EP1584561B1 - Mit mehreren Verpackungslinien versehene Verpackungsmaschine - Google Patents

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EP1584561B1
EP1584561B1 EP05252031A EP05252031A EP1584561B1 EP 1584561 B1 EP1584561 B1 EP 1584561B1 EP 05252031 A EP05252031 A EP 05252031A EP 05252031 A EP05252031 A EP 05252031A EP 1584561 B1 EP1584561 B1 EP 1584561B1
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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
    • B65B35/00—Supplying, feeding, arranging or orientating articles to be packaged
    • B65B35/30—Arranging and feeding articles in groups
    • B65B35/40—Arranging and feeding articles in groups by reciprocating or oscillatory pushers
    • 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
    • B65B35/00—Supplying, feeding, arranging or orientating articles to be packaged
    • B65B35/10—Feeding, e.g. conveying, single articles
    • 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
    • B65B5/00—Packaging individual articles in containers or receptacles, e.g. bags, sacks, boxes, cartons, cans, jars
    • 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
    • B65B5/00—Packaging individual articles in containers or receptacles, e.g. bags, sacks, boxes, cartons, cans, jars
    • B65B5/10—Filling containers or receptacles progressively or in stages by introducing successive articles, or layers of articles
    • B65B5/106—Filling containers or receptacles progressively or in stages by introducing successive articles, or layers of articles by pushers
    • 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
    • B65B21/00—Packaging or unpacking of bottles
    • B65B21/24—Enclosing bottles in wrappers
    • B65B21/242—Enclosing bottles in wrappers in collapsed carton sleeves

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  • This invention relates to machines which automatically package products. It is particularly relevant to end-load cartoners and sleevers.
  • End-load cartoners are machines which load products sideways into boxes and then close and/or seal the boxes.
  • Sleevers are machines which automatically put the cardboard sleeve around the product, e.g. a plastic tray containing a ready meal.
  • Known end-load cartoners e.g. the RSB6 series machine manufactured by Jacob White (Packaging) Ltd
  • a product to be packaged is either manually or automatically placed on to the drive chains, e.g. the product may be put into a bucket for packing in a carton.
  • the cartons in which the product are to be packed are erected from a magazine which holds carton blanks when a sensor detects the presence of a product on the conveyor belt.
  • a blank is drawn from the magazine by vacuum pick off, and is placed in an erected state into a continuously moving flighted chain.
  • the chain and conveyor belt are arranged so that the product is aligned with the carton at the point of loading.
  • a linear sliding pusher arm acts on the product to push it sideways into an open end of the carton.
  • the machine can sense when there is no carton or no product before the loading step, and can perform rejection if necessary.
  • the carton After loading, the carton is closed and sealed automatically. Tucking and/or gluing are used to close and seal such cartons. Once closed, the cartons are discharged from the machine by powered side belts.
  • a second disadvantage occurs when a packaging company wishes to package different types of product but does not have factory space for a plurality of packaging machines. To package different products, it is necessary to perform one run of packaging for one product, then stop the machine and re-configure it for the next product, etc. Packaging time (and therefore overall output rate) is reduced by the machine 'down-time', i.e. time when the machine is not operating.
  • This problem has a further important aspect with regard to manufacturers who wish to market items which are collections of a number of different individually packaged boxes.
  • a typical example is cereal selection packs, where a plurality of boxes of different individually wrapped cereals are sold as a unit.
  • EP 253229 discloses an apparatus for palletizing magnetic objects such as canisters.
  • the present invention provides a packaging machine capable of simultaneously packaging two or more product lines.
  • the machine can receive a plurality of different types of product as input and can simultaneously pack those products to produce an output of different types of packaged products.
  • the input lines may be synchronised such that the same number of each different type of product is produced; this facilitates continuous production of a 'selection box' containing different packaged products.
  • the machine may resemble a known packaging machine, except that it simultaneously runs a plurality of product conveyors (e.g. conveyor belts or bucketed conveyors (for holding the product), slatted chains, or other types of product translation means known in the art) and has the ability simultaneously to erect and then load a plurality of cartons (or other packet).
  • product conveyors e.g. conveyor belts or bucketed conveyors (for holding the product), slatted chains, or other types of product translation means known in the art
  • each packaging lane of the present invention may resemble the packaging mechanism of known devices.
  • the inventors have found it is preferable to share common components, as explained hereinafter.
