EP0994057B1 - Supply unit of bobbins of wrapping material in a cigarette packing machine and process for pick-up and transfer of the same bobbins - Google Patents

Supply unit of bobbins of wrapping material in a cigarette packing machine and process for pick-up and transfer of the same bobbins Download PDF

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EP0994057B1
EP0994057B1 EP99120328A EP99120328A EP0994057B1 EP 0994057 B1 EP0994057 B1 EP 0994057B1 EP 99120328 A EP99120328 A EP 99120328A EP 99120328 A EP99120328 A EP 99120328A EP 0994057 B1 EP0994057 B1 EP 0994057B1
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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
    • B65H19/00—Changing the web roll
    • B65H19/10—Changing the web roll in unwinding mechanisms or in connection with unwinding operations
    • B65H19/12—Lifting, transporting, or inserting the web roll; Removing empty core
    • B65H19/123—Lifting, transporting, or inserting the web roll; Removing empty core with cantilever supporting arrangements
    • 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
    • B65H2301/30—Orientation, displacement, position of the handled material
    • B65H2301/32—Orientation of handled material
    • B65H2301/325—Orientation of handled material of roll of material
    • B65H2301/3251—Orientation of handled material of roll of material vertical axis
    • 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
    • B65H2301/41—Winding, unwinding
    • B65H2301/413—Supporting web roll
    • B65H2301/4132—Cantilever arrangement
    • B65H2301/41324—Cantilever arrangement linear movement of roll support
    • 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
    • B65H2301/41—Winding, unwinding
    • B65H2301/417—Handling or changing web rolls
    • B65H2301/4171—Handling web roll
    • B65H2301/4172—Handling web roll by circumferential portion, e.g. rolling on circumference
    • B65H2301/41722—Handling web roll by circumferential portion, e.g. rolling on circumference by acting on outer surface, e.g. gripping or clamping
    • 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
    • B65H2405/40—Holders, supports for rolls
    • B65H2405/46—Grippers for bobbins, i.e. rolls
    • B65H2405/462—Grippers for bobbins, i.e. rolls outer gripper (on circumference)

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  • the invention relates to a supply unit of bobbins of material, in particular of bobbins of wrapping material in shape of a band and in cigarette packing machines, comprising:
  • a similar supply unit is also known from the document EP-A-0 710 614 according to the pre-characterizing part of claim 1.
  • the object of the invention is to provide a supply unit of the type described at the beginning, in which by a simple and inexpensive means it becomes possible to obtain a precise and fast centering of the bobbin relative to the clamping device of the pick-up device in the pick-up station.
  • the invention achieves this object with a supply unit according of the type described at the beginning and characterized in that:
  • the invention relates also to a preferred method for the supply of bobbins using the supply unit according to any of the claims 1 to 9.
  • the method according to the invention is characterized in that it comprises the following steps:
  • the unit according to the invention is illustrated in combination with a making machine 1 that uses bands of material wound in bobbins 2, as for example a cigarette making or cigarette packing or a cellophane wrapping machine, or similar.
  • a making machine 1 that uses bands of material wound in bobbins 2, as for example a cigarette making or cigarette packing or a cellophane wrapping machine, or similar.
  • the bobbins 2 are arranged on the front side of the making machine 1, with their axes oriented substantially perpendicular to said side.
  • the bottom section of at least one front side of the making machine 1 are provided at least one through tunnel, preferably two tunnels 4 side by side and parallel that are oriented parallel to the axis of the bobbins 2 in working unwinding position of the band.
  • the through tunnels 4 have a port larger than the diameter of the bobbins 2 and are open in correspondence to the front side 101 and of the rear side 201 of the making machine itself.
  • transfer means 5 for one bobbin respectively.
  • the transfer means are provided with a slide 105 that is mounted movable on guides 6 oriented parallel to the through tunnel 4 and are movable from the front side of the machine, in a position of end of stroke in which the bobbin 2 is in working unwinding position, at the rear side of the same (Fig. 1), or beyond the said rear side 201, in a position, in which they protrude beyond the rear mouth of the through tunnels 4 in a dimension larger than the diameter of the full bobbins 2 themselves, and vice versa.
