EP1165374B1 - Machine de conditionnement et procede pour emballer un produit en vrac - Google Patents

Machine de conditionnement et procede pour emballer un produit en vrac Download PDF

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EP1165374B1
EP1165374B1 EP00909343A EP00909343A EP1165374B1 EP 1165374 B1 EP1165374 B1 EP 1165374B1 EP 00909343 A EP00909343 A EP 00909343A EP 00909343 A EP00909343 A EP 00909343A EP 1165374 B1 EP1165374 B1 EP 1165374B1
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Franz Aschenbrenner
Jan Ullmann
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
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  • the invention relates to a packaging machine and also to a method for packaging a preferably free-flowing bulk material.
  • packaging machines are used for packaging the products, which enable a fast and efficient packaging of the goods.
  • the goods to be packed are preferably wrapped in the packaging machines between two or more continuous packaging means webs.
  • the packaging webs are then sealed around the product by a suitable device. Subsequent to the sealing is usually a separation of the chain-shaped contiguous units.
  • the packaging means webs are deformed so that it has at intervals to each other trough-shaped depressions, in which the bulk material is given.
  • Such devices are known for example from the food or pharmaceutical industry and described for example in DE 25 18 088, DE 25 45 739 or DE 30 36 768.
  • the trough-shaped depressions of the packaging material webs are produced here by means of a plastic or thermoplastic deformation of the packaging webs. This can be done with the aid of an embossing device (DE 25 18 088 and DE 30 36 768) or with a shaping drum, on the circumference depressions of the desired size and shape are arranged.
  • the packaging web is applied over the depressions so that the packaging web extends over the depressions.
  • the deformation of the packaging material web is carried out by evacuating the depressions, whereby the packaging medium web is pulled into the depressions.
  • US-A-4,437,294 describes a packaging machine having a first rotating conveyor element with receiving devices for portioned receiving a bulk material, a feed device for supplying the bulk material to the receiving device, a first device for feeding a filter paper strip, which is arranged so that the filter paper strip after feeding the Bulk material for receiving device on the first conveying element can be applied, and a horizontal sliding surface for further transport of the portioned bulk material on the filter paper strip to a packaging station with a second device for supplying a filter paper strip.
  • US-A-5,264,230 describes a process for making a shaped and pressed food in ring form between two plies of a food grade plastic film.
  • the method includes moving two polygonal forming cylinders toward each other to effect the steps of forming, pressing and sealing, and thereafter rotating the polygonal cylinders to further transport the packaged food.
  • the packaging is discontinuous.
  • the production of the packaging and / or the filling of the packaging and / or the closure of the packaging requires at least one stationary operation, in which the packaging means web rests during processing on this processing station. Due to this discontinuous operation, only a very limited number of packaging units per unit time can be produced with the devices and methods known from the prior art.
  • the filling of the packaging, in particular with free-flowing bulk material which tends to form dust requires a considerable period of time, provided that excessive dust formation is to be avoided. This in turn leads to a reduction of the ejected packaging units per unit time.
  • the object of the invention is therefore to provide an apparatus and a method for portioned packaging of preferably free-flowing bulk material, wherein advantageously the disadvantages known from the prior art are avoided.
  • the device according to the invention and the method according to the invention should enable a packaging of the bulk material with a higher packaging speed compared to the prior art, so that a higher number of packaging units per unit time can be produced thereby.
  • the bulk material to be packaged does not necessarily have to be homogeneous, but may also consist of a mixture of different substances, it being possible for the particle size and shape to be variable over a large range.
  • the first conveying element is expediently driven by a drive unit, for example an electric motor.
  • a second circulating conveying element is arranged next to the first circulating conveying element.
  • the second conveyor element is driven by means of, for example, a gear, a gear arrangement or a belt assembly synchronized with the first conveying element in opposite directions.
  • the conveying elements are arranged so that they have a small distance from each other in a section and here preferably parallel or approximately parallel to each other.
  • the conveying elements can also run on curved paths.
  • the packaging machine has a feed device for feeding the bulk material.
  • the bulk material is fed by means of this feeding device of the receiving device for portioned receiving the bulk material.
  • the bulk material does not necessarily have to be homogeneous, but it can also consist of a mixture of different substances.
  • the bulk material may also consist of several substances, which are supplied separately from each other of the receiving device in the feeder.
  • a first device for feeding the first packaging web is further arranged so that the first packaging web can be applied to the first conveying element after the bulk material has been supplied to the receiving device.
  • a fixing device for fixing the bulk material on the first packaging middle web is arranged so that after transferring the portioned bulk material from the receiving device of the first conveyor element to the second conveyor element, the bulk material is fixed on the first packaging medium web.
  • This fixing device for fixing the bulk material on the first packaging means web is in this case a second device for supplying a second packaging web, which is arranged so that the second packaging means web can be applied to the second conveyor element after transferring the portioned bulk material from the first conveyor element to the second conveyor element.
  • Both the first and the second packaging middle web are in each case supplied in synchronized to the rotational speed of the first and the second rotating conveyor element synchronized speed.
  • the repositioning of the portioned bulk material is expediently carried out in the section in which the two conveying elements have a small distance from one another, wherein the distance is preferably approximately equal to or slightly greater than the thickness of the first packaging means web.
  • the conveying elements in this area furthermore advantageously run parallel or approximately parallel to one another.
  • the first packaging means web which has been applied to the first revolving conveying element, is deflected onto the second conveying element together with the bulk material located in the receiving device.
  • the second device for feeding the second packaging means web is thus preferably arranged so that the second packaging means web in the direction of rotation of the second conveying element shortly after the region in which the two conveying elements have the small distance from each other, the second conveying element is supplied.
  • the first apparatus for supplying the first packaging means web and the second apparatus for feeding the second packaging means web suitably comprise respective holding devices for the respective packaging means webs and deflecting elements, preferably deflection rollers.
  • the packaging of the bulk material in portioned, i. precisely metered or defined amounts can thus be carried out by means of the device according to the invention according to the first aspect of the invention in a continuously running working process.
  • the device according to the invention according to the first aspect of the invention can be operated continuously. Due to the continuous course of the packaging process can hereby reach a very high number of packaging units per unit time. In the case of packaging the absorbent into pillow-shaped units, it is thus possible to achieve, for example, about 600 to 1200 packaged units per minute.
  • the drive units of the packaging machine required for the drive can be made simple due to the continuous operation. Further, with continuous operation of the packaging machine, less wear occurs compared to discontinuous operation.
  • the first and / or the second packaging means web consists of an air-permeable and easily deformable material.
  • a material can also be at small deflection rollers with correspondingly small deflection radii easily feed and deforms easily according to the contour of the first and / or the second conveyor element. Due to the air permeability it is ensured that no air cushions form below the packaging web.
  • the first and the second packaging web are in this case made wider than the receiving device for receiving the bulk material on the other hand, but also narrower than the conveying elements, so that they do not protrude beyond the conveying elements.
