EP0885809B1 - Procédé et dispositif de fabrication de paquets de cigarettes à charnière - Google Patents

Procédé et dispositif de fabrication de paquets de cigarettes à charnière Download PDF

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EP0885809B1
EP0885809B1 EP98111104A EP98111104A EP0885809B1 EP 0885809 B1 EP0885809 B1 EP 0885809B1 EP 98111104 A EP98111104 A EP 98111104A EP 98111104 A EP98111104 A EP 98111104A EP 0885809 B1 EP0885809 B1 EP 0885809B1
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Heinz Focke
Henry Buse
Thomas Häfker
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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
    • B65D85/00—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials
    • B65D85/07—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles
    • B65D85/08—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular
    • B65D85/10—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular for cigarettes
    • B65D85/1036—Containers formed by erecting a rigid or semi-rigid blank
    • B65D85/1045—Containers formed by erecting a rigid or semi-rigid blank having a cap-like lid hinged to an edge
    • 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
    • B65B19/02—Packaging cigarettes
    • B65B19/22—Wrapping the cigarettes; Packaging the cigarettes in containers formed by folding wrapping material around formers
    • B65B19/228—Preparing and feeding blanks
    • 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
    • B65B61/00—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages
    • B65B61/02—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for perforating, scoring, slitting, or applying code or date marks on material prior to packaging
    • 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
    • B65D85/00—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials
    • B65D85/07—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles
    • B65D85/08—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular
    • B65D85/10—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular for cigarettes
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H31/00—Pile receivers
    • B65H31/04—Pile receivers with movable end support arranged to recede as pile accumulates
    • B65H31/08—Pile receivers with movable end support arranged to recede as pile accumulates the articles being piled one above another
    • B65H31/10—Pile receivers with movable end support arranged to recede as pile accumulates the articles being piled one above another and applied at the top of the pile
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H31/00—Pile receivers
    • B65H31/24—Pile receivers multiple or compartmented, e.d. for alternate, programmed, or selective filling
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B31—MAKING ARTICLES OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER; WORKING PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31B—MAKING CONTAINERS OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31B50/00—Making rigid or semi-rigid containers, e.g. boxes or cartons
    • B31B50/006—Controlling; Regulating; Measuring; Improving safety
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B31—MAKING ARTICLES OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER; WORKING PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31B—MAKING CONTAINERS OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31B50/00—Making rigid or semi-rigid containers, e.g. boxes or cartons
    • B31B50/14—Cutting, e.g. perforating, punching, slitting or trimming
    • B31B50/20—Cutting sheets or blanks
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B31—MAKING ARTICLES OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER; WORKING PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31B—MAKING CONTAINERS OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31B50/00—Making rigid or semi-rigid containers, e.g. boxes or cartons
    • B31B50/74—Auxiliary operations
    • B31B50/88—Printing; Embossing
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2405/00—Parts for holding the handled material
    • B65H2405/30—Other features of supports for sheets
    • B65H2405/33—Compartmented support
    • B65H2405/331—Juxtaposed compartments
    • B65H2405/3311—Juxtaposed compartments for storing articles horizontally or slightly inclined

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  • the invention relates to a method for producing cigarette packs of Type folding box, by folding blanks from thin cardboard in one Packaging machine, the blanks being cut from a sheet of material are separated and folding tabs delimited by punch cuts, as well as fold lines formed by embossing. Furthermore, the Invention an apparatus for performing this method.
  • Hinged boxes are a widespread type of packets for cigarettes worldwide.
  • the folding boxes consist of a (lower) part of the box and an a rear wall of the same hinged lid. Furthermore belongs to this type of pack a collar - also made of thin cardboard - that is in one piece connected to the blank for the hinged box or from a separate Cutting can be made.
  • the blanks for this type of pack have so far been manufactured separately, in particular in a paper mill.