  • the machine may have the packaging lanes arranged in any configuration. However, due regard needs to be given to overall size and accessibility.
  • the present invention allows one to have the packaging ability of a plurality of machines whilst not requiring the same amount of space as plurality of single-laned machines would take up.
  • the amount of factory floor space taken up by a machine is known as the 'footprint'.
  • the inventors have found that by sharing common components in the plurality of packaging lanes, the footprint of one multiple-laned machine according to the invention is much less than that of a corresponding number of single-laned machines.
  • the use of multiple packaging lanes enables a reduction in the linear speed of products being transported through the machine whilst maintaining or even increasing the overall rate of throughput of products compared with prior art, single lane arrangements.
  • the handling of products is also simplified.
  • Accessibility to the inside of machines is important for maintenance and repair purposes. It is also important to have access to the mechanism in order to fix a jam or mis-loading operation. Such fixing is generally carried out by hand. This means it is desirable to have all elements in the machine within arm's reach of the outside frame.
  • the machine may have a plurality of horizontally adjacent packaging lanes.
  • the number of horizontally adjacent lanes may be limited so that they can all be accessed by arm's reach from a side of the machine. Alternatively or additionally, a small gap may be provided between lanes to allow access.
  • the machine has packaging lanes split over two or more vertical levels. Such an arrangement is desirable because it does not affect the overall width of the machine. Therefore, more packaging lanes can be included without increasing the footprint of the machine and without affecting the ease of access to the lanes from the outside frame.
  • the machine may have four packaging lanes arranged over two levels in a 2 ⁇ 2 matrix formation.
  • the lanes may be parallel to one another.
  • the height of the machine may be another important factor. This is true if one considers the multiple vertical level arrangement; the higher lanes are preferably accessible to an operator standing on the floor, i.e. a ladder is not required.
  • the components of the mechanism which add the most height may be the packaging input means, i.e. the carton erectors.
  • the location of the packaging input means on different vertical levels is staggered, i.e. the packaging input means on one level is preferably horizontally displaced from that on an adjacent, vertically spaced, level.
  • a single motor is used to drive the conveying means on more than one of the packaging lanes. This is an example of sharing common components.
  • One motor may be used to drive all of the conveying means in the machine. Alternatively some, or even all of the conveying means may be driven by separate motors.
  • the conveying means comprises the flighted chain and conveyor belt or bucketed conveyor of the known packaging device.
  • the flights may be provided on side walls of the chain.
  • One of the side walls may be laterally movable so that the chain can be adjusted to hold different sizes of packet.
  • the side walls may be independently movable so that the machine can simultaneously package different sizes of product.
  • the chain preferably has a overhead rail to prevent the packet from jumping vertically off the chain.
  • the overhead rail is preferably movable in the vertical direction.
  • the upper chain may also be desirable for the upper chain to be vertically movable to avoid interference between the return flights on the upper chain and the overhead rail of the lower chain when the overhead rail of the lower chain is lifted.
  • a guard screen may be present around the loading area to prevent unwanted intrusion into the device during loading.
  • the guard screen may be opened to allow access, e.g. to fix a jam.
  • the machine may be provided in a single frame. In other words, the machine would be a unitary device between the feeding in of the product and the discharge of the packaged items.
  • the machine may exhibit mirror symmetry about a central vertical plane of the machine. This configuration facilitates keeping the footprint of the machine as small as possible.
  • the loading means of each packaging lane sideways loads products into packets in an opposite direction to the other lane.
  • the left-hand packaging lane effects loading sideways to the right
  • the right-hand packaging lane effects loading to the left.
  • a single packaging input unit (or carton erector) is used for two or more horizontally adjacent lanes.
  • the drive means of the carton erector i.e. the mechanism which moves the carton blank from the magazine to the flighted chain may be the same for all of the lanes on one horizontal level.
  • the input unit may comprise a plurality of adjacent hold/release mechanisms for holding the carton blanks all movable by a common drive means.
  • the hold/release mechanism may be independently or selectively operable.
  • the hold/release mechanisms may be vacuum suction cups.
  • the selective control may be achieved by having separate control valves.
  • the machine operates so that the conveying means moves the products at a linear speed of less than 0.63 ms -1 (1500 inches per minute). More preferably the linear speed is less than 0.5 ms -1 (about 1250 inches per minute).
