EP2687448B1 - Procédé et machine pour la mise sous carton de bouteilles rangées de manière horizontale - Google Patents

Procédé et machine pour la mise sous carton de bouteilles rangées de manière horizontale Download PDF

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EP2687448B1
EP2687448B1 EP20130177130 EP13177130A EP2687448B1 EP 2687448 B1 EP2687448 B1 EP 2687448B1 EP 20130177130 EP20130177130 EP 20130177130 EP 13177130 A EP13177130 A EP 13177130A EP 2687448 B1 EP2687448 B1 EP 2687448B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
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    • B65B21/025—Packaging or unpacking of bottles in or from preformed containers, e.g. crates the bottles being arranged in a head-to-bottom formation
    • 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
    • B65B21/00—Packaging or unpacking of bottles
    • B65B21/02—Packaging or unpacking of bottles in or from preformed containers, e.g. crates
    • B65B21/08—Introducing or removing single bottles, or groups of bottles, e.g. for progressive filling or emptying of containers
    • B65B21/12—Introducing or removing single bottles, or groups of bottles, e.g. for progressive filling or emptying of containers using grippers engaging bottles, e.g. bottle necks
    • 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
    • B65B35/00—Supplying, feeding, arranging or orientating articles to be packaged
    • B65B35/56—Orientating, i.e. changing the attitude of, articles, e.g. of non-uniform cross-section
    • B65B35/58—Turning articles by positively-acting means, e.g. to present labelled portions in uppermost position
    • 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
    • B65B61/207—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 inserting partitions between package contents

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  • the present invention relates to a method for cartoning horizontally-arranged bottles and to a machine implementing such a method.
  • the present invention relates to a method and a machine for cartoning horizontally-arranged wine bottles. Explicit reference to this use will be made in the following description without therefore loosing in generality.
  • wine bottle cartoning machines are automatic or semiautomatic machines which receive in input a succession of loose bottles, and which provide in output a succession of cardboard boxes each accommodating therein a predetermined number of bottles arranged in side-by-side rows.
  • the bottle cartoning machines are automatic or semiautomatic machines which can place/deposit a tidy, compact group of bottles in a sequence of cardboard boxes, which are previously formed in the machine by appropriately folding a pre-shaped cardboard sheet, traditionally named blank.
  • the wine bottles are arranged/inserted in the cardboard boxes in vertical position, but some winemakers prefer to arrange the wine bottles horizontally, so as to maintain the bottles in the best position for preserving the wine during transport in the box.
  • the bottle cartoning machine is structured to grip a row of bottles arranged in vertical position, turn the individual bottles by 90° about a vertical axis, and then delicately place/deposit the wine bottles in horizontal position (i.e. arrange them horizontally) in the cardboard box so as to form the layer of bottles in the cardboard box.
  • some cartoning machines can turn the bottles alternatively clockwise and anticlockwise, so that the neck of one bottle is flanked by the side of the tubular section of the two immediately adjacent bottles when the bottles are arranged in horizontal position in the cardboard box.
  • Aim of the present invention is to replace the pre-shaped cardboard tray with another element which is more cost-effective to manufacture.
  • reference numeral 1 indicates as a whole a bottle cartoning machine structured so as to receive in input a succession of loose bottles 2 arranged in vertical position and preferably made of glass, and provide in output a succession of cardboard boxes 3 or similar box-like packaging containers of substantially parallelepiped shape, each of which has inside a predetermined number of horizontally-arranged bottles 2 arranged side-by-side to one another.
  • the cartoning machine 1 substantially comprises a ground-resting supporting frame 4 which is provided with a loading station 5 where the bottles 2 are laid down in horizontal position inside the box 3 temporarily stationary in the loading station 5; a packaging container conveyor 6 which is fixed onto the supporting frame 4, and is adapted to step-advance a succession of cardboard boxes 3 with the opening facing upwards, along a path which crosses the loading station 5; and a bottles arranging and compacting unit 7 which is fixed on the supporting frame 4 by the side of the loading station 5, and is adapted to receive and compact the loose bottles 2 entering the machine 1, so as to form a row of bottles 2 arranged in vertical position, each one touching the adjacent one.
  • the packaging container conveyor 6 is preferably structured so as to form each box 3 starting from a pre-shaped cardboard sheet, traditionally named blank, which is picked from a blank-holding storage 8 fixed directly onto the supporting frame 4, and then step-advance horizontally the box through the loading station 5 with the opening facing upwards.
  • the packaging container conveyor 6 and the bottles arranging and compacting unit 7 are component parts widely known and used in the bottle cartoning filed, and therefore won't be described in further detail.
