EP1447330A1 - Method and apparatus for packaging flower bouquets - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a work method for packing flower bouquets and such, in which on the one hand the flower bouquets are fed by means of a conveyor belt to a drive guiding instrument, on the other hand, to be released above a fed opened cover, after which the flower bouquet with closed cover is further transported and placed into shipping boxes.
- the work method for packing an article consists of a number of steps such as: applying or feeding the article with an external surface, then applying a decorative cover around the external surface of the article to form an attractively packed article, and then automatically applying a cover around the already decoratively covered article and the apparatus is also claimed for the execution of these specific work methods.
- the concerned potted plant is covered and after that held above an opened cover which is then sealed for, for example, shipment.
- the above described work method and apparatus has disadvantages with regard to packing flower bouquets, being that loose flower bouquets must be brought from a horizontal lying position as a bouquet into a vertical position, to, then be slided or dropped into an opened cover without losing the coherence of the bouquet, which with the known apparatus and work method is not possible.
- the aim of the present invention is to provide such a work method and apparatus that the disadvantages are eliminated and which apparatus works efficiently, can cover very large amounts of flower bouquets in a short time and which apparatus can be put onto the market in a very economically responsible way.
- a work method with a special apparatus is developed in a very inventive way, that the mentioned flower bouquets are fed lying transversely in the movement direction by a first approximately horizontal set up conveyor belt, called the bouquet line, on which the flower bouquets are laid down with a suitable mutual distance L so that via a lifting conveyor belt, at the end of the mentioned first conveyor belt, then fall onto a second conveyor belt or feeding belt placed at a right angle on the first conveyor belt, in which the mentioned feeding belt rotates at an angle ⁇ of the approximately horizontal position into the vertical position, in which on the mentioned feeding belt by means of lateral and cross partitions compartments are formed in which a flower bouquet is dropped continuously, in which when rotation the feeding belt over an angle ⁇ the compartments go from a horizontal to a vertical position and is closed by a vertical plate into a box shaped cell space, after which the cross partition turns away and the flower bouquet falls with its stems onto a trap door instrument, which opens subsequently and the flower bouquet drops into an already opened cover, after which the flower bouquet in the cover is wrapped with
- the advantage is an efficient work method to pack large amounts of flower bouquets with a relatively compact machine.
- this device consists of the following parts, such as a first conveyor belt and a lifting conveyor belt a second conveyor belt or feeding belt placed at a right angle, provided with lateral and cross partitions with height to form compartments into which the flower bouquet has been dropped, in which the mentioned feeding belt is transferred from the horizontal position into the vertical position and runs along a vertical plate, so that a box-shaped cell space is created including the flower bouquet, after which the cross partition below the flower bouquet is turnable and the flower bouquet lands on a trap door instrument, which can be opened and the flower bouquet drops into an opened cover, after which further processing takes place and discharging is done via conveyor belts to the packing of the flower bouquets, in which the material of the apparatus can be stainless steel.
- the advantage is a compact machine or apparatus to execute the work method in the most efficient way.
- Figure 1 shows in a schematic way the whole procedure for packing large amounts of flower bouquets with the special apparatus 1 according to the invention.
- the procedure begins with laying down flower bouquets 3 transversely on the conveyor belt or bouquet line 4 by person 2, and this with a suitable interval specified by not indicated carriers on the bouquet line.
- the width of the mentioned conveyor belt is approximately 800 mm, in view of the flower bouquets.
- Figure 2 shows a schematic side view of the actual apparatus 1 according to the invention.
- the flower bouquets 3 fall on the feeding conveyor belt 17 which'turns from the horizontal position A into a vertical position B, i.e. rotating at an angle ⁇ of approximately 90 degrees.
- the feeding conveyor belt 17 is approximately 20 cm wide and is supplied with raised plates or lateral partitions 18 at the sides to avoid falling off sideways of the flower bouquets 3.
- cross partitions 19 have also been applied.
- the flower bouquets 3 fall onto the feeding belt 17 accordingly into the compartments 20 and are thus rotated from the horizontal position into the vertical position and then a box shaped cell space 22 is created by the vertical plate 21.
