EP2168874A1 - Dispositif pour transférer des produits d'un conteneur de stockage dans des récipients d'emballage - Google Patents

Dispositif pour transférer des produits d'un conteneur de stockage dans des récipients d'emballage Download PDF

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EP2168874A1
EP2168874A1 EP08016803A EP08016803A EP2168874A1 EP 2168874 A1 EP2168874 A1 EP 2168874A1 EP 08016803 A EP08016803 A EP 08016803A EP 08016803 A EP08016803 A EP 08016803A EP 2168874 A1 EP2168874 A1 EP 2168874A1
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Sven Kuhnert
Florian Weiher
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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
    • 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
    • B65B5/105—Filling containers or receptacles progressively or in stages by introducing successive articles, or layers of articles by grippers
    • 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
    • B65B35/00—Supplying, feeding, arranging or orientating articles to be packaged
    • B65B35/30—Arranging and feeding articles in groups
    • B65B35/36—Arranging and feeding articles in groups by grippers
    • B65B35/38—Arranging and feeding articles in groups by grippers by suction-operated grippers
    • 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
    • B65B5/08—Packaging groups of articles, the articles being individually gripped or guided for transfer to the containers or receptacles
    • 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
    • B65B5/103—Filling containers or receptacles progressively or in stages by introducing successive articles, or layers of articles by gravity for packaging pills or tablets

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  • the invention relates to a device for transferring products from a storage container into packaging containers.
  • Such devices are used primarily in the manufacture and packaging of products such as tablets, capsules, dragees, pills or the like in the pharmaceutical industry.
  • An apparatus for transferring products from a storage container into packaging containers for example, from EP 1 713 693 A1 known.
  • This known device has a storage vessel arranged above a filling belt, from which the products are filled into wells formed on the filling belt. Subsequently, the products are converted from the filling belt by means of a placement in packaging container.
  • the device according to the invention for transferring products from a storage container into packaging containers has a placement device for converting the products into the packaging containers and two transfer elements each having a plurality of product receptacles, wherein the transfer elements each between a first position for receiving products from the reservoir and a second position for the delivery of products to the placement device are movable.
  • the transfer elements in opposite directions to each other back and forth movable. This results in a counter-clocked delivery of products on the transfer elements for delivery to the placement and thus an increased throughput of the entire device, because the placement is able to implement the products of the delivery positions of the transfer elements without pause in the packaging container. A waiting time for the placement due to the filling of the product images of the transfer elements can thus be avoided.
  • the product receptacles of the transfer elements preferably have an arrangement which corresponds to the arrangement of product receptacles of the packaging containers. This enables a particularly simple and efficient transfer of the products by the gripper arm of the placement.
  • the number of product receptacles of the transfer elements is greater than the number of product receptacles of the packaging containers, thereby providing redundancy if products are defined as poor and discarded.
  • the product receptacles of the transfer elements are designed as wells for receiving tablets.
  • packaging containers are arranged transportable in clocked fashion on two transport devices in a clocked manner parallel to the transfer elements. This ensures that the products can be stored after picking by the placement on the waiting packaging containers.
  • the device has a sorting device for distributing the products from the storage container into the product receptacles of the transfer elements. This ensures that all product receptacles of the transfer elements are filled with products before the transfer element moves to the delivery position.
  • the device has a first sensor for measuring properties of individual products in the product receptacles of the transfer elements and an evaluation device for the assessment of the products.
  • a quality control of the products before the conversion of the products is made possible by the placement.
  • bad qualified products do not get into the packaging container, but are sorted out beforehand.
  • the products qualified by the evaluation device as being unsuitable can be transferred from the placement device into a reject container.
  • the device has a second sensor for measuring properties of the individual products in the product receptacles of the transfer elements, the measuring direction of which is oriented differently than the measuring direction of the first sensor.
  • the product receptacles of the transfer elements can be designed for a measurement from below of radiation-permeable material. This allows a particularly thorough control of all products in the product images prior to transfer by the placement device. A control of the already implemented or packaged products is therefore no longer necessary.
  • the sensor is usually an optical camera.
  • the placing means comprises a gripper with a corresponding number of suction means for simultaneously transferring a certain number of products from a transfer element into a packaging container.
