EP1530517B1 - Vorrichtung und verfahren zum etikettieren von gegenständen - Google Patents

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EP1530517B1
EP1530517B1 EP03792158A EP03792158A EP1530517B1 EP 1530517 B1 EP1530517 B1 EP 1530517B1 EP 03792158 A EP03792158 A EP 03792158A EP 03792158 A EP03792158 A EP 03792158A EP 1530517 B1 EP1530517 B1 EP 1530517B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J29/00—Details of, or accessories for, typewriters or selective printing mechanisms not otherwise provided for
    • B41J29/38—Drives, motors, controls or automatic cut-off devices for the entire printing mechanism
    • B41J29/393—Devices for controlling or analysing the entire machine ; Controlling or analysing mechanical parameters involving printing of test patterns
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J3/00—Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed
    • B41J3/407—Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed for marking on special material
    • B41J3/4075—Tape printers; Label printers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
    • B65C1/00—Labelling flat essentially-rigid surfaces
    • B65C1/02—Affixing labels to one flat surface of articles, e.g. of packages, of flat bands

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  • the present invention relates to a device for labeling objects, with a printer for printing labels, an applicator for applying a printed label to the respective object to be labeled and at least one working device in the form of a balance, a packaging device and / or a transport device for the to be labeled objects, wherein the at least one working device of the applicator is connected upstream. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method for labeling objects, comprising the steps of: printing a label by means of a printer, applying the printed label on the object to be labeled and at least one further step, which is upstream of the application of the printed label.
  • the printer used may in particular be a direct thermal or thermal transfer printer.
  • the printhead of a generic device is subject to greater or lesser wear.
  • the wear is due to the easy abrasive effect of the labels during the printing time ago.
  • the present invention has for its object to modify a device and a method of the type mentioned in that at the highest possible throughput increases the life particular a thermal bar over the prior art and beyond the best print quality for the respective throughput is achieved.
  • this object is achieved in that a measuring and control device is used, which determines the printing time for each object to be labeled, for the printing of the label to be applied thereon, taking into account the required working time of the applicator upstream working device (EN) is available, and controls the printer in dependence on the determined printing time such that the label is finished within the available printing time with adapted therein, the lowest possible printing speed.
  • a measuring and control device which determines the printing time for each object to be labeled, for the printing of the label to be applied thereon, taking into account the required working time of the applicator upstream working device (EN) is available, and controls the printer in dependence on the determined printing time such that the label is finished within the available printing time with adapted therein, the lowest possible printing speed.
  • the solution according to the invention accordingly consists in that, for each object to be labeled, the printing time available for printing the label to be applied thereon, taking into account the working time which precedes the application of the printed label for the at least one working step , is required, and that the printing of the label is controlled in dependence on the calculated printing time such that the label within the for Available printing time with it adapted, as low as possible printing speed is finished.
  • the invention thus proposes, for each individual label to be printed, with a printing time adapted to the "timing" of the device to work.
  • the time available for printing is used in full, so that the printing speed when printing a label as low as possible selected and thus a thermal print head can be largely spared.
  • the printing time is determined by the temporal behavior of the upstream and downstream devices. The maximum permissible printing time is thus dependent on the combination of the working time or working speed of upstream scale, packaging device, transport device, downstream application direction and / or other upstream or downstream working devices.
  • a preferred embodiment of the invention is that the at least one of the applicator upstream working device is provided with at least one sensor that detects the arrival of an object to be labeled in the working device and outputs a corresponding signal to the measuring and control device, whereupon this the printing time , which is available for printing the label to be applied to the article under Taking into account the time required by the Applizier worn for applying a label determined.
  • a further preferred embodiment of the invention is that the measuring and control device is provided with a processor that calculates the printing time for printing on the object on the basis of the operating speed of the at least one working device and the time required for applying a label time to be applied label is available.
