EP1201543B1 - Machine d' emballage de légumes - Google Patents

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EP1201543B1
EP1201543B1 EP01125800A EP01125800A EP1201543B1 EP 1201543 B1 EP1201543 B1 EP 1201543B1 EP 01125800 A EP01125800 A EP 01125800A EP 01125800 A EP01125800 A EP 01125800A EP 1201543 B1 EP1201543 B1 EP 1201543B1
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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
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    • B65B53/02—Shrinking wrappers, containers, or container covers during or after packaging by heat
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    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
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  • the invention relates to a packaging device for elongated vegetables, especially cucumbers for packaging the vegetable fruits in foils.
  • the fruits are often included Surrounding shrink wrap.
  • the fruits are shrink-wrapped to hand over.
  • elongated vegetables such as cucumbers or zucchinis
  • a shrink film packaging device must have a defined orientation are fed. To ensure this, the vegetable fruits often fed by hand.
  • a packaging device according to the preamble of claim 1 results already from US 3,342,306 A.
  • the object of the present invention is to provide a device based on safe way and automatically elongated vegetables, such as cucumbers or zucchinis, shrink-wrapped.
  • the packaging device initially comprises a shrink film device, which a predetermined number of vegetables, for example Cucumbers or zucchinis, at the same time wrapped in foil, i.e. surrounded with a shrink film.
  • a shrink film device which a predetermined number of vegetables, for example Cucumbers or zucchinis, at the same time wrapped in foil, i.e. surrounded with a shrink film.
  • a separating device which the vegetable fruits in a Transport direction transported and aligned perpendicular to the transport direction and isolated with a defined distance. From this separation device the vegetable fruits are transferred to a feed device which is designed so that the predetermined number of vegetables Shrink film device are handed over simultaneously. Finally, the Packaging device according to the invention a discharge device for receiving the packaged vegetables from the shrink wrap facility and to the Removing the vegetable fruits wrapped in foil.
  • the packaging device With the packaging device according to the invention, the vegetable fruits automatically and without intervention by an operator and with their long Alignment aligned perpendicular to the transport direction. This will make the Fruits are fed to the feed device in a defined orientation and condition, without misalignment to an incomplete packaging operation could lead. A defined number of vegetables is then fed from the feeder fed to the shrink film device.
  • Packaging device the packaging step is automated and designed safely.
  • At least a fixed bar is provided, the recordings for individual vegetables having. Furthermore, a transport bar with similar recordings is provided. The shots are arranged so that they are the elongated vegetables Take up perpendicular to the transport direction. The transport bar takes over with their shots a number of vegetables at the same time and passes them over the next recordings of the fixed bar in the direction of transport.
  • the vegetable fruits become continuous and always transported in large numbers at the same time.
  • the at least one transport bar moves on one Circular path whose diameter is an integral multiple of the distance corresponds to two recordings. So it is easily achieved that the elongated Vegetable fruits from one shot of the fixed bar to the next be passed on.
  • the circular movement of the at least one transport bar can be easily implemented, for example, with an eccentric drive become.
  • the device according to the invention can be used for simultaneous feeding or packaging serve a defined number of vegetables. Has proven to be beneficial proven when the fruits are fed in pairs or shrink-wrapped become. Packing in pairs is easy to handle and limited the design effort for the packaging device.
  • Both the fixed bar and the transport bar can each have several Include parts that attack along the elongated vegetable crop. Simply includes both the fixed bar and the transport bar two points of attack on the elongated vegetable fruit per intake. This ensures safe and tilt-free transport.
  • An advantageous development of the packaging device includes a feeder that holds a number of compartments one below the other arranged includes.
  • the subjects are clocked from above with a vegetable fruit filled.
  • the top compartment is filled by the separating device and passes the fruit on to the compartment below. This is how it goes through Vegetable fruit a number of compartments in the vertical direction until they reach the Shrink film device is delivered.
  • the feed device can include several such vertical columns side by side. Easy to handle is a feeder with two adjacent feed columns.
  • the individual subjects can be assigned sensors that determine the presence detect a vegetable fruit.
  • sensors that determine the presence detect a vegetable fruit.
  • they are mechanical and / or weight sensors conceivable.
  • an optical one is particularly simple Measuring device, for example a photo cell, assigned to the respective subject is. Tripping devices are controlled by this optical measuring device, that the dispensing of a vegetable fruit from the compartment above into that Filled compartment causes when the optical measuring device indicates that it is not filled.
