EP1177982B1 - Tête pour appliquer des étiquettes - Google Patents

Tête pour appliquer des étiquettes Download PDF

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EP1177982B1
EP1177982B1 EP01118486A EP01118486A EP1177982B1 EP 1177982 B1 EP1177982 B1 EP 1177982B1 EP 01118486 A EP01118486 A EP 01118486A EP 01118486 A EP01118486 A EP 01118486A EP 1177982 B1 EP1177982 B1 EP 1177982B1
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Rainer Simon
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Convenience Food Systems Wallau GmbH and Co KG
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
    • B65C9/00—Details of labelling machines or apparatus
    • B65C9/26—Devices for applying labels
    • B65C9/36—Wipers; Pressers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
    • B65C9/00—Details of labelling machines or apparatus
    • B65C9/08—Label feeding
    • B65C9/18—Label feeding from strips, e.g. from rolls
    • B65C9/1865—Label feeding from strips, e.g. from rolls the labels adhering on a backing strip
    • B65C9/1876—Label feeding from strips, e.g. from rolls the labels adhering on a backing strip and being transferred by suction means
    • B65C9/1884—Label feeding from strips, e.g. from rolls the labels adhering on a backing strip and being transferred by suction means the suction means being a movable vacuum arm or pad
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T156/00—Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
    • Y10T156/17—Surface bonding means and/or assemblymeans with work feeding or handling means
    • Y10T156/1702—For plural parts or plural areas of single part
    • Y10T156/1744—Means bringing discrete articles into assembled relationship
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T156/00—Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
    • Y10T156/17—Surface bonding means and/or assemblymeans with work feeding or handling means
    • Y10T156/1702—For plural parts or plural areas of single part
    • Y10T156/1744—Means bringing discrete articles into assembled relationship
    • Y10T156/1746—Plural lines and/or separate means assembling separate sandwiches
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T156/00—Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
    • Y10T156/17—Surface bonding means and/or assemblymeans with work feeding or handling means
    • Y10T156/1702—For plural parts or plural areas of single part
    • Y10T156/1744—Means bringing discrete articles into assembled relationship
    • Y10T156/1768—Means simultaneously conveying plural articles from a single source and serially presenting them to an assembly station

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  • Such a box is known from EP 0 837 000 A.
  • Packaged goods eg. As food, labels are nowadays provided. These labels are usually rolled from a dispenser over to Labeling goods placed and then pressed against these, so they firmly be liable.
  • the currently available settling boxes have several drive units and are very elaborate and large in size.
  • the drive means which is the means of transport and the means with which the contact pressure is shifted vertically, slip-free.
  • This is particularly preferred Drive means a toothed belt or a chain.
  • the means for vertical displacement of the pressing means can Pressing both lowered and raised.
  • the Anpressstoff a Return spring on with the pressing means of a deflected end position in the starting position is pushed back.
  • the contact pressure points in one preferred embodiment of a vertical guide. Preferably, this is Guide one or more ball sleeves.
  • the transport means serves to place the labels over the label to be labeled Were.
  • the means of transport must either have means by which the Stick labels on the transport or it must be an air flow and / or a Vacuum are generated, the / presses the labels against the transport and / or sucks.
  • the transport is driven by a drive means.
  • the means of transport is more Transport belts, which are 2 to 10 mm wide and essentially over the extend the entire width of the respective packaging machine.
  • the transport belts have a distance of 2 to 10 mm.
  • pressing means is any means by which the labels on the zu Labeling goods can be pressed, so that the adhesive layer, which is located under the labels, better comes into contact with the goods.
  • the pressing means is a pressure plate, as described below.
  • the means by which the pressing means is displaced vertically is in one preferred embodiment of a rotatable at one end about an axis Lever, a cam, which is driven by the drive means and the having a freewheel in a running direction of the drive means.
  • a motor in particular a stepping motor is suitable, preferably is computer controlled.
  • the settling box according to the invention has the advantage that it is simple and inexpensive is to produce and only has a drive unit. He is energy efficient and no compressed air is needed to press the labels. It only has one Aggregate be controlled by a controller.
  • the pressing means is a pressure plate with a A plurality of punches which are displaceable relative to the pressure plate.
  • the stamp are resilient, preferably stored in a sleeve.
  • the Suspension can be done by screw or disc springs or by compressible Media, such as air done.
  • Such a pressure plate has the advantage that bumps in the Contour of the goods to be labeled can be very well balanced.
  • the Pressure plate is easy and inexpensive to manufacture.
  • the inventive method has the advantage that it is simple and inexpensive and only one drive unit needed. It is energy efficient and no compressed air for pressing the labels must be provided. It only one unit must be controlled by a controller.
  • FIG. 1 shows the settling box according to the invention.
  • the goods to be packaged are moved in cycles, perpendicular to the paper level under the settling box according to the invention.
  • the labels are released at the tear-off edge 11 of the label dispenser and transferred to the transport. Since there are usually several goods to be packed next to each other, several labels have to be handed over per cycle to the means of transport.
  • the adhesive side of the labels is turned away from the conveyor belt.
  • the transport means 2 are in this case a plurality of transport belts, which are arranged at such a distance from each other that the punch 10 of the pressure plate 3 between the conveyor belt 2 can be moved down through it to release the labels from the transport belt and to be packed on the Press on goods.
  • the labels are pressed against the conveyor belts by a stream of air generated by a fan (not shown).
  • the transport belts 2 are driven by the motor 5 via the toothed belt 6.
  • the timing belt drives not only the transport belt, but also the drive means 4, a cam.
  • the cam is rotatably mounted about the axis 12 and has a freewheel 14 in the direction of travel of the transport belt (label positioning). In the initial position, the cam 4 abuts against the stop 13.
  • the running direction of the conveyor belt is shown by the arrow.
  • the stamp solve the respective label from the transport belt and press against the goods to be labeled, so that a solid bond between label and goods is created.
  • Figure 2 shows the mode of action of the stamp 10.
  • a sleeve 15 is fixedly connected to a plate (not shown).
  • a punch 10 is slidably installed in the sleeve.
  • the punch is connected to the spring 16. Due to the resilient mounting of the stamp unevenness in the goods to be packaged can be compensated, so that the contact pressure is optimal everywhere.
  • the pressure plate not only one, but preferably has a plurality of arranged in the paper plane successively rows of stamps.

