EP2673197A1 - Procédé et dispositif pour le remplissage de paquets par un matériau de rembourrage en vrac - Google Patents

Procédé et dispositif pour le remplissage de paquets par un matériau de rembourrage en vrac

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EP2673197A1
EP2673197A1 EP12703111.0A EP12703111A EP2673197A1 EP 2673197 A1 EP2673197 A1 EP 2673197A1 EP 12703111 A EP12703111 A EP 12703111A EP 2673197 A1 EP2673197 A1 EP 2673197A1
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package
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filling
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packages
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Thomas Weinmann
Giovanni Berardi
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B&W Solutions GmbH
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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
    • B65B7/28—Closing semi-rigid or rigid containers or receptacles not deformed by, or not taking-up shape of, contents, e.g. boxes or cartons by applying separate preformed closures, e.g. lids, covers
    • 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
    • B65B1/00—Packaging fluent solid material, e.g. powders, granular or loose fibrous material, loose masses of small articles, in individual containers or receptacles, e.g. bags, sacks, boxes, cartons, cans, or jars
    • B65B1/20—Reducing volume of filled material
    • B65B1/22—Reducing volume of filled material by vibration
    • 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
    • B65B55/00—Preserving, protecting or purifying packages or package contents in association with packaging
    • B65B55/20—Embedding contents in shock-absorbing media, e.g. plastic foam, granular 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
    • B65B61/00—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages
    • B65B61/20—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for adding cards, coupons or other inserts to package contents
    • B65B61/22—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for adding cards, coupons or other inserts to package contents for placing protecting sheets, plugs, or wads over contents, e.g. cotton-wool in bottles of pills

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  • the invention relates to a method for filling packages or containers with a cushioning material, wherein the cushioning material is supplied to the package or the container with a feed unit, wherein by means of a scanning unit determines contours of one or more packages in the package or in the container of a Logic device processed and determined therefrom a filling amount of the volume to be filled of the package or container and derived therefrom a variable amount of padding material is introduced into the package or the container.
  • the invention further relates to a device with which in particular the aforementioned method can be carried out.
  • packages are usually filled automatically from a high-bay warehouse individually according to customer requirements.
  • the package will be filled with the items ordered by the customer.
  • different package sizes are also used.
  • padding material in bulk form is filled into the package.
  • upholstery flips are used. These upholstery flaps are usually made of a biodegradable material. They are poured into the package. The excess amount is stripped surface plan with the package top. Then the package is sealed, labeled and shipped. The stripped upholstery elements are collected and made available for refilling subsequent packages. This manually performed packaging process is time consuming and there is a considerable effort for the collection of excess cushioning.
  • the patent document DE 603 06 407 T2 as a translation of EP 1 556 278 B1 describes a cavity filling system for automatically providing and dispensing a quantity of cushioning material sufficient to fill the cavity which has remained in a container in which one or more objects were placed.
  • This void filling system comprises: a cushion dispenser ready to dispense a controlled amount of cushioning material, a container scanner having a scanning area, the container scanner comprising a height sensor for detecting a height characteristic of a container, a width sensor for detecting a width characteristic of the container Container, and a contour sensor for detecting a contour property of the one or more objects in the container, and a logical device, which is ready to process detected property information received from the height sensor, the width sensor and the contour sensor, the amount To determine cushioning material, which is needed to fill the remaining in the container cavity, which is not occupied by the one or to instruct the multiple objects, and the cushion dispenser, to dispense the specified amount of cushioning material. Furthermore, in the above-mentioned document, a device for automatically determining an amount of cushioning material which is sufficient to fill the above-mentioned cavity is described.
  • the object of the invention relating to the method is solved by reading information of an information carrier on the package or container by means of a reading unit and determining therefrom information on the internal volume of the package or container, wherein the contour characteristics of the package or the packages determines a highest point of the package or packages and from a first filling volume of cushioning material is determined, which is required for filling to the highest point of the package or packages.