  • the movement of the slide 105 is driven by a motor thanks to a feeding screw/nut.
  • the transfer means 5 have each directly an unwinding mandrel 7 for the bobbins 2.
  • the mandrels 7 are of the expanding jaws 107 type, substantially known, and clamp the core 102 of the bobbins 2 from the inside.
  • Both the drive motor of the mandrel 7 as well as of the drive actuators of the jaws 107 are themselves carried on the transfer means 5, whereas the activation of the same is controlled by the making machine, in a manner synchronized with the working units of the same, through the flexible lines and/or conduits of controls of the type commonly known.
  • the mandrels 7 are mounted on the slides 105 of the means of transfer 5 in a manner oscillating alternatively in a position with the axis of the same oriented parallel to the direction of transfer, and that is coaxial to the axis of the bobbins 2 in the working position of unwinding, and in a position, in which the axis of the same is oriental vertically upwards.
  • This motion is obtained by connecting the box 207 of the mandrels to the output shaft of the reducer 8 that has a preset angulation.
  • a guide 9 is provided for sliding horizontally and perpendicularly to the vertical axis and to the axis of the through tunnel 4 that is for a pick-up device 10 of the full bobbins 2 from a bobbin carrier 11 storage on which are placed two stacks of full bobbins to the transfer means 5 in the end of stroke position on the rear side of the making machine 1.
  • the bobbin carrier storage 11 houses at least one vertical stack of full bobbins that are oriented coaxial to each other and the vertical axis of which is contained in the same vertical plane, in particular parallel to the horizontal slide guide 9, from the axis of the mandrels 7 in the rear end of stroke position of the transfer means 5.
  • said vertical plane is provided behind the horizontal slide guide 9, whereas on the guide 9 is carried by means of a saddle 12 a further vertical guide 13, in which is mounted vertically movable a support riser 14.
  • the support riser 14 has cantilevered from its rear side a pick-up head 15 of the full bobbins 2, the central axis of which V is itself also contained in the vertical plane containing the axes of the stack of full bobbins 2 on the bobbin carrier storage 11, in the pick-up position, and the axes of the mandrels 7 oriented vertically upwards, in the position of the rear end of stroke.
  • the clamping head, or the vertical axis of the same parallel to the axis of the bobbins on the storage 11 can slide along an axes horizontal or parallel to the guide 9, and can be shifted between a position of pick-up of the full bobbins 2 from the stack in the storage 11, in which the axis V of the pick-up head 15 is coaxial, in a position of unloading of the bobbin picked-up on the corresponding mandrel 7 in the rear end of stroke position, in which it is coaxial to the same with a simple horizontal, rectilinear transfer.
  • the horizontal transfer saddle 12 has a drive motor 112 from which by means of a transmission 212 the driving motion of a transmission in shape of a threaded bolt and female thread 312, 412 is taken.
  • the vertical movement of the pick-up head 15 is also driven by a motor 114 carried at the top end of the sliding riser 14 and that drives the rotation by means of a belt transmission 214 of a nut 314 that is supported in a revolving manner in the riser 14 made in tubular form and that is oriented parallel to said riser 14.
  • the nut 314 engages in a threaded bushing 414 that is integral with the guide 13 and does not rotate.
  • a gripping clamp for the cores 102 is provided in the executive form illustrated and advantageously integrated in the pick-up head 15 for the full bobbins.
  • the pick-up head 15 has a plurality of jaws 115 for clamping the full bobbins 2 from their external peripheral side, in order to avoid an interference with the mandrels 7 on the transfer means 5 that grip the core 102 of the bobbins 2 from the inside of the same.
  • the executive form illustrated are provided three bobbin-clamping jaws 115 appropriately curved correspondingly to the external peripheral side of the full bobbins 2 and that are radially movable in a direction away from and of approach to the axes of the pick-up head 15.
  • the bobbin-clamping jaws115 are carried cantilevered downwards at the extremity of the radial jaw-carrying arms 215 that are fixed at their radially internal extremity to radial sliders 116 of an activating unit 16.