  • the cartoning machine 1 is further provided with a bottle-moving head 9 which is fixed onto the supporting frame 4 so as to be able to move in horizontal and vertical direction in the space above the loading station 5 and the bottles arranging and compacting unit 7 (or better in the space above the loading station 5 and the outlet of the conveyor belt of the bottles arranging and compacting unit 7), and is structured so as to be able to pick up, on command, a predetermined number of side-by-side aligned bottles 2 (three bottles, in the example shown) from the bottles arranging and compacting unit 7, and then to deposit such bottles 2 inside the box 3 temporarily stationary in the loading station 5.
  • a bottle-moving head 9 which is fixed onto the supporting frame 4 so as to be able to move in horizontal and vertical direction in the space above the loading station 5 and the bottles arranging and compacting unit 7 (or better in the space above the loading station 5 and the outlet of the conveyor belt of the bottles arranging and compacting unit 7), and is structured so as to be able to pick up, on command, a predetermined number of
  • the bottle-moving head 9 is preferably structured so as to be able to:
  • the bottle-moving head 9 releases the row of horizontally-arranged bottles 2 when it is inside the box 3 stationary in the loading station 5, so as to delicately place/deposit the row of horizontally-arranged bottles 2 inside the box 3 and form a layer of horizontally-arranged bottles 2 inside the cardboard box 3.
  • the bottle-moving head 9 is preferably structured so as to be able to turn/overturn the individual bottles 2 by 90° about respective horizontal reference axes A which are locally parallel to reference axis L of the row of bottles 2, alternatively changing the sense of rotation of the bottles 2, so that at the end of the overturning the neck of each bottle 2 is flanked by the tubular section of the two immediately adjacent bottles 3.
  • the bottle-moving head 9 is also preferably structured so as to able to realign again to one another the bottles 2 interposed in horizontal position, so as to form a compact row of bottles 2 interposed in horizontal position.
  • the row of bottles 2 which is deposited into the box 3 stationary in the loading station 5 is thus a compact row of bottles 2 interposed in horizontal position.
  • the bottle-moving head 9 is furthermore structured so as to able to turn, on command, about a vertical reference axis V, so as to optionally form a second layer of horizontally-arranged bottles 2 which symmetrically replicates the spatial arrangement of the layer of bottles 2 in horizontal position previously arranged inside the box 3, and then to deposit said second layer into the box 3 temporarily stationary in the loading station 5.
  • the bottle-moving head 9 is preferably provided with a series of preferably pneumatically-actuated movable gripping members 10 that project downwards starting from an intermediate supporting structure 11 which, in turn, can move horizontally and vertically in the space above the loading station 5 and the bottles arranging and compacting unit 7.
  • Each gripping member 10 is structured so as to be able to selectively grip and withhold an individual bottle 2 at its tubular section, and then turn/overturn the bottle 2 by 90° about an substantially horizontal reference axis A locally substantially parallel to the horizontal reference axis L of the row of bottles 2 (axes A and L are perpendicular to the plane of the sheet in figures 3, 4 and 5 ), so as to arrange the bottle 2 in substantially horizontal position.
  • the movable gripping members 10 are additionally arranged on the bottle-moving head 9, or better on the intermediate supporting structure 11 of the bottle-moving head 9, so that the rotation axes A of the individual bottles are all locally parallel to the horizontal reference axis L of the row of bottles 2.
  • the intermediate supporting structure 11 is instead structured so as to be able to turn, on command, by 180° about a vertical reference axis V, so to be able to turn the entire group of gripping members 10 by 180°.
  • the bottle-moving head 9 is also a component which is widely known and used in the bottle cartoning field and will therefore not be described in further detail.
  • the cartoning machine 1 is finally also provided with a partitioning-septum positioner 12 which is arranged by the side of the loading station 5, preferably on the side opposite to the bottles arranging and compacting unit 7, and is structured so as to be able to automatically deposit a dividing element with collapsible alveolar structure 13 of known type inside the box 3 momentarily stationary in the loading station 5, above the layer of bottles 2 which was previously deposited in the same box 3, in order to be able to interpose the dividing element with collapsible alveolar structure 13 between two superposed layers of horizontally-arranged bottles 2.
  • a partitioning-septum positioner 12 which is arranged by the side of the loading station 5, preferably on the side opposite to the bottles arranging and compacting unit 7, and is structured so as to be able to automatically deposit a dividing element with collapsible alveolar structure 13 of known type inside the box 3 momentarily stationary in the loading station 5, above the layer of bottles 2 which was previously deposited in the same box 3, in order to be able to
  • the dividing element with collapsible alveolar structure 13 substantially consists of an substantially rectangular, longitudinal partitioning wall or panel 13a, and a series of substantially rectangular, transversal partitioning walls or panels 13b which are inserted straddling the longitudinal partitioning wall 13a, orthogonally with respect to the longitudinal partitioning wall 13a and at a predetermined distance from one another, with the possibility of folding freely on the longitudinal partitioning wall 13a.
