EP2707287B1 - Procédé et dispositif de cerclage d'emballages multiples, de produits emballés ou d'articles groupés - Google Patents

Procédé et dispositif de cerclage d'emballages multiples, de produits emballés ou d'articles groupés Download PDF

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EP2707287B1
EP2707287B1 EP12713068.0A EP12713068A EP2707287B1 EP 2707287 B1 EP2707287 B1 EP 2707287B1 EP 12713068 A EP12713068 A EP 12713068A EP 2707287 B1 EP2707287 B1 EP 2707287B1
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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
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    • B65B13/18—Details of, or auxiliary devices used in, bundling machines or bundling tools
    • 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
    • B65B13/00—Bundling articles
    • B65B13/02—Applying and securing binding material around articles or groups of articles, e.g. using strings, wires, strips, bands or tapes
    • B65B13/04—Applying and securing binding material around articles or groups of articles, e.g. using strings, wires, strips, bands or tapes with means for guiding the binding material around the articles prior to severing from supply
    • B65B13/10—Carriers travelling completely around the articles while holding the free end 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
    • B65B13/00—Bundling articles
    • B65B13/18—Details of, or auxiliary devices used in, bundling machines or bundling tools
    • B65B13/184—Strap accumulators
    • 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
    • B65B13/00—Bundling articles
    • B65B13/18—Details of, or auxiliary devices used in, bundling machines or bundling tools
    • B65B13/22—Means for controlling tension of binding 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
    • B65B27/00—Bundling particular articles presenting special problems using string, wire, or narrow tape or band; Baling fibrous material, e.g. peat, not otherwise provided for
    • B65B27/04—Bundling groups of cans or bottles
    • 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
    • B65B61/14—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for incorporating, or forming and incorporating, handles or suspension means in 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
    • B65B65/003—Packaging lines, e.g. general layout
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  • the present invention relates to a method for strapping groups, containers, packaged goods and / or grouped articles, packaged goods o. The like. With the features of claim 1.
  • the invention further relates to a strapping station with the features of claim 6 and a control and / or control method for controlling / controlling a belt tension of a strapping belt freely guided between a magazine and a movable application head, having the features of claim 9.
  • beverage containers For the processing, compilation, grouping and packaging of articles such as beverage containers, there are different types of packaging, for example, the summary of articles or containers to portable, relatively handy packaging units.
  • various ways are known to combine individual articles into larger containers.
  • beverage containers are usually combined and packaged by means of shrink films into containers of four, six or more containers.
  • the production of containers is usually unavoidable because they represent the most common variant of sales units for beverage containers or bottles made of PET plastic.
  • the containers are partially recombined for transport and / or put together in layers and palletized.
  • a variant in which it is basically possible to dispense with the use of shrink films are so-called strapping packages.
  • the container by means of so-called.
  • Strapping tapes combined into a bundle and connected together.
  • articles or bottles are grouped into formations and then strapped with the aid of Umreifungsaggregaten with a band or with multiple bands.
  • Typical formations may be, for example, 1 x 2 arrays (two bins in series), 2 x 2 arrays (four square bins or diamond formation), 3 x 2, 4 x 3 or, in principle, variable n x m arrays ,
  • Typical formations may be, for example, 1 x 2 arrays (two bins in series), 2 x 2 arrays (four square bins or diamond formation), 3 x 2, 4 x 3 or, in principle, variable n x m arrays .
  • the containers may be damaged, but if the preload is too low, the holding stability will be impaired.
  • the selected pre-tensioning pre-tensioning is properly adjusted can essentially only be verified by sampling and checking samples, which, however, produces rejects during container and package production.
  • the machine parameters of the strapping machine must be adjusted by an operator and reset.
  • the application heads used for strapping the articles, containers or packaged goods are usually fed into machine frames and move one after the other over the containers to attach the strapping. Since in this case the strapping must be permanently tracked, at high speeds of the application heads problems may arise in terms of tape tracking, which can lead to machine malfunction under unfavorable circumstances.
