EP1498353B1 - Verpackungsmaschine - Google Patents

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EP1498353B1
EP1498353B1 EP04012907A EP04012907A EP1498353B1 EP 1498353 B1 EP1498353 B1 EP 1498353B1 EP 04012907 A EP04012907 A EP 04012907A EP 04012907 A EP04012907 A EP 04012907A EP 1498353 B1 EP1498353 B1 EP 1498353B1
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Johann Natterer
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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
    • B65B41/12—Feeding webs from rolls
    • B65B41/14—Feeding webs from rolls by grippers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B31—MAKING ARTICLES OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER; WORKING PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31B—MAKING CONTAINERS OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31B70/00—Making flexible containers, e.g. envelopes or bags
    • B31B70/02—Feeding or positioning sheets, blanks or webs
    • B31B70/10—Feeding or positioning webs

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  • the present invention relates to a packaging machine according to the preamble of patent claim 1 and a use according to claim 9.
  • Such a packaging machine is known for example from DE 2 123 133. It has a frame which has two parallel to each other in the longitudinal direction arranged frame parts. At one end of the two frame parts respectively sprockets are provided, run over the two transport chains in the form of endless chains.
  • the individual chain links of the transport chains are provided with clamps which hold a packaging material web such as a film at the edges. As the links engage the sprockets, the clamps open so that the web of packaging material is inserted into the clamps. When the chain links are released from the sprockets, the clamps close and the packaging material web is held taut between the transport chains.
  • the sprockets are each mounted on an axis flying.
  • a film guide drum for the packaging material web is freely rotatably mounted about an axis.
  • sprockets are provided which serve to re-open the clips by engaging in the transport chains, so that the packaging material web is released from the staples.
  • various workstations In the transport of the packaging material web through the workstations is a high accuracy of the feed rates of both chains required to achieve the lowest possible feed tolerances in successive operations. Higher tolerances require more packaging material and cause additional costs.
  • the transport chains have a limited strength and are elastically stretched under load like a spring.
  • this stretch property affects significantly on the accuracy of the transport route, since the load increases due to the length and a higher driving force has an even greater elongation result.
  • the relative elongation at higher plant length results in higher strain rates, which cause practically disproportionately higher tolerances.
  • the variations in the two transport chains can be different and thus cause distortion of the packaging web, which can even lead to a rupture of the web depending on the nature of the packaging material.
  • FIG. 5 There are three lines aa, bb and cc shown at the inlet of the transport path. Each of the lines represents an imaginary connecting line between two mutually corresponding chain links.
  • the line aa represents the ideal state in which the imaginary connecting line runs parallel to the axis 14 at the outlet, ie there is no offset on the transport path of the two transport chains 5 and 6 on.
  • the lines bb and cc show the possible fluctuation range of the distortion of the material web 7.
  • the line bb shows the case where the chain 5 leads the chain 6 in the transporting direction A, while the line cc shows the case where the chain 5 is the fifth lags behind the chain 6.
  • the document US 3,996,726 A relates to a packaging machine with a transport device.
  • the transport device is formed by two endless chains, which are guided over two pairs of gears. Each pair of gears is each arranged on a shaft.
  • the one shaft forms a shaft which is driven by a drive of the transport device.
  • the document GB 1 225 796 relates to a packaging machine with a transport device for transporting a material web.
  • This has two endless chains, which are guided over two pairs of gears.
  • Each pair of gears is mounted on a shaft.
  • a drive of the transport device and the associated driven gears are arranged on the input side of the transport device, while the other pair of gears is arranged on the output side of the transport device.
  • the packaging machine can be designed with a greater length than before, without obtaining unduly large tolerances in the transport routes of the two means of transport.
  • the drive devices are advantageously controlled by a control device so that they are synchronized with each other.
  • an angularly synchronous rotation of the drive shafts can be realized, i. so-called electronic waves are realized thereby, whereby one wave acts as "master”, and the other as “slave”, in that it is controlled in dependence on the master wave.
  • a packaging machine comprises a frame 1 containing two frame members arranged parallel to one another in the longitudinal direction, of which only the frame part 1a can be seen in FIG.
  • the packaging machine transports a packaging material web 7 from an inlet 16 at an entrance side to an outlet 17 at an exit side in the transporting direction A.
  • the frame parts are supported by pairs of support legs 18, 19 and 20.
