EP2248436A1 - Maschine zur automatischen Cursor-Implementierung, und entsprechendes Verfahren - Google Patents

Maschine zur automatischen Cursor-Implementierung, und entsprechendes Verfahren Download PDF

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EP2248436A1
EP2248436A1 EP10162025A EP10162025A EP2248436A1 EP 2248436 A1 EP2248436 A1 EP 2248436A1 EP 10162025 A EP10162025 A EP 10162025A EP 10162025 A EP10162025 A EP 10162025A EP 2248436 A1 EP2248436 A1 EP 2248436A1
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Michel Barreaux
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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
    • B65B61/00—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages
    • B65B61/18—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for making package-opening or unpacking elements
    • B65B61/188—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for making package-opening or unpacking elements by applying or incorporating profile-strips, e.g. for reclosable bags
    • 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
    • B65B9/10—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material, in preformed tubular webs, or in webs formed into tubes around filling nozzles, e.g. extruded tubular webs
    • B65B9/20—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material, in preformed tubular webs, or in webs formed into tubes around filling nozzles, e.g. extruded tubular webs the webs being formed into tubes in situ around the filling nozzles
    • 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
    • B31B70/00—Making flexible containers, e.g. envelopes or bags
    • B31B70/74—Auxiliary operations
    • B31B70/81—Forming or attaching accessories, e.g. opening devices, closures or tear strings
    • B31B70/813—Applying closures
    • B31B70/8131—Making bags having interengaging closure elements
    • B31B70/8132—Applying the closure elements in the machine direction