  • the primary object of the present invention is seen in an improved apparatus and a corresponding method for producing strapped containers, groupings of cargo and / or packaged goods from one, but in particular from at least two combined with a strapping articles, cargo or containers to propose which ensures and maintains a reliable, interference-free and collision-free tape guide under all operating conditions.
  • the invention proposes a method for strapping groupings, containers, packaged goods and / or grouped articles, packaged goods o. The like. With at least one approximately horizontal and / or vertical and / or diagonal around the outside of the container, packaged goods or Group of articles or packaged goods placed and / or tensioned open or a closed ring forming strapping, which is stretched to form a solid composite of strapped containers, articles, packaged goods, etc. ago.
  • the strapping band is supplied by a magazine with an endless supply of at least one strapping device, ie a strapping head or application head, for applying the strapping to one grouping, one container, at least one packaged good and / or the grouped articles or packaged goods.
  • the strapping is promoted at least within a working range of the applicator head largely unguided and / or free-running, ie the strapping is without further guide elements, tape guides or suspended during the entire strapping process free-floating in the working area of the application head, in particular during its conveying and replenishment movements and during which slow or fast movements during the synchronous tracking of moving in a horizontal conveying direction container and when changing to another, adjacent container.
  • the strapping band between the magazine and the endless supply and / or downstream band guide region and the strapping device or the application head is promoted largely unguided and / or free-floating and thereby runs guideless and collision-free with other machine parts or Components of the packaging or strapping device.
  • the free-flying guidance of the strapping which can optionally also run to several simultaneously operating application heads, a trouble-free belt conveyor is ensured without the band sags on the one hand too much and thus comes in danger to get tangled or parts of the machine or to put the containers.
  • the band tension which can be readjusted if necessary at any time, not too high, as this undisturbed Nachbine required for the strapping and for the movements of the application heads relative to the possibly permanently conveyed on a horizontal conveyor containers or groups of items required tape sections and tape lengths could be affected.
  • a preferred variant of the method according to the invention provides that the at least one strapping device or the at least one strapping head or application head moves the containers, packaged goods or grouped articles or packaged goods moved on a horizontal conveyor at least during a strapping and / or belt tensioning operation with parallel and approximately synchronous Movement follows and then another to be strapped container, packaged goods, etc. is supplied.
  • the strapping is thus withdrawn from the supply at different superimposed speeds, which are necessary due to the strapping process and the forward and backward movements of the application head and transported from the magazine and / or from the supply station and fed to the application head, so that the sag of the free-flying region of Bandes can always be kept between sensible extreme values.
  • the tape tension between the strapping device or the application head and the magazine (endless supply) or the tape guide area taking into account several, during the strapping of a container, packaged goods, etc. and moving movements of the at least one application head changing input variables permanently readjust.
  • the permanently changing tape lengths in the free-running section between the fixed magazine or tape guide region and the application head moving at different speeds and in different directions can be adjusted in terms of sag that the slack becomes neither too great nor too small, which a very fast belt conveyance and also a belt retraction in the tape guide area or in the magazine requires.
  • the method of the invention also includes steps of feeding and threading a new strapping band when a supply is exhausted or when a disturbance occurs which necessitated a threading out of the band.
  • the method preferably provides for automated, in particular fully automatic, docking of the application head to be loaded with a new tape on the magazine or its tape guide elements and controlled transfer and threading of the tape into the tape guide elements of the application head.
  • the supply of a new Umreifungsbandaggings from the magazine to at least one application head by its automatically controlled approach and / or by its docking with the magazine and by an automated threading of the strapping in the application head with simultaneous tracking of the strapping from the magazine.
  • the automated threading of a new strapping in the application head may, for example, even after a crack or damage to the tape may be required and takes place in the manner described.
  • the invention further comprises, in addition to the method described above in various embodiments, a strapping station for strapping groups, containers, packaged goods and / or grouped articles, packaged goods or the like with at least one approximately horizontal and / or vertical and / or. or strapping band placed diagonally around the outside of the packs, packaged goods or group of articles or packaged goods and / or tensioned open or a closed ring which is tensioned to form a firm bond of the band, articles, packaged goods, etc. strapped to the band.
