EP0950609B1 - Appareil pour le traitement des conteneurs - Google Patents

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EP0950609B1
EP0950609B1 EP99106067A EP99106067A EP0950609B1 EP 0950609 B1 EP0950609 B1 EP 0950609B1 EP 99106067 A EP99106067 A EP 99106067A EP 99106067 A EP99106067 A EP 99106067A EP 0950609 B1 EP0950609 B1 EP 0950609B1
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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
    • B65C9/00—Details of labelling machines or apparatus
    • B65C9/26—Devices for applying labels
    • 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
    • B65C3/065—Affixing labels to short rigid containers by placing tubular labels around the container
    • 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

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  • the innovation concerns a machine for treating vessels with a heat source for shrinking equipment to the vessel contour.
  • vessels such as cans, bottles or the like
  • equip shrinkable material the material after winding radially inwardly shaped areas of the Vessels (bottom or shoulder) protrude.
  • a local heat treatment with hot air takes place, which directed the material into a radially inward direction Shrinking until it completely adheres to the Vessel surface nestles.
  • At no time is it allowed overheating of the equipment material to Avoid wrinkling or blistering.
  • US 4,416,714 also discloses a labeling machine of the previously mentioned type, which, however, additionally via controllable Tabs for shielding the overlap area from Label front and rear edge of a heat shrinkable All-round labels. This is to ensure that theshrinking the protruding upper and lower label edge Do not apply hot air to the contour of the overlap area is applied to soften the adhesive prevent. This is to open the label in the Overlap area can be avoided. With this device can only a small peripheral area of a label before exposure to heat to be protected.
  • the invention is based on the object to improve known machines so that a harmful Impairment of the vessels and / or the Equipment material excluded by exposure to heat is.
  • This object is achieved in that by means of a controllable heat shield between the vessels and the Heat source is the heat transfer to the equipment material and the vessels are interruptible.
  • a heat shield prevents in with little effort in the shortest possible time any further heat supply through the Heat source when in certain situations, e.g. one sudden machine stop, no more heat transfer should be done.
  • a heat shield for example, one can be simple designed blowing device can be provided with the Air flow controlled between the bottles and the heat source can be generated.
  • the heat shield does not appear in normal operation Function, but only when the heat supply to be interrupted.
  • a Blow device as a heat shield for example the machine control actuable control valve Release the compressed air supply to the blower if the Machine is stopped while the control valve is otherwise remains closed and thus the blowing device ineffective is.
  • a pipe with holes or nozzles can be used as a blowing device can be used that so above and / or below that Equipment receiving area of the vessels on the to the hot air blower side of the vessel transport path that is arranged from the holes or nozzles escaping compressed air that has approximately room temperature flows transversely to the direction of flow of the hot air and this carries away before it can reach a vessel.
  • Fig. 1 shows a machine for continuous Equipping bottles 1 or the like with an all-round label made of shrinkable material.
  • the Bottles 1 to be equipped by means of a feed conveyor 2 in a complete row of a driven feed screw 3 fed, pulled apart from this to the machine division and a subsequent one, only as a dash-dotted line Circle indicated infeed starwheel 4, which transfers the bottles to a revolving rotary table 5.
  • a Labeling unit 6 On the periphery of the turntable 5 is a Labeling unit 6 with a cutting unit 6a for separation of individual labels from a label tape.
  • the Individual labels are then transferred from a transfer cylinder 6b passed a glue station 6c, e.g.
  • the bottle After winding up the label, the bottle is opened by one Transfer star wheel 7 from the turntable 5 to a shrink carousel 8 transferred on the periphery in the circumferential direction successively offset three hot air blowers 9 with there are arcuate slot nozzles 9a.
  • Each of the Hot air gun is on one by two parallel rods 10 formed slide radially to the carousel 8 from a close this lying working position, which can be seen in Fig. 1 is in an inoperative position radially spaced apart from it, 2, and vice versa by means of one Controllable actuator shown in detail can be transferred.
  • the slot nozzles 9a are not yet on the bottle contour adjacent sections 20a, 20b of the furnishing material 20 assigned in terms of height (see Fig. 3), such as that from the US Pat. No. 5,464,495 mentioned in the introduction (FIGS. 13 to 15) is already known.
  • FIG. 2 shows that apart from the slot nozzles 9a of the hot air blowers 9 another curved tube 12 close to the outer side of the Bottle orbit or carousel 8 is located.
  • This thisshrinking carousel 8 surrounding, from two individual pipe bends 12a and 12b existing pipe extends from Transfer star wheel 7 up to an outlet star wheel 11 and can from two ends with connecting lines 13a and 13b Compressed air can be fed.
  • the connecting lines opposite ends of the pipe bends 12a, 12b are with Plug 19 sealed gas-tight.
  • Control valves 14, which are controlled by the machine control 15 are controllable, released and the hot air blower 9 are switched off and / or radial by their actuators outwards into the space further away from the carousel 8 Move the standby position (Fig. 2).
  • the blowing time can be limited to a predeterminable fair value by one to avoid unnecessary air consumption. It is also possible the compressed air feed into the two pipe bends in time to control offset.
  • the tube 12 is located above the labeled area of the bottles 1, whereby the blowing air directed downwards from the holes 21 flow and an air curtain 22 between the bottles 1 and can form the slot nozzles 9a.
  • the tube 12 is adjustable in height a bracket 17 attached to the stationary Upper part 18 of the shrink carousel 8 is located.
  • the applicability of the innovation is not on machines confined with a shrink carousel.
  • the innovation can also for machines with a straight vessel flow (see US patent 4 447 280) in a correspondingly adapted version for Come into play.