  • These operating speeds do not require the tolerances of the mechanical parts to be very low, yet because there are a plurality of lanes, the overall output of the machine is high. For example, a four-lane machine with each lane having a product separation of 5 inches operating at 1250 inches per minute produces 1000 packaged items per minute. A single lane device would need a linear speed of 5000 inches per minute to achieve this.
  • the multiple-laned machine operates at a lower speed means the life expectancy of individual parts is higher because less strain is exerted on the mechanism. Moreover, machines that operate at lower speeds are easier to control and cheaper to maintain.
  • Fig. 1 shows a four-lane cartoning machine 10 which is an embodiment of the invention.
  • the machine is operated by programmable logic circuits and other basic components which are the same as those used for known single-lane devices.
  • the following description is confined to the differences between the inventive machine and known machines. A person skilled in the art would understand how to implement the invention from the following information.
  • the machine 10 extends between a feed end 1 and a delivery end 2.
  • a feed end 1 At the feed end 1, four bucket infeed conveyors arranged in a 2 ⁇ 2 matrix configuration feed the product into the machine 10.
  • the plan view of Fig. 1 shows the upper two conveyors 16, 18.
  • the lower two conveyors (including conveyor 17, see Fig. 2 ) lie directly below the two upper conveyors 16, 18.
  • the upper conveyors 16, 18 respectively carry linear sliding product buckets 20, 22.
  • the buckets 20 on the left hand upper conveyor 16 are slidable to the right, whereas the buckets 22 on the right hand upper conveyor 18 are slidable to the left.
  • the lower two conveyors are configured accordingly.
  • the machine 10 contains an upper rotary carton feeder 12 and lower rotary carton feeder 14.
  • the rotary carton feeders provide cartons for packaging the products on the conveyors.
  • the upper rotary carton feeder 12 provides cartons 26, 27 for the buckets 20, 22 carried on the upper two conveyors 16, 18.
  • the lower rotary carton feeder 14 provides cartons 24, 25 for the buckets carried on the lower two conveyors (not shown in Fig. 1 ).
  • sensors detect whether or not a product has been loaded into the bucket. If a product is sensed, the rotary carton feeder draws a carton blank from the relevant magazine 40 (see Figs. 2 to 4 ) and places it in an erect form into the main flights of a conveying chain 80,84.
  • the upper rotary carton feeder 12 is provided further along the machine than (i.e. laterally displaced from) the lower rotary carton feeder 14. Thus, cartons are fed from the lower rotary carton feeder 14 first.
  • each of the carton feeders provides cartons for two lanes. This is discussed in more detail below.
  • Each of the upper conveyors 16, 18 (and each of the lower conveyors) has a chain associated with it.
  • Fig. 1 shows that the associated chains are located on the inside of their respective conveyors.
  • the flighted chain is aligned with the conveyor such that, at the loading stage, the bucket is slid sideways up to an open side of the carton.
  • Loading takes place in the loading section 8 of the machine 10.
  • a second set of sensors (not shown) check for the presence of products and cartons. If either are missing, the linear sliding pusher arms 28 will not be triggered to push the product bucket into its corresponding carton.
  • the linear pushing arms are arranged on both sides of the machine 10. As in known devices, there are a plurality of pushing arms. In the present invention, a set of pushing arms is provided for each pair of conveyor and flighted chain. Thus, there are two sets of pushing arms 28 on each side of the device in a tiered arrangement.
  • Fig. 1 shows a gluing technique. Glue is supplied from tanks 30 to nozzles 32, which apply the glue to the flaps to seal the product in the carton.
  • Fig. 1 shows individual glue tanks 30 for each conveyor, but it is also possible to have a common glue tank which provides glue to all the nozzles 32. Closure by tucking is also possible.
  • the cartons can be ejected out of the delivery end 2 of the machine 10 via paired sets of acceleration belts 34 on to standard modular conveyors belts 36, 38, which can transport the cartons away to their final destination.
  • Fig. 2 shows a side view of the machine 10 resting on the ground 4.
  • the 'double decker' arrangement of packaging lanes is clearly visible.
  • the lateral staggering of the upper rotary carton feeder 12 and the lower rotary carton feeder 14 can also be seen.
  • the magazines 40 for holding carton blanks prior to use are visible.
  • Fig. 3 shows a perspective view of the upper rotary carton feeder 12.
  • the feeder 12 forms the open cartons and deposits them on to the flighted conveying chain for holding the carton and transporting it to the loading area 8.