  • work stations 2, 3 and 4 are arranged, where the packaging material web is processed.
  • the transport of the packaging material web 7 is done via transport chains 5 and 6 in the form of endless chains.
  • Each transport chain 5, 6 consists of a plurality of chain links, of which only some in Fig. 2 by the reference numeral 21 are shown schematically.
  • the individual chain links 21 are equipped with brackets, not shown here, which hold the packaging material web 7, for example a plastic film, at their longitudinal edges.
  • the staples open so that the packaging material web 7 can enter the staples.
  • the clamps close and the packaging material web is held in tension between the transport chains.
  • the staples open at the sprockets 8 and 9 at the outlet 17.
  • the packaging material web 7 is released from the staples again and can leave the packaging machine via the outlet 17, while the transport chains 5, 6 are deflected by the sprockets by 180 ° and run back again.
  • the sprockets 8, 9 are rotatably mounted on a common drive shaft 14.
  • the drive shaft 14 is coupled to a drive device 15 in the form of an electric motor.
  • the shaft is dimensioned so that it is as torsionally stiff as possible, i. that the drive shaft when driving the transport chains 5, 6 is not twisted as possible, to prevent the further away from the drive device 14 arranged and driven over the sprocket 8 transport chain 5 with respect to the closer to the drive device 14 and driven via the sprocket 9 driven Transport chain 6 lags.
  • the drive device 14 rotates the sprockets 8, 9 in the counterclockwise direction in Fig. 2, so that the packaging material web 7 is transported in the transport direction A.
  • the transport chains have a limited strength, they are elastically stretched under load as a spring, which is especially for longer systems from about 10m transport length occurs.
  • a torsionally rigid shaft 12 provided at the inlet 16 engaging elements 10, 11 in the form of other sprockets via a torsionally rigid shaft 12 rotatably connected to each other, so that the two engaging elements 10 and 11 inevitably run synchronously.
  • the torsionally rigid connection between the engagement elements 10, 11 causes the chain links of a transport chain are forced to run in synchronism with the chain links of the second transport chain.
  • FIG. 3 an alternative embodiment is shown.
  • the structure of the packaging machine shown there is basically the same as that of the packaging machine shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, so that dispenses with a description of the matching components, or refer to the preceding description.
  • the alternative embodiment differs from the construction of Fig. 1 in that sprockets mounted on axles (not shown) are provided at the inlet as in conventional packaging machines.
  • a further torsionally rigid shaft 12 is provided between the inlet and the outlet, on which the two engagement elements 10, 11 are rotatably mounted in the form of sprockets.
  • the shaft 12 is coupled to a further drive device 13 in the form of an electric motor.
  • the two drive devices 13 and 15 are synchronized via a controller, not shown, so that they rotate angular synchronously with the same speed.
  • the packaging machine can be designed to be longer, the driven shaft 12 is disposed at a distance of about 10m from the first driven shaft 14, since, as already mentioned, the tolerance of the transport routes of the two Transport chains would be inadmissibly large due to their elastic elongation by an increased load from about 10m.
  • FIG. 4 a further alternative embodiment is shown.
  • the structure of the packaging machine shown there is basically the same as that of the packaging machine shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, so that dispenses with a description of the matching components, or refer to the preceding description.
  • the alternative embodiment differs from the construction of Fig. 1 in that at the inlet 16 as in the conventional packaging machines freely mounted on axles (not shown) sprockets 30, 31 are provided.
  • the torsion-resistant shaft 12 is provided at the level of the inlet below the sprockets 30, 31, on which the two engaging elements 10, 11 are rotatably mounted.
  • the transport chains 5, 6 are deflected to the arranged below the packaging material web 7 return side via pulleys 22, 23 by approximately 90 ° from the horizontal down to the vertical in Fig. 4, run over the engagement elements 10, 11, while doing so again be deflected by 180 ° upwards, so that they approach the packaging material web 7 again, and are finally deflected by the sprockets 30, 31 again by approximately 90 ° in the horizontal.
  • the torsion-resistant shaft 14 is arranged offset at the outlet 17 downwards, wherein the transport chains 5, 6 are correspondingly deflected via sprockets 28, 29 and reversing rollers 26, 27.
  • the drive device 15 is not coupled directly to the shaft 14. Rather, another gear 32 is rotatably attached to the shaft 14, with a toothed belt 24 is engaged. The toothed belt 24 is also engaged with a drive pinion 25 which is coupled to the drive device 15 via a drive shaft, not shown.
  • the drive device is arranged so that it is located directly below the shaft 14. Thereby, the drive device can be accommodated to save space within the frame 1 and is not in the width direction laterally outward.
  • a further advantageous embodiment of the invention provides to use a toothed belt instead of the transport chain.

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