  • the (one-sided) printed, with punching lines and embossing lines Blanks provided for folding are delivered as a stack of blanks and entered into the packaging machine, usually in a shaft shape Blank magazines.
  • the material supply of the packaging machine with regard the cuts are complex and prone to failure.
  • the invention is based on the task of supplying packaging machines with blanks from thin cardboard for the production of cigarette packs of the folding box type in terms of performance and reliability to improve.
  • the finished blanks are collected according to the invention to form Stacking and via vertical and horizontal conveyors a cutting magazine on the machine side fed.
  • Another peculiarity of the invention is that the wound by the Warehousing of the material web resulting deformations, namely curves in the area of the blanks.
  • the Material web passed through a counter-forming unit, namely in particular passed over deforming rollers.
  • the degree of (counter) deformation of the material web is adjustable according to the invention, namely according to the diameter the bobine. Their decreasing during the consumption of packaging material Diameter is therefore monitored according to the invention.
  • An inventive device for performing the method has the Features of claim 5.
  • the device is useful as an additional device trained for a packaging machine for folding boxes. Then she is Connected to the packaging machine via vertical conveyors and horizontal conveyors.
  • Fig. 2 shows a typically designed blank 10 for the production of a hinged box or hinge-lid pack for cigarettes.
  • the elongated blank 10 is made from a partial area to form a box part 11 and from a further partial area to form a cover 12.
  • Contours at the ends of the blank 10 are characteristic.
  • On one side is a closing edge 13 of the box part 11 from a transverse section and lateral oblique Legs formed so that a trapezoidal edge recess of the blank 10 arises.
  • the lid 12 Opposite in the area the lid 12 has a special contour a lid inner tab 14 and by oblique closing edges 15th of the lid.
  • Blanks 10 or similarly formed are successively separated from a continuous web of material 19. This exists made of thin cardboard.
  • the material web 19 is in the area a cutting device 20 withdrawn from a bobbin 21.
  • the cutting device 20 can also be used independently Machine for the production of complete, usable blanks 10 for the production of (cigarette) packs of Type hinge lid.
  • the cutting device 20 is part of one here Packaging system or a packaging machine 22 for the Manufacture of this special type of pack.
  • the cutting device 20 is at a distance from the packaging machine 22 arranged.
  • the blanks 10 are as Cutting stack 23 from the cutting device 20 by a Horizontal conveyor 24 of the packaging machine 22 fed.
  • the material web 19 in the region of the cutting device 20 of the rotatable on a support pin 25 stored Bobine 21 can be removed. Moves to this in There is a replacement bobbin (roughly the same horizontal plane) 26, also on a trunnion 27.
  • the replacement bobbin 26 is introduced after consumption of the bobbin 21 in the manufacturing process.
  • the material web 19 is shown schematically by a shown splicing unit 28 passed through. in the Area of the same finds an (automatic) connection of the expiring Material web 19 with a new material web to be connected instead of.
  • the material web 19 can be used for processing in the area of Cutting device 20 partially (otherwise) prepared his.
  • the material web 19 can already be finished with one Blanks 10 corresponding printing 29 (hatched Areas in Fig. 1 and Fig. 2).
  • Blanks 10 corresponding printing 29
  • Certain creases can also be applied accordingly There are fold lines.
  • the cutting device 20 An important part of the cutting device 20 is a cutting unit 31. In their area, the blanks 10 are initially completed within the web 19 and then by transverse cut 32 separated from this.
  • the cutting unit 31 consists of several successive ones Working units. Each work unit takes over one Sub-function until completion of the blanks 10.
  • the most important work unit is a cutting unit 33. This is set up so that the material web 19 in the front End area with the die cuts 18 and with embossing or Grooves to form the longitudinal fold lines 16 and transverse fold lines 17 is provided. Furthermore, the End contours of the blanks directed transversely to the material web 19 10 by a contoured longitudinal section 34, 35 on both Long sides of the material web 19 produced. Finally leads the cutting unit 33 the transverse cut 32 by. The cut is accordingly in the area of the cutting unit 33 10 - except for the printing 29 and a possible embossing 30 - completed.
