EP2644517A2 - Poste de scellage multirangées, machine à emballer et méthode correspondante - Google Patents

Poste de scellage multirangées, machine à emballer et méthode correspondante Download PDF

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EP2644517A2
EP2644517A2 EP20130001588 EP13001588A EP2644517A2 EP 2644517 A2 EP2644517 A2 EP 2644517A2 EP 20130001588 EP20130001588 EP 20130001588 EP 13001588 A EP13001588 A EP 13001588A EP 2644517 A2 EP2644517 A2 EP 2644517A2
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Albert Gabler
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Multivac Sepp Haggenmueller GmbH and Co KG
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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
    • B65B7/00—Closing containers or receptacles after filling
    • B65B7/16—Closing semi-rigid or rigid containers or receptacles not deformed by, or not taking-up shape of, contents, e.g. boxes or cartons
    • B65B7/162—Closing semi-rigid or rigid containers or receptacles not deformed by, or not taking-up shape of, contents, e.g. boxes or cartons by feeding web material to securing means
    • 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
    • B65B31/02—Filling, closing, or filling and closing, containers or wrappers in chambers maintained under vacuum or superatmospheric pressure or containing a special atmosphere, e.g. of inert gas
    • B65B31/025—Filling, closing, or filling and closing, containers or wrappers in chambers maintained under vacuum or superatmospheric pressure or containing a special atmosphere, e.g. of inert gas specially adapted for rigid or semi-rigid containers
    • B65B31/028—Filling, closing, or filling and closing, containers or wrappers in chambers maintained under vacuum or superatmospheric pressure or containing a special atmosphere, e.g. of inert gas specially adapted for rigid or semi-rigid containers closed by a lid sealed to the upper rim of the container, e.g. tray-like container
    • 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
    • B65B43/42—Feeding or positioning bags, boxes, or cartons in the distended, opened, or set-up state; Feeding preformed rigid containers, e.g. tins, capsules, glass tubes, glasses, to the packaging position; Locating containers or receptacles at the filling position; Supporting containers or receptacles during the filling operation
    • 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
    • B65B7/00—Closing containers or receptacles after filling
    • B65B7/16—Closing semi-rigid or rigid containers or receptacles not deformed by, or not taking-up shape of, contents, e.g. boxes or cartons
    • B65B7/162—Closing semi-rigid or rigid containers or receptacles not deformed by, or not taking-up shape of, contents, e.g. boxes or cartons by feeding web material to securing means
    • B65B7/164—Securing by heat-sealing
    • 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
    • B65B57/00—Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices
    • B65B57/02—Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices responsive to absence, presence, abnormal feed, or misplacement of binding or wrapping material, containers, or 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
    • B65B65/00—Details peculiar to packaging machines and not otherwise provided for; Arrangements of such details
    • B65B65/02—Driving gear

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  • the invention relates to a sealing station according to the preamble of claim 1 and to a method for operating a sealing station having the features of claim 10.
  • sealing stations For sealing and for example from the DE 690 03 503 T2 Devices are known for sealing a lidding film on packaging trays or trays, so-called sealing stations. Furthermore, it is known that such a sealing station usually has a sealing tool with an upper tool part and a lower tool part and a rod chain for transporting the packaging shells into the sealing tool or out of the sealing tool.
  • the rod chain can be, for example, an arrangement along a conveyor track, which is chain-guided on both sides of the conveyor track, with one or more driver rods extending from one chain to the other chain across the conveyor track.
  • the sealing tool is configured to seal several packages trays arranged in a single row at the same time.
  • the rod chain and / or the sealing tool must be controlled so that none of the driving rods of the rod chain between the upper die and the lower die part of the sealing tool is, so that the sealing tool can be closed for sealing.
  • the sealing station disclosed therein has a lifting device for moving the lower tool part of the sealing tool in a vertical direction.
  • the object of the present invention is to provide an improved sealing station for sealing a lidding film on packaging trays in which an increase in the performance of the sealing station and, at the same time, a reduction of the film trimming is achieved to a minimum with structurally simple means as possible.
  • the sealing station according to the invention is characterized in that the tool lower part of the sealing tool is adapted to receive the packaging shells in at least a first and a second row. Furthermore, the tool lower part has at least one lowerable support plate for lowering at least one of the first or second series of packaging trays. This means that at least two rows of packaging trays can be picked up simultaneously by the sealing tool, as a result of which the performance of the sealing station virtually doubles over that of a single-row tray.