  • the first circulating conveyor element and / or the second circulating conveyor element is designed as a rotatable wheel or as a rotatable roller.
  • both conveying elements are designed as wheels or as rollers, it is expedient to carry out both wheels or rollers with slightly different or the same diameter as well as with a width which is similar or similar to both wheels or rollers.
  • the wheels or rollers are preferably to be arranged so that the central axes are parallel or approximately parallel to each other.
  • the design of the conveying element as a wheel or roller is structurally simple and thus inexpensive to produce.
  • At least one revolving conveying element may advantageously comprise a conveyor belt, which is expediently guided over deflecting rollers and may be stabilized at higher revolving speeds by means of additional tensioning and vibration damping elements.
  • the packaging machine moreover has a closing device for closing an envelope of the bulk material divided into individual portions by the first and second packaging middle webs.
  • the closing device can be designed in a simple manner as a device for applying adhesive on at least one side of a packaging web.
  • Another preferred alternative for closing the sheath is a thermal process in which by means of a completely or even partially heatable embossing wheel, which runs on the second conveyor element and thereby the two Squeezes packaging webs and at least locally heated, the two packaging webs are connected to each other around the bulk material.
  • sealing of the covering can be effected.
  • a prerequisite for this method is that the packaging webs of material are suitable for such a process, ie that new bonds form within the material of the packaging webs under the action of heat or under pressure.
  • a separating device which expediently adjoins the closing device makes it possible to separate the still unconnected individual packages ejected from the packaging machine immediately after closing.
  • This singling system is preferably designed as a continuously operating cutting device.
  • the bulk material divided into individual packs can be separated at the speed of packaging and then fed to further processing.
  • the arranged on the circumference of the first conveying element receiving device for portioned receiving the bulk material is advantageously formed as a chamber-shaped depression in the conveying element.
  • the volume of the depression preferably corresponds exactly to the volume of the quantity of bulk material to be absorbed, which is introduced into this depression.
  • the portioned bulk material introduced into the recess is flush with the surface of the conveyor element.
  • a stripping device is also expediently arranged in the direction of rotation of the first conveying element, preferably at the exit from the region in which the bulk material is supplied. By means of this stripping device, the supplied bulk material can be accurately sized according to the volume of the recess by stripping excess bulk material.
  • the scraper serves to clean the conveyor element outside the area of the recess of excess bulk material.
  • a directly adjacent to the first conveying element container is arranged with a funnel-shaped outlet.
  • the funnel-shaped outlet in this case expediently has a contour adapted to the outer contour of the receiving device for receiving the bulk material. If the receiving device designed as a depression in the conveying element, so the outlet thus closes tightly with the conveying element, but without disturbing the circumferential movement. In the latter case, the portioning of the bulk material is thus carried out in a very simple manner by filling the container with bulk material, which trickles with vertical arrangement of the container solely by the force of gravity in the passing wells and thus filled them portioned. In order to accelerate the filling or to make a filling in hanging or other arrangement of the container, an overpressure can be applied to the bulk material in the container.
  • the delivery device may also be subdivided into two or more chambers or supply lines in order to allow separate delivery of two or more substances to the receiving device.
  • At least one receiving device for receiving the bulk material is also arranged on the circumference of the second conveying element.
  • the receiving device is designed here as a chamber-shaped depression.
  • the receiving device for. Receiving the bulk material of the second conveyor element expediently at least equal to or larger volume, wherein the receiving device for receiving the bulk material of the second conveyor element preferably with a larger width and / or a greater length, thus a larger base area, is designed as the receiving device for Absorption of the bulk material of the first conveyor element.
  • the recess of the second conveying element is advantageous with the greater width and / or greater length, thus a larger base area, designed as the recess of the first conveying element. This ensures that when transferring the bulk material no bulk material on the edge region, ie the area outside the receiving device distributed. In the edge region located bulk material could cause a connection, such as an adhesive bond, between the first Packaging means web and the second packaging means web has one or more defects in the form of locally leaking points.
  • the receiving devices of both the first conveyor element and the second conveyor element can in principle have a rectangular as well as a round or oval base.
  • openings are arranged on the underside of the receiving device for receiving the bulk material of the first and / or the second conveying element, wherein the openings are each connected depending on the angular position of the conveying element with a vacuum, constant pressure or overpressure reservoir.
  • These openings may in this case be designed, for example, as bores or as screen openings, wherein the clear width or the clear cross section of the openings is made smaller than the minimum diameter or the minimum base area of the individual elements of the bulk material.
  • the first and / or the second conveying element is hollow, for example, as a ring gear, executed, wherein the hollow running.
  • Conveying element is preferably divided by means of at least one inner bulkhead in angle segments and these angle segments are separated from each other as a vacuum, pressure or overpressure reservoir pressure can be acted upon.
  • the receiving device for receiving the bulk material of the first and / or the second conveying element in this case in the angular segments in which the respective receiving device is filled with bulk material, subjected to negative pressure, and in the angle segments in which the receiving device is emptied, preferably with overpressure applied.
  • the induced due to the negative pressure in the receiving device suction on the bulk material supports and speeds up the filling process of the receiving device of the first conveyor element with bulk material and also the process of relocating the bulk material from the receiving device of the first conveyor element in the receiving device of the second conveyor element.
  • the bulk material is also compressed by the action of the negative pressure in the desired manner, so that this results in a consistent filling of the receiving device with bulk material.
  • an applied negative pressure in the receiving device causes the bulk material to remain in the receiving device even without covering the receiving device, even in the case of an active direction of gravity out of the receiving device.
  • An Indian Recording device applied overpressure accordingly has the opposite effect, namely that the bulk material is ejected from the receiving device.
  • Such an applied in the receiving device of the first conveyor element overpressure is particularly conducive to the rearrangement of the bulk material from the receiving device of the first conveyor element in the receiving device of the second conveyor element.
  • After applying the second packaging means web but also applied to the receiving device of the second conveyor element overpressure for ejecting the coated units can be used.
  • at least the first packaging means web consists of an air-permeable material, which advantageously has a defined flow resistance.
  • the flowable bulk material may be packaged in two or more juxtaposed but separate webs by means of two or more juxtaposed feeding devices and two or more juxtaposed picking devices in the first and second conveying elements.
  • the juxtaposed webs can then be separated or else remain coherent. The latter is particularly advantageous if two different bulk materials to be packed, but the bulk goods may not be mixed.
  • the invention provides a method for packaging a preferably free-flowing bulk material ready.
  • the method in this case comprises a first method step, in which a certain amount of the bulk material of a receiving device, preferably a depression, a first circulating conveyor element is supplied. The specific amount of the bulk material is then transported by means of this first rotating conveyor element.
  • a first packaging web is applied during the further transport over the specific amount of the bulk material so that the specific amount of the bulk material is completely covered by the first packaging medium web.
  • the first packaging means web and the specific amount of the bulk material is transferred during further transport to a second revolving conveyor element, wherein the first packaging medium web comes to rest between the specific amount of the bulk material and the second rotating conveyor element.