  • the shrink film device can be an optical measuring device to determine if it is receptive, whereupon a signal for delivery to the triggering device of the bottom or bottom compartments of the Feeder is given.
  • An embodiment is particularly simple in which the individual subjects are in the lower one Area have sheet-like flaps that respond to a signal from the triggering devices fold away under the vegetable fruit.
  • the packaging device according to the invention is located downstream of the shrink wrap device Discharge device that has the same functionality as the feed device.
  • Such a discharge device has the same advantages as the feed device and is used for the defined removal of packaged vegetables the shrink film device.
  • the separation device can be used to feed the fruit, for example, from a feed hopper are fed. Through the inclusion in the separation device the fruits are then aligned in the vertical transport direction. One more safer feeding to the singling device is guaranteed if the singling device is filled by a conveyor belt on which the vegetable fruits are located. This feed belt can be used, for example, by an operator to be topped with vegetables.
  • the packaging device comprises a container conveyor belt, that transports a packaging container to the discharge device to pick up the packaged vegetables.
  • This container conveyor belt is arranged such that the discharge device vegetables directly can deliver in containers on this container conveyor belt.
  • the container conveyor belt moves away from the separating device extends to the discharge device.
  • Such an arrangement enables it that the vegetable fruits that are packaged delivered in containers will be packed back in the same containers after being wrapped in foil have been packed.
  • An operator takes the unwrapped vegetables from the container on the container conveyor belt to the discharge device is transported further.
  • the vegetable fruits are separated, the shrink film device fed and delivered by this to the discharge device, which in turn releases the packaged vegetables into the containers. That way the containers are reused.
  • the device according to the invention serves for simultaneous use however, individually packing a number of vegetables or else simultaneous packaging of several vegetables in a film.
  • Figure 1 shows an overview of a packaging device according to the invention.
  • the example of a cucumber packaging device is described.
  • the packaging device can be used for any elongated Vegetables, for example zucchini or eggplant.
  • the cucumbers denotes a feed belt.
  • the cucumbers are in on a circulating belt Direction 2 transported. You get to the separation device 3, the with Reference to Figure 2 will be explained in more detail. From the separating device 3 the cucumbers reach the feed device 5, which is also explained further below becomes.
  • the feed device 5 delivers the cucumbers to a transport device 7 which Is part of a shrink film device 9.
  • the shrink film device 9 serves in known manner for shrinking the cucumbers in foil. The exact Design of the shrink film device is not the subject of the invention and is therefore not explained in more detail here. It can be commercially available Shrink film packaging devices are used.
  • 11 denotes a discharge device, the construction of the feed device 5 corresponds.
  • 13 denotes an endless conveyor belt for the transport of containers under the discharge device 11.
  • the general direction of movement of the Cucumbers in the packaging device are designated by 2.
  • FIG. 2 shows in detail the area of the packaging device according to the invention, in which the cucumbers are separated and fed to the shrink film device become.
  • the cucumbers move in the area of the separating device 3 in the slightly increasing direction 20.
  • 21 denotes a fixed bar with receptacles for the cucumbers 25, which take up about half a cucumber cross section can. Some of the recordings with the reference symbol are exemplary 22 designated. In normal operation there are cucumbers 25 in each receptacle 22.
  • the fixed bar 21 consists of two parts, which are arranged side by side are and support the cucumber 25 in two places along its longitudinal axis. In the side sectional view of Figure 2, only part of the bar 21 is visible.
  • the separating device 3 comprises a transport bar 23 with receptacles 24 for the cucumber. Shape and size of the recordings 24 correspond to the Recordings 22 of the fixed bar 21. With the aid of an eccentric drive 27 the transport bar 23 can be set in motion. This becomes translational Circular movement 28 triggered about an axis that is parallel to the longitudinal axes of the cucumbers to be transported is 25. The diameter of this circular movement 28 corresponds to the distance between two receptacles 22 and 24 on the fixed bar 21 and 23. In FIG. 2, the circular movement 28 is shown as an example, which the Recording 24a of the transport bar 23 due to the eccentric drive movement of the eccentric drive 27 performs.
  • the transport bar 23 also consists of several parts that the cucumbers 25 in different places along their longitudinal axis support. In this respect, only one is again in the side view of FIG. 2 such part visible. At least one other part with the same side view is located himself outside the figure level.
