EP1469766A1 - Vorrichtung zur steuerung und regulierung des drucks einer materialrolle in einem automatischen schneidspender - Google Patents

Vorrichtung zur steuerung und regulierung des drucks einer materialrolle in einem automatischen schneidspender

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EP1469766A1
EP1469766A1 EP20020806655 EP02806655A EP1469766A1 EP 1469766 A1 EP1469766 A1 EP 1469766A1 EP 20020806655 EP20020806655 EP 20020806655 EP 02806655 A EP02806655 A EP 02806655A EP 1469766 A1 EP1469766 A1 EP 1469766A1
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flanges
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Maurice Granger
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47K—SANITARY EQUIPMENT NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; TOILET ACCESSORIES
    • A47K10/00—Body-drying implements; Toilet paper; Holders therefor
    • A47K10/24—Towel dispensers, e.g. for piled-up or folded textile towels; Toilet-paper dispensers; Dispensers for piled-up or folded textile towels provided or not with devices for taking-up soiled towels as far as not mechanically driven
    • A47K10/32—Dispensers for paper towels or toilet-paper
    • A47K10/34—Dispensers for paper towels or toilet-paper dispensing from a web, e.g. with mechanical dispensing means
    • A47K10/36—Dispensers for paper towels or toilet-paper dispensing from a web, e.g. with mechanical dispensing means with mechanical dispensing, roll switching or cutting devices
    • A47K10/3631—The cutting devices being driven manually
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47K—SANITARY EQUIPMENT NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; TOILET ACCESSORIES
    • A47K10/00—Body-drying implements; Toilet paper; Holders therefor
    • A47K10/24—Towel dispensers, e.g. for piled-up or folded textile towels; Toilet-paper dispensers; Dispensers for piled-up or folded textile towels provided or not with devices for taking-up soiled towels as far as not mechanically driven
    • A47K10/32—Dispensers for paper towels or toilet-paper
    • A47K10/34—Dispensers for paper towels or toilet-paper dispensing from a web, e.g. with mechanical dispensing means
    • A47K10/36—Dispensers for paper towels or toilet-paper dispensing from a web, e.g. with mechanical dispensing means with mechanical dispensing, roll switching or cutting devices
    • A47K10/3656—Dispensers for paper towels or toilet-paper dispensing from a web, e.g. with mechanical dispensing means with mechanical dispensing, roll switching or cutting devices with paper jam preventing devices
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47K—SANITARY EQUIPMENT NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; TOILET ACCESSORIES
    • A47K10/00—Body-drying implements; Toilet paper; Holders therefor
    • A47K10/24—Towel dispensers, e.g. for piled-up or folded textile towels; Toilet-paper dispensers; Dispensers for piled-up or folded textile towels provided or not with devices for taking-up soiled towels as far as not mechanically driven
    • A47K10/32—Dispensers for paper towels or toilet-paper
    • A47K10/34—Dispensers for paper towels or toilet-paper dispensing from a web, e.g. with mechanical dispensing means
    • A47K10/36—Dispensers for paper towels or toilet-paper dispensing from a web, e.g. with mechanical dispensing means with mechanical dispensing, roll switching or cutting devices
    • A47K10/3631—The cutting devices being driven manually
    • A47K2010/365—Triggering mechanism for the blade
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S83/00—Cutting
    • Y10S83/929—Particular nature of work or product
    • Y10S83/949—Continuous or wound supply
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T225/00—Severing by tearing or breaking
    • Y10T225/20—Severing by manually forcing against fixed edge
    • Y10T225/238—With housing for work supply
    • Y10T225/252—With brake or tensioner
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T225/00—Severing by tearing or breaking
    • Y10T225/30—Breaking or tearing apparatus
    • Y10T225/393—Web restrainer
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T83/00—Cutting
    • Y10T83/465—Cutting motion of tool has component in direction of moving work
    • Y10T83/4766—Orbital motion of cutting blade
    • Y10T83/4795—Rotary tool
    • Y10T83/4818—Interconnected work feeder and tool driver
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T83/00—Cutting
    • Y10T83/889—Tool with either work holder or means to hold work supply
    • Y10T83/896—Rotatable wound package supply

