EP0840703B1 - Handling device for layered cellulose products, in particular cotton wool pads - Google Patents
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- B26—HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; SEVERING
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- The invention relates to a handling device for conveying layered cellulose products, in particular cotton wool pads, formed in succession during production, between a production station and a packaging station.
- The formerly conventional method of handling during the conveyance of such cellulose products between a production station and a packaging station or a similar further processing unit such as a skein forming unit or the like and the resultant problems will be described hereinafter with reference to the production of cotton wool pads. These cotton wool pads are produced from a web of cellulose using a stamping machine, the cotton wool pads being inserted in succession into a tube leading away from the stamping machine and being carried away from the stamping machine. As new cotton wool pads are continuously inserted into the tube, a stack is formed in the tube and is pushed through the tube owing to the pressure of the respective newly arriving cotton wool pads. At the end of the respective tube remote from the stamping machine, a partial stack, which comprises a number of cotton wool pads corresponding to the respective packaging unit and is inserted into a bag placed on the end of the tube, is separated manually from the stack.
- An alternative to this manual method of handling is described in
DE 43 16 363 A1, which describes an automatic device for loading these bags. This loading device is in turn arranged at the end of the tube remote from the stamping machine and has a separating unit for splitting the stack into partial stacks and a discharge system for conveying the partial stack from the separating unit into the bag. - A problem during the above-mentioned conveyance of the cotton wool pads from the production station to the packaging station is that the individual cotton wool pads are shaped into a continuous stack which is pushed along in a tube. On the one hand, owing to the shaping into a continuous stack, it is necessary to open the stack for packaging in partial stacks again, which necessitates either labour-intensive manual activity or a constructionally complex loading device of the type described in
DE 43 16 363 A1. On the other hand, the conveyance of the cotton wool pads from the production station to the packaging station in the form of a stack in a tube is susceptible to breakdown and can adversely affect the quality of the cotton wool pads. For example, the cut edges of the cotton wool pads can be damaged by their contact with the tube wall. - Furthermore, owing to the virtually continuous conveyance of the cotton wool pads from the production stamping machine to the packaging station, the problem arises that the entire stack comes to a standstill when the stamping process is interrupted and packaging therefore also has to be interrupted. In this respect, there is no cushion effect with the known method of conveying the cotton wool pads from the production station to the packaging station.
- On the basis of the above-mentioned problems, the object of the invention is to provide a handling device for conveying layered cellulose products formed in succession during production between a production and packaging station, with which the cellulose products can immediately be formed into partial stacks with a number of products which corresponds to the packaging unit and with which the continuous conveyance of the products in a continuous stack and the associated problems are avoided.
- This object is achieved by the features mentioned in
Claim 1. The handling device for said conveyance of cellulose products is accordingly provided with an intermediate storage system which follows the production station and comprises at least one pair of separate holding chambers for the serial holding of the successive cellulose products delivered from the production station in a number corresponding to the packaging unit and for the transfer of the cellulose products held in this way as a package into a respective conveying cartridge. One holding chamber of this pair, of which there is at least one, can be coupled alternately to the outlet of the production station and at the same time the other holding chamber in a transfer station to the respective conveying cartridge. A conveyor belt is also provided by means of which a plurality of such conveying cartridges is transferred between the transfer station in which a respective package of cellulose products is transferred from one of the holding chambers of the intermediate storage system into an associated conveying cartridge and can be conveyed to the packaging station in which the content of a respective conveying cartridge is conveyed into a sales container, for example a bag. - With the described intermediate storage system, on the one hand, the successively formed cellulose products are now immediately formed into partial stacks comprising the desired number of products. On the other hand, the intermediate storage system also serves to convey these partial stacks in that the holding chambers of the intermediate storage system can each be coupled alternately to the production station and the specified transfer station. It is therefore completely unnecessary to transport the cellulose products by pushing them over a prolonged distance through a tube. Furthermore, the use of a conveyor belt on which a plurality of conveying cartridges is handled provides a cushion. In fact, there is always a certain number of conveying cartridges filled with cellulose products and re-emptied conveying cartridges available in the region of the conveyor belt. This means that the packaging station can continue operating, for example during an interruption in production in the region of the cotton wool pad stamping machine and vice versa.
- Further features, details and advantages of the invention and preferred embodiments thereof can be inferred from the sub claims and the following description in which an embodiment of the subject of the invention is described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
- Figure 1 is a front view of the handling device.
- Figures 2 and 3 are views from the direction of the arrow II in figure 1 in different positions of the intermediate storage system of the handling device.
