EP1106086A2 - Procédé de transport d'articles en forme de tige et appareil pour transporter des récipients - Google Patents

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EP1106086A2
EP1106086A2 EP00119700A EP00119700A EP1106086A2 EP 1106086 A2 EP1106086 A2 EP 1106086A2 EP 00119700 A EP00119700 A EP 00119700A EP 00119700 A EP00119700 A EP 00119700A EP 1106086 A2 EP1106086 A2 EP 1106086A2
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Albert-Berend Hebels
Matthias Horn
Matthias Jobmann
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
    • A24C—MACHINES FOR MAKING CIGARS OR CIGARETTES
    • A24C5/00—Making cigarettes; Making tipping materials for, or attaching filters or mouthpieces to, cigars or cigarettes
    • A24C5/35—Adaptations of conveying apparatus for transporting cigarettes from making machine to packaging machine
    • A24C5/352—Adaptations of conveying apparatus for transporting cigarettes from making machine to packaging machine using containers, i.e. boats

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  • the invention relates to a method for conveying rod-shaped articles tobacco processing industry according to the preamble of claim 1 and a Container conveyor device for conveying rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry Industry according to the preamble of claim 13.
  • rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry are tobacco rods, Stamped tobacco sticks, filter cigarettes, cigars, cigarillos, cigarillos with To understand filters or mouthpiece and also filter rods.
  • rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry in particular filter rods to be understood.
  • spoken of filter rods or sometimes also of cigarettes other rod-shaped articles are not excluded.
  • the filter rods of particular interest here are used in the cigarette industry the production on strand machines in an endless filter strand, from which then individual filter rods are cut off.
  • auxiliaries that a certain time until Need to achieve their desired final state. Before that time The filter rods must therefore not be processed into filter cigarettes.
  • Such an auxiliary is usually understood to be a so-called plasticizer, with which the acetate fibers mostly used today in filter production before Strand formation of the filter strand can be solved.
  • After the completion of the Filter rods harden the plasticizer, after which the individual fibers of the acetate stick together at the connection points.
  • the known today and proven pneumatic conveyor systems for such hardened filter rods consist of broadcasting stations with magazines, from which transfer devices transfer successive filter rods into the pneumatic conveying lines, from which the filter rods are then transferred to the by means of further transfer devices Filter attachment machines or to corresponding magazines of the filter attachment machines be transferred.
  • the own DE 39 170 097 which corresponds to US 5,123,798, shows a container conveyor of the type mentioned at the beginning for the mutual exchange of Containers between a container filling device and a container emptying device, with the container filling device or the container emptying device in each case Container stations for empty and full containers assigned to one another on top of each other Container.
  • a connecting the container stations with each other in Tower construction trained transfer means provided with which Transfer means, which with a swivel drive and two superimposed Container receptacles is provided, container between each Stations can be implemented.
  • the object of the present invention is a method and a container conveying device to make available, in which the best possible compromise between sufficient curing time of the articles in the container conveyor and maximum throughput of the container conveyor is achieved.
  • the advantages of the invention are, in particular, that due to the detection the dwell time of the containers in the full container receiving station in good time it can be decided whether the container is directly the container emptying device should be supplied, or whether the container via a detour or not initially the container emptying device is to be fed. In particular, are taken into account whether the dwell time of the container on the full container receiving station has already reached a predefinable minimum dwell time. At this Specifiable or desired minimum dwell time is in particular a curing time required for filter rods of the type mentioned at the outset. This is around 20 minutes with today's filter rods; is the present invention however, regardless of the extent of this time, rather it works present invention at any predetermined minimum dwell time.
  • the container before Feed to the container emptying device placed on a full container feed station a total residence time can then be determined from the Dwell time on the full container receiving station and the expected dwell time Determine on the full container feed station. This total residence time can then be compare with the minimum dwell time. In this way, in this embodiment also the fill level of containers on the full container feed station the actual container emptying device are taken into account. Only when the the desired total from the two dwell times The minimum retention time is not reached, the containers are diverted.
  • a further embodiment of the present invention is characterized by this from that the length of the detour depends on the detected dwell time is controlled.
  • the detour is advantageously through a first supply station realized, on which the containers are placed, the desired residence time have not yet reached the full container receiving station.
  • the invention Device for performing the method according to the invention has the purpose the feeding of the containers from the full container receiving station to the container emptying device or a transfer device to the full container feed station. This In this embodiment, the conversion device is then controlled such that it depending on the detected dwell time, the containers to the first storage station puts.
