EP1671884A1 - Dispositif pour appliquer des cartons porteurs à des bouteilles dans des caisses - Google Patents

Dispositif pour appliquer des cartons porteurs à des bouteilles dans des caisses Download PDF

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EP1671884A1
EP1671884A1 EP05024638A EP05024638A EP1671884A1 EP 1671884 A1 EP1671884 A1 EP 1671884A1 EP 05024638 A EP05024638 A EP 05024638A EP 05024638 A EP05024638 A EP 05024638A EP 1671884 A1 EP1671884 A1 EP 1671884A1
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Stefan Dipl.-Ing. Killing
Andreas Dipl.-Ing. Kriese
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GPI Frankfurt and Augsburg GmbH
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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
    • B65B17/00—Other machines, apparatus, or methods for packaging articles or materials
    • B65B17/02—Joining articles, e.g. cans, directly to each other for convenience of storage, transport, or handling
    • B65B17/025—Joining articles, e.g. cans, directly to each other for convenience of storage, transport, or handling the articles being joined by a top carrier element

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  • the invention relates to a device for loading bottles in boxes with cardboard bridges.
  • the carton bridges may have finger engagement openings.
  • the cardboard bridges have e.g. the shape of a channel with a rectangular cross-section.
  • the upper and lower walls of the channel each have aligned openings with the upper portion of each bottle held in a pair of these openings.
  • the upper opening has e.g. a plurality of radially projecting tongues which engage under bottle corks.
  • the lower opening has a larger diameter, in adaptation to the widening bottleneck. It is preferably executed without tongues.
  • Cardboard bridges for holding a plurality of parallel rows of bottles may have webs connecting the upper and lower walls for stabilization between the rows of bottles.
  • each e.g. used three cardboard bridges, each holding eight bottles. They are e.g. two cardboard bridges in the longitudinal direction of the box next to each other and another cardboard bridge in the transverse direction arranged on groups of eight bottles.
  • a device known to the Applicant for loading bottles in boxes with cardboard bridges filled with bottles boxes are transported by a conveyor belt in a row.
  • On the conveyor belt are two packaging machines arranged one behind the other.
  • Each packaging machine is assigned a positioning device which has angles for application to the corners of a box and a complex, pneumatically operated lever mechanism for displacing the angle between a waiting position and a positioning position in which the angles abut the corners of a box.
  • the packaging machines are assigned above the conveyor belt extended magazines.
  • the magazines serve to receive and feed flat lying, pre-glued cardboard bridges in stacks.
  • the cardboard bridges slip down guides of the magazines solely because of their weight. This can lead to disturbances.
  • the manual filling of the magazines above the conveyor belt is expensive.
  • the packaging machines have AufsetzkÜ with suction devices for sucking and simultaneously erecting the cardboard bridges. This very dynamic process can lead to misalignment of the cardboard bridges on the placement head.
  • the attachment head is pivoted across the transverse side of the box and moved vertically to the box to push the cardboard boxes onto the top of the bottles. Misaligned cardboard bridges are not placed correctly.
  • the first packaging machines in the feed-through direction load the bottles of every second box with cardboard bridges and the second machine populates the leftover bottles with cardboard boxes.
  • the conveyor belt is stopped.
  • This device for filling bottles in boxes with cardboard bridges has a throughput of 30 boxes per minute. An increase in throughput is desirable. If boxes or bottles or cardboard bridges have to be equipped with other dimensions, the positioning devices, packaging machines and magazines must be readjusted. For this complex programming must be performed.
  • the present invention seeks to provide a forementionedsunan perenniale and powerful device for equipping bottles in boxes with cardboard bridges available.
  • the boxes are prevented during transport from the endless conveyor with carriers against slipping against the transport direction, which can be caused in particular by high acceleration of the conveyor.
  • the transport device is namely stopped for placing the cardboard bridges on the bottles in a box and then greatly accelerated.
  • This disturbances are avoided by the endless conveyor with drivers, so that the device can achieve very high throughput.
  • a positioning device is provided, which aligns the boxes by means of a frame exactly on the transmission device.
  • the frame is only between an upper waiting position and a lower Move positioning position.
