EP1483152A1 - Dispositif concu pour transferer des decoupes de paquet dans une empaqueteuse de cigarettes - Google Patents

Dispositif concu pour transferer des decoupes de paquet dans une empaqueteuse de cigarettes

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EP1483152A1
EP1483152A1 EP03708196A EP03708196A EP1483152A1 EP 1483152 A1 EP1483152 A1 EP 1483152A1 EP 03708196 A EP03708196 A EP 03708196A EP 03708196 A EP03708196 A EP 03708196A EP 1483152 A1 EP1483152 A1 EP 1483152A1
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folding
blanks
turret
blank
glue
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EP1483152B1 (fr
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Heinz Focke
Thomas Häfker
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Focke and Co GmbH and Co KG
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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
    • B65B41/00—Supplying or feeding container-forming sheets or wrapping material
    • B65B41/02—Feeding sheets or wrapper blanks
    • B65B41/04—Feeding sheets or wrapper blanks by grippers
    • B65B41/06—Feeding sheets or wrapper blanks by grippers by suction-operated grippers
    • 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
    • B65B19/00—Packaging rod-shaped or tubular articles susceptible to damage by abrasion or pressure, e.g. cigarettes, cigars, macaroni, spaghetti, drinking straws or welding electrodes
    • B65B19/02—Packaging cigarettes
    • B65B19/22—Wrapping the cigarettes; Packaging the cigarettes in containers formed by folding wrapping material around formers
    • B65B19/223—Wrapping the cigarettes; Packaging the cigarettes in containers formed by folding wrapping material around formers in a curved path; in a combination of straight and curved paths, e.g. on rotary tables or other endless conveyors
    • B65B19/225—Wrapping the cigarettes; Packaging the cigarettes in containers formed by folding wrapping material around formers in a curved path; in a combination of straight and curved paths, e.g. on rotary tables or other endless conveyors the conveyors having continuous movement
    • 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
    • B65B19/00—Packaging rod-shaped or tubular articles susceptible to damage by abrasion or pressure, e.g. cigarettes, cigars, macaroni, spaghetti, drinking straws or welding electrodes
    • B65B19/02—Packaging cigarettes
    • B65B19/22—Wrapping the cigarettes; Packaging the cigarettes in containers formed by folding wrapping material around formers
    • B65B19/223—Wrapping the cigarettes; Packaging the cigarettes in containers formed by folding wrapping material around formers in a curved path; in a combination of straight and curved paths, e.g. on rotary tables or other endless conveyors
    • B65B19/226—Wrapping the cigarettes; Packaging the cigarettes in containers formed by folding wrapping material around formers in a curved path; in a combination of straight and curved paths, e.g. on rotary tables or other endless conveyors using endless conveyors having pockets, each pocket being provided with separate members, e.g. folders
    • 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
    • B65B19/00—Packaging rod-shaped or tubular articles susceptible to damage by abrasion or pressure, e.g. cigarettes, cigars, macaroni, spaghetti, drinking straws or welding electrodes
    • B65B19/02—Packaging cigarettes
    • B65B19/22—Wrapping the cigarettes; Packaging the cigarettes in containers formed by folding wrapping material around formers
    • B65B19/228—Preparing and feeding blanks