  • Filter rods is in accordance with another embodiment of the present Invention.
  • This second supply station preferably has a delivery position for delivery of filled containers to which delivery position the transfer device preferential access.
  • the conversion device is designed such that with their help containers from the second supply station to the full container feed station are feasible.
  • a control device ensures that the container from the second storage station also depending on the expected dwell time in the full container feed station can be implemented in this.
  • a Control device controls the conversion device such that the conversion device then when they move a container from the full container receiving station to the first Storage station automatically transfers a container from the second storage station into the full container feed station to empty the full container feed station to prevent.
  • this fully automatic addition to the Full container feed station ensures particularly advantageous that the container conveyor following processing machines are always sufficient articles to be processed, and in particular with sufficiently hardened Filter rods are supplied. Thanks to the invention it is therefore possible that the processing machines downstream of the container conveyor never have to slow down their processing speed. This Advantage is not achieved in the prior art.
  • the second supply station connected to the first supply station, so that a Waiting for full containers can be formed.
  • This is on hold advantageously designed so that a sufficient dwell time for the full container is ensured.
  • the combination of the first and second supply station, the aforementioned waiting loop be designed so that the desired minimal dwell time in the container conveyor alone in the two Supply stations is reached. This way you can have an uninterrupted one Operation of the downstream of the container conveyor processing machines can be ensured if the throughput speeds the full container pick-up and full container feed station so high are that almost no dwell times are generated in these stations.
  • the waiting loop can preferably be designed in this way be that full containers are removed from it by hand and full containers by hand into it can be adjusted. In this way, even with one Total failure of the upstream of the container conveyor Manufacturing machine the continuous operation of the downstream processing machines can be ensured.
  • a timestamp is understood here either as a clock that is currently generation of the time stamp is at zero and then in the normal time cycle counts up.
  • the time stamp can also be the one at the moment of the Generation of the timestamp is the actual local time.
  • the alternative is then simply to record a dwell time afterwards fixed time, assigned to a container, with the current time Time compared and determined by the difference the residence time of the container.
  • the previously saved length of the full container receiving station can be the time Calculate to where the container was located when it was captured has reached the end of the full container receiving station.
  • the time stamp of the container is then queried.
  • the elapsed time at the end or at the exit of the full container receiving station is preferred determined. Should this be based on the time stamp and with the help elapsed time determined by detectors since the container was filled together with the expected dwell time in the full container feed station can reach the desired minimum dwell time in the container conveyor the conversion device is instructed by the control device, this to transfer certain containers to the first storage station. In its place then a container with sufficient dwell time from the second supply station removed and transferred to the full container feed station.
  • the containers in the second supply station are not in the sense of the above queue described come from the first supply station, but in the Exceptional situations also described above by hand in the second Storage station have been set, they will be at the beginning of the second Storage station preferably also provided with a time stamp. In this way can also be filled with such hand-filled containers in the second Determine whether the supply station has one at the end of the second supply station have sufficient dwell time together with the dwell time in the full container feed station the desired minimum dwell time in the container conveyor to reach.
  • FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of a container conveyor device according to the invention 1.
  • Fig. 1 shows the container conveyor 1 in a side view. The structure and operation of the container conveyor 1 based on the process from filling the containers to emptying them explained.
  • empty containers 4 are opened with the aid of a Conveyor belt 6 a symbolized but not shown by the arrow 8 Container filling device supplied.
  • the filled by the container filling device 8 Empty containers 4 are then symbolized as full containers 10 by the arrow 12 Place a full container receiving station 14 supplied.
  • the full container receiving station 14 also has a conveyor belt 16.
  • the conveyor belt 16 has a conveying direction opposite to the conveyor belt 6. In the area of At the beginning of the conveyor belt 16 there is a sensor 20.
  • the sensor 20 detects the fresh ones arriving at the point 12 in the full container receiving station 14 Full container 10.
  • the sensor 20 is connected to a computing unit, not shown.
  • the first, Full container 10 detected by sensor 20 receives one in the computing unit assigned any natural number, for example the number 1.
  • This Full containers 10 subsequent full containers 10 are also from sensor 20 captures and receives the following natural numbers in ascending order.
  • the third sensor 20 detects Full container 10 assigned the number 3.
  • the full container 10 designated in this way with a natural number is assigned the current time to a clock installed in the computing unit.