  • a second packaging means web is applied during the further transport over the specific amount of the bulk material so that the specific amount of the bulk material is completely enveloped by the first and the second packaging medium web and in a last method step, the first and the second packaging middle web are interconnected ,
  • a significant advantage of the method described here to the method known from the prior art is the continuous process of the method, in which the specific amount of the bulk material can be transported continuously after feeding the bulk material to the receiving device during the further process sequence.
  • the specific amount of the bulk material is preferably transported further by means of a continuously rotating first wheel as the first circulating conveying element and by means of a continuously rotating second wheel as the second circulating conveying element.
  • the packaging webs are preferred each at a web speed of 150 m / min to 240 m / min, more preferably at about 200 m / min supplied.
  • adhesive material can be applied between the packaging webs or the two packaging webs can also be joined together by means of a thermal embossing process or another according to the above-explained methods or combinations thereof.
  • the bulk material is preferably an adsorbent or an absorbent, preferably polymethylene urea or an amorphous silicate, or else a mixture thereof supplied.
  • Polymethyleneurea or amorphous silicates are characterized in the dry state on the one hand advantageously by a good flowability and on the other hand by a very high absorption capacity.
  • the device according to the invention can also be operated with a conventional absorbent or adsorbent, for example a pulp super absorber mixture, pulp flakes or amorphous silicates, such as Zeofree, or mixtures thereof, as well as, for example, eucalyptus lips.
  • Conventional Absorbenzien- or Adsorbenzien often have a lower flowability and are optionally surrounded by a flow wrapping.
  • first and / or as a second packaging means web is preferably a dust-tight and preferably hydrophobic nonwoven is supplied.
  • This fleece prevents leakage even of very small particles of the bulk material from the packaging. Air and liquids, however, can penetrate the fleece.
  • the hydrophobic property of the nonwoven causes the pillow-shaped packaging also in the case of wetting with liquid on your Outside appear dry. The liquid is thus completely passed on to the absorbent and absorbed by the latter.
  • a negative pressure is advantageously generated in the region of the receiving device of the conveying element. Due to this negative pressure, the bulk material is sucked into the receiving device. The filling of the receiving device with bulk material takes place thereby faster, whereby the packaging speed can be increased. On the other hand, as a result of the negative pressure in the receiving device, less dust formation occurs during filling of the receiving device, since in particular the small, dust-like particles are sucked into the receiving device.
  • an overpressure is advantageously generated in the region of the first conveyor element and / or a negative pressure is generated in the region of the second conveyor element.
  • the pressure is in this case applied, for example, by means of openings on the underside of the receiving devices so that it lies below, that is, on the side facing the conveying element, of the bulk material.
  • the overpressure in the region of the first conveying element causes the bulk material in the receiving device to be ejected from the receiving device, whereas by means of the negative pressure in the region of the second conveying element a suction effect on the bulk material to be relocated is achieved.
  • the bulk material supplied to the receiving device of the first conveying element is preferably dimensioned precisely by means of a stripping device, for example a scraper or a brush, which rotates counter to the first conveying element, or a stationary brush with recirculation.
  • a stripping device for example a scraper or a brush, which rotates counter to the first conveying element, or a stationary brush with recirculation.
  • the stripping device is used in addition to the accurate dimensioning of the bulk material in particular also to clean the conveyor element outside the range of the receiving device of excess bulk material. In particular, excess bulk material that comes to lie in the areas where the first bonded to the second packaging medium web or welded together or otherwise can cause the connection to have defects in the form of leaks.
  • the packaging machine according to the invention further comprises a device with which the free-flowing bulk material is supplied only exactly to the receiving devices, thus preventing delivery to areas outside of the receiving devices.
  • This supply device in this case comprises at least one metering container and a circulating belt, wherein the belt has at least one passage opening.
  • the tape is preferably designed as a PTFE glass fabric tape or as a polyurethane tape with steel or Glaszuganiieinlagen or as a steel strip and is guided by means of deflection and / or tension rollers.
  • the band is arranged so that it passes directly at the outlet opening of the dosing and thus closes the dosing on the outlet side. If the through-opening passes through the outlet region of the metering container, bulk material can trickle through the through-openings arranged in the band.
  • a plurality of passage openings are expediently arranged in a row relative to one another in the band. The distance between the centers of the through holes arranged in the band is equal to the distance between the centers of the receiving devices passing by the delivery device.
  • the passage openings are advantageously designed with a slightly smaller cross section or at most a cross section of the same size as the receiving devices.
  • the circulation of the tape is to be synchronized with the recording device (s) passing by the tape so that the through holes come to lie directly above the recording devices. Since the passage openings of the band have a smaller or maximally equal cross-section as the receiving devices, the bulk material can thus only reach the recesses, but not in other areas on the respective first packaging means web.
  • the device designed for the precise feeding of a preferably free-flowing bulk material into a receiving device can be used as a feeding device in connection be used with the method according to the invention.
  • the feeding device can also be designed as a wheel or roller.
  • the bulk material is packaged here in pillow-shaped units 60.
  • the bulk material used for the production of pillow-shaped units which serve as a basic unit for the production of sanitary napkins, diapers, incontinence articles or other absorbent sanitary articles, preferably consists of an absorbent or adsorbent, which is advantageously in the form of a flowable bulk material and a rapid absorption of the supplied liquid guaranteed.
  • the absorbed liquid is advantageously evenly distributed and there is also a slight tendency to re-release the liquid even under pressure.
  • the absorbent or adsorbent consists of a single, as homogeneous as possible substance, which is also suitably soft and easily deformable.
  • the packaging machine shown in Figure 1 in a perspective view is shown in a similar embodiment in Figure 2 in a side view.
  • the packaging machine has two revolving conveying elements, which are designed here as rotating wheels 1,11.
  • the second wheel 11 is in this case designed so that it is rotatable in opposite directions to the first wheel 1.
  • the two wheels 1, 11 are arranged side by side at a small distance from each other.
  • the distance between the two wheels is expediently slightly larger than the thickness of the first packaging middle web.
  • the central axes of the two wheels run parallel or nearly parallel here, so that the peripheral outer sides of the two wheels also run in a certain range parallel or nearly parallel to each other. Not shown are the respective drive units or the synchronizing unit of the second wheel 11.
  • both rotating wheels 1, 11 are arranged in each case a plurality of receiving devices for portioned receiving the bulk material.
  • the receiving devices are here as a chamber-shaped depressions 2, 12 each formed with a rectangular base and equidistant arranged distributed on the handling of each wheel.
  • the wheels 1, 11 are hollow inside.
  • the inner cavities of the wheels are each divided by means of inner bulkhead 3, 13 in angle segments 5, 6, 15, wherein each angle segment is sealed relative to an adjacent angle segment. Each angular segment can thus be acted upon by compressed air supply with negative pressure, constant pressure or pressure independently of the other angle segments.
  • the inner bulkheads 3, 13 and thus the pressurized angle segments 5, 6, 15 are stationary, whereas the wheels 1, 11, which form the outer shell of the angle segments, rotate.
