EP2520500A1 - Station de découpage avec unité de découpage - Google Patents

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EP2520500A1
EP2520500A1 EP12003140A EP12003140A EP2520500A1 EP 2520500 A1 EP2520500 A1 EP 2520500A1 EP 12003140 A EP12003140 A EP 12003140A EP 12003140 A EP12003140 A EP 12003140A EP 2520500 A1 EP2520500 A1 EP 2520500A1
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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
    • B26—HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; SEVERING
    • B26F—PERFORATING; PUNCHING; CUTTING-OUT; STAMPING-OUT; SEVERING BY MEANS OTHER THAN CUTTING
    • B26F1/00—Perforating; Punching; Cutting-out; Stamping-out; Apparatus therefor
    • B26F1/38—Cutting-out; Stamping-out
    • B26F1/40—Cutting-out; Stamping-out using a press, e.g. of the ram type
    • 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
    • B65B61/00—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages
    • B65B61/04—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for severing webs, or for separating joined packages
    • B65B61/06—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for severing webs, or for separating joined packages by cutting
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B26—HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; SEVERING
    • B26D—CUTTING; DETAILS COMMON TO MACHINES FOR PERFORATING, PUNCHING, CUTTING-OUT, STAMPING-OUT OR SEVERING
    • B26D7/00—Details of apparatus for cutting, cutting-out, stamping-out, punching, perforating, or severing by means other than cutting
    • B26D7/06—Arrangements for feeding or delivering work of other than sheet, web, or filamentary form
    • B26D7/0625—Arrangements for feeding or delivering work of other than sheet, web, or filamentary form by endless conveyors, e.g. belts
    • B26D7/0633—Arrangements for feeding or delivering work of other than sheet, web, or filamentary form by endless conveyors, e.g. belts by grippers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B26—HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; SEVERING
    • B26F—PERFORATING; PUNCHING; CUTTING-OUT; STAMPING-OUT; SEVERING BY MEANS OTHER THAN CUTTING
    • B26F2210/00—Perforating, punching, cutting-out, stamping-out, severing by means other than cutting of specific products
    • B26F2210/06—Trimming plastic mouldings
    • 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
    • B65B31/00—Packaging articles or materials under special atmospheric or gaseous conditions; Adding propellants to aerosol containers
    • 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
    • B65B61/28—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for discharging completed packages from machines