  • a strapping station for strapping groups, containers, packaged goods and / or grouped articles, packaged goods or the like with at least one approximately horizontal and / or vertical and / or. or strapping band placed diagonally around the outside of the packs, packaged goods or group of articles or packaged goods and / or tensioned open or a closed ring which is tensioned to form a firm bond of the band, articles, packaged goods, etc. strapped to the band.
  • the strapping station comprises at least one horizontal conveyor for transporting the containers to be strapped, packaged goods or grouped articles or packaged goods and at least one of the containers, packaged goods or groups of articles or packaged separately from above and at least for a strapping and tape tension cycle parallel and approximately synchronous with the Applicable head or strapping head which can be moved in the conveying direction for containers, packaged goods or groups of articles or packaged goods to be strapped.
  • the strapping station comprises a magazine with an endless supply of the unwinding strapping band which is fed to the at least one application head or strapping head.
  • the strapping band is guided free-floating at least in a working region of the application head and without further guides, band guide elements or the like.
  • the strapping band between the magazine with the endless supply of the strapping and the application head or the strapping device can be largely guided and promoted running without guidance and / or free-floating.
  • the maximum range of motion of the application heads understood when they follow the promoted groups or containers during strapping or implemented after a completed strapping process to another container or to a group to be strapped.
  • the movement of the application heads can be controlled by gantry robots, by means of articulated robots or in other ways.
  • the space that can reach and cover the application heads here due to their kinematics, defines the said work area of the application heads in the context of the present invention, also based on the previously described in various embodiments method for strapping of containers, groups, packaged goods, etc.
  • the guideless and referred to as "free-flying" Band course extends according to the present invention, at least on this work area.
  • the guideless or free-flying band profile can also extend beyond the working area of the application heads, if, for example, the magazine or a band guide area adjacent thereto or downstream forms the transfer point of the guided band to the guideless or free-running band guide area adjoining it.
  • the guideless band course portion is correspondingly longer, which may possibly mean an increased regulatory effort to ensure correct tape tension or a sufficient tape sag.
  • the strapping can optionally be supplied from above or from below or from almost any position.
  • the feeding usually occurs over the transfer area of the belt, which must be suitable for rapid conveyance or return transport to limit both the maximum slack and the maximum belt tension of the strap in the "free-flying" section.
  • This tape guide section may form part of the magazine, but this is not mandatory.
  • the magazine can be arranged at almost any point inside or outside the strapping, for example, in front, behind or next to a machine frame.
  • the transfer area is normally associated with the strapping station or fixed to its machine frame, but may also be placed separately from the machine frame.
  • the magazine are then usually associated with one or more endless rollers with the unwinding strapping, but which can also be placed separately from the magazine, so that a certain distance between the replaceable roles with the strapping and the stationary magazine can exist.
  • the strapping station is usually located in a machine frame, which also accommodates the magazine for storing the endlessly from a roll o. The like. Unwinding strapping band. From this magazine, the feeding of the strapping tape to its place of use, which is defined by a working area of at least one application head. At least one such application head, possibly also several application heads, move within the machine frame and ensure the automated strapping of the packaged goods, containers or groups of articles. According to the invention, the strapping band is guided between the fixed magazine and the moving application head without further guide or suspension elements. The promotion and feeding of the tape from the magazine into the work area to the application head is thus "free-flying" or leadership.
  • a controllable tape guide area for tracking and / or back tension of the free guided portion of the strapping between the cyclically and / or oscillating moving application head and the magazine arranged. Since the at least one application head moves with constantly fluctuating speeds in different directions, the slack or the length of the free-running band section permanently changes, so that by means of the band guide section as needed for a slow or fast tracking or for a slow or rapid withdrawal of Bandes can be taken to prevent malfunctions of the machine.
  • the mentioned tape guide area is a stationary part of the magazine and normally comprises motor-driven rollers or other conveying means with which the tape can be moved quickly and largely without slippage in both conveying directions.