  • Fig. 3 shows how a single rotary carton feeder 12 can load carton blanks 26, 27 on to two horizontally adjacent flighted chain conveyors 80,84 for subsequent loading of two respective lanes of products on conveyors 16,18 (see Fig. 1 ).
  • the rotary carton feeder 12 has a magazine 40 which holds two sets of carton blanks 42, 44.
  • a rotating drive unit 50 is located at the bottom end of the magazine 40.
  • the drive unit 50 has two opposed rotating axles 43, 45 which are arranged to rotate about their own axis at the same time as moving about the axis of the drive unit 50.
  • FIG. 3 shows the vacuum suction cups 46, 47 placing the folded carton blanks on the flighted chain conveyors 80,84.
  • the axles are operated by a single drive unit, which is provided on one hub of the carton feeder 12. This enables the conveyors to be located closer together, because there is no need to position a drive unit between them.
  • the sets of vacuum suction cups 46, 47, 48, 49 on each axle are still independently controllable however.
  • Each set of suction cups has its own control valve (not shown), hence is independently operable.
  • a signal is given to the rotary carton feeder 12 either manually or automatically which turns on the suction to the feeder.
  • the suckers on the rotary carton feeder pull off a single carton 26,27 from the pile of flat cartons in the rotary carton feeder 12.
  • the angle at which the carton hits the flight will cause it to erect open.
  • the carton flaps are held open by conventional mechanisms to help with the loading of product into the carton. Conventional mechanisms can also be employed for closing and sealing of the flaps after the product has been loaded.
  • Fig. 4 shows a perspective view of an alternative upper rotary carton feeder 12.
  • the packaging machine is actually a sleever, so a flighted chain for holding the carton prior to loading is not required. Instead, the carton blank is deposited directly on the product, on conveyors 16,18, ready to be folded over it at the loading stage.
  • the same reference numbers have been given to parts which have a common function to the machines in Figs. 1 and 3 .
  • Fig. 4 shows how a single rotary carton feeder 12 can load carton blanks 26,27 on to products 20,22 on two horizontally adjacent conveyors 16,18.
  • the conveyors 16,18 can be closer together than illustrated in Fig. 1 as there is no need for the chain conveyors 19 between them.
  • the flat cartons are loaded vertically above the flighted conveyor.
  • the system sucks or otherwise draws the carton down into the conveyor, again hitting the flights at an angle that will cause the carton to erect.
  • Fig. 5 shows the staggered arrangement of two rotary carton feeders 12, 14 (that may be as illustrated in Fig. 3 or Fig. 4 ) working at different levels. It is clear from this drawing how vertical space is saved by this staggered arrangement.
  • Fig. 6 shows a cross-sectional view of the flighted chains for carrying cartons as arranged in the machine in Fig. 1 when viewed down the length of the chain.
  • Each chain comprises the main carton flights 68, 69, 72, 73 and the return flights 70, 71, 74, 75.
  • the outer fixed walls 60, 62 hold one side of each of the chains, whereas the other sides are held by adjustable walls 64, 65, 66, 67. These walls are laterally movable to adjust the width of the chain so that different sizes of cartons can be held.
  • Each chain also has a set of overheads 76 located over it.
  • the overheads maintain the vertical position of the carton on the chain, and prevent it from coming off the flights.
  • the overheads are vertically movable by hand to allow access to the chain. This is useful in order to clear a jam.
  • each overhead rail is locked in place by clamp screws (not shown) to prevent them from moving vertically under force from the cartons.

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  1. Maschine (10) zum Verpacken eines Produkts, wobei die Maschine Folgendes umfasst:
    ein Zufuhrende (1) zur Aufnahme von zu verpackenden Produkten;
    ein Ausgabeende (2), von dem die verpackten Produkte abgeladen werden; und
    eine Vielzahl an Verpackungsstraßen, wobei jede Verpackungsstraße zum Verpacken einer Reihe von Produkten dient, so dass die Maschine gleichzeitig eine Vielzahl von Reihen von Produkten verpacken kann, wobei die Maschine zwei oder mehrere Verpackungsstraßen auf vertikal voneinander beabstandeten Ebenen aufweist; wobei
    jede Verpackungsstraße folgendes umfasst:
    ein Verpackungszufuhrmittel (12, 14), um eine Reihe von Paketen für die Reihe von Produkten bereitzustellen, wobei jedes Paket zum Verpacken eines entsprechenden Produkts aus der Reihe von Produkten geeignet ist;
    ein Beladungsmittel (28), um jedes Produkt in das entsprechende Paket zur Herstellung eines verpackten Produkts zu laden; und
    ein Fördermittel (16, 17, 18, 80, 82, 84, 86) um die Produkte und Pakete durch die Maschine zu befördern; dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass:
    das Verpackungszufuhrmittel (12) der Verpackungsstraße oder -straßen auf einer Ebene gegenüber dem Verpackungszufuhrmittel (14) auf einer benachbarten Ebene horizontal versetzt ist, damit diese relativ zueinander versetzt angeordnet sind.