  • the material web 19 is in relation to the dimensions of the (transverse) blanks 10 oversized.
  • the cutting unit 33 is so on both side edges a piece of material 61, 62 separated from the material web 19, which extends in each case to the edge of the material web 19 and has the respective contour of a blank 10. This is how it is created on one side, namely in the area of the longitudinal section 34, a trapezoidal piece of material 61. On the opposite Side is in the area of the inner lid lobe 14 an approximately U-shaped piece of material 62 is separated.
  • This Pieces of material 61, 62 are immediately before the transverse Separating cut 32 separated, so that after the in Fig. 2nd shown blank 10 is present.
  • the print 29 is attached so that the longitudinal cuts 34, 35 - with an appropriate design the blank 10 or the pack - within the printing 29 run.
  • the cutting unit 33 is used to carry out these measures provided with coordinated work rolls 36, 37, the in the described distribution of tasks as cutting and embossing rollers are trained. The steps described are during the (continuous) passage of the material web 19 completed.
  • an untreated Material web 19 is made available Cutting unit 31 equipped with additional work units, which are arranged upstream of the cutting unit 33. Thereafter, the material web 19 first runs through a printing unit 38. In the area of the same, the printing 29 becomes more packaging-appropriate Position during continuous transport of the material web 19 attached.
  • the printing unit 38 consists essentially of an upper printing unit 39 and a lower backup roller 40.
  • embossing unit 41 consists essentially of two interacting embossing rollers 42, 43, between which the material web 19 runs.
  • Blanks 10 are collected to form stacks of blanks 23.
  • the cutting unit 31 a (horizontal) cutting path 44.
  • This consists of a A plurality of pairs of rollers 45, which are used to transport the blanks 10 are driven in the transverse direction. The distances between the pairs of rollers 45 from each other are slightly smaller than the dimension the blanks 10 in the conveying direction.
  • Stackers 46, 47 are arranged in the region of the cutting station. These are containers open at the top and on the narrow sides, into which the blanks 10 can be fed in succession from above are.
  • the blanks are opened in the stacker 46, 47, respectively one of the height adjustable support plate 48 stored. This is in accordance with the increasing height of the in the stacker 46, 47th formed blank stack 23 lowered.
  • the support plate 48 enters the stacker 46, 47 through an open side. In In a lower position, the support plate is on the Height of a stack conveyor 49, a belt conveyor. In this the lower position of the support plate 48 is the blank stack 23 in the forklift 46, 47 completely.
  • One over an open page in the Stacker 46, 47 entering slide 50 (Fig. 9) pushes the Blank stacks 23 from the stacker 46, 47 down to the stack conveyor 49th
  • a fixed bridge plate 51 arranged between the stack conveyor 49 and the support plate 48 a fixed bridge plate 51 arranged. This extends in the amount of a funding strand of the stack conveyor 49.
  • the support plate 48 is during the filling process of the stackers 46, 47 to the level of Bridge plate 51 lowered. When this position is reached the stack of blanks 23 is pushed off by the slide 50 over the bridge plate 51 to the stack conveyor 49.
  • the bridge plate 51 is the lower limit of a recess 63 in an upright support housing 64 of the cutting device 20.
  • the blank stacks 23 are lying on the bridge plate 51 - Pushed through the recess 63 on the next the stacking conveyor 49 arranged in the support housing 64.
  • guide elements are positioned in the region of the cutting path 44. These are pivotable guide plates 52, 53 over each stacker 46, 47. In an upward direction Inclination (stacker 46 in Fig. 7 and Fig. 8) are the incoming Cuts through the guide plate 52 in the assigned Stacker 46 passed. In a horizontal or downward slant directed position (stacker 47 in Fig. 7 and Fig. 8) the incoming blank 10 on the relevant stacker 46, 47 passed to the next stacker or to another organ.
