EP2668103B1 - Verpackungsmaschine und verfahren zur herstellung von vakuumierten und/oder begasten verpackungen - Google Patents

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EP2668103B1
EP2668103B1 EP12703443.7A EP12703443A EP2668103B1 EP 2668103 B1 EP2668103 B1 EP 2668103B1 EP 12703443 A EP12703443 A EP 12703443A EP 2668103 B1 EP2668103 B1 EP 2668103B1
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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
    • B65B31/00—Packaging articles or materials under special atmospheric or gaseous conditions; Adding propellants to aerosol containers
    • B65B31/04—Evacuating, pressurising or gasifying filled containers or wrappers by means of nozzles through which air or other gas, e.g. an inert gas, is withdrawn or supplied
    • 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
    • B65B31/021—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 the containers or wrappers being interconnected
    • 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
    • B65B41/00—Supplying or feeding container-forming sheets or wrapping material
    • B65B41/12—Feeding webs from rolls
    • 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
    • B65B47/00—Apparatus or devices for forming pockets or receptacles in or from sheets, blanks, or webs, comprising essentially a die into which the material is pressed or a folding die through which the material is moved
    • 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

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  • the present invention relates to a packaging machine with a thermoforming station that forms packaging trays in a web and a sealing station, which integrally secures a top fabric web on the web, wherein before the cohesive connection the packaging tray is and / or gassed and a cutting device, the so isolated packaging from the webs isolated.
  • a generic packaging machine is off DE 10 2006 020361 known.
  • the present invention relates to a method for producing a package in which a web is cyclically transported along a packaging machine and molded per cycle one or more packaging trays in the web and then filled the packaging tray with a packaged goods and then a lidding film is sealed to the packaging tray, wherein drawn before sealing in the packaging tray vacuum and / or gas exchange is made.
  • the packaging trays are often evacuated prior to sealing with a lidding film, i. H. the air contained therein is withdrawn and possibly replaced by a replacement gas.
  • This replacement gas may be, for example, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, argon and / or oxygen or a mixture of these or other gases.
  • the present invention relates to a packaging machine.
  • This packaging machine is preferably a so-called FFS packaging machine, ie a so-called form-fill-seal packaging machine.
  • a packaging tray in a web usually a plastic film web, for example by deep drawing, shaped and closed after filling the packaging tray in a sealing station with a Oberwdicbahn, which is also usually a plastic film web.
  • the top fabric web is materially connected, in particular by sealing, with the lower fabric web.
  • the packaging tray is now according to the invention discharged and / or gassed, wherein the degassing a certain vacuum, d. H. a certain negative pressure, is generated in the packaging tray.
  • gassing gas exchange takes place in the packaging tray, i. the packaging tray is at least partially replaced by a replacement gas. This gas exchange can follow a degassing of the packaging tray.
  • the replacement gas may be, for example, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, argon and / or oxygen or a mixture of these or other gases.
  • a vacuum storage volume is located in the area of the packaging machine.
  • This storage volume can be, for example, a tank and / or pipes and / or pockets and / or cross-sectional extensions adapted to the desired volume within the sealing tools. Due to the fact that this vacuum storage volume is provided in the region of the packaging machine, preferably in the immediate vicinity of the packaging tray to be emptied and / or fumigated, a significantly faster degassing or gassing of the individual packaging trays is possible than in the prior art. As a result, the number of cycles of the packaging machine can be increased.
  • the packaging machine has a frame on which, for example, the forming station, the sealing station and / or the separating station are preferably mounted displaceably.
  • the vacuum storage volume is provided within the frame of the packaging machine, so that the path between this volume and the sealing station, within which usually the vacuum is drawn or the gas exchange takes place, is as short as possible.
  • the flow resistance in the line between the volume and the discharge or gassing is low. By one or more of these measures, the desired negative pressure in the packaging tray and / or gas exchange can be done very quickly.
  • the machine is a cyclically operating machine.
  • a packaging tray or a format consisting of a plurality of packaging trays is transported intermittently along the packaging machine from one processing station to the next.
  • the vacuum storage volume is now dimensioned at least in its volume such that it has the vacuum volume required for one cycle. This volume is then available for the degassing of the packaging tray very quickly, so that the degassing or fumigating the packaging tray can be done much faster than in packaging machines according to the prior art.
  • the packaging machine has a gassing or degassing agent.
  • gassing or degassing agent may, for example, be a nozzle with which air is drawn out of the packaging troughs or the replacement gas is blown into the packaging troughs.
  • the fumigant and the degassing agent constitute a structural unit.
  • the packaging machine has a control with which the amount of the supplied gas or the degree of vacuum, d. H. the negative pressure in the packaging tray is adjustable. If this negative pressure, for example, not be large enough, air is drawn so long, until this vacuum is reached.
  • Another object of the present invention is a method according to claim 5.
  • the volume required for one cycle is at least substantially built up before the degassing of the packaging cavity is carried out.
  • a container with a certain volume can be subjected to a certain negative pressure before the actual degassing of the packaging tray takes place.
  • This container is then opened abruptly, for example, by a valve and sucks a predetermined amount of gas until the desired pressure has set in the packaging tray.