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  • the invention relates to the technical sector of dispensers for wiping material with automatic cutting.
  • Apparatuses of this type have been developed by the applicant and they are arranged globally as follows. They include a casing (1) receiving a hinged protective cover (2). Between the wings of the casing or between lateral flanges, attached to the interior of the casing, are arranged a drum (3) having a gripping zone on its periphery associated with a cutting mechanism (4), the reel of material (5) being supported on said drum, and being articulated from a reel holder (6).
  • a safety roller (7) is arranged in the lower part of the device at the tape outlet, and is coupled with the drum using a guide and transmission belt, also allowing the output control of the strip of material.
  • the problem posed lies in controlling the contact pressure of the spool of material on the drum, during the continuous unwinding of said spool after removal of the strip of material as and when required by users and operators.
  • the regulation device associated with each of the arms of the reel holder includes rails forming slides between the lateral wings of the casing and the carrying arms - reel to allow the sliding and limited movement of sliders mounted floating on the rails with elastic capacity of movement controlled and adapted until the exhaustion of the coil and constant tension.
  • Such an arrangement if it works satisfactorily, nevertheless remains costly to implement because of the number of parts which are to be produced.
  • the applicant's approach was therefore to move towards a simplification of the mechanisms to perform the aforementioned function, with rationalization in the manufacture of the apparatus and of the molds in particular.
  • each flange is arranged with a profiled cut, receiving internally around the cut pairs of flanges arranged on either side of the cut in lower and upper horizontal planes and allowing positioning and maintaining a pivoting axis, and in that each axis receives a flap passing through each of the flanges through the corresponding cutout and coming into external overflow from said flanges, and in that each flange has in its rear part a receiving tab and fixing a return means also secured to said flap, the lowering of the spool-holder arm causing the articulation of each of the flaps and the continuous pressure maintenance of the spool on the drum.
  • FIG. 1 is a side view in section of a wiping material dispensing apparatus including the device of the invention, the material reel being full.
  • - Figure 2 is a view identical to Figure 1, but in the event that the material reel has a very substantial reduction in diameter, following significant consumption of wiping material by consumers, and with representation in position of the device.
  • - Figure 3 is a view of the dispensing apparatus on the other side, in an intermediate position for loading the coil.
  • FIG. 4 is a partial view before mounting illustrating one of the devices of the invention and its relationship to the coil holder arm.
  • FIG. 5 is a view along line A. A in Figure 3.
  • - Figure 6 is a sectional view along line B.B. in Figure 3.
  • the dispensing device is referenced as a whole by (1). It comprises a casing having a rear face (la), an inclined bottom face (lb), lateral wings (le) and (ld).
  • the housing receives a tilting cover (2) known per se.
  • Reported lateral flanges (8-9) are arranged inside the volume of the housing, and are established in the form of plastic plates duly fixed in a removable manner to the walls of the housing by any suitable means. Between these flanges is mounted the drum (3) with which the cutting mechanism (4) is associated. This drum has any characteristics as defined in the various patents of the applicant.
  • a safety roller (7) associated with the drum (3) by means of a guide (10) and transmission belt, also allowing the control and passage of the paper out of the device.
  • an eccentric device (11) and associated return means (12) allowing the launching of the drum and its return.
  • the reel of material (5) is mounted in a manner known per se on a gantry or reel holder (6) which is articulated on axes (6a) arranged in the rear part of the aforementioned lateral flanges (8-9).
  • the constitution of the reel holder with bent arms is carried out in different ways according to the prior patents filed by the applicant.
  • the coil is intended to come to bear on the drum, the strip of material passing in abutment on the drum and exiting towards the rear of the device.
  • the device which aims to ensure control and regulation of tension with a constant holding of the coil of material on the drum is produced in the following manner.
  • Each of the flanges (8-9) carrying the drum and allowing the articulation of the spool-holder arm is arranged in its rear part, as illustrated in the figure.
  • These flanges are arranged horizontally in the upper and lower parts of each of the abovementioned cutouts.
  • These flanges allow the reception and positioning of a hinge pin (13).
  • the pairs of flanges have a fork shape (10a-l ia) with a central recess (10b-1 lb) to allow the positioning and holding of the aforementioned guide pin (13).
  • This axis is advantageously supported at its ends to allow its positioning and insertion between the two flanges, and ensuring its maintenance relative to said flanges.
  • the axis according to the invention is arranged with a flap (13a) arranged pe ⁇ endicululaire and in a horizontal plane, crossing the cut facing and projecting outside the plane of each flange (8-9).
  • This component made in one piece with the axis by molding, is capable of pivoting with said axis and thus, as shown in FIG. 6, of being able to be translated on one side or the other of the aforementioned cutout (8a-9a) according to an angle of approximately 180 °.
  • the shutter is capable of taking two opposite positions in the right and left end parts of the cut by a lateral displacement.
  • each spool-holder arm with a bent configuration has an overhanging end tab (6a).
  • said flap When the reel of material is full, said flap is located opposite the side of the casing and it allows, by its positioning, an effect of lightening the reel on the drum. When the coil is finished, said flap is moved laterally, thus being closer to the drum. In an intermediate situation corresponding to neutral and a reduction of about half the diameter of the coil, said return means (14) is located substantially in a vertical plane, without any particular pressure effect.
  • the positioning of the flap relative to its neutral point, in one direction or another, depending on the diameter of the coil causes either a reduction in the support of the coil on the drum, or a stronger support.
  • the unwinding of the reel of material causes the movement of the reel holder arm in a forward tilting movement.
  • the flanges are shaped by molding with the flanges (8-9), which allows a reduction in the number of parts.
  • the cutout (8a-9a) advantageously has a cross shape, but it can have any other configuration, the main thing being that it allows the passage and positioning of the flap and its articulation.

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  • Health & Medical Sciences (AREA)
  • Public Health (AREA)
  • Replacement Of Web Rolls (AREA)
  • Storage Of Web-Like Or Filamentary Materials (AREA)
  • Unwinding Webs (AREA)
  • Finish Polishing, Edge Sharpening, And Grinding By Specific Grinding Devices (AREA)
  • Crushing And Grinding (AREA)
  • Controlling Rewinding, Feeding, Winding, Or Abnormalities Of Webs (AREA)
EP02806655A 2002-02-01 2002-12-19 Vorrichtung zur steuerung und regulierung des drucks einer materialrolle in einem automatischen schneidspender Expired - Lifetime EP1469766B1 (de)

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FR0201437 2002-02-01
FR0201437A FR2835418B1 (fr) 2002-02-01 2002-02-01 Dispositif de controle et de regulation de la pression d'une bobine de materiau dans un appareil distributeur a coupe automatique
PCT/FR2002/004445 WO2003063669A1 (fr) 2002-02-01 2002-12-19 Dispositif de controle et de regulation de la pression d'une bobine de materiau dans un appareil distributeur a coupe automatique

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US (1) US6997094B2 (de)
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CN (1) CN100386048C (de)
AT (1) ATE446703T1 (de)
DE (1) DE60234213D1 (de)
FR (1) FR2835418B1 (de)
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