  • the tape guide area is preferably a control device for controlling the belt tension between the endless supply and the at least one strapping head, taking into account the consumption of strapping and its superimposed vertical and horizontal movements during a strapping process and / or when changing to another assigned to strapping containers, packaged goods or a group of articles or packaged goods.
  • the control device thus controls all conveying drive movements of the strapping in all directions, and this depending on the volume requirement during the different movements of the at least one application head.
  • the required belt Nachchie or return funding can optionally be determined by means of a suitable sensor, which can work in different ways.
  • a suitable sensor which can work in different ways.
  • photoelectric barriers or other image capture devices such as cameras can be provided.
  • the belt tension can optionally also be detected mechanically, inductively or by other means. These belt tension detection devices may preferably be coupled to the control device.
  • it may also be sufficient to detect the belt conveyances in each case with displacement and / or angle sensors in the area of the belt guide area or of the magazine, for example by simple revolution encoders or rotary encoders which can be associated with deflection or drive rollers in the band guide area.
  • Their signals can provide meaningful values to the control device which, in connection with a position detection of the application heads, can provide the necessary conveyor lengths or return conveyor lengths for the strapping belt.
  • the control device which, in connection with a position detection of the application heads, can provide the necessary conveyor lengths or return conveyor lengths for the strapping belt.
  • Between the endless supply of the strapping and the free tape guide portion is preferably a so-called.
  • Active tape guide with which the entire scheme is implemented to control the slack of the "free-flying" guided band section between the magazine and the application head.
  • This tape guide control normally includes drive motors which cooperate with conveyor rollers or the like for the belt and move and / or retract it in both directions.
  • the invention comprises a control and / or control method for controlling / controlling a band tension of a strapping band guided between an endless supply of a magazine and a movable strapping head or application head, free or "free-floating".
  • the method is used in particular for controlling the belt tension at a strapping station according to one of the previously described embodiments.
  • the tape tension between the application head or strapping head and the endless supply or the tape guide area taking into account several, possibly changing input variables are permanently adjusted.
  • a first input variable may be formed in this control method from a regular tracking distance, which is required to compensate for the consumed during the strapping of the container, the packaged goods or grouped article length of Umreifungsbandes. This is usually a relatively slow tracking of the strap.
  • a second input variable can be derived from the consideration of a fast tape tracking during the "shooting in” of the tape into the frame of the application or strapping head. In this case, the strapping must be tracked relatively quickly. This fast tracking occurs repeatedly briefly and repeatedly cyclically.
  • a third input variable for the control method can furthermore be formed from consideration of a medium-fast, temporarily fluctuating tracking and / or a medium-fast reverse voltage by the oscillating movements of the application or strapping head.
  • the application head moves alternately parallel to the conveying direction of the containers or articles and applies the strapping. Then it is returned with the same, but typically at a much higher speed to be moved over another container and there to apply the strapping. Once this strapping is applied and tensioned, the application head moves back against the belt conveying direction, so that the strapping must be retracted or stretched back a suitable way to reduce slack and to prevent tangling of the belt.
  • At least two of the three mentioned input variables, in particular all three input variables for obtaining a controlled variable for the controlled tracking or reverse tension of the strapping band in the band guiding region, are taken into account and offset against each other.
  • the superimposed band movement can be calculated from this and implemented very quickly and dynamically.
  • strapping this basically means a sufficiently flexible, mechanically stable and easily conveyable endless material, which is generally unrolled from a roll.
  • the strapping can be formed, for example, by one, two or more bands of rope material, wire, plastic, metal, paper or a composite material which are glued, welded, clamped, knotted or otherwise connected at their ends.
  • the strapping is placed as a closed ring on the container or groupings and stretched to form a loop.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates, by means of an exemplary embodiment, a strapping station 10 according to the invention which comprises the strapping of groups, containers 12, packaged goods and / or grouped articles, packaged goods or the like with at least one approximately horizontal and / or vertical and / or diagonal around the outside of the containers 12, Packaged goods or group of articles or packaged goods and / or tensioned open or closed ring forming strapping 14, which is stretched to form a solid bond.
