EP1314674A2 - Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Verbinden von untereinander dicht benachbarten durchlöcherten Gegenständen - Google Patents

Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Verbinden von untereinander dicht benachbarten durchlöcherten Gegenständen Download PDF

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EP1314674A2
EP1314674A2 EP02079021A EP02079021A EP1314674A2 EP 1314674 A2 EP1314674 A2 EP 1314674A2 EP 02079021 A EP02079021 A EP 02079021A EP 02079021 A EP02079021 A EP 02079021A EP 1314674 A2 EP1314674 A2 EP 1314674A2
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H75/00—Storing webs, tapes, or filamentary material, e.g. on reels
    • B65H75/02—Cores, formers, supports, or holders for coiled, wound, or folded material, e.g. reels, spindles, bobbins, cop tubes, cans, mandrels or chucks
    • B65H75/18—Constructional details
    • B65H75/185—End caps, plugs or adapters
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D71/00—Bundles of articles held together by packaging elements for convenience of storage or transport, e.g. portable segregating carrier for plural receptacles such as beer cans or pop bottles; Bales of material
    • B65D71/50—Bundles of articles held together by packaging elements for convenience of storage or transport, e.g. portable segregating carrier for plural receptacles such as beer cans or pop bottles; Bales of material comprising a plurality of articles held together only partially by packaging elements formed otherwise than by folding a blank
    • B65D71/502—Coaxial connections
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H75/00—Storing webs, tapes, or filamentary material, e.g. on reels
    • B65H75/02—Cores, formers, supports, or holders for coiled, wound, or folded material, e.g. reels, spindles, bobbins, cop tubes, cans, mandrels or chucks
    • B65H75/18—Constructional details
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2701/00—Handled material; Storage means
    • B65H2701/50—Storage means for webs, tapes, or filamentary material
    • B65H2701/51—Cores or reels characterised by the material
    • B65H2701/511—Cores or reels characterised by the material essentially made of sheet material
    • B65H2701/5112—Paper or plastic sheet material
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2701/00—Handled material; Storage means
    • B65H2701/50—Storage means for webs, tapes, or filamentary material
    • B65H2701/53—Adaptations of cores or reels for special purposes
    • B65H2701/534—Stackable or interlockable reels or parts of reels

