EP2184160A1 - Vorrichtung insbesondere zur Förderung eines Produkts in einen Behälter - Google Patents

Vorrichtung insbesondere zur Förderung eines Produkts in einen Behälter Download PDF

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EP2184160A1
EP2184160A1 EP08166953A EP08166953A EP2184160A1 EP 2184160 A1 EP2184160 A1 EP 2184160A1 EP 08166953 A EP08166953 A EP 08166953A EP 08166953 A EP08166953 A EP 08166953A EP 2184160 A1 EP2184160 A1 EP 2184160A1
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Mansueto Favaro
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B30—PRESSES
    • B30B—PRESSES IN GENERAL
    • B30B9/00—Presses specially adapted for particular purposes
    • B30B9/30—Presses specially adapted for particular purposes for baling; Compression boxes therefor
    • B30B9/3003—Details
    • B30B9/3021—Press rams
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B30—PRESSES
    • B30B—PRESSES IN GENERAL
    • B30B9/00—Presses specially adapted for particular purposes
    • B30B9/30—Presses specially adapted for particular purposes for baling; Compression boxes therefor
    • B30B9/3003—Details
    • B30B9/3032—Press boxes

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  • the present invention relates to a device particularly for conveying a product, such as tobacco, into a container.
  • container typically made of rigid material, generally plastics, metal, wood or cardboard, are shaped like a parallelepiped, and have dimensions that can vary according to specific requirements; the upper surface of these containers is open or can be opened to allow their filling.
  • filling stations In order to introduce tobacco in these containers, known types of device, known as “filling stations”, are used which generally comprise a device for inserting and spacing the container (which comprises appropriately provided rollers or chain conveyors or other known movement devices), and a magazine that can be lifted and is constituted by a hollow box-like body, which is open at its upper and lower ends and is arranged above the container to be filled, at its upper open face, and is filled from above.
  • a device for inserting and spacing the container which comprises appropriately provided rollers or chain conveyors or other known movement devices
  • a magazine that can be lifted and is constituted by a hollow box-like body, which is open at its upper and lower ends and is arranged above the container to be filled, at its upper open face, and is filled from above.
  • the lower rim of the magazine is rested against the upper rim of the container to be filled, or is inserted therein, and thus acts as a collector for conveying the tobacco into the container.
  • These known types of filling station further comprise a pressing head, which has a vertical stroke and is generally pneumatically or electromechanically actuated and is adapted to compress the product introduced in the magazine and push it into the container.
  • these known types of filling station are designed as a function of a specific container to be filled, which has fixed dimensions and is adapted to obtain a predefined compression ratio; the magazine is thus preset, already during design, with plan dimensions that correspond to the plan dimensions of the container to be filled, and with a suitable height as a function of the compression ratio to be obtained.
  • the pressing head therefore also has plan dimensions that correspond, albeit slightly reduced, to the plan dimensions of the magazine, so as to perform uniform pressing of the tobacco, avoiding losses thereof between the side walls of the magazine and such pressing head.
  • Filling stations are also known which allow the filling of two different containers that have two definite different plan dimensions.
  • Filling stations are also known which have a magazine in which the dimensions of its lower rim, which can be inserted in the container to be filled, can be modified.
  • the magazine in fact has a frame that has a square or rectangular plan shape and to the sides of which the upper perimetric edges of four partitions are pivoted, such partitions having a substantially rectangular or square profile and an inclination that can be modified selectively by way of suitable linear actuators in order to move mutually apart or closer their lower perimetric edges.
  • the aim of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems, eliminating the drawbacks of the cited background art, by providing a device that allows to fill containers that have different plan dimensions, maintaining low production costs.
  • an object of the invention is to provide a device that allows to fill containers whose plan dimensions have differences of even more than a few centimeters.
  • Another object of the invention is to provide a device that allows to fill containers of various dimensions without entailing the replacement of one or more of its components.
  • Another object of the invention is to provide a device that can be installed even in enclosed spaces that have a limited horizontal extension.
  • Another object is to provide a device that is structurally simple and has low manufacturing costs.
  • a device particularly for conveying a product into a container, which comprises a magazine, having a substantially square or rectangular plan shape, which can be arranged above said container and in which a pressing head is associated slidingly, characterized in that said magazine has first means adapted to vary selectively its volume, maintaining for said magazine a same geometric configuration, said pressing head having second means that are adapted to vary its useful thrust surface as the volume of said magazine varies.