  • the lowerable backing pad avoids that during the transport of the second row of packaging trays, the stick chain collides with the series of trays first transported into the sealing tool.
  • the lower tool part has at least one stationary or stationary support plate.
  • the at least one lowerable Supporting plate is arranged in a transport direction according to the at least one stationary support plate in the lower tool part of the sealing tool. That is, the arrangement according to the invention causes the packaging trays transported into the sealing tool to reach first the stationary and then the lowerable support plate. As a result, firstly the first row of packaging trays can be placed on the at least one lowerable support plate, before the second row of packaging trays is then placed behind it on the stationary support plate.
  • the at least one lowerable support plate can be lowered from a first level in which the packaging trays are transported into the sealing tool into a lower second level and the rod chain in the first plane is moved by the sealing tool become.
  • the lowerable support plate lowers the row of packaging trays so that the bar chain, and in particular the entraining rods of the bar chain attached thereto, can traverse the sealing station above the lowered packaging trays.
  • the at least lowerable support plate supports the bottom of the packaging trays. This allows a particularly simple construction of the support plate, a simple assembly of the same with the packaging trays and also allows easy cleaning of the support plate.
  • the rod chain can be moved between the upper tool part and the lower tool part, while the at least one row of packaging trays or the lowerable support plate together with the packaging trays is lowered. This allows a particularly efficient operation of the sealing station.
  • a plurality of lowerable support plates for one of the first and / or second series of packaging trays is provided.
  • the plurality of lowerable support plates may then be attached to a common beam or connected to such a beam, simultaneously can carry several, a series forming support plates.
  • a series forming support plates may be carried several, a series forming support plates.
  • an electrically or pneumatically actuated actuator for lowering the at least one lowerable support plate is provided is particularly advantageous.
  • the drive of this actuator can be adapted to the rest of the sealing station to make the operation of the sealing station as simple and economical as possible.
  • the sealing tool can be set up to simultaneously pick up and / or lower and / or seal three, four or more rows of packaging trays. This can be achieved with the invention even higher efficiency of the sealing station.
  • the sealing station according to the invention can be used particularly advantageously in a packaging installation, which may also comprise other packaging machines.
  • the advantage of the method according to the invention is that, by lowering the first row of packaging trays already in the sealing tool, the second row of packaging trays can be introduced into the sealing tool by means of the rod chain with a minimum distance between the first and the second row of packaging trays. Because lowering the first row of packaging trays allows the bar chain or the attached traction bar to be moved across the lowered first row of trays, and therefore no additional cutout in the sealing tool between the two rows of trays is necessary. Thus, the method according to the invention makes it possible to minimize the waste of the cover film while at the same time increasing the performance of the sealing station in comparison with a single-row sealing station.
  • the rod chain is temporarily moved counter to a transport direction of the packaging trays to allow the lowering of the lowerable support plate.
  • the packaging shell has on its upper side outwardly projecting edges for sealing the lid film.
  • the rod chain or the carriers of a bar chain can be moved away from the packaging tray so far that a lowering of the lowerable support plate is made possible.
  • the rod chain is temporarily moved counter to a transport direction of the packaging trays to allow closing of the sealing tool.
  • the rod chain is moved in or above the second plane through the sealing tool while the lowerable support plate is in the second (lower) plane.
  • the rod chain in the first plane ie the transport plane can be moved through the sealing tool and thus a costly deflection of the rod chain can be avoided in different levels.
  • the machine performance of the sealing station is significantly increased compared to a single-row sealing station if the method step of sealing the packaging shell with a cover film further comprises evacuation and / or gassing. Because at the cycle times of evacuation and gassing, the two - or more-row arrangement within the sealing tool has an even more advantageous effect than merely sealing the packaging.
  • FIG. 1 shows a schematic side view of a sealing station according to the invention 1.
  • the sealing station 1 is often part of a packaging system 100, which is shown here only highly schematized or dashed.
  • the sealing station 1 serves to seal a lidding film 2 on preformed packaging trays 3 in order to protect the contents of the packaging trays 3.
  • the packaging trays 3 are evacuated and / or fumigated prior to sealing to provide a long shelf life of the food.
  • the packaging trays 3 may be yogurt cups or other sealable plastic containers.
