EP1479608B1 - Vorrichtung zur Verpackung von Gegenständen in Schrumpffolie - Google Patents

Vorrichtung zur Verpackung von Gegenständen in Schrumpffolie Download PDF

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EP1479608B1
EP1479608B1 EP04102248A EP04102248A EP1479608B1 EP 1479608 B1 EP1479608 B1 EP 1479608B1 EP 04102248 A EP04102248 A EP 04102248A EP 04102248 A EP04102248 A EP 04102248A EP 1479608 B1 EP1479608 B1 EP 1479608B1
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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
    • B65B53/00—Shrinking wrappers, containers, or container covers during or after packaging
    • 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
    • B65B41/00—Supplying or feeding container-forming sheets or wrapping material
    • B65B41/12—Feeding webs from rolls
    • 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
    • B65B9/00—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material, e.g. liquids or semiliquids, in flat, folded, or tubular webs of flexible sheet material; Subdividing filled flexible tubes to form packages
    • B65B9/02—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material between opposed webs
    • B65B9/026—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material between opposed webs the webs forming a curtain

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  • the present invention relates to a machine for packing a product in a sheet of heat-shrink packing material.
  • the present invention is particularly advantageous for use in the furniture industry, to which the following description refers purely by way of example.
  • the present invention relates to a packing machine of the type disclosed in document EP-A-939031 according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • This machine comprises a packing station; conveying means defining a substantially horizontal supporting surface for the product, and for feeding the product along the supporting surface and through the packing station; at least two reels of heat-shrink strip located at the packing station; and packing means for wrapping the product in said strips and detaching the sheet of packing material from the strips.
  • the two reels comprise a first reel located in use in a top operating position in which the first reel is located over the supporting surface; and a second reel located in use in a bottom operating position in which the second reel is located below the supporting surface.
  • the first reel which is relatively heavy and of considerable size, is therefore located in a part of the packing machine which is difficult to reach.
  • a major drawback of known packing machines of the above type lies in the first reel being changed manually, which is a difficult, painstaking job which therefore increases the time taken to set up the machine.
  • Number 1 in Figures 1 and 2 indicates as a whole a machine for packing a product 2 - in the example shown, a product of the furniture industry - in a relative sheet 3 of heat-shrink packing material.
  • Machine 1 comprises a known conveying unit 4 for feeding product 2 in a substantially horizontal direction 5 and along a substantially horizontal path P, and which in turn comprises two conveying devices 6, 7 located in series in direction 5 and connected to each other at a transfer station 8.
  • Device 6 comprises a conveyor belt 9, which defines a supporting surface S for product 2, and is looped about a number of pulleys (not shown) fitted to a fixed base 10 of device 6 to rotate intermittently, with respect to base 10 and under the control of a known actuating device 11, about respective axes (not shown) parallel to one another and to a horizontal direction 12 crosswise to direction 5.
  • Surface S is of variable length measured parallel to direction 5, by one of said pulleys (not shown) being a movable pulley fitted in sliding manner to base 10 to move linearly in direction 5, with respect to base 10 and under the control of a known actuating device 13, between a withdrawn position (not shown), in which the movable pulley is substantially contained within base 10, and an extracted position ( Figure 2 ), in which the movable pulley is located frontwards of base 10 in direction 5.
  • Device 7 comprises a conveyor belt 14, which has a conveying branch substantially coplanar with surface S, and is looped about two pulleys (not shown) fitted to a fixed base 15 of device 7 to rotate intermittently, with respect to base 15 and under the control of an actuating device 16 synchronized with device 13, about respective axes (not shown) parallel to each other and to direction 12.
  • Unit 4 feeds product 2 firstly through a packing station 17, where product 2 is wrapped in sheet 3, and then through a heat-shrink station (not shown) for shrinking sheet 3 about product 2.
  • Station 17 comprises a number of packing units 18 (in the example shown, three units 18a, 18b, 18c) located in series in direction 5, and each comprising a fixed frame 19 connectable to frames 19 of the other units 18a, 18b, 18c.
  • packing units 18 in the example shown, three units 18a, 18b, 18c located in series in direction 5, and each comprising a fixed frame 19 connectable to frames 19 of the other units 18a, 18b, 18c.
  • frame 19 comprises two uprights 20 substantially parallel to each other and to a direction 21 perpendicular to directions 5 and 12; two guides 22, each associated with a respective upright 20 and parallel to direction 21; and two supporting devices 23, 24 fitted to guides 22 to support respective reels 25, 26 of heat-shrink strip positioned with their longitudinal axes parallel to direction 12, and connected to each other as described in detail later on.
