EP2382132B1 - Plant for packaging confectionary products in a sterile manner - Google Patents

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EP2382132B1
EP2382132B1 EP09810781A EP09810781A EP2382132B1 EP 2382132 B1 EP2382132 B1 EP 2382132B1 EP 09810781 A EP09810781 A EP 09810781A EP 09810781 A EP09810781 A EP 09810781A EP 2382132 B1 EP2382132 B1 EP 2382132B1
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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
    • 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
    • B65B9/02—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material between opposed webs
    • B65B9/04—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material between opposed webs one or both webs being formed with pockets for the reception of the articles, or of the quantities of material
    • 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
    • B65B25/00—Packaging other articles presenting special problems
    • B65B25/005—Packaging other articles presenting special problems packaging of confectionery
    • 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
    • B65B55/00—Preserving, protecting or purifying packages or package contents in association with packaging
    • B65B55/02—Sterilising, e.g. of complete packages
    • B65B55/025—Packaging in aseptic tunnels
    • 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
    • B65B55/00—Preserving, protecting or purifying packages or package contents in association with packaging
    • B65B55/02—Sterilising, e.g. of complete packages
    • B65B55/04—Sterilising wrappers or receptacles prior to, or during, packaging
    • 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
    • B65B59/00—Arrangements to enable machines to handle articles of different sizes, to produce packages of different sizes, to vary the contents of packages, to handle different types of packaging material, or to give access for cleaning or maintenance purposes
    • B65B59/04—Machines constructed with readily-detachable units or assemblies, e.g. to facilitate maintenance
    • 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
    • B65B9/02—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material between opposed webs
    • B65B9/04—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material between opposed webs one or both webs being formed with pockets for the reception of the articles, or of the quantities of material
    • B65B9/045—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material between opposed webs one or both webs being formed with pockets for the reception of the articles, or of the quantities of material for single articles, e.g. tablets

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  • the present invention relates to a plant for packaging confectionary products in a sterile manner in sterile containers or packages.
  • Each of said plants commonly known as “form/fill/seal” and disclosed for example, in US 3.911, 640 , comprises a plurality of stations, which are aligned with one another along a packaging path and are all housed within a common tunnel that defines a "sterile" area or rather an area controlled in its degree of bacteriological contamination in order to ensure the sterility of the packaging.
  • Fed step by step through the aforesaid stations is a first thermoformable strip, which defines an end wall of the tunnel and, after being sterilized, is heated, in a purposely designed station, and then passes into a thermoforming station for making one or more housings or compartments designed to receive, each, at least one of the aforesaid products.
  • compartments with the products to be packaged inside are then sealed by means of a second strip that is also previously sterilized and that delimits at the top a terminal length of the aforesaid tunnel and is heat-sealed on the first strip before the various compartments are physically separated from one another in a dinking station.
  • the width of the strips and the step of advance of the strips themselves are already determined in the design stage and optimized as a function of the dimensions, geometry and, in general, type of individual format or container originally conceived so that the change in format inevitably generates an increase in waste, i.e., in the amount of strips not used in the processes of thermoforming and/or closing, to such an extent as to render production less economically advantageous given, as is known, the high incidence of the cost of the strips on the overall cost of the packaged product.
  • the aim of the present invention is to provide a plant for packaging confectionary products in sterile containers, the constructional characteristics of which enable a simple and inexpensive solution of the problems set forth above.
  • a plant for packaging confectionary products in sterile containers comprising, arranged along a packaging path, at least one first assembly for sterilization and heating of a first thermoformable strip, a forming assembly for making on said first strip at least one compartment for housing said confectionary products, an assembly for feeding a confectionary product into said compartment, a second assembly for sterilization and feed of a second closing strip towards said first strip, a welding sealing assembly for connecting together said strips and closing said confectionary product within said housing compartment, a cutting assembly for cutting said strips and making at least one said container, and a sterile duct extending along said packaging path and designed to contain a sterile gas, said duct being common to said assemblies and being delimited at least partially by said strips, the plant being characterized in that each said assembly forms part of a respective operating module that is independent of the other modules and coupled to the adjacent modules in a releasable way.