  • the guidance provided on the frame precisely aligns the box, which is anyway positioned relatively accurately by the endless conveyor with drivers.
  • the positioning device can in particular compensate for positioning errors due to displacement of the boxes with respect to the drivers.
  • the positioning device operates quickly, accurately and safely and has a relatively simple construction.
  • the transfer head of the transfer device takes flat cardboard bridges from a magazine, straightens them and places them on the bottles through the frame.
  • the frame can remain at the top of the box and keep them in the defined position.
  • Several carton bridges can be attached at the same time by means of the attachment head on the upper areas of bottles.
  • the device is controlled by a control device. This controls the coordinated movements of the transport device, the positioning device and the transmission device. In particular, it controls the movements of the endless conveyor, the frame, the Aufsetzkopfes and the erector and the operation of the holding device.
  • the transport device has a machine-frame-fixed guide over which the carriers of the endless conveyor project upwards.
  • the boxes are not supported by the endless conveyor, but by the machine frame fixed guide. This contributes to the accurate positioning of the boxes.
  • the positioning device at least one of a position outside the transport path of the boxes in a position within the transport path of the boxes swivel stopper on.
  • the stopper prevents by pivoting in the transport path of the crates, a movement of a box to be positioned in the transport direction when the endless conveyor is stopped.
  • the box to be positioned is held between the dogs and the stopper.
  • the stopper is also controlled by the controller.
  • the stopper is pivoted from a position below the machine frame fixed guide in a position above the machine frame fixed guide to stop a box.
  • the guide guide sections in at least two opposing frame parts of the frame, wherein the distance between the opposing guide sections is reduced upwards.
  • the guide portions are provided on two pairs of opposing frame parts.
  • the guide sections with respect to the vertical oblique inclined surfaces which slip when lowering the frame on the upper edges of the boxes and position them.
  • the guide sections are e.g. Guide cams on the inside of the frame.
  • the device has various frames and / or AufsetzkÜ with different dimensions, which are releasably connectable to the positioning and / or the transmission device.
  • a format change can thus be carried out essentially by simply replacing the frame or attachment head.
  • the position of the stopper is changed in the transport direction or the magazine is set to a different format of the cardboard bridges.
  • at least one displacement device adjustable reference points for setting the displacement paths are for example adjustable stops which are detected by switches or sensors which are connected to the control device.
  • control means controls the transport means so that the endless conveyor transports the boxes until a box is located below the frame and then stops the endless conveyor, then controls the positioning means so that the frame touches the upper edge portion of a box and these positioned, controls the transfer device so that the attachment head is moved to the transfer position, with the holding device takes cardboard bridges, erects them by means of the erector, the Aufsetzkopf is moved after placing the frame on the upper edge of the box in the set position, the cardboard bridges presses the bottles in the box, the holding device releases the cardboard bridges and the placement head leaves the placement, controls the positioning so that the frame is moved to the waiting position and then controls the Transporteinric so that the endless conveyor transports the boxes and repeats the above procedure.
  • the holding device for holding cardboard bridges and the erecting device for erecting cardboard bridges are able to take over and erect the cardboard bridges with a time delay.
  • the control device controls the transfer device so that first the holding device receives the cardboard bridges and only then the erecting the cardboard bridges erects. For the erection, the short period of time for the displacement of the placement head between the transfer position and the Aufsetzwolf used.
  • the temporal separation of taking over and straightening the cardboard bridges to avoid interference and a more precise transmission from the magazine to the bottles achieved. This improves the reliability and speed of packing cartons with bottles.
  • the erecting device has pivoting elements on mutually opposite edge regions of the working head, which can be pivoted together in an approximately parallel orientation from a pivoted-out position for holding flat cardboard bridges on the holding device between the pivoting elements in order to erect cardboard bridges held therebetween.
  • the pivoting elements are e.g. controlled by pneumatic or hydraulic pressure cylinder.
  • the construction is particularly simple and effective.
  • the pivoting elements can be inserted with the cardboard bridges into the upper region of a box or can be passed through a frame placed on the box for positioning. This is especially true for the execution of the pivot elements as pivotally mounted fingers according to another embodiment.
  • the object is achieved by a device having the features of claim 11.