Definitions

  • the invention relates to a device for producing packs of (cardboard) blanks, in particular folding boxes for cigarettes, with folding flaps which are connected to one another by glue, the blanks printed on their outside being successively removed from a blank magazine and by endless conveyors. in particular (folding) revolvers can be transported. Furthermore, the invention relates to a blank for hinged boxes with a special glue pattern.
  • gluing of folding tabs is a special topic due to the high working speed of the machines.
  • glue pictures are to be attached to the unprinted inside of the blank.
  • Glue units with glue nozzles for applying punctiform glue portions to the blanks are particularly powerful.
  • the invention has for its object to propose measures for the gluing of blanks in the manufacture of packs from (cardboard) blanks, in particular hinged boxes for cigarettes, which at least in part sections continuous production of the packs and thereby a trouble-free transfer of glue ensure the cuts.
  • the device is characterized by the following features: a) the blanks can be transported after removal from the blank magazine by a transfer conveyor with holders for one blank each, b) the blanks lie with their (printed) outside on the holder and with their (unprinted) inside facing outwards, c) Above the transfer conveyor, a glue unit is arranged, with glue nozzles pointing downwards, which transfer the glue portions downward to the facing inside of the blanks transported by the transfer conveyor.
  • the invention is based on the finding that glue portions can be transferred to blanks essentially only in the downward direction with the aid of glue nozzles.
  • the blanks are arranged in the blank magazine in such a way that the printed (outer) side can be gripped by a holder of the transfer conveyor, so that the unprinted (inner) side of the cut is turned away from the holder of the transfer conveyor, ie exposed.
  • the transfer conveyor forwards the blanks to another endless conveyor, in particular to a pre-folding turret.
  • the blanks are subjected to a first folding process.
  • the pre-folded blanks are then transferred to a main folding turret, which largely completes the packs, the blanks being accommodated in pockets in the area of the main folding turret, with the glued inner sides facing outward.
  • FIG. 1 shows a section of a packaging machine in a schematic side view
  • FIG. 2 shows a section II of the device marked in FIG. 1 on an enlarged scale
  • FIG. 3 and FIG. 4 cutouts for a hinged box with schematic representations of FIG
  • FIG. 5 shows a section V of FIG. 2 on an enlarged scale
  • FIG. 6 shows a section VI of FIG. 1 on an enlarged scale.
  • the exemplary embodiments deal with the handling of blanks 10 made of (thin) cardboard for the production of packs 11 for cigarettes, namely folding boxes.
  • the blank 10 for this type of pack has a characteristic shape (FIG. 3, FIG. 4).
  • the blanks 10 are completely prefabricated outside the packaging system, in particular in a paper mill, including customary printing on an outside (the pack).
  • the blanks 10 prepared in this way are made available in the area of a packaging machine in a blank magazine 12 for further processing.
  • the blanks 10 are taken from this one after the other and introduced into the packaging process.
  • the present packaging machine is set up for continuous operation.
  • the device consists of an organ for removing the blanks 10 from the blank magazine 12 and for forwarding the blanks 10. It is a transfer turret 13. From this, the blanks 10 arrive at an intermediate conveyor, namely at one Folding turret 14. This conveys the partially folded blanks 10 to a main turret 15, in the area of which the packs 11 are largely finished and filled.
  • the pack content is a cigarette group 16. This is fed to the main revolver 15 by a cigarette conveyor, namely by a pocket chain 17, wrapped in an inner blank in its area and finally introduced into the pack 11 as a cigarette block.
  • the finished packs 11 are transported away via a conveyor 18.
  • the blank magazine 12 is positioned below the main turret 15 or below the pocket chain 17, in a horizontal orientation.
  • the blanks 10 are accordingly arranged in the upright position within the blank magazine 12.
  • a respective blank 10 ahead is captured by the transfer turret 13 and removed from the blank magazine 12.
  • the blanks 10 are aligned such that the printed (outer) side of the blanks 10 faces the removal side of the blank magazine 12 or the transfer turret 13.
  • the transfer turret 13 is provided with a plurality of holders 19 arranged along the circumference for one blank 10 each. These holders 19 are elongated, web-like suction members which grip the blank 10 centrally in its longitudinal direction, specifically on the printed outside.
  • the holders 19 are attached to support arms 20 which are mounted essentially radially on the transfer turret 13, namely on a support piece 21.
  • the holder 19 or its support arms 20 are movably attached to the central support piece 21, namely in particular movable in the radial direction.
  • This additional relative movement takes place in the area of the blank magazine 12, so that the exposed blank 10 can be detected by extending the holder 19.
  • there is a relative movement in the circumferential direction namely such that the holder 19 stands still for a short time or is moved at a reduced circumferential speed in order to grasp the blank 10.
  • the blanks 10 are transported to the pre-folding turret 14 by the transfer turret 13 along an upper, approximately semicircular movement path.
  • the blanks 10 are provided with glue on the radially outward, free (inner) side.
  • a glue unit 22 with a plurality of glue nozzles 23 arranged next to one another in the axis-parallel direction is arranged approximately in the middle above the transfer turret 13. Small glue portions are dispensed through these glue nozzles 23 and transferred to the blank 10 that is moving past them immediately below the glue nozzles 23 to form glue points 24.
  • a stationary guide 25 On the outside of the movement path of the blanks 10 in the area of the transfer turret 13 there is a stationary guide 25, which is in particular comb-like and has a funnel-like inlet 26.
  • the glue nozzles 23 In the area of the glue unit 22, the glue nozzles 23 at least pass through the guide 25 with their mouths.