  • Figure 1 designated as a whole by 1 is a plant for packaging confectionary products in sterile containers.
  • confectionary products is meant both products in a solid or granular form and products in the form of a liquid or a cream.
  • the plant 1 has a modular composition or is made up of units that are mutually independent, i.e., autonomous from the mechanical, electrical, electronic, pneumatic, and management standpoints.
  • the plant 1 comprises, in succession along a packaging path P, a module 3 for feed and sterilization of a thermoformable strip 4, which is wound off a spool 5 and fed step by step along the packaging path P by drawing devices, which are known and not described in detail.
  • the plant 1 then comprises a module 6 for heating of the thermoformable strip 4 and a module 7 for thermoforming of the thermoformable strip 4 itself.
  • the module 7 provides on the strip 4 a plurality of housings or compartments 8 having dimensions and relative positioning determined in the design stage according to the product, the type of container to be made, and the width of the strip 4 itself.
  • the plant 1 Downstream of the module 10, the plant 1 further comprises a welding module 13 for welding the strip 11 onto the portion of the strip 4 not involved the previous thermoforming process so as to close in a fluid-tight way each of the housings or compartments 8, and a dinking module 14 for separating the various housings or compartments 8 from one another to form a plurality of sterile containers, which are fed towards an outlet 15 of the plant 1 by a conveyor belt 16 that forms part of the dinking module 14 itself.
  • a welding module 13 for welding the strip 11 onto the portion of the strip 4 not involved the previous thermoforming process so as to close in a fluid-tight way each of the housings or compartments 8, and a dinking module 14 for separating the various housings or compartments 8 from one another to form a plurality of sterile containers, which are fed towards an outlet 15 of the plant 1 by a conveyor belt 16 that forms part of the dinking module 14 itself.
  • Each of the modules 3, 6, 7, 9, 10, 13 and 14 comprises a respective operating assembly, which is in itself known; said assemblies are designated by 3a, 6a, 7a, 9a, 10a, 13a and 14a, respectively.
  • the operating assemblies are pneumatically connected to a pneumatic source via dedicated valve assemblies of their own (not illustrated) and electrically connected to respective electronic control units 3b, 6b, 7b, 9b, 10b, 13b and 14b.
  • the electronic control units 3b, 6b, 7b, 9b, 10b, 13b and 14b are each dedicated exclusively to the corresponding operating assembly 3a, 6a, 7a, 9a, 10a, 13a and 14a, are independent of one another, and are, in turn, electrically connected and controlled by a general control unit 18 for managing the entire plant 1.
  • Each module 3, 6, 7, 9, 10, 13 and 14 further comprises a respective structure or frame 3c, 6c, 7c, 9c, 10c, 13c and 14c for supporting the corresponding operating assembly 3a, 6a, 7a, 9a, 10a, 13a and 14a and the various electrical and pneumatic wiring/components; each frame 3c, 6c, 7c, 9c, 10c, 13c and 14c is separate from and independent of the other frames and is set alongside and coupled to the frames adjacent thereto in a releasable way, for example via fast-coupling assemblies (not visible in the attached figures).
  • Each frame 3c, 6c, 7c, 9c, 10c, 13c and 14c is supported by a guide-and-slide assembly of its own, comprising a slide defined by a plurality of bottom resting feet or portions 20 ( Figures 1 and 3 ) of the respective frame itself; in the particular example described, the portions 20 have respective bottom terminal seats 21 shaped like a U set upside down and engaged by a corresponding rectilinear guide 22 in a slidable way.
  • the guide 22 forms part of the aforesaid guide-and-slide assembly and part of a rail 23 for relative positioning, which is common to all the modules 3, 6, 7, 9, 10, 13 and 14, extends parallel to the path P, and is stably fixed on the floor.