  • the guide plates 52, 53 are coaxial in the present case with a lower counter roller 54 of a pair of rollers 45 above of the respective truck 46, 47 stored, but independently of these counter-rollers 54 pivotable.
  • the cuts produced in the area of the cutting unit 31 10 are checked for correct training.
  • a monitoring device for cuts 10 arranged. In the present case it is about a camera 55 which shows the blanks for correct printing and other details monitored.
  • the camera 55 - or another monitoring body - controls the baffles 52, 53.
  • a faulty blank 10 is cut through the blank 44 conveyed through and outside the area of the forklift 46, 47 discarded.
  • such incorrect cuts are fed into a collecting container 56.
  • This is designed as a tubular container with an entry slot 57 on the cutting path 44 facing Page.
  • the collecting container 56 is via a suction pipe 58 connected to a vacuum source.
  • In the collection container 56 - preferably a horizontal pipe section - entering Incorrect cuts are removed via the suction pipe 58.
  • the blank stacks 23 placed on the stack conveyor 49 become a vertical conveyor 59 in the area of the cutting device 20 handed over.
  • the vertical conveyor 59 takes each a blank stack 23 on a platform 60. By moving up the same is the blank stack 23 on the Level of the horizontal conveyor 24 raised and handed over to this.
  • the horizontal conveyor 24 extends in an elevated manner Level.
  • the blank stacks 23 are from the horizontal conveyor 24 a blank magazine in the area of the packaging machine 22 fed.
  • a special feature of the cutting device 20 is that by the wound shape of the material web 19, that is, by the Bobbin 21, 26 given curvature in the area of the blanks 10 recognized and appropriately balanced, so that flat blanks 10 are manufactured.
  • the Material web 19 after being pulled off the reel 21 or 26 in deformed sense before the material web 19 in the Cutting unit 31 arrives.
  • This consists of two fixed deflection rollers 66 and 67 and one arranged between them forming roll 68. The latter is arranged that the material web running over the forming roller 68 deformed against the curvature given by the reels 21, 26 becomes.
  • the degree or intensity of the counter-deformation of the material web 19 is changeable, in accordance with the present Deformation of the material web 19.
  • the diameter of each running bobbin 21 sampled and then the counter-deformation controlled.
  • the shaping roller 68 is adjustable relative to the deflection rollers 66, 67, by moving up and down.
  • the recognizable in Fig. 5 the upper dashed position causes a small counter-deformation.
  • the lower position shown causes a stronger one or maximum counter-deformation of the material web 19.
  • FIGS. 10 to 14 A modified method or another execution of a Cutting device 20 is shown in FIGS. 10 to 14. at this solution concept in the area of a cutting unit 69 not individual blanks 10 made. Rather one occurs still connected cutting path 70 from the cutting unit 69 out.
  • This cutting path 70 is in accordance with EP 291 692 or similarly trained.
  • the blanks 10 are in the area an (incomplete) separating cut 32 connected to one another, namely through several remaining connections 71. These are around thin or narrow material webs, which are replaced by appropriate Interruptions of the separating cut 32 arise.
  • the Residual connections 71 can ensure a coherent Cutting web 70 in a suitable manner over the length of the blanks 10 or the width of the blank web 70 distributed his. Otherwise, the cutting web 70 is produced as the blanks 10 in the previous embodiment. This applies in particular to the printing, embossing and scoring and die cuts.
  • the coherent cutting web 70 is separated by a cutting unit 72 passed through.
  • the individual Blanks 10 separated from the blank web 70 wherein the remaining connections 71 are severed by Cutting or tearing.
  • the present embodiment are not individual blanks 10 from the blank web 70 divided, but each two still related blanks 10, i.e. a pair of blanks 73.
