EP2305067A1 - Procédé et machine pour produire des brosses - Google Patents
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A46—BRUSHWARE
- A46D—MANUFACTURE OF BRUSHES
- A46D3/00—Preparing, i.e. Manufacturing brush bodies
- A46D3/08—Parts of brush-making machines
- A46D3/082—Magazines for bristles; Feeding bristles to magazines; Knot picking
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A46—BRUSHWARE
- A46D—MANUFACTURE OF BRUSHES
- A46D3/00—Preparing, i.e. Manufacturing brush bodies
- A46D3/04—Machines for inserting or fixing bristles in bodies
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
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- A46D3/00—Preparing, i.e. Manufacturing brush bodies
- A46D3/04—Machines for inserting or fixing bristles in bodies
- A46D3/045—Machines for inserting or fixing bristles in bodies for fixing bristles by fusing or gluing to a body
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A46—BRUSHWARE
- A46B—BRUSHES
- A46B2200/00—Brushes characterized by their functions, uses or applications
- A46B2200/10—For human or animal care
- A46B2200/1066—Toothbrush for cleaning the teeth or dentures
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- the present invention relates to a method and machine for producing brushes and, in particular, toothbrushes.
- a complete set of tufts is then either directly transferred to a molding machine where brush bodies or parts of brush bodies are molded and one end of the tufts is embedded in the molding material, or the tufts are attached to a member such as a platelet for later incorporation in a brush body either by molding the brush body around the member or by attaching the member to a preformed brush body.
- the present invention provides a method and machine for producing brushes with an unlimited variability regarding the composition and configuration of the tuft patterns at high productivity and relaxed requirements to the carrier positioning mechanism.
- the invention provides a method of producing brushes comprising tuft patterns composed of tufts that may differ in at least one of shape, color, filament type, filament thickness, filament length and filament finishing.
- a set of tufts is composed for each brush to be produced by inserting tufts into holes of a carrier arranged in a pattern corresponding to the desired tuft pattern.
- the carriers are moved successively through a number of successive tufting stations.
- a single tuft is filled into a particular one of the carrier holes in each of the tufting stations.
- the tuft pattern in each carrier is thus successively composed by moving the carrier through the number of tufting stations.
- the set of tufts is ultimately joined with a brush body by one out of several possible methods.
- each tufting station has a filling tool associated with exactly one hole of the carrier, and only the carriers are to be moved from one tufting station to the next. Rapid and precise positioning of the carriers is easily achieved in comparison to the conventional positioning mechanism that needs to rapidly and very precisely move the carrier by small amounts under a filling tool to successively expose each hole to the filling tool.
- the invention also provides a machine for producing brushes which is particularly useful in practicing the above method.
- the machine has a plurality of carriers each with a pattern of holes corresponding to a desired tuft pattern of a brush to be produced, and a number of tufting stations arranged in a succession.
- a transport mechanism moves the carriers successively through the tufting stations.
- a tuft filling tool in each tufting station fills a single tuft into a particular one of the carrier holes from an associated filament magazine of the tufting station.
- Each tufting station needs to be adjusted only once in an initial set-up for a tuft pattern to be produced so that the filling tool in the station is aligned with just one of the holes of the carrier.
- the station's tuft picker also needs to be adjusted only in an initial set-up for the intended size of tuft, which can be different between the stations.
- the transport system for the carriers can be implemented in two ways.
- a linear drive system which allows each carrier to move independently of all others in a programmed manner.
- a drive system can be seen in http://www.jacobsautomation.com/video.html .
- the filling tools are closely and preferably equally spaced along the common transport path.
- the longitudinal target positions for the carriers relative to the filling tools are programmed into the system, and the transverse positions of the filling tools are adjusted to the needs of the tuft pattern. This way, the carriers are always moved precisely to the target positions where one tuft hole is aligned with the axis of an associated filling tool.
- a common transport system such as a chain in a continuous loop is used and the carriers attached to the chain are moved by equal increments.
- the longitudinal positions of the filling tools along the chain are adjusted to align the axis of each filling tool with one of the tuft holes in a carrier that has been moved to that filling tool.
- the transverse positions of the filling tools are adjusted to the needs of the tuft pattern.
- the machine of this invention is modular in nature in that the tufting stations may be identical and variable in number according to the needs. It is even possible to perform an automated or electronically assisted machine-setup for a particular tuft pattern to be produced by providing the filling tools with controllable positioning and aligning mechanisms (mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, electronic or electromagnetic).
- the toothbrush head in Fig. 1 is for the purpose of demonstrating the large variety of tuft patterns, tuft configurations and material compositions achieved with the inventive method.
- a limited number of nine tufts is shown which differ from each other in shape, composition and color.