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  • Labeling Devices (AREA)
  • Crushing And Grinding (AREA)
  • Electrical Discharge Machining, Electrochemical Machining, And Combined Machining (AREA)
  • Crystals, And After-Treatments Of Crystals (AREA)
  • Processing And Handling Of Plastics And Other Materials For Molding In General (AREA)
  • Heating, Cooling, Or Curing Plastics Or The Like In General (AREA)

Claims (13)

  1. Appareil pour le traitement de conteneurs (1), équipé d'une source de chaleur (9) pour provoquer le rétreint d'un matériau d'équipement (20) déposé sur le contour du conteneur,
    caractérisé en ce qu'
    il est possible, au moyen d'un écran thermique (12, 22) commandable placé entre la source de chaleur (9) et les conteneurs (1), d'interrompre totalement le transfert de chaleur sur le matériau d'équipement (20) et sur les conteneurs (1).
  2. Appareil selon la revendication 1,
    caractérisé en ce que
    la source de chaleur est une soufflante à air chaud (9) et l'écran thermique est constitué par un dispositif de soufflage (12) qui permet d'établir entre les conteneurs (1) et la soufflante d'air chaud (9) un rideau d'air (22).
  3. Appareil selon la revendication 2,
    caractérisé en ce que
    la direction du courant d'air issu du dispositif de soufflage (12) est perpendiculaire à la direction du courant issu de la soufflante d'air chaud (9).
  4. Appareil selon la revendication 2 ou 3,
    caractérisé en ce qu'
    il comprend un transporteur de conteneurs (8) sur lequel est monté la soufflante d'air chaud (9), le dispositif de soufflage (12) étant disposé le long du transporteur (8), latéralement et parallèle à celui-ci au-dessus ou en dessous de la zone du récipient qui porte le matériau de l'équipement (20).
  5. Appareil selon la revendication 4,
    caractérisé en ce que
    le transporteur (8) suit une voie courbe, en particulier une voie circulaire et le dispositif de soufflage est recourbé corrélativement de manière à rester à une distance constante du transporteur.
  6. Appareil selon l'une des revendications 2 à 5,
    caractérisé en ce que
    le dispositif de soufflage (12) comprend un tube (12a, 12b) présentant un certain nombre d'ouvertures (21) ou de buses.
  7. Appareil selon l'une des revendications 2 à 6,
    caractérisé en ce que
    le dispositif de soufflage (12) peut être mis hors service par un dispositif de commande (15) selon que l'appareil fonctionne ou non.
  8. Appareil selon la revendication 7,
    caractérisé en ce que
    l'alimentation en air du dispositif de soufflage (12) peut être ouverte ou fermée par une vanne de réglage (14) actionnée par le système de commande (15).
  9. Appareil selon l'une des revendications 1 à 8,
    caractérisé en ce que
    la soufflante d'air chaud (9) peut passer d'une position de fonctionnement où elle se trouve proche du transporteur (8) à une position plus éloignée où elle est hors service, et inversement.
  10. Appareil selon l'une des revendications 2 à 9,
    caractérisé en ce que
    le dispositif de soufflage (12) s'étend du début à l'extrémité de la zone qui est sous l'action de la soufflante d'air chaud (9).
  11. Appareil selon l'une des revendications 4 à 10,
    caractérisé en ce que
    le transporteur de conteneurs est un carrousel (8) sur la face externe duquel se trouve au moins une soufflante à air chaud (9) et qui est entouré concentriquement par un tube (12a, 12b) s'étendant de préférence de l'entrée (7) à la sortie (11) des récipients dans le carrousel (8).
  12. Appareil selon la revendication 11,
    caractérisé en ce que
    le tube (12a, 12b) est constitué par une partie en forme d'arc de cercle dont une extrémité est raccordée à une conduite d'amenée (13a, 13b) tandis que l'autre extrémité est obturée.
  13. Appareil selon la revendication 12,
    caractérisé en ce que
    plusieurs tubes individuels (12a, 12b) sont disposés les uns derrière les autres.
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