  • the Name of the full container 10 and the associated time of the internal clock in the computing unit the full container 10 remains assigned until it has the Has left container conveyor 1 again.
  • a full container 10 at any point within the container conveyor 1 Time hereinafter referred to as dwell time, can be assigned since the filling the full container 10 has passed with the aid of the container filling device 8.
  • the conveying speeds are also a computing unit via measuring means, also not shown all conveyor belts within the container conveyor 1, especially the conveyor belts 6 and 16, and also the lengths of the conveyor belts known. In this way, the computing unit can determine which one Full container 10 is when it is a full container 10 with the help of further, sensors described in more detail below.
  • the second sensor 24 is located at the end 22 of the Conveyor belt 16 of the full container receiving station 14.
  • the sensor 24 detects the Full container 10 again.
  • the arithmetic unit can now by comparing the current Time with the time stamp of the full container 10 can be determined which Dwell time of the full container 10 accumulated in the full container receiving station 14 Has.
  • the residence time of the full container 10 thus determined since the detection with the Sensor 20 is then given a desired one specified in the computing unit Dwell time of the full container 10 in the full container receiving station 14 compared.
  • the containers are also conveyed by a conveyor belt 30 in Fig. 1 moved from left to right.
  • a third sensor 34 At the end 32 of the conveyor belt 30 there is a third sensor 34.
  • the sensor 34 is used again the respective full container 10 is detected in order to then in the computing unit using the Time stamp the previously accumulated dwell time in the container conveyor device 1 to compare with the desired minimum dwell time. Is the minimum dwell time reached, the full container 10 is in a receiving position 36 of a second Supply station 38 implemented.
  • the second supply station 38 has a fourth one Conveyor belt 40, the conveying direction of the conveyor belt 40 being the conveying direction of the conveyor belt 30 is opposite.
  • At the end 42 of the conveyor belt 40 there is another sensor 44.
  • the one described above is also here Detection of the full container 10 and the comparison with the desired minimum dwell time performed. Then the full container 10 along the arrows 46a, 46b implemented in the full container feed station 48.
  • the full container feed station 48 also has a conveyor belt 50. At the end 52 of the conveyor belt 50 of the full container feed station 48 there is a further sensor 54. Also this sensor performs the same tasks as those previously described Sensors 24, 34 and 44 have met.
  • the computing unit should still use the sensor 54 at this time an insufficient, i.e. the dwell time not reaching the minimum dwell time determine the full container 10 in the container conveyor 1, so a Warning signal issued to the operating personnel. Because after sensor 54 the full container 10 goes directly into the not shown, but through a Double cassette with a double arrow symbolizing container emptying device 56, and from there into the further processing, also not shown Machinery. In such a case, the operating personnel must decide whether the Full container 10, which at the point of the sensor 54 is not yet sufficient Has dwell time in the container conveyor 1, still processed shall be.
  • the computing unit determines - which is the normal case - one sufficient dwell time due to the timestamp of the corresponding container 10, the container 10 becomes without interrupting the container emptying device 56 fed.
  • the full container 10 emptied of its content is then called an empty container 58 on an empty container receiving station also provided with a conveyor belt 60 62 again led to a transfer position 64, from which he into the Empty container feed station 2 is implemented.
  • Fig. 1 also shows the implementation of the full container 10 at the end 32 of Conveyor belt 30 of the first supply station 28 in the receiving position 36 of the second supply station 38.
  • This transfer is carried out according to arrow 70 if necessary through a gap 72 in the conveyor belt 30 of the first supply station 28 fully automatically with the help of a lifting platform, not shown.
  • the manual transfer (with possible intermediate storage) of the full containers continues 10 out of the first supply station 28 into the second supply station 38 possible inside.
  • This manual repositioning is indicated by arrows 74 and 76 symbolizes.
  • another sensor 78 is at the level of the receiving position 36 of the second Storage station 38 is provided. This means that full containers 10 can be opened by hand the recording position 36 are set at the location of the sensor 78 likewise provided with a time stamp.
  • the implementation of the full container 10 or the empty container 4 between the different Stations is by a schematically shown transfer device 80 clarifies.
  • the conversion device 80 has a foot 82 and a pillar 84.
  • Grippers 86 and 88 are located on the pillar 84 along the longitudinal axis of the pillar 84 movable and rotatable about the longitudinal axis of the pillar 84.
  • the gripper 86 is loaded with a full container 10.
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