- Figures 4 and 5 are schematic front views of the transfer station of the handling device.
- Figures 6 and 7 are a front and side view of the transfer station.
- Figures 8 and 9 are vertical sections through a stamping machine system with coupled holding block of the handling device.
- Figures 10 and 11 are schematic front views of a holding block with a diaphragm system.
- Figures 1 and 2 show a handling device according to the invention which is used to convey
cotton wool pads 1 between astamping machine 2 indicated in dot dash lines as production station and apackaging station 3 shown in fragmented form in the left-hand part of figure 1. - As a general view, the main components of the handling device which are arranged on a branched multi-part frame G will be outlined briefly hereinafter. Thus, the
stamping machine 2 is followed by an intermediate storage system which is designated as a whole by 4 and is provided with eight pairs ofholding chambers holding chambers holding blocks 7, 8. As shown in figure 2, the twoholding blocks 7, 8 are arranged relative to one another such that the longitudinal axes L of theholding chambers 5 in one block 7 intersect the longitudinal axes L of theholding chambers 6 in theother holding block 8 at a rightangle W in each case and theholding chambers - The
holding chambers stamping machine 2 or to arespective conveying cartridge 10 in a transfer station designated as a whole by 11. - As shown in figure 1, a
conveyor belt 12 is provided by means of which thenumerous conveying cartridges 10 can be conveyed between thetransfer station 11 and thepackaging station 3 and back again. Theconveyor belt 12 consists of anupper apron 13 and a lower apron 14 each comprising rails 15, 16 (figures 2, 3 and 7). Thecylindrical conveying cartridges 10 roll thereon, conventional guides, not shown, being provided to guarantee a clean rolling movement without tilting of theconveying cartridges 10. - The
upper apron 13 has a supply portion 17 which falls away in the conveying direction F of the conveyingcartridges 10 and to which there is attached a horizontal portion 18 in the region of which thetransfer station 11 is located. From there, theupper apron 13 continues with a connecting portion 19 composed of a rising flank 20 and a fallingflank 21 with respect to the conveying direction F. At the end of the fallingflank 21, theupper apron 13 opens into a holding drum 22 of thepackaging station 3 in whose chambers 23 arespective conveying cartridge 10 is held. The stack ofcotton wool pads 1 located in therespective conveying cartridge 10 is ejected by a discharge device, of which only the driving and guide elements designated by 24 are shown in figure 1, and is introduced into a bag. Owing to an intermittent rotation of the holding drum 22 in an anticlockwise direction with respect to figure 1, successively filled conveyingcartridges 10 are therefore picked up in the chambers 23 of the holding drum 22, are emptied and are conveyed out of the holding drum 22 at the end of the revolving movement in the discharge region 25 and are transferred to the lower apron 14. This is formed continuously as a descending apron with varying inclinations. At its end, the lower apron 14 opens into alifting device 26 comprising ashaft 27 which leads vertically upwardly to the beginning of the supply portion 17. Alifting piston 28 which can lift arespective conveying cartridge 10 over thereflux barrier 29 is arranged at the lower end of theshaft 27.Successive conveying cartridges 10 are therefore moved upwardly along theshaft 27 until they pass from theshaft 27 into the supply portion 17. During this stage, a schematically indicatedcounter 30 is actuated and its reading in turn controls anadvance system 31 and thelifting piston 28. - As shown in figure 2, the two
holding blocks 7, 8 are arranged together on a revolvinghead 33 which is mounted rotatably via a pivot bearing 32 and of which the axis of rotation D coincides with the rotational axis of symmetry between the two identically designedholding blocks 7, 8 with respect to a rotational angle of 180°. This means that, during a rotation R of the revolvinghead 33 round the axis of rotation D with an angle of 180°, the twoholding blocks 7, 8 exchange their position exactly. Furthermore, the revolvinghead 33 rests with a bearing journal 34 in the pivot bearing 32, its rear end being provided with agear wheel 35 which engages in atoothed rack 35 actuated linearly by a pneumatic drive. The maximum rotational angle of the revolvinghead 33 is also limited to exactly 180° bystops 89 which are merely indicated. - As also shown in figures 2 and 3, the pivot bearing 32 for the revolving
head 33 is mounted on avertical slide 36 which is guided vertically movably on avertical guide 37 on aframe cantilever 38 and can be moved to and fro in this direction between the coupling position shown in figure 2 and the alternative position shown in figure 3 by a drive which is not shown in detail. Further details of these two positions will be given with reference to the functional description of the handling device. - As can also be inferred from figures 2 and 3, the intermediate storage system 4 is allocated a