  • the activating unit 16 is of a type known in itself and substantially identical to the radial activating means of the jaws 107 of the mandrels 7, as for example of the type marketed by the company Rhom with the trade name TYP 538.
  • the sliders 116 have inclined surfaces 216 that co-operate with a conjugate conical axial pusher 316, the motion of which is driven in one direction by an hydraulic or pneumatic plunger 416 and by a contrasting spring 516 in the other direction.
  • the sensor ring 17 is supported in an axial manner, elastically yielding, by means of guide bolts 117 with widened heads that are engaged in a sliding manner in coinciding holes 415 of the sensor-carrying arms 315 springs 217 being interposed between the facing sides of the sensor ring 17 and the stationary sensor carrying arms 315.
  • the diameter of the sensor ring 17 is correspondent to an intermediate diameter of a full bobbin 2.
  • the sensor ring 17 co-operates with sensors, for example proximity sensors, or similar 18 that are carried by the small sensor-carrying arms 315 themselves and that control the activation and the deactivation of the motor 114.
  • the small jaw-carrying arms have in their intermediate section, determined in a manner corresponding to the radial stroke of the same and to the diameter of the cores 102 of the bobbins 2, gripping jaws 515 for the cores 102 themselves.
  • the small jaw-carrying arms 215 are made inclined downwards in direction of their radially external extremity, whereby the core-gripping jaws 515 are provided at a level above the bobbin-clamping jaws 115 and above the full bobbin presence sensor ring 17.
  • the small sensor-carrying arms 315 support an additional sensor ring 19 to detect the presence of the core 102.
  • the sensor ring 19 extends itself radially inside the core-gripping jaws 515 and has an internal and external diameter substantially corresponding to the same.
  • the cores 102 presence sensor 19 is fitted on the small sensor-carrying arms 315 by means of external radial extensions 119.
  • the cores presence sensor 19 is provided at the level of the top end section of the core-gripping sensor 515 and is supported in a manner analogous to the full bobbins 2 presence sensor ring 17.
  • the cores 102 gripping jaws 515 are fitted on a pair of radial guide bolts 615 with an enlarged head that are guided in radial slide holes of a small guide block 715 fixed on the small jaws-carrying arms 215 on the radially external side of the jaws themselves and as springs 815 are interposed between the small guide block 715 and the respective cores-gripping jaw 515, preferably two elicoidal springs slipped on the bolts 615. Furthermore, the cores-gripping jaws 515 are arranged inside a recess 317 made on the radially internal side of the full bobbin 2 presence sensor ring 17.
  • each jaw 115 of the pick-up head 15 has a sensor 50 to detect the corresponding section of the external peripheral edge of the bobbin in the position ready for being picked-up from the bobbins-carrying storage 11.
  • the sensors 50 can be of any type and are formed preferably by photocells with a preset field of reading in the axial direction of the bobbin 2 that is superior to a preset axial distance from the face of said bobbin 2 in position of pick-up turned towards the pick-up head 15 from jaws 115 and inferior to the corresponding distance from the opposite face, with reference to a associated preset reading position of the pick-up head 15 itself.
  • the reading position of the pick-up head can be any position comprised between the one of maximum distance away from the bobbin 11 in the pick-up position and the one of readiness for pick-up, that is of maximum nearness.
  • the sensors 50 can be provided also on the gripping jaws of the cores gripping clamp.
  • a control box 51 controls the motors or the actuators of the storage 11 of the horizontal saddle 12 and of the vertical one 14 of the pick-up head with the jaws to clamp the bobbins 2 and the jaws to grip the cores 102. Furthermore the control box drive actuators of the said jaws and in the case the sensors 50 should be provided for on the jaws of the cores-gripping clamp also the motors and the actuators of the conveyors 5.
  • the box receives the signal of the sensors 50.
  • the processing of the signals of the sensors 50 takes place in such a manner, whereby the motors and the motion actuators, that is of horizontal and vertical transfer of the pick-up head 15 and of movement of the bobbin 2 or of the stack of bobbins 2 in the horizontal plane of the storage 11, as well as the transfer and motion of the conveyors 5, are activated, in order to obtain a signal of presence from all the sensors 50 that read the bobbin 2 or the core 102.