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  • the present invention relates to the field of bags provided with complementary closure profiles actuated by a slider.
  • the invention relates to a machine and a method for placing a slider on complementary closure profiles, intended to be attached to a bag.
  • thermoplastic sheets for example polyethylene and / or polypropylene
  • the closure profiles 20 used on such bags generally comprise complementary fastening means 22 respectively arranged facing the two main sheets of the bag to be respectively engaged to close it and separated to allow its opening .
  • the sliders 10 equipping such bags can be the subject of many embodiments.
  • Such sliders 10 comprise a base 11 which comprises two lateral flanks 12 and a central wall 13, the lateral flanks 12 and the central wall 13 defining in combination two non-parallel channels 14 which respectively receive free ends of the profiles 20.
  • the profiles 20 are solicited in separation to open the bag.
  • the profiles 20 are engaged to close the latter.
  • the slider 10 can not be easily removed from the bag, especially for safety reasons for children, it is usually provided with retaining means, for example of the type beads 15, arranged on the free end of the wall 13, complementary protrusions 21 forming a stop and disposed on the free end of the profiles 20, so that in case of attempted tearing of the bag of the slider, the beads 15 abut against the protuberances 21 and prohibit the removal of the slider 10 .
  • retaining means for example of the type beads 15, arranged on the free end of the wall 13, complementary protrusions 21 forming a stop and disposed on the free end of the profiles 20, so that in case of attempted tearing of the bag of the slider, the beads 15 abut against the protuberances 21 and prohibit the removal of the slider 10 .
  • the present invention therefore aims to fill this gap, by providing an automatic slider installation machine and a slider installation method, to facilitate the introduction of a slider on closure profiles.
  • the present invention can find application in all types of sachets. For this reason, it will not be described later in detail all of the means for producing the bag itself, or its constituent material or materials.
  • closure profiles 20 are not limited to the geometry shown in the accompanying figures. These profiles 20 may comprise attachment means 22 of the male / female type, of the velvet / complementary hook type, or any other equivalent structure. They can be made of any suitable material.
  • closure profiles 20 may be integral with the walls of the bag, for example extruded, or reported and fixed on the walls of the bag by any appropriate means.
  • cursors 10 implemented in the context of the present invention are of the type of cursors that we have described with reference to the figure 1 and will not be further detailed later.
  • the guide according to the invention is preferably implemented in the context of the automatic slider installation on closure profiles to form thermoplastic bags. It is formed for example of plastic or metal.
  • an automatic slider installation machine comprises, in particular, means for supplying closure profiles, means for scrolling said profiles in the automatic machine, means for supplying sliders and a device for setting sliders.
  • the slider laying machine can be part of a machine for manufacturing, filling and closing sachets, making it possible to manufacture sachets equipped with closure profiles provided with sliders by means of said laying machine of the invention.
  • the machine further comprises a spacer guide 300 disposed opposite the laying device 400, whose role is, on the one hand, to guide the closure profiles 20 during their movement in the machine so that those -ci are in an optimal position facing the laying device so that the sliders 10 can be properly applied to the profiles 20, and secondly, to separate the profiles 20 to facilitate their engagement in the channels of the slider.
  • a spacer guide 300 disposed opposite the laying device 400, whose role is, on the one hand, to guide the closure profiles 20 during their movement in the machine so that those -ci are in an optimal position facing the laying device so that the sliders 10 can be properly applied to the profiles 20, and secondly, to separate the profiles 20 to facilitate their engagement in the channels of the slider.
  • the laying device applies in force, in a conventional manner, a slider 10 on the free end 21 of the closure profiles.
  • the laying device spreads the lateral flanks 12 of the slider 10, for example by biasing lugs arranged on the outer faces of the lateral flanks of the slider (not shown in the figures), so as to free up sufficient space for
  • This step is optional insofar as the invention can be applied to any method of laying a slider on closure profiles in which the slider is engaged on the free end of the slats. profiles.
  • closure profiles 20 are brought into the spacer guide, so that the free end 21 of each profile 20 faces the corresponding channels 14 of the slider 10.
  • the closing profiles 20 are closed when they are brought into the spacer guide 300, or at least their respective fastening means 22 are in contact with each other during their passage in the guide 300.
  • separating the profiles 20 here is meant to remove the free ends 21 of the profiles 20 which are intended to be arranged in the corresponding channels 14 of the slider 10, so that said ends 21 move away from the plane defined by the closure profiles 20 .
  • the guide comprises two substantially parallel abutment walls forming a guide channel 310a, 310b of the profiles 20.
  • the walls are arranged so that the width of the channel 310a, 310b is substantially equal to the thickness of the portion 23 of the closing profiles 20 which is underlying the attachment means 22.
  • the width of the guide channel 310a, 310b is smaller than the thickness of the attachment means 22 which do not penetrate into said channel 310a, 310b.
  • the abutment walls hinge the free end 21 of the profiles as indicated on FIG. figure 3 .
  • the attachment means 22 are in contact, and preferably closed, the pressure exerted on said underlying portion 23 causes the rotation of each free end 21 about the axis formed by the closure means 22 in a direction of separation relative to the plane defined by the profiles 20.
  • the ends 21 of the profiles 20 are not then more parallel to each other and have an angle which facilitates their insertion into the corresponding channels of the sliders 10.
  • the spacer guide 300 is integral, and the guide channel 310a is a rebate whose height is at least equal to the length of the portion 23 of the profiles extending under the attachment means 22.
  • the walls of said rebate 310a then correspond to the abutment walls of the guide 300.
  • the height of the rabbet 310a is at least equal to the length of the bag. extending between its mouth and its bottom.
  • the guide 300 comprises two adjacent blocks 300a, 300b and in contact on at least part of one of their wall, said walls forming between them said rabbet 310a.
  • the blocks 300a, 300b are adjacent but not in contact, so that the guide channel is no longer a rabbet but a through channel 310b.
  • the spacer guide 300 comprises two adjacent blocks 300a, 300b
  • said blocks 300a, 300b can be fixed or movable in a direction transverse to the running direction of the profiles 20.
  • the automatic machine sequentially stops the scrolling of the profiles 20.
  • the blocks 300a, 300b then close on the profiles 20 (forming the guide channel 310a, 310b) and the pinch so as to spread their free ends 21, while the laying device 400, simultaneously or successively, engages the slider 10 on said spaced apart ends 21.
  • the blocks 300a, 300b then move transversely to release the profiles and the machine resumes the scrolling of the profiles 20.
  • moving blocks 300a, 300b as part of a continuous manufacturing process, during which the scrolling of the sections 20 is not interrupted.
  • the blocks 300a, 300b are then closed sequentially on the profiles 20 during their travel, and the laying device 400 engages the cursor 10 simultaneously or successively to the nip of the profiles 20, without interruption of the scrolling of the profiles 20.
  • the guide 300 further comprises a recess 320 at the mouth of the rabbet 310a (or the through channel 310b formed by the blocks 300a, 300b), for example hemispherical, conical or dihedral, whose concavity is directed towards the slider 10, to further accentuate the opening of the ends 21 of the profiles under the pressure of the guide 300.

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