  • the object concerning the device is achieved in that the device has a reading unit with which information about the type and, derived therefrom, about the internal volume of the package or the container can be determined, wherein the information button unit is designed as an optical laser scanner, with a Triangulations vide a volume of the package or packages and a highest point of the package or packages determined and from a first filling volume of cushioning material can be determined, which for filling up to the highest point of the package or the Packages is needed.
  • the complexity of such a system can thus be reduced, since a hitherto complex determination of the internal volume of the package or the container can be significantly simplified by this approach.
  • the required cushioning material can be determined more accurately, so that the use of cushioning material can be minimized in the sense.
  • the shipping volume can be minimized, which is advantageous in terms of shipping costs and waste disposal.
  • a second filling volume beyond the highest point, is determined and from the filling volume determined in the first step a total volume is calculated as the sum of the two filling volumes of cushioning material and the total volume of cushioning material is filled into the package or into the container optimum protection of the packages in the package or in the container.
  • This defined excess of padding material serves on the one hand to ensure that sufficient padding material, e.g. for filling cavities between the packages, can be filled. On the other hand, this ensures that enough padding material can still be introduced to the upper end of the package or container.
  • the second filling volume is specified taking into account a Greetchy Sea.
  • the density of the cushioning material can be increased if, for example, heavy packages are to be packed.
  • an optimal fixation can be achieved.
  • the second filling volume can be reduced.
  • the second filling volume can be selected according to the necessary requirements for the packaging of the packages.
  • a preferred embodiment variant of the device provides that a second filling volume, beyond the highest point, can be determined on the basis of the information on the type and internal volume and from the filling volume determined in the first step a total volume as the sum of the two filling volumes of cushioning material with the logic device calculable and the information about the calculated total volume of cushioning material is transferable to a metering unit of the feed unit.
  • the dosing unit then provides the cushioning material volume required individually for the respective package.
  • the padding material is then filled into the receptacle via the feed device. Subsequently, this amount of padding is introduced into the package, whereby the filling process is completed. If the volume requirement is greater than the maximum volume in the dosing tank, multiple filling is possible.
  • the second filling volume can be predetermined taking into account a filling material density and / or the nature of the package or packages.
  • the default values can be stored in a memory unit of the logic device in this advantageous device variant, which contributes to a high degree of flexibility, since, depending on the package, the filling amount can be varied.
  • the package or the container in a further step after filling with padding material, is put into vibration movements for a specific time. Then the cushioning material is compacted, whereby a compact fixation of the packages in the package or container is achieved.
  • a device variant therefore has a vibrating unit, which can be controlled by the logic device, so that an automated process is made possible.
  • the package which is designed as einritzbarer carton, scratched from the outside, folded in the resulting tabs and a cuff lid for closing the package are placed.
  • the package can be closed immediately after filling.
  • the device may comprise a scoring device for externally scoring a package designed as a cardboard, which is controllable by the logic device.
  • the device may comprise electromechanical or electropneumatic means for folding tabs resulting from the scoring of the package made as a carton, and for placing a forend on the package, which are also controllable by the logic device.
  • a corresponding control logic in the form of a process control can be implemented in the logic device, whereby a complete, largely automated packaging process can be realized. This saves considerable costs and time and in particular offers advantages in the event of a high volume of packages to be packed.
  • a machine-readable code in the form of a barcode or a 2D pixel code or an RFID chip is used as the information carrier on the package or container, the type of package or container used can very easily be identified as a particularly advantageous variant of the method become.
  • the corresponding preferred device variant provides that the information on the type and internal volume on the package or on the container as machine-readable code in the form of a printed or glued barcode or a 2D pixel code or attached to the package or the container RFID Chip and the reading unit are designed as a corresponding reading device, wherein the reading unit is in communication with the logic device and thus based on a stored in the logic device comparison table from the code directly the internal volume can be determined.
  • This type of determination of the interior volume of the package or container is less time consuming.
  • expensive sensor components as are common in the device according to the prior art, avoided, which reduces the investment requirement for such a packaging device.
  • padding material from a recyclable foam material in particular from corn starch
  • cushioning material which is substantially cylindrical and has a diameter in the range of 10 mm to 20 mm, preferably a diameter in the range between 13 mm and 19 mm, and an axial length of 10 mm to 50 mm, preferably in the range between 20 mm and 40 mm.
