EP0957028A1 - Procédé pour l'emballage d' articles dans des récipients - Google Patents

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EP0957028A1
EP0957028A1 EP99108663A EP99108663A EP0957028A1 EP 0957028 A1 EP0957028 A1 EP 0957028A1 EP 99108663 A EP99108663 A EP 99108663A EP 99108663 A EP99108663 A EP 99108663A EP 0957028 A1 EP0957028 A1 EP 0957028A1
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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
    • B65B57/00—Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices
    • B65B57/10—Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices responsive to absence, presence, abnormal feed, or misplacement of articles or materials to be packaged
    • B65B57/12—Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices responsive to absence, presence, abnormal feed, or misplacement of articles or materials to be packaged and operating to control, or stop, the feed of wrapping materials, containers, or packages
    • 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
    • B65B57/00—Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices
    • B65B57/02—Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices responsive to absence, presence, abnormal feed, or misplacement of binding or wrapping material, containers, or packages
    • B65B57/06—Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices responsive to absence, presence, abnormal feed, or misplacement of binding or wrapping material, containers, or packages and operating to control, or to stop, the feed of articles or material to be packaged
    • 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
    • B65B61/20—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for adding cards, coupons or other inserts to package contents

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  • the present invention relates to packaging articles into containers.
  • known packaging machines automatically introduce one or more articles, e.g. pharmaceuticals and the like, into a case, together with an information sheet.
  • the above mentioned machines usually include suitable feeding lines for the articles and the informative sheets to be packaged, as well as for the containers.
  • a transferring device for introducing the articles and the informative sheets into the above mentioned containers works along these feeding lines, which are operated e.g. with intermittent motion.
  • the packaging machines include an ejection station, which automatically rejects defective packages detected by suitable sensor means,
  • the ejection station is usually situated downstream of the station in which the articles and informative sheets are introduces into the relative containers.
  • the rejected packages are moved away downstream of the articles transferring line, along the packaging line and are collected in suitable closed containers, which are opened only by authorized personnel, so that the number of the collected packages is exactly the same as the number of the rejected packages.
  • This invention was evolved with the general object of providing a method which resolves the above mentioned problem, allowing to package the articles and corresponding informative sheets inside containers and reject only the really defective part of the package.
  • Another object of the present invention is to propose a method which allows to recover the articles from rejected, partially defective packages.
  • Still further object of the present invention is to propose a method which is obtained by a simple and versatile solution.
  • reference numeral 1 generally indicates the articles to be packaged, together with corresponding informative sheets 2, inside containers 3.
  • the articles 1, informative sheets 2 and the containers 3 are fed, in suitable time relation, along respective first, second and third feeding lines 10, 20 and 30 arranged parallelly and side by side.
  • the first, second and third feeding lines 10, 20 and 30 are formed by e.g. belt conveyors 11, 21 and 31, first, second and third, respectively, which are mounted on respective wheels 13, 23 and 33; driving wheels 13a, 23a and 33a are operated independently by respective first, second and third actuators 12, 22 and 32, formed by e.g. stepwise moving motors.
  • a checking station provided with a first sensor 15 for verifying correct presence of articles 1, is situated downstream of the articles supply station 14, considering a direction A in which all three feeding lines 10, 20, and 30 move.
  • the additional articles 1a are verified by an additional sensor 15a in an additional checking station situated downstream of the supply station.
  • an ejection station is situated along the first feeding line 10 and is equipped with a first ejector 16 for articles to be rejected.
  • the ejector 16 is operated when the first and additional sensors 15, 15a send signals corresponding to possible anomalies.
  • a transfer station Downstream of this ejection station, there is a transfer station equipped with a transfer element 40 which acts crosswise to the first feeding line 10 for introducing articles 1 into relative containers 3 carried along the third feeding line 30.
  • the transfer element 40 is operated by a relative actuator 41.
