EP0963912A1 - Méthode et dispositif pour nettoyer une machine d'emballage - Google Patents

Méthode et dispositif pour nettoyer une machine d'emballage Download PDF

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EP0963912A1
EP0963912A1 EP99109887A EP99109887A EP0963912A1 EP 0963912 A1 EP0963912 A1 EP 0963912A1 EP 99109887 A EP99109887 A EP 99109887A EP 99109887 A EP99109887 A EP 99109887A EP 0963912 A1 EP0963912 A1 EP 0963912A1
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Heinz Focke
Irmin Steinkamp
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B08—CLEANING
    • B08B—CLEANING IN GENERAL; PREVENTION OF FOULING IN GENERAL
    • B08B1/00—Cleaning by methods involving the use of tools
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B08—CLEANING
    • B08B—CLEANING IN GENERAL; PREVENTION OF FOULING IN GENERAL
    • B08B13/00—Accessories or details of general applicability for machines or apparatus for cleaning
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B08—CLEANING
    • B08B—CLEANING IN GENERAL; PREVENTION OF FOULING IN GENERAL
    • B08B1/00—Cleaning by methods involving the use of tools
    • B08B1/10—Cleaning by methods involving the use of tools characterised by the type of cleaning tool
    • B08B1/12—Brushes
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B08—CLEANING
    • B08B—CLEANING IN GENERAL; PREVENTION OF FOULING IN GENERAL
    • B08B1/00—Cleaning by methods involving the use of tools
    • B08B1/10—Cleaning by methods involving the use of tools characterised by the type of cleaning tool
    • 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
    • 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
    • B65B65/00—Details peculiar to packaging machines and not otherwise provided for; Arrangements of such details

