EP2594490B1 - Dispositif de séparation de sacs et procédé de séparation de sacs - Google Patents

Dispositif de séparation de sacs et procédé de séparation de sacs Download PDF

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EP2594490B1
EP2594490B1 EP12007722.7A EP12007722A EP2594490B1 EP 2594490 B1 EP2594490 B1 EP 2594490B1 EP 12007722 A EP12007722 A EP 12007722A EP 2594490 B1 EP2594490 B1 EP 2594490B1
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Bernd Tillack
Jan Lorenzen
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H3/00—Separating articles from piles
    • B65H3/08—Separating articles from piles using pneumatic force
    • B65H3/0808—Suction grippers
    • B65H3/0816—Suction grippers separating from the top of pile
    • B65H3/0833—Suction grippers separating from the top of pile and acting on the front part of the articles relatively to the final separating direction
    • 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
    • B65B43/00—Forming, feeding, opening or setting-up containers or receptacles in association with packaging
    • B65B43/12—Feeding flexible bags or carton blanks in flat or collapsed state; Feeding flat bags connected to form a series or chain
    • B65B43/14—Feeding individual bags or carton blanks from piles or magazines
    • B65B43/16—Feeding individual bags or carton blanks from piles or magazines by grippers
    • B65B43/18—Feeding individual bags or carton blanks from piles or magazines by grippers by suction-operated grippers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H5/00—Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines
    • B65H5/08—Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines by grippers, e.g. suction grippers
    • B65H5/12—Revolving grippers, e.g. mounted on arms, frames or cylinders
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2701/00—Handled material; Storage means
    • B65H2701/10—Handled articles or webs
    • B65H2701/19—Specific article or web
    • B65H2701/191—Bags, sachets and pouches or the like

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  • the present invention relates to a bag separating device and a method for separating bags.
  • bag separating devices with a bag magazine for storing prefabricated bags are known, which have a bag removal device associated with the bag magazine for removing a bag to be separated from the bag magazine.
  • the bag-separating device further has a transport path for discharging the separated bag from the bag-separating device.
  • the generic bag separating device is usually realized as part of a bag filling device.
  • the sacks are, in particular, prefabricated sacks which are open on their filling side and are also referred to as open sacks.
  • Such bags are supplied by the bag maker, an operator of the bag filling device in a stacked form. In this stacked form, the bags are placed in the bag magazine. In this case, the bag layer in the magazine must not have such an orientation that the bags lie one above the other in the vertical. Rather, the bags can also be provided obliquely or in vertical alignment next to each other in the bag magazine.
  • the previously known from the prior art bag separating device has a gripping arm for removing a bag to be separated, which is pivotally mounted and provided with a suction bridge which usually engages the sack to be separated at a front end and feeds a conveyor within the bag separating device and the isolated Sack of the sack removal device takes over and promotes the transport route.
  • the transport route can be a slide on which the isolated bag slips off. It is also conceivable embodiment of the transport route by a circulating conveyor belt.
  • Each transport path of the individual unfilled sacks from the sack-separating device can be regarded as a transport route within the meaning of the invention.
  • the present invention has for its object to provide a bag separator with higher output. Furthermore, the present invention wants to specify a method for separating bags from a bag magazine, which allows a high output.
  • the present invention provides a bag-separating device having the features of claim 1. This differs from the prior art by a transport path upstream bag pivoting device, with which the isolated bag can be brought from the bag removal device to the transport path by pivoting about a pivot center.
  • the pivoting movement of the bag usually follows a different kinematics than the pivoting movement of the sack removal device, provided that - as in the prior art - is formed by a pivotable arm with a suction bridge. Rather, the pivoting movement takes place by the pivoting device according to the invention by pivoting about a pivot center, which does not coincide with the pivot axis of the sack removal device, if this comprises a pivoting arm, on the Swivel axis insofar reference is made.
  • the pivoting device is preferably designed so that the isolated bag is pivoted through an angle of at least 220 °, preferably 270 °. It is usually a circular, continuous in one direction pivoting movement.
