EP1092519A2 - Vorrichtung zur Herstellung von Korken - Google Patents

Vorrichtung zur Herstellung von Korken Download PDF

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EP1092519A2
EP1092519A2 EP00122053A EP00122053A EP1092519A2 EP 1092519 A2 EP1092519 A2 EP 1092519A2 EP 00122053 A EP00122053 A EP 00122053A EP 00122053 A EP00122053 A EP 00122053A EP 1092519 A2 EP1092519 A2 EP 1092519A2
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cork
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Oriano Lucarelli
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Omlo Srl - Officina Meccanica Lucarelli Oriano
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B27—WORKING OR PRESERVING WOOD OR SIMILAR MATERIAL; NAILING OR STAPLING MACHINES IN GENERAL
    • B27J—MECHANICAL WORKING OF CANE, CORK, OR SIMILAR MATERIALS
    • B27J5/00—Mechanical working of cork

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  • the present invention relates to the cork stoppers manufacturing field and in particular it refers to an apparatus intended to assemble cork stoppers which are formed by a body of granulated cork material to which at least one disk of cork is glued.
  • the position of the disk to be glued (it is known that the position of the disk has to be selected is such a way that, once it has been glued to the granulated cork body, its good side is in sight and the value of the cork stopper is increased) is determined by a vibrating hopper.
  • the hopper is provided with a predetermined path along which the disks can slide. At an intermediate position of that path there is placed a reader which is able to detect a mark printed on the selected side of the disk, and a rejecter which rejects the disks which are positioned in the wrong direction and puts them again into the hopper.
  • the selected disks pass to a gluing centre and are glued to the granulated cork bodies which are continuously supplied by a chain conveyer.
  • the formed cork stoppers can be grabbed and pressed by the pliers of the conveyer during their passage in a drying kiln. After that passage the stoppers are collected and delivered for further treatments.
  • the selection of the cork disk which are properly positioned is performed by a rejecting mechanism which penalises the productivity of the selection phase.
  • a first aim of the invention is to overcome the drawbacks of the already known apparatus.
  • a further aim of the invention is to provide an apparatus having high flexibility and high productivity in the assembling of cork stoppers.
  • the apparatus comprises only one gluing and assembling centre of the cork stopper disks, the centre comprising a device by which the granulated cork body is positioned in respect of the disks.
  • the apparatus further comprises an upside down turner of these disks which are initially positioned in the wrong direction and which have to be turned before gluing.
  • the reading of the marked side of the disk is made in a static manner, when the disk is stopped, so that the reading errors of the conventional apparatus are avoided.
  • the entrance of the assembled stoppers in the kiln is immediately upstream the gluing and assembling centre.
  • the positioning of the granulated cork bodies in respect of the discs is obtained by a lifting hook placed under the free fall supply line of the same bodies.
  • the conveying operations of the disks to the gluing and assembling centres and to the turner, and the conveying of the assembled stoppers to the pliers are performed by oleo-dynamic linear actuators.
  • the advantages of the invention consist essentially in that the apparatus has an higher flexibility and smaller overall dimensions then the already known apparatus and that it needs lower maintenance care and less frequent cleaning operations.
  • an assembling apparatus for cork stoppers having a granulated cork body consists of:
  • the section is constituted by an hopper 3 from which bodies 1 fall along a plurality of channels 4 down to a room 5 where are provided selection means of in se known type and therefore not described in details.
  • the selection means send to a second channel 6 an ordered series of the bodies coming form channels 4. Bodies 1 fall along channel 6, down to its lower extremity of where an hook 20 stops them.
  • Section "b” consists of two vibration hopper 10, of in se known type, from which disks 2 can reach two vertical channels 11. At the bottom of channels 11 there are placed two reading optical sensors 12 able to detect a mark printed on a selected side of each disk and to possibly activate, if necessary, the upside down turners.
  • Each of those turners consists of an horizontally movable plate 13 which is positioned on the reading plane of a disk which has to be turned upside down.
  • the front extremity of plate 13 is "V" shaped and it is able to collect a disk 2 and to push it inside a sleeve 14 rotating around an horizontal axis.
  • sensor 12 first activates the displacement of plate 13 towards sleeve 14 and then, if a turning of the disk is needed, it activates a 180° turning of the same sleeve together with plate 13 and disk 2, so that disk 2 is positioned in the desired manner in respect to the granulated cork body 1.
  • Two skates 15 can slide along the seats 16 in order to push the disks 16 against an abutting rim 17 along which they are aligned.
  • dispensers can be placed in different positions, in order to distribute glue on the upper side of one or more disks.
  • a further skate 19 sliding in a transversal direction in respect to skates 15, brings the glued disks, superimposed one on the other, to a position correspondent to the position of the granulated cork bodies 1, so that a cork stopper can be assembled according to the invention.
  • An hook 20 able to be displaced vertically and to rotate around an horizontal axis is provided under channel 6 and is aligned thereto. There, aligned with channel 6, there is an horizontal displacing device 30 which is intended to move the cork stoppers to be assembled.
  • the displacing device is driven by a rod 37which is in turn operated by a cam mechanism 36.
  • hook 20 is initially in a lowered position and detached from the vertical column of bodies 1. After that the first body 1 is positioned on the displacing device 30, hook 20 rotates form the detached position to an advanced position so that it hooks the second body of the column and lifts it together with the remaining bodies. In this way a free space above the first body is made available. After that, a first plate 38 of displacing device 30 goes forward pushing the first body against a couple of reference pins 31, which pins determine the exact position where skate 19 can bring on first body 1 the disks 2 already provided with a layer of glue on the lower sides.
  • displacing device 30 prosecutes in its motion by operating a second plate 32 which is made integral to pins 31 by two lateral arms 33.
  • the assembled cork stopper is kept between a V shaped front end of plate 38 and the reference pins 31.
  • displacing device 30 stops the cork stoppers composed by a body 1 and the two disks 2, the stoppers are inserted between suitable pliers 34 which pass in front of the displacing device 30 and bring the stoppers to a kiln to be cooked according to a in se known method.
  • the above illustrated assembly (one body having two disks at the same extremity) is useful for the manufacturing of cork stoppers for "Spumante" wine.
  • the apparatus of the invention can be advantageously utilised for the manufacturing of different stoppers and in particular for the manufacturing of "one plus one" cork stoppers, obtained by gluing one cork disk to each extremity of a granulated cork body.
  • the stopper is assembled as follows:
  • the first body of the column has a disk attached to the lower extremity and the initial condition is restored.
  • the apparatus of the invention is advantageously able to assemble different type of cork stoppers by minimal modification and keeping safe its high productivity.