  • the cover film 2 is usually provided as a thermoplastic film web, which is unrolled from a first roll 4 and rolled up as a residual film grid by a second roll 5.
  • the rollers 4, 5 include the sealing station 1 between them.
  • the sealing station 1 further has a sealing tool 6, which comprises an upper tool part 7 and a lower tool part 8. In this case, the lid film 2 is conveyed between the upper die part 7 and the lower tool part 8.
  • the sealing station further comprises a transport device 9, which has a first transport surface 10 and a second transport surface 11.
  • the first transport surface 10 is arranged in a transport direction R in front of the sealing tool and the second transport surface 11 in the transport direction R after the sealing tool 6.
  • the transport device 9 comprises a rod chain 12, the spaced apart Mit supportivestangen 13 has to take along the packaging trays 3.
  • the sealing tool 6 is set up to simultaneously receive the packaging trays 3 in a first row 14 and in a second row 15.
  • the first and the second row 14, 15 in each case from one, two, three or more packaging trays 3, which extend adjacent to each other in the plane, consist. That is, the first and second rows 14, 15 are not along the transport direction R are defined, but extend into the plane of the drawing.
  • the sealing tool 6 has in its lower tool part 8 a lowerable support plate 16, which receives or carries the bottom of the packaging trays 3 of the first row 14.
  • the sealing tool 6 has a pneumatically or electrically operable actuator 17, which moves the support plate 16 in the vertical direction and down.
  • a further, stationary or stationary support plate 18 for receiving the second row 15 of the packaging trays 3 is arranged.
  • the two support plates 16, 18 are arranged at a minimum distance from one another in the tool lower part 8 in order to minimize the waste of the cover film 2.
  • FIG. 2 shows the sealing station 1 according to the invention in a schematic side view and in particular the lowerable support plate 16 in a lowered position. It can be seen particularly well that the support plate 16 has been lowered by means of the actuator 17 from a first plane, which is defined by the transport device 9, into a second, second plane 19 located lower with respect to the first plane.
  • the second plane 19 or the lowering stroke of the actuator 17 is chosen so that the driver rods 13 of the rod chain 12 between the upper die 7 and the tool part 8, but above all on the lowered packaging trays 3 of the first row 14 can be moved away.
  • the operation of the sealing station 1 according to the invention can proceed as described below.
  • FIG. 3 which shows the sealing station 1 according to the invention in a schematic side view
  • a further driving rod 13 of the bar chain 7 arranged behind it in the transporting direction R transports another, namely the second row 15 of the packaging trays 3 in the direction of the sealing tool 6.
  • FIG. 4 shows the sealing station 1 from FIG. 3 in a position in which the lowerable support plate 16 has received the first row 14.
  • the second row 15 of the packaging trays 3 is located in the transport direction R behind.
  • FIG. 7 the sealing station 1 according to the invention is shown in a position in which the support plate 16 has been lifted by the actuator 17 back into the transport plane, so now both rows 14, 15 of the packaging trays 3 are arranged at a small distance from each other in the sealing tool 6.
  • the sealing tool 6 are closed and all arranged in the sealing tool 6 packaging trays sealed with the lid film 2 in a work cycle, the packaging trays 3 are optionally also evacuated and fumigated in an upstream power stroke.
  • a shell receptacle 21 can optionally be provided in order to receive the edges of the packaging trays 3 located in the sealing tool 6 and to lift them in an upward movement in the direction of the cover film 2 and / or the tool upper part 7.
  • a pressure can then be exerted on the edges of the packaging trays 3 between the tray receptacle 21 and the tool upper part 7. If such a liftable bowl receptacle 21 is present, the upward movement of the at least a support plate 16 is carried out independently of the upward movement of the packaging trays 3 and are executed, for example, only during sealing.
  • FIG. 8 shows the sealing station 1 in a position in which the first row and the second row 14, 15 of the packaging trays 3 have been pushed together by one of the driving rods 13 to transport the packaging trays 3 together from the sealing tool 6 out.
  • the sealing station 1 can be modified in many ways.
  • the sealing station 1 such that the sealing tool 6 has another row 20, as in FIG. 9 represented comprises.
  • the further row 20 of the packaging shells 3 is also provided with one or more additional, lowerable support plates 17. The more additional rows of packaging trays 6 are to be accommodated in the sealing tool 6 at the same time, the larger the distances between the individual entrainment bars 13 must be.
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