  • These cutting units that is, cutting pairs 73, are made by a corresponding conveyor of the packaging machine 22 fed. In the area of the same are the cuts of the cut pairs 73 by tearing, shearing or separating from each other divided and immediately pockets of a folding turret 74 fed. To this extent, this principle of solution corresponds EP 312 877.
  • the cutting path 70 inserted into a web memory 75. Within it becomes a memory by zigzag folding of the blank sheet 70 formed, the folding in each case in the area the remaining connections 71.
  • the zigzag-shaped web store is between (upper and lower) storage tapes 76, 77 formed.
  • the web memory 75 is reduced in that the Cutting web 70 on an open side from the area of Storage tapes 76, 77 pulled out and returned to a stretched position by a pair of pull rollers 78.
  • the blanks 10 or the blank pairs 73 are in the area of the separating unit 72 by a tearing process from the blank web 70 separated.
  • two are interacting Separating rollers 81, 82 are provided. These are turning driven, and at a higher speed than that Draw rollers 78. These therefore hold the following cutting path 70 firmly if the with radially projecting segments 83 equipped separating rollers 81, 82 with increased rotational speed the respective front blank 10 or the front blank pair 73 with the segments 83 and from the cutting path Detach 70.
  • the blanks 10 or pairs of blanks 73 become a cross conveyor 84 passed, the pair of blanks 73 in the described Way to the packaging machine 22nd
  • the present exemplary embodiment of the cutting device 20 is also with regard to the arrangement of the bobbin 21 and the replacement bobbin 26 designed differently.
  • a supporting element for the bobbins 21, 26 is a rocker 85.
  • At the ends of each a bobbin 21, 26 rotatably mounted, between each other opposite support bodies 86, 87. These are conical, cone-like organs with a partial area in a center opening 88 of the bobbin 21, 26 enter.
  • the supporting body 86, 87 are rotatably supported and are under pressure or in the central openings 88.
  • the rocker 85 consists of two Swing arm 89, 90, at the ends of the support body 86, 87 attached are.
  • the (double-armed) rocker 85 is rotatable on a portal-like Support frame 91 stored.
  • a pivot bearing 92 is in the Area of upright supports 93 of the support frame 91. This consists of spaced-apart support portals, so that on two opposite supports 93 each a pivot bearing 92 is formed for each swing arm 89, 90 is.
  • a centrally positioned motor 94 is used for the rotary drive the rocker 85, such that the upper bobbin is active from which the material web 21 is withdrawn.
  • Printing 29 and / or embossing 30 may be otherwise applied or in the area of an appropriately trained cutting unit 69th
  • the device described is also for the manufacture and Processing of other embodiments of blanks or Packs suitable.
  • the material web can be used for production the cuts are prepared externally in different ways his. However, the ability to wind the material web must be guaranteed his.

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  1. Procédé de fabrication de paquets de cigarettes du type boíte à couvercle basculant par pliage de découpes (10) en carton mince dans une empaqueteuse (22), les découpes (10) étant détachées d'une bande de matériau (19) par découpage et en outre étant formés des volets délimités par des coupes de découpage (18) et des lignes de pliage (16, 17) formées par estampage, caractérisé par les caractéristiques suivantes :
    a) la bande de matériau (19) est pourvue sur une face d'une impression (29), à savoir, avec formation de découpes (10) situées les unes à côté des autres, d'une impression (29) correspondant au design extérieur de la boíte à couvercle basculant,
    b) l'impression (29) est faite de façon que les découpes (10) soient dirigées à l'intérieur de la bande de matériau (19) perpendiculairement à l'étendue longitudinale de celle-ci, de façon telle que l'impression pour une partie boíte (11) et l'impression pour un couvercle (12) se suivent dans la direction transversale de la bande de matériau (19),
    c) dans un dispositif à découpes (31) associé à l'empaqueteuse (22), d'abord, sur la bande de matériau (19) sont faits des estampages pour la formation des lignes de pliage (16, 17) des découpes (10) à confectionner, à savoir de lignes de pliage longitudinales (16) dirigées perpendiculairement à l'étendue longitudinale de la bande de matériau (19) et de lignes de pliage transversales (17) s'étendant dans la direction de la bande de matériau (19),
    d) ensuite sont faites dans la bande de matériau (19) des coupes de découpage (18) pour la formation de volets et en même temps une coupe de séparation dirigée transversalement (32) pour le détachement chaque fois d'une découpe (10) de la bande de matériau (19),
    e) la bande de matériau (19) présente une largeur légèrement supérieure à la dimension longitudinale des découpes (10), sur les deux bords longitudinaux de la bande de matériau (19) étant réalisés par des coupes longitudinales contournées (34, 35) les contours des découpes (10) par détachement de morceaux de matière correspondants (61, 62) pendant la réalisation des coupes de découpage (18).
