 74.
  • In the conveying direction 71 to the test station 68 then forms the tube 67 a discharge conveyor 75.
  • test organs 69 all pack walls of the packs of cigarettes 10, 19. Analogous to 3 - 5 5 are the test organs 69 controllable by a sensor 70.

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