EP2364917B1 - Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur Behandlung von Artikeln - Google Patents

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EP2364917B1
EP2364917B1 EP11153322.0A EP11153322A EP2364917B1 EP 2364917 B1 EP2364917 B1 EP 2364917B1 EP 11153322 A EP11153322 A EP 11153322A EP 2364917 B1 EP2364917 B1 EP 2364917B1
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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
    • B65B61/14—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for incorporating, or forming and incorporating, handles or suspension means in packages
    • 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
    • B65B27/00—Bundling particular articles presenting special problems using string, wire, or narrow tape or band; Baling fibrous material, e.g. peat, not otherwise provided for
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  • the present invention relates to a method for the treatment of at least two articles combined into one container.
  • the invention further relates to an application head for the integrated treatment of at least two grouped and combined into a container, moving by means of a conveyor, articles.
  • beverage containers can be combined and packaged by means of shrink film wrappings into containers of four, six or more containers.
  • the production of containers is usually unavoidable, since such containers form the most common variant of sales units for beverage containers and bottles made of PET plastic.
  • the containers are partially recombined for transport and / or put together in layers and palletized.
  • the shrink films used for the production of known containers require certain production steps, which have a relatively high energy requirement.
  • the film used causes costs for production, for the provision, for handling and for later disposal, since it is no longer needed after the sale.
  • the machine equipment for providing the so-called. Film wrapping modules and other handling stations causes high investment costs.
  • Shrink tunnel in which the beaten to the container film is shrunk by H togetherluftbeierschlagung around the bottles, requires a relatively high energy and capital investment.
  • An alternative variant to container manufacture is that the articles to be joined are held together with a strapping strapped horizontally around the outsides of the articles, which is placed around the articles during an uninterrupted conveying process and then fixed.
  • the articles need not be stopped because the strapping can be applied in a continuous process during the uninterrupted promotion of the articles around them.
  • the strapping is made by two or more straps, wire, plastic, metal, paper, or one stretched around the outsides of the articles, and then tensioned at their ends Composite formed.
  • the ends of the bands may optionally be glued together, welded, clamped, knotted or otherwise connected.
  • the application of the strapping can take place, for example, by means of a so-called application head.
  • the strapping can be applied with an application head which is pushed from above over the articles located on a horizontal conveyor and moved in the horizontal direction and which moves in synchrony with the feed speed of the horizontal conveyor.
  • the strapping device can also comprise a gantry or articulated robot with a strapping head, which moves in the vertical direction over the articles during the application of the strapping and at the same time moves along with the articles in the horizontal conveying direction.
  • the EP 0 174 015 B1 discloses an application device for attaching carrying handles to articles such as packaging containers for drinks.
  • the handle material is fed from a continuous strip and placed on a drum before it is cut and applied to the objects from above.
  • a pair of application arms engages the corresponding recessed drum and thereby engages adhesive end portions of the handle portion to move it against the side surfaces of the article.
  • the FR 2 254 208 A5 describes an apparatus and a method for producing container groups.
  • plastic straps are arranged as strapping to containers to combine the containers into a container.
  • the container is then guided by means of a transport device and provided with a carrying handle.
  • the EP 0 390 230 A2 relates to an apparatus and method for assembling a plurality of articles.
  • a lanyard is detached from a tape roll by means of a cutter. Further, rollers are shown which fix the carrying strap by means of adhesive strips on the respective articles.
  • a primary object of the present invention is to provide a quick, inexpensive and easy to handle way of producing containers, in which the containers with both a strapping and with a Carrying handle to be provided. With the present invention, the corresponding manufacturing processes should at least be accelerated.
  • the method of claim 1 allows the running largely without any time delay additional application of a handle on a treated by means of a Umreifungsap bearings sensible container.
  • the second treatment process takes place in temporal connection with the first treatment process, it is meant that the second treatment process can take place approximately simultaneously, immediately after or immediately before the first treatment process. This is achieved by virtue of the fact that the two treatment processes take place in a temporally combined or integrated manner, within a common application step and by means of an integrated application head.
  • the articles are combined during the first treatment process by means of at least one, applied by the application device band-like, the articles wrapped in a horizontal direction strapping into a container.
  • the articles are provided during the second treatment process with a band-like carrying device or carrying loop which overlaps the container at its upper side.