  • an arrangement for transferring products from a storage container into packaging containers which comprises a first and a second apparatus according to the invention in series and two transport means for the packaging containers, wherein the transport means intersect between the first and the second apparatus.
  • the packaging container successively from the first device and the second device each side are filled.
  • Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a preferred embodiment of the inventive device 1 for transferring products from a reservoir into packaging container, also referred to as a pick-and-place system.
  • a sorting device 2 From a storage container (not shown) by means of a sorting device 2 products in product receptacles 6a, 6b, which are formed on transfer elements 5a and 5b, respectively.
  • the products are for example tablets, capsules, dragees, pills or the like, which are disordered in the reservoir after their production and should be packaged.
  • the transfer elements 5a, 5b are in the in Fig. 1 illustrated embodiment formed as a slide plates which reciprocate in parallel clockwise reciprocated over a predetermined distance, for example, driven by suitable drive means such as servomotors or the like.
  • two transport devices 3a, 3b, 4a, 4b for packaging containers are arranged laterally therefrom.
  • These can be normal conveyor belts, but also, as in the present example, rails 4a, 4b on which workpiece carriers 3a, 3b for the packaging containers are moved.
  • the packaging containers can be configured as desired, but preferably have similar product receptacles as the product receptacles 6a, 6b of the transfer elements 5a, 5b.
  • the transport direction of the packaging container is in the illustrated embodiment from right to left.
  • the movement of the packaging containers by means of the transport devices 3a, 3b, 4a, 4b preferably clocked by suitable drives.
  • a placement device 11 which is formed in the illustrated example as a delta robot.
  • delta robots are known per se, very powerful and capable of performing transfer movements at a rate of up to 150 cycles per minute, i. To pick up products in one place, lift and store after a shift by a predetermined distance at a delivery location again.
  • the product receptacles 6a, 6b in the transfer elements 5a, 5b may be designed such that wells are provided in a matrix arrangement in rows and columns, into which tablets can be filled accordingly.
  • the packaging containers are e.g. designed such that they accommodate fewer products than are provided in the product receptacles 6a, 6b.
  • the gripper of the placement device 11 comprises in each case a plurality of suction devices arranged in a row, so that in each case several tablets can be transferred in groups at the same time during the transfer from the product receptacles 6a, 6b of the transfer elements 5a, 5b to the packaging containers.
  • the number of products is arbitrarily changeable, but it makes sense to provide replacement rows in the transfer elements 5a, 5b if products are classified as bad and discarded.
  • FIGS Fig. 2 to Fig. 6 The operation of the device according to the invention for transferring products from a storage container into packaging containers will be described below with reference to FIGS Fig. 2 to Fig. 6 described in detail, the respective plan views of selected, relevant components of in Fig. 1 shown preferred embodiment in different working positions show.
  • Fig. 2 is the transfer element 5a in the first position for receiving products from the reservoir or the sorter 2.
  • the product receptacles 6a lie directly below the reservoir and are by means of the sorter 2, which has, for example, planetary brush with brushes for moving the disordered tablets, distributed in all existing product receptacles 6a.
  • the second transfer element 5b is located in the in Fig. 2 shown working position in the second position for delivery of products to the placement device 11.
  • the Product receptacles or cups 6b are completely filled with tablets.
  • the (in the Fig. 2-6 Not shown) placing device 11 sets the tablets groupwise, ie by means of a series of suction devices which are attached to the gripper, to the product receptacles formed in a packaging container. This is in Fig. 2 represented by an arrow.
  • Fig. 3 shows the device according to the invention in the on the working position Fig. 2 following work position.
  • the transfer of tablets from the product receptacles 6b of the transfer element 5b into the product receptacles of the first packaging container is completed.
  • the packaging container can thus move by means of the workpiece carrier 3b on the transport rail 4b in the transport direction, ie in the embodiment shown here to the left.
  • the transfer member 5b whose product receptacles 6b have been emptied by the placer 11, moves back from the second position for delivering products to the first position for receiving products.
  • the transfer element 5a has moved with the completely filled product receptacles or cups 6a from the first position to the second position for dispensing products to the placement device 11.
