EP1544109A1 - Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Konditionieren von Reifen in Stapel - Google Patents

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EP1544109A1
EP1544109A1 EP04027813A EP04027813A EP1544109A1 EP 1544109 A1 EP1544109 A1 EP 1544109A1 EP 04027813 A EP04027813 A EP 04027813A EP 04027813 A EP04027813 A EP 04027813A EP 1544109 A1 EP1544109 A1 EP 1544109A1
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Michelin Recherche et Technique SA Switzerland
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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
    • B65B27/00—Bundling particular articles presenting special problems using string, wire, or narrow tape or band; Baling fibrous material, e.g. peat, not otherwise provided for
    • B65B27/06—Bundling coils of wire or like annular objects

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  • the present invention relates to the technical sector of the packaging of pneumatic tires, and more precisely tire casings not mounted on a rim, for carrying out the transport or storage of said envelopes.
  • a first solution is to use pallets specially sized to to be able to receive envelopes of various sizes and diameters.
  • a pallet commonly used in warehouses is described in application US 5,259,325, wherein the envelopes are stored in stack or in roller.
  • Pallets of this type have the advantage of constituting homogeneous batches envelopes, to be arranged on top of one another on great heights, may be handled by mechanical means of the forklift type, to offer good protection of envelopes against external aggression. They are in less suitable for transport, particularly on long journeys, because the small number of tires they contain in view of their bulk, and management of returns of empty pallets.
  • One of these solutions is to condition the envelopes in piles, generally consisting of about ten envelopes arranged one on the others so as to form a vertical axis cylinder whose outer surface is substantially constituted by the treads of each of the envelopes.
  • This solution has the advantage of constituting homogeneous handling batches easily manipulated using suitable means. It thus brings a compromise interesting to optimize the logistics chain on all operations of the chain logistics such as shopping, loading and unloading operations, but also transport, especially for large envelopes difficult to manipulate manually, and proves particularly well adapted when the transport is carried out in several stages.
  • the envelopes of the stack can be made integral by a link or strap as proposed in GB 166 747 or US Patent 1 507 376, by a shrink film as described in US Pat. No. 4,858,415 or remain under the sole action of their own weight.
  • the object of the invention is to reduce these disadvantages.
  • the device allowing the implementation of this method comprises means alignment means, means for compressing the tire stack, and means of setting restraints, and is characterized in that the means of alignment are constituted by at least two alignment rollers mounted in rotation around axes parallel to each other, each of the rollers being intended to come into contact with the treads of each of said tires so as to maintain these stably, at least one of the rollers being capable of causing rotation all the tires around their respective axes of rotation.
  • the alignment rollers may be arranged horizontally or alternatively, according to a variant embodiment, vertically.
  • Figure 1 presents a general schematic view of the production process in which the packaging machine is integrated.
  • a forklift 1 brings the pneumatic packaged in vertical P - piles on a supply belt 2.
  • a loading and turning device 3 grasps the pile P and deposits it in the conditioning device 4.
  • this device for conditioning is arranged horizontally and that it is therefore necessary to rotate the axis of rotation of the envelopes so as to bring them in a horizontal position.
  • the stack to be packaged represents a number of envelopes too important for their stability to be manageable during transfer operations upstream, it is quite possible to introduce the envelopes in several operations of loading in the conditioning device 4.
  • the same device 3 serves to extract the battery P and, after rotation, to arrange it on the carpet evacuation 5.
  • FIG. 2 represents a schematic view of a conditioning device 4 according to the invention, and configured in the following manner.
  • a frame 100, 101 supports a horizontal axis XX 'on which are arranged the two compression trays 300 and 301. These trays are movable in translation along the axis XX 'under the action of the cylinders 302 and 303, and in rotation about the axis XX' by via a drive motor (not shown).
  • the compression plates support two alignment rollers 200 and 201 whose axes are parallel to each other, and form a substantially horizontal plane. They are arranged symmetrically with respect to a vertical plane passing through the axis XX '.
  • the rollers 200 and 201 are mounted in rotation, and one of these rollers is provided with a drive motor (not shown).
  • the other roll may also be provided with a motorization allowing to drive it in rotation or simply to be free in rotation around its axis.