  • These upholstery flips are easy to dose and do not tend to jam the mechanics of the filling device.
  • these upholstery flips can be made from plants and are fully biodegradable.
  • Figure 1 is a schematic representation of the steps of the method starting with the sampling of the data for a package volume of a packet;
  • FIG. 2 shows a package shown in FIG. 1 after the filling process
  • Figure 3 shows the package in the closed state.
  • Figures 1 to 3 show a detail in a schematic representation of a designed as a cavity filling system 1 device for filling packages 50 or containers with cushioning material 80, which in particular as upholstery, eg of a recyclable foam material, which is substantially cylindrical and has a diameter in the range of 10 mm to 20 mm and a length of 10 mm to 50 mm is formed.
  • cushioning material 80 which in particular as upholstery, eg of a recyclable foam material, which is substantially cylindrical and has a diameter in the range of 10 mm to 20 mm and a length of 10 mm to 50 mm is formed.
  • the individual steps of the method are shown in the figures.
  • Figure 1 shows the device, which may comprise a support frame, which is composed of frame profiles.
  • a transport device 10 is installed, which may comprise a plurality of transport rollers over which the packages 50 or containers can be guided.
  • a filling unit consisting of a dosing unit and a feed unit (not shown) installed, with which the cushioning material 80 can be filled in the package 50 or in the container.
  • the package 50 or the container usually has one or more packages 60, which is to be secured and padded for transport in the package 50 or in the container from slipping. Between the packages 60 or due to the geometry of the packages 60 and cavities 70 may be located, which also applies to refill.
  • the contour properties of one or more packages 60 can be determined in the package 50 or container, from which can be calculated by means of a logic device, for example in the form of an industrial PC, a volume of the packages 60 and from this a capacity of the volume to be filled of the package 50 or container.
  • This information is used to control the metering unit of the feed unit, so that a variable amount of cushioning material 80 in the package 50 or the container can be introduced.
  • the device has a reading unit 40 with which information on the type and, derived therefrom, on the internal volume of the package 50 or of the container can be determined.
  • the type and internal volume information on the package 50 or on the container may be embodied as machine readable code 53 in the form of a printed or pasted bar code or 2D pixel code or an RFID chip attached to the package 50 or the container.
  • the reading unit 40 is designed as a corresponding reading device (eg barcode scanner or the like), wherein the reading unit 40 transmits the determined data to the logic device.
  • the scanning unit 20 can be embodied as an optical laser scanner or line scanner with which the volume of the package 60 or the packages 60 and a highest point 61 of the package 60 or the packages 60 can be determined by a triangulation method.
  • a first filling volume 90 of cushioning material 80 can be determined, which for filling up to the highest point 61 of the package 60 or the Packages 60 is needed.
  • a second filling volume 100 beyond the highest point 61 is determined and from the filling volume 90 determined in the first step a total volume is calculated as the sum of the two filling volumes 90, 100 of cushioning material 80 and the total volume of cushioning material 80 is filled in the package 50 or in the container, as shown in FIG.
  • the second filling volume 100 may be predetermined taking into account a filling material density and / or the nature of the package 60 or the packages 60, wherein the default values may be stored in a memory unit of the logic device.
  • the package 50 or the container is put into vibration movements for a certain time. For this purpose, a vibrator unit is provided, which can be controlled by the logic device.
  • the package 50 which is designed as einritzbarer carton, scored from the outside, the resulting tabs 51 folded and a cuff 52 can be placed to close the package 50 (FIG 3).
  • the device has a scoring device 30, which can be controlled by the logic device.
  • the device may comprise electromechanical or electropneumatic means for folding the tabs 51 resulting from the scoring of the package 50 embodied as a cardboard and for placing the forend 52 on the package 50, which are controllable by the logic device.
  • a corresponding control logic in the form of a process control can be implemented in the logic device, so that a fully automatic filling of the packages 50 or the containers as well as a closing of the packages 50 can be realized.

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