  • the radius of the pivoting movement and the speed of the pivoting movement are such that the isolated bag can be pivoted after transferring to the pivoting device on the one hand at high speed for transfer to the transport route, on the other hand but a change in position of the bag due to the centrifugal force occurs, the the bag during the pivoting movement substantially transferred from the predetermined by the bag magazine orientation in an orientation which must take the bag for discharge via the transport path, whereby the output of the bag separating device according to the invention can be high.
  • the bag-separating device includes the bag-pivoting device which contains the bag-gripping device and the bag-guiding surface.
  • the preferably fixedly arranged sack removal device is preferably assigned to the sack magazine, from which the prefabricated sacks are taken, that this sack removal from the sack magazine at a transfer position, the removed bag passes the gripping device.
  • the gripping device is preferably designed such that the sack at the transfer position takes over and this leads along the Sackleit Structure up to a dispensing position at which the bag is deposited by the Sackleit Structure on the transport route.
  • the transfer position is in this case preferably upstream of the bag guide surface.
  • the rotational speed of the bag should be greater than 1.5 m / sec with respect to the Sackleit simulation. It is particularly preferred to select the circulation speed even greater than 3 m / sec, very particularly preferably even greater than 8 m / sec. However, the rotational speed should also not be too high, so that the bag is not pivoted on the grasped by the gripper end about the holding axis due to its inertia, that of a guide along the Sackleitfiguration no longer be the question.
  • the guide on the Sackleitfiguration is in any case given if the contour of the bag substantially follows the contour of the Sackleit Structure while the gripping device pivots the bag around the Sackleit Structure.
  • the Sackleit Structural Stackleit Stimprint must not fully surround the pivot center. It is only important to form an intended for the isolated bag baffle, against which this at least temporarily during pivotal movement and at least partially can be brought to bear in order to transfer the bag from the sack removal device on the transport path in a predetermined manner as part of a pivoting movement ,
  • the pivotably mounted about the pivot center gripping device usually runs around the Sackleit phenomenon. It can be guided on the Sackleitfiguration.
  • the gripping device has a pivot arm, which articulates about the pivot center and carries a gripper, which rotates on the side facing away from the pivot center of the Sackleit Structure about this.
  • the gripper between the Sackleit Structure and an outer guide surface may be provided which surrounds the Sackleit Structure completely or partially, to hold the bag on a predetermined trajectory.
  • the bag pivoting device is designed so that it seizes the isolated bag only at its closed end, which forms an anticipatory end in the pivotal movement of the bag around the pivot center, which leading end is formed by a closed end of the pre-assembled bag.
  • the sack is usually gripped at its closed end and with this end in an anticipatory direction pivoted the transport route.
  • the sack removal device for separating a sack from the sack magazine preferably also grips the sack at its closed end. Thereafter, the sack removal device is designed so that it cooperates with the sack to be separated and still arranged in the sack magazine at the end at which the closed end of the sack is located.
  • the sack removal device accordingly does not attack the entire surface of the bag, but only the edge and can - as in the prior art - have a suction bridge to grab the sack to be separated regularly almost over its entire width and pick up from the bag magazine.
  • the separating device has a blowing device, which comprises a blowing nozzle arranged between the bag and the pivoting center, by means of which the separated bag can be removed from the bag guide surface.
  • the blowing device is controlled so that it acts only pulse-like manner on the bag, preferably acts on the non-gripped, free and trailing end of the bag such that this end is pivoted about the preferably still firmly held by the gripper end when the Sack approaches as part of the pivoting movement of the transport route.
  • the aforementioned device-related features also characterize the method of pivoting the bag.
  • a single bag is removed from the bag magazine in a previously known manner for separating sacks and transferred to a transport route.
  • the bag is pivoted, i. moved in a circular motion about a pivoting center, as previously described in the apparatus aspect of the present invention.
  • the method is thus to be carried out so that the sack is guided substantially smoothly and / or smoothly along the sack guiding surface.
  • the pivoting movement about the pivoting center is further preferably controlled so that the usually free, trailing end in the context of the pivotal movement by centrifugal force radially with respect to the pivoting movement to the outside, i. is moved away from the pivot center.
