EP1329388A1 - Procédé et appareil pour détacher un suremballage de paquets de cigarettes - Google Patents

Procédé et appareil pour détacher un suremballage de paquets de cigarettes Download PDF

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EP1329388A1
EP1329388A1 EP02028162A EP02028162A EP1329388A1 EP 1329388 A1 EP1329388 A1 EP 1329388A1 EP 02028162 A EP02028162 A EP 02028162A EP 02028162 A EP02028162 A EP 02028162A EP 1329388 A1 EP1329388 A1 EP 1329388A1
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Hans-Werner Fuchs
Bernd Rabenstein
Friedrich G. Witzke
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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
    • B65B69/00—Unpacking of articles or materials, not otherwise provided for
    • B65B69/0033—Unpacking of articles or materials, not otherwise provided for by cutting

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  • the present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for detaching a Repackaging of cigarette packaging.
  • Cigarette packaging mostly consists of cardboard or paper and is additionally marked with a Plastic film (for example polypropylene) wraps around the cigarettes against environmental influences (especially moisture fluctuations) protects. Those built up in several layers Packaging can be found both in individual packs and in containers from, for example, 10 packs.
  • a Plastic film for example polypropylene
  • Finished cigarette packs sometimes have to be unpacked in larger quantities if, for example, the plastic films or their gluing do not meet the quality requirements are sufficient if goods that have not been sold and are overlaid are withdrawn from the market or if the tobacco is recovered from shot cigarettes should.
  • this object is achieved by a method for detaching an outer packaging solved by cigarette packaging, in which the cigarette packaging to a separation station the outer packaging is brought to the separation station by means of a separation device is separated and after the separation station the outer packaging and the remaining Cigarette pack to be separated.
  • the outer packaging becomes a Plastic film that is a pack of cigarettes or a bundle of packs of cigarettes surrounds. It is particularly important for further processing, the enveloping plastic film completely separate from the remaining pack of cigarettes, as is the case with the invention is possible by means of an automatically operating separating device, and in Within the scope of the present invention this can be done without the packaging box and especially without damaging the packaged product. For example, if only that Plastic film, i.e. the outer packaging is objectionable, can be the unpacked, remaining Cigarette packaging is returned to the packaging process at a suitable point and be wrapped with an outer packaging or film. It is also in the case of superimposed goods For example, the film can be separated from cigarettes and the rest of the packaging in an environmentally friendly manner dispose.
  • the outer packaging is separated by means of a laser beam is a preferred embodiment of the present invention, however in principle, other, in particular mechanical, separation processes would also be possible.
  • a device according to the invention for detaching an outer packaging of cigarette packaging has a separation station to which the cigarette packaging is brought a separation device at the separation station, by means of which the outer packaging is separated and a separation device after the separation station, by means of which the outer packaging and the remaining cigarette packaging is separated.
  • the separating device has a laser and this has the setting options for the already described above Provides laser beam.
  • the device according to the invention has a vacuum conveyor which attacks the cigarette packaging on the outer packaging and conveys it to the separation station. It is possible to design the vacuum conveyor so that it is a perforated belt or a has air-permeable tape with an underlying vacuum channel, the respective belt is movable and takes over the funding task.
  • the separation of outer packaging and remaining cigarette packaging there are various possibilities within the scope of the present invention, the separation of outer packaging and remaining cigarette packaging. If a vacuum conveyor, there is one possibility as used above the separation in providing a scraper after the opening of the outer packaging the remaining cigarette packaging is transported away and removed from the vacuum conveyor. It is particularly advantageous if the scraper is bent on the Vacuum conveyor, in particular the suction belt attacks this.
  • a variation in this context is to design the vacuum conveyor in such a way that behind the removal point for the remaining cigarette packaging there is a vacuum-free one Has point at which the outer packaging detach from the vacuum conveyor. You can then fall off the suction belt by itself and in one Collection containers can be collected without additional work or mechanical Effort for the removal of the empty outer packaging arises.