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  • Chemical And Physical Treatments For Wood And The Like (AREA)
EP00122053A 1999-10-11 2000-10-11 Vorrichtung zur Herstellung von Korken Withdrawn EP1092519A3 (de)

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IT1999FI000204A IT1308301B1 (it) 1999-10-11 1999-10-11 Macchina per la composizione di tappi in sughero
ITFI990204 1999-10-11

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Cited By (4)

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
EP1300224A1 (de) * 2001-10-03 2003-04-09 Alberto Ferrero Maschine für das Fertigstellen von geklebten Korken
FR2905626A1 (fr) * 2006-09-13 2008-03-14 Ardennes Chirorees Soc Par Act Procede de realisation d'un produit en liege agglomere.
ES2302486A1 (es) * 2008-02-21 2008-07-01 Jose Luis Godoy Varo Metodo y aparato para fabricacion de tapones multicapa de corcho natural y tapon multicapa de corcho natural.
ITTO20110948A1 (it) * 2011-10-19 2013-04-20 Menabreaz Ivaldi S R L Macchina intestatrice per tappi.

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
EP0927613A2 (de) * 1997-12-30 1999-07-07 NERI F. & C. S.n.c. Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur Herstellung von Korken

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EP0927613A2 (de) * 1997-12-30 1999-07-07 NERI F. & C. S.n.c. Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur Herstellung von Korken

Cited By (5)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
EP1300224A1 (de) * 2001-10-03 2003-04-09 Alberto Ferrero Maschine für das Fertigstellen von geklebten Korken
FR2905626A1 (fr) * 2006-09-13 2008-03-14 Ardennes Chirorees Soc Par Act Procede de realisation d'un produit en liege agglomere.
ES2302486A1 (es) * 2008-02-21 2008-07-01 Jose Luis Godoy Varo Metodo y aparato para fabricacion de tapones multicapa de corcho natural y tapon multicapa de corcho natural.
ITTO20110948A1 (it) * 2011-10-19 2013-04-20 Menabreaz Ivaldi S R L Macchina intestatrice per tappi.
ES2405479R1 (es) * 2011-10-19 2014-05-16 Menabreaz Ivaldi S.R.L. Máquina para el refrentado de tapones

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