  • the partitioning-septum positioner 12 is structured so as to be able to deposit the dividing element with collapsible alveolar structure 13 with the longitudinal partitioning wall 13a in horizontal position, resting on the lateral side of all bottles 2 which form the layer of horizontally-arranged bottles 2, and with the transversal partitioning walls 13b (two, in the example shown) in vertical position, each inserted within two immediately adjacent bottles 2 on the same layer of horizontally-arranged bottles 2.
  • the dividing element with collapsible alveolar structure 13 consists of a longitudinal partitioning wall or panel 13a having a shape substantially complementary to that of the opening of the box 3, and a series of transversal partitioning walls or panels 13b (two, in the example shown) which are inserted straddling the longitudinal partitioning wall 13a, orthogonally to the longitudinal partitioning wall or panel 13a and at a predetermined distance from one another, with the capability of freely rotating at the interaction line with the longitudinal partitioning wall 13a between
  • the longitudinal partitioning wall or panel 13a and the transversal partitioning walls or panels 13b are preferably, though not necessary made of cardboard.
  • the dividing element with collapsible alveolar structure 13 takes a flat configuration (see figure 9 ) which minimizes the dimensions of the dividing element 13.
  • the dividing element with collapsible alveolar structure 13 takes a deployed configuration (see figures 10 and 11 ), in which the transversal partitioning walls 13b form, together with the longitudinal partitioning wall 13a, a series of cells each dimensioned to accommodate an individual horizontally-arranged bottle 2.
  • the partitioning-septum positioner 12 is instead preferably structured so as to be able, in sequence, to:
  • the dividing element with collapsible alveolar structure 13 in a deployed configuration has the longitudinal partitioning wall 13a arranged in horizontal position and the transversal partitioning walls 13b arranged in vertical position.
  • Operation of the partitioning-septum positioner 12 is coordinated with that of the packaging container conveyor 6 and with that of the bottle-moving head 9, so as to be able deposit, in a completely automatic manner, a dividing element with collapsible alveolar structure 13 in a deployed configuration above the layer of bottles 2 that was previously placed inside the box 3 stationary in the filling station 5.
  • the partitioning-septum positioner 12 has a modular structure completely separated and independent from the rest of the cartoning machine 1, and is structured so as to be rapidly placed next to the supporting frame 4 of the cartoning machine 1, by the side of the loading station 5 and preferably by the opposite side with respect to the bottles arranging and compacting unit 7, so as to be able to interact with the rest of the component parts of the cartoning machine 1.
  • the partitioning-septum positioner 12 preferably comprises: an auxiliary supporting frame 21 of substantially parallelepiped shape, which is entirely separate and independent from the main supporting frame 4 of the cartoning machine 1, and is structured so as to be arranged by the side of, and possibly anchored to, the main supporting frame 4 of the cartoning machine 1, beside the loading station 5; and a septum-holding storage 23 which is fixed directly onto the supporting structure 21, and is structured so as to contain/house at least one stack 14 of dividing elements with collapsible alveolar structure 13 in flattened configuration.
  • the supporting frame 21 is preferably provided, on the bottom, with a appropriate number of ground-resting wheels 22.
  • the partitioning-septum positioner 12 is furthermore provided with a gripping head 24 which is fixed onto the supporting structure 21 so as to be able to move in horizontal and vertical direction in the space above the septum-holding storage 23 and the adjacent loading station 5 on the supporting frame 4, and is structured so as to be able, in sequence to carry out the steps of:
  • the gripping head 24 is adapted to release the dividing element with collapsible alveolar structure 13 in a deployed configuration when it is located inside the box 3 stationary in the loading station 5, so as to deposit the dividing element 13 in a deployed configuration above the layer of horizontally-arranged bottles already present inside box 3.
  • the gripping head 24 is movable above the septum-holding storage 23 and the loading station 5, between a pick up position in which the gripping head 24 is located above the septum-holding storage 23, aligned with the top of the stack 14 of dividing elements with collapsible alveolar structure in flattened configuration 13; and a release position in which the gripping head 24 is located above the loading station 5, aligned with the opening of the box 3 temporarily stationary in the loading station 5.
  • the gripping head 24 is preferably fixed onto the distal end of an articulated supporting arm 25 with pantographic movement, which lies on a substantially horizontal reference plane, and has a proximal end fixed onto a support carriage 26 which, in turn, is fixed onto the supporting frame 21 with the possibility of moving vertically controlled by a motor assembly 27 fixed onto the supporting frame 21 itself.
