EP1739017A1 - Dispositif de remplissage de billes de roulement dans des récipients - Google Patents

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EP1739017A1
EP1739017A1 EP05425469A EP05425469A EP1739017A1 EP 1739017 A1 EP1739017 A1 EP 1739017A1 EP 05425469 A EP05425469 A EP 05425469A EP 05425469 A EP05425469 A EP 05425469A EP 1739017 A1 EP1739017 A1 EP 1739017A1
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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
    • B65B1/00—Packaging fluent solid material, e.g. powders, granular or loose fibrous material, loose masses of small articles, in individual containers or receptacles, e.g. bags, sacks, boxes, cartons, cans, or jars
    • B65B1/04—Methods of, or means for, filling the material into the containers or receptacles
    • B65B1/06—Methods of, or means for, filling the material into the containers or receptacles by gravity flow
    • 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
    • B65B25/00—Packaging other articles presenting special problems
    • 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
    • B65B43/00—Forming, feeding, opening or setting-up containers or receptacles in association with packaging
    • B65B43/42—Feeding or positioning bags, boxes, or cartons in the distended, opened, or set-up state; Feeding preformed rigid containers, e.g. tins, capsules, glass tubes, glasses, to the packaging position; Locating containers or receptacles at the filling position; Supporting containers or receptacles during the filling operation
    • B65B43/50—Feeding or positioning bags, boxes, or cartons in the distended, opened, or set-up state; Feeding preformed rigid containers, e.g. tins, capsules, glass tubes, glasses, to the packaging position; Locating containers or receptacles at the filling position; Supporting containers or receptacles during the filling operation using rotary tables or turrets
    • 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
    • B65B43/00—Forming, feeding, opening or setting-up containers or receptacles in association with packaging
    • B65B43/42—Feeding or positioning bags, boxes, or cartons in the distended, opened, or set-up state; Feeding preformed rigid containers, e.g. tins, capsules, glass tubes, glasses, to the packaging position; Locating containers or receptacles at the filling position; Supporting containers or receptacles during the filling operation
    • B65B43/54—Means for supporting containers or receptacles during the filling operation
    • B65B43/60—Means for supporting containers or receptacles during the filling operation rotatable
    • 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
    • B65B5/101—Filling containers or receptacles progressively or in stages by introducing successive articles, or layers of articles by gravity
    • 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
    • B65B57/00—Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices
    • B65B57/02—Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices responsive to absence, presence, abnormal feed, or misplacement of binding or wrapping material, containers, or packages
    • B65B57/06—Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices responsive to absence, presence, abnormal feed, or misplacement of binding or wrapping material, containers, or packages and operating to control, or to stop, the feed of articles or material to be packaged
    • 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
    • B65B57/00—Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices
    • B65B57/20—Applications of counting devices for controlling the feed of 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
    • B65B59/00—Arrangements to enable machines to handle articles of different sizes, to produce packages of different sizes, to vary the contents of packages, to handle different types of packaging material, or to give access for cleaning or maintenance purposes
    • B65B59/003—Arrangements to enable adjustments related to the packaging material

