EP1419968B2 - Dispositif d'emballage de bouteilles - Google Patents

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EP1419968B2
EP1419968B2 EP03425596A EP03425596A EP1419968B2 EP 1419968 B2 EP1419968 B2 EP 1419968B2 EP 03425596 A EP03425596 A EP 03425596A EP 03425596 A EP03425596 A EP 03425596A EP 1419968 B2 EP1419968 B2 EP 1419968B2
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Marino Sain
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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
    • B65B21/02—Packaging or unpacking of bottles in or from preformed containers, e.g. crates
    • B65B21/025—Packaging or unpacking of bottles in or from preformed containers, e.g. crates the bottles being arranged in a head-to-bottom formation
    • 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
    • B65B21/02—Packaging or unpacking of bottles in or from preformed containers, e.g. crates
    • B65B21/14—Introducing or removing groups of bottles, for filling or emptying containers in one operation
    • B65B21/18—Introducing or removing groups of bottles, for filling or emptying containers in one operation using grippers engaging bottles, e.g. bottle necks

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  • the prior art teaches apparatus for packing bottles which introduce into boxes from above both upright bottles and upturned bottles, in an intercalated fashion.
  • These apparatus basically include two distinct work stations, arranged in series along the packing line the cardboard boxes are transiting on.
  • actuators in the first of the work stations upright bottles, suitably separated, are inserted into the boxes, while in the second station upturned bottles, which have been upturned by special means for doing so, are inserted into the box, thus completing the packing operation
  • This device is able to fill a box with the prescribed number of bottles in two subsequent stages.
  • a box is filled with upright bottles arranged in two spaced rows.
  • a row of upturned bottles is inserted in the same box between the first two rows of upright bottles.
  • the device comprises means for gripping and moving which are suitable for deposing simultaneously a row of upturned bottles in a first box and two rows of upright bottles in a subsequent box.
  • the means for gripping and moving comprise a panel having grippers for holding the neck of upright bottles and, on one side of this first means, gripping means for holding upturned bottles on the recessed base. This panel is suitable for depositing the upright bottles into an empty carton, while the rotated bottles are deposited in a carton in which the upright bottles have been already deposed.
  • Apparatus of this type exhibit some drawbacks. Firstly, the series arrangement of the work stations increases the overall mass of the apparatus. Secondly, performing the two operations (inserting the upright bottles followed by the upturned bottles) in succession increases overall work times for the packing cycle. In other words, the device according to the prior art takes two stages to complete one box, or, equivalently, a box has to stop twice in order to be completed and the gripping means has to run up and down twice.
  • the main aim of the present invention is to obviate the drawbacks described above by contemporaneously packing both upright and upturned bottles in the cardboard boxes.
  • the aim is achieved by an apparatus according to claim 1.
  • the apparatus of the present invention comprises a mobile conveyor plane 10 for a plurality of parallel rows of upright bottles.
  • the apparatus further comprises means 20 for gripping the bottles and rotating them by 180° about at least one horizontal axis x, for example a horizontal and transversal axis with respect to the mobile conveyor plane 10 as in the illustrated embodiment, and then aligning the upturned bottles with the upright bottles in at least one horizontal direction which is perpendicular to the direction of motion of the mobile conveyor plane 10.
  • the mobile conveyor plane 10 can be positioned perpendicular with respect to the above; in this case the axis x is horizontal and parallel to the mobile conveyor plane 10.
  • the bottles are aligned by the means for gripping and rotating 20 in a parallel direction to the direction of motion of the mobile conveyor plane 10.
  • the apparatus further comprises means for gripping and moving 30 ordered groups of bottles formed by lines of upright and upturned bottles.
  • the means for gripping and rotating 20 comprise an arm 1 arranged horizontally above the mobile conveyor plane 10 and gripping organs 8, associated to the arm 1 and destined to grip a number of upright bottles.