- Figures 3A and 3B show schematically in oblique projection the trap door instrument 24 in closed (figure 3A) and opened position (figure 3B).
- the trap door instrument 24 consists of two conical halves 26 and 27, which are welded in the plate parts 28 and 29.
- the plate parts 28 and 29 are fastened by means of screws 30 on the rotating shafts 31 and 32.
- the shafts 31 and 32 can rotate in the directions X and Y through which the trap door instrument 24 opens and goes from the position in figure 3A to the position in figure 3B.
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- The present invention relates to a work method for packing flower bouquets and such, in which on the one hand the flower bouquets are fed by means of a conveyor belt to a drive guiding instrument, on the other hand, to be released above a fed opened cover, after which the flower bouquet with closed cover is further transported and placed into shipping boxes.
- A similar work method and apparatus is known from the European patent document nr. 0 590 269 A1, submitted 30-07-1993, titled: "Article Packaging System" of the applicant Highland Supply Corporation, 1111 Sixth Street, Highland, Illinois 62249 (USA), inventors CRAIG Frank, 90 Inez, Valley Park, Missouri 63088 (USA); STRAETER, Joseph G., 3817 Praire Road, Highland Illinois 62249 (USA) and WEDER, Donald E., 621 Main Street, Highland Illinois 62249 (USA).
- Here, it concerns a modular system for packing articles for shipment, especially potted plants, which are put into a decorative cover and subsequently automatically placed into a protecting cover, after which the packed plants are ready for putting into a shipment box, in which the several components of the system can also be adjusted to the different packing demands and circumstances, such as fragrance, gastightness and such.
- The work method for packing an article, mostly a plant or botanic item, consists of a number of steps such as: applying or feeding the article with an external surface, then applying a decorative cover around the external surface of the article to form an attractively packed article, and then automatically applying a cover around the already decoratively covered article and the apparatus is also claimed for the execution of these specific work methods.
- With this invention the concerned potted plant is covered and after that held above an opened cover which is then sealed for, for example, shipment.
- The above described work method and apparatus has disadvantages with regard to packing flower bouquets, being that loose flower bouquets must be brought from a horizontal lying position as a bouquet into a vertical position, to, then be slided or dropped into an opened cover without losing the coherence of the bouquet, which with the known apparatus and work method is not possible.
- In practice the packing or covering of large amounts of loose flower bouquets is mainly done manually, which is very time-consuming or the flower bouquets are fed by means of a conveyor belt to a slanting chute, after which the flower bouquet falls into an opened cover and after which, with a binding machine, a binding wire is wound around the stems of the flower bouquet. Also this last method is not very fast to efficiently process large amounts of flower bouquets.
- The aim of the present invention is to provide such a work method and apparatus that the disadvantages are eliminated and which apparatus works efficiently, can cover very large amounts of flower bouquets in a short time and which apparatus can be put onto the market in a very economically responsible way.
- For this purpose a work method with a special apparatus is developed in a very inventive way, that the mentioned flower bouquets are fed lying transversely in the movement direction by a first approximately horizontal set up conveyor belt, called the bouquet line, on which the flower bouquets are laid down with a suitable mutual distance L so that via a lifting conveyor belt, at the end of the mentioned first conveyor belt, then fall onto a second conveyor belt or feeding belt placed at a right angle on the first conveyor belt, in which the mentioned feeding belt rotates at an angle α of the approximately horizontal position into the vertical position, in which on the mentioned feeding belt by means of lateral and cross partitions compartments are formed in which a flower bouquet is dropped continuously, in which when rotation the feeding belt over an angle α the compartments go from a horizontal to a vertical position and is closed by a vertical plate into a box shaped cell space, after which the cross partition turns away and the flower bouquet falls with its stems onto a trap door instrument, which opens subsequently and the flower bouquet drops into an already opened cover, after which the flower bouquet in the cover is wrapped with a band or tape around the stems and the thus packed flower bouquet is further transported by means of conveyor belts to collecting boxes for further shipment of the packed flower bouquets.
- The advantage is an efficient work method to pack large amounts of flower bouquets with a relatively compact machine.