- many more tufts would form a tuft pattern, and many would be similar in shape, color and material.
- the inventive method allows combining any kind of tuft shape, color, material etc. with more conventional configurations, and even configurations with mostly or entirely similar tufts, as will become apparent from the following description.
- Fig. 2 shows an essential part of a toothbrush making machine, which is the tufting chain, a section of which is shown which comprises three tufting stations.
- the tufting stations are designated A, B and C.
- Each tufting station has a filament magazine A1, B1, C1 and a tuft filling tool A2, B2, and C2.
- Each filament magazine A1, B1, C1 has a tuft picker, A11, B11 and C11, respectively.
- Each filling tool A2, B2 and C2 has a tuft pusher A12, B12 and C12, respectively.
- Carrier blocks 10, 12 and 14 are shown which each have a pattern of tuft receiving holes that corresponds to the tuft pattern of the toothbrush of Fig. 1 .
- Carrier blocks 10,12 and 14 are precisely positioned in the tufting stations A1, B1 and C1, respectively. Between carrier blocks 12, 14 and 14, optional intermediate carrier blocks of identical configuration may be present, as shown in Fig. 2 , and in fact, there could be any number of such intermediate carrier blocks or no such intermediate carrier block, as long as each carrier block, when positioned in one of the tufting stations A1, B1, C1, or any other tufting station of the entire tufting chain, is precisely positioned to align just one of its tuft holes with the axis of an associated filling tool.
- the tufting stations with their filament magazines, tuft pickers and tuft filling tools are basically conventional, a description of these elements is found in the initially mentioned prior art documents. It is clear, however, that they should be of a rather compact design to fit into a tufting chain that has a large number of tufting stations as may be required by a particular desired tuft pattern.
- Fig. 3 The operation of the tufting stations is illustrated more in detail in Fig. 3 .
- the upper row shows the carrier blocks of Fig. 2 in plan view
- the intermediate row shows the corresponding tuft filling tools in cross-section
- the bottom row shows the carrier blocks in cross-section.
- tufting station A a tuft 20 separated from the filaments in filament magazine A1 is pushed by tuft pusher A12 through a channel in a guiding block A14 into a corresponding tuft receiving hole 30 of carrier block 10, the result is seen in intermediate carrier block 10a where tuft 20 sits in the corresponding hole.
- tufting station B a tuft 22 separated from the filaments in filament magazine B1 is pushed by tuft pusher B12 through a channel in a guiding block B14 into a corresponding tuft receiving hole 32 of carrier block 12, which has already hole 30 filled with tuft 20, and the result is seen in intermediate carrier block 12a where tufts 20 and 22 sit in the corresponding holes.
- a tuft 24 separated from the filaments in filament magazine C1 is pushed by tuft pusher C12 through a channel in a guiding block C14 into a corresponding tuft receiving hole 34 of carrier block 14, which has already hole 30 filled with tuft 20 and hole 32 filled with tuft 22, and the result is seen in intermediate carrier block 14a where tufts 20, 22 and 24 sit in the corresponding holes.
- the upper row in Fig. 3 shows the tuft filling holes in solid black which have a tuft filled in.
- filament magazine of a type that can provide different types of fibre to its associated filling tool, so that the machine can produce a mix of brushes with e.g. differently coloured filaments.
- the filament magazine can also be equipped with a filament finishing unit that will treat the filaments that will be presented to the associated filling tool ; such treatments could be end-rounding of the fibre tips, or splitting the fibre tips. Equipping the filament magazine with such a filament treatment device will make sure that the brushes do not need any further treatment once they leave the machine.
- the carriers move in equal steps from one tufting station to the next. This is easily achieved with a common drive chain that moves the carrier blocks successively through the row of tufting stations in equal incremental steps so that each carrier block is positioned in each of the tufting stations.
- Each tuft filling tool is precisely positioned and aligned with respect to a single one of the tuft receiving holes in each carrier block that has been moved to a corresponding tufting station, and each tuft filling tool is aligned with a different one of the tuft receiving holes with respect to all other tuft filling tools.
- the tuft filling tools are equally spaced a distance "d" and the carriers are driven by a linear transport system that allows the carriers to move precisely to predetermined target positions where the carrier has one of its holes aligned with the axis of a filling tool in one of the tufting stations.
- target positions are programmed into the linear transport system as part of an initial setup of the machine where also the transverse positions of the filling tools are adjusted in relation to the particular tuft pattern to be produced.
- the operation of the tufting stations is similar to that described with respect to Fig. 3 .
- a processing machine is schematically shown in a plan view.
- the processing machine has a transport system with a closed-loop transport chain 40.