  • rollers 200 and 201 are also movable in the horizontal plane and their ends move in lights 304 and 305 (not visible) so that it it is possible to vary their spacing "e” according to the dimension of pneumatic to condition.
  • the means of laying the means of restraint uses a technology largely commercially available, and consists of a fixed station 400 in which are arranged a heat-sealable strap dispenser, a circulating strapping head and a tensioner and a cutting and thermal welding tool (not shown).
  • Tracks 401, 402 404 and 405 are arranged on a substantially horizontal plane passing substantially by the axis XX 'and the equator of the stack and form a parallelepiped rectangle surrounding the battery P.
  • the rails 404 and 405 are arranged in the trays of compression 300 and 301.
  • a restraint of this type is marketed by the Company as an example. Delonca under the trade name Jumbo.
  • the implementation of the device includes a series of steps that will shed light on functions of each of the organs described above.
  • the tires are deposited on the alignment rollers 200, 201 by arranging the axes of rotation of the tires in a direction substantially parallel to the alignment rollers.
  • the number of tires intended to form the pile is carefully determined from in such a way that the height of the stack once constituted is substantially equal to the height of the most commonly used means of transport. This height varies commonly from 2.5m to 3.m depending on the type of standard used by the logistics and can go in some cases up to 3.5m. Care will be taken to subtract a reserve of custody necessary to perform the loading and unloading operations using mechanical means. The length of the alignment rolls 200, 201, and the spacing between the compression plates 300, 301 will be determined accordingly.
  • Rotating one of the alignment rollers will cause rotation of each of the tires around its axis of rotation.
  • This overall movement has the effect of precisely aligning each of the tires relative to one another and to ensure that the axis of rotation of each of the tires is confused with the axis CC ' of a cylinder formed by the stack thus formed and whose generatrices are tangent to the tread of each of the tires, and parallel to the axis of the rollers 200, 201, to obtain the required maximum concentricity. It's the precision this alignment, combined with compression to preserve its effects, which the pile the desired stability.
  • This device can be constituted by a film of low friction material such as Poly Tetra Fluoro film Ethylene or by a set of bearings.
  • the compression of the battery is carried out by operating axially the cylinders 302, 303 and moving the trays 300, 301. It may be advisable to compress the stack at a value slightly higher than the desired end value to take into account the elasticity of the straps.
  • the simultaneous rotation of the plates rotating around the axis XX ', substantially coincident with the axis CC' of the battery makes it possible to arrange the battery according to as many angular positions as contention means to deposit, while maintaining the stack in compression to prevent any radial movement of the tires, some by compared to others.
  • the trays 300, 301 each include as many games of rails as necessary to ensure the continuity of guiding the strapping head is, in the configuration used to support this description, two rails arranged at 90 °, 403, 404, 405, 406 (not visible). In case one wishes to have three straps, he It is advisable to make three rails arranged at 60 ° on each of the plates 300, 301.
  • straps 407 (FIG. 3B) is adapted as a function of the dimension to condition. Namely that the width and thickness will be determined according to the constraints on the strap, but also depending on the pressure it is possible to exert on the flanks tires located at both ends of the pile without inducing permanent deformations. So we will choose a 25mm strap for a tourism-type dimension and a 35 mm strap for a dimension of type heavy weights.
  • the strap may be made of a flexible material such as polyester, polyamide or else polyethylene.
  • Metal links may be used in dimension heavy weight preferably.
  • the compression plates 300, 301 are returned to their initial angular position, and away from said trays compression is released the battery P, it is possible to evacuate with a means of unloading 3 and put back in vertical position.
  • the cell thus formed has sufficient internal cohesion to be able to undergo without harmful evolutions all subsequent handling.
  • Figures 3A and 3B show a stack as obtained with traditional means (3A) and a stack obtained with the method as described above (3B).
  • Another configuration is to arrange the rolls vertically, which can constitute an advantage in terms of handling and organization of the workshop of conditioning.
  • rollers alignment it is necessary to implement at least three rollers alignment so as to stably grip the stack to be conditioned.
  • These rollers will be arranged so that the trace of the intersection of the axes of the rollers alignment with a horizontal plane forms a substantially regular polygon.
  • the contention device will be positioned accordingly.

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