Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
  • B65C1/00—Labelling flat essentially-rigid surfaces
  • B65C1/02—Affixing labels to one flat surface of articles, e.g. of packages, of flat bands
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B31—MAKING ARTICLES OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER; WORKING PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
  • B31B—MAKING CONTAINERS OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
  • B31B50/00—Making rigid or semi-rigid containers, e.g. boxes or cartons
  • B31B50/74—Auxiliary operations
  • B31B50/81—Forming or attaching accessories, e.g. opening devices, closures or tear strings
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
  • B65C9/00—Details of labelling machines or apparatus
  • B65C9/08—Label feeding
  • B65C9/18—Label feeding from strips, e.g. from rolls
  • B65C9/1865—Label feeding from strips, e.g. from rolls the labels adhering on a backing strip
  • B65C9/1869—Label feeding from strips, e.g. from rolls the labels adhering on a backing strip and being transferred directly from the backing strip onto the article
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
  • B65C9/00—Details of labelling machines or apparatus
  • B65C9/40—Controls; Safety devices
  • B65C9/42—Label feed control
  • B65C9/44—Label feed control by special means responsive to marks on labels or articles

Definitions

• the present invention relates to the field of packaging, particularly corrugated cardboard, and relates to their identification and, if appropriate, their content.
• the so-called barcode technique has been used for a long time.
• a tag having the identification code of the object in the form of bars is read by a suitable optical device, and the information thus read can then be processed.
• This technique makes room now, for many applications in which, for example, one seeks to improve the tracking of goods flows or the traceability of products, to the electronic identification labels by radiofrequency that is designated by electronic tags , radio frequency tags or RFID tags (Radio Frequency Identification Device).
• the system includes labels that are affixed to the objects to be tracked and a reader.
• Electronic tags generally consist of a tag-shaped carrier on which a radio frequency identification transponder is mounted.
• the latter consists of electronic components, in the form of a particular chip, and an antenna.
• the electronic components comprise means for transmitting and receiving electromagnetic signals connected to the antenna and associated with a circuit for processing these signals with an information storage capacity.
• the reader when placed near the object, transmits a signal at a radio frequency to which the reception circuit of the tag reacts. This, in turn, emits a modulated signal with its own information, which is picked up by the reader.
• passive tags that react only in response to the reception of a signal at an appropriate frequency and active tags that incorporate a power source and can emit a signal of their own.
• Electronic tags have the advantage of being able to store a large amount of information and to be able to be read remotely. They do not need to be seen by the reader. They are also thin, of the order of a millimeter, and small area, of the order of a few centimeters square.
• the cards can be individual, attached to each other in a string or even secured to a support band to form a strip of labels.
• One side of the strip comprises a film of adhesive material, generally adhesive or heat-activatable. For the placement of the labels, they are separated one by one from the support strip and placed on the surface of the objects to be marked, where they adhere.
• US 6019865 discloses a method for making and assembling electronic tags ready to be marketed from prefabricated transponders.
• the transponder is deposited on a flat and flexible support, coated with a film of heat-sensitive adhesive material, and the assembly is transferred to a printing module with a heating head. This prints information on the surface of the support while activating the adhesive.
• the subject of the invention is a method for incorporating radio frequency identification electronic transponders, in the form of labels. or not, on sheets or packaging plates, both simple to implement and economical.
• the method for applying radio frequency identification transponders on packaging sheets is characterized by the said transponders having been previously mounted on a support constituted by a flexible material in the form of a strip, with at least one transponder between each interval D, the intervals being defined by markings on the support, said support is placed on the strip of packaging material lengthwise, so that the transponders are placed on the strip according to said interval D, the transponders are secured to the material, and the strip of packaging material is cut into sheets of paper. packaging with respect to said marks.
• the method of the invention it suffices to prepare a support incorporating transponders spaced from each other at an interval depending on the longitudinal dimension of the package to be cut.
• the support has been rolled and unrolled on the material.
• the application techniques already known for applying labels to a substrate are advantageously used.
• the substrate may be driven in a plane translation movement relative to the label application means or said application means is itself moving relative to the substrate.
• the transponder support which is for example a paper or a flexible plastics material is preferably coated on one side with a film of adhesive material, and the tags incorporating a transponder are adhered thereto.
• the labels are then applied and fixed in a simple manner onto the strip of packaging material together with said label carrier.
• the cutting can be performed between two consecutive transponders. However one can also provide two or more transponders per interval so as to obtain a sheet cut with said transponders. The sheet is then itself cut into smaller packing sheets, each having a single transponder. According to another embodiment, there are transponders having different frequency characteristics on the same interval, finally obtaining a package that can respond to different frequencies.
• the invention finds a particularly advantageous application when the packaging material is corrugated cardboard.
• the labels are then preferably deposited on the cardboard when the latter is still on an undulating machine, in particular downstream from the assembly station of the elementary sheets of paper constituting the corrugated cardboard sheet.
• this existing reading means is used by providing appropriate markings, made in ink for example, on the transponder support and controlling the cutting of the strip of packing material with respect to these markers.
• the strip of packaging material initially of wide width, being cut into at least two mutually parallel strips, of smaller width, is deposited a support with transponders on each of said parallel strips, the intervals may be equal or different depending on the request.
