EP2540626A1 - Machine d'emballage de paquets de cigarettes - Google Patents

Machine d'emballage de paquets de cigarettes Download PDF

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EP2540626A1
EP2540626A1 EP12169220A EP12169220A EP2540626A1 EP 2540626 A1 EP2540626 A1 EP 2540626A1 EP 12169220 A EP12169220 A EP 12169220A EP 12169220 A EP12169220 A EP 12169220A EP 2540626 A1 EP2540626 A1 EP 2540626A1
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Fabrizio Tale'
Enrico Campagnoli
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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
    • B65B19/00—Packaging rod-shaped or tubular articles susceptible to damage by abrasion or pressure, e.g. cigarettes, cigars, macaroni, spaghetti, drinking straws or welding electrodes
    • B65B19/02—Packaging cigarettes
    • B65B19/22—Wrapping the cigarettes; Packaging the cigarettes in containers formed by folding wrapping material around formers
    • B65B19/223—Wrapping the cigarettes; Packaging the cigarettes in containers formed by folding wrapping material around formers in a curved path; in a combination of straight and curved paths, e.g. on rotary tables or other endless conveyors
    • 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
    • B65B19/00—Packaging rod-shaped or tubular articles susceptible to damage by abrasion or pressure, e.g. cigarettes, cigars, macaroni, spaghetti, drinking straws or welding electrodes
    • B65B19/02—Packaging cigarettes
    • B65B19/22—Wrapping the cigarettes; Packaging the cigarettes in containers formed by folding wrapping material around formers
    • B65B19/223—Wrapping the cigarettes; Packaging the cigarettes in containers formed by folding wrapping material around formers in a curved path; in a combination of straight and curved paths, e.g. on rotary tables or other endless conveyors
    • B65B19/225—Wrapping the cigarettes; Packaging the cigarettes in containers formed by folding wrapping material around formers in a curved path; in a combination of straight and curved paths, e.g. on rotary tables or other endless conveyors the conveyors having continuous movement
    • 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

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  • This invention relates to a packer machine of packets of cigarettes.
  • This invention is particularly advantageously applied in a packer machine of packets of cigarettes with continuous operation.
  • Cigarette packer machines are machines designed to produce packets which each contain a group consisting of a predetermined number of cigarettes (usually each group is made up of twenty cigarettes).
  • the market currently supplies three main types of packets of cigarettes.
  • a first type comprises rigid packets, in particular having a hinged lid, in which the group of cigarettes is initially wrapped in an inner wrapping material (usually silver paper) which completely surrounds the cigarettes.
  • an inner wrapping material usually silver paper
  • the packet obtained in that way is then covered with a rigid material, normally made of paper, created from a suitably punched flat blank which is folded to obtain a rigid packet, often comprising a lower container part and an upper lid hinged to the lower part.
  • a rigid material normally made of paper, created from a suitably punched flat blank which is folded to obtain a rigid packet, often comprising a lower container part and an upper lid hinged to the lower part.
  • a second type comprises soft packets, in which the group of cigarettes initially wrapped in an inner wrapping material (silver paper) is then also wrapped in a soft wrapping material, usually a sheet of light paper, normally called a label, bearing advertising, brands and other graphics.
  • an inner wrapping material usually a sheet of light paper, normally called a label, bearing advertising, brands and other graphics.
  • the sheet of paper designed to form the outer cover is suitably shaped to produce an outer wrapper which leaves the top of the silver paper cover exposed (therefore, without an upper closing cover).
  • a third type of packet, of the semi-rigid type, is also spreading on the market.
  • That type of packet is substantially similar to a soft packet, with a visible top, but the outer cover is produced starting with a blank made of semi-rigid material, for example a paper or plastic material, the outside bearing advertising, brands and other graphics.
  • Said semi-rigid material is more deformable than the material used to make the outer wrapper of rigid packets, and at the same time is more rigid than the "soft" material.