  • the articles 1 hit related informative sheets 2 which are carried to the transfer station by the second feeding line 20.
  • the informative sheets 2 are supplied to the second feeding line 20 by a suitable magazine 4 situated at the inlet of this second feeding line 20.
  • the correct presence of the informative sheets 2 on the second feeding line 20 is verified by a second sensor 25, situated in a corresponding informative sheets checking station.
  • the defective informative sheets 2, signaled by the second sensor 25, are ejected by a second ejector 26 situated at the outlet of the second feeding line 20.
  • the containers 3 are withdrawn from a second magazine 5, which is situated in the inlet area of the third feeding line 30.
  • the containers 3 are kept in a flat configuration inside the magazine 5.
  • the correct presence of the containers 3 on the third feeding line 30 is verified by a third sensor 35 in a container checking station.
  • this container checking station Downstream of this container checking station, there is a third ejection station equipped with a third ejector 36 for ejecting defective containers, operated when the third sensor 35 issues signals corresponding to possible anomalies.
  • the signals given out by the sensors 15, 15a, 25 and 35, first, additional, second and third, respectively, are sent to a processing unit 50, which controls the operation of the first, second and third motors 12, 22 and 32 and the first, second and third ejectors 16, 26 and 36.
  • these articles 1, informative sheets 2 and relative containers 3 are orderly fed stepwise by the relative feeding lines 10, 20 and 30, arranged side by side.
  • the first, second and third sensors 15, 25 and 35 verify the correct presence of the articles 1, informative sheets 2 and containers 3 on the relative first, second and third feeding lines 10, 20, 30.
  • first, second and third sensors 15, 25 and 35 do not only check the presence and integrity of the above mentioned articles 1, informative sheets 2 and containers 3, but can also read relative bar codes, so as to verify the correct correspondence of the pieces to be packaged.
  • the packaging machine works normally, after having passed the first, second and third sensors 15, 25 and 35, the articles 1, the corresponding informative sheets 2 and containers 3 are fed at regular intervals to the transfer station, where the transfer element 40, operated by the actuator 41, introduces each article, or more articles, together with the corresponding informative sheet 2 into the relative container 3.
  • the containers 3 with the articles 1 and informative sheets 2 are moved along the third feeding line 30, so as to complete the packaging process.
  • the processing unit 50 guided by the above mentioned first, second and third sensors 15, 25 and 35, controls the first, second and third ejectors 16, 26 and 36 to selectively eject the defective articles, informative sheets, or containers from the relative first, second and third feeding lines 10, 20 and 30.
  • the processing unit 50 selectively operates also respective motors 12, 22 and 32, working independently from the movement of the first, second and third feeding lines 10, 20 and 30, so as to resume the correct time relation of these first, second and third feeding lines 10, 20 and 30 near the element 40 transferring these articles 1 and corresponding informative sheets 2 into the relative containers 3.
  • the second and third feeding lines are stopped after the informative sheet 2 to be joined to the article 1 and corresponding container 3 have been taken to the transfer station.
  • the transfer element 40 is stopped, as controlled by the processing unit 50.
  • the first feeding line 10 is kept in stepwise movement, so as to move a next article 1 to the transfer station.
  • the correctly working feeding lines are stopped, so as to restore the correct presence of an informative sheet 2 or container 3 in the transfer station.
  • defective products are ejected from the three feeding lines 10, 20 and 30 by the corresponding ejectors 16, 26 and 36.
  • the proposed method allows to package articles and corresponding informative sheets inside relative containers, rejecting not the whole package, but only a part thereof which is really defective.
  • the described solution refers to a packaging machine equipped with feeding lines, which move in an intermittent way. However, it is possible to use the present method also for packaging machines with feeding lines moving in a continuous way.
  • the correct working time relation between the feeding lines is restored by suitably changing the relative speeds of these lines, e.g. accelerating the speed of the line, where the anomaly has been signaled, after having ejected the defective product.

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Separation, Sorting, Adjustment, Or Bending Of Sheets To Be Conveyed (AREA)
  • Control Of Conveyors (AREA)
  • Auxiliary Devices For And Details Of Packaging Control (AREA)
  • Container Filling Or Packaging Operations (AREA)
EP99108663A 1998-05-14 1999-05-14 Procédé pour l'emballage d' articles dans des récipients Expired - Lifetime EP0957028B1 (fr)

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IT98BO000312A IT1300035B1 (it) 1998-05-14 1998-05-14 Metodo per confezionare articoli all'interno di relativi astucci.