  • the distal end of the articulated supporting arm 25 can turn with respect to the support carriage 26 about a vertical reference axis C, controlled by a motor assembly 28 fixed to the same support carriage 26; whereas the articulated supporting arm 25 is formed by two horizontal half-arms which are hinged to each other so as to open in scissor-like manner on the laying plane of the articulated supporting arm 25, and a cascade of gears which are capable of synchronizing the scissor-like opening of the two half-arms with the rotation of the proximal end of the articulated supporting arm 25 on the supporting carriage 26, so as that the gripping head 24 can move in space by reciprocating rectilinear motion along a horizontal rectilinear path which has a first end vertically aligned with the septum-holding storage 23, and a second end vertically aligned with the loading station 5.
  • the articulated supporting arm 25 of the partitioning-septum positioner 12 is thus structured so as to be able to move, on command and alternatively, the gripping head 24 along a horizontal rectilinear path, between a first position, in which the articulated supporting arm 25 arranges the gripping head 24 above the septum-holding storage 23, vertically aligned with the top of the stack 14 of dividing elements with collapsible alveolar structure 13 in flattened configuration; and a second position, in which the articulated supporting arm 25 arranges the gripping head 24 above the loading station 5, aligned vertically with the opening of the box 3 temporarily stopped in the filling station 5.
  • the proximal end of the articulated supporting arm 25 is preferably hinged in axially rotational manner on a supporting crosspiece 26, which is fixed onto the supporting frame 21 in horizontal position, straddling two vertical uprights of the supporting frame 21 itself, with the possibly of moving vertically controlled by a motor assembly 27 fixed onto the supporting frame 21 itself.
  • the gripping head 24 of the partitioning-septum positioner 12 preferably comprises, instead, a supporting structure 30 which is rigidly fixed onto the lower end of a vertical pin 31 which is inserted in axially rotation manner in the distal end of the articulated supporting arm 25; and a series of preferably pneumatically-actuated, gripping members 32 that project downwards from the lower end of the supporting structure 30, so as to each rest on a respective transversal partitioning wall or panel 13b of the dividing element with collapsible alveolar structure 13 in flattened configuration which is located on the top of the stack 14 of dividing elements with collapsible alveolar structure 13 contained in the septum-holding storage 23, and are structured so as to able, on command, to grip and withhold in stable manner the same transversal partitioning wall or panel 13b.
  • Each gripping member 32 of gripping head 24 is moreover structured so at to be able to turn, on command, by approximately 90° with respect to the supporting structure 30, about a horizontal reference axis B locally and substantially parallel to the intersection line between the longitudinal partitioning wall 13a and the transversal partitioning wall or panel 13b on which it rests, so as to be able to selectively arrange the same transversal partitioning wall or panel 13b in the upright position.
  • each gripping member 32 comprises: two suction cups 33 which are fixed in rigid manner and in radial position, on the two axial ends of a supporting shaft 35 which is fixed onto the supporting structure 30 in substantially horizontal position and is locally substantially parallel to the intersection line between the longitudinal partitioning wall 13a and the transversal partitioning walls 13b of the dividing element with collapsible alveolar structure 13 which is located on the top of the stack 14 of dividing elements with collapsible alveolar structure 13 contained in the septum-holding storage 23; and a rotating actuator 34 which is fixed onto the supporting structure 30 and is capable of turning, on command, said supporting shaft 32 by approximately 90° clockwise and anticlockwise, so as to swivel the two suction cups 33 by approximately 90° about the rotation axis B of the supporting shaft 32.
  • the two suction caps 33 are fixed rigidly in radial position, directly onto the two axial ends of the motor shaft 34 of the rotating actuator 35 which, in turn, is fixed rigidly onto the lower part of the supporting structure 30.
  • the two suction caps 33 of each gripping member 32 are connected to an air suction circuit (not shown), and are fixed in rigid manner onto the motor shaft 34 of the rotating actuator 35 so as to be parallel to each other and perpendicular to the rotation axis B of the shaft.
  • the rotating actuator 35 instead can turn, on command, the motor shaft by approximately 90° clockwise and anticlockwise so as to swivel the two suction caps 33 by 90° about the rotation axis B of the shaft.
  • the rotating actuators 35 of the gripping members 32 of gripping head 24 are furthermore fixed to the supporting structure 30 with the rotation axis B of the motor shafts 34 parallel and spaced apart; and the gripping head 24 is adapted to rest on the top of the stack 14 of dividing elements with collapsible alveolar structure 13 in flattened configuration contained in the septum-holding storage 23, arranging the rotation axes B of the motor shafts 34 of the various rotation actuators 35 locally substantially parallel to the intersection lines between the longitudinal partitioning wall 13a and the various transversal partitioning walls 13b.
  • the partitioning-septum positioner 12 is already placed next to the supporting structure 4 of the cartoning machine 1, beside the loading station 5 on the opposite side with respect to the bottles arranging and compacting unit 7, and is also preferably rigidly anchored to the supporting frame 4 of the cartoning machine 1 by means of clamps, bolts or other mechanical connecting members of known type.
