EP1785353A1 - Vorrichtung zum Handhaben und zum Verpacken von Beuteln in Behältern - Google Patents

Vorrichtung zum Handhaben und zum Verpacken von Beuteln in Behältern Download PDF

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EP1785353A1
EP1785353A1 EP06123859A EP06123859A EP1785353A1 EP 1785353 A1 EP1785353 A1 EP 1785353A1 EP 06123859 A EP06123859 A EP 06123859A EP 06123859 A EP06123859 A EP 06123859A EP 1785353 A1 EP1785353 A1 EP 1785353A1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
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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
    • B65B63/00—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on articles or materials to be packaged
    • B65B63/04—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on articles or materials to be packaged for folding or winding articles, e.g. gloves or stockings
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H29/00—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles
    • B65H29/26—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles by dropping the articles
    • B65H29/28—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles by dropping the articles from mechanical grippers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H45/00—Folding thin material
    • B65H45/02—Folding limp material without application of pressure to define or form crease lines
    • B65H45/04—Folding sheets
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2301/00—Handling processes for sheets or webs
    • B65H2301/40—Type of handling process
    • B65H2301/42—Piling, depiling, handling piles
    • B65H2301/421—Forming a pile
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
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    • B65H2301/40—Type of handling process
    • B65H2301/42—Piling, depiling, handling piles
    • B65H2301/422—Handling piles, sets or stacks of articles
    • B65H2301/4224—Gripping piles, sets or stacks of articles
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2301/00—Handling processes for sheets or webs
    • B65H2301/40—Type of handling process
    • B65H2301/42—Piling, depiling, handling piles
    • B65H2301/422—Handling piles, sets or stacks of articles
    • B65H2301/4225—Handling piles, sets or stacks of articles in or on special supports
    • B65H2301/42254—Boxes; Cassettes; Containers
    • B65H2301/422548—Boxes; Cassettes; Containers filling or loading process
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2301/00—Handling processes for sheets or webs
    • B65H2301/40—Type of handling process
    • B65H2301/42—Piling, depiling, handling piles
    • B65H2301/422—Handling piles, sets or stacks of articles
    • B65H2301/4227—Deforming piles, e.g. folding
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2701/00—Handled material; Storage means
    • B65H2701/10—Handled articles or webs
    • B65H2701/19—Specific article or web
    • B65H2701/191—Bags, sachets and pouches or the like