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  • the invention relates to a method for cleaning packaging machines, especially of cigarette packaging machines, the conveying elements, folding units, in particular folding revolvers, Pack dryers, especially drying turrets and others Have organs, where pack content - cigarette group - and blanks from packaging material for the production of Packages go through the packaging machine. Furthermore concerns the invention a packaging machine or cleaning organs.
  • the object of the invention is to propose measures for an effective cleaning of a packaging machine without significant impairment of operations.
  • the invention proposes that instead of the package contents - cigarette group - and / or of the packaging material cleaning organs or cleaning elements are conveyed through the packaging machine.
  • the invention is based on the knowledge that impurities occur especially in those areas or on such organs, who contact during the manufacture of the packs have this or the package contents or the packaging material.
  • the problem solution according to the invention therefore runs on it
  • organs or elements or bodies through the packaging machine convey it in the dimensions of a Package, the package contents or packaging material.
  • the cleaning organs concerned thus get in contact with the machine organs involved in the manufacturing process of the packs and elements. Due to the appropriate design or pretreatment of the cleaning elements will be affected Machine parts due to the passage of the cleaning elements cleaned automatically.
  • the cleaning body or elements can with cigarette packaging machines cuboid bodies in dimensions a block of cigarettes (cigarette group wrapped in an inner blank) or a pack of cigarettes. Furthermore you can blanks of paper or paper-like Materials with cleaning properties through the packaging machine be passed through, in particular together with the (cuboid) cleaning bodies. These will treated like that within the packaging machine Packs or the packaging material. The only exceptions are any glue aggregates that occur during this cleaning phase to be stopped.
  • the packaging machines themselves are according to another proposal the invention set up on the cleaning process to Example by installing units to treat the Cleaning material or the cleaning body. For example, you can this when fed to a folding turret with an effective Detergent can be soaked or coated.
  • Fig. 1 shows an advantageous application example in schematic Overview of a cigarette packaging machine for the Manufacture of cigarette packs of the soft cup type.
  • the packaging machine is described in US 4,750,607.
  • the packaging machine then consists of a central one Folding turret 10, the cigarette groups through a pocket conveyor 12 are supplied.
  • the cigarette groups 11 are in the Area of a loading station 13 in the axial direction from a Cigarette magazine out and in both ends of open pockets 14 des Pocket conveyor 12 inserted. Details about the design of the pocket conveyor 12 result from US 4,735,032.
  • the folding turret 10 has a plurality of along the circumference spaced-apart hollow bodies, namely so-called folding mandrels 15. On the outside there are cuts folded a cigarette pack to be manufactured, namely in Area of a first cutting station 16 an inner casing made of paper or tinfoil and in the area of a second cutting station 17 cuts from paper or similar material to form the outer packaging, i.e. a soft cup.
  • the cigarette group becomes in the axis-parallel direction Folding turret 10 into the folding mandrels 15 open at both ends introduced. After folding the blanks on the outside of the Folding mandrels 15, the cigarette group together with the (folded) Cut out of the folding mandrel 15 or pushed off by this.
  • the cigarette pack is followed by a final one Completed folding steps and then one Transfer turret 18, for example in the version according to EP 0 761 539, passed to a drying unit.
  • the folding turret consists of a plurality for this purpose of axially parallel arranged along the circumference Drying chutes 20 with the cross-sectional shape of a cigarette pack.
  • Several, in this case three packs of cigarettes are close together in the longitudinal direction in the drying shaft 20 arranged.
  • By inserting a subsequent pack of cigarettes is treated on the opposite side Ejected cigarette pack.
  • the from the dry turret 19th Escaping cigarette packs are made available through other funding bodies 21 transported away.
  • trained packaging machine will replace the cigarette groups and the packaging material, i.e. blanks, Cleaning elements or cleaning bodies by the packaging machine passed through.
  • the packaging material i.e. blanks, Cleaning elements or cleaning bodies
  • a cleaning body 22 is shown as an example in FIGS. 2 and 3 shown the dimensions of a pack of cigarettes or one has a cigarette group encased in an inner blank, so the dimensions of a cigarette block.
  • the cleaning body 22 is made of a resilient material, so that at Misalignments or snagging due to the flexibility of the The packaging machine is not damaged. Accordingly the cleaning body consists of a core 23 (Hard) foam, foam rubber or the like.
  • the core is 23 surrounded by a possibly multi-layer covering 24. This exists made of nonwoven, felt or a so-called tissue material.
  • the casing 24 is expediently with a suitable one Detergent soaked or coated.
  • the one prepared or pretreated for the cleaning process Cleaning body 22 is available in a tight package provided, in the present case in a tubular bag 25th from foil. This means that the detergent, if applicable Cleaning body 22 without reducing the cleaning effect be stored. The cleaning body is used 22 removed from the tubular bag 25.
  • FIGS. 4 and 5 Another possible embodiment of a cleaning body 22 is shown in FIGS. 4 and 5. It is about a cuboid block 26, which is on the outside, in the present Trap on small end faces 27, mechanical cleaning agents has, namely brushes 28. These are positioned so that in a cleaning sense on lateral, fixed Act on the guide surfaces of the packaging machine.
  • Cleaning bodies 22 are after the packaging machine has run empty, for example during a necessary business interruption, when changing the pack type to be manufactured etc. to carry out the cleaning in the packaging machine introduced. 1, the cleaning body 22nd in the area of the loading station 13 instead of cigarette groups entered in the pocket conveyor 12 or in the pockets 14. The functional sequences of the packaging machine taken into account in the manufacture of cigarette packs. For this reason, four cleaning bodies 22 are each in Pockets 14 introduced. The remaining pockets 14 remain empty.
  • the cleaning process is carried out so that for cleaning of the complete drying turret 19 several cleaning phases be used.
  • the loading with cleaning bodies 22 is chosen here so that four in succession in the circumferential direction neighboring drying shafts 20 complete with (three each) Cleaning bodies 22 are loaded.
  • each Groups of four cleaning bodies 22 in the area of the loading station 13 can be inserted at such intervals, that the four cleaning bodies one after the other the same drying shafts 20 of the drying turret 19 distributed (Fig. 6 and Fig. 7).
  • the drying shafts 20 are opened the entire length by the sliding movement of the pushed through Cleaning body 22 cleaned, in particular Shaft walls 29, 30, 31, 32.
  • end or End faces of the cleaning body 22 also lateral guide walls 33, 34 of the drying turret 19 cleaned by the sliding cleaning body 22.
  • the cleaning cuts 35 are made from a continuous web of material 36 separated and via a feed roller 37 the folding turret 10 or a folding mandrel 15.
  • the feeding of the cleaning blanks 35 is done by the same organs that the Hand over packaging blanks, for example with a Transfer element 38 in the version according to EP 0 839 719.
  • the cleaning blank 35 is on the outside of the folding mandrel 15 created and folded around this. Conveniently located a cleaning body 22 is located within the folding mandrel 15.
  • the preparation of the cleaning blank 35 for the cleaning process takes place in the area of the cutting station 17.
  • a container 39 with a suitable one Cleaning liquid provided.
  • a removal roller 40 becomes a layer of the detergent removed from the container 39 and by contact on the Transfer outside of the cleaning blank 35.
  • the removal roller 30 is assigned to the feed roller 37 in the present case, so that immediately before the introduction of the cleaning blank 35 into the packaging machine the coating or Impregnation is made.
  • the packaging machine is advantageously a unit for Associated with track connections, namely a splice unit 41 (FIG. 9). This is the case in the present case DE 198 04 614.6. Then bobbins 42, 43 are kept ready. After the bobbin 43 has been used, the bobbin 42 should be connected to a running material web. The connection is carried out automatically by a splice unit 44.
  • the splice unit 41 also receives a bobbin 45 for the Material web 36 for producing the cleaning blanks 35
  • Splice unit 41 is set up so that when the Packaging machine the material web 36 of the cleaning material connected to a running web 46 of the packaging material becomes. It acts according to the example according to FIG. 8 this web 46 is a paper web to which the also made of paper or a paper-like material Material web 36 automatically with the help of the splice unit 44 is connected.
  • the bobbin 45 is above for this purpose the splice unit 44 on a common support frame 47 appropriate.
  • the bobbin 45 sits - similar to the bobbin 42, 43 - on a trunnion 48.

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EP99109887A 1998-06-11 1999-05-20 Méthode et dispositif pour nettoyer une machine d'emballage Expired - Lifetime EP0963912B1 (fr)

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