  • the carrying device or the carrying loop can in particular be supplied from a strip supply and be brought to a suitable length in the region of the application device and cut off.
  • a variant of the method according to the invention can provide that the carrying strap applied to the container is held in a middle section approximately centrally above the container and at a distance therefrom, while its two free ends are pivoted on both sides by vertical means Side surfaces of the container approximated, pressed and fixed there.
  • the handling devices for the carrying strap can hold these at the contact points in particular in each case by means of negative pressure.
  • This carrying handle may possibly contribute to the additional position stabilization of the container formation, so that the beverage container can move to a lesser extent against each other, especially if the handle has a slightly diagonal position and the article at least slightly braced against each other.
  • a particularly useful variant of the method according to the invention may be to treat directly consecutive packages of separate application devices during the conveying movement, which are timed and spatially offset from each other, moved during their treatment operations with the containers and moved after completion of the treatment operations with a return stroke against the conveying direction and fed to a subsequent article group.
  • at least two similar application devices or heads are used which handle and handle time-shifted successive containers, so that the conveying speed can be maintained at an original level, which is generally matched to the mere strapping of the containers.
  • three or more similar application devices can be used for each of a number of successively moving containers, if this is useful or necessary for reasons of faster processing.
  • the present invention further comprises an application head according to claim 6.
  • This application head can, for example, be connected to a supply of tape for feeding the carrying device or the carrying loop.
  • it can with a suitable cutting device for cutting the tape supply into sections each be provided appropriate length.
  • the cutting device can in each case cut lengths of tape in lengths suitable for carrying loops from the endless strip supply.
  • the application head according to the invention can have a holding device for temporarily fixing a middle section of the carrying loop approximately centrally above the container and spaced therefrom, which also has pivoting devices for guiding and attaching the two free ends of the carrying strap to vertical side surfaces of the container.
  • This handling device for the strap can hold them at the touch points each by means of negative pressure.
  • the application head according to the invention can have guiding and conveying devices for feeding the required strip sections for the carrying loop in the horizontal direction above the bundle and for placing the cut strip section approximately centrally above the bundle.
  • the present invention relates to a device for producing containers from a plurality of articles combined by strapping, comprising a conveying device for the continuous transport of grouped articles and an application head according to claim 11.
  • PET beverage containers are increasingly summarized by means of tape strapping to packs.
  • the present invention offers the mentioned advantages.
  • the entire length of the packaging line can be shorter.
  • the container at Strapping process in a spatially and force moderately fixed position the bonding process when applying the - easily be placed at an angle - handle with simultaneous application of pressure forces on the container is made particularly reliable.
  • each in groups 12 of two, four or more upright beverage containers 14 illustrates that are summarized by means of inventive application devices 16 strapped containers 18, which are provided on an upper side respectively with handles or loops (not shown)
  • the application devices 16 each allow an approximately simultaneous application of the container strapping and the carrying straps.
  • each of the application devices 16 each comprise a strapping device 20 for applying a band-like, the beverage container 14 in a horizontal wrapping, strapping and a device 22 for applying a container 18 at its top cross-band-like carrying device or carrying strap.
  • each of the application devices 16 is connected to a supply of tape for feeding the carrying device or the carrying loop, as described with reference to FIG FIGS. 4 to 7 is illustrated in more detail.
  • a suitable cutting device for cutting the tape supply into sections of the appropriate length. The cutting device lengthen each band sections in appropriate length for carrying straps from the endless tape supply.
  • two, three or more such application heads 16 can be connected in series to achieve the required power.
  • the containers 18 are not made synchronously by the application heads 16, but with a time delay, as shown in the Figures 1 and 2 hinted at.
  • the entire length of the packaging line can be shorter.
  • FIGS. 4 to 7 show in schematic representations four different embodiments of a portion of the application device 16 for applying the handles on the tops of the container 18.
  • the first two variants according to Fig. 4 and Fig. 5 each provide a mechanism of the application device 16, in which the appropriate length of the support loops 26 prior to their fixation on the containers 18 by means of a horizontally above the container 18 carried carrying loop section moving cutter (not shown there) is cut and cut.
  • a mechanism of the application device 16 is provided, in which the cutting unit or cutting blade 46 (see, eg. Fig. 6 ) is attached to a defined position and appropriately cut strips are transferred as carrying straps 26 to the moving carriage of the application device 16.
