EP0963913A1 - Method for driving manufacturing machines,in particular cigarette packaging machines - Google Patents

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EP0963913A1
EP0963913A1 EP99110736A EP99110736A EP0963913A1 EP 0963913 A1 EP0963913 A1 EP 0963913A1 EP 99110736 A EP99110736 A EP 99110736A EP 99110736 A EP99110736 A EP 99110736A EP 0963913 A1 EP0963913 A1 EP 0963913A1
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Valter Spada
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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
    • 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
    • B65B19/28—Control devices for cigarette or cigar packaging machines
    • 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

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  • the invention relates to driving method of manufacturing machines, in particular of cigarette packing machines, or similar, of the type comprising a plurality of operating units, that act in combination and in a synchronized manner between each other to carry out manufacturing steps and that are driven individually or in groups by separate drive motors controlled by a central control unit, some of the manufacturing steps that are carried out by at least some of the operating units being such that the stopping of the machine and of the said operating units entails the loss or damage at least of the part being manufactured in one of the said operating units or in the concatenation of some operating steps succeding each other and that take place in additional successive operating units.
  • the materials involved in the process are processed along preset path along which the individual operating units are provided that carry out the individual steps of manufacture.
  • there are operating steps for instance the forming of a packet from a blank or similar, that foresee the step of applying a glue on predefined overlapping flaps of the blank and the subsequent folding of the same around the product or in shape of the product, superimposing the flaps on which the glue is applied.
  • a manufacturing machine of this type stops, at present all the operating units are stopped, even if with a preset deceleration that takes into account the inertial masses involved.
  • a stop of this type entails the interruption of the manufacturing cycles or of the manufacturing steps the orderly completion of which is tied to the fact that also the subsequent operational steps are concluded within the preset times.
  • the packets are made by means of wrapping a blank around an orderly group of cigarettes.
  • the blank has overlapping flaps on which glue is applied before the phase of joining it with the corresponding orderly group of cigarettes and before the final folding of the packet, as well as the discharge of the same on a drying buffer unit.
  • the invention relates also to a machine for carrying out of the said method.
  • the invention has the aim to realize a manufacturing machine of the type described at the beginning, in such a manner that thanks to simple and inexpensive devices it becomes possible to largely avoid the above-mentioned drawbacks.
  • the invention attains the above-mentioned aims with a manufacturing machine of the type described at the beginning, in which the operating units are stopped individually or in groups in cascade between each other at least in part in different times, the operating units relative to the manufacturing steps being stopped immediately that do not modify the pieces in such a manner to make them unusable if the subsequent step of manufacture is not carried out within the preset times and as the operating units that carry out instead manufacturing steps such to require the completion of at least an additional successive manufacturing step or more additional manufacturing steps in order to obtain a constant finished product or a product in a stable intermediate finishing stage kept active until the last piece being processed in the corresponding successive manufacturing step is cleared.
  • the operating feeding unit or units of the operating manufacturing unit or of the additional subsequent operating manufacturing units that perform work on the piece requiring further finishing work or up to an intermediate stage, lest the piece be rejected, are stopped immediately or in any case in synchroized times to ensure that the last piece in manufacture is finished correctly.
  • the method provides that the paths of the different pieces in manufacture be separated that are together or linked between each other subdivided in by-paths that wind between different operating units, as these are grouped for function logically in a by-paths tied to the completion of a sub-cycle of manufacture that leads to a finshed product or to an intermediate manufacturing stage in which the piecer or pieces have features of stability and non-perishability realitive to their re-use in the manufacturing cycle and for periods of machine downtime of standard length.
  • a cigarette packing machine comprising a unit to form a succession of orderly groups of cigarettes, a subsequent unit to form the inner envelope of foil or similar around each orderly group of cigarettes, with the associated feeding units of the foil sheet, a plurality of units of sub-work and/or simple transfer, a blank feeding unit to form around the orderly group of cigarettes wrapped in a foil sheet of a rigid packet, a unit for applying glue to the glueing flaps or wings of the blank, a unit to feed and apply the inner frames and or other elements to join with the packet, a wheel folding the blank to the finished shape of the packet, around the group of cigarettes previuosly wrapped in the inner envelope and discharge conveyor of the buffer type, it is advantageous to provide a synchronized stopping of the feed units of the orderly groups of cigarettes, of the blanks and of the sheets of foil in such a manner, whereby the last blank fed to the glue applicator is certainly still processed up to completion of a finished packet.