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  • the invention relates to a thermoforming packaging machine according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • thermoforming packaging machines of the applicant have cutting stations with complete cutting tools.
  • Characteristic of a complete cutting tool which is also referred to as a form-cutting tool, is that so that a package cut out with only one cutting movement of the film composite, wherein the cutting blade has the outer contour of the package.
  • guide columns which are necessary for receiving an upper cutting tool and a movable lower cutting tool, respectively arranged on both sides between the chain guide for guiding the staple chain, the staple chain itself and the machine frame.
  • the upper and lower cutting tools are removed upwardly from the thermoforming packaging machine.
  • the staple chain and the chain guide must be removed on both sides in the area of the cutting station. This requires a special high and time-consuming installation effort and long downtime of thermoforming packaging machine.
  • thermoforming packaging machine The object of the thermoforming packaging machine according to the invention is to simplify a change of a complete cutting tool.
  • thermoforming packaging machine with the features of claim 1.
  • Advantageous developments of the invention are specified in the subclaims.
  • the thermoforming packaging machine comprises chain guides for the film feed chains, a forming station, a sealing station and a cutting station, wherein the cutting station has a complete cutting tool.
  • the thermoforming packaging machine is designed such that the complete cutting tool can be removed from the thermoforming packaging machine in the production direction.
  • the Foil feed chains and the chain guides in the area of the cutting station can not be disassembled and the complete cutting tool can be removed as a unit towards the end of the thermoforming packaging machine. This leads to minimal downtime when changing complete cutting tools.
  • the complete cutting tool can also be designed as a strip punch.
  • the complete cutting tool comprises a tool top part, a tool bottom part and guides on which the tool top part and the tool bottom part are moved.
  • the chain guides are arranged in the region of the cutting station in the direction of production to the end of the thermoforming packaging machine out freely.
  • This flying bearing means that the complete cutting tool in the production direction for moving out is not hindered by interference edges or fastening means of the chain guides provided on both sides.
  • a deflection wheel is provided at the end of the chain guides provided on both sides in the direction of production, in order to enable a vertically narrow design of the chain guides and to reduce the space requirement of the chain guides within the complete cutting tool to a minimum.
  • both an upper or leading chain center of the film feed chains and a lower or trailing chain center in the cutting station within the complete cutting tool are arranged to allow a structurally simple and compact design of the chain guide in the cutting station and beyond.
  • a machine direction rear end of a machine frame is provided upstream of the cutting station in the direction of production, thus allowing placement of the guide columns of the complete cutting tool and the cutting station frame outside and near the chain guides.
  • all vertical guide columns of the complete cutting tool are arranged outside the chain guide.
  • the complete cutting tool includes a cutting tool top, a cutting tool base and at least two guide posts connecting the cutting tools, the cutting tool base performing a vertical lifting movement thereon.
  • the chain guides are provided on the one hand between the lower tool part and the upper tool and on the other hand between the guide columns transversely to the production direction.
  • thermoforming packaging machine is designed so that a tool changing carriage for receiving the complete cutting tool against the direction of production in the thermoforming packaging machine is retracted.
  • a tool changing carriage for receiving the complete cutting tool against the direction of production in the thermoforming packaging machine is retracted.
  • This is particularly advantageous for larger complete cutting tools, since the weight for removal by the operator or a service technician is too large and granted a tool trolley from an ergonomic point of view, a simple and safe handling when changing tools.
  • Fixing elements are preferably provided at the cutting station in order to reposition the complete cutting tool in the cutting station in a repeatable manner in order to avoid new additional and expensive setting or aligning operations after a change.
  • the cutting station preferably has adjusting elements in order to set up and / or align the cutting station independently of the machine frame.
  • FIG. 1 shows a schematic view of a packaging machine 1 in the form of a thermoforming packaging machine.
  • This thermoforming packaging machine 1 has a forming station 2, a sealing station 3, a cutting device 5, which are arranged in this order in a production direction P on a machine frame 6.
  • a feed roller 7 On the input side is located on the machine frame 6, a feed roller 7, from which a first web-shaped material 8 is withdrawn. In the area of the sealing station 3, a material reservoir 9 is provided, from which a second web-shaped material 10 is withdrawn as a cover film. Furthermore, the packaging machine 1, a feed device, not shown, which engages the first web-shaped material 8 and transported in a main working cycle in cycles in the direction of R.
  • the feed device may be, for example, by laterally arranged staple or transport chains 23 (see FIG. 2 ) be realized.
  • the forming station 2 is formed as a thermoforming station in which containers 14 are formed by deep drawing in the first sheet material 8.
  • the forming station 2 may be designed such that in the direction perpendicular to the working direction R a plurality of containers formed side by side become.
  • an insertion path 15 is provided, in which the containers 14 formed in the first web-shaped material 8 are filled with product 16.
  • the sealing station 3 has a closable chamber 17, in which the atmosphere in the container 14 before sealing can be replaced, for example, by gas purging with a replacement gas or with an exchange gas mixture and then sealed with the second web-shaped material 10.
  • the cutting station 5 has a complete cutting tool 4.
  • a gripping device 20 is provided for removing individual cut packs 21 from the cutting station and transferring them to a discharge conveyor (not shown in detail) next to the thermoforming packaging machine 1.
  • FIG. 2 shows a cutting station 5 with a complete cutting tool 4 in the production direction P in the open position according to the prior art.
  • Both an upper tool part 24 and a vertically movable lower tool part 25 are connected to guides 26.
  • two guides 26 are arranged on both sides between the machine frame 6 and the transport chains 23.
  • the transport chains 23 hold on both sides the first web-shaped material 8 with the shaped container 14 and the second web-shaped material 10.
  • a chain guide 27 and the transport chains 23 guided by it must be in the region A of the cutting station 5 (see FIG. 3 ) get extended. This is associated with considerable work and occurring downtime of the packaging machine 1.
  • FIG. 4 shows a region B at the end of the packaging machine 1 according to the invention, in which the chain guide 27 is no longer attached to the machine frame 6, but is carried out crragend in the direction of production P.
  • the machine frame 6 ends already before the region B of the cutting station 5.
  • the cutting station 5 is designed in the example shown so that two packages 21 are cut simultaneously.
  • Each two guides 26 are attached to both sides of a frame 29. Both the frame 29, as well as the guides 26 are located outside the chain guides 27 for the transport chains 23.
  • the transport chains 23 are on End of the chain guide 27 deflected by pulleys 28, wherein the upper or leading chain center (with the clamped first web-like material) and the lower or trailing chain center (without first sheet-like material) in the region B parallel.
  • FIG. 5 shows the area B as a sectional view in the production direction P.
  • the frame 29 of the cutting station 5 is not connected to the machine frame 6, but stands independently on the ground and is by means of actuators 30 and independently of the machine frame 6 erectable and alignable.
  • the chain guides 27 and the feed chains 23 are arranged on the one hand between the guides 26 and on the other hand between the upper tool part 24 and the lower tool part 25th
  • This embodiment allows the outward movement of the complete cutting tool 4, for example, with the guides 26, in the direction of production P out of the packaging machine 1, as in FIG. 6 shown, since no fasteners of the chain guide 27 to the machine frame 6 in this area B hinder this movement.
  • a tool change carriage can be pushed against the production direction P at the rear into the packaging machine 1 in order to pick up the usually very heavy complete cutting tool 4 and to drive it out of the packaging machine 1.
  • Fixing elements 31 on the frame 29 ensure that after a change of the complete cutting tool 4, this can be repositioned exactly to the frame 29 and the packaging machine 1.

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