EP2048085B1 - Dispositif et procédé d'emballage d'objets plats transportés dans un courant de refoulement - Google Patents

Dispositif et procédé d'emballage d'objets plats transportés dans un courant de refoulement Download PDF

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EP2048085B1
EP2048085B1 EP08405240A EP08405240A EP2048085B1 EP 2048085 B1 EP2048085 B1 EP 2048085B1 EP 08405240 A EP08405240 A EP 08405240A EP 08405240 A EP08405240 A EP 08405240A EP 2048085 B1 EP2048085 B1 EP 2048085B1
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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
    • B65B9/00—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material, e.g. liquids or semiliquids, in flat, folded, or tubular webs of flexible sheet material; Subdividing filled flexible tubes to form packages
    • B65B9/02—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material between opposed webs
    • 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
    • B65B25/14—Packaging paper or like sheets, envelopes, or newspapers, in flat, folded, or rolled form
    • 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
    • B65B57/10—Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices responsive to absence, presence, abnormal feed, or misplacement of articles or materials to be packaged
    • B65B57/14—Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices responsive to absence, presence, abnormal feed, or misplacement of articles or materials to be packaged and operating to control, or stop, the feed of articles or material to be packaged

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  • the longitudinal or transverse seams are usually produced by welding, wherein the separation of the packaged objects can be carried out simultaneously with the creation of the transverse seams.
  • a heat-activatable adhesive may be applied to the packaging material immediately prior to feeding the packaging material web to the series of objects to be packaged at the locations of the longitudinal or transverse seams, such that the seams will then be similar Means can be created as the welded seams on plastic packaging. It is also possible to close the seams by embossing or by other known methods adapted to the packaging material used.
  • printed products are conveyed in conveying streams in a processing station and conveyed away therefrom.
  • the processing station is advantageously equipped such that the promotion of the packaged objects for processing does not have to be interrupted, but can be operated continuously.
  • Under flow is the totality of all objects that are transported by the conveyor or the Weghold Nurs, or designated by them during transport swept space area. It is pushed down by the conveyor pad, e.g. limits the conveyor belt of the feed device, or the conveying plane defined thereby. Deflection from the delivery flow is understood to mean that the empty envelopes are moved in such a way that their underside at least partially no longer lies in the conveying plane. The covers are pushed in particular upwards.
  • the discharge device comprises only stationary arranged components and dispenses with moving parts.
  • these components include suction and / or blowing devices that operate continuously and / or controlled.
  • suction and / or blowing devices that operate continuously and / or controlled.
  • a control device For controlling the pressure and / or suction air supply, a control device is preferably present, which cooperates with a detection device, in particular an optical sensor.
  • the detection means detects the presence of an empty envelope in the flow, e.g. by measuring the optical transmission or edge detection, and transmits a corresponding signal to the control unit.
  • the compressed air supply 30 comprises a compressed air nozzle 31, a compressed air source 32, e.g. a pump or a compressed air reservoir.
  • the connection between compressed air nozzle 31 and compressed air source 32 can be selectively released or closed by means of a controllable valve 34.
  • the opening 31 'of the compressed-air nozzle 31 is arranged in the vicinity of the conveying plane E, so that precise action can be taken on the delivery flow.
  • the compressed air nozzle 31 is arranged in the region between two sub-conveyors, from which the removal device 26 is constructed. The distance between the sub-conveyors is exaggerated here.
  • the compressed air nozzle 31 may serve any element which limits the air flow laterally, e.g. also a hole in a support surface of the way conveyor 26. Instead of air, of course, another gas can be used.
  • a control device 36 For controlling the compressed air supply or the valve 34 is a control device 36. This receives from a detection device 38, for example, an optical sensor, a signal indicating the presence of a void 22 in the flow. This signal causes the control device 38 to release the supply of compressed air at the time at which the empty shell is conveyed into the region of the compressed-air nozzle 31. The empty shell 22 is then deflected by the air pulse up from the flow.
  • a detection device 38 for example, an optical sensor
  • the suction device 40 is located above the compressed air nozzle 31. It operates continuously. Their suction force and their distance to the conveying plane E is chosen so that sucked out of the conveying plane E empty cases 22 are sucked, but not wrapped products 20. By the compressed air pulse can therefore with the same suction the distance between the suction pipe opening of the conveying plane E with respect to the case without Compressed air pulse to be increased. The distance is preferably chosen so large that a conveyance through and away of products with a predetermined maximum thickness is possible.
  • the empty shells 22 are removed via the suction pipe 42, collected and disposed of.
  • the unaffected enveloped products 20 are further promoted and optionally further processed.
  • the device shown and described is mechanically and control technology simple, is flexible in terms of product thickness and works reliably.
  • FIG. 2 An example of a suction device 40 is shown in FIG Fig. 2 in longitudinal section (perpendicular to the conveying plane E) and in Fig. 3 shown in cross section (parallel to the conveying plane E).
  • This in Fig. 1 already shown suction pipe 42 opens into a hermetically sealable housing 44 and a catching basket 46 arranged therein.
  • the cross section of the suction pipe 42 may be round, rectangular or otherwise shaped; his area can also be smaller than the typical empty sheaths 22, as these are usually deformable.
  • the housing 44 has in its bottom surface a connection 54 for a vacuum / suction air source 48, which in a conventional manner, for example, a fan 50 and an exhaust outlet 52 has.
  • the catcher 46 is at least partially permeable to air and consists for example wholly or partly of a perforated plate.
  • the catcher 46 is dimensionally stable here, but can also be completely or partially flexible (net, bag).
  • the collecting basket 46 consists of three U-shaped sheet metal parts 60, 62, 64.
  • the sheet metal parts 60, 64 form the side walls of the collecting basket 46 and are spaced from the corresponding side walls of the housing 44.
  • the bottom surface 62 of the collecting basket 46 is spaced from the bottom of the housing 44 and thereby also from the connection 54 for the suction air source 48. In this way, it is ensured that suction air can pass through the side walls 60, 64 of the catcher 46 into the suction pipe 42, even if empty shells 22 cover the air-permeable bottom surface 62 and thus make it impermeable to air.
  • the lower region 46a of the collecting basket 46 is permeable to air (consists for example of perforated plate), while the upper region 46b, in particular the region around the discharge point 43 of the suction pipe 42 into the collecting basket 46 is impermeable. This prevents that empty shells 22 accumulate in the area around the orifice 43 and thus block the intake air via the suction pipe 42.