  2. Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé par le fait que les découpes (10) confectionnées et évacuées sont conduites à un poste de collecte, et à l'intérieur de celui-ci, avec des découpes (10) amenées les unes après les autres sont formées des piles de découpes (23), et celles-ci sont ensuite conduites à l'empaqueteuse (22).
  3. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 1 et 2, caractérisé par le fait que la bande de matériau (19), tirée d'une bobine (21, 26), est, avant d'être introduite dans le dispositif à découpes (31), soumise dans la zone d'un dispositif de formage (65) à une contre-déformation (decurling) pour la suppression de la courbure de la bande de matériau (19) ou des découpes (10) due à l'enroulement des bobines (21, 26).
  4. Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé par le fait que les découpes (10) sont détachées de la bande de découpes (70) par paires, à savoir par paires de découpes (73), et les paires de découpes (73) sont conduites au revolver de pliage (74), et que les paires de découpes (73) sont dissociées lors de l'introduction des découpes (10) dans le revolver de pliage (74).
  5. Dispositif pour la fabrication de paquets de cigarettes du type boíte à couvercle basculant à partir de découpes (10) dans une empaqueteuse (22), les découpes (10), en carton mince, étant confectionnées par découpage ou coupe et pourvues de lignes de pliage (16, 17) formées par estampage et de coupes de découpage (18) pour la délimitation de volets, et les découpes (10) étant, dans la zone d'un dispositif à découpes (31, 69) associé à l'empaqueteuse (22), détachées d'une bande continue de matériau (19) par des coupes de séparation, caractérisé par les caractéristiques suivantes :
    a) la bande de matériau (19) est pourvue sur une face d'une impression (29) de façon telle que soient formées des découpes (10) situées les unes à côté des autres ayant une impression (29) correspondant au design extérieur de la boíte à couvercle basculant,
    b) l'impression (29) est faite de façon que les découpes (10) soient dirigées à l'intérieur de la bande de matériau (19) perpendiculairement à l'étendue longitudinale de celle-ci, de façon telle que l'impression pour une partie boíte (11) et l'impression pour un couvercle (12) se suivent dans la direction transversale de la bande de matériau (19),
    c) le dispositif à découpes (31, 69) présente un dispositif d'estampage (41) pour la réalisation d'estampages pour la formation des lignes de pliage (16, 17) des découpes (10) à confectionner, à savoir de lignes de pliage longitudinales (16) dirigées perpendiculairement à l'étendue longitudinale de la bande de matériau (19) et de lignes de pliage transversales (17) s'étendant dans la direction de la bande de matériau (19),
    d) le dispositif à découpes (31, 69) présente un dispositif de coupe (33) placé après le dispositif d'estampage (41) pour la réalisation de coupes de découpage (18) dans la bande de matériau (19) pour la formation de volets et en même temps d'une coupe de séparation dirigée transversalement (32) pour le détachement chaque fois d'une découpe (10) de la bande de matériau (19).
    e) dans la zone du dispositif à découpes (31, 69), au moins des contours latéraux des découpes (10) sont réalisés sur les deux bords longitudinaux de la bande de matériau (19) par des coupes longitudinales (34, 35) pendant la réalisation des coupes de découpage (18), à savoir par détachement de morceaux de matière correspondants (61, 62) de la bande de matériau (19), qui présente une largeur légèrement supérieure à la dimension longitudinale des découpes (10).