  • An advantageous embodiment of the invention further consists in that along a transport path for the objects to be labeled in the transport direction spaced sensors are arranged, each detecting the arrival of the object to be labeled and deliver a corresponding signal to the measuring and control device.
  • Figures 1 to 3 of the drawing show a device for labeling of food packages 1.
  • the device comprises a plurality of work equipment, namely a balance 2, a first transport device 3 in the form of a conveyor belt, a packaging device 4, a second transport device 5, also in the form of a conveyor belt , a printer 6 for printing labels and an applicator 7 for applying a printed label to a packaged food package 1.
  • Food portions 8 are each placed in a packaging tray 9 and placed together with the shell 9 on the balance 2.
  • the tare weight of the packaging trays 9, the name of the food, the price per unit weight, and other goods-specific data may be input to a memory of an input and display unit 11 via a keyboard 10.
  • the input and display unit 11 is equipped with a processor which calculates the retail price of the respective food portion from the weight of the food portion determined by means of the balance 2 and the price per weight unit.
  • the shell 9 is transferred with the food portion 8 to the first conveyor belt 3.
  • a pushing device (not shown) may be arranged on the balance 2, for example.
  • the tray 9 with the food portion 8 reaches the packaging device 4, which has a lifting device 12, a film winding mechanism (not shown) and a heating device (not shown), for example an infrared emitter.
  • the packaging device 4 the shell 9 is wrapped with the food portion 8 with a transparent shrink film and the film shrunk by means of the heater. The film is unwound from a supply roll 14.
  • the shell 9 is lifted during the packaging process by means of the lifting device 12 and transferred after completion of the packaging process on the second conveyor belt 5, by the food package 1 to the label printer 6 and the label applicator 7 comprehensive unit 15 is transported.
  • the label printer 6 has a thermal strip within the thermal print head 16 to which labels 18 adhering to a carrier tape strip 17 are fed from a label supply roll 19 (see Fig. 3).
  • the carrier tape strip 17 is wound on a spool 21 driven by an electric motor 20.
  • the self-adhesive labels 18 are mounted at the same distance from each other on the carrier tape strip 17.
  • the carrier strip 17 made of a translucent material is associated with an optical sensor device which has a light-emitting transmitter diode 22 and a receiver diode 23 and thus can detect label-free sections 24 of the carrier tape strip 17.
  • the signals emanating from the receiver diode 23 are used to control the motor 20 associated with the take-up reel 21.
  • the thermal bar within the thermal print head 16 of the label printer 6 has juxtaposed printing elements, which are, for example, flat resistors (heating platelets), which are independently controlled individually and quickly heat and cool. The relatively long cooling time of the resistors limits the possible printing speed.
  • the labels 18 are made of heat-sensitive special paper.
  • the label printer 6 may be provided with a heat-sensitive thermal transfer ribbon (not shown). In this case, you can also print on plain paper labels.
  • Seen in the transport direction of the carrier tape strip 17 is located behind the print head 16, a relatively sharp deflection 25 at which the printed, adhering to the carrier tape strip 17 labels 18 are detached from the carrier tape strip and transferred to the applicator 7.
  • the applicator has in the illustrated embodiment on its underside a perforated suction surface 26, sucked through the air by means of a (not shown) suction fan and thus a printed label 18 is held on the suction surface 26.
  • the applicator is equipped with an air jet nozzle 27, with which for a certain time an air jet can be generated, the pressure of which is greater than the amount of the pressure prevailing on the suction surface 26 negative pressure.
  • a label held on the suction surface 26 can thus be released from the suction surface 26 by the temporary generation of the air jet and applied to a food package 1 located underneath.
  • Indicated at 28 is a label sensor which detects the presence of a label 18 on the suction surface 26.
  • the time required by the applicator 7 for applying a label 18 is approximately the same length for each label.
  • a measuring and control device shown schematically is designated 29.