  • mesh-shaped sieves 4 which are arranged as a bottom lining in the recesses 2, 12 of both wheels 1, 11 and communicates through the openings, the fluid in the angle segments with the fluid in the receiving devices, is applied in each case in the angle segments under or overpressure also transmitted to the areas of the adjacent to the angle segments recording devices.
  • a supply device For supplying the bulk material 20, a supply device is arranged in a vertical arrangement on the first rotating wheel 1.
  • the supply device comprises a container 21 with a funnel-shaped outlet 22, wherein the outlet 22 is formed so that it is dimensionally adjacent to the first rotating wheel 1.
  • the container 21 is filled with the flowable bulk material 20, which trickles due to the gravitational force in the passing below the outlet 22 recesses 2 of the first rotating wheel 1.
  • a negative pressure is also applied in the corresponding angular segment 5, which causes a negative pressure in the wells due to the mesh-shaped sieves 4. Furthermore, a homogeneous filling of the recesses 2 with bulk material 20 is ensured by the negative pressure.
  • a first device for feeding a first packaging middle web is arranged such that the first packaging middle web 30 is positioned behind the feed device in the direction of rotation of the first rotating wheel 1 Wheel 1 is supplied and applied to the first wheel 1.
  • the first packaging means web 30 is expediently made wider than the depressions 2, 12.
  • the first packaging means web 30 preferably consists of an air-permeable material.
  • the first packaging web further advantageously consists of a non-woven, synthetic web, for example a three-layer web consisting of a spunbonded web, a meltblown web and another spunbonded web ('Spunbond / meltblown / spunbond ').
  • the first packaging means web can also consist of a laminate which is composed of one or more spunbonded nonwovens and / or carded nonwovens.
  • the first packaging medium web preferably has a basis weight of 15 to 25 gm -2 (grams per square meter).
  • the material of the first packaging means web is preferably not permeable to dust particles, so that even small particles of the packaged as bulk absorbent can not escape. On the other hand, however, it is preferably permeable to liquids, especially to the constituents of menstrual bleeding that occur in liquid form.
  • the material of the first packaging medium web is preferably soft, can be useful with another packaging web and / or thermally bond is advantageous dyeable, advantageously allows rapid passage of liquids, has expediently a low tendency to remoisten and advantageously does not tend to stains.
  • the second packaging means web is preferably made of a similar material as the first packaging means web.
  • packaging means web which faces the liquid inlet in use of the sanitary napkin should expediently have a good permeability to these liquids, whereas the other packaging web may have only low permeability or impermeability to liquids.
  • the only element of the first device for feeding the first packaging means web is merely a deflection roller 31, which ensures a deflection of the first packaging means path 30 in the direction of rotation of the first rotating wheel 1.
  • the first device for supplying the first packaging means web further preferably comprises a holder of the first packaging means web.
  • the first packaging medium web 30 is in this case preferably supplied at a web speed of between 150 m / min and 240 m / min and particularly preferably at 200 m / min.
  • the first packaging medium web 30 applied to the first rotating wheel 1 covers the depressions 3 filled with bulk material during the further transport of the bulk material in accordance with the rotation of the first wheel 1.
  • the first packaging middle web 30 is transferred together with the bulk material located in portions in the depressions to the second rotating wheel 11.
  • an overpressure is additionally applied in the angular segment 6 of the first rotating wheel 1 in which the repositioning takes place. This pressure acts as a result of the openings of the bottom side arranged in the wells mesh screens 4 also on the bulk material and the first packaging web and leads here to eject the bulk material from the wells 2 of the first rotating wheel 1.
  • the second rotating wheel 11 is the first rotating Wheel 1 synchronized so that the ejected from a recess 2 of the first rotating wheel 1 portion-wise bulk material comes to rest in a recess 12 of the second rotating wheel 11.
  • the first packaging middle web 30 is arranged directly on the second rotating wheel 12.
  • the first packaging means web 30 advantageously adapts to the surface contour of the second rotating wheel 11 for this purpose.
  • the portioned bulk material comes due to the repositioning within the wells 12 on the first packaging means 30 to lie.
  • the recesses 12 of the second rotating wheel 11 are each designed with a slightly larger base than the recesses 2 of the first wheel 1. Thus, it is ensured that the portioned bulk material completely in a recess 12 of the second rotating wheel 11 comes to rest.
  • the depressions 2 in the first wheel 1 are each about 100 mm in length, about 50 mm in width and a depth of about 5 mm.
  • the recesses 12 of the second wheel 11 are each made longer and wider by 1 to 2 mm.
  • a second packaging material web 32 is supplied to the second rotating wheel 11 after relocating the bulk material.
  • the second packaging means web 32 is expediently made wider than the recesses 12 provided in the second rotating wheel 11.
  • the feeding device for feeding the second packaging web 32 here comprises a plurality of deflection rollers 33, which are arranged such that the second packaging means web 32 is tangential to the second wheel 11 is supplied.
  • the feeding of the first and the second packaging means web is preferably carried out in each case with a web speed between 150 m / min and 240 m / min, preferably about 200 m / min. Furthermore, it is advantageous to additionally provide a holder, not shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, for the second packaging means web 32, which makes it possible to hold the second packaging means web 32, which is usually present in rolls.
  • the second packaging means web 32 supplied to the second wheel 11 strictly speaking does not lie directly on the second wheel 11 but on the first packaging means web 30, the second packaging means web 32 spanning the depressions 12 filled with bulk material in the second rotating wheel 11. The portioned bulk material located in the recesses 12 is thus enveloped by the first and the second packaging means web.
  • adhesive material is applied to the second packaging means web 32 in FIG. 1 before feeding the second packaging means web 32 to the second wheel 11.
  • the adhesive is applied by means of a device 40 for this purpose over the entire width of the second packaging means web 32 on the side of the second packaging means web, which later faces the first packaging means web.
  • a spray application method with a low basis weight of about 5-10 g / m 2 or a screen printing process with a higher basis weight, wherein in the screen printing adhesive is applied only in the edge regions of the packaging web, or applying the adhesive by means of applicator roll in Question.
  • the adhesive applied to the second packaging means web 32 causes the second packaging means web 32, after application to the second wheel 11, to be bonded to the first packaging web 30 at those locations where the two packaging webs lie directly on top of each other.
  • the bulk material is thus packed in portions between the first and the second packaging medium web 30, 32 in separate units 60.
  • the packaged units 60 are then removed from the second wheel 11. This removal takes place in a simple manner so that the mutually bonded packaging webs 30, 32 are deflected away from the second rotating wheel 11 away.
  • the pillow-shaped individual packs 60 of the portion-packed bulk material are in this case connected to one another via the still connected packaging webs.
  • the removal of the packaged units 60 is followed by a separation of the packaged units 60 by means of, for example, a cutting device, which is not shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, however.
  • the packaged units advantageously also pass through an embossing station, by means of which the packaging means webs are pressed together at the respective splices. As a result, a secure connection of the two packaging webs is ensured at the splices.