  • 29 and 31 designate feed flaps in the feed device 5. You can controlled via mechanical couplings also via the eccentric drive 27 are clockwise cucumbers 37 in the feed device 5 from the separating device 3 to deliver. 32 exemplifies the coupling between the eccentric drive 27 and the flap 31st
  • the coupling between the eccentric drive 27 and the flaps 29 and 31 enables accurate feeding of the cucumbers from the separating device 3 into the feed device 5.
  • the cucumbers 37 are located in the feed device 5 or 39 in their compartments arranged one below the other. In the embodiment shown there are two such vertical columns next to each other.
  • the individual compartments are closed at the bottom with flaps 33, which are leaf-like are shaped. For example, the upper leaves are labeled 33, the lower ones Leaves with 35.
  • FIG. 3a the feed device 5 is again in the side view of FIG. 2 visible.
  • 3b is a sectional view in the direction of view A of the feed device 5 of the figure 3a.
  • the side support frame 41 is also visible here.
  • the individual components can also be made with differently shaped frames 34 or 41 are worn.
  • the device according to the invention is used as follows:
  • An operator takes the unwrapped cucumber fruits out of a container and puts it on the endless belt 1.
  • the container is opened by the operator the endless belt 13 placed.
  • the endless belt 1 guides the cucumbers of the separating device 3 to.
  • the cucumbers are automatically aligned that they align perpendicular to the figure plane of Figure 2.
  • the recordings have the size of half a cucumber cross section.
  • the eccentric drive 27 ensures that the transport bar 23 has a circular movement 28 performs. It is shown as an example how the receptacle 24 of the Transport bar 23 moved by the eccentric movement. Is in the recording 22a of the fixed bar 21 a cucumber, this becomes by the movement taken in the direction 28 of the transport bar 23 from the receptacle 24a and placed in the receptacle 22b of the fixed bar 21. They become analog other recordings 22 of the fixed bar 21 through the recordings 24 of the Transport bar 23 is first emptied and the cucumbers in the next higher intake stored. In this way, the cucumbers move towards the 20th cycle a cucumber at the upper end of the separating device 3, it falls into the feed device 5. Depending on the position of the flap 29, 31 it falls into one of the two vertical columns of superimposed compartments. Through the coupling the flap movement of the flap 29, 31 via the coupling device 32 the eccentric drive 27 ensures that the vertical columns of compartments be filled alternately.
  • Each individual compartment of the feed device 5 is from a photocell, not shown supervised.
  • Control indicates that the corresponding compartment is empty, so the control gives to the Flap 33 of the compartment above a signal, whereupon the corresponding Flap folds away to the side and the cucumber 37 into the empty compartment underneath falls. In this way, the cucumbers fall down from the top until they are in the bottom Tray have reached and come to rest on the bottom sheets 35.
  • the shrink film device 9 also signals, for example, via an optical one Measuring device as to whether it is currently receptive. In this case it does not exist shown control a signal to the lower sheets 35 of the feeder 5, so that the lowest cucumbers 39 fall simultaneously on the transport device 7, the Is part of the shrink film device. In a known manner, the two cucumbers then provided with shrink film in the shrink film device. From the Shrink film device 9, the now packaged cucumbers either arrive individually or packed in pairs in the discharge device 11. Their mode of operation corresponds the feed device 5 and therefore requires no further explanation.
  • the lower leaves of the discharge device 11 open in response to a signal when a Container on the container conveyor belt 13 below the discharge device 11 reached.
  • the containers are those containers that are in the area of the feed belt 1 have been placed on the conveyor belt 13 by the operator and are reused in this way.
  • the number of cucumbers in a container can be filled by an operator in the not shown Control can be entered.
  • the packaging device thus enables a safe and Defined packaging of elongated vegetables, with only the vegetables placed on a feed belt without observing a specific orientation Need to become.
  • the cucumbers are automatically separated, wrapped in foil and in the transport containers are returned.