  • the packaging container conveyor 6 picks up a blank from the blank-holding storage 8, and then folds it so as to form a cardboard box 3 of substantially parallelepiped shape, which is then arranged in the loading station 5 with the cavity facing upwards.
  • the bottle-moving head 9 places itself above the bottles arranging and compacting unit 7 (or rather over the outlet of the conveyor belt of the bottles arranging and compacting unit 7), and picks up a predetermined number of bottles 2 (three bottles in the example shown) aligned to one another from the bottles arranging and compacting unit 7.
  • the bottle-moving head 9 overturns the individual bottles 2 by 90° about a horizontal axis locally substantially parallel to the reference axis L of the row of bottles 2 so as to form a compact row of horizontally arranged bottles 2, and then moves to the loading station 5 so as to rest/deposit the row of horizontally-arranged bottles 2 delicately into the box 3 stationary in the loading station 5, to compose a layer of horizontally-arranged bottles 2 in the cardboard box 3 (see figure 6 ).
  • the bottle-moving head 9 overturns the individual bottles 2 by 90° about a horizontal axis locally substantially parallel to the reference axis L of the row of bottles 2, alternating the sense of rotation, so that the neck of each bottle 2 is locally flanked by the tubular section of the two immediately adjacent bottles 3; and then realigns the bottles 2 interposed in horizontal position again to one another so as to form a compact row of bottles 2 interposed in horizontal position.
  • the bottle-moving head 9 moves/lowers at the loading station 5, so as to arrange/deposit the compact row of the bottles 2 interposed in horizontal position inside the box 3 stationary in the loading station 5, so as to compose the layer of horizontally-arranged bottles 2 into box 3; and then leave the loading station 5 going back to the bottles arranging and compacting unit 7 to pick up the bottles 2 needed to form/compose the second layer of horizontal-arranged bottles 2 inside the box 3.
  • the bottle-moving head 9 moreover turns the entire assembly of gripping members 10 by 180° about the vertical axis V, so that the spatial arrangement of the second layer of bottles 2 is symmetric with respect to that of the layer of bottles 2 newly deposited in the box 3.
  • the gripping head 24 of the partitioning-septum positioner 12 places itself above the septum-holding storage 23, and then lowers down onto the top of the stack 14 of dividing elements 13 in flattened configuration which is contained in the septum-holding storage 23, so as to arrange the gripping members 32 in abutment on the transversal partitioning walls or panels 13b of the dividing element with collapsible alveolar structure 13 in flattened configuration which is located on top of the stack 14 of dividing elements with collapsible alveolar structure 13 contained in the septum-holding storage 23.
  • the gripping head 24 of the partitioning-septum positioner 12 activates the gripping members 32 so as to withhold the transversal partitioning walls or panels 13b of the dividing element with collapsible alveolar structure 13, and then raises from the top of the stack 14 of dividing elements 13 in flattened configuration which is contained in the septum-holding storage 23, taking with it the dividing element with collapsible alveolar structure 13 in flattened position .
  • the gripping head 24 After having picked up a dividing element with collapsible alveolar structure 13 in flattened configuration from the septum-holding storage 23, the gripping head 24 turns the gripping members 32 by 90° about an equal number of horizontal reference axes B, each of which is locally substantially parallel to the intersection line between the longitudinal partitioning wall 13a and the transversal partitioning walls 13b on which the gripping member 32 rests, so as to force the dividing element with collapsible alveolar structure 13 to arrange itself in the deployed configuration (see figures 7 , 10 and 11 ), in which it forms a series of cells each dimensioned so as to accommodate a horizontally-arranged bottle 2.
  • the gripping head 24 turns the gripping members 32 by 90° about an equal number of horizontal reference axis B, so as to arrange the dividing element with collapsible alveolar structure 13 with the longitudinal partitioning wall 13a in substantially horizontal position and the transversal partitioning walls 13b in substantially vertical position, parallel and distanced from one another.
  • the gripping head 24 of the partitioning-septum positioner 12 places itself above the loading station 5, and moves down into the box 3 stationary in the loading station 5, so as to deposit the dividing element 13 in a deployed configuration on the layer of bottles 2 in the box 3, with the longitudinal partitioning wall 13a resting on the lateral side of all the bottles 2 forming the layer of horizontally-arranged bottles 2 in the box 3, and with the various transversal partitioning walls 13b interposed between the bottles 2 of the same layer of horizontally-arranged bottles 2.