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  • the present invention relates to a method for connecting adjacent objects equipped with holes, such as paper rolls, to each other, the method comprising the step of inserting a bushing through the center bore of two or more adjacent paper rolls.
  • the invention also relates to a device suited for implementing the method, whereby the device comprises a bushing insertable through the center bores of adjacent objects to be connected to each other.
  • the field of the invention concerns the connection of objects equipped with holes to each other by way of their holes.
  • Typical specimen of such objects are different kinds of product web rolls wound about hollow roll cores, such as paper, paperboard or plastic web rolls.
  • the description of the invention given below is directed to the application of the invention in regard to paper web rolls.
  • a broad web of paper produced on a papermaking machine is divided into narrower webs on a slitter, whereupon the webs are wound on a roll core of multiple-ply paper layers, shortly called a core, into customer rolls.
  • the width of the customer roll may vary in the range of 100 to 4000 mm and its diameter may be in excess of 1500 mm.
  • the rolls are handled and transferred by rolling and transfer lifts in a horizontal position. Having a width of 100 to 400 mm, the handling of the rolls may be problematic inasmuch as their diameter-to-width ratio may vary from 3 to 10. In order to optimize the handling and packaging of such disc-like objects, they are preferentially manipulated in combined groups or pairs.
  • Connecting the rolls with each other may take place, e.g., by winding a flexible plastic wrapper axially about the roll group or by binding the rolls with each other using narrow bands threaded trough the center bore of the axially aligned rolls.
  • a plastic wrapper or band is difficult to use as it needs an extra manual operation or dedicated tools for winding/clamping.
  • a narrow band is used, also a protective corner piece is needed to prevent damage to the edge of the paper roll.
  • plastic is a foreign material in a papermaking mill and its use is shunned due to the risk of having plastic scrap in the papermaking process.
  • Rolls connected to each other are generally packaged by wrapping about their periphery a number of wrapper turns whose edges are crimped against the heads of the package, whereupon headers are placed on the crimped wrapper edges. If the rolls are not tightly abutting each other, they may move inside the package, whereby stacking the rolls vertically above one another creates creases at the abutment lines of the rolls. During the handling and transport of the rolls in their package, damage may occur readily if the rolls and their packages are not abutting tightly.
  • the narrowest web rolls resembling discs are packaged by piling the rolls on one another on a transport pallet with their flat side down, whereupon the rolls are packaged in a so-called shrink wrapper and then handled as palleted unit loads.
  • a disadvantage of this kind of packaging is that a separate workstep is needed to pile the rolls.
  • transport pallets are expensive and become waste material after use.
  • the method is characterized in that the parts of a bushing formed by at least two parts are moved in the interior bore of the objects relative to each other, whereby the parts are guided by the mating division surfaces of the bushings, at least one of the mating surfaces having a spiraling shape in the longitudinal axis direction of the bushing, so that the outer diameter of the bushing increases thus causing the bushing to expand tight in the center bores of the objects.
  • a bushing device characterized in that the bushing is comprised of at least two separate parts cooperating with each other at mating division surfaces of the bushing device, whereby at least one of the mating surfaces is at least partially spiraling.
  • the method and device according to the invention makes it possible to connect objects in a reliable fashion to each other, it may advantageously be used for objects larger than those customarily packaged together in the art. Resultingly, the unit loads being handled may be made larger, whereby also the packaging and handling capacity of production systems is enhanced and operating costs are decreased respectively.
  • the manufacture of these elements can be arranged to take place at the site thus achieving benefits in both production and logistics.
  • the cores are advantageously connected to each other by means of the present devices (bushings) already in conjunction with the manufacture of the center cores or, alternatively, prior to the winding of the paper web, whereby no extra workstep is needed for connecting the paper web rolls to each other after winding. Having the bushing and roll core made from the same material, they may also be disposed of or recycled together.
  • FIG. 1 a group of adjacently placed, substantially concentric objects such as paper rolls 1 to be connected to each other. While the objects discussed below are generally referred to as paper rolls, any other objects of the like kind may as well be connected to each other by virtue of the method according to the invention.
  • Each one of the paper rolls is provided with a hollow core 2 having a device 3 according to the invention inserted through its center bore for connecting the paper rolls 1 to each other.
  • the device is formed by a bushing 3 divided into at least two parts in its longitudinal direction. The longitudinal division of the bushing into parts is accomplished so that at least one of the division surfaces A, B along which the parts mate with each other is made spiraling about the longitudinal axis CL of the device.
  • the bushing 3 is made from the same material as the roll core 2 on which the web material is wound.
  • the bushing 3 is in a so-called initial state where the outer diameter U of the bushing is smaller than the inner diameter of the core bore D, thus allowing easy insertion of the bushing through the bores of the cores 2 of the objects to be connected to each other.
  • the length of bushing 3 is made such that it spans all the bores of the adjacent paper rolls 1.
  • the different parts of bushing 3 are next moved relative to each other axially in directions of forces Fc under the guidance of the spiralingly mating division surfaces, whereby the outer dimension of the bushing increases by dU and the bushing locks in the center bore D of paper rolls 1 being connected smoothly expanding in direction Fd over its entire length. This wedged locking is elucidated in FIGS.
  • the bushing connects the paper rolls 1 to each other and locks them together.
  • the force holding the rolls together is a function of the connecting force Fc
  • the wedge angles ⁇ , ⁇ , ⁇ and the friction therebetween these parameters may be optimized readily by experimental techniques.
  • the mating parts of the bushing 3 need only to be pushed apart by a separating force applied in direction Fo. If so desired, a separated bushing may be reused.
  • the maximum length L 1;2 of bushing 3 is advantageously made substantially equal to the height H 1;2 of the triangle formed by the bushing division surfaces A, B, C or possibly slightly larger.
  • the design of the bushing may be a so-called two-headed type, whereby the bushing is comprised of three parts and its wedging into a locked position takes place from two opposite directions. Then, the length of the bushing must be made respectively larger to be L 1 + L 2 .
  • the length of the bushing may also be made such that it extends over a portion L 3 of the maximum allowable length of the bushing as illustrated in FIG. 2. Obviously, the length of the bushing must at all times be made compatible with the length of the roll group to be connected.
  • the spiraling division surface of the bushing is made sectionally stepped.
  • the overall length of neither the bushing 3 nor rolls 1 to be connected to each other is limited and, moreover, the wedged locking of the bushing takes place uniformly expanding to diameter Fd over the entire length of the center bore of the paper rolls.
  • the separation of the rolls from each other occurs easily by moving the parts of bushing 3 at their ends into a direction Fo opposite to that employed during the wedged locking.
  • the embodiment of FIG. 5 is advantageous when packing involves roll groups of different lengths, whereby the structure of bushing 3 allows its length to be trimmed to cope with the length of the roll groups being connected.
  • the bushings 3 are advantageously first produced in long sections, whereupon their trimming to desired length can be made in conjunction with the trimming of the roll cores.
  • the fabrication of the bushings can be arranged to take place automatically along with the manufacture of the roll cores.
  • the method and device according to the invention can be used for connecting to each other and disconnecting from each other any type of object, tubular article, piece of machinery and the like equipped with concentric bores.
  • the force required for clamping the bushing in place or dislodging from such a state can be imposed on the bushing device by means of any suitable implement as is obvious from the above description to a person skilled in the art.
  • the insertion of the locking device may be accomplished entirely automatically with the help of a robot, for instance.

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  • Replacement Of Web Rolls (AREA)
  • Perforating, Stamping-Out Or Severing By Means Other Than Cutting (AREA)
  • Machines For Manufacturing Corrugated Board In Mechanical Paper-Making Processes (AREA)
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  • Winding Of Webs (AREA)
  • Lining Or Joining Of Plastics Or The Like (AREA)
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GB2045210A (en) * 1979-03-09 1980-10-29 Ciba Geigy Ag Removable core for reeled web material
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EP1733982A1 (de) * 2005-06-15 2006-12-20 Voith Patent GmbH Rollenwickelvorrichtung und Verfahren zum gleichzeitigen Aufwickeln von mehreren nebeneinander laufenden Teil-Materialbahnen

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