  • the container 12 in particular according to Fig. 3 be formed by a plurality of combined beverage container 16, which are held together by a horizontally extending strapping 14.
  • the containers 16 and / or the strapping 14 may be provided with a carrying handle 18, which may be formed either from the strapping material or from a sheet material or the like.
  • the anchoring of the carrying handle 18 may be located on the outer circumferential surfaces of two or more containers 16, for example. By splices.
  • the carrying handle 18 can also be formed by a closed ring, which engages under the strapping 14, which is stretched horizontally around the containers 16 of the container 12.
  • the groupings, containers 12, packaged goods, etc. held together with the strapping 14 can optionally also have almost any other configurations.
  • the presentation of the Fig. 3 should be understood merely as an example.
  • the strapping station 10 is part of a packaging machine 20, the example. According to Fig. 2 be configured and may have a transport path 22 with a single or multi-track formed horizontal conveyor 24 for transporting the container to be strapped 12.
  • the strapping station 10 comprises at least one of the containers to be strapped 12 individually fed from above and at least for a strapping and tape tensioning cycle parallel and approximately synchronously with the containers to be strapped 12 in the conveying direction 26 movable application head 28. Normally, however, to achieve a sufficient conveyor and Processing speed several such application heads 28 arranged in a strapping station 10, for example. Two ( Fig. 1 ) or four ( Fig.
  • the strapping station 10 comprises a magazine 30 with an endless supply 32 of the unwinding strapping 34, which is the at least one application head 28 is supplied.
  • the magazine 30 must have a corresponding number of rollers or endless supply rolls 32 with strapping band 34 to be unrolled in order to be able to supply all application heads 28 equally with the strapping band 34.
  • Fig. 1 can be seen in an implied manner, which is designated in this area by the reference numeral 36 strapping between the stationary magazine 30 with the likewise stationary endless supply 32 of the strapping 34 and the application head 28 guideless and free-running running and promoted.
  • the strapping station 10 is normally located in a machine frame 38, which is also the in Fig. 2 not shown magazine 30 for storing the endless from a roll 32 o. The like. Unwinding strapping 34 receives. From this magazine 30, the feeding of the free-guided guided strapping 36 to its place of use, which is defined by the respective work area of each existing application head 28.
  • a plurality of application heads 28 move within the machine frame 38 and ensure the automated strapping of the containers 12.
  • a controllable tape guide portion 40 for tracking and / or back tension of the free-guided portion 36 of the strapping between the cyclically and / or oscillating moving application head 28 and the magazine 30 is arranged. Since the application head 28 moves at constantly fluctuating speeds in different directions parallel to or opposite to the conveying direction 26 of the horizontal conveyor 24, the sag or the length of the free-running belt section 36 changes permanently so that by means of the belt guide section 40 for a slow or fast tracking or for a slow or rapid retraction of the belt 36 can be taken, which prevents the risk of interference due to a too sagged or too taut stretched belt section 36.
  • the tape guide portion 40 is a part of the magazine 30 and this associated with and includes normally motorized rollers 42 or other funding, with which the belt 36 can be moved quickly and largely without slippage in both conveying directions.
  • the tape guide portion 40 and the conveyor rollers 42 is a control device 44 for controlling the tape tension between the magazine 30 and the application head 28, taking into account the consumption of Umreifungsband 34 and its superimposed vertical and horizontal movements during a Umreifungsvorganges and / or when changing to another to be strapped Container 12 assigned.
  • the control device 44 controls all conveying drive movements of the strapping band 34, 36 in all conveying directions, and this depending on the tape requirement during the different movements of the application head 28th
  • a plurality of tape guide portions 40 and a plurality of supply rollers 32 are endlessly umwickelndem Umreifungsband 34 required so that all application heads 28 can be supplied in the same way with the free-guided strapping 36 without it to collisions, too high Tape tension or other disturbances in the strapping and / or handling of the strapping 36 may come.