  • the arm 1 is arranged transversally above the mobile conveyor plane 10.
  • the gripping organs 8 each comprise a suction cup.
  • the arm 1 is connected by an end 1 a thereof to a rotary actuator 4 which is associated to a slide 21 which is vertically and horizontally mobile in a parallel direction to an advancement direction of the mobile conveyor plane 10, and which slide 21 has a rotation axis that coincides with the axis x.
  • the slide 21 is moved by action of a first linear actuator 3 along two horizontal and parallel guides 22 which are in turn slidable on two vertical uprights 23 by action of a second linear actuator 2.
  • the arm 1 is arranged parallel and above the mobile conveyor plane 10 and the slide 21 is mobile vertically and horizontally in a perpendicular direction to the advancement direction of the mobile conveyor plane 10.
  • the means for gripping and moving 30 comprise a head 31 to which a plurality of first gripping organs 5 are associated, for gripping the upright bottles. Also, a plurality of second gripping organs 6 are associated to the head 31; these are for gripping the upturned bottles.
  • the head 31 is mobile vertically and horizontally in a parallel direction to the advancement direction of the mobile conveyor plane 10, or, in the further embodiment described, the head 31 is mobile vertically and horizontally in a perpendicular direction to the advancement direction of the mobile conveyor plane 10.
  • the first gripping organs 5 each comprise a suction cup
  • the second gripping organs 6 each comprise a suction plunger with a small central piston for enabling a gripping of a bottle by depression at a bottom thereof.
  • other gripping systems could be used, such as mechanical pliers, for example.
  • the apparatus operates as follows. With reference to the illustrated embodiment, the bottles are fed upright on the conveyor plane 10 and are halted within the field of action of the means for gripping and rotating 20 by the mobile conveyor plane 10.
  • the bottles are arranged in six parallel rows to enable contemporary filling of two cardboard boxes with six bottles each.
  • the second and fifth rows of the six rows are halted in a position which is behind the other four rows.
  • the number of rows can be less or more, depending on the number of rows of bottles needed in the box, which can, for example, be twelve bottles.
  • the arm 1 While the bottles are being supplied the arm 1 is in an upper position with the gripping organs 8 facing downwards. After the bottles have been halted, the arm 1 is activated to descend by the second linear actuator 2.
  • the gripping organs 8, which are arranged in such a way as to act on bottles of the second and fourth rows, descend and grip the necks of the first two bottles of each of the second and fourth rows.
  • the arm 1 is then raised by means of the second actuator 2 and translated in a forwards direction by means of the first linear actuator 3.
  • the rotary actuator 4 causes the arm 1 to rotate by 180° about the axis x, upturning the bottles and positioning them in alignment with the upright bottles.
  • the upturned bottles are supported by the gripping organs 8, the suction cups of which now have open ends thereof facing upwards.
  • the head 31 is activated to descend so that the first gripping organs 5 insert on and grip the necks of the upright bottles, while the suction plungers of the second gripping organs 6 grip the bottoms of the upturned bottles.
  • the gripping organs 8 connected to the arm 1 release the necks of the upturned bottles and the head 31 is raised together with the bottles, translated horizontally and lowered to introduce the bottles into one or more cardboard boxes located in a suitable position.
  • all parts are returned to the initial positions thereof and a new cycle can begin.
  • the described apparatus achieves the set aims and enables, without suffering in terms of productivity, a reduction in the overall size of the apparatus for this operation; or, in another interpretation, if the apparatus used were brought to be a same size as prior art apparatus, productivity would be doubled.