  • the leading end is preferably initially passed past the intended nozzle before a blow delivered from the blower impulse is given to the bag to the trailing end of the bag - supported by the Blasimpuls - impart a movement direction, with which the trailing End led in the direction of the transport route, preferably approximately tangentially to the transport path and from above on this is stored.
  • the pivoting speed of the bag on the bag pivoting device and the strength of the Blasimpulses before, during or after giving up the Blasimpulses the leading end of the bag is released, so that the bag is removed from the bag pivoting device and stored on the transport route ,
  • the bag is pivoted in particular at the transfer of the bag pivoting device on the transport device to its leading end.
  • the pivoting movement about the pivot center that is, the pivoting movement, by which the bag is conveyed in total by the sack removal device to the transport path, strongly braked.
  • the pivoting of the bag is favored around the leading end.
  • a bag magazine is marked, in which a plurality of bags 4 are kept superimposed. These are prefabricated open sacks whose bottom is closed and whose head is open in order to push the respective sacks 4 onto a filler neck, which conveys bulk material into the sack 4.
  • a filling station is usually downstream of the embodiment shown in the figures in the transport direction of the bags 4.
  • the embodiment shown can accordingly be part of a device in which the prefabricated sacks 4 are gripped, isolated with the embodiment shown and fed from there to a filling station where the separated sacks are filled. After that, the bags are usually closed and discarded and stacked to stacks of pieces.
  • a bag removal device comprising a pivot arm 8 which is pivotally mounted about a pivot bearing 10 and provided at its opposite end with a suction bridge 12. By pivoting the pivot arm 8, this suction bridge 12 is on the top, to be separated Sack 4 of the magazine 2 can be applied, in the region of the closed end of the bag. 4
  • pivoting device which includes a stationary arranged drum 16 which forms a Sackleit Structure 18 on its outer periphery.
  • the drum 16 has a cylindrical shape but is not circumferentially closed.
  • the center of the drum is designated by reference numeral 20.
  • the pivoting device further comprises a gripper designated by reference numeral 22, which is mounted pivotably about the center 20 via a bearing arm, not shown. This gripper 22 is provided radially outside the Sackleit Chemistry 18. In FIG. 1 the gripper 22 is arranged in its receiving position A.
  • the Sackleit Structure 14 has a plurality of air outlet openings which form a designated 24 with a blowing nozzle.
  • a further 30 ° to 60 ° is a designated with reference numeral 26 transport path, which is in the present case formed by a conveyor belt.
  • the suction bridge 12 is activated, so that the bag 4 to be separated is fixed to the sack removal device 6. Thereafter, the pivot arm 8 is pivoted clockwise (see. Fig. 2 ). A suction side 12 closed valve-side end portion 4a is gripped by the gripper 22, without the rotational movement of the gripper is interrupted. Thereafter, the suction bridge 12 is deactivated, so that the sack 4 initially separated by the sack removal device 6 is held solely by the gripper 22.
  • the end portion designated by reference numeral 4a forms a leading end of the bag 4, which follows the pivoting movement of the gripper 22, whereas the other, referred to as the trailing end 4b End is prevented only by the Sackleit Structure 18, to flip radially inward.
  • the bag 4 is in the context of the pivoting movement about the pivot center 20 wholly or partially and in any case temporarily supported in the context of pivotal movement in front of the Sackleit procedure 18, ie slides on this surface from (see. Fig. 3 ).
  • this pivoting movement of the swivel arm 8 of the sack removal device 6 of the in FIG. 2 shown transfer position U to the in FIG. 1 or 4 swiveled back V shown.
  • the pivoting movement of the gripper 22 passes through the tuyere 24, while the leading end 4a is still clamped in the gripper 22. Thereafter, a blast of air is blown through the nozzle 24, which acts against the isolated bag 4 and the trailing end 4 b pivoted about the gripper 22, so that the trailing end 4 b is pivoted in the direction of the transport path 26.
  • the pivoting movement of the bag 4 is usually braked strongly about the pivot center 20, whereby a further, the trailing end 4b is effected in an accelerated manner in the direction of the transport path 26 promoting impulse.