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  • Labeling Devices (AREA)
  • Coating Apparatus (AREA)
  • Application Of Or Painting With Fluid Materials (AREA)
  • Wrapping Of Specific Fragile Articles (AREA)
  • Connection Or Junction Boxes (AREA)
  • Basic Packing Technique (AREA)

Claims (11)

  1. Tête d'application (1) d'un appareil d'étiquetage, comprenant :
    un moyen de transport (2) avec lequel les étiquettes sont placées sur les marchandises à étiqueter,
    un moyen de pression (3) déplaçable verticalement, avec lequel les étiquettes sont pressées sur les marchandises à étiqueter,
    un moyen (4), avec lequel le moyen de pression (3) est déplacé verticalement,
    un moteur (5) avec un entraínement à droite et à gauche et
    un moyen d'entraínement (6), qui transmet la puissance d'entraínement du moteur au moyen (4) ,
    caractérisée en ce que le moyen (4) avec lequel le moyen de pression est déplacé verticalement présente une course libre (14) dans une direction de rotation du moteur.
  2. Tête d'application selon la revendication 1, caractérisée en ce que le moyen d'entraínement (6) est une courroie dentée ou une chaíne.
  3. Tête d'application selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisée en ce qu'un ressort de rappel (7) est monté sur le moyen de pression (3).
  4. Tête d'application selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 3, caractérisée en ce que le moyen de transport (2) est constitué par plusieurs courroies de transport qui sont disposées avec un espacement de 2 à 10 mm les unes des autres.
  5. Tête d'application selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 4, caractérisée en ce que le moyen de pression (3) présente un guide vertical.
  6. Tête d'application selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 5, caractérisée en ce que le moyen (4) est une came.
  7. Tête d'application selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 6, caractérisée en ce que le moyen de pression (3) se compose d'une plaque de pression avec plusieurs estampes (10) fixées sur celle-ci, déplaçables relativement à celle-ci.
  8. Tête d'application selon la revendication 7, caractérisée en ce que les estampes (10) sont montées à ressort.
  9. Tête d'application selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 8, caractérisée en ce que le moteur est un moteur pas-à-pas de préférence commandé par ordinateur.
  10. Procédé de fixation d'étiquettes sur les marchandises à étiqueter, comprenant une tête d'application selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 9, caractérisé en ce qu'il se compose d'une succession des étapes suivantes :
    1. positionnement des étiquettes avec le moyen de transport (2) entraíné par le moteur (5) sur les marchandises à étiqueter,
    2. inversion du sens d'avance du moyen d'entraínement (6) jusqu'à ce que le moyen (4) ait déplacé le moyen de pression (3) de sa position de départ supérieure (8) dans sa position finale inférieure (9) et pressage simultané des étiquettes sur les marchandises à étiqueter, et
    3. inversion renouvelée du sens d'avance du moyen d'entraínement (6) pour le rappel du moyen (4) avec lequel le moyen de pression est déplacé verticalement, et ainsi du moyen de pression (3) dans sa position de départ (8).
  11. Procédé selon la revendication 10, caractérisé en ce que le moyen de transport (2) est brièvement arrêté entre les étapes de procédé 1 et 2 et/ou entre les étapes de procédé 2 et 3.
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