discharge system 39 which is arranged on aframe column 40. This column has a pneumatic piston/cylinder drive 41 at whose free piston rod end 42 a horizontally movably mountedslide block 43 is arranged. Theslide block 43 carries freely projecting discharge rams 44 which are directed in the displacement direction of theslide block 43 and toward thetransfer station 11 and of which the number and respective longitudinal axis coincide with the number and respective longitudinal axis of theholding chambers holding blocks 7, 8. A respectivecylindrical head 45 is shaped at the free ends of the discharge rams 44 and is provided with anannular collar 46 at its rear end. The purpose of this design will be explained in the following description of operation. - As shown in figures 8 and 9, a so-called "overhanging"
piston 47 is mounted displaceably in the direction of the longitudinal axis L in eachholding chamber piston 47 has aguide collar 48 and spreading blades 49 which extend parallel to the longitudinal axis L are distributed over the periphery of thepiston 47 and of which thefree ends 50 are loaded radially outwardly by a spreading ring 51. Thepiston 47 therefore remains in the respective position in theholding chamber guide collar 48 remote from the spreading blades 49, thepiston 47 is provided with an annular shoulder 52. Thepiston 47 is also provided with a longitudinally axially extending through-aperture 53 of which the internal diameter di is slightly greater than the external diameter da of thehead 45 of the discharge rams44. - Figures 8 to 11 also show a
diaphragm system 54 which is arranged in front of the through-aperture 55 at the open end of the holdingchambers diaphragm system 54 has two identically designeddiaphragm plates - According to this external contour,
circular apertures 58 are introduced into thediaphragm plates diaphragm system 54 shown in figures 8 and 10, are exactly aligned with the holdingchambers diaphragm plates lever mechanism 59 andslots 60 through which guide pins 61 on theend face 62 of the holding blocks 7, 8 penetrate, so the edges of theapertures 58 in thediaphragm plates apertures 55 of the holdingchambers aperture 55. The displacement drive of thediaphragm plates lever mechanism 59 which, in turn, acts on thediaphragm plates eccentric pins 64, 65. - The
transfer station 11 will now be described in detail with reference to figures 4 to 7. As shown, in particular, in figure 7, thistransfer station 11 has a manipulation platform which is designated as a whole by 66 and by means of which the empty conveyingcartridges 10 supplied from thepackaging station 3 via theconveyor belt 12 can be orientated according to the arrangement of the holdingchambers cotton wool pads 1 located therein. For this purpose, thecarrier 68 of the machine frame G holding therails 15, 16 of theconveyor belt 12 has atransverse guide 69 on which atransverse slide 70 can be displaced transversely to the conveying direction F via the pneumatic piston/cylinder drive 71. On the downwardly suspendedtransverse slide 70 there is arranged, on the one hand, an upwardly extendingcantilever 72 which carries, at its end, astop plate 73 standing vertically and parallel to the conveying direction V laterally next to the side of therail 16 remote from the intermediate storage system 4. Holding-down means 74 which extend over theapron 13 and cooperate with an orientatingtemplate 75 for the conveyingcartridges 10 are provided on thecantilever 72 above thestop plate 73. This orientatingtemplate 75 consists of two orientatingplates 76 which are arranged parallel to therails 15, 16 with. spacing between them and are arranged on avertical slide 77. Thevertical slide 77 is displaceable in height on thetransverse slide 70 via a further pneumatic piston/cylinder drive 78. The orientatingplates 76 each have substantiallytriangular recesses 79 which are open at the top and are lined up with spacing along the length of the orientatingplates 76 in such a way that supportingwebs 80 remain between therecesses 79. Owing to this design of the orientatingplates 76, nine conveyingcartridges 10 which are arranged on therails 15, 16 in the region of the horizontal portion 18 of theupper apron 13 are lifted during the lifting of the orientatingtemplate 75 by means of thevertical slide 57 into the zig-zag configuration shown in figure 5. In this position, the holding-down means 74 load theindividual conveying cartridges 10 from above so the conveyingcartridges 10 are located in positions which are exactly defined relative to one another. The conveyingcartridges 10 shown by a cross in figure 5 are orientated with their longitudinal axes exactly in alignment with the longitudinal axes L of the holding blocks 5 of the respective horizontally standing block 7 and can be coupled directly to these holdingchambers 5 by a transverse displacement by means of thetransverse slide 70. They are pressed by thestop plate 73 against theend face 62 of the holding block 7 with interposition of thediaphragm plates - The mode of operation of the handling device according to the invention is described in detail hereinafter.