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  • the present invention relates to a method for handling and packaging bags into containers, in particular boxes.
  • bags are generated one after the other at a high speed and are piled immediately downstream of the cross welding unit into piles or "packs". Once the pile or sided piles of bags has been completed in the preselected number, such piles of bags are collected by handling units to be placed into boxes or similar containers.
  • the single pile or pack is folded into two equal portions during this pick up step from the piling bar associated to the welding unit.
  • the handling unit for picking up the packs moreover, due to the high welding and piling speed, grips, doubles up and releases one pack after the other from the piling bar to the packaging box.
  • the object of the present invention therefore is to find a different solution to the technical problem mentioned above.
  • Another object is to set up a method for handling and packaging bags into containers adapted for carrying out the task mentioned above which should be particularly simple to be carried out, irrespective of the type of welding machine.
  • Yet another object is to device a method for handling and packaging bags into containers which should allow saving on the spaces occupied with full usage of the same, without operators in charge.
  • actuating elements adapted for carrying out a method for handling and packaging bags into containers according to the present invention
  • the units of a usual known welding machine or bagging machine there are provided (not shown) a stacker unit for the bags formed in output from the welding unit, arranged into one or more piles, and die cutting unit of one or more piles or packs of bags, hereinafter indicated with reference numerals 14, 14', 14", etc., provided with a predetermined thickness s based on the number of component bags.
  • the piles or packs are arranged side by side and treated concurrently, very generically into an automatic welding machine (not shown as known by those skilled in the art) wherein such piles are obtained by welding into subsequent repeated steps.
  • Figure 1 shows a first arrangement of actuating elements adapted for carrying out the method for handling and packaging bags into containers according to the present invention.
  • the at least one pile 14 is picked up through a trolley 15 provided with a first array of grippers 16 (a single trolley and a single gripper are schematised in the example, for example in output from a die cutting unit, not shown).
  • pile 14 may have been pulled underneath a hollow punch (not shown) for forming the handles, after which pile 14 of bags, always gripped by the first array of grippers 16, is moved at a folding unit 17 for pile 14 for proceeding to the packaging thereof.
  • FIG 2 shows how in the folding unit 17 there is a pressing element 18 which, actuated by cylinder 13, moves down for blocking an intermediate zone of pile 14 close to an end of pile 14 to be folded on top of a folding element 19.
  • the gripper 16 of trolley 15 releases the end gripping of the pile, retracts and grips pile 14 again, folding it (figure 2), with the collaboration of a support element 20 on board of trolley 15.
  • a folded portion 21 is created in an end in pile 14, arranged on top of the remaining portion of the pile, which is equal to about one fourth of the entire length of the pile of bags and which rested on the remaining portion of the pile generates a thickness 2s .
  • Trolley 15 then pulls pile 14 folded as just described towards a container 22 or in any case an element for collecting the packs on top of each other, where pile 14 thus folded is released (figure 3).
  • the welding machine (not shown) then generates at least one subsequent pile or pack 14' that must also be treated in the arrangement of actuating elements adapted for carrying out the method for handling and packaging bags into containers according to the present invention.
  • a pressing element 18' moves down and blocks an intermediate zone of pile 14' close to the other end of the pile to be folded, opposite the portion folded before, on top of a folding element 19' (figure 4).
  • Trolley 15 releases pile 14', and retracts to move to the opposite side of the folding element 19'.
  • a second array of grippers 16' grips pile 14' again, folding it with the collaboration of a support element 20' on board of trolley 15.
  • This second array of grippers 16', opposite the first array of grippers 16, on board of trolley 15, with the gripping thereof causes the pile to be folded to the other side relative to the first gripping, thus forming a folded portion 21' of pile 14', arranged at the bottom of the remaining portion of the pile and opposite the folded portion 21 of pile 14.
  • the folded portion 21' is equal to about one fourth of the entire length of the pile of bags, but it is possible to think of an acceptable arrangement also for folded portions 21 and 21' equal to at least one fifth of the entire length of the pile of bags.
  • this second array of grippers 16' on board of trolley 15 pulls the folded pile 14' towards container 22 or in any case over the above element for collecting the packs on top of each other, where it releases it (figure 5).
  • the second pile 14' in this way arranges, with the folded portion 21' opposite the first folded portion 21 of the first pile 14, on top of the first pile 14 also provided with folded portion 21, but at an opposite end thereof.
  • the superimposition of the at least two subsequent piles into container 22 makes a total thickness that is only equal to a dimension 3s of thickness s of the single piles of bags being processed, thanks to the fact that a thickness s is determined by combining at the same level the two folded portions 21 and 21' of different piles that adds to the usual thicknesses s of the remaining portion of the two piles 14 and 14'.
  • a thickness s is determined by combining at the same level the two folded portions 21 and 21' of different piles that adds to the usual thicknesses s of the remaining portion of the two piles 14 and 14'.
  • such thicknesses generated four thicknesses s in superimposition of two piles folded in a half.
  • next pile or pack 14" comes up again like the first pile 14 and is folded and handled in the same way as the first pile 14. And so on, with piles folded at opposite ends to make an alternating superimposed arrangement into container 22, for carrying out the inventive method.
  • box or container 22 is arranged on top of a revolving table 23 that allows moving the position of box 22 relative to the handling units by 180° forward and backward.
  • a first step is therefore carried out, equal to that described above up to inserting a first pile 14 into container 22, with folded portion 21 arranged on top of the remaining portion of the pile. Then, there is a second step wherein container 22 is turned by 180° so that the next pile 14' even if gripped and folded in the same way is inserted into position with end folding 21', also with folded portion 21 arranged on top of the remaining portion of the pile, but opposite folding 21 of the previous pile 14.
  • Piles 14, 14', 14" etc. thus arrange with alternating folding 21, 21', on top of the remaining portion of the pile, occupying the minimum space into container 22 in a thickness 3s , solving the problems of space and proper piling found so far in the packaging of piles of bags.

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