  • the reference numeral 1 designates a device particularly for conveying into a container 2 a product such as for example tobacco, which is not shown in the accompanying figures.
  • the device 1 is constituted by a first frame 3, which is substantially shaped like a parallelepiped and has a tubular structure and is arranged above a movement means for the container 2, which is constituted for example by a conveyor belt 4.
  • the first frame 3 is shaped, in a front view, approximately like an inverted letter U, so as to form two arms 3a and 3b that are laterally adjacent to the two sides of the conveyor belt 4, and a base 3c, which is parallel to the latter and spaced from it.
  • a second frame 5 is associated proximate to the base 3c of the first frame 3; the second frame 5 is constituted by a pair of first borders 6a and 6b, which are substantially square or rectangular and are arranged approximately parallel to each other by means of two cross-members 7.
  • the second frame 5 supports a magazine 8, which has a substantially square or rectangular plan shape and is positioned, during use, above the conveyor belt 4.
  • the magazine 8 is constituted by at least one first wall and at least one second wall, which have an approximately rectangular plan shape and an approximately H-shaped transverse cross-section, so that each one forms two seats 9a and 9b with which, as shown in Figure 8 , the ends of two third C-shaped walls l0a and 10b, described hereinafter, are slidingly associated.
  • the magazine 8 is constituted advantageously by a single first wall 11a, also referenced as rear wall, which is fixed to the first border 6b of the second frame 5, and by two second walls 11b and 11c, also referenced as front walls, which are fixed to the first border 6a of the second frame 5.
  • the second walls 11b and 11c are arranged so that they lie on a same plane, which is approximately parallel to the plane of arrangement of the first wall 11a, and are mutually separated and spaced, so as to form between them, at a lateral surface of the magazine 8, an opening 12 that is adapted to allow the insertion, in the magazine 8, of a product such as for example tobacco, which is not shown in the accompanying figures.
  • one or more entry holes adapted to allow the insertion in the magazine 8 of a product such as for example tobacco can be provided in one or both of the third walls 10a and 10b.
  • Suitable flanges for connecting to the container 2, designated respectively by the reference numerals 13a, 13b, 13c and 13d and provided with an appropriately provided sealing gasket, are associated with the lower perimetric rim of the first wall 11a of the wall of the two second walls 11b and 11c that is adjacent to the container 2, and of the third walls 10a and 10b.
  • first wall 11a and each one of the second walls 11b and 11c advantageously have an approximately H-shaped plan configuration, so as to form a first central portion 14, which has a preferably approximately rectangular plan shape, and two heads 15a and 15b, which again are approximately rectangular in plan view, have the same height but are wider, are approximately mutually parallel, and protrude laterally with respect to the first central portion 14, so as to form between them the seats 9a and 9b.
  • the heads 15a and 15b are constituted respectively by two planar metal plate layers, which are screwed, by way of suitable screws 16 shown in Figure 9 , to the first central portion 14 and to one or more appropriately provided brackets 17, which have a transverse cross-section that is approximately shaped like an inverted letter U and are fixed to one of the first borders 6a or 6b of the second frame 5.
  • third walls 10a and 10b are associated with the first wall 11a and with each of the second walls 11b and 11c; at least one of the third walls 10a, 10b is movable along an axis 18, that is such as to vary the discharge port of the magazine 8 between a condition of minimum plan extension and a condition of maximum plan extension.
  • both third walls 10a and 10b are movable with respect to the first wall 11a and the second walls 11b and 11c (which are fixed).
  • the two third walls 10a and 10b are substantially identical and are arranged in a mirror-symmetrical manner with respect to each other.
  • the third walls 10a and 10b are substantially C-shaped in a sectional view taken along a plane that is parallel to the ground, and approximately ⁇ -shaped along a perpendicular plane: a second central portion 19a is formed which has a preferably trapezoidal lateral profile and is connected to two wings 19b and 19c, with a linear lateral profile.
  • the third walls 10a and 10b therefore have, in a cross-section taken along a plane that is parallel to the ground, two tabs 20a and 20b, which are associated slidingly at the seats 9a and 9b formed between the two mutually facing heads 15a and 15b of the first wall 11a and of the second walls 11b and 11c.
  • the thickness of the tabs 20a and 20b and of the first central portion 14 are such as to allow the sliding of the tabs 20a and 20b with respect to the first wall 11a and to the second walls 11b and 11c, reducing however to a minimum the play between such components, in order to avoid losses of product during the operations for filling the container 2.
  • the tabs 20b of the third walls 10a and 10b that are associated slidingly with the second walls 11b and 11c have, at the opening 12 formed between the second walls 11b and 11c, a recess 21, which is approximately as high as the opening 12 and is provided so as to be contiguous to the latter during use.
  • the third walls 10a and 10b are supported slidingly by the second frame 5 by way of suitable interconnection means, constituted by an appropriately provided framework 22a, 22b, which is fixed externally to the third walls 10a and 10b, preferably at the wings 19b and 19c.
