EP1512630A1 - Dispositif de cerclage, en particulier d'objets compressibles comme des couches de carton ondulé - Google Patents

Dispositif de cerclage, en particulier d'objets compressibles comme des couches de carton ondulé Download PDF

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EP1512630A1
EP1512630A1 EP04017952A EP04017952A EP1512630A1 EP 1512630 A1 EP1512630 A1 EP 1512630A1 EP 04017952 A EP04017952 A EP 04017952A EP 04017952 A EP04017952 A EP 04017952A EP 1512630 A1 EP1512630 A1 EP 1512630A1
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Karl Schüttler
Timothy Brian Pearson
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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
    • B65B13/00—Bundling articles
    • B65B13/02—Applying and securing binding material around articles or groups of articles, e.g. using strings, wires, strips, bands or tapes
    • B65B13/04—Applying and securing binding material around articles or groups of articles, e.g. using strings, wires, strips, bands or tapes with means for guiding the binding material around the articles prior to severing from supply
    • B65B13/06—Stationary ducts or channels
    • 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
    • B65B13/00—Bundling articles
    • B65B13/18—Details of, or auxiliary devices used in, bundling machines or bundling tools
    • B65B13/184—Strap accumulators
    • 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
    • B65B13/00—Bundling articles
    • B65B13/18—Details of, or auxiliary devices used in, bundling machines or bundling tools
    • B65B13/20—Means for compressing or compacting bundles prior to bundling