  • the final separation of the outer packaging and the remaining cigarette packaging can be implemented in other, different embodiments, of which some are described below.
  • a vibrating device can be provided to the after opening the outer packaging the remaining cigarette packaging and the outer packaging are handed over, the outer packaging in particular after shaking out the remaining cigarette pack is blown off pneumatically and the remaining cigarette packaging is removed can be.
  • wrap-around or Equip pocket conveyors that hold the cigarette packs in their grip or in pockets to the separation station, as well as with a removal device that after the separation the outer packaging, the remaining cigarette packaging from the wrap-around or pocket conveyor transported away and away.
  • the advantage of such a wrap-around or pocket conveyor consists in the packaging being in precisely defined locations or at precisely defined locations Paths are moved so that the work of the separation device can be standardized.
  • a gripper in particular a pneumatic gripper that the Grabs cigarette packaging and brings it to the separation station, and a removal device, which after opening the outer packaging, the remaining cigarette packaging from Grippers carried away or removed.
  • the gripping mechanism can consist of two parts with suction openings exist in order to be able to generate pneumatic negative and positive pressure and overall can, when working with pneumatic means according to the present invention, of course, always in a suitable place a vacuum to hold a body and also an excess pressure to detach a body can be generated.
  • FIG. 1 shows the conveying and detaching device for outer packaging according to an example shown for the present invention. It has a vacuum channel 4 on which a Suction belt 3 runs, in the present example a perforated belt which rotates in the direction of the arrow. On the perforated band there is a stack 2 of cigarette packs repacked with plastic film on the far left 1 shown.
  • the separated and unpackable cigarette packaging by hand or by machine are supplied to the device.
  • the suction belt can also be used in something run lower position in the vacuum channel 4, so that the cigarette packs 1 already automatically be aligned laterally.
  • the position and location of the cigarette packs 1 can with optical control or control means or with appropriate mechanical means (Light barriers, optical sensors or proximity or touch switches) are detected, or it is simply ensured via a machine cycle that for a specific one When a cigarette is packaged securely in the right place at the separation station 13 arrives.
  • a laser 5 now works at the separation station and uses a laser beam to carry out the outer packaging separates the cigarette pack using precisely defined separation lines.
  • FIGS. 2, 3 and 4 Such separation lines mentioned above are shown, for example, in FIGS. 2, 3 and 4.
  • the cutting lines of the laser (course 10) run on the upper edges of the outer packaging 8 and along the front, lower edge, with a on the rear edge short piece of the packaging is not separated, so that it does not come before disposal disintegrates into two parts.
  • FIG. 3 shows a possibility in which three short edges lasered on the front and side is (course 11) and also between these edges in the middle of the sides, and FIG. 4 shows a diagonal cut (course 12).
  • courses 10, 11 and 12 are given here only as examples, it is only to be ensured within the scope of the invention that the remaining cigarette packaging is easily removed when the outer packaging is separated can be transported away from the latter.
  • the cigarette pack remains initially still on the suction belt and moves up to its right end. At this end the suction belt 3 bends down and runs back in circulation.
  • a wiper component 6 is provided, the upper surface of which is at substantially the same height lies like the surface of the suction belt 3 and on which the remaining one from the outer packaging 8 loosened cigarette pack comes to rest, d. H. it is pushed onto the scraper.
  • the cigarette packs 7 freed from the outer packaging can then, after being over the wipers have slipped, are fed to the further processing.
  • the cigarette packaging is preferably made continuous by the separation station 13 moves, the laser beam is tracked, but it is also possible to run clocked to perform, so the suction belt or another conveyor on a specific Place to stop for a certain time, so that the separator their Can do work.
  • the scraper can be a fixed scraper or a movable scraper his.
  • suction belt and concerns conveyor belt this depends on the size and weight of the to be transported Packagings.
  • the suction belt can simultaneously be the actual conveyor belt be, or be designed as a separate band, which by an additional Conveyor belt (or chain or belt) is moved.

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