  • this procedure according to the invention is much faster.
  • the packaging tray can be filled with a replacement gas.
  • this container is then again subjected to negative pressure, wherein the connection between the container and the degassing, for example, the degassing is then closed.
  • This connection is opened again at the earliest when the intended negative pressure prevails in the container.
  • At least the majority of the vacuum volume required for one cycle is already provided during the sealing and / or during the transport of the material web in the region of the packaging machine.
  • the cycle speed of the method according to the invention is also increased because the required vacuum volume is already available when the next packaging cavity or the next format is to be evacuated.
  • the amount of gas to be filled in a packaging tray or the negative pressure to be achieved in a packaging tray regulated.
  • This regulation preferably takes place as a function of the filling quantity of the packaging tray.
  • FIG. 1 shows the packaging machine 1 according to the invention, which has a thermoforming station 2, a filling station 7 and a sealing station 19.
  • a web 8, here a plastic film web 8, the so-called sub-web, is withdrawn from a supply roll and, preferably cyclically transported along the packaging machine according to the invention from right to left. At one cycle, the web 8 is transported on by one format length.
  • the packaging machine has two transport means, in the present case in each case two endless chains, which are arranged to the right and left of the film web. Both at the beginning and at the end of the packaging machine at least one gear is provided for each chain in each case, around which the respective chain is deflected. At least one of these gears is driven.
  • the gears in the input area and / or in the output area can be connected to each other, preferably by a rigid axis.
  • Each means of transport usually has a plurality of clamping means which clamp the web 8 in the inlet region and transmit the movement of the means of transport to the lower film 8.
  • the clamping connection between the transport and the web 8 is released again.
  • the thermoforming station 2 which has an upper tool 3 and a lower tool 4, which has the shape of the packaging tray to be produced, the packaging trays 6 are formed in the film web 8.
  • the lower tool 4 is arranged on a lifting table 5, which, as symbolized by the double arrow, is vertically adjustable. Before each film feed, the lower tool 4 is lowered and then raised again.
  • the packaging trays are then filled in the filling station 7 with the packaged goods 16.
  • a top film 14 is firmly bonded, preferably by sealing on the web 8.
  • the upper tool and / or the lower tool are lowered or raised before and after each film transport.
  • a certain negative pressure is generated in the filled packaging tray and / or there is a gas exchange. The generation of the negative pressure or the gas exchange are preferably carried out while the respective packaging tray is within the sealing station, preferably immediately before the sealing tools 11, 12 are pressed against each other.
  • the upper film 14 may be guided in means of transport or be transported by transport chains, these means of transport then only from the Sealing station and possibly downstream extend. Otherwise, the statements that have been made to the means of transport of the lower film apply.
  • the finished packages are separated, which takes place in the present case with the cross cutter 25 and the slitter 23.
  • the cross cutter 25 can also be raised or lowered in the present case by means of a lifting device 9.
  • FIG. 2 shows the sealing station of the packaging machine according to the invention, in which an upper film web is sealed onto the filled packaging trays 6.
  • the not yet closed with a lid film packaging trays are provided with the reference numeral 6, the already closed packaging trays with the reference numeral 6 '.
  • the representation according to FIG. 2 It can also be seen that this packaging machine works in cycles, with each cycle a format 15, which in the present case consists of three rows and three columns of packaging trays, is further transported to a certain extent, in particular by the length of the format 15. The transport direction is symbolized by an arrow. Before the respective packaging tray is closed with the cover film, air is sucked out of the packaging trays according to the invention.
  • This degassing agent 17 is designed in the present case so that in the same unit also a fumigant 13 takes place, which, after or while the air is withdrawn from the packaging troughs, blows a replacement gas into the packaging trays.
  • all packaging trays of a format are simultaneously discharged and / or fumigated.
  • FIG. 3 essentially shows the embodiment according to FIG. 2 ,
  • the degassing 17 and the fumigant 13 are arranged parallel to the frame 10 of the packaging machine or parallel to the direction of movement of the film web 8 and are each provided as separate units.
  • 17 air can be removed from the packaging trays by means of the degassing and then and / or at the same time by means of the gassing 13 the packaging trays a replacement gas are supplied.
  • a gas storage tank 18 and / or a vacuum storage volume 20 are provided in the packaging machine in particular within the frame 10 of the packaging machine. These volumes are by means of a short path with the degassing or gassing 13, 17th connected.
  • a shut-off device for example a valve, is preferably provided in each case.
  • the vacuum storage volume 20 in the present case is connected to a vacuum means here a vacuum pump 21, which is operated so that the required volume in relation to the required negative pressure or the required amount is approximately available before the actual degassing of the respective packaging tray or Formats are made on packaging troughs.
  • vacuum is drawn in the vacuum storage volume 20, in particular before air is sucked out of the packaging troughs.
  • the gas storage volume 20 preferably has exactly the or a larger volume, which is required for the gas exchange of the respective format of packaging trays at a clock.
  • this storage volume 18 is filled here, for example from a gas source here a gas storage tank 22 before the actual fumigation of the packaging trays takes place.
  • FIG. 5 shows essentially the embodiment of FIG. 4 , wherein in the present case separate gassing or degassing nozzles 13, 17 are provided, which are each separately connected to the respective storage volume 18, 20.

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