  • the device may advantageously also have the features of at least one of claims 1 to 10.
  • a high throughput is already achieved by the multiple transmission devices that simultaneously equip bottles in different boxes with cardboard bridges.
  • the throughput is further increased by the fact that boxes that have not been correctly equipped and must be sorted out by means of a Auswerferkettenbandes, which is located above the boxes and extends transversely to the transport direction.
  • This ejector chain has ejector plates that engage only in the lower run in the path of the boxes. They are returned to the upper run above the path of the boxes and do not interfere with the further transport of the boxes.
  • the ejector is able to eject boxes laterally while passing without stopping the transport means.
  • the transport of the boxes will consequently interrupted only for the loading of the bottles with the cardboard bridges by the transmission devices. The remaining times are used to transport the boxes and benefit the throughput.
  • the device has three transmission devices arranged one behind the other.
  • the transmission means are spaced apart by at least the length of a box plus the distance between two successive boxes on the transport means.
  • the control device controls the transport device and the transfer devices such that in a first loading step the first transfer device in the transport direction equips the bottles of the first crate of a triad of three crates, in a second loading step the second transfer device in the transport direction the bottles of the second crate equipped in the same triad and in a third loading step, the third transfer device in the transport direction, the bottles of the third box of the same group of three populated.
  • the bottles of the crates of a group of three crates are thus completely filled in three loading steps.
  • the bottles of two further boxes are populated, the previous or subsequent groups of three belong. Overall, the bottles of nine boxes of different groups of three are thus provided with cardboard bridges in three loading steps.
  • a one-stroke machine for latching boxes into the transport device.
  • the one-stroke gives the boxes with the designated distances on the transport device.
  • control device controls the one-stroke.
  • the transport device has at least one driver chain.
  • individual links of the drive chain are interchangeable.
  • a driving chain e.g. Gefachb
  • knobbed bands or rod chains are used.
  • the holding device suction cups for sucking cardboard bridges.
  • the cardboard bridges By suction by means of the suction heads, the cardboard bridges can be taken and kept. For this they are connected to a vacuum source. To release the cardboard bridges, the suction heads are separated or vented from the vacuum source.
  • the displacement device for displacing the placement head has a vertical linear guide and a horizontal pivot axis for the placement head.
  • the magazines are directed transversely to the transport device. This facilitates the manual filling of the magazines.
  • the boxes are aligned with their longitudinal side in the transport direction. When aligning the magazines transversely to the transport direction, the boxes are loaded transversely to the direction of travel. This shortens the distance for the displacement of the attachment head and increases the throughput.
  • the apparatus comprises a one-stroke 1, a transport device 2, three positioning devices 3, three magazines 4, three transmission devices 5, an ejector 6.
  • the devices 1 to 6 are arranged on a frame 7.
  • the Eintakter 1 is preceded by a roller conveyor, not shown, are provided on the manually pre-filled with bottles boxes 8.
  • the boxes 8 are transported in a row by a one-stroke 1 belonging, not shown conveyor belt with electric drive motor.
  • the one-stroke 1 comprises two above the conveyor belt arranged chains 9 with stops 10th
  • the stops 10 are at the rear upper edge of the transport direction T foremost box 8 on the conveyor belt and hold them firmly until the chains are set in motion and the stops 10 release the front box 8.
  • the transport device 2 comprises two driver chains 11, the driver 12 projecting upwards over a guide 13 connected to the frame 7 for boxes 8 (see Fig. 7).
  • the driver chains 11 are also driven by electric motors.
  • the positioning devices 3 each have a frame 14, which is guided vertically displaceable on two vertical linear guides 15.
  • pneumatic or hydraulic pressure cylinder 16 are present (see Fig. 6, 7).
  • the frame 14 has a guide 17 which has guide portions with inclined surfaces formed as guide cams on opposite frame parts. The distance between opposing inclined surfaces of the guide 17 is reduced upwards.
  • the frame 14 is held by means of a cantilever 18 on a bearing part 19 which is displaceable along the linear guides 15.
  • a stopper 20 which is pivotable by means of a hydraulic or pneumatic pressure medium cylinder 21 from a rest position below the guide (dashed line) in the transport path of the boxes 8 on the transport device 2 (drawn drawn).