- Further, the apparatus according to the invention is further developed in such a way, that this device consists of the following parts, such as a first conveyor belt and a lifting conveyor belt a second conveyor belt or feeding belt placed at a right angle, provided with lateral and cross partitions with height to form compartments into which the flower bouquet has been dropped, in which the mentioned feeding belt is transferred from the horizontal position into the vertical position and runs along a vertical plate, so that a box-shaped cell space is created including the flower bouquet, after which the cross partition below the flower bouquet is turnable and the flower bouquet lands on a trap door instrument, which can be opened and the flower bouquet drops into an opened cover, after which further processing takes place and discharging is done via conveyor belts to the packing of the flower bouquets, in which the material of the apparatus can be stainless steel.
- The advantage is a compact machine or apparatus to execute the work method in the most efficient way.
- The preferred construction of the invention will be described by way of example, and with reference to the accompanying drawing.
- In which:
- Fig. 1
- shows a schematic top view of the packing procedure with the apparatus according to the invention for executing the specific work method for packing large amounts of flower bouquets.
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- shows a schematic side view of the apparatus for packing flower bouquets; and
- Fig. 3A and 3B
- show schematically in oblique projection the trap door instrument in closed (figure 3A) and in opened position (figure 3B).
- Figure 1 shows in a schematic way the whole procedure for packing large amounts of flower bouquets with the special apparatus 1 according to the invention. The procedure begins with laying down
flower bouquets 3 transversely on the conveyor belt or bouquet line 4 by person 2, and this with a suitable interval specified by not indicated carriers on the bouquet line. The width of the mentioned conveyor belt is approximately 800 mm, in view of the flower bouquets. - On this conveyor belt 4 the flower bouquets undergo more processes, such as the binding and cutting of the stems etc. at the sections 5 and 6. After that the flower bouquets go onto a lifting conveyor belt 7 to the actual packing machine or apparatus 1 according to the invention, of which the working is shown in figure 2. After that discharging 8 of the packed flower bouquets is done and on the bouquet line 9 some more processes are done such as applying "Chrysal" at 10, taping at 11 and applying a sticker at 12. All packed or covered
flower bouquets 3 are put onto a collectingconveyor 13 and can be packed into boxes bypersons - Figure 2 shows a schematic side view of the actual apparatus 1 according to the invention.
- From the lifting conveyor belt 7 (see figure 1) the
flower bouquets 3 fall on thefeeding conveyor belt 17 which'turns from the horizontal position A into a vertical position B, i.e. rotating at an angle α of approximately 90 degrees. Thefeeding conveyor belt 17 is approximately 20 cm wide and is supplied with raised plates or lateral partitions 18 at the sides to avoid falling off sideways of theflower bouquets 3. To createcompartments 20,cross partitions 19 have also been applied. Theflower bouquets 3 fall onto thefeeding belt 17 accordingly into thecompartments 20 and are thus rotated from the horizontal position into the vertical position and then a box shapedcell space 22 is created by thevertical plate 21. Subsequently, by turning away thecross partition 19 theflower bouquet 3 with its stems falls onto thetrap door instrument 24, which is in closed position and then opens (see figures 3A and 3B) and the flower bouquet falls in the already openedcover 25 and the whole is finished according to the process described in figure 1. - Figures 3A and 3B show schematically in oblique projection the
trap door instrument 24 in closed (figure 3A) and opened position (figure 3B). Thetrap door instrument 24 consists of twoconical halves plate parts plate parts screws 30 on the rotatingshafts 31 and 32. Theshafts 31 and 32 can rotate in the directions X and Y through which thetrap door instrument 24 opens and goes from the position in figure 3A to the position in figure 3B. By the apparatus 1 with the matching work method according to the invention a very efficient packing machine forflower bouquets 3 is created. - Finally it has to be emphasized, that the above description constitutes a preferred embodiment of the present invention and that further variations and modifications are still possible without departing the scope of this patent description.