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  • the present invention relates to a device for feeding rolling bodies into containers.
  • the present invention relates to a device for feeding balls of rolling bearings into plastic bottles or cardboard boxes, which are then closed to form packages containing a predetermined number of balls.
  • an actuating cylinder is known to be used to automatically push the empty containers successively to a fill outlet along a straight rolling track defined by a succession of idle rollers.
  • a machine upstream counts the balls to be dispensed, and, when the desired number is reached, the full container and the next empty container are fed in-line along the rolling track.
  • the containers are difficult to position accurately at the filling station, on account of the containers running along idle rollers.
  • Number 1 in Figures 1 and 2 indicates a device for feeding rolling bodies - in particular, steel balls 2 of rolling bearings - into containers 3.
  • Device 1 is located in-line with and downstream from a device 4 (shown partly and schematically), through which balls 2 are fed, e.g. by gravity, to an outlet 5, and are counted by a count unit 6 (shown schematically and not described in detail).
  • the number of balls 2 is determined either directly, by counting the balls one by one or in groups, or indirectly by weighing balls 2 as a function of diameter.
  • Devices 1 and 4 are preferably mounted on the same bed 7, and form part of a single machine 1a possibly also comprising a ball washing device (not shown) upstream from device 4.
  • Device 1 comprises a filling station 8 having an inlet 9.
  • a stream of balls 2 drop by gravity from outlet 5, in single file or in bulk, through inlet 9, which is preferably defined by an elbow-shaped collar 10 ( Figure 3) comprising a bottom portion 10a fitted to a perforated plate 11, and a top portion 10b surrounding at least part of outlet 5 to prevent balls 2 from falling out of inlet 9.
  • device 1 comprises a structure 12 fitted in a fixed position to bed 7 and in turn comprising a cell 13 housing station 8 and a table 14.
  • Table 14 is rotated about a vertical axis 15 by a motor reducer 16 located beneath table 14 and comprising: a vertical output pinion 17 meshing with internal teeth 18 formed directly on the circular edge of a central hole 19 in table 14; a motor 20 having an output shaft (not shown) with a horizontal axis 21; and a transmission 22 for transmitting rotation from the output shaft to pinion 17.
  • a motor reducer 16 located beneath table 14 and comprising: a vertical output pinion 17 meshing with internal teeth 18 formed directly on the circular edge of a central hole 19 in table 14; a motor 20 having an output shaft (not shown) with a horizontal axis 21; and a transmission 22 for transmitting rotation from the output shaft to pinion 17.
  • the topside face of table 14 has a succession of seats 23 equally spaced about axis 15 and associated with respective fastening devices 24 ( Figure 4), which can be operated manually to clamp respective supporting members, and are releasable to assemble different types of supporting members for containers of different shapes, sizes, or types.
  • the containers are defined by open-topped, parallelepiped-shaped cardboard boxes 3a, and the supporting members are defined by pedestals 25a, which are fixed at the base inside seats 23, and terminate at the top with respective horizontal supporting plates 27 having locating members 28 (shown schematically) to position boxes 3a coaxially with seats 23 on plates 27.
  • a horizontal guard plate 29 is provided at station 8 to prevent balls 2 issuing from inlet 9 from bouncing out of boxes 3a.
  • Plate 29 has an intermediate opening 30, through which balls 2 issuing from inlet 9 flow, and is activated by two linear actuators 31, located on opposite sides of inlet 9, to translate from a raised rest position, adjacent to plate 11, to a lowered position, in which it rests on the edge of box 3a at station 8 to at least partly close opening 26 about inlet 9.
  • actuators 31 are connected removably to structure 12 by respective brackets 32, and plate 29 is fitted with at least one upward-projecting wall 33 located along the edge of opening 30, i.e. adjacent to portion 10b, to laterally enclose the distance travelled downwards by plate 29 with respect to the rest position, i.e. with respect to plate 11.
  • Each cradle 36 comprises a lateral wall 37 hinged to an upright 38, integral with relative base 35, to rock, about a horizontal axis 39 ( Figure 4) tangential with respect to axis 15, between a lowered position, in which bottle 3b and wall 37 are vertical, and a raised position, in which bottle 3b is tilted, with the support of wall 37, to bring the bottom 40 of the bottle closer to inlet 9 at station 8.
  • bottle 3b is raised at station 8 by an actuator 42 via a rocker arm 43 hinged to structure 12 about a fixed horizontal axis 44 tangential to axis 15.
  • an arm 45 of rocker arm 43 moves towards axis 15, through passages formed in cell 13 and upright 38, to contact and push wall 37 at a point located beneath axis 39. More specifically, axis 39 extends on a level with the neck 46 of bottle 3b.
  • plate 11 rotates with respect to structure 12 about an axis 47 parallel to axis 44, together with rotation of cradle 36 about axis 39, in opposition to elastic members not shown, so that neck 46 and portion 10b are maintained contacting, or at least adjacent, at all times.
  • actuator 42 is controlled by a control unit 50 (shown schematically) to raise bottle 3b before it is filled, to reduce the dropdown height of balls 2 from inlet 9 with respect to bottom 40 and therefore impact, and to rotate bottle 3b gradually into the lowered position as it is being filled.
  • a control unit 50 shown schematically to raise bottle 3b before it is filled, to reduce the dropdown height of balls 2 from inlet 9 with respect to bottom 40 and therefore impact, and to rotate bottle 3b gradually into the lowered position as it is being filled.
  • Unit 50 forms part of device 4, or of machine 1a when devices 1 and 4 are integrated, and also controls motor 20, on the basis of the count by unit 6, to rotate table 14 in steps about axis 15 and position another container 3 at station 8 when the previous container has been filled with a predetermined number of balls 2.
  • Unit 50 also cuts off throughfeed of balls 2 through inlet 9, e.g. by stopping device 4, when table 14 is rotated.
  • device 1 also comprises two sensors 55, 56 for respectively determining the presence or absence of balls on the supporting member 25a, 25b preceding station 8, and determining the presence or absence of a container 3 at station 8.
  • Sensors 55, 56 are preferably defined by a feeler and a photocell respectively, and supply unit 50 with a disabling signal to prevent throughfeed of balls 2 through inlet 9 when there is no container 3 at station 8 or when the container 3 at station 8 is full.
  • device 1 therefore provides for automatically filling a given number of containers 3 (in particular, 8 or more) with no risk of jamming. More specifically, each container 3 is positioned accurately at station 8 with no risk of damage to containers 3 or fallout of balls 2.
  • device 1 may easily be configured to fill both bottles 3b and boxes 3a; seats 23 on table 14 constitute an extremely straightforward positioning and conveying system; and table 14 and motor reducer 16 are extremely compact.
  • throughfeed of balls 2 through inlet 9 may be disabled or cut off without stopping device 4, e.g. by providing a temporary storage device or a stop wall.
  • Device 1 may be used to fill containers with rollers as opposed to balls 2; and/or table 14 may be step-rotated by other than motor reducer 16 described by way of example; and/or supporting members 25a, 25b, and therefore containers 3, may be supported and rotated about axis 15 by an endless conveying system other than table 14.

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