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  • the present invention relates to a device for strapping in particular compressible packaged goods such as corrugated cardboard layers or the like. according to the preamble of claim 1, as for example has become known from EP 0 681 958 B1.
  • This device straps the packaged goods by means of a band-shaped Strapping, in particular a thermoplastic plastic tape.
  • the strapping is located on a strapping stock, the ground near the side of the device is.
  • the strapping material removed from the strap stock is first arranged by a next to the Umreifungsffenvorrat Strapping feed device and then into a adjacent Umreifungsffeneinspeisung led. From there From the strapping passes through a vertical strapping guide and a strap reversal and strapping transfer to the closure unit.
  • the closure unit which acts like the strap transfer and the strap deflection in synchronism with the press plate is movable in the vertical direction of the device are in the known device associated with strapping conveyor rollers. These have the task of first, the strapping in a the To pack packaged goods surrounding circumferential strapping channel, until the leading end of the strapping the closure unit has reached again. Then the task of the strap, whose leading end now in the closure unit is held in order to tighten the packaged goods.
  • the drive of the strapping conveyor rollers is reversible, so that after reversal of their driving direction the strapping pulled out of the Umreifungskanal and around the Packaged goods can be streamlined, then what the Closing unit the tape closure in a known manner by thermal welding each other in the closure unit overlapping tape ends manufactures.
  • EP 0 681 958 B1 as 'Strap entry device' means 25 essentially serves at the first startup of the device or after a change of the Umreifungsffenvorrats the Locking device to supply strapping, and therefore More fittingly referred to as a 'strapping feeder' is.
  • the strapping conveyor rollers 23, however, provide the actual Strapping device whose object is to in Umreifungstakt the device strap loops too produce. Since the strapping conveyor rollers also by retreat excess strapping the strapping around the Tighten packaged goods, the strapping conveyor rollers 23 are the EP 0 681 958 B1 de facto essential constituents of a strapping material and -retraction device '.
  • the present invention now has a need for improvement recognized, as it is desirable in the case of a Malfunction, in the access in particular to the closure unit adjacent strapping conveyor rollers as well to the strapping store is required to improve so far when it should no longer be necessary to climb the press plate or lower it to the ground.
  • An essential object of the invention is therefore, a To design a device of the type presumed to be known, that their maintenance in case of strapping conditional Malfunction is significantly reduced.
  • the invention solves this problem with the features of Claim 1 and is accordingly characterized that the strap feeding device at the same time the strapping conveyor rollers and the strapping store, the Umreifungsffenvorrat adjacent ground near the side outside the strapping zone is arranged.
  • the essential core of the invention therefore consists in one modular structure insofar as the closure unit itself no Tape drive - so neither strapping conveyor rollers still Strap withdrawal rollers - more directly assigned and otherwise also no strapping storage, but these Machine aggregates now together with the Umreifungsffenvorrat and the Umreifungsffeneinspeisung ground near and sideways arranged outside the strapping zone and thus at any time from Floor easily accessible by operating and maintenance personnel are.
  • the strap feeding device the strapping both the Sealing unit supplies as well as through this along the Umthesesffen guide frame advances and it to the packaged goods tightens.
  • the strap feed device preferably comprises a reversible pair of rollers, alternatively as a strap entry roller pair or as a strap retraction roller pair is drivable.
  • an inventive Device performs the strapping transfer on the shortest Way and immediately the strapping of the Umreifungsffen-deflection device to the closure unit.
  • An embodiment of the invention further provides that the strapping storage - in the direction of the strapping considered - between the Umreifungsstoffvorrat and the Strapping feed is arranged and that the filling the Umreifungsstoff storage with Umreifungsstofftechnischzug means the strap supply device takes place.
  • the present invention which does not exhaust itself, the Strapping storage away from the press beam and the strapping conveyor rollers away from the capping unit next to the device to relocate leads to a new way of operating and saving of aggregate parts. Namely, it combines the previous strap feed device with the strapping margin and -Rückzugsvorraum to an aggregate, which performs the tasks of two previously known devices takes over what else two reversible driven pairs of rollers are sufficient.
  • the device differs accordingly of the invention of EP 0 681 958 B1 in that all the effects on the strap - so both its feed or shot as well as retreat - just from the ground Aggregate completed or controlled. That the Strapping feed device with the strapping material and -Rückzugvorraum is uniting aggregate now also alone for filling the strapping storage and the removal of strapping material from it. all of this ultimately also leads to a simplification of the control, as not more on two separate units and in addition to exact timing must be acted upon.
  • the Umreifungsmittel deflection device comprises a strapping pulley, which is rotatably mounted on the pressure plate and by means of a on the Strapping guide longitudinally movable carriage from in Closing direction formed spring-loaded flaps Ducting means opens serially. Thanks to the strapping driven pulley and the controlled flaps is Wear-related sliding friction largely avoided. from that Again, there is a reduction in the forces to which the strapping is exposed during his advance or retreat, so that it can move smoother.
  • First comprises a circulating uplifted Umreifungsffenvorrat 12 with a wound on a drum 13 Strap 14, in particular thermally weldable Plastic tape.
  • a cross member 16 in the direction of Double arrow 17 arranged vertically movable.
  • the cross member 16 forms a pressing plate for compressing the packaged goods 11 from or is their component and stored on its top an aggregate 18 to Formation of a strapping closure, which is why the Unit 18 will be referred to as a closure unit in the future.
  • the side of the post 15 is a vertical extending strapping guide 28 provided by the from Umreifungsstoffvorrat 12 coming strapping 14 the Closing unit 18 is supplied.
  • Umreifungsmittelvorrat 12 In addition to the Umreifungsmittelvorrat 12 is a Umreifungsmittel immediately 19 provided. He serves to stock a certain Amount 14 'of strapping 14. This amount of strapping 14' is sufficient for at least one strapping of a packaged goods 11 or for the beginning of a strapping, in which case the additional required Amount of strapping directly to the Umreifungsstoffvorrat 12 is removed. In the latter case, the drum 13 through a drive, not shown, for eliminating their steady-state torque pre-accelerated.
  • the emerging from the strapping memory 19 or then pulled out of it strapping 14 then enters a generally designated at 31 device which i.a. the strapping 14 feeds into the strap guide 28.
  • the press plate 16 Before each unreifungsvorgang the press plate 16 is under Pressure from above on the packaged goods 11 lowered. That's what they do Closing unit 18, the Umreifungsffenschreibtechnisch 30 and the Umreifungsstoff-Umlenkung 29, all movement uniform are connected to the pressing plate 16, whose vertical movements With.
  • the distance of the strap deflection 29 e.g. from the ground changes with the movement of the press plate 16 and is above all also depends on the respective height of the packaged goods 11. Therefore is it is necessary that the strap deflection 29 at each in Question about the height position of the strapping guide 28 can remove the strap 14.
  • the channel-like Strapping guide 28 is an assembly of normally under the action of unillustrated springs of channel enclosing flaps 40 on, each in pairs on both sides of the strapping guide 28 are arranged.
  • FIGS. 3 and 4 The flap system and its control are shown in FIGS. 3 and 4 more clear.
  • the arrangement is such that with the Umreifungsstoff deflection 29 a carriage 41 in the vertical direction movement unitary connected is.
  • the carriage 41 carries rollers 42, the each on one side (left side in Fig. 3) on the local edges the flaps 40 accumulate and the flaps 40 to the roller 37 down open side, so that the strap 14 (in Fig. 4 and 5 not shown) from the channel of the strap guide 28 emerge and the role of 37 on the Umreifungsstoff-deflection 29 and then in the Umreifungsstofftechniktechnisch 30 can run.
  • FIGS. 3 and 4 are the two of the four pairs of flaps shown uppermost, the roller 37 adjacent, shown open while the two channel-forming or channel-closing underneath are closed.
  • the one shown there Device is designed as a 'tandem machine', which in Juxtaposed two Umreifungsstoffvorräte 12, 12 ', two Umreifurigsstoff arrived 19, 19 'and two strapping drive units 31, 31 'and also contains two closure units 18 and 18 'and otherwise all the device elements described like strapping transfers 30, 30 ', Strapping guides and strapping channels.
  • Tandem system can thus be parallel spaced at the same time two strappings are performed on a packaged goods. Even a triple arrangement is conceivable and already proven.
  • Fig. 2 also shows a tandem system, with a Packaged goods 11 are strapped in different parallel distances can.
  • the closure unit 18 is provided in the transverse direction (Double arrow 42) to be able to proceed.
  • the strapping transfer 30 is on the one hand with the closing unit 18th and on the other hand, with the strap deflection 29 (FIG. 1). pivotally connected so that the strapping path of the Transverse displacement of the closing unit 18 automatically follow can.
  • the second position level of the closure unit 18th (dashed lines in Fig. 2) is therefore another on the machine frame Strapping frame 39 'provided.
  • Both the posts 15, 15 'and the cross member 16 are Strapping guides in the form of straight channels or Channel sections and corner diversion associated with known design. It is also known that the portal-like Umreifungsstoffsmittel operationskanalgesente thereby becoming a self-contained strapping frame form, that on the bottom side the packaged goods 11 or the Pallet on which it rests, under-lance or a bayonet 24, which contains a straight strapping guide channel, is provided. With regard to such arrangement and design is referred to the aforementioned EP 0 681 958 B1.

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