  • the embossing station is not shown in FIG.
  • Each of the two circulating, in each case in the figures 1 and 2 designed as a rotating wheel conveyor element can also be designed as a circulating on deflection and tensioning rollers band.
  • Such an embodiment of both conveyor elements as circulating belts is described in connection with the embodiments of Figures 8 and 9.
  • the feeding device described in connection with FIGS. 8 and 9 can also be used in an embodiment of the invention according to the exemplary embodiments of FIGS. 1 and 2.
  • FIG. 3 shows a further packaging machine according to the invention, which is modified in comparison to the packaging machines of FIGS. 1 and 2 essentially in that here two separate bulk goods 20a, 20b can be packed in separate packaging units 60a, 60b designed as packaging bags.
  • the packaging units 60a, 60b are each arranged in pairs next to each other.
  • the packaging of various bulk materials in different and separate packaging bags is particularly useful and sometimes necessary if the bulk materials have very different densities or very different grain sizes. This could then eventually lead to segregation of the individual bulk material elements in an unintentional manner during packaging or in the packaged state. It may also be necessary to package two or more bulk materials in separate packaging bags, if it should deliberately come to no mixing.
  • the feed device consisting of a container 21 and a funnel-shaped outlet 22 is subdivided into two separate regions, through which one bulk material enters the first wheel 1 provided wells 2 is supplied.
  • both the first rotating wheel 1 and the second rotating wheel 11 at their peripheral outer sides on a plurality of pairs arranged side by side recesses 2, 12, which serve as receiving devices for receiving the portioned bulk material.
  • the device 40 for applying adhesive material also corresponds in principle to the embodiment of the invention according to FIGS. 1 and 2.
  • the bulk material is disposed in portions in two separate, pillow-shaped pockets which are each formed by the first and the second packaging web , in front.
  • the paired, but separate units 60a, 60b can be singulated after packaging either in individual units or folded together after a pairwise separation.
  • the packaging machine illustrated in FIG. 4 does not represent an embodiment of the invention. It is particularly suitable in such a case in which a flow-permeable packaging web is used for at least the first packaging means web.
  • the flow-permeable packaging middle web sets this the flow through a defined resistance.
  • the packaging machine shown here comprises, in addition to a rotating wheel 1, which has a plurality of wells 2 in the circumferential outer surface for receiving portions of bulk material, a feed device 21, 22 for supplying the bulk material 20. Further, the packaging machine comprises a first device 31 for supplying a first Packaging means web 30 and a second device 33 for supplying a second packaging medium web 32 and a device 40, by means of which in a planar application adhesive is applied to the second packaging means web.
  • the working principle of the packaging machine shown in Figure 4 differs from the packaging machines according to the invention is that here before the supply of Bulk material to the provided in the wheel 1 wells 2, the first packaging medium web 30 is applied to the rotating wheel 1.
  • the first packaging means web 30 and the second packaging means web 32 and the bulk material 20 advantageously satisfy the properties mentioned in connection with the description of the figures relating to FIGS. 1 and 2.
  • the first packaging means web 30 is expediently easily deformable.
  • the negative pressure applied in an angular segment 5 of the hollow wheel 1 is transmitted to the regions of the recesses 2 via the mesh-shaped sieves 4 arranged on the bottom side in the depressions 2.
  • the negative pressure is preferably selected so that the first packaging means web 30 is thereby deformed according to the contour of the recesses 2 and thus form pockets in the first packaging means web 30.
  • the recesses 2 provided in the wheel 1 also have here an approximately rectangular base area.
  • the depressions are each designed to have a length of about 100 mm, a width of about 50 mm and a depth of about 5 mm.
  • the second packaging means web 32 does not come to lie directly on the wheel 1 but on the first packaging middle web 30 and spans the depressions 2.
  • the packaging webs 30, 32 are expediently wider than the depressions 2 and are preferably at a web speed of about 150 m / min to 240 m / min, more preferably at about 200 m / min supplied.
  • the web speed of both packaging webs 30, 32 must be the same size here.
  • the stripping device is designed here as a wheel 1 counter-rotating brush 24.
  • a closing device in the form of a device 40 for the surface application of adhesive material is arranged in the feed of the second packaging means web 32.
  • the adhesive is, for this purpose, applied in a similar manner as described above, flat on one side of the second packaging medium web 32.
  • Alternative ways of connecting the two packaging webs together, which could be used here, are discussed above.
  • At least the second packaging means web 32 is biased by means of additional clamping elements, not shown, so that the second packaging medium web 32 rests after application to the wheel 1 under a certain contact pressure close to the first packaging medium web 30.
  • it also comes to a bonding of the first packaging medium web 30 with the second packaging medium web 32.
  • the portionwise packed bulk material is then removed from the rotating wheel 1 and suitably supplied to a separating device, not shown.
  • a separating device not shown.
  • an embossing station is expediently additionally arranged in front of the separating device, by means of which the packaging webs of material are pressed along the glue lines and thus secure bonding between the two packaging webs is ensured.
  • the first packaging web can be deformed in a good manner to adapt to the wells. This can easily lead to wrinkling of the first packaging middle web, whereby the operation of the stripper can be at least impaired.
  • bulk material accumulates in the area of the adhesive surfaces, this can lead to a local defect of the bond and thus to a leak in the packaging, through which the bulk material can escape.
  • the adhesive is selectively applied only along adhesive lines 44 and thus only a small area to the second packaging web 32.
  • the adhesive lines 44 are in this case applied to the second packaging means web 32 that they surround the respective recesses 2 after feeding the second packaging means 32 on the rotating wheel 1 and lead here to a gluing of the first packaging medium web 30 with the second packaging means web 32.
  • the application of the adhesive to the second packaging web 32 is effected by means of an applicator roll 41, are formed on the elevations corresponding to the intended adhesive lines.
  • Adhesive substance is applied to these elevations by means of a further roller 42 which is then transferred to the second packaging means web 32 in the printing process.
  • a further counter-roller 43 is used.
  • the packaging machine not according to the invention shown in FIG. 6 is suitable for packaging webs, which are such that they enter into a connection with one another under pressure and / or heat.
  • both the first packaging middle web 30 and the bulk material 20 are sucked into the pocket-shaped depressions 2 of the rotating wheel 1 as a result of the negative pressure applied in an angular segment 5.
  • a second packaging medium web 32 is then fed and applied to the wheel 1. The feeding takes place here tangentially to the wheel 1.
  • the second packaging means web 32 applied to the wheel 1 spans the depressions 2.
  • an embossing wheel 45 is additionally in the embodiment of the invention shown here arranged, which is designed in a similar manner as the rotating wheel 1 as a ring gear and on the outer circumferential side depressions 46 are arranged, the bottoms of which can be lined with mesh-shaped screens 47 as needed in an expedient embodiment of the invention as shown here.
  • the depressions 46 of the embossing wheel 45 are each designed with a raised edge in the form of sealing edges 48.