  2. Maschine nach Anspruch 1, worin ein einziger Motor das Fördermittel auf mehr als einer der Verpackungsstraßen antreibt.
  3. Maschine nach Anspruch 1 oder 2, worin das Fördermittel (80, 82, 84, 86) eine Fördervorrichtung mit Führungen (68, 69, 72, 73) zum Halten der Pakete (26, 27) umfasst, die an den Seitenwänden (60, 62, 64, 65, 66, 67) der Förderanlage angeordnet sind, wobei eine der Seitenwände (64, 65, 66, 67) seitlich verschiebbar ist, damit die Förderanlage angepasst werden kann, um Pakete (26, 27) mit verschiedener Größe zu halten.
  4. Maschine nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 3, worin das Fördermittel eine Förderanlage mit einer Überkopfschiene (76) umfasst, um die Pakete (26, 27) auf dem Förderband nieder zu halten, wobei die Überkopfschiene (76) beweglich ist, um einen Zugang zur Förderanlage zu ermöglichen.
  5. Maschine nach einem der vorangegangenen Ansprüche mit zwei oder mehreren horizontal nebeneinander liegenden Verpackungsstraßen.
  6. Maschine nach Anspruch 5, worin eine einzige Verpackungszuführeinheit (12, 14) das Verpackungszuführmittel für zwei oder mehrere horizontal nebeneinander liegende Straßen darstellt.
  7. Maschine nach Anspruch 5, worin das Verpackungszuführmittel eine Verpackungszuführeinheit (12, 14) umfasst, um ein Vielzahl von Reihen von Paketen (26, 27) zur Verwendung in zwei oder mehreren horizontal nebeneinander liegenden Verpackungsstraßen bereitzustellen, wobei die Einheit Folgendes umfasst:
    eine Vielzahl von nebeneinander liegenden Halte-/Freigabemechanismen (46, 47), wobei jeder Halte-/Freigabemechanismus dazu dient, ein Paket (26, 27) wahlweise zu halten oder freizugeben;
    ein Antriebsmittel (50), um die Halte-/Freigabemechanismen (46, 47) gleichzeitig aus einer ersten Position in eine zweite Position zu bewegen, sodass der Mechanismus ein Paket (42, 44) an der ersten Position fassen kann und es an der zweiten Position loslassen kann.
  8. Einheit nach Anspruch 7, worin die Halte-/Freigabemechanismen (46, 47) unabhängig voneinander betätigbar sind.
  9. Einheit nach Anspruch 7 oder Anspruch 8, worin ein Halte-/Freigabemechanismus einen Satz Vakuumsaugschalen (46, 47) aufweist.
  10. Maschine nach einem der Ansprüche 5 bis 9 mit zwei horizontal nebeneinander liegenden Verpackungsstraßen, worin die Beladungsmittel (28) der beiden horizontal nebeneinander liegenden Verpackungsstraßen die Produkte seitlich in einander entgegengesetzten Richtungen in die entsprechenden Pakete (26, 27) laden.
  11. Maschine nach einem der vorangegangenen Ansprüche, worin das Fördermittel die Produkte mit einer linearen Geschwindigkeit von weniger als 6,3 m/s bewegt.
  12. Maschine nach einem der vorangegangenen Ansprüche, worin die Verpackungsstraßen parallel zueinander verlaufen.
  13. Maschine nach einem der vorangegangenen Ansprüche mit vier Verpackungsstraßen, die in einer 2x2-Matrixanordnung angeordnet sind.
  14. Maschine nach einem der vorangegangenen Ansprüche, worin zwei oder mehrere der Verpackungsstraßen in Gleichlauf gebracht sind.
  15. Maschine nach einem der vorangegangenen Ansprüche, die in einem einzigen Gehäuse (6) untergebracht ist.
  16. Maschine nach einem der vorangegangenen Ansprüche, die in Bezug auf eine zentrale vertikale Ebene spiegelsymmetrisch ist.
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