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  1. Dispositif d'emballage pour des fruits et légumes longs, notamment des concombres, avec
    un dispositif de séparation (3) qui transporte les fruits et légumes (25) dans une direction de transport, les oriente perpendiculairement à la direction de transport et les sépare avec un intervalle déterminé;
    un dispositif d'alimentation (5) dans laquelle les fruits et légumes (25, 37) sont transférés par le dispositif de séparation (3) et qui est conçue de façon à transférer en même temps le nombre prédéterminé de fruits et légumes (37) vers le dispositif à film rétractable (7, 9); et
    un dispositif à film rétractable (7, 9) pour l'emballage simultané dans un film d'un nombre prédéterminé de fruits et légumes;
    un dispositif d'évacuation (11) pour la prise en charge des fruits et légumes emballés par le dispositif à film rétractable (7, 9) et pour l'évacuation simultanée des fruits et légumes emballés dans le film;
       caractérisé en ce que le dispositif de séparation (3) comprend au moins une barre fixe (21) avec une série de premiers logements (22) pour différents fruits et légumes (25) et au moins une barre de transport (23) avec une série de deuxièmes logements (24), conçues de telle sorte que les fruits et légumes (25) sont posés dans une série et perpendiculairement à la direction de transport (20) et la barre de transport (23) prend en charge plusieurs fruits et légumes (25) en même temps à partir de la barre fixe (21) et les transporte avec au moins la distance entre deux logements (22) dans la direction du transport (20) puis les transfère à nouveau vers la barre fixe (21).
  2. Dispositif selon la revendication 1 dans lequel le dispositif d'alimentation (5) est conçu de telle sorte que les fruits et légumes (37, 39) sont transférés par paires vers le dispositif à film rétractable (7, 9) et le dispositif à film rétractable emballe les fruits et légumes par paires dans le film.
  3. Dispositif selon la revendication 1 ou 2, dans lequel la barre de transport (23) est entraínée de telle sorte qu'elle se déplace par rapport à la barre fixe (21) sur une trajectoire circulaire (28) dont le diamètre est un multiple entier de la distance entre deux logements (22) de la barre fixe (21).
  4. Dispositif selon la revendication 3, dans lequel le mouvement circulaire (28) de la barre de transport (23) est obtenu à l'aide d'un entraínement excentrique (27).
  5. Dispositif d'emballage selon l'une des revendications 1 à 4 dans lequel le dispositif d'alimentation (5) comprend plusieurs compartiments superposés qui sont remplis en cadence à partir du compartiment situé au-dessus avec un légume (37), moyennant quoi le compartiment le plus haut est rempli par le dispositif de séparation (3) et le compartiment le plus bas sert au transfert vers le dispositif à film rétractable (7, 9).
  6. Dispositif d'emballage selon la revendication 5 avec des dispositifs de mesure optiques associés aux compartiments, pour déterminer si le compartiment concerné est rempli, et des dispositifs de déclenchement qui déclenchent le transfert d'un légume (37) vers le compartiment situé en dessous lorsque le dispositif de mesure optique du compartiment situé en dessous indique son état de non-remplissage.
  7. Dispositif d'emballage selon l'une des revendications 5 ou 6, avec un dispositif de mesure optique associé au dispositif à film rétractable (7, 9) pour déterminer si le dispositif à film rétractable (7, 9) est capable d'effectuer une prise en charge et pour l'envoi d'un signal correspondant au dispositif de déclenchement du compartiment inférieur ou des compartiments inférieurs du dispositif d'alimentation (5) pour le transfert d'un légume (39).
  8. Dispositif d'emballage selon la revendication 6 ou 7, dans la mesure ou il se réfère à la revendication 7, dans lequel les compartiments comprend, dans sa partie inférieure, des clapets (33, 35) qui transfèrent, à la réception d'un signal des dispositifs de déclenchement, le légume (37, 39) contenu dans les compartiments respectifs de telle sorte que le légume (37, 39) tombe dans le compartiment situé en dessous ou dans le dispositif à film rétractable (7, 9).
  9. Dispositif d'emballage selon l'une des revendications 1 à 8, dans lequel le dispositif d'évacuation (11) a la même fonction que le dispositif d'alimentation (5), moyennant quoi les fruits et légumes emballés sont pris en charge simultanément avec un nombre déterminé par le dispositif à film rétractable (7, 9) et sont transférés vers une bande de transport (13).
  10. Dispositif selon la revendication 9 avec une bande d'alimentation (1) pour introduire les fruits et légumes dans le dispositif de séparation (3).
  11. Dispositif d'emballage selon l'une des revendications 1 à 10 avec une bande de transport de récipients (13) qui s'étend au moins du dispositif de séparation (3) jusqu'au dispositif d'évacuation (11) et qui est disposée de telle sorte que le dispositif d'évacuation (11) peut transférer les fruits et légumes dans des récipients qui se trouvent sur la bande de transport des récipients (13).
  12. Dispositif d'emballage selon la revendication 11 dans la mesure où elle se réfère directement ou indirectement à la revendication 10, dans lequel la bande de transport des récipients (13) est utilisée comme bande de transport.
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