  • the second packaging container has moved with its product receptacles by means of the workpiece carrier 3a along the transport rail 4a to the transfer position.
  • the placement device 11 can switch to the other working side and begin to convert the tablets in groups from the product receptacles 6a on the transfer element 5a into the product receptacles of the second packaging container.
  • Fig. 4 shows the next working position of the device according to the invention, wherein the transfer element 5a with the product receptacles or cups 6a is still in the second position for dispensing products to the placement device 11.
  • the second transfer element 5b is already completely moved back to the first position for receiving products from the storage container, so that the product receptacles 6b again take over tablets from the sorting device 2 and can be filled.
  • the already completely filled second packaging container moves on by means of the workpiece carrier 3b on the transport rail 4b to the next process step.
  • Fig. 5 again shows the on the working position Fig. 4 following position of the Device according to the invention.
  • the transfer element 5a at the second position moves back to the first position for receiving tablets and the second packaging container moves by means of the workpiece carrier 3a on the rail 4a in the transport direction to the next process step.
  • Fig. 6 shows the working position, which is based on the working position Fig. 5 follows, where Fig. 6 identical with Fig. 2 is. It can be seen that the entire workflow starts over.
  • the periodic workflow illustrated above ensures that the placement device 11 can transfer products from the product receptacles 6a and 6b of the transfer elements 5a and 5b, respectively, into the product receptacles of the newly supplied packaging containers substantially without interruption.
  • the conversion performance of the placement device 11 is thus utilized to the maximum.
  • Fig. 7 shows a side view of an extended embodiment of the inventive device for transferring products from a reservoir into packaging container.
  • the first sensor 7 serves to check the products located in the product receptacles 6a, 6b of the transfer elements 5a, 5b from the top side for completeness and damage, and although before the products are transferred from the placer 11 to the packaging container.
  • the first sensor 7 is suitable for checking the products vertically or obliquely from above.
  • the second sensor 8 is substantially identical to the first sensor 7, only its arrangement is different below the transfer elements 5a, 5b. In this way, it is possible that the products contained in the product receptacles 6a, 6b before Transfer by the placement device 11 are checked vertically or obliquely from below for completeness and damage.
  • the two sensors 7, 8 are preferably optical cameras. Alternatively, as sensors 7, 8 also NIR sensors can be used, or a camera and an NIR sensor. The use of a single sensor 7 may be sufficient.
  • the product receptacles 6a, 6b of the transfer elements 5a, 5b are made of radiation-permeable material, e.g. Glass or plastic.
  • the two sensors 7, 8 a nearly complete two-sided control of the products in the product images is possible.
  • an evaluation unit (not shown) which sends corresponding control signals to the placement device 11
  • individual defective products or entire groups of products can be transferred from the placement device 11 into a collecting tray 9 provided for this purpose.
  • the number of product receptacles 6a, 6b of the transfer elements 5a, 5b is preferably greater than the number of product receptacles of the packaging containers.
  • a product receptacle 6a, 6b of a transfer element 5a, 5b may have more rows of wells for tablets than the corresponding packaging container has space. If the gripper of the placement device 11 converts exactly one line of tablets into one transfer operation, it is possible by providing replacement lines in the product receptacles 6a, 6b of the transfer elements 5a, 5b that rows of tablets can be faulty and into the collecting tray 9 be transferred without hindering the entire implementation process. If all the tablet lines are found to be good, but only a few lines actually implemented by the placer 11, drive the unreacted tablets lines back to the receiving position.
  • Fig. 8 schematically shows a particularly advantageous arrangement of two devices according to the invention.
  • the packaging containers are only half-filled with products by the first device according to the invention, ie, the placement device 11 moves only up to half of the packaging container in order to deposit products in the product receptacles. After filling half of the product receptacle of the packaging container they are moved along intersecting transport paths to the corresponding dispensing positions of the second device according to the invention. There takes place according to the description above, the loading of the second half of the packaging container. In this way, a full loading of all packaging containers takes place by two devices according to the invention, wherein the travel path of the placement is minimized and the overall throughput is increased.

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US3412843A (en) * 1966-02-12 1968-11-26 Azionaria Costruzioni Acma Spa Feeding apparatus for a packaging machine
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