  • the sealing edges 48 in this case run according to the outline of the finished packaging.
  • the embossing wheel 45 runs on these sealing edges 48 on the rotating wheel 1 and presses by means of these sealing edges 48 on the first wheel 1.
  • a negative pressure can be applied, extending through the openings the mesh-shaped screens 47 also transmits to each engaging with the first wheel depressions 46.
  • a stamping wheel 45 is shown in a perspective view in FIG. 7.
  • the pressing force exerted against the first wheel 1 by pressing can be varied, for example, by means of a spring which acts on the displaceable stamping wheel 45 or can also be kept constant.
  • a connection between the two packaging webs 30, 32 alone can result from the action of pressure, which has sufficient strength for some applications.
  • Is using appropriate materials of the first or the second packaging web or the adhesive to achieve a connection of the first with the second packaging means web heat required or beneficial, so the embossing wheel 45 on the entire outside or even along the sealing edges 48, for example, electrically be heated.
  • Furthermore can be done at the same time in addition to the closing at certain substances during pressing at the same time a separation by separating the packaged unit along the Andrückkanten.
  • the two packaging means webs can also be connected to each other by means of ultrasound.
  • Figure 8 and Figure 9 show no packaging machines according to the invention, but explain the operation of the feeder, with which the flowable bulk material is supplied only exactly to the receiving devices.
  • the packaging machines shown here are particularly suitable for bulk goods having a density of 0.15 g / ml and above.
  • the forces acting on the individual particles of the bulk material would be very high in a packaging machine according to the above-described embodiments of the invention and in particular for small wheel diameters and high rotational speeds. This could lead to the bulk material could not be introduced into the wells in a compact manner.
  • the respective first conveying element 1 according to the packaging machines shown in Figures 8 and 9 on large areas in which the conveying element 1 rotates along a non-curved path.
  • the first conveying element 1 comprises in the packaging machines illustrated here in each case a flexible belt 70, preferably a toothed belt, which rotates between two deflection rollers 71a, 71b.
  • the belt 70 is thereby driven via one of the deflection rollers 71a or 71b.
  • two slideways are arranged here, which provide additional support for the belt 70 in each case in the area in which the bulk material 20 is packaged. In this way and also by supporting rollers, in particular a self-excited swinging of the belt 70 can be prevented.
  • a covering is further vulcanized, in which a plurality of recesses 2 are provided in a row arrangement, each with the same distance from each other. These recesses 2 are executed here spherical segment-like and visible in the upper part of the belt 70 due to the cut in this area representation of the belt.
  • the first apparatus for feeding the first packaging means web here in each case comprises a deflection roller 31, by means of which the respective first packaging means web 30 deflects in a horizontal path.
  • the Breitstreckvorraumen 35 subsequent thereto in Figures 8 and 9 serve to the first packaging medium web 30 on the To press the top of the belt 70 on the belt and thus smooth.
  • Each of the subsequently arranged thermoforming roller 36 has in the region of the recesses 2 an elliptical cross section, which is designed so that the thermoforming roller 36 engages positively when rolling on the belt 70 in the recesses 2.
  • the first packaging middle web 30 disposed between the belt 70 and the deep drawing roll 36 is deformed by the positive engagement of the deep drawing roll 36 with the depressions 2 of the belt 70 in these regions corresponding to the contour of the belt 70. This results in the formation of well-shaped depressions in the first packaging means web 30.
  • a negative pressure is additionally applied in each case in a region 5 a below the belt. Through small openings 4 in the belt 70, which are realized in the figures 8 and 9 by means of small holes, this negative pressure is transferred to the areas of the wells 2. Equally, however, the pressure can also be transmitted by means of a basic porosity of the belt.
  • the first packaging means web 30 from an air-permeable material.
  • Indicated at 72 are vacuum connections, by means of which the regions 5a and 5b can be pressurized with negative pressure.
  • the bulk material is introduced into the recesses in FIG. 8 and FIG. 9 in each case via a feed device designed in several parts.
  • This feeding device in this case in each case comprises a reservoir 21a, from which the bulk material 20 flows into a single or double executed rotary feeder 25. From there, the bulk material trickles into a metering container 21 b, in which an overpressure p 1 'can be suitably applied via a compressed air connection 29, is present.
  • the lower outlet of the metering container 21 b is bounded in each case by a circulating belt 26, preferably a PTFE glass fabric belt or a steel belt. In order to circulate the belt with a small circulation path, the feeders were made angled in the packaging machines shown in Figures 8 and 9.
  • passage openings 26a are further arranged in each case in a row with each other, wherein the distances between the centers of the passage openings 26a are equal to the distances between the centers of the recesses 2 arranged in the belts 70.
  • the through-openings 26a are also designed somewhat smaller in their diameters or clear opening widths than the opening diameter or opening widths of the arranged in the belt 70 Recesses 2.
  • the belts 26 are synchronized with the respective belts 70, the synchronization being such that the through-holes 26a, in a concentric arrangement over the recesses, lie directly above the belt 70 during the horizontal circulation sections shown in Figs , The belts 26 thus run parallel to the belts 70 in these circulation sections.
  • a through-opening 26a now passes through the region of the metering container 21b, bulk material 20 trickles through the passage opening 26a into the underlying recess 2 as a result of the force of gravity. Since the through-openings 26a of the belt 26 are made smaller than the opening widths of the recesses 2, the bulk material 20 can thus only reach the recesses, but not in other areas on the respective first packaging web 30. This is particularly avoided that bulk material 20 outside the recesses 2 accumulates there on the first packaging means web 30, where in a subsequent step the first packaging means web 30 is to be bonded or otherwise thermally bonded to the second packaging means web 32. In some cases, it may also be advantageous to apply the rotating belt 26 with a certain contact pressure against the first packaging medium web 30. As a result, a gap between the circulating belt 26 and the first packaging medium web 30 can be avoided, in which otherwise, in particular very fine-grained bulk material could get.
  • the metering 21b are sealed in Figures 8 and 9 respectively at the inlet and outlet of the belts 26 to prevent inadvertent leakage of the bulk material 20 from the metering containers 21b due to the belt circulation.
  • a sealing chamber 27 is arranged in each case at the inlet of the belt 26 in the region of the metering container 21b, in which a pressure p 2 is applied, which is greater than the pressure p 1 in the metering 21b.
  • a stripping device in the form of a height-adjustable scraper 23 is additionally arranged in each case, which scrapes loose material adhering to the belt 26.
  • the bands 26 are subsequently deflected by means of deflection rollers 28 of the belt 70 and returned to the starting point.
  • a further scraper 23 including an advantageously arranged suction device may be arranged on the underside of the belt 26.
  • the portioned in the wells 2 and portioned bulk material is then transported further with the belt 70.
  • lies below the belt 70 continues to be a negative pressure, wherein the negative pressure applied in these areas 5b may deviate from the negative pressure in the region 5a of the filling of the wells.
  • a second wrapping medium web 32 is fed tangentially to the belt 70 by means of a second circulating conveying element 11.