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Claims (12)

  1. Dispositif destiné à emballer en même temps des bouteilles verticales et retournées de façon intercalée dans une boîte en carton comprenant : un plan convoyeur mobile (10) composé d'une pluralité de bouteilles verticales parallèles ; des moyens de préhension et de rotation (20) d'une partie de la pluralité de bouteilles de 180° autour d'au moins un axe horizontal (x) et pour aligner une partie de la pluralité de ces bouteilles retournées de cette façon avec le nombre restant de la pluralité de bouteilles dans au moins une direction étant parallèle au plan convoyeur mobile (10) ; et des moyens de préhension (30) et de déplacement des groupes ordonnés de bouteilles de la pluralité de bouteilles, lesdits moyens (30) étant adaptés pour saisir et déplacer des groupes ordonnés de bouteilles formés par des rangées de bouteilles retournées alternées, de façon intercalée, avec des rangées de bouteilles verticales.
  2. Dispositif selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que les moyens de préhension et de rotation (20) comprennent un bras (1) horizontalement disposé au-dessus du plan convoyeur mobile (10), et des organes de préhension (8) associés au bras (1) et destinés à saisir les bouteilles verticales ; le bras (1) étant connecté en correspondance de l'une des ses extrémités (la) à un actionneur rotatif (4), un axe de rotation duquel coïncide avec l'axe (x), l'actionneur rotatif (4) étant associé à un chariot (21) verticalement et horizontalement mobile dans une direction parallèle à une direction d'avancement du plan convoyeur mobile (10).
  3. Dispositif selon la revendication 2, caractérisé en ce que les moyens (30) de préhension et de déplacement comprennent : une tête (31) à laquelle une pluralité de premiers organes de préhension (5) sont associés, les premiers organes de préhension (5) étant destinés à saisir les bouteilles verticales ; et une pluralité de seconds organes de préhension (6) pour saisir les bouteilles retournées, lesdits seconds organes de préhension (6) étant alternés aux dits premiers organes de préhension (5), la tête (31) étant verticalement et horizontalement mobile.
  4. Dispositif selon la revendication 3, caractérisé en ce que les organes de préhension (8) et les premiers organes de préhension (5) comprennent une pluralité de ventouses (5).
  5. Dispositif selon la revendication 4, caractérisé en ce que les seconds organes de préhension (6) comprennent chacun un plongeur d'aspiration avec piston central pour créer une dépression sur un fond d'une bouteille et ainsi saisir la bouteille.
  6. Dispositif selon la revendication 5, caractérisé en ce que les seconds organes de préhension (6) comprennent chacun des pinces mécaniques.
  7. Dispositif selon la revendication 6, caractérisé en ce que l'axe (x) est horizontal et transversal par rapport à la direction d'avancement du plan convoyeur mobile (10) et les bouteilles retournées sont alignées avec les bouteilles verticales dans au moins une direction horizontale et perpendiculaire par rapport à la direction d'avancement du plan convoyeur mobile (10).
  8. Dispositif selon la revendication 6, caractérisé en ce que l'axe (x) est horizontal et parallèle par rapport à la direction d'avancement du plan convoyeur mobile (10) et les bouteilles retournées sont alignées avec les bouteilles verticales dans au moins une direction horizontale et parallèle par rapport à la direction d'avancement du plan convoyeur mobile (10).
  9. Dispositif selon la revendication 7, caractérisé en ce que le bras (1) est disposé transversalement au-dessus du plan convoyeur mobile (10).
  10. Dispositif selon la revendication 8, caractérisé en ce que le bras (1) est disposé parallèlement et au-dessus du plan convoyeur mobile (10).
  11. Dispositif selon la revendication 9, caractérisé en ce que la tête (31) est verticalement et horizontalement mobile dans une direction parallèle à la direction d'avancement du plan convoyeur mobile (10).
  12. Dispositif selon la revendication 10, caractérisé en ce que la tête (31) est verticalement et horizontalement mobile dans une direction perpendiculaire à la direction d'avancement du plan convoyeur mobile (10).
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IT000335A ITMO20020335A1 (it) 2002-11-18 2002-11-18 Apparecchiatura per confezionare contemporaneamente bottiglie ritte e rovesciate in scatole di cartone.
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