  • the gripping head 24 moves down along the vertical from the loading station 5, so as to insert each of the vertically-arranged transversal partitioning walls 13b of the dividing element 13 in a deployed configuration between two immediately adjacent bottles 2 of the layer of horizontally-arranged bottles 2 present inside box 3, to rest the horizontally-arranged longitudinal partitioning wall 13a of the dividing element in a deployed configuration 13 on the lateral side of all the bottles 2 which compose the same layer of horizontally-arranged bottles 2.
  • the bottle-moving head 9 moves/lowers again in the loading station 5 to rest/deposit the new compact row of bottles 2 interposed in horizontal position into the box 3, above the dividing element with collapsible alveolar structure 13 in a deployed configuration, inserting each horizontally-oriented bottle 2 in a respective cell of the dividing element with collapsible alveolar structure 13.
  • transversal partitioning walls 13b of the dividing element with collapsible alveolar structure 13 are indeed maintained in vertical position by the horizontally-arranged bottles 2 forming the first layer of horizontally-arranged bottles 2, i.e. the lower layer of horizontally-arranged bottles 2.
  • the packaging container conveyor 6 After having deposited the second layer of horizontally-arranged bottles 2, the packaging container conveyor 6 removes the box 3 filled with bottles 2 from the loading station 5, and positions an empty box 3 in the loading station 5.
  • the method for cartoning bottles in horizontal position basically envisages the steps of:
  • the step of depositing the first layer of bottles 2 in the box-like container 3, is furthermore proceeded by the steps of:
  • the step of overturning the bottles 2 in turn comprises the step of turning the individual bottles 2 about respective horizontal reference axis B while changing alternatively the sense of rotation of the bottles 2, so that, at the end of the overturning, the neck of each bottle 2 is flanked by the tubular section of the two immediately adjacent bottles 3.
  • the step of positioning a dividing element with collapsible alveolar structure 13 in deployed position above the first layer of horizontally-arranged bottles comprises the steps of:
  • the dividing elements with collapsible alveolar structure 13 are much cheaper than rigid preformed trays, thus allowing to drastically reduce bottle packaging costs. Furthermore, the dividing elements with collapsible alveolar structure 13 could be easily used also for cartoning bottles in vertical position, with all the advantages that this implies.
  • partitioning-septum positioner 12 with modular structure may be arranged beside the loading station 5 only when the bottle cartoning machine 1 must carton horizontally-arranged bottles, to the benefit of production flexibility of the machine.
  • the bottle-moving head 9 may indeed be fixed onto the supporting structure 4 in easily removable manner, so as to allow the machine user to replace the bottle-moving head 9 with a new bottle-moving head specifically structured to grip the bottles 2 in vertical position at the neck and then rest the bottles 2 in the box 3 again in vertical position.
  • the bottle cartoning machine may be rapidly tooled to carton bottles in both horizontal position and in vertical position.
  • the partitioning-septum positioner 12 may be stably incorporated in the cartoning machine 1.
  • the septum-holding storage 23 is fixed directly onto the supporting structure 4, and the supporting carriage 26 that supports the supporting arm 25 is fixed directly onto the supporting machine 4 with the possibility of moving freely in vertical direction.

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  1. Procédé de mise en carton de bouteilles agencées horizontalement (2) caractérisé en ce qu'il comprend les étapes de
    - dépôt d'une première couche de bouteilles agencées horizontalement (2) à l'intérieur d'un contenant de type boîte (3) immobile dans un poste de chargement (5) ;
    - positionnement, à l'intérieur du même contenant de type boîte (3), d'un élément diviseur doté d'une structure alvéolaire pliante (13) dans une configuration déployée au-dessus de ladite première couche de bouteilles (2), en insérant les parois de séparation transversales (13b) de l'élément diviseur doté d'une structure alvéolaire pliante (13) entre les bouteilles agencées horizontalement (2) formant la première couche de bouteilles (2), et en plaçant la paroi de séparation longitudinale (13a) de l'élément diviseur doté d'une structure alvéolaire pliante (13) reposant sur le côté latéral de toutes les bouteilles (2) formant la première couche de bouteilles agencées horizontalement (2) ;
    - dépôt, à l'intérieur du même contenant de type boîte (3), d'une seconde couche de bouteilles agencées horizontalement (2) au-dessus de l'élément diviseur doté d'une structure alvéolaire pliante (13), en insérant chaque bouteille agencée horizontalement (2) de la seconde couche de bouteilles (2) au sein d'une cellule respective de l'élément diviseur doté d'une structure alvéolaire pliante (13).
  2. Procédé de mise en carton de bouteilles agencées horizontalement selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que l'étape de dépôt de la première couche de bouteilles (2) à l'intérieur du contenant de type boîte (3) est précédée par l'étape de :
    - retrait depuis une unité d'agencement et de compactage de bouteilles (7) d'un nombre prédéterminé de bouteilles (2) agencées dans une position verticale et alignées l'une après l'autre ; puis
    - retournement des bouteilles individuelles (2) d'environ 90° autour d'un axe de rotation horizontal (B) sensiblement parallèle localement à l'axe de référence (L) de la rangée de bouteilles (2), de façon à former une rangée de bouteilles agencées horizontalement (2).