  • the second packaging means web 32 is not applied directly to the belt 70 but to the first packaging middle web 30 and the bulk material 20 introduced into the depressions 2.
  • the guidance of the second packaging medium web 32 takes place here by means of deflection rollers 33.
  • FIGS. 8 and 9 which are shown as the last working step.

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  1. Machine d'emballage pour emballer une matière en vrac (20) de préférence une matière solide capable de s'écouler, comportant un premier élément de convoyage en circulation (1) qui comprend au moins un dispositif de réception (2) pour la réception par portions de la matière en vrac, comportant un dispositif d'amenée (21, 22) pour amener la matière en vrac (20) au dispositif de réception (2), et comportant en outre un premier dispositif (31) pour amener un premier feuillard d'emballage (30), qui est agencé de telle sorte qu'après amenée de la matière en vrac au dispositif de réception (2), le premier feuillard d'emballage (30) est susceptible d'être posé sur le premier élément de convoyage (1), et comportant en outre un deuxième élément de convoyage (11) qui est en circulation en sens opposé de façon synchronisée par rapport au premier élément de convoyage (1) et qui présente en outre sur un tronçon (50) une faible distance par rapport au premier élément de convoyage (1) et s'étend sur ce tronçon (50) parallèlement ou approximativement parallèlement au premier élément de convoyage (1), ainsi qu'un dispositif de fixation pour fixer la matière en vrac,
    dans laquelle le dispositif de fixation pour fixer la matière en vrac est un deuxième dispositif (33) pour amener un deuxième feuillard d'emballage (32), qui est agencé de telle sorte qu'après transfert de la matière en vrac en portions depuis le dispositif de réception (2) du premier élément de convoyage (1) vers le deuxième élément de convoyage (11), le deuxième feuillard d'emballage (32) est susceptible d'être posé sur ce deuxième élément de convoyage (11), suite à quoi s'effectue la fixation de la matière en vrac sur le premier feuillard d'emballage, et comportant un dispositif de fermeture pour fermer une enveloppe de la matière en vrac subdivisée en portions individuelles, enveloppe qui est formée par le premier et par le deuxième feuillard d'emballage.
  2. Machine d'emballage selon la revendication 1, dans laquelle le premier et/ou le deuxième élément de convoyage en circulation est une roue rotative ou un cylindre rotatif.
  3. Machine d'emballage selon l'une ou l'autre des revendications 1 et 2, caractérisée en ce que le premier et/ou le deuxième élément de convoyage en circulation est une bande de convoyage qui est menée de préférence sur des rouleaux de renvoi.
  4. Machine d'emballage selon l'une des revendications précédentes, dans laquelle est agencé, à titre de dispositif d'amenée pour amener la matière en vrac, un récipient (21) directement adjacent au premier élément de convoyage et présentant une sortie en forme d'entonnoir (22), et en ce que la sortie en forme d'entonnoir (22) présente un contour adapté au contour extérieur du dispositif de réception pour recevoir la matière en vrac.
  5. Machine d'emballage selon l'une des revendications précédentes, dans laquelle un dispositif de raclage (23, 24) est agencé en direction de circulation du premier élément de convoyage (1), de préférence à la sortie hors de la zone du dispositif d'amenée pour amener la matière en vrac.
  6. Machine d'emballage selon l'une des revendications précédentes, dans laquelle le dispositif pour la réception par portions de la manière en vrac est un renfoncement (2) en forme de chambre ménagé dans le premier élément de convoyage.
  7. Machine d'emballage selon l'une des revendications précédentes, dans laquelle au moins un dispositif de réception pour recevoir la matière en vrac, de préférence sous la forme d'un renfoncement (12) en forme de chambre, est agencé également à la périphérie du deuxième élément de convoyage (11).
  8. Machine d'emballage selon la revendication 7, dans laquelle le dispositif de réception du deuxième élément de convoyage, de préférence le renfoncement (12) en forme de chambre, présente un volume plus grand, de préférence une largeur plus grande et une longueur plus grande que le dispositif de réception pour recevoir la matière en vrac du premier élément de convoyage (1).
  9. Machine d'emballage selon l'une des revendications précédentes, dans laquelle des ouvertures sont ménagées du côté inférieur du dispositif de réception pour recevoir la matière en vrac du premier et/ou du deuxième élément de convoyage, et en ce que les ouvertures sont en communication avec un réservoir à dépression, à pression égale ou également à surpression respectivement en fonction de la position angulaire de l'élément de convoyage respectif.
  10. Machine d'emballage selon la revendication 9, dans laquelle le premier et/ou le deuxième élément de convoyage est réalisé creux et de préférence subdivisé en segments angulaires (5, 6, 15) au moyen d'au moins une cloison intérieure (3, 13), ces segments angulaires (5, 6, 15) pouvant être mis sous dépression, sous pression égale ou également sous surpression séparément les uns des autres.
  11. Machine d'emballage selon l'une ou l'autre des revendications 9 et 10, dans laquelle le dispositif de réception pour recevoir la matière en vrac du premier et/ou deuxième élément de convoyage est mis sous dépression dans les segments angulaires (5, 15) dans lesquels le dispositif de réception respectif est rempli de matière en vrac, et en ce qu'il est mis de préférence sous surpression dans les segments angulaires (6) dans lesquels le dispositif de réception respectif est vidé.
  12. Machine d'emballage selon l'une des revendications précédentes, dans laquelle le dispositif de fermeture comprend un dispositif (40, 41) pour appliquer une substance adhésive.
  13. Machine d'emballage selon l'une des revendications précédentes, dans laquelle le dispositif de fermeture comprend une roue d'estampage (45) qui est susceptible d'être chauffée de préférence au niveau des arêtes de scellement (48) ou également complètement.
  14. Machine d'emballage selon l'une des revendications précédentes, dans laquelle, pour emballer des matières en vrac (20a, 20b) solides capables de s'écouler dans deux ou plusieurs feuillards juxtaposés mais séparés l'un de l'autre, deux ou plusieurs dispositifs d'amenée juxtaposés ainsi que deux ou plusieurs dispositifs de réception (2) juxtaposés sont agencés dans le premier et dans le deuxième élément de convoyage.
  15. Machine d'emballage selon l'une des revendications précédentes, dans laquelle le premier et/ou le deuxième feuillard d'emballage (30, 32) est constitué d'un matériau perméable à l'air et aisément déformable présentant une résistance de préférence définie vis-à-vis du passage d'air.
  16. Machine d'emballage selon l'une des revendications précédentes, dans laquelle les vitesses du feuillard sont comprises entre 150 m/min et 240 m/min, de préférence d'environ 200 m/min.
  17. Machine d'emballage selon l'une des revendications précédentes, dans laquelle un dispositif d'individualisation est agencé après le dispositif de fermeture.