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  • Auxiliary Devices For And Details Of Packaging Control (AREA)
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  1. Dispositif d'emballage d'objets plats (10) transportés dans un écoulement de transport, en particulier de produits d'imprimerie, par un matériau d'emballage, le dispositif comprenant :
    - un dispositif de transport (24) qui transporte les objets plats (10) dans une direction de transport (F),
    - un moyen de traitement (16) qui forme des enveloppes (20) au moins partiellement fermées en matériau d'emballage,
    - un dispositif d'éloignement (26) qui éloigne les objets (10) entourés d'enveloppes (20) en matériau d'emballage,
    le dispositif présentant un dispositif d'extraction (28) disposé en aval du moyen de traitement (16) et en mesure d'extraire de l'écoulement de transport les enveloppes vides (22) qui ont été formées sans entourer un objet (10),
    caractérisé en ce que
    le dispositif d'extraction (28) comporte au moins une amenée (30) d'air comprimé et un dispositif d'aspiration (40), l'amenée (30) d'air comprimé étant en mesure d'extraire de l'écoulement de transport une enveloppe vide (22) par injection d'air comprimé, de telle sorte que l'enveloppe vide puisse être saisie et aspirée hors de l'écoulement de transport par le dispositif d'aspiration (40).
  2. Dispositif selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que le dispositif d'extraction (28) est en mesure d'agir sur l'écoulement de transport dans la zone occupée par le dispositif d'éloignement (26) ou entre le moyen de traitement (16) et le dispositif d'éloignement (26).
  3. Dispositif selon la revendication 1, caractérisé par une unité de commande (36) par lequel l'amenée (30) d'air comprimé peut être commandée de telle sorte que de l'air comprimé puisse être soufflé lorsqu'une enveloppe vide (22) pénètre dans la zone d'action du dispositif d'extraction (28).
  4. Dispositif selon la revendication 3, caractérisé par un dispositif de détection (38), en particulier un détecteur optique, qui détecte la présence d'une enveloppe vide (22) ou d'un trou dans l'écoulement de transport et qui est en mesure de transmettre à l'unité de commande (36) un signal correspondant.
  5. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications 1, 3 et 4, caractérisé en ce que le dispositif d'aspiration (40) travaille en continu.
  6. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que le dispositif d'aspiration (40) présente un caisson (44) apte à être refermé de manière essentiellement étanche à l'air, un panier de reprise (46) disposé dans le caisson (44) et au moins en partie perméable à l'air, une source de dépression (48) raccordée au caisson (44) ou placée à l'intérieur du caisson et un tube d'aspiration (42) qui débouche dans le panier de reprise (46).
  7. Dispositif selon la revendication 6, caractérisé en ce que le tube d'aspiration (42), la source de dépression (48) et le panier de reprise (46) sont disposés les uns par rapport aux autres de telle sorte que les enveloppes vides (22) qui ont été aspirées soient amenées dans le panier de reprise (46).
  8. Dispositif selon les revendications 6 ou 7, caractérisé en ce que le panier de reprise (46) est imperméable à l'air dans une première partie (46b) et perméable à l'air dans une deuxième partie (46a), le tube d'aspiration (42) débouchant dans la première partie (46b) et un raccord (54) de la source de dépression (48) au caisson (44) étant disposé à proximité de la deuxième partie (46a).
  9. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications 6 à 8, caractérisé en ce que le panier de reprise (46) est situé à distance du caisson (44) au moins dans la zone occupée par le raccord (54) de la source de dépression (48).
  10. Procédé d'emballage d'objets plats (10) transportés dans un écoulement de transport, le procédé présentant les étapes suivantes :
    - transport des objets plats (10) dans une direction de transport (F),
    - placement des objets plats (10) sur une piste (12, 14) de matériau d'emballage de telle sorte qu'ils soient recouverts sur leurs deux faces par du matériau d'emballage,
    - formation d'enveloppes (20) au moins partiellement fermées en matériau d'emballage,
    - éloignement des objets (10) entourés par les enveloppes (20) en matériau d'emballage,
    les enveloppes vides (22) formées sans inclure un objet (10) étant extraites de l'écoulement de transport, caractérisé en ce que
    les enveloppes vides (22) sont extraites de l'écoulement de transport au moyen d'air comprimé, sont ensuite saisies par un dispositif d'aspiration (40) et sont aspirées hors de l'écoulement de transport.
  11. Procédé selon la revendication 10, caractérisé en ce que de l'air comprimé est soufflé de manière contrôlée lors de l'entrée d'une enveloppe vide (22).
  12. Procédé selon la revendication 11, caractérisé en ce qu'un dispositif de détection (38) détecte la présence d'une enveloppe vide (22) ou d'un trou dans l'écoulement de transport, forme un signal approprié et le transmet à un dispositif de commande (36) qui commande l'apport d'air comprimé.
  13. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 10 à 12, caractérisé en ce que les enveloppes vides (22) sont aspirées à l'aide d'un dispositif d'aspiration (40) qui travaille en continu.
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