  3. Procédé de mise en carton de bouteilles agencées horizontalement selon la revendication 2, caractérisé en ce que l'étape de retournement des bouteilles (2) envisage de mettre en rotation les bouteilles individuelles (2) autour d'axes de référence horizontaux respectifs (B) en changeant en alternance le sens de rotation des bouteilles (2), de sorte que, à la fin du retournement, le goulot de chaque bouteille (2) soit encadré par la section tubulaire des deux bouteilles immédiatement adjacentes (3).
  4. Procédé de mise en carton de bouteilles agencées horizontalement selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que l'étape de positionnement d'un élément diviseur doté d'une structure alvéolaire pliante (13) dans une configuration déployée au-dessus de la première couche de bouteilles agencées horizontalement (2), comprend les étapes de :
    - ramassage d'un élément diviseur doté d'une structure alvéolaire pliante (13) en configuration aplatie depuis le dessus d'un empilement (14) d'éléments diviseurs dotés d'une structure alvéolaire pliante (13) en configuration aplatie ; et
    - ouverture de l'élément diviseur doté d'une structure alvéolaire pliante (13) de façon à le placer dans la configuration déployée, les parois de séparation transversales (13b) de l'élément diviseur (13) formant, avec la paroi de séparation longitudinale (13a), une série de cellules dont chacune est dimensionnée de façon à loger une bouteille agencée horizontalement (2).
  5. Machine de mise en carton (1) permettant de mettre en carton des bouteilles agencées horizontalement (2) adaptée pour recevoir une succession de bouteilles en vrac (2) agencées en position droite, et fournir une séquence de contenants d'emballage de type boîte (3), dont chacun comporte à l'intérieur un nombre donné de bouteilles agencées horizontalement (2) ; la machine de mise en carton (1) comprenant :
    - un poste de chargement (5) dans lequel les bouteilles (2) sont posées agencées horizontalement à l'intérieur du contenant de type boîte (3) qui est immobile au niveau du poste de chargement (5) ;
    - un convoyeur de contenants d'emballage (6) qui est adapté pour faire avancer par palier une succession de contenants de type boîte (3) avec l'ouverture faisant face vers le dessus, à travers le poste de chargement (5) ;
    - une unité d'agencement et de compactage de bouteilles (7) qui est située près du poste de chargement (5), et est adaptée pour recevoir et compacter les bouteilles en vrac (2) entrant dans la machine (1), de façon à former une rangée de bouteilles (2) agencées en position droite ; et
    - une tête de déplacement de bouteille (9) qui est mobile dans l'espace au-dessus du poste de chargement (5) et de l'unité d'agencement et de compactage de bouteilles (7), et est structurée de façon à pouvoir ramasser depuis l'unité d'agencement et de compactage de bouteilles (7) un nombre prédéterminé de bouteilles (2) alignées côte à côte, puis déposer lesdites bouteilles (2) agencées horizontalement à l'intérieur du contenant de type boîte (3) immobile au niveau du poste de chargement (5) ; la machine de mise en carton (1) étant caractérisée en ce qu'elle comprend également un positionneur de cloison de séparation (12) qui est agencé près du poste de chargement (5), et est structuré de façon à déposer, à l'intérieur du contenant de type boîte (3) immobile au niveau du poste de chargement (5), un élément diviseur doté d'une structure alvéolaire pliante (13).
  6. Machine de mise en carton selon la revendication 5, caractérisée en ce que le positionneur de cloison de séparation (12) comprend un stockage de maintien de cloison (23) qui est structuré de façon à contenir/loger au moins un empilement (14) d'éléments diviseurs dotés d'une structure alvéolaire pliante (13) en configuration aplatie ; et une tête de saisie (24) qui est mobile dans l'espace au-dessus du stockage de maintien de cloison (23) et du poste de chargement (5) adjacent, et est structurée de façon à pouvoir, dans l'ordre,
    - ramasser depuis le dessus de l'empilement (14) d'éléments diviseurs dotés d'une structure alvéolaire pliante (13), un élément diviseur doté d'une structure alvéolaire pliante (13) en configuration aplatie ;
    - provoquer l'ouverture de l'élément diviseur (13), de façon à agencer l'élément diviseur doté d'une structure alvéolaire pliante (13) dans une configuration déployée dans laquelle la paroi de séparation transversale (13b) de l'élément diviseur (13) forme, avec la paroi de séparation longitudinale (13a), une série de cellules dont chacune est dimensionnée de façon à loger une bouteille agencée horizontalement (2), et enfin
    - libérer l'élément diviseur (13) dans une configuration déployée.