- the transport chain 40 is elongate and has a large number of tufting stations T1 to T40 on one side and four processing stations P1 to P4 on the other side.
- These processing stations P1 to P4 may be similar and can perform various subsequent steps in the production of toothbrushes. In particular, pushing the filaments into the topography of the eventual brush, cutting the filaments to the appropriate length, transferring the filaments into part of the brush body, and fusing or gluing the filaments together.
- Such processes can happen with the filaments still in the carrier plate, or once the filaments are already transferred to a next station, without falling outside the scope of this patent application.
- the carrier plates Once the carrier plates are emptied of their filaments, they may have to be cleaned and/or inspected before they are brought to the filling tools again.
- the carrier plates already contain a part of the brush head during the tufting cycle, such parts of the brush will have to be placed into the carrier plates again.
- Such processes will take longer than just adding another tuft to one of the carrier plates, so these processes will happen with several carrier plates simultaneously. After this longer process, the carrier plates will have to be transported further in a bigger step. For this movement, the chain is driven by a second drive system which operates independently of the first one.
- the common transport chain 40 in Fig. 4 moves the carriers by equal increments between the tufting stations T1 to T40, it permits different cycle times in the processing stations P1 to P4 by virtue of moveable sprocket wheels of the chain drive.
- the carriers are indexed through the tufting stations T1 to T40 by equal increments corresponding to a short cycle time, a number of such carriers with completed tuft patterns need a substantially longer cycle time in each of the processing stations P1 to P4, and the corresponding chain links will be kept stationary during that longer cycle time.
- Each of the processing stations P1 to P4 in Fig. 4 includes a carousel with a first sub-station S1 which disconnects carriers filled with tufts from the common chain 40, a second sub-station S2 which transfers the tufts from a carrier to a platelet supplied from an automatic platelet feeder F1, a third sub-station S3 where the platelet is joined with a brush head or brush body supplied from an automatic body feeder F2, and a fourth sub-station S4 where the emptied carriers are inspected, cleaned and prepared for further use in the machine.
- sub-stations in Fig. 4 are examples of sub-processing stations that ultimately produce finished toothbrushes.
- a common linear transport system 60 wherein the carriers are each connected to a transport member capable of moving each carrier individually to predetermined target positions that are programmed into the transport system as explained in relation to Fig. 3a .
- the transport system is also elongate and has a number of tufting stations T1 to T6 on one side and processing stations A, B and C on the opposed side. It is seen that the carriers are positioned in different relative positions in each of the tufting stations T1 to T6. On the side of the processing stations A, B and C, which can be similar with those in Fig. 4 , the timing of processing can be even more flexible since the carriers can all move independently of all others.
- the number of tufting stations in the machine is quite high, as many as forty stations T1 to T40 being shown. It is in fact preferred that the number of tufting stations in the machine is at least the number of tufts in a tuft pattern to be produced. Using such a high number of tufting stations results in a high productivity of the machine which is an advantage even if the tuft pattern to be produced on the machine consists of only a few different kinds of tufts or even a single kind of tufts.
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BE1021677B1 (de) * | 2013-04-26 | 2016-01-06 | Gb Boucherie Nv | Bürstenherstellungsmachine |
BE1021817B1 (de) * | 2013-03-29 | 2016-01-20 | Gb Boucherie Nv | Maschine zur herstellung von bürsten. |
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US5588714A (en) * | 1994-05-09 | 1996-12-31 | Firma G. B. Boucherie, Naamloze Vennootschap | Method for manufacturing brushes |
US6290302B1 (en) * | 1998-07-14 | 2001-09-18 | Firma G.B. Boucherie, Naamloze Vennootschap | Method for manufacturing brushes and brush manufacturing machine applying this method |
DE10335996A1 (de) * | 2003-08-01 | 2005-02-24 | Anton Zahoransky Gmbh & Co. | Bürstenherstellungsmaschine |
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GB1599249A (en) * | 1977-07-14 | 1981-09-30 | Zahoransky H | Brush making |
US5588714A (en) * | 1994-05-09 | 1996-12-31 | Firma G. B. Boucherie, Naamloze Vennootschap | Method for manufacturing brushes |
US6290302B1 (en) * | 1998-07-14 | 2001-09-18 | Firma G.B. Boucherie, Naamloze Vennootschap | Method for manufacturing brushes and brush manufacturing machine applying this method |
EP0972465B1 (fr) | 1998-07-14 | 2003-04-02 | Firma G.B. BOUCHERIE, naamloze vennootschap | Procédé de fabrication de brosses et machine de fabrication de brosses pour l'application de ce procédé |
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BE1021817B1 (de) * | 2013-03-29 | 2016-01-20 | Gb Boucherie Nv | Maschine zur herstellung von bürsten. |
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