EP1177980B1 - Packaging machine - Google Patents

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EP1177980B1
EP1177980B1 EP01117138A EP01117138A EP1177980B1 EP 1177980 B1 EP1177980 B1 EP 1177980B1 EP 01117138 A EP01117138 A EP 01117138A EP 01117138 A EP01117138 A EP 01117138A EP 1177980 B1 EP1177980 B1 EP 1177980B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B21/00—Packaging or unpacking of bottles
    • B65B21/24—Enclosing bottles in wrappers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B43/00—Forming, feeding, opening or setting-up containers or receptacles in association with packaging
    • B65B43/12—Feeding flexible bags or carton blanks in flat or collapsed state; Feeding flat bags connected to form a series or chain
    • B65B43/14—Feeding individual bags or carton blanks from piles or magazines
    • B65B43/16—Feeding individual bags or carton blanks from piles or magazines by grippers
    • B65B43/18—Feeding individual bags or carton blanks from piles or magazines by grippers by suction-operated grippers
    • B65B43/185—Feeding individual bags or carton blanks from piles or magazines by grippers by suction-operated grippers specially adapted for carton blanks
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B5/00—Packaging individual articles in containers or receptacles, e.g. bags, sacks, boxes, cartons, cans, jars
    • B65B5/02—Machines characterised by incorporation of means for making the containers or receptacles
    • B65B5/024—Machines characterised by incorporation of means for making the containers or receptacles for making containers from preformed blanks
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B5/00—Packaging individual articles in containers or receptacles, e.g. bags, sacks, boxes, cartons, cans, jars
    • B65B5/02—Machines characterised by incorporation of means for making the containers or receptacles
    • B65B5/024—Machines characterised by incorporation of means for making the containers or receptacles for making containers from preformed blanks
    • B65B5/026—Machines characterised by incorporation of means for making the containers or receptacles for making containers from preformed blanks for making trays

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  • the invention relates to a packaging machine of the wrap-around type, for wrapping cardboard packaging blanks around preformed groups of products, such as groups of bottles, cans, jars, or other similar containers full of product, which can be converted if necessary to a tray packaging machine, which is characterized in that it has the blank magazine outside, in the input part of and in line with the machine.
  • the products to be packaged are supplied from a storage conveyor line, are divided into groups, each consisting of a desired number of rows and lines of products, and then continue, being thus divided into suitably spaced groups, which advance continuously and in alignment with the said storage conveyor line, along which the various operating stations are provided in sequence and carry out:
  • Packaging machines of the known type essentially operate according to two different principles.
  • the blank is inserted into the machine with its greatest dimension orientated in the direction of advance of the groups of products, and according to the other principle the blank is placed transversely.
  • the blank magazine is at present placed on one side of the machine and the blanks are usually stacked on a horizontal plane, which limits the load capacity of the magazine, requires complex mechanisms for the cyclical feed of a blank and makes it difficult to maintain the part of the machine on whose side the magazine is fitted.
  • An example of a machine of this type is described in Italian Patent No. 1,174,517 (OCME).
  • the blank magazine can be located on one side of the machine, or, more generally, is located under the product conveying and grouping line, with the blanks positioned on edge and on a plane inclined in the longitudinal direction, so that they move by gravity towards the discharge end of the magazine.
  • This second solution is simpler in construction than the first, but also has the drawback of a limited load capacity of the magazine and the difficulty of maintenance of the part of the machine next to the magazine.
  • An example of a machine of this type is described in US Patent No. 5,148,654 (Kisters).
  • Document EP 0 786 407 A1 discloses a packaging machine of the wrap-around type in accordance with the preamble of claim 1, in which the magazine for the cardboard blanks is located at the input part of the said machine, and in alignment with lines or conveyors for storing and grouping the products to be packaged.
  • the invention is intended to provide a packaging machine which could process the blanks in line, with their longitudinal axes in the direction of advance, without having the drawbacks and limits of the known packaging machines of the aforesaid first type, and which would therefore have a large-capacity magazine which was easy to load and to adapt to changes of format, and which would not obstruct parts of the machine which required maintenance with the packaging machine as defined in claim 1.