  • each of the modules 3, 6, 7, 9, 10, 13 and 14 can be translated along the rail 23 and hence along the aforesaid packaging path P independently of the other modules and, in particular, can be uncoupled from the rail 23 itself and moved away by simple vertical lifting, as illustrated for the module 9 in Figure 2 .
  • one or more modules have their respective frames arranged, each, on a respective motor-driven trolley or other equivalent means for movement of the module, designed to be controlled in position independently of the other trolleys, for displacement in a direction transverse to the aforesaid packaging path P, between an operative advanced position, in which the corresponding frame extends along the path P in a pre-determined position, and an extracted position, in which the frame is set outside of the packaging path P and in which the module does not take part in the packaging process.
  • Each of the frames supports an intermediate resting surface K, which is substantially coplanar to the surfaces K of the other frames, and on which the thermoformable strip 4 rests during its advance towards the outlet 15.
  • the various surfaces K define at least part of a sliding guide for the thermoformable strip 4.
  • Each of the frames arranged upstream of the sealing assembly 13 moreover supports a respective half-shell 3d, 6d, 7d, 9d and 10d, which is set only above the'corresponding resting surface K with its concavity facing the corresponding plane surface K itself and is coupled to the half-shells adjacent to it in a releasable way via the interposition of respective gaskets or labyrinth seals designated by 25.
  • each half-shell 6d, 7d, 9d and 10d comprises a corresponding top wall 26 set facing, and superimposed only on, the corresponding plane resting surface K and vertically raised with respect to the corresponding plane surface K itself, and two side walls 27, which face one another and extend upwards once again starting from the respective flat resting surface K.
  • Each of the top walls 26 has a size measured parallel to the corresponding surface K and orthogonal to the path P that can be varied as a function of the width of the thermoformable strip 4 and of the strip 11 and a through opening traversed by a mobile element of the respective operating assembly 6a, 7a, 9a, 10a.
  • the side walls 27 terminate, instead, in the direction of the corresponding resting surface K, with respective portions, which, in the case in point, are L-shaped ( Figures 2 and 4 ), to which the opposite longitudinal lateral portions of the thermoformable strip 4 are coupled in a slidable way so as to guarantee maintenance of an overpressure of the sterile environment within the tunnel.
  • each half-shell 6d, 7d, 9d and 10d delimits, with a corresponding intermediate portion of the thermoformable strip 4, a respective length of a continuous tunnel 30 ( Figure 4 ), which is closed upstream by the feed and sterilization assembly 3 and downstream by the closing strip 11, which progressively converges towards the underlying thermoformable strip 4 before being welded to the thermoformable strip 4 itself.
  • Supplied into the tunnel 30 is sterile air and, in general, a sterile gas containing nitrogen at a variable pressure of between 0.01 and 1 bar to create a sterile environment, in which all the packaging operations are performed.
  • each one of the modules that make up the plant 1 is perfectly interchangeable or replaceable with another functionally equivalent module, i.e., a module that performs the same function as the replaced module and can be chosen from among a plurality of modules having constructional characteristics different from one another.
  • constructional characteristics is meant the characteristics of the module that enable variation of the type, i.e., geometry and/or dimensions, of the containers produced.
  • a corresponding adjustable half-shell for forming the sterile environment enables arbitrary variation of the transverse dimensions of the tunnel 30 and makes it hence possible to use thermoformable and closing strips of different width.
  • the half-shells provided enable use of thermoformable and closing strips of widths that vary in a percentage of ⁇ 15% with respect to a given width and hence optimization of the surface of the thermoformable strip 4, reducing to a minimum the waste resulting from dinking.

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ITTO2008A000896A IT1392253B1 (it) 2008-12-03 2008-12-03 Impianto per il confezionamento di prodotti dolciari in confezioni sterili
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