  • the packer machines currently on the market are designed to interface, at infeed, with a device for feeding a flow of cigarettes which are normally arranged so that they are transversal to the direction of feed, and at outfeed they release the completely formed packets, which if necessary will be subjected to a further wrapping phase with external transparent film.
  • Such machines produce a succession of groups of cigarettes (normally groups of twenty) and transport said groups through a first station for application and folding of the inner cover made of silver paper, a second station for application and folding of the outer cover (whether rigid, semi-rigid or soft) and, if necessary, a station for application of excise stamps.
  • the stations for application and folding of the covering materials vary depending on the type of packet to be made. Therefore, the structure of the conventional packer machines is preset for producing a specific type of packet and such machines therefore cannot be used to produce packets of a different type to that original provided for.
  • the aim of this invention is to provide a packer machine of packets of cigarettes which can be adapted to produce different types of packets.
  • This invention relates to a packer machine of packets of cigarettes able to produce different types of packets, and in particular packets which are of the soft, rigid and semi-rigid types.
  • the configuration of the packer machine can, if necessary, be changed in a way suitable for making the packet of the desired type.
  • the machine 1 comprises (from right to left) a station 100 for feeding wrapping materials, a station 200 for feeding cigarettes and a packing station 2.
  • the station 100 for feeding wrapping materials comprises one or more magazines of wrapping materials which, in the embodiment illustrated, comprise a reel 110 of an inner wrapping material, a magazine 120 of coupons and a reel 130 of rigid paper material designed to form, following successive cutting and folding operations, collars of the type used in rigid packets.
  • the reel 110 is a reel of silver paper.
  • this comprises a hopper 210 (of the known type) the top of which is designed to receive a mass of cigarettes positioned horizontally and to release the cigarettes in ordered groups on a bucket conveyor 220 below the hopper 210.
  • the cigarettes are released from the hopper 210 to the bucket conveyor 220 according to known methods which are not described in detail herein.
  • the packer station 2 shown in Figure 1 is set up to perform the following steps:
  • the packing station 2 comprises a supporting wall 3, preferably vertical, with a plurality of movement shafts 4 ( Figure 6 ), preferably horizontal, and a plurality of types of conveyors 5, 6, 7, each of which can be connected to a respective movement shaft 4.
  • the movement shafts 4 are preferably all kinematically connected to each other to guarantee that the conveyors 5, 6, 7 operate in a synchronised fashion.
  • the packer machine 1 may be equipped with a reticular system of connecting rods and cranks which connects the movement shafts 4 to each other and connects them to a single shared motor (not illustrated).
  • each conveyor 5, 6, 7 comprises a rotary support, able to rotate coaxially with the respective movement shaft 4, equipped on its periphery with a plurality of equipment units 5a, 6a, 7a.
  • the equipment units 5a, 6a, 7a of each conveyor 5, 6, 7 are designed to make contact with a type of wrapping material partly or completely surrounding the groups "G" of cigarettes and they are also designed to operate in conjunction with the equipment units 5a, 6a, 7a of at least one adjacent conveyor 5, 6, 7.
  • the equipment units 5a, 6a, 7a comprise pockets for conveying the groups "G" of cigarettes or the packets, and/or heads for conveying the wrapping material and/or folders for folding the wrapping material.
  • the first conveyor 5 is positioned immediately downstream of the bucket conveyor 220 for receiving from the latter a succession of groups "G" of cigarettes which are fed in a direction of feed "A".
  • the peripheral equipment units 5a of the first conveyor 5 therefore receive pieces of silver paper and a succession of groups "G" of cigarettes and, with the aid of folders of the known type (for example applied to the supporting wall 3) completely wrap the group "G" of cigarettes in the piece of silver paper.
  • the first conveyor 5 is also interconnected with a device 9 for releasing collars, the device being connected to the reel 130 of rigid paper material and designed to cut and/or punch the paper material to produce a succession of collars, releasing them to the first conveyor 5.