  • vertical guide rails 22 are fixedly connected to the frame 7 and guide the boxes 8 transversely to the transport direction (FIG. 7). For this purpose, the distance between the guide rails 22 in the transport direction T to the first transmission device 5 to about the width of a box 8 reduce.
  • the distance between the guide rails 22 is adjustable by means of adjusting 23.
  • the magazines 4 lead between parallel, in the direction of the transmission means 5 downwardly inclined guide rails three stacks of flat cardboard bridges 24. They are equipped with movable receiving shafts, which support the transport of the cardboard bridges 24 to the transmission means 5 back (Fig. 7).
  • the transmission devices 5 each comprise an attachment head 25 with a plurality of parallel suction heads 26, which can be connected via lines or hoses with a vacuum source.
  • the attachment head 25 is mounted on laterally upstanding holder 27 with laterally projecting axle stubs 28 in bearings 29.
  • the bearings 29 are located in bearing plates 30.
  • the pivoting movement of the attachment head 25 can be controlled by means of further hydraulic or pneumatic pressure medium cylinders 31.
  • the bearing plates 30 project laterally from further bearing parts 32, which are guided on the linear guides 15.
  • the vertical movement of the bearing parts 32 can be controlled by means of further hydraulic or pneumatic pressure medium cylinders 35 (FIGS. 6 to 8).
  • the pivotal movement of the fingers 34 is controlled by Druckstoffzylindern35 which attack via a shaft 36 to two fingers 34 (Fig. 6 to 8).
  • the ejector 6 comprises an ejector chain 37 and Auswerfer ceremonies 38, which are arranged above a conveyor belt 39 transversely to the transport direction T. To the conveyor belt 39 close if necessary. In the transport direction T further conveyor belts or roller guides. The conveyor belt 39 and the Auswerferkettenb selected 37 are also driven by an electric motor.
  • a roller belt 40 Perpendicular to the transport direction T is in the ejection direction A next to the conveyor belt 39.
  • the ejector 6 is upstream of a control station 41 with (laser) sensors for detecting incorrectly equipped boxes 8 in the transport direction T.
  • An electrical control device 42 controls the electric drives and electrically switchable valves, the pneumatic or hydraulic pressure cylinder of the above-described devices.
  • the controller 42 is connected to the control station 41.
  • the device is operated as follows:
  • the driver chains 11 of the transport device 2 are set in motion, so that the upper strand runs in the transport direction T.
  • the one-stroke 1 clocks three boxes 8 with a defined distance on the driver chains 11 a.
  • the boxes 8 are carried along by the drivers 12 of the drive chains 11.
  • the driving chains 11 are stopped and the one-stroke 1 is stopped as well.
  • the stopper 20 is pivoted into the path of the box 8. Thereafter, the frame 14 is moved down to position the box 8 exactly.
  • the fingers 34 are pivoted together from the pivoted-apart position (dashed lines in Fig. 6, 7) (shown in Fig. 6, 7), whereby the cardboard bridges 24 are erected.
  • the landing head 25 is pivoted about 110 ° clockwise so that it is directed downward.
  • the attachment head 25 is displaced down until the erected cardboard bridges 24 sit on the bottles 43.
  • suction cups 26 are separated from the vacuum source.
  • frame 14 and attachment head 25 are shifted back to the starting position of FIG. 6 and the carrier chains 11 are moved further until the second case 8 of the same group of three reaches the second transmission device 5.
  • the one-stroke clocks 1 three more boxes 8 a.
  • the transport device 2 is switched off and the central transmission device 5 equips the bottles 43 of the second box 8 of the first group of three and the first transmission device 5 populates the first box of the second group of three.
  • frame 14 and working head 25 are moved back to the position of Fig. 6 and the transport device 2 is restarted until the third box 8 of the first group of three is positioned below the third transfer device 5 and another three boxes 8 are clocked. Then, the transporting means 2 is stopped, and the third box 8 of the first group of three, the second box 8 of the second group of three, and the first box 8 of the third group of three are simultaneously loaded by the transferring means 5. This process is then repeated as often as desired.

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