- The position of the intermediate storage system 4 in which the vertically directed holding block 7 is coupled to the stamping
machine 2 by the upwardly drivenvertical slide 36, shown in figures 2 and 8, is used as a basis. As shown in figure 8, the stampingmachine 2 comprises eightstamping blades 81 which are mutually offset in the stamping plane in a known manner, one of which is shown in figure 8. Eachstamping blade 81 cooperates with an annular opposingblade 82. Between thestamping blades 81 and opposingblades 82 there is guided a web ofcotton wool 83 from which a respectivecotton wool pad 1 is stamped by a stamping stroke of thestamping blade 81 against the opposingblade 82 and is pushed downwardly by the opposingblade 82 into thecylindrical channel 85 in the opposingblade carrier 86 by means of thedischarge ram 84 displaceably guided in thestamping blade 81. As shown in figure 8, the holding block 7 stands in a holdingaperture 87 of thebearing block 88 of the stampingmachine 2 carrying the opposingblade carrier 86, the overhangingpiston 47 being arranged in front of the through-aperture 55 of the holdingchamber 5 and projecting from the through-aperture 55 with its annular shoulder 52. Thediaphragm plates machine 2 are deposited on the annular shoulder 52. Thepiston 47 is pressed down slowly by the increasing pressure of the expandingcotton wool pads 1 until apackage 67 ofcotton wool pads 1 has finally been inserted in the holdingchamber 5 in a number desired by the respective packaging unit. It should be added that, during the stamping of the lastcotton wool pad 1, thedischarge ram 84 performs a greater stroke and completely traverses theduct 85 and pushes thepackage 67 completely into the holdingchamber 5. After thedischarge ram 84 has been driven back into thestamping blade 81, thecotton wool pads 1 are reliably held in the holdingchamber 5 owing to closure of thediaphragm system 54, thediaphragm plates lever mechanism 59. - The intermediate storage system 4 is then driven down from the coupling position described hereinbefore, so that the holding block 7 travels downwardly from the holding
aperture 87 in thebearing block 88 into the alternative position shown in figure 3 by actuation of thevertical slide 36. In this position, the revolvinghead 33 can be actuated and can be rotated through a rotational angle of 180° round the axis of rotation D. The two holdingblocks 7 and 8 therefore change their position. The space required for the rotational movement is shown in dot dash lines in figures 3 and 4 (funnel-shaped line in figure 3, elliptical line in figure 4). - The
vertical slide 36 is then driven upwardly again so the holdingblock 8 with theempty holding chambers 6 is conveyed into the coupling position shown in figure 8 and the holding block 7 with the filled holdingchambers 5 into the coupling position with thetransfer station 11 shown in figure 2. In this position of the intermediate storage system 4, the holdingchambers 6 of the holdingblock 8 can be filled in the manner just described. - The transfer of the
packages 67 in the holdingchambers 5 into the conveyingcartridges 10 is explained as follows: - The manipulating
platform 66 is activated after the intermediate storage system 4 has been raised into the coupling position. The empty conveyingcartridges 10 conveyed into the horizontal portion 18 of theupper apron 13 by theadvance system 31 are lifted by means of the orientatingtemplate 75 by raising thevertical slide 77 so they assume the configuration shown in figures 5 and 6. Thetransverse slide 70 is then actuated so these conveyingcartridges 10 can be coupled to the holdingchambers 5 of the holding block 7 by means of thestop plate 73. Thediaphragm system 54 is opened. Itsdiaphragm plates chambers 5 by actuation of the pneumatic piston/cylinder drive 41, theirheads 45 penetrating the through-aperture 53 in thepiston 47 and conveying thepackage 67 from the holdingchambers 5 into the respectively coupled conveyingcartridge 10 with their face end. - The
piston 47 is grasped by theannular collar 46 at thehead 45 of the discharge rams 44 and is entrained into the position shown in figure 8. After the delivery rams 44 have been pulled back, the conveyingcartridges 10 are brought back over therails 15, 16 of theupper apron 13 by actuation of thetransverse slide 70 and the orientatingtemplate 75 is then lowered by actuation of thevertical slide 77. The conveyingcartridges 10 therefore lie serially in succession on therails 15, 16 again. At the same time, the intermediate storage system 4 is driven downwards again and the revolvinghead 33 actuated so the positions of the holding blocks 7, 8 are changed again and the holdingchambers 6 of the intermediate storage system 4, which have in the meantime been filled, can be emptied into the subsequent conveyingcartridges 10 again in the manner just described. - The filled conveying
cartridges 10 are carried off to thepackaging station 3 and the conveyingcartridges 10 emptied there are returned in the manner described at the outset via the upper andlower apron 13, 14, the liftingdevice 26 and theadvance system 31.