  • the letter A indicates the input part of the packaging machine, with the blank feed and product feed stations, up to the point where the blank is introduced under a group of products, while B indicates the intermediate and final parts of the same packaging machine, with the stations for folding and closing the blanks around each group of products.
  • the present invention relates to part A and an initial component of part B of the machine.
  • Figures 1, 2 and 5 show that part A of the machine comprises first known aligned horizontal means 1 for conveying and storing the products P placed in single file and in a number of parallel rows, and comprises the subsequent station 2, which is also known, for grouping the groups of products and spacing them apart from each other, this station consisting of a lower motorized input conveyor 102 and a final fixed plane 202, both coplanar with the upstream conveyor 1, and having a conveyor 302 with parallel chains and cross-members for finally pushing the groups of products on to the said plane 202.
  • These conveyor means are followed by other conveyor means 3, 3' and 4 which are also known and which fold the hinged panels and flaps of the blank around the product; these are described more fully below.
  • the products P are fed to the line 1 by a side feed system, for example by a transverse conveyor 5 which, as illustrated in the diagram of Figure 3, can be perpendicular to the said line 1 over the whole of its extension or only over the final portion, the rest being connected with the correct curvature to conveyor branches 105 or 105' parallel to the said line 1 and running in the same direction or in the opposite direction.
  • a side feed system for example by a transverse conveyor 5 which, as illustrated in the diagram of Figure 3, can be perpendicular to the said line 1 over the whole of its extension or only over the final portion, the rest being connected with the correct curvature to conveyor branches 105 or 105' parallel to the said line 1 and running in the same direction or in the opposite direction.
  • the products can be transferred from the conveyor 5 to the line 1 by known means, for example by means 6 which stop the products at the end of the conveyor 5 and, at the correct time, by other conveyor means 7 which cyclically place on the line 1 the products which are facing it in the terminal part of the said conveyor 5, these means 7 being driven with an alternating motion or being driven continuously, for example in the same way as the conveyor 302 with the pushing cross-members of the station 2.
  • the products can be transferred from the conveyor 5 to the line 1 by means of a fixed channel 205 which is L-shaped in a plan view, indicated by broken lines in the said Figure 3, which deflects the flow of the product from 5 to 1.
  • the products can be brought to the line 1 by means of an adjacent motorized conveyor 5' which runs in the same direction and by means of a fixed guide channel 205' which is S-shaped in plan view and which deflects the flow of the product from the conveyor 5' to the line 1.
  • a feed magazine 8 is provided for the pre-punched blanks C, which are positioned with their greatest dimension in a vertical plane and which rest with their lower edges on the base plane 108 of the magazine, which is preferably inclined longitudinally with progressive lowering towards the discharge end of the said magazine.
  • the stack of blanks C is pushed from behind by a ballast weight 9 guided so that it slides longitudinally on the said base plane 108, and the said stack is controlled laterally by guiding side members 208, 208' fixed to lower and upper mechanisms 308, 308' for self-centring adjustment, connected together by chains and provided with screws with opposing threads, in a way that is well within the grasp of those skilled in the art, so that the distance between them can be adjusted with changes in the format of the blanks C.
  • Figure 5 shows how one of the guiding side members 208 is shorter at the rear than the other, forming a small lateral end aperture which facilitates the loading operation carried out by the operator, who can make the new blanks bear against the other guiding side member 208', on the base 108 and against the existing stack.
  • the magazine 8 can be designed differently, with the base plane 108 horizontal and with motorized belts or bands, for conveying the blanks towards the discharge end.
  • the magazine 8 is designed in an essentially known way, with small lateral and base fingers 408, carried by the ends of the bars of the side members 208, 208' and the base 108, which project into the front edge of the magazine to retain the leading blank by its perimeter, while a further finger 408' acts on the midline of the upper horizontal side of the said leading blank and is carried by a cross-member 10 which has a flared profile for the top of the stack, and which is fitted in such a way that its height can be adjusted on a cross-member 11 which is, for example, fixed to the side members 111 of Figure 5.