  • Device 23 comprises a slide 27 comprising two skids 28 fitted in sliding manner to guides 22 to move linearly in direction 21 along guides 22 and under the control of an actuating device 29; two powered rollers 30 (only one shown in Figure 3 ) extending between skids 28 and parallel to direction 12 to support reel 25; and two fork members 31 associated with skids 28 and engaged by a central winding pin 32 of reel 25.
  • Device 29 comprises two toothed belts 33, each of which is movable in a respective vertical plane, is connected to a respective skid 28, and is looped about two pulleys (not shown), each of which is mounted coaxially with a respective pulley (not shown) of the other belt 33.
  • Belts 33 are operated synchronously to move slide 27, and therefore reel 25, in direction 21 between a raised operating position ( Figures 1 , 2 , 3 ), in which reel 25 is located over surface S, and a lowered reel-change position (not shown) to change reel 25.
  • Device 24 comprises two skids 34 fitted in sliding manner to guides 22 to move linearly in direction 21 along guides 22 and under the control of an actuating device 35; and two fork members 36 fitted to skids 34 and engaged by a central winding pin 37 of reel 26.
  • Device 35 comprises two toothed belts 38, each of which is movable in a respective vertical plane, is connected to a respective skid 34, and is looped about two pulleys (not shown), each of which is mounted coaxially with a respective pulley (not shown) of the other belt 38.
  • Belts 38 are operated synchronously to move skids 34, and therefore reel 26, in direction 21 between a lowered operating position (shown in Figure 2 for one of the three reels 26), in which reel 26 is located below surface S, and a raised rest position (shown in Figure 2 for the other two reels 26), in which reel 26 is located over surface S.
  • each pair of reels 25, 26 are joined, at each operating cycle of machine 1, by a known cut-and-seal device 39 located at transfer station 8, to the front of units 18a, 18b, 18c in direction 5.
  • Device 39 comprises a fixed bottom bar 40 parallel to direction 12; and a movable top bar 41 extending in direction 12, and which is movable in direction 21 between a raised rest position and a lowered operating position, in which bars 40 and 41 cooperate mutually to overlap the strips of a pair of reels 25, 26, to stabilize the overlap by a sealing operation, and to cut an intermediate point of the overlap to cut a sheet 3 of packing material off the strips of reels 25 and 26 considered.
  • the strip of each reel 26 is looped about an idle roller 42 extending in direction 12 and mounted at a free end of belt 9 to move in direction 5, together with the movable pulley (not shown) of belt 9; and the strip of each reel 25 is looped about an idle roller 43 parallel to direction 12 and extending between the free ends of two telescopic rods 44 parallel to direction 5.
  • Rods 44 are fixed to a horizontal cross member 45 parallel to direction 12 and in turn fixed to frame 19 of unit 18a, and form part of an actuating device 46 for moving roller 43 in direction 5, and which also comprises an actuating cylinder 47 projecting from cross member 45, parallel to direction 5, and having an output rod 48 connected to roller 43.
  • Roller 43 and the movable pulley (not shown) of conveying device 6 therefore move in direction 5 with respective independent laws of motion.
  • Conveying unit 4 feeds product 2 in direction 5 against the strips of reels 25, 26 of unit 18a, so as to fold the strips substantially into a U about product 2.
  • device 7 is deactivated, and top bar 41 is moved into the lowered operating position to overlap the strips of reels 25 and 26, to stabilize the overlap by a sealing operation, and to cut an intermediate point of the overlap to cut sheet 3 of packing material off the strips of reels 25 and 26 considered.
  • rod 48 is moved into a withdrawn position (not shown), so that roller 43 releases the strip of reel 25 considered; the movable pulley (not shown) of conveying device 6 and, therefore, roller 42 are moved into the withdrawn position to clear station 17 and release the strip of reel 26 considered; reel 26 of unit 18a is set to the raised rest position; reel 26 of unit 18b or 18c is moved into the lowered operating position; and the movable pulley (not shown) of conveying device 6, roller 42, and rod 48 are again moved into the extracted position.
  • rod 48 is moved into the withdrawn position, so that roller 43 releases the strip of reel 25 considered; the movable pulley (not shown) of conveying device 6 is moved into the withdrawn position to clear station 17; and slide 27 of reel 25 considered is moved into the lowered reel-change position by relative actuating device 29.