  • the measuring and control device 29 which includes a processor and a memory, a plurality of sensors 30 - 35 are connected, by means of which the working speed and thus the working time of the balance 2, the transport device 3, the packaging device 4 and the transport device 5 can be detected .
  • the Working time of the balance 2 corresponds to the time that elapses from the time of placing a packaging tray 9 with a food portion 8 arranged thereon until stabilization of the weighing signal including the transmission of the stabilized weighing signal to the processor of the input and display unit 11.
  • the working time of the transport device 3 corresponds to the time that passes from the time of the transfer of the packaging tray 9 with the food portion 8 on the transport device 3 to the transfer of the packaging tray 9 with the food portion 8 in the packaging device 4.
  • the working time of the transport device can be determined in particular on the basis of the belt speed or the rotational speed of the capstan or the guide roller in conjunction with the known length of the conveying path.
  • the working time of the packaging device 4 corresponds to the time that passes from the transfer of the packaging tray 9 with the food portion 8 in the packaging device 4 to the transfer of the packaged food portion on the transport device 5.
  • the start and the end of this period of time can be detected, for example, by means of light barriers 32, 33 which are arranged at the transfer points from the transport device 3 to the packaging device 4 or from the packaging device 4 to the transport device 5.
  • the working time of the transport device 5 corresponds to the time that elapses from the time of transfer of the packaged food portion 8 to the second transport device 5 until the time at which the packaged food portion reaches the applicator 7.
  • the transport devices 3, 5 at the respective transfer points be provided with sensors, such as light barriers, each detecting the arrival or the transfer of the respective shell 9 or food package 1 and deliver a corresponding signal to the measuring and control device 29.
  • the measuring and control device 29 has a measuring device (not shown) with which it is detected whether the applicator device 7 is in its basic position and thus ready for the application of a label 18.
  • This measuring device can, for example, use the label sensor 28.
  • the measuring and control device 29 calculates for each package 1 and thus for each label 18 to be applied those for the printing of the label at the highest possible throughput of the device (system) maximum available printing time.
  • the working chain which is defined by the balance 2, the transport device 3, the packaging device 4 and the transport device 5, preferably at least two members simultaneously operable, so that at least two steps, such as weighing and packaging can be performed in parallel. But it is also possible in particular that all working steps of the chain are performed parallel to each other.
  • the maximum time available for printing a label depends on the working time required by the slowest link in the chain.
  • the measuring and control device 29 controls the label printer 6 as a function of the calculated, maximum available printing time so that the respective label 18 is finished within the available printing time with adapted as low as possible printing speed .
  • the measuring and control device 29 generates for each food pack or label to be labeled a time control profile for controlling the printing speed of the printer 6, with which the label 18 to be applied to the pack 1 within the respective available printing time with the lowest possible printing speed can be printed without reducing the maximum possible throughput of the device.
  • FIG. 4 shows logical dependencies in the course of the method.
  • a new print job is when a new pack weighs and the weight and price data is generated.
  • the downstream of the label printer systems are ready. This is the case, for example, when the previous label has been applied to the associated package and the applicator is again in its basic position allowing the receipt of a new printed label.
  • a Preset for the time at which the printing of the new label must be completed This timing may be defined, for example, by the application time, which may be calculated from the transport speed, the required position of the label on the package, and other factors.
  • this time specification is present, then the maximum permissible printing time is calculated and for this printing time a temporal speed or control profile with all speed-dependent parameters is generated, which causes the relevant label to be finished in the required time with the lowest possible printing speed. Once the respective speed or control profile has been generated, printing is started and the relevant label is printed out to the required time. Finally, check that the print has been completed and finished. If this is the case, then the next print job can be carried out in a corresponding manner.
  • the invention is not limited in its execution to the embodiment described above. Rather, a plurality of variants is conceivable within the scope of the definition of the appended claims.
  • the invention is not limited to the labeling of food packages.
  • the invention can also be used when labeling other product packages.

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