  • the methods provides also for the restarting of the machine to follow the logic to start up the individual operating units in cascade and in a synchrozied manner between each other to avoid the rejection of pieces in manufacture or to minimize the same, in particular with the same levels or order of times provided for the stopping.
  • a cigarette packing machine comprises a first section (Fig. 1B) in which are provided an operating unit to form the group of orderly cigarettes formed by a hopper with three channels of descent 101 to form three layers of cigarettes superimposed on each other and fed in succession to a pluratity of housings 102 of a so called pocket conveyor belt 2.
  • the orderly group of cigarettes are collated in such a manner that they already take up the correct position relative to each other and which they have to take up in the packet.
  • the pocket conveyor belt 2 feeds in successiveion in combination with transfer means 3 the individual orderly groups of cigarettes to a first forming wheel 4 in which the same are wrapped in a wrapping sheet to form the inner envelope of the finished packet.
  • the wrapping sheets generally of foil are fed to the forming wheel by a group of feeder/cutter 5 that unwinds the same from bobbins 6 provided in section of the lower end of the machine.
  • the groups of cigarettes are conveyed by the transfer wheels 7 and 8 to a second forming wheel of the rigid packet globally indicated with 9.
  • the wheels 7 and 8 part from transferring the orderly group of cigarettes wrapped in the inner envelope, can also carry out further additional functions which constitute packing steps not strictly necessary, as for instance the joining of said orderly group of cigarettes with publicity cards or other manufacturing steps.
  • the individual blanks from which by means of folding and glueing the finished packets are made are fed to the forming wheel of the rigid packet.
  • the blanks grouped in stacks P are picked up by conveyors 10 from a reservoir and deposited in stacks in the feed hopper 11 that has pick up/singularizing means 12 that pick up one blank at the time from the bottom of the hopper and deposit it on a conveyor 13 that takes the same first to an operating unit 14 for applying the glue on the flaps or on the wings of the blank glued in the folded and finished condition and subsequently to a station not illustrated in detail for apllying the inner frame and finally to a station 15 to join each blank with the corresponding inner frame with a group of orderly cigarettes wrapped in the inner envelope as well as feeding the assembly of blank, inner frame and ordered group of cigarettes with inner envelope to the forming wheel 9 of the packet.
  • This one in turn cooperates in coincidence with a discharge station with means 16 to transfer the formed packets to one or more discharge conveyors 17 that have at the same time also the function of a buffer for drying and keeping the finished packets in register.
  • the fulcrum of the construction is formed by the forming wheel 9 of the rigid packet towards which converge or from which depart with a starlike structure the line feeding the blanks, the line feeding the orderly group of cigarettes wrapped in the inner wrapper and the line of discharge formed by the conveyor 17 with the function of a drying buffer.
  • the wheel 4 forming the inner wrap forms a kind of sub-fulcrum towards which converge with a star-shaped structure the tracks feeding the ordered group of cigarettes, the sheets of foil and from which departs the line supplying the group of cigarettes wrapped in the inner wrap by the wheel 4 forming the said inner wrap to the packet forming wheel 9.
  • the groups of operative units are illustrated that can be, in case of stoppage or start up, activated or deactivated together without any scrap or reject or reducing the same to a minimum.
  • the group indicated with 20 comprises the units for forming the oredered groups of cigarettes and for transfering the same to the forming wheel 4, the said units are individually shown in the Fig.s 1, 2, 3. Said group 20 also comprises the wheel 4 forming the inner envelope and the feeding and cutting unit 5 of the inner wrapping sheets.
  • the group 20 is driven by a dedicated feed unit 21 that is equipped with its own drive motor and that is dynamically connected 22 to the operating unit 20.