  18. Machine d'emballage selon l'une des revendications précédentes, dans laquelle le dispositif d'amenée pour amener la matière en vrac comprend un récipient de dosage (21a, 21b) qui présente une ouverture de sortie, ainsi qu'un élément en circulation (26), l'élément en circulation présentant au moins une ouverture traversante (26a) et étant en outre agencé de manière à passer directement devant l'ouverture de sortie du récipient de dosage, et de plus l'ouverture traversante (26a) est réalisée avec une section transversale légèrement plus petite ou au maximum avec une section transversale de taille égale à celle du dispositif de réception (2) de l'élément de convoyage en circulation, et de plus la circulation de l'élément en circulation (26) est synchronisée de telle sorte que l'ouverture traversante (26a) vient se retrouver directement au-dessus du dispositif de réception (2) pendant le passage de l'ouverture de sortie du récipient de dosage.
  19. Machine d'emballage selon la revendication 18, dans laquelle l'élément en circulation est réalisé sous la forme d'une bande en circulation qui est menée de préférence sur des rouleaux de renvoi et/ou de tensionnement.
  20. Machine d'emballage selon la revendication 19, dans laquelle la bande est réalisée sous forme de bande en PTFE avec tissu en fibres de verre ou de bande en polyuréthanne avec des inserts-tirants en acier et/ou en verre ou encore sous forme de bande en acier.
  21. Machine d'emballage selon la revendication 20, dans laquelle l'élément en circulation est réalisé sous forme de roue ou de cylindre.
  22. Machine d'emballage selon l'une des revendications 18 à 21, dans laquelle plusieurs ouvertures traversantes sont ménagées en une rangée les unes par rapport aux autres dans l'élément en circulation, qui sont écartées les unes des autres de manière à venir se retrouver chacune au-dessus du dispositif de réception ou des dispositifs de réception pendant la circulation.
  23. Procédé pour emballer une matière en vrac, de préférence une matière solide capable de s'écouler, dans lequel
    a) une quantité déterminée de la matière en vrac est amenée à un dispositif de réception, de préférence à un renfoncement (2), d'un premier élément de convoyage (1) en circulation, et continue d'être transportée avec ce premier élément de convoyage (1) en circulation,
    b) pendant la poursuite du transport, un premier feuillard d'emballage (30) est appliqué par-dessus la quantité déterminée de matière en vrac de telle sorte que la quantité déterminée de la matière en vrac est complètement couverte par le premier feuillard d'emballage,
    c) pendant la poursuite du transport, le premier feuillard d'emballage ainsi que la quantité déterminée de la matière en vrac sont transférés à un deuxième élément de convoyage (11) en circulation, le premier feuillard d'emballage venant se retrouver entre la quantité déterminée de la matière en vrac et le deuxième élément de convoyage en circulation,
    d) ensuite, pendant la poursuite du transport, un deuxième feuillard d'emballage (32) est appliqué par-dessus la quantité déterminée de la matière en vrac de telle sorte que la quantité déterminée de la matière en vrac est complètement enveloppée par le premier et par le deuxième feuillard d'emballage, et
    e) le premier et le deuxième feuillard d'emballage sont reliés l'un à l'autre.
  24. Procédé selon la revendication 23, dans lequel les étapes a à d ou a à e sont répétées de façon continue.
  25. Procédé selon l'une ou l'autre des revendications 23 et 24, caractérisé en ce que la quantité déterminée de matière en vrac continue d'être transportée au moyen d'une première roue tournant en continu à titre de premier élément de convoyage en circulation, et au moyen d'une deuxième roue tournant en continu à titre de deuxième élément de convoyage en circulation.
  26. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 23 à 25, dans lequel on amène à titre de matière en vrac un absorbeur, de préférence de l'urée de polyméthylène ou un silicate amorphe.
  27. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 23 à 26, dans lequel on amène à titre de premier et/ou de deuxième feuillard d'emballage une nappe étanche aux poussières et de préférence hydrophobe.
  28. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 23 à 27, dans lequel on génère une dépression dans la zone du dispositif de réception de l'élément de convoyage pour assister la déposition de la quantité déterminée de la matière en vrac sur le premier élément de convoyage en circulation et/ou pour la poursuite du convoyage de la quantité déterminée de la manière en vrac.
  29. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 23 à 28, dans lequel on génère une surpression dans la zone du premier élément de convoyage et/ou une dépression dans la zone du deuxième élément de convoyage pour assister le transfert de la quantité déterminée de la matière en vrac depuis le premier élément de convoyage en circulation au deuxième élément de convoyage en circulation.
  30. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 23 à 29, dans lequel la matière en vrac amenée au dispositif de réception du premier élément de convoyage est dosée de façon exacte au moyen d'un dispositif de raclage.
  31. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 23 à 30, dans lequel le premier et le deuxième feuillard d'emballage sont reliés l'un à l'autre au moyen d'une substance adhésive introduite entre les feuillards d'emballage.
  32. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 23 à 31, dans lequel le premier et le deuxième feuillard d'emballage sont reliés l'un à l'autre par un procédé d'estampage thermique ou mécanique ou par une combinaison des procédés.
  33. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 23 à 32, dans lequel la matière en vrac en portions et enveloppée est individualisée après liaison du premier et du deuxième feuillard d'emballage.
  34. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 23 à 33, dans lequel les feuillards d'emballage son menés à une vitesse de 150 m/min à 240 m/min, de préférence d'environ 200 m/min.
  35. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 23 à 34, dans lequel la matière en vrac est amenée au dispositif de réception du premier élément de convoyage (1) en circulation à partir d'une ouverture de sortie d'un récipient de dosage (21a, 21b), à travers une ouverture traversante (26a) d'un élément (26) en circulation qui est agencé de manière à passer directement devant l'ouverture de sortie du récipient de dosage, et de plus l'ouverture traversante (26a) est réalisée avec une section transversale légèrement plus petite ou au maximum avec une section transversale de taille égale à celle du dispositif de réception (2) de l'élément de convoyage en circulation, et de plus la circulation de l'élément en circulation (26) est synchronisée de telle sorte que l'ouverture traversante (26a) vient se retrouver directement au-dessus du dispositif de réception (2) pendant le passage de l'ouverture de sortie du récipient de dosage.
  36. Procédé selon la revendication 35, dans lequel l'élément en circulation est réalisé sous la forme d'une bande en circulation qui est menée de préférence sur des rouleaux de renvoi et/ou de tensionnement.
  37. Procédé selon la revendication 36, dans lequel la bande est réalisée sous forme de bande en PTFE avec tissu en fibres de verre ou de bande en polyuréthanne avec des inserts-tirants en acier et/ou en verre ou encore sous forme de bande en acier.
  38. Procédé selon la revendication 37, dans lequel l'élément en circulation est réalisé sous forme de roue ou de cylindre.
  39. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 35 à 38, dans lequel plusieurs ouvertures traversantes sont ménagées en une rangée les unes par rapport aux autres dans l'élément en circulation, qui sont écartées les unes des autres de manière à venir se retrouver chacune au-dessus du dispositif de réception ou des dispositifs de réception pendant la circulation.
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