  • the collars are then associated with respective pieces of silver paper wrapped around the groups "G" of cigarettes.
  • a compensating device 10 for example pneumatic, designed to absorb any irregularities in the feed of the paper material, evening out the release of the collars to the first conveyor 5.
  • the second conveyor 6 Located immediately downstream of the first conveyor 5 is the second conveyor 6, which receives the groups "G” of cigarettes previously wrapped in the silver paper and also receives blanks "S” made of rigid material picked up from a magazine 11 by a suitable device 12 for releasing the blanks "S", interposed between the magazine 11 of blanks "S” and the second conveyor 6 for picking up a blank "S” from the magazine 11 and releasing it to the first conveyor 5.
  • the magazine 11 is designed to contain the blanks "S" which are arranged to lie vertically and stacked horizontally.
  • the device 12 for releasing blanks "S” comprises a support rotating about a horizontal axis and equipped with pickup equipment units on its periphery.
  • suitable folder means including, for example, curved deflectors and/or mobile grippers
  • group “G” of cigarettes is on the second conveyor 6 at least a part of the blank "S" is folded.
  • the third conveyor 7 Downstream of the second conveyor 6 there is the third conveyor 7, which receives the semi-finished packet from the second conveyor 6 and completes the folding of the remaining parts of the blank "S", completing production of the rigid packet "P".
  • the third conveyor 7 is also associated with suitable folder means of the known type (comprising, for example, curved deflectors and/or mobile grippers) designed to fold predetermined portions of the packet "P".
  • a transfer device 13 Located downstream of the third conveyor 7 there is a transfer device 13 designed to receive the finished packets from the packing station and to send them to a storage magazine or to a further station for application of an external transparent film.
  • At least one of the conveyors 5, 6, 7 can be substituted with conveyors of a different type and/or can be moved to a different position relative to the other conveyors 5, 6, 7 and can be mounted on different movements shafts 4 provided on the supporting wall 3. That allows a redistribution and/or a substitution of the conveyors 5, 6, 7 with a change in the type of packet to be packed and in the type of wrapping material to be used.
  • the movement shafts 4 are made in such a way as to allow interchangeability of the conveyors 6, 7.
  • the second and third conveyors 6, 7 are interchangeable, the first conveyor 5 remaining the same for the different types of packets to be produced.
  • the interchangeability could be extended to all of the conveyors 5, 6, 7 described above.
  • the above-mentioned interchangeability may be achieved by ensuring that the movement shafts 4 comprise respective connecting portions 4a, designed for mounting the conveyors 6, 7, which are identical to each other for promoting an assortment of possible mounting combinations for the conveyors 6, 7 on the movement shafts 4.
  • Each conveyor 5, 6, 7 comprises a cavity (not visible in the accompanying drawings) designed to arbitrarily receive one of the movement shafts 4.
  • the shaft - cavity coupling may be made by means of a key connection to promote the transmission of torque.
  • Each conveyor 5, 6, 7 comprises inside it transmission means connected to the equipment units 5a, 6a, 7a of the conveyor 5, 6, 7 for moving the equipment units 5a, 6a, 7a following operation of the movement shaft 4.
  • Said movement means may comprise, for example, cam and cam follower systems, operating in the known way and which therefore are not described in detail.
  • the inclusion of the movement means in the conveyors 5, 6, 7 considerably facilitates operations for substituting or redistributing the conveyors 5, 6, 7, which can be removed by sliding them off the related movement shafts 4 so that they can be mounted on different movement shafts 4.
  • the packer machine 1 also comprises a fourth and a firth conveyor 14, 15, interchangeable with the third and fourth conveyors 6, 7, for varying the type of packet made between a rigid packet and a semi-rigid or a soft packet, and vice versa.
  • the fourth conveyor 14 is set up for folding, around a group "G" of cigarettes previously wrapped in silver paper, a wrapping material designed to produce a packet of the soft or semi-rigid type without an upper lid.