  • the group of operating units 20 comprises the wheels for transfer and for execution of additional operating steps indicated with 7 and 8 in the Fig.s 1A and 1B.
  • the operating group 30 is also driven by a separate operating unit 31 equipped with its own drive motor and that unit is dynamically connected 32 to the said operating units 7, 8.
  • an operating supply unit 41 is provided with its own motor and that is dynamically connected 42 to the units of the group 40.
  • an additional group comprising the unit 14 for applying the glue to the glueing flaps or the wings of the blank und the unit 12 of pick up and singularization of the blanks from the feed hopper 1.
  • Each has its own moto and its own drive unit indicated with 51, 61 respectively.
  • the drive units 21, 31, 41, 51, 61, or more precisley the motors of the same are connected by means of a control line 18 to a control cabinet 19 that can be of any type and that comprises a management program of the stopping and start up phases of the machine and other programs for operational control of no interest in this case.
  • control unit 19 of the programmable type are loaded the programs for controlling the drive units 21, 31, 41, 51, 61 and a protocoll on the modalities and the times for activating of said units with reference to the fact to avoid or in any case reduce to a minimum the materials to be rejected both during the start up as well as during the stopping phase of the packing machine.
  • the stopping phase foresees the stoppage in succession of the different operating units that contribute to the correct making of the packet in such a manner whereby the operating units are all stopped only when the last blank to which glue has been applied has been formed into a finished packet.
  • the operating units on the side feeding the blanks and upstream to the gluer are stopped in the first place. This one will be stopped after having applied the glue to the last blank supplied, while the remaining operating units continue to be active, until the last blank has not been joined with a group of cigarettes wrapped in the inner envelope and subjected to the folding process as well as being eventually unloaded onto the buffer conveyor. At this point, the operating units still active have all been gradually stopped.
  • the stopping times have been advantageously calculated in such a way, that during the restarting phase in inverse succession of the operating units, in correspondence to the forming wheel arrive at the same time and in a correctly synchronized manner the blank, the inner frame and the orderly group of cigarettes wrapped in the inner wrap.
  • control cabinet 19 activates and deactivates in succession, the drive unit 61 of the pick up/singularizing means of the blanks from the hopper, the drive unit 51 of the glue application means, then when all the blanks still in the manufacturing cycle have been transformed into finished packets, with the group of cigarettes inside and when the last of the same has reached the buffer conveyor the drive units 21, 31, 41 of the units 20, 30, 40 will be deactivated.
  • the drive units 61 and 51 are activated and in a synchronized manner relative to the coincidence of time of an orderly group of cigarettes wrapped in an inner envelope and of a blank joint with the two parts in the transfer station to the packet forming wheel 9, the drive units 21, 31, 41.
  • the invention is therefore not limited to the executive form herein described and illustrated but can be amply variated aboveall constructively without for this abbandoning the informatory principle explained above and claimed hereunder.

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DE19947709A1 (de) * 1999-10-04 2001-04-05 Topack Verpacktech Gmbh Verfahren und Einrichtung zum Verpacken von stabförmigen Artikeln der tabakverarbeitenden Industrie
EP1232949A1 (en) * 2001-02-12 2002-08-21 G. D Societa per Azioni Automatic machine for processing cigarettes
EP1719707A1 (en) * 2005-05-06 2006-11-08 G.D Societ Per Azioni Method of making a brand change on an automatic production system for processing tobacco articles
WO2009046788A1 (de) * 2007-10-05 2009-04-16 Focke & Co. (Gmbh & Co. Kg) Fertigungseinheit sowie verfahren zum betreiben der fertigungseinheit
EP2822857B1 (de) 2012-03-07 2016-09-14 GEA Food Solutions Germany GmbH Verpackungslinie
CN110153036A (zh) * 2019-05-16 2019-08-23 红云红河烟草(集团)有限责任公司 一种烟盒内框纸接头检测装置

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GB1575125A (en) 1976-11-05 1980-09-17 Focke Pfuhl Verpack Automat Packaging machine for the production of filled packets of cigarettes
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