  • the required belt Nachchie or return funding can be determined either by means of suitable sensors that can work in different ways.
  • optical sensors 46 or the like can be used to detect the belt tensions.
  • the tape tension can optionally also be detected by means of mechanical sensors 48 or in another way.
  • These belt tension detecting means 46, 48 are coupled to the control means 44 for controlling the conveyor rollers 42 in the manner required for proper belt tension of the free-running portion of the strapping belt 36.
  • Their signals can deliver meaningful values to the control device 44, which in conjunction with a position detection of the application heads 28 can supply the necessary delivery lengths or return lengths for the strapping band 36.
  • the application head 28 for the purpose of threading a new beginning of tape fully automatically dock on the magazine 30 or on its tape guide elements 40, after which a controlled transfer and threading of the tape into the tape guide elements of the application head 28 takes place.
  • the supply of a new Umreifungsbandagis from the magazine 30 to at least one application head 28 by its automatically controlled approach and / or by its docking with the magazine 30 and by an automated threading of the strapping 36 in the application head 28 with simultaneous tracking of the strapping from Magazine 30 done.
  • the automated threading of a new strapping 34 into the application head 28 may also be required after a tear or damage to the strap 34.
  • the schematic block diagram of Fig. 5 illustrates the relationships in the control or regulation of the driven conveyor rollers 42, which are part of the tape guide portion 40 of the magazine 30 and controlled by the control device 44.
  • the control or control method is used to control or control the tape tension of between the magazine 30 and the movable application head 28 guided "strapped" strapping 36.
  • the guideless and / or free-guided portion of the strap 36 between the cyclically and / or oscillating and possibly with constantly fluctuating speeds moving application head 28 and the magazine 30 with the endless supply 32 and its associated tape guide portion 40 held in its tape tension or its sag within specifiable limits between a maximum allowable sag and a not to exceed belt tension and / or tracked.
  • the tape tension between the application head 28 and the tape guide portion 40 is permanently readjusted taking into account a plurality of normally constantly changing input variables.
  • a first input variable 52 may be formed in this control or control method from a regular tracking distance, which is required to compensate for the consumed in the strapping of the respective container 12 length of the strapping band 34 and 36, respectively. This is normally a relatively slow tracking of the free-flying portion of the strap 36.
  • a second input 54 may be derived from consideration of fast tape tracking in "shooting" the tape into the frame of the application head 28. In this case, the strapping band 36 must be tracked relatively quickly. This fast tracking occurs repeatedly briefly and repeatedly cyclically.
  • a third input quantity 56 for the method is formed from the consideration of a medium-fast, temporarily fluctuating tracking and / or a medium-fast reverse voltage by the oscillating movements of the application head 28.
  • the application head 28 moves alternately parallel to the conveying direction 26 of the container 12 and brings the strapping 14 on. Subsequently, it is returned to the conveying direction 26 at the same, but typically with a significantly higher speed, in order to be moved over a further container 12 and there to apply the strapping 14. As soon as this strapping 14 is applied and tensioned, the application head 28 moves back against the belt conveying direction 26 of the horizontal conveyor 24, so that the strapping belt 34 or 36 has to be pulled back or pulled back by a suitable path by means of the driven rollers 42 To reduce sag and to prevent tangling of the belt 36.
  • the belt tension For controlling or controlling the belt tension, preferably at least two of the three mentioned input variables 52, 54 and 56, in particular all three input variables 52, 54 and 56, are taken into account to obtain a control variable for the controlled tracking or back tension of the strapping band 36 in the band guide region 40 and offset against each other ,
  • the superimposed band movement can be calculated from this and implemented very quickly and dynamically.
  • the simplified representation of the Fig. 5 clarifies with the relationships of the three input variables 52, 54 and 56 and the dependent control of the conveyor rollers 42 by means of the control device 44, although no control method in the true sense, since such a reaction of the controlled variable due to the influencing input variables.
  • the belt tension of the free-flying section 36 of the strapping 34 is influenced not only by the input variables 52, 54 and 56, but equally by the respective control of the conveyor rollers, in the present