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  1. Maschine zum Verpacken eines Produkts (2) in einer Lage (3) aus Heißschrumpf-Verpackungsmaterial, wobei die Maschine aufweist eine Verpackungsstation (17); eine Fördereinrichtung (4), welche eine im Wesentlichen horizontale Tragfläche (S) für das Produkt (2) bildet und zum Vorschieben des Produkts (2) in einer gegebenen Richtung (5) und durch die Verpackungsstation (17) hindurch vorgesehen ist; wenigstens einem Paar von Spulen (25, 26) eines Heißschrumpfstreifens, wobei eine erste (25) der Spulen (25, 26) bei Benutzung in einer angehobenen Betriebsposition liegt, in welcher die erste Spule (25) über der Tragfläche (S) angeordnet ist, und eine zweite (26) der Spulen (25, 26) bei Benutzung in einer abgesenkten Betriebsposition liegt, in welcher die zweite Spule (26) unter der Tragfläche (S) angeordnet ist; eine Verpackungseinrichtung (39), die an der Verpackungsstation (17) angeordnet ist, um das Produkt (2) in die Streifen des Spulenpaares (25, 26) einzuwickeln und die Lage (3) Verpackungsmaterial von den Streifen abzulösen; und eine erste Betätigungseinrichtung (22, 27, 29) zum Bewegen der ersten Spule (25) zwischen der angehobenen Betriebsposition und einer abgesenkten Spulen-Austauschposition; und gekennzeichnet dadurch, dass diese auch eine zweite Betätigungseinrichtung (34, 35) zum Bewegen der zweiten Spule (26) zwischen der abgesenkten Betriebsposition und einer angehobenen Ruheposition umfasst, in welcher die zweite Spule (26) über der Tragfläche (S) angeordnet ist.
  2. Maschine nach Anspruch 1, in welcher die erste Betätigungseinrichtung (22, 27, 29) aufweist eine erste Führungseinrichtung (22); einen ersten Schlitten (27), der so angebracht ist, dass dieser entlang der ersten Führungseinrichtung (22) gleitet; und eine erste Betätigungseinrichtung (29), um den ersten Schlitten (27) entlang der ersten Führungseinrichtung (22) zu bewegen; wobei die erste Spule (25) durch den ersten Schlitten (27) getragen wird, so dass sich diese mit dem ersten Schlitten (27) entlang der ersten Führungseinrichtung (22) verschiebt.
  3. Maschine nach Anspruch 1 oder 2, in welcher die zweite Betätigungseinrichtung (34, 35) einen zweiten Schlitten (34) umfasst, der so angebracht ist, dass dieser entlang der ersten Führungseinrichtung (22) gleitet; und eine zweite Betätigungseinrichtung (35), um den zweiten Schlitten (34) entlang der ersten Führungseinrichtung (22) zu bewegen; wobei die zweite Spule (26) durch den zweiten Schlitten (34) getragen wird, so dass diese mit dem zweiten Schlitten (34) entlang der ersten Führungseinrichtung (22) verschoben wird.
  4. Maschine nach Anspruch 3 und mit wenigstens zwei Spulenpaaren (25, 26), die nacheinander in der Richtung (5) angeordnet sind und, für jedes Spulenpaar (25, 26), einen Rahmen (19), der das jeweilige Spulenpaar (25, 26), die jeweilige erste Führungseinrichtung (22) und die jeweilige erste und zweite Betätigungseinrichtung (29, 35) trägt; wobei die Rahmen (19) miteinander verbindbar sind.
  5. Maschine nach einem der vorstehenden Ansprüche und auch mit einer Positionierrolle (43), die quer zur Richtung (5) positioniert ist, in der Richtung (5) beweglich ist und bei Benutzung durch einen der Streifen einer der Spulen (25, 26) berührt wird.
  6. Maschine nach Anspruch 5, in welcher die Tragfläche (S) gemessen in der Richtung (5) eine variable Länge hat und einen Bereich aufweist, der zwischen einer zurückgezogenen Position und einer ausgefahrenen Position beweglich ist; wobei sich der Bereich und die Rolle (43) in der Richtung (5) mit jeweils unterschiedlichen Bewegungsgesetzen bewegen.
  7. Maschine nach Anspruch 5 oder 6 und auch mit einer dritten Betätigungseinrichtung (46) zum Bewegen der Rolle (43) in der Richtung (5) und mit einer zweiten Führungseinrichtung (44), die sich in der Richtung (5) und über die Tragfläche (S) erstreckt, und einer dritten Betätigungseinrichtung (47), um die Rolle (43) entlang der zweiten Führungseinrichtung (44) zu bewegen.
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