  • the fifth conveyor 15 is set up for transferring a semi-finished packet (that is to say, for example, a group "G" of cigarettes” simply wrapped in silver paper) between a conveyor positioned upstream and a conveyor positioned downstream.
  • a semi-finished packet that is to say, for example, a group "G” of cigarettes” simply wrapped in silver paper
  • Each conveyor 14, 15 comprises a rotary support able to rotate coaxially with the respective movement shaft 4 and equipped on its periphery with a plurality of equipment units 14a, 15a.
  • the equipment units 14a, 15a of each conveyor 14, 15, are designed to make contact with a type of wrapping material partly or completely surrounding the groups "G" of cigarettes and they are also designed to operate in conjunction with the equipment units 5a, 6a, 7a, 14a, 15a of at least one adjacent conveyor 5, 6, 7, 14, 15.
  • FIG. 3 describes the configuration which the packer machine 1 must be made to adopt for producing packets of cigarettes of the semi-rigid type.
  • the second conveyor 6, set up for folding a part of the blank "S” made of rigid material is substituted with the fourth conveyor 14, set up for completely folding a blank "S" made of semi-rigid material, while the third conveyor 7, set up for completing folding of the blank "S” made of rigid material, is substituted with the fifth conveyor 15, set up for transferring the semi-rigid packet arriving from the fourth conveyor 14 towards the transfer device 13.
  • the above-mentioned device 9 for releasing collars can be removed.
  • the device 9 for releasing collars is applied in a removable fashion to the supporting wall 3, so that it can be fitted or removed with a change in the type of production required.
  • it can be applied to the supporting wall 3 in the configuration for production of packets made of rigid material, and removed during other different types of production.
  • the blanks "S" made of semi-rigid material can be feed by means of the device 12 for releasing blanks described above, which picks up from the magazine 11.
  • the blanks "S” made of semi-rigid material could be fed from a reel, as is usually the case when producing packets of cigarettes of the soft type.
  • the embodiment illustrated in Figure 4 describes the configuration which the packer machine 1 must be made to adopt for producing packets of cigarettes of the soft type.
  • the second conveyor 6 of Figure 2 set up for folding a part of the blank "S" made of rigid material, is substituted with the fifth conveyor 15, set up for transferring the semi-finished packet (group “G” of cigarettes simply wrapped in the silver paper) towards the fourth conveyor 14, located downstream of the fifth conveyor 15, which in contrast is set up for completely folding a piece of soft wrapping material.
  • a device 16 for releasing pieces of soft wrapping material is used, the device being interconnected with a respective reel (not illustrated) for feeding a continuous web of soft wrapping material and being associable with the fourth conveyor 14 for releasing a piece of soft wrapping material onto the fourth conveyor.
  • the device 16 for releasing pieces of material being removably applicable to the supporting wall 3 for allowing changes in the type of packet made between a rigid packet and a semi-rigid or a soft packet, and vice versa.
  • this configuration requires the use of a further compensating device 10' (different to the previous one), acting on the continuous web fed to the device 16 for releasing pieces, so as to even out the feed speed and therefore to even out the rate at which the pieces are released to the fourth conveyor 14.
  • Figures 5 and 6 show a detail of the supporting wall 3, having a plurality of openings located in predetermined positions for allowing the mounting, when required, of one or more of the devices described above (devices for releasing blanks or pieces of wrapping material or collars and/or folder devices associated with the conveyors, etc.).
  • This invention achieves the preset aim by overcoming the above-mentioned disadvantages of the prior art.
  • the packer machine according to this invention can be quickly and simply subjected to a configuration change so as to change the type of production.
  • That configuration change involves the substitution of one or more conveyors with others of a different type or may require that the position of two conveyors be inverted.
  • the configuration change described above keeps the other parts of the machine unchanged and, therefore, the number of parts needed for the configuration change is very small, basically limited to the substitute conveyors and to the feed devices associated with them.

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