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WO2003099662A1 (fr) * 2002-05-24 2003-12-04 Iwk Verpackungstechnik Gmbh Machine pour emballer un produit avec un prospectus
EP1561689A1 (fr) * 2004-02-04 2005-08-10 UHLMANN PAC-SYSTEME GmbH & Co. KG Procédé de contrôle et de documentation pour une encartonneuse
GB2434356A (en) * 2006-01-23 2007-07-25 Meadwestvaco Packaging Systems Packaging articles in cartons
CN101056797B (zh) * 2004-11-10 2010-07-21 诺登Pac发展股份公司 用于制盒机的装置和方法
US20110167760A1 (en) * 2010-01-14 2011-07-14 Multivac Sepp Haggenmuller Gmbh & Co. Kg Packaging plant with a discharge station
ITMI20110395A1 (it) * 2011-03-14 2012-09-15 Coorayon Ltd "dispositivo per il controllo di una scatola"
EP2668104B1 (fr) 2011-01-26 2017-04-05 GIMA TT S.p.A. Appareil de commande et de contrôle pour contrôler et commander des unités opératives d'une machine de conditionnement et procédé correspondant
WO2018088971A1 (fr) * 2016-11-08 2018-05-17 Adel Kalemcilik Ticaret Ve Sanayi A. Ş Appareil et procédé de mise en boîte de crayons
WO2021156759A1 (fr) 2020-02-03 2021-08-12 G.D Societa' Per Azioni Procédure de gestion sélective des déchets d'une machine automatique pour la fabrication ou l'emballage d'articles de consommation

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WO2000020289A2 (fr) * 1998-10-07 2000-04-13 Astrazeneca Ab Nouvel emballage
WO2000020289A3 (fr) * 1998-10-07 2000-10-05 Astrazeneca Ab Nouvel emballage
WO2001058762A1 (fr) * 2000-02-10 2001-08-16 I.A.C.E. Di Cristina Adriano Machine automatique permettant d'emballer des produits dans des recipients
US6688075B2 (en) 2000-02-10 2004-02-10 I.A.C.E. Di Cristina Adriano Automatic machine for packaging products inside containers
WO2003099662A1 (fr) * 2002-05-24 2003-12-04 Iwk Verpackungstechnik Gmbh Machine pour emballer un produit avec un prospectus
US6931815B2 (en) 2002-05-24 2005-08-23 Iwk Verpackungstechnik Gmbh Machine for packaging a product with a pamphlet
EP1561689A1 (fr) * 2004-02-04 2005-08-10 UHLMANN PAC-SYSTEME GmbH & Co. KG Procédé de contrôle et de documentation pour une encartonneuse
CN101056797B (zh) * 2004-11-10 2010-07-21 诺登Pac发展股份公司 用于制盒机的装置和方法
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GB2434356A (en) * 2006-01-23 2007-07-25 Meadwestvaco Packaging Systems Packaging articles in cartons
US20110167760A1 (en) * 2010-01-14 2011-07-14 Multivac Sepp Haggenmuller Gmbh & Co. Kg Packaging plant with a discharge station
EP2668104B1 (fr) 2011-01-26 2017-04-05 GIMA TT S.p.A. Appareil de commande et de contrôle pour contrôler et commander des unités opératives d'une machine de conditionnement et procédé correspondant
ITMI20110395A1 (it) * 2011-03-14 2012-09-15 Coorayon Ltd "dispositivo per il controllo di una scatola"
EP2500287A1 (fr) * 2011-03-14 2012-09-19 Coorayon Limited Dispositif et procédé pour vérifier la présence d'un élement d'espacement dans un emballage
WO2018088971A1 (fr) * 2016-11-08 2018-05-17 Adel Kalemcilik Ticaret Ve Sanayi A. Ş Appareil et procédé de mise en boîte de crayons
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IT1300035B1 (it) 2000-04-04
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