EP0987203A2 - Dispositif pour compléter la réserve d'un magasin pour pile - Google Patents

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EP0987203A2
EP0987203A2 EP99117507A EP99117507A EP0987203A2 EP 0987203 A2 EP0987203 A2 EP 0987203A2 EP 99117507 A EP99117507 A EP 99117507A EP 99117507 A EP99117507 A EP 99117507A EP 0987203 A2 EP0987203 A2 EP 0987203A2
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H1/00—Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated
    • B65H1/30—Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated with means for replenishing the pile during continuous separation of articles therefrom
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2301/00—Handling processes for sheets or webs
    • B65H2301/40—Type of handling process
    • B65H2301/42—Piling, depiling, handling piles
    • B65H2301/422—Handling piles, sets or stacks of articles
    • B65H2301/4224—Gripping piles, sets or stacks of articles
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2301/00—Handling processes for sheets or webs
    • B65H2301/40—Type of handling process
    • B65H2301/42—Piling, depiling, handling piles
    • B65H2301/422—Handling piles, sets or stacks of articles
    • B65H2301/4226—Delivering, advancing piles
    • B65H2301/42261—Delivering, advancing piles by dropping
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2301/00—Handling processes for sheets or webs
    • B65H2301/40—Type of handling process
    • B65H2301/42—Piling, depiling, handling piles
    • B65H2301/423—Depiling; Separating articles from a pile
    • B65H2301/4232—Depiling; Separating articles from a pile of horizontal or inclined articles, i.e. wherein articles support fully or in part the mass of other articles in the piles
    • B65H2301/42322—Depiling; Separating articles from a pile of horizontal or inclined articles, i.e. wherein articles support fully or in part the mass of other articles in the piles from bottom 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
    • B65H2405/00—Parts for holding the handled material
    • B65H2405/50—Gripping means
    • 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
    • B65H2405/50—Gripping means
    • B65H2405/58—Means for achieving gripping/releasing operation
    • B65H2405/584—Associated control means
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2511/00—Dimensions; Position; Numbers; Identification; Occurrences
    • B65H2511/10—Size; Dimensions
    • B65H2511/15—Height, e.g. of stack
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2511/00—Dimensions; Position; Numbers; Identification; Occurrences
    • B65H2511/20—Location in space
    • B65H2511/22—Distance