  • the horizontal closing panel F of the box is preferably orientated downwards and is in contact with the base plane 108 of the magazine 8 (Fig. 1).
  • a set of suction cups 12 operates at the front end of the magazine 8, these cups being fitted, with allowance for adjustment of their positions with respect to each other so that blanks of different formats can be correctly gripped, on a structure 13 fixed on a shaft 14 which is parallel to the return shafts of the conveyors 1 and of the other conveyors described above, and which is held rotatably at one end by a perpendicular arm 15 located laterally with respect to the overall dimensions in plan of the blanks C and having its lower end fitted rotatably on a fixed shaft 16 which is parallel to the said shaft 14, and on which is keyed a sprocket or toothed pulley 17 which, by means of a chain or toothed belt 18, is connected to a sprocket or toothed pulley 19 keyed on the said shaft 14.
  • the transmission ratio of the sprockets 17, 19 is such that, as shown in Figures 1 and 2, the structure 13 with the suction cups 12 moves, as a result of the oscillation of the arm 15, from the position in which the leading blank of the magazine 8 is gripped, as shown by the solid line, to the position in which the said blank is released onto an inclined conveyor 20, formed by a pair of parallel chains with corresponding pushing teeth 120, running around the end sprockets on the shafts 21, 21' parallel to those of the upper conveyors 1 and others, and which forms a link between the magazine 8 and the small gap G (Figs.
  • a projection 22 is provided behind the said blank, in the midline of the conveyor 20, and is fixed to the frame of this conveyor, to retain the said blank when it is released by the suction cups 12, before it reaches a facing pair of propelling teeth 120 of the said conveyor 20.
  • the arm 15 is, for example, made to oscillate in the requisite way by the pivoting at 23 of its extension 115 on a link 24 pivoted at 25 on a crank 26 which rotates on a shaft 27 parallel to that of the conveyors 1 and synchronized in a known way with the drive means of the station 2 and of the machine in general, in such a way that, whenever a group of products P' leaves the station 2, a blank leaves the conveyor 20 and another blank moves on to it.
  • the arm 15 can be made to oscillate by means other than the aforesaid ones, for example by a geared motor, by a hydraulic cylinder and piston unit, or by an electrical actuator of the screw and nut type.
  • the conveyor 20 is operated by an electric motor, which is not illustrated, of the type with electronic speed and phase control, connected by its electrical shaft to the driving means of the station 2, in such a way that it can be remotely programmed when the format of the blanks C changes, to ensure that a predetermined point of each blank, for example the transverse median hinge S of each blank which leaves after the station 2, is always aligned with the front end of the group of products P' which leaves this station (Figs. 1, 2 and 9).
  • the speed of the conveyor 20 is such, with respect to that of the station 2 and the subsequent conveyors 3, 3', 4, that the pushing teeth 120 do not interfere with the fed blank during their travel in a curved path around the shaft 21'.
  • the arm 29 is normally in the low position so that it does not interfere with the blank carrying the group of products P' which is travelling on the composite conveyor 3, 3' and which is directed towards the conveyor 4.
  • the arm 29 is raised as shown in the sequence of Figures 7, 8 and 9, to raise the rear panel C4 of the downstream blank and the set of front panels C1, C2 of the upstream blank, before the known operation of a finger M3' of the conveyor 3' which brings the said panel C4 to a vertical position and the known operation of a finger M3 of the conveyor 3 which brings the set of panels C1, C2 to a vertical position.
  • the folder arm 29 returns to its lower rest position in synchronization with the operation of the finger M3.
  • the presence of the folder arm 29 makes it possible to reduce the interval between the advancing packages of products, and thus to increase the output of the machine for a given speed of advance of the packages.

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IT2000BO000467A ITBO20000467A1 (it) 2000-07-31 2000-07-31 Macchina incartonatrice di tipo wrap-around , trsformabile in vassoiatrice , con magazzino dei cartoni posto al di fuori , in linea ed all'
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ITBO20000467A1 (it) 2002-01-31
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