  • the framework 22a, 22b is associated slidingly with the first borders 6a and 6b by way of appropriately provided sliders 23, which can slide on appropriately provided guides 24 that connect two mutually opposite side of the first borders 6a and 6b.
  • first actuation means which are constituted conveniently by appropriately provided first linear actuators 25, for example electrical or pneumatic ones, which have a first body that is associated with the cross-members 7 and a first shank that is associated with the frameworks 22a, 22b so as to move them.
  • the device 1 further comprises a pressing head 26 constituted by a central body 27, which is approximately shaped complementarily, in plan view, with respect to the discharge port of the magazine 8 in the condition of minimum plan extension thereof.
  • the central body 27 has a comb-like structure, since it is constituted by a plurality of first transverse laminas 27a, which are approximately parallel and spaced with respect to each other, proximate to the ends that are mutually connected by two appropriately provided first longitudinal uprights 27b.
  • one or more flaps are associated rotatably with the central body 27 at the longitudinal sides; in the embodiment shown in the accompanying figures, two flaps 30a and 30b are associated with the two longitudinal sides of the central body 27 and conveniently have a comb-like structure formed by a plurality of second transverse laminas 31, which are mutually parallel and spaced and are mutually connected at one end by a second longitudinal upright 32a, 32b.
  • the second laminas 31 of the flaps 30a and 30b are arranged between the first laminas 27a of the central body 27, the first and second laminas 27a and 31 being rotatably coupled, proximate to the respective free ends, by way of appropriately provided rod-like elements 33 inserted in appropriately provided holes, not shown in the accompanying figures, which are formed transversely to the first and second laminas 27a and 31.
  • the flaps 30a and 30b can rotate selectively with respect to the central body 27 between a closed position, shown in Figure 10 , in which they do not protrude in plan view from the central body 27, and a maximum opening condition, shown in Figures 11 and 12 , in which they protrude in plan view from the central body 27 so as to block approximately completely, together with the central body 27, the discharge port of the magazine 8 in the condition of maximum plan extension thereof.
  • the rotation of the flaps 30a and 30b with respect to the central body 27 can be performed automatically by way of appropriately provided second actuation means, which are constituted for example by appropriately provided second linear actuators 34, which are preferably electrical or pneumatic and have a second body 34a, which is fixed to the central body 27, and a second shank 34b, which is connected by way of suitable connecting means to one of the two flaps 30a and 30b.
  • second actuation means which are constituted for example by appropriately provided second linear actuators 34, which are preferably electrical or pneumatic and have a second body 34a, which is fixed to the central body 27, and a second shank 34b, which is connected by way of suitable connecting means to one of the two flaps 30a and 30b.
  • such connecting means are constituted by a first lever 35, which is approximately Z-shaped and is hinged, at a first end, to the free end of one of the flaps 30a or 30b and, at its other end, to a second lever 36, which is pivoted in turn to the central body 27; a lamina 37 is fixed approximately at right angles to the second lever 36 and in turn is pivoted to the second shank 34b of the second linear actuator 34.
  • Means are provided which are adapted to contrast, during pressing, the re-closure of the flaps 30a and 30b; advantageously, such means are constituted by a plug 38, which is fixed to the central body 27, for example by welding, and is adapted to abut, in the fully open condition of the flaps 30a, 30b, against the first and second levers 35, 36 at their mutual pivoting region, so as to prevent rotation of the flaps 30a and 30b in the direction for reaching the closed condition, under the action of the pressing force that bears thereon during pressing.
  • the first linear actuators 25 it is therefore possible to adjust the position of the third walls 10a and 10b, so as to make the dimensions of the discharge port of the magazine 8 uniform with respect to those of the perimetric rim of an open upper end face 2a of the container 2; the lower rim of the magazine 8 can thus be associated with the open upper end face 2a of the container 2.
  • the invention has achieved the intended aim and objects, a device, particularly for conveying into a container a product such as for example tobacco, having been devised which allows to fill containers that have different plan dimensions, maintaining reduced structural complexity and production costs.
  • the device according to the invention can be used to fill containers whose plan dimensions have even large mutual differences.
  • the device according to the invention can be preset to fill containers of different dimensions very rapidly and easily and without entailing the replacement of one or more of its components.
  • the device according to the invention allows to reduce the accidental loss of product during filling of the containers with respect to the background art.
  • the device according to the invention can be installed also in enclosed spaces that have a limited horizontal extension.
  • the production costs of the device according to the invention remain low, since it is obtained only by means of components that are easy to assemble and/or manufacture.