  • the gripper 22 in the in FIG. 4 open delivery position B shown so that the isolated bag 4 follows the impressed by the air blast and centrifugal force movement of the bag 4 and is derived in the direction of the transport path 26 of the pivoting device 14 (see. Fig. 4 ).

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  1. Dispositif séparateur de sacs comprenant un magasin de sacs (2) pour le stockage de sacs (4) préconfectionnés ;
    un dispositif de prélèvement de sacs (6) associé au magasin de sacs (2) et destiné à prélever un sac individuel séparé (4) du magasin de sacs (2) ;
    un parcours de transport (26) pour évacuer le sac individuel séparé (4) hors du dispositif séparateur de sacs,
    caractérisé par
    un dispositif de pivotement de sac (14) placé en amont du parcours de transport (26) et destiné à faire pivoter le sac (4) autour d'un centre de pivotement (20) et comprenant
    une surface de guidage de sac (18) entourant de manière périphérique le centre de pivotement (20) et sur laquelle le sac (4), après son prélèvement du magasin de sacs (2), est guidé au moins en partie et de manière passagère pendant son pivotement,
    un dispositif de préhension (22) monté pivotant autour du centre de pivotement (20) et associé à la surface de guidage de sac (18), et qui est destiné à la préhension du sac (4) au niveau de son extrémité avant dans le sens de déplacement, après son prélèvement hors du magasin de sacs (2), et qui amène le sac individuel séparé (4) du dispositif de prélèvement de sacs (6) au parcours de transport (26),
    et une buse de soufflage (24) agencée entre le sac (4) et le centre de pivotement (20), qui délivre une impulsion de soufflage agissant sur le sac (4) au niveau d'une extrémité arrière suiveuse (4b) du sac (4), non saisie par le dispositif de préhension (22), de sorte que le sac (4) pivote autour de son extrémité avant (4a) et est déposé sur le parcours de transport (26).
  2. Dispositif séparateur de sacs selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que la surface de guidage de sac (18) est formée par une surface de cylindre entourant au moins partiellement le centre de pivotement (20).
  3. Dispositif séparateur de sacs selon la revendication 1 ou la revendication 2, caractérisé en ce que la surface de guidage de sac (18) est agencée en position fixe.
  4. Dispositif séparateur de sacs selon l'une des revendications 1 à 3, caractérisé en ce que le dispositif de préhension comprend au moins un préhenseur (22) monté rotatif autour du centre de pivotement (20).
  5. Dispositif séparateur de sacs selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que la buse de soufflage (24) est agencée à un niveau au-dessus du parcours de transport (26).
  6. Procédé destiné à séparer individuellement des sacs, d'après lequel on prélève un sac individuel (4) d'un magasin de sacs (2), et, après son prélèvement du magasin de sacs (2), on le fait pivoter sur une trajectoire de mouvement de forme circulaire, autour d'un centre de pivotement (20), et on le dépose sur un parcours de transport (26),
    caractérisé en ce que
    après son prélèvement hors du magasin de sacs (2), on saisit le sac (4) au niveau de son extrémité avant (4a) dans le sens de déplacement lors du pivotement, et, pendant son pivotement, le sac est guidé au moins en partie et de manière passagère le long d'une surface de guidage de sac (18) entourant le centre de pivotement (20) ;
    et, pour le transfert au parcours de transport (26), l'extrémité avant (4a) du sac (4) est déplacée par-delà une buse de soufflage (24) en un mouvement de pivotement, et ensuite on délivre sur le sac (4) une impulsion de soufflage agissant sur le sac (4), de sorte que le sac (4) pivote autour de son extrémité avant (4a), et l'extrémité avant (4a) du sac (4) est alors libérée.
  7. Procédé selon la revendication 6, caractérisé en ce que l'on fait pivoter le sac (4) avec une vitesse telle, qu'une extrémité arrière suiveuse (4b) s'éloigne du centre de pivotement (20) sous l'effet de la force centrifuge.
  8. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 6 ou 7, caractérisé en ce que pour le transfert au parcours de transport (26), on freine fortement le mouvement de pivotement du sac (4).
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