  6. Dispositif selon la revendication 5, caractérisé par le fait qu'avant le dispositif de coupe (33) du dispositif à découpes (31, 69) est placé un dispositif d'impression (38) pour la réalisation d'une impression (29) sur la bande de matériau (19) ou sur les découpes (10) dans la zone de la bande matériau (19).
  7. Dispositif selon la revendication 5, caractérisé par le fait que le dispositif à découpes (31, 69) est relié à l'empaqueteuse (22) par un transporteur de piles (24, 59).
  8. Dispositif selon la revendication 5, caractérisé par le fait qu'avant le dispositif de découpes (31, 69) est placé un dispositif de formage (65) pour le formage de la bande de matériau (19), ce dispositif de formage (65) présente au moins un outil de formage pour la suppression des déformations dues à l'enroulement de la bande de matériau (19) en bobine (21, 26).
  9. Dispositif selon la revendication 8, caractérisé par le fait que l'outil de formage est un rouleau de formage (68) qui joue le rôle le rouleau de renvoi de la bande de matériau (19) et est déplaçable en fonction de la déformation de la bande de matériau (19) par la bobine (21, 26) pour la production de contre-déformations différentes de la bande de matériau (19).
  10. Dispositif selon la revendication 5, caractérisé par le fait que le dispositif à découpes (31, 69) est suivi d'une voie à découpes (44) dans la zone de laquelle les découpes (10) sont groupées en piles (23), ce dans des empileurs du genre puits ouverts en haut (46, 47).
  11. Dispositif selon la revendication 10, caractérisé par le fait que les découpes (10) sont, dans la zone de la voie à découpes (44), transportées par des rouleaux ou des paires de rouleaux (45) et conduites dans l'empileur (46, 47) par des organes directeurs mobiles, à savoir des plaques directrices basculantes (52, 53).
  12. Dispositif selon la revendication 10, caractérisé par le fait que dans la zone de la voie à découpes (44), les découpes (10) sont contrôlées par des organes de contrôle en ce qui concerne leur forme correcte et que les découpes (10) de forme défectueuse sont conduites le long de la voie à découpes (44) à un dispositif collecteur de découpes (10) défectueuses, à savoir à un récipient (56) auquel se joint un tuyau d'aspiration (58) pour l'aspiration des découpes défectueuses.
  13. Dispositif selon la revendication 10, caractérisé par le fait que les piles de découpes (23) formées dans les empileurs (46, 47) sont poussées par un poussoir (50), en direction transversale, de la pile (46, 47) sur le transporteur de piles (49), qui conduit les piles de découpes (23) à un transporteur vertical (59) et un transporteur horizontal (24) qui suit.
  14. Dispositif selon la revendication 5, caractérisé par le fait que les découpes (10) sont, dans la zone du dispositif à découpes (69), détachées seulement partiellement de la bande de matériau (19), à savoir de façon telle qu'elles tiennent ensemble par des liens restants (71) en formant une bande de découpes (70), des découpes individuelles ou des paires de découpes (73) étant détachées de la bande de découpes (70) dans la zone d'un dispositif de détachement et conduites à l'empaqueteuse (22).
  15. Dispositif selon la revendication 14, caractérisé par le fait que des paires de découpes (73) sont conduites à l'empaqueteuse (22) ou à un revolver de pliage (74) de celle-ci et dissociées en découpes (10) individuelles dans la zone de l'empaqueteuse (22).
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