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  • the invention relates to a device for supplementing the supply of a stack magazine with sheet-shaped packaging blanks, with one between one Provision position and the stacking magazine can be moved back and forth as well Height-adjustable stack gripper relative to the stacking magazine.
  • Stacking magazines of this type are usually arranged directly on packaging machines, for example cigarette packaging machines.
  • packaging blanks are stored in the form of so-called blankets, which consist of relatively stiff sheet material and are used to hold cigarettes to form hard-cigarette packs, so-called hinged-lid packs. They are stamped, cut or punched out on the corresponding folded edges.
  • the blanks are removed from the stack one at a time on the underside of the magazine, whereby a perfect separation of adjacent blanks is essential for the removal of single sheets in order to exclude machine malfunctions.
  • irregularities can occur during the stack formation.
  • the invention has for its object constant conditions in the Create magazines of packaging blanks.
  • the stack gripper a gripper opening detecting the stack height of a remaining stack in the stack magazine the monitoring means triggering the stack gripper is assigned.
  • the monitoring means is arranged to determine a defined vertical distance between the underside of a supplementary stack and the upper side of the remaining stack.
  • a functionally reliable configuration consists in that the monitoring means is designed as a spring-loaded application of the touch-down button, which cooperates with a proximity initiator and which is expediently arranged in a height-adjustable manner in a holding bar of the gripper, whereby according to a preferred development the proximity switch connected to a guide rod of the touch-up button is relative to one sensor stop attached to the retaining bar is movable.
  • the monitoring means is designed as a light barrier which scans the upper edge of the remaining stack, which also automatically triggers the dropping of the supplementary stack after the signal is given.
  • the height-adjustable stack gripper be assigned a proximity initiator that monitors the vertical stroke within the stack magazine and that reduces a defined search range for a calculated fluctuation range of the top edge position of the remaining stack Lowering speed is arranged to trigger. This ensures high accuracy in a defined search area, while the stack gripper can be operated at relatively high speeds in the remaining movement space.
  • the radius of action of the stack gripper can thereby be optimized so that the one interacting with a provision position Stack gripper between two stack magazines is arranged to be traversable.
  • the advantage achieved with the invention is that the supplementary stack always from a constant defined and minimizable drop height relative released to the rest of the stack by the stack gripper, so that due to the reduced Drop weight an excessive pressure load and marking of the bottom blanks of the remaining stack is prevented. Trouble-free cutting is thus guaranteed in the long run.
  • a stack gripper 1 is not part of a portal 2, which does not contain a stack gripper 1 in the direction of the double arrow 3 between a preparation position 4 for a supplementary stack 6 made of packaging blanks in the form of blanks 7 and residual stacks 8 of blanks 7
  • Stack magazines 9 shown in detail along a longitudinal guide 11 reciprocating longitudinal lifting device 12 is provided.
  • the portal 2 is also equipped with two vertical lifting devices 16 which raise or lower the stacking gripper 1 in the direction of the double arrow 13 along a double-sided vertical guide 14, and with one cross lifting device 19 which moves the stacking gripper 1 between two stacking magazines 9 in the direction of the double arrow 17 along a transverse guide 18 .
  • units of the type DGPL-PPV-A-KF from FESTO are used as longitudinal stroke, vertical stroke and transverse stroke devices, which are not shown in further detail, preferably in the form of pneumatic rodless linear drives with recirculating ball guides.
  • the stack gripper 1 has two opposite holding strips 21 which support an additional stack 6 and can be moved into an opening position in the direction of the arrows 23 by holding strip drive means 22.
  • a monitoring means 24 in the form of a touch-down button 26 is assigned to one of the holding strips 21.
  • the placement button 26 is arranged against a slight bias of a spring 27 by means of a guide rod 28 so that it can be moved in height in the holding bar 21.
  • the pushbutton 26 interacts with a proximity initiator 29 which is connected to the guide rod 28 and is movable relative to a sensor stop 31 fastened to the holding bar 21.
  • a further proximity initiator 32 is assigned to the vertical lifting device 16.
  • the device works as follows:
  • the stack gripper 1 receives a signal Complementing the respective remaining stack 8.
  • the stack gripper 1 takes the in the ready position 4 located supplementary stack 6 and transfers it quickly into a position over the remaining stack 8 of the respective stack magazine 9, the Stack height in the meantime within a search area labeled S. may have dropped further. Within or when this search area S is reached According to FIG. 4, the one that responds in the downward stroke 13 of the stack gripper 1 switches Proximity initiator 32 the vertical lifting device 16 to a lower search speed around.
  • the touchdown button 26 contacts this search speed the surface of the one that has dropped to the actual current residual stack height Residual stack 8 according to Figure 5 and is relative to the retaining bar 21 against the spring force moves upwards so that the proximity initiator 29 moves away from the sensor stop 31 releases.
  • the proximity initiator 29 activates the tether drive means 22 for opening the stacking gripper 1, the holding strips 21 according to FIG. 6 in Move apart in the direction of the arrows 23 and release the supplementary stack 6, which falls on the remaining stack 8 from a relatively low drop height.
  • FIGS. 7 and 8 elements which correspond to those of the arrangement described above are provided with reference numbers increased by a hundred and are not explained again in particular.
  • This variant differs only in the monitoring means 124, which consists of a light barrier 133, 134 scanning the upper edge of the remainder of the stack 108, which activates the holding strip drive means 122 to open the gripper by means of appropriate signals.

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Sheets, Magazines, And Separation Thereof (AREA)
  • Pile Receivers (AREA)
  • Auxiliary Devices For And Details Of Packaging Control (AREA)
  • Stacking Of Articles And Auxiliary Devices (AREA)
  • Fuel Cell (AREA)
  • Vehicle Body Suspensions (AREA)
  • Financial Or Insurance-Related Operations Such As Payment And Settlement (AREA)
  • Beans For Foods Or Fodder (AREA)
EP99117507A 1998-09-19 1999-09-04 Dispositif pour compléter la réserve d'un magasin pour pile Expired - Lifetime EP0987203B1 (fr)

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DE19842965A DE19842965A1 (de) 1998-09-19 1998-09-19 Vorrichtung zum Ergänzen des Vorrats eines Stapelmagazins
DE19842965 1998-09-19

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JP (1) JP2000191216A (fr)
CN (1) CN1148308C (fr)
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DE (2) DE19842965A1 (fr)
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