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- Work method for packing flower bouquets and such, in which on the one hand the flower bouquets are fed by means of a conveyor belt to a drive guiding instrument, on the other hand, to be released above a fed opened cover, after which the flower bouquet with closed cover is further transported and placed into shipping boxes, characterized in that, the mentioned flower bouquets (3) are fed lying transversely on the movement direction by a first approximately horizontal set up conveyor belt (4), called the bouquet line, on which the flower bouquets (3) are laid down with a suitable mutual distance L in order to, via a lifting conveyor belt (7) at the end of the mentioned first conveyor belt (4), fall onto a second conveyor belt or feeding belt (17) placed at a right angle on the first conveyor belt (4), in which the mentioned feeding belt (17) rotates at an angle α of the approximately horizontal position into the vertical position, in which on the mentioned feeding belt (17) by means of lateral (18) and cross-partitions (19) compartments (20) are formed in which a flower bouquet is dropped continuously, in which when rotating the feeding belt (17) over an angle α the compartments (20) go from a horizontal to a vertical position and is closed by a vertical plate (21) into a box shaped cell space (22), after which the cross partition (19) turns away and the flower bouquet (3) falls with its stems onto a trap door instrument (24), which after that opens and the flower bouquet drops into an already opened cover (25), after which the flower bouquet (3) in the cover (25) is wrapped with a band or tape around the stems and the thus packed flower bouquet (3) is further transported by means of conveyor belts (8, 9, 13) to collecting boxes for further shipment of the packed flower bouquets (3).
- Work method as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that, the width of the first conveyor belt (4) and the lifting conveyor belt (7) is approximately 700 mm and the mutual distance L between the flower bouquets is approximately 500 mm.
- Work method as claimed in claims 1 and 2, characterized in that, the angle α can be approximately 90 degrees.
- Work method as claimed in claims 1 - 3, characterized in that, the mentioned opened cover (25) is fed by an automatized cover feeding machine adapted to the packing process.
- Work method as claimed in aforementioned claims, characterized in that, the band or tape wound around the packed stems of the flower bouquet (3) are fed by an automatized taping machine adapted to the packing process.
- Apparatus for executing the work method according to the aforementioned claims, characterized in that, this device consists of the following parts, such as a first conveyor belt (4) and a lifting conveyor belt (7) a second conveyor belt or feeding belt (17) placed thereon at a right angle, provided with lateral and cross partitions (18, 19) with height to form compartments (20) into which the flower bouquet (3) has been dropped, in which the mentioned feeding belt (17) is transferred from the horizontal position into the vertical position and runs along a vertical plate (21), so that a box-shaped cell space (22) is created including the flower bouquet (3), after which the cross partition (19) below the flower bouquet (3) is turnable and the flower bouquet (3) lands on a trap door instrument (24), which can be opened and the flower bouquet drops into an opened cover (25), after which further processing takes place and discharging is done via conveyor belts to the packing of the flower bouquets (3), in which the material of the apparatus (1) can be stainless steel.
- Apparatus as claimed in claim 6, characterized in that, the mentioned height H of the lateral and cross partitions is approximately 100 mm and the distance between the cross partitions (19) is approximately 700 mm.
- Apparatus as claimed in claim 6, characterized in that, the mentioned first conveyor belt (4) and lifting conveyor belt (7) is approx 800 mm wide and a second conveyor belt or feeding belt (17) is approximately 200 mm wide.
- Apparatus as claimed in claims 6 - 8, characterized in that, the mentioned trap door instrument (24) consists of two conical constructed halves (26, 27), which open simultaneously with the below fed opened cover (25), so that the flower bouquet (3) falls into the cover (25) with the stem side.
- Apparatus as claimed in aforementioned claims, characterized in that, the apparatus (1) with cover feeding machine, taping machine and such are fully intermating.
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NL9002555A (en) * | 1990-11-23 | 1992-06-16 | Olimex B V Maschf | Packaging device for flower bunches - uses belt transporter, tapered sleeve, and gripper device |
EP0590269A1 (en) | 1992-09-30 | 1994-04-06 | Highland Supply Corporation | Article packaging system |
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NL9002220A (en) * | 1990-10-12 | 1992-05-06 | Maria Wilhelmina Gerarda Beere | Packing machine for bunches of cut flowers - automatically opens tapered plastic bags and drops the bunches into them |
NL9002555A (en) * | 1990-11-23 | 1992-06-16 | Olimex B V Maschf | Packaging device for flower bunches - uses belt transporter, tapered sleeve, and gripper device |
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