  • the first variant of the application device 16 according to FIG Fig. 4 the device for applying the carrying strap 22 with a feed unit 24 for the carrying straps 26 of an endless supply, not shown here.
  • a carrier tape 28 With multiple deflections provided with splices carrying straps 26 are transported on a carrier tape 28 to a rotating impression cylinder 30.
  • a pair of superimposed rollers 32 are arranged, with the help of the carrying straps 26 are transferred to a conveyor belt 34 which rotates circumferentially and the carrying straps 26 conveys to their intended position above the container 18.
  • a triangular deflection of the conveyor belt 34 is provided with an upper roller 32 and two lower, located on a horizontal plane lower conveyor rollers 36.
  • a vacuum gripper 38 is provided, which is arranged approximately centrally above the container 18 and thus approximately centrally between the two conveyor rollers 36.
  • This central vacuum gripper 38 ensures that the carrying strap 26 can be fastened correctly spaced on the container 18.
  • the two Andschreiber 42 have at their two downwardly facing ends, where the Carrying strap 26 with its two ends adheres, each switchable vacuum holding devices 44, so that the carrying strap 26 can be held without additional mechanical fixation by means of the presser 42, brought to the container 18 and pressed there, so that the splices of the carrying loop 26 for a fixed adhesive connection.
  • a second variant of the application device 16 according to Fig. 5 again shows the means for applying the carrying strap 22 with a feed unit 24 for the carrying straps 26 of an endless supply, not shown here.
  • a feed unit 24 for the carrying straps 26 of an endless supply not shown here.
  • carrying straps 26 With multiple deflections provided with splices carrying straps 26 are transported on a carrier tape 28 to a rotating impression cylinder 30, with the aid of the carrying straps 26 are transferred to the conveyor belt 34 which rotates circumferentially and the carrying straps 26 transported to their intended position above the container 18 ,
  • the remaining structure of the device 22 corresponds to the in Fig. 4 described variant. It differs from this essentially only by the other supply of the carrying straps 26 by means of the carrier tape 28 to the impression cylinder 30th
  • the in the Fig. 6 shown third variant of the means 22 for applying the carrying straps 26 has a different way of conveying the carrying straps 26 from the endless supply not shown here to the vacuum gripper and pressing devices 38, 40, 42, 44, since here the carrier tape 28 is severed by means of a cutting blade 46 becomes when a piece of appropriate length between the two Andrückern 42 and vacuum holding devices 44 has been promoted.
  • the carrier tape 28 with the carrier loop 26 thereon is in turn conveyed to a conveyor belt pair 48 located at the same horizontal level as the vacuum gripping and pressing devices 38, 40, 42, 44 above the containers 18, with a multiply deflected feed unit.
  • the cutting blade 46 Between the left Andrücker 42 and the mentioned conveyor roller pair 48 is the cutting blade 46, by means of which the carrier tape 28 and / or the carrying strap 26 is cut to length. Between the cutting blade 46 and the conveyor roller pair 48 is an additional vacuum gripping device 50, which ensures the reliable guidance of the free end of the carrier tape 28 after the separation of the applied to the container 18 portion of the carrying strap 26.
  • the attachment by means of the pivotable presser 42 along the pivot paths 40 takes place as already described above.
  • a clamp 52 At the right end, to the right of the right pusher 42, is a clamp 52 for horizontally pulling the lanyard 26 along its length between the two pushers 42 and vacuum holding means 44 and for holding the carrying strap 26 prior to its attachment to the beverage container 14, as shown in FIG Fig. 6 is indicated.
  • the in the Fig. 7 shown fourth variant of the means 22 for applying the carrying straps 26 in turn has a slightly varied manner of conveying the carrying straps 26 from the endless supply not shown here to the vacuum gripper and pressing devices 38, 40, 42, 44.
  • the carrier tape 28 is conveyed via a counter-pressure cylinder 30, which is arranged at the level of horizontally transported above the container 18 carrying strap 26.
  • a counter-pressure cylinder 30 which is arranged at the level of horizontally transported above the container 18 carrying strap 26.
  • the strapping devices 20 (not shown here in each case) (cf. FIGS. 1 to 3 ) can simultaneously with the application of the carrying straps according to the basis of FIGS. 4 to 7 described variants for the application of the strapping on the container 18 provide.

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