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- Handling device for conveying layered cellulose products which are formed in succession during production, in particular cotton wool pads (1), between a production station (machining station 2) and a packaging station (3) with:an intermediate storage system (4) following the production station (stamping machine 2) with at least one pair of separate holding chambers (5, 6) for the serial holding of the cellulose products (cotton wood pads 1) successively delivered from the production station (stamping machine 2) in a number corresponding to the packaging unit and for transferring the cellulose products (cotton wool pads 1) held in this way as a package (67) into a respective conveying cartridge (10), wherein one holding chamber (5) of the pair, of which there is at least one, can be coupled to the outlet of the production station (stamping machine 2) and at the same time the other holding chamber (6) in a transfer station (11) can be coupled to a respectively allocated conveying cartridge (10)alternately anda conveyor belt (12) by means of which a plurality of conveying cartridges (10) can be conveyed between a transfer station (11) in which a respective package (67) of cellulose products (cotton wool pads 1) is transferred from one of the holding chambers (5) of the intermediate storage system (4) into an associated conveying cartridge (10) and the packaging station (3) in which the package (67) can be conveyed from one of the respective conveying cartridges (10) into a sales container.
- Handling device according to Claim 1, characterized in that the intermediate storage system (4) comprises two holding blocks (7, 8) with respective adjacently arranged holding chambers (5, 6) which are open on both sides and are in equal numbers, the holding blocks (7, 8) being arranged in such a way that the longitudinal axes (L) of the holding chambers (5) in a holding block (7) enclose a rightangle (W) in each case with the longitudinal axes (L) of the holding chambers (6) in the other holding block (8) and the holding chambers (5, 6) intersect one another in their foot regions (intersecting regions 9).
- Handling device according to Claim 2, characterized in that the holding blocks (7, 8) are mounted together on a rotatable revolving head (33) of which the axis of rotation (D) coincides with the rotational axis of symmetry defined by the two identically designed holding blocks (7, 8) with respect to a rotational angle of 180°.
- Handling device according to Claim 3, characterized in that the revolving head (33) is mounted so as to be vertically displaceable on a vertical slide (37) between a coupling position on the one hand in which the holding chambers (5, 6) of the two holding blocks (7, 8) are coupled to the production station (stamping machine 2) and transfer station (11) and an alternative position, on the other hand, in which the revolving head (33) is freely rotatable in space with the holding blocks (7, 8).
- Handling device according to one of Claims 2 to 4, characterized in that the intermediate storage system (4) is allocated a discharge system (39) which, by means of delivery rams (44) which can be pushed longitudinally axially through the holding chambers (5, 6) coupled to the transfer station (11), conveys the package (67) of cellulose products (cotton wool pads 1) located therein into the respectively allocated conveying cartridges (10).
- Handling device according to one of Claims 1 to 5, characterized in that an overhanging piston (47) is mounted on each holding chamber (5, 6) so as to be displaceable longitudinally axially under the stack pressure of the cellulose products (cotton wool pads 1) delivered from the production station (stamping machine 2).
- Handling device according to Claims 5 and 6, characterized in that the piston (47) has a central through-aperture (53) for a head (45) of the discharge rams (44), the head (45) having a driver (annular collar 46) for the piston (47).
- Handling device according to one of Claims 1 to 7, characterized in that a diaphragm system (54) which can be moved to and fro between an open position in which the cross section of the holding chambers (5, 6) is completely exposed and a closed position in which the diaphragm system (54) laterally constricts the free cross section of the through-aperture (55) of the holding chambers (5, 6) is arranged in front of the through-aperture (55) of the holding chambers (5, 6).
- Handling device according to one of Claims 1 to 8, characterized in that the transfer station (11) has a manipulating platform (66) by means of which the empty conveying cartridges (10) supplied from the packaging station (3) can be orientated according to the arrangement of the holding chambers (5, 6) and can be coupled to them in order to transfer the package (67) of cellulose products (cotton wool pads 1) located therein.
- Handling device according to Claim 9, characterized in that the manipulating platform (66) has a vertical slide (77) with a positioning holder (orientating template 75) for lifting the conveying cartridges (10) from the conveyor belt (12) and for orientating the conveying cartridges (10) and a horizontal slide (transverse slide 70) for coupling the conveying cartridges (10) to the respectively allocated holding chambers (5, 6).
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