• the invention also relates to the transponder support as such. It consists of a flexible, continuous and strip-shaped support on which the transponders are fixed, possibly by means of labels, at least one per slot D.
• the support preferably comprises a means adhesive to fix transponders or labels on the packaging material.
• fastening means stapling, thermal sealing are also possible.
• Figures 1, 2 and 3 schematically show a support with the radiofrequency tags according to an embodiment of the invention, seen from above, from the side and from below;
• Figure 4 is a diagram of an installation implementing the method of the invention.
• Each label 10 comprises a card 11 made of paper or plastic material on which the components such as an electronic chip 12 are mounted.
• An antenna 13 is electrically connected to the chip 12.
• the components and the antenna together form a radio frequency identification transponder 14. It will be understood that the invention is not limited to mounting a particular type of radio frequency identification tag. It relates to any electronic label that can be applied to a package including a carton.
• the labels 10 are available on the market and are chosen according to the intended application, such as for example sales unit, transport case or pallet.
• the labels 10 are mounted on a support 20 in the form of a strip at fixed intervals D.
• the support is made of a flexible material, such as paper or a plastic material.
• the support is coated with a film of an adhesive substance 22, which when it is self-adhesive is optionally covered with a protective film, such as silicone paper, which is removed before use.
• the support is flexible, it can be presented in the form of a roll.
• the non-adhesive side may optionally be treated so as to be anti-adhesive.
• the film of adhesive material remains on the adhesive side and is not transferred.
• traces have been drawn in ink, for example, which can be read by an optical reading means. These marks are spaced here according to the same step D as the labels.
• the transponders 14 are mounted directly on the support 20, without the intermediary of a tag.
• a corrugating machine 100 manufacture corrugated cardboard from sheets of paper.
• a corrugated board comprises a first cover sheet, one or more corrugated sheets separated by a flat sheet, and optionally a second cover sheet.
• the downstream part of the machine 100 represented here comprises a pair of rollers 104 ensuring the assembly of the leaves coming from the upstream part.
• a sheet 110 is applied against the splines of the assembly consisting of a corrugated sheet 112 and a second cover sheet 114 pre-assembled upstream.
• the flutes were coated with glue beforehand. After assembly, the formed web 120 is guided between heating plates 102 to dry the adhesive ensuring the connection between the different sheets.
• the sheet 120 at the outlet of the plates is rigid. It is supported on bearing means, such as cylinders, suitable. Of course, this combination is only one example of all possible corrugated board constructions.
• An undulating machine also comprises, downstream, a cutting knife transverse to its direction of travel. The sheet is thus cut into 120 'sheets or semi-finished sheets that are stacked for storage, waiting to be transferred to the processing machines where they are cut to the shape and dimensions of the packages, boxes or trays. , desired.
• a reel 30 for a roll R label holder downstream of the heating plates, there is a reel 30 for a roll R label holder.
• the axis of rotation of the roll is placed across the direction of travel.
• the support strip 20 is unwound from the roller and driven around an applicator roll 32 held in abutment against the web.
• the support strip 20 is thus applied with pressure to the upper cover sheet of the corrugated cardboard.
• the support strip 20 is applied to the carton, with its face bearing the adhesive against the latter. In this way, the marks 26 drawn on the opposite side of the support are visible.
• the sheet of cardboard passes to the right of a cell 40 for detecting markers.
• the cell is connected to a controller 45 which controls a cutting member 50, itself located downstream, of the corrugated cardboard plate, in the direction transverse to the operating direction. This cutting member thus cuts the sheet 120 of corrugated cardboard into individual plates 120 '.
• the leaves are cut to a length D.
• At least two transponders are placed on the same cutting interval of the paperboard web.
• the cut sheet then comprises several transponders in the sense of length.
• the sheet is cut in the machine direction in as many sheets of reduced length as there are transponders.
• At least two transponders are also placed on the same cutting interval of the cardboard sheet, with the difference that each corresponds to a specific read frequency.
• This sheet is used to produce a final package that includes these different transponders in order to be able to respond to different reading frequencies.
• the sheet 120 of corrugated cardboard leaving the heating station moves in horizontal translation, on its support cylinders, to the cutting member 50. On its way, it receives the labels 10 with the strip 20; the labels 10 are at a distance D from each other.
• the marks 26 trigger the cutting operation by passing to the right of the detection cell 40. This ensures cutting by the knives 50 between two consecutive labels, without the risk of damage by inadvertent cutting.
• the web may be cut into webs of smaller width by a continuous cut by means of a cutting member disposed in the direction of the web. If one wishes, and as needed, there are two parallel reels which each feed a tablecloth of smaller width. These are cut into individual plates independently of one another.
• the cross-sectional gaps D1 and D2 are not necessarily the same.
• Each sheet has its mark detector, controlling independently of one another, the two cutting members.
• a processing station comprises cutting, slitting and / or creasing means, to form any type of packaging, box or tray, known; the flat packages thus produced are then stored for dispatch to their addressees.
• the solution of the invention has great advantages on the industrial level.
• the method also implements techniques that are known and proven.
• the person skilled in the art knows how to deposit a continuous strip on a substrate that moves in translation. He also knows the so-called cutting technique at the mark on corrugating machine. This technique is for example already used to cut a sheet of corrugated cardboard which has patterns printed for each plate. The cut is made between two consecutive impressions.
• the method of the invention also avoids interventions on processing machines, such as integrated "slotters” or platen presses, whose kinematics and speeds are not compatible with the installation of labels.

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