  • the glued blanks 10 are transferred to an intermediate conveyor, namely the pre-folding turret 14. This is provided along the circumference with a plurality of holding members 27 for one blank 10 each. These holding members 27 also grip the blank 10 - on the glued inside - with suction holders 28. These are distributed in the axial direction, that is to say in the longitudinal direction, of the blanks 10 taken over in such a way that a plurality of suction holders 28 Detect and hold a blank 10 in glue-free areas. As can be seen in particular from FIG. 3, in a blank 10 for hinged boxes, four suction holders 28 are arranged at different distances from each other. A first suction holder 28a grips a front wall 29 of the blank 10 approximately in the center. Two suction holders 28b, 28c are provided in the central area of the blank 10 and grip a rear wall 30 of the blank 10. Another suction holder 28d is associated with a glue-free cover front wall 31.
  • the blanks 10 are accordingly transported in the region of the pre-folding turret 14 with the printed side facing outwards, specifically via a conveying section which corresponds approximately to one full revolution of the pre-folding turret 14.
  • the blanks 10 are accommodated in pockets 32 in the area of the adjoining main turret 15 such that the (glued) inside of the blanks 10 is directed radially outwards.
  • the main turret 15 is preferably designed in accordance with DE 101 59 109.8.
  • the pre-folding turret 14 is a special feature in the continuous production of folding boxes.
  • the blanks 10 are folded in certain areas during the (continuous) transport by the pre-folding turret 14, so that partially folded blanks 10 are transferred to the main turret 15.
  • This pre-folding involves the erection of side folding flaps of the blank 10.
  • Side flaps 33 and lid side flaps 34 (inside the finished packs) are affected.
  • This folding step also affects folding flaps attached to the aforementioned side flaps 33, 34 are, namely, bottom corner flaps 35 and lid corner flaps 36.
  • the former are (exclusively) connected to the side flaps 33 and the latter to the lid side flaps 34, so that these cut parts are also erected.
  • the pre-folding looks so that the aforementioned folding tabs 33 ... 36 are erected in a position transverse to the blank (FIG. 6).
  • each holding member 27 is assigned folding members, namely approximately hook-shaped folding fingers 37, which can be moved from a radially outward position (FIG. 5) to a radially inwardly displaced position (FIG. 6) during the rotary movement of the folding turret 14 Carrying said folding tabs 33, 34.
  • Two opposing groups of folding fingers 37a, 37b are each mounted on a radially directed holding arm 38.
  • the holding member 27 is arranged at the free end of the holding arm 38.
  • the folding fingers 37a, 37b are pivotally mounted on a carrier 39 which is displaceable on the holding arm 38 in the longitudinal direction or in the radial direction of the prefolding turret 14.
  • the folding fingers 37a, 37b can also be pivoted, namely in a spreading and merging sense. In a spread position (FIG.
  • the folding fingers 37 with an arcuate folding end 40 can be moved laterally past the blank 10 resting on the holding member 27, so that the folding ends 40 of the folding fingers 37 are on the radially outer side of the blank 10 ,
  • the folding tabs 33, 34 are carried inward in the radial direction inward, taking the corner tabs 35, 36 into position.
  • the blank 10 now has a formation corresponding to FIG. 4.
  • a folding member accordingly consists of a plurality of folding fingers 37a, 37b which are arranged at a distance from one another in the axial direction and are moved together and simultaneously.
  • a unit consists of three folding fingers 37a, 37b which are arranged at a distance from one another in the axial direction. On the one hand, these are distributed over the length of the blank in such a way that the folding flaps to be folded are correctly captured. There are therefore two folding fingers 37 spaced apart from one another in the area of the longer side tab 33 and a further individual folding finger 37 in the area of the lid side tab 34.
  • the folding fingers 37a, 37b of a holding member 27 are offset from one another in the axial direction. As a result, the folding fingers 37a, 37b of adjacent holding members 27 can be moved past one another without contact during spreading movements (FIG. 3, FIG. 5).
  • the folding fingers 37 remain in the folded position. 6 until the transfer of the blank 10 to the main turret 15.
  • the folding fingers 37 of a holding member 27 are then moved outward in the radial direction and spread apart, so that a subsequent blank 10 can be transferred to the holding member 27 by the transfer turret 13.
  • the blank 10 is conveyed in the region of the glue unit 22 in the transverse direction, that is to say with the longitudinal extent pointing transversely to the conveying direction.
  • rows of points transverse to the blank 10 are transferred to the blank 10 by appropriately controlled opening and closing.
  • Each row of dots consists of a number of glue dots 24, preferably arranged at equal distances from one another. In the example shown, six rows of dots are provided.
  • the glue unit 22 accordingly has six glue nozzles 23 lying next to one another.

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Abstract

Lors de la production continue de paquets de cigarettes de type à rabat, des découpes (10) sont prélevées d'un magasin à découpes (12) au moyen d'un organe de prélèvement, notamment d'un revolver de transfert (13), de façon que lors du transport des découpes à travers le revolver de transfert (13), une face interne non imprimée des découpes (10) soit dirigée radialement vers l'extérieur. Lors du transport des découpes à travers le revolver de transfert (13), de la colle est transférée sur la face interne orientée vers l'extérieur, au moyen d'un agrégat de colle (22) monté au-dessus du revolver de transfert (13), qui transfère de la colle vers le bas sur les découpes (10).
EP03708196A 2002-03-12 2003-03-08 Dispositif concu pour transferer des decoupes de paquet dans une empaqueteuse de cigarettes Expired - Lifetime EP1483152B1 (fr)

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DE2002110762 DE10210762A1 (de) 2002-03-12 2002-03-12 Vorrichtung zum Herstellen von (Zigaretten-)Packungen sowie Packungszuschnitt
DE10210762 2002-03-12
PCT/EP2003/002390 WO2003076269A1 (fr) 2002-03-12 2003-03-08 Dispositif concu pour transferer des decoupes de paquet dans une empaqueteuse de cigarettes

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