  7. Machine de mise en carton selon la revendication 6, caractérisée en ce que la tête de saisie (24) est mobile au-dessus du stockage de maintien de cloison (23) et du poste de chargement (5), entre une position de retrait dans laquelle la tête de saisie (24) est située au-dessus du stockage de maintien de cloison (23), alignée avec le dessus de l'empilement (14) d'éléments diviseurs dotés d'une structure alvéolaire pliante (13) en configuration aplatie ; et une position de libération dans laquelle la tête de saisie (24) est située au-dessus du poste de chargement (5), alignée avec l'ouverture du contenant de type boîte (3) immobile dans le poste de chargement (5).
  8. Machine de mise en carton selon la revendication 7, caractérisée en ce que la tête de saisie (24) est mobile dans l'espace avec un mouvement de va-et-vient rectiligne, le long d'un trajet rectiligne horizontal qui a une première extrémité alignée verticalement avec le stockage de maintien de cloison (23), et une seconde extrémité alignée verticalement avec le poste de chargement (5).
  9. Machine de mise en carton selon la revendication 8, caractérisée en ce que la tête de saisie (24) est fixée sur l'extrémité distale d'un bras de support articulé (25) doté d'un mouvement de pantographe, qui se trouve sur un plan de référence sensiblement horizontal, et à l'extrémité proximale fixée sur un chariot de support (26) qui, à son tour, est mobile verticalement sous commande d'un ensemble moteur (27).
  10. Machine de mise en carton selon la revendication 6, 7, 8 ou 9, caractérisée en ce que la tête de saisie (24) comprend une structure de support (30), et une série d'organes de saisie (32) qui dépassent vers le bas de la structure de support (30), de façon à pouvoir reposer chacun sur une paroi de séparation transversale (13b) respective de l'élément diviseur doté d'une structure alvéolaire pliante (13) placée sur le dessus de l'empilement (14) d'éléments diviseurs dotés d'une structure alvéolaire pliante (13) contenus dans le stockage de maintien de cloison (23), et sont structurés de façon à saisir et maintenir fermement, sur ordre, la même paroi de séparation transversale (13b) ; chaque organe de saisie (32) de la tête de saisie (24) étant structuré de façon à tourner d'environ 90° par rapport à ladite structure de support (30), autour d'un axe de référence (B) sensiblement parallèle localement à la ligne d'intersection entre la paroi de séparation longitudinale (13a) de l'élément diviseur doté d'une structure alvéolaire pliante (13) et la paroi de séparation transversale (13b) contre laquelle il repose.
  11. Machine de mise en carton selon la revendication 10, caractérisée en ce que chaque élément de saisie (32) comprend deux ventouses (33) qui sont fixées de façon rigide et dans une position radiale, sur les deux extrémités axiales d'un arbre de support (34) qui est sensiblement horizontal et sensiblement parallèle localement à la ligne d'intersection entre la paroi de séparation longitudinale (13a) et les parois de séparation transversales (13b) de l'élément diviseur doté d'une structure alvéolaire pliante (13), et un actionneur rotatif (35) qui peut mettre en rotation, sur ordre, ledit arbre de support (34) d'approximativement 90° dans le sens horaire ou antihoraire, de façon à faire pivoter les deux ventouses (33) d'approximativement 90° autour de l'axe de rotation (B) dudit arbre de support (34).
  12. Machine de mise en carton selon l'une quelconque des revendications 5 à 11, caractérisée en ce qu'elle comprend un châssis de support principal reposant sur le sol (4), qui supporte le poste de chargement (5), le convoyeur de contenants d'emballage (6), l'unité d'agencement et de compactage de bouteilles (7) et la tête de déplacement de bouteille (9) ; et en ce que le positionneur de cloison de séparation (12) a une structure modulaire séparée et indépendante du reste des composants de la machine de mise en carton (1), et est structuré de façon à être positionné près du châssis de support (4) de la machine de mise en carton (1), à côté du poste de chargement (5), de façon à pouvoir interagir avec le reste des composants de la machine de mise en carton (1).
  13. Machine de mise en carton selon la revendication 12, caractérisée en ce que le positionneur de cloison de séparation (12) comprend un châssis de support auxiliaire (21) qui est séparé et indépendant du châssis de support principal (4) de la machine de mise en carton (1), supporte directement le stockage de maintien de cloison (23) et la tête de saisie (24) du positionneur de cloison de séparation (12), et est structuré de façon à être accessible au châssis du support principal (4) de la machine de mise en carton (1), près du poste de chargement (5).
  14. Machine de mise en carton selon la revendication 13, caractérisée en ce que le châssis de support auxiliaire (21) est pourvu sur le fond de roues reposant sur le sol (22).
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