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JP2013537485A (ja) * 2010-07-08 2013-10-03 インターナショナル トバコ マシーネリー ポーランド エスピー．ゼット オー．オー． タバコカットフィラー圧縮用電動プレス機

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US4113125A (en) 1975-12-23 1978-09-12 Rolf Schiller Refuse collecting system and a vehicle and container for use therein
CH668387A5 (en) * 1985-09-06 1988-12-30 Max Bodenmann Rubbish press with arm on stand - has press plates of different areas, varied by turning arm or unfolding plate sections
WO1999019138A1 (en) * 1997-10-13 1999-04-22 Zugil S.A. Scrap baling and crushing press
WO2003080322A1 (de) * 2002-03-25 2003-10-02 Framatome Anp Gmbh Hockdruckpresse
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US4113125A (en) 1975-12-23 1978-09-12 Rolf Schiller Refuse collecting system and a vehicle and container for use therein
CH668387A5 (en) * 1985-09-06 1988-12-30 Max Bodenmann Rubbish press with arm on stand - has press plates of different areas, varied by turning arm or unfolding plate sections
WO1999019138A1 (en) * 1997-10-13 1999-04-22 Zugil S.A. Scrap baling and crushing press
WO2003080322A1 (de) * 2002-03-25 2003-10-02 Framatome Anp Gmbh Hockdruckpresse
WO2005013732A1 (en) * 2003-07-24 2005-02-17 Comas - Costruzioni Macchine Speciali - S.P.A. Tobacco compressing apparatus

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JP2013537485A (ja) * 2010-07-08 2013-10-03 インターナショナル トバコ マシーネリー ポーランド エスピー．ゼット オー．オー． タバコカットフィラー圧縮用電動プレス機

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