  • the bobbin 2 and/or the core 102 and the pick-up head 15 result to be axially perfectly aligned , within the range of the accepted tolerances.
  • the direction is obviously indicated by the sensor or sensors 50 that do not read the presence of the associated part of the bobbin or of the core.
  • the criteria of movement can be of any type and can be managed in a manner as to optimize the handling.
  • the path R of supply A of the bobbin 2 or of the stack of bobbins 2 is anular, preferably circular, in the horizontal plane.
  • control box 51 By suitably programming the control box 51, it is possible to generate geometric criteria of movement of the bobbin 2 and/or the core 102 and of the pick-up head 15 that minimize the centering procedure.
  • a circular path allows also to provide for a bobbin-carrier storage 11 of a rotating type that carries at least two stacks of bobbins.
  • the stacks of bobbins are distributed angularly with their axes on a same ideal circular path with reference to the axis of rotation of the storage 11. In the case of only two bobbins 2, these are obviously diametrically opposite each other.
  • the reading takes place in conditions of closure of the jaws 115 and/or 515 of the pick-up head 15. In this way it is possible to prevent errors due to tolerances of the diameter of the bobbins 2 and/or cores 102.
  • control box is programmed in such a way to stop the pick-up head 15 in the position of detection of the centering and to control the clamping jaws 115 of the bobbin 2 or those that grip the cores 102 in position of closure. Then the reading process of the centering is carried out and when the centering is completed, the jaws are opened and the pick-up head 15 is brought in clamping position of the bobbin 2 or the core 102.
  • the control box 51 keeps count of the number of bobbins 2 of each stack.
  • programming the parameters relative to the axial dimensions of the bobbins in the control box it is possible to adapt from time to time the vertical position of detection of the pick-up head 15, always taking the same to such a distance from the bobbin 2 on top of the stack, where the radius of operation of the sensors ends at an intermediate level between the two faces of said bobbin 2 on the top of the stack. This can be obtained both by raising the support plane of the bobbin-carrier storage 11, as well as more convenient for said construction by adapting the vertical position of detection of the pick-up head.
  • the control box 51 will be equipped for example with a counter and with a suitable data processing program in which the axial dimension of the bobbins can be programmed and that keeps score of the number of bobbins picked-up from each stack, as well as of the code of the stack itself.
  • the pick-up head 15 will therefore be approached from time to time in a dimension corresponding to the number of bobbins 2 picked-up from the corresponding stack as far as the vertical reading position of the centering is concerned., each time that the corresponding stack presents itself to the position of pick-up of a bobbin, that is in the pick-up station.
  • the reading position of the pick-up head 15 can be determined from the direct measurement by the pick-up head 15 of the level of the face turned towards the same of the bobbin 2 on the top of the stack in the pick-up station.
  • This option can be used in the case that stacks of bobbins should be used that are not homogeneous with regards to the axial dimensions within the range of a stack itself.
  • the sensors can also be arranged in different positions and this also dependent from their topology or it is possible to provide different types of sensors in different positions.
  • the movements of reciprocal alignment or centering of the bobbin and/or the core with the pick-up head can take place in both directions as indicated by the arrows F1 and F2 in Fig. 1 and can also be formed by steps of advancement of a preset amplitude. It is also possible that the steps are instead calculated for example thanks to additional information on the position of the bobbin and/or core and/or pick-up head.
  • these are constituted by tables in form of a plane rotating around a vertical axis. These carry more stacks of full bobbins 2, each of the stacks being taken to the pick-up position, coinciding coaxially with the pick-up head 15, with a preset rotation 111 of the plane of the table. This one is driven by a motor 211 by means of a suitable transmission (not illustrated) and in a synchronized manner with the means of supply, or with the pick -up head 15.
  • the rotary plane 111 of the storage in form of a rotating table is suitable to house or is formed by a so-called pallet, facilitating considerably the operations of loading the storage 11.
  • the pallet has dimensions different from the ones of the CEE standards and substantially reduced, that is the 1200 mm of length and 800 mm of width.
  • Each pallet can in this way house substantially diagonally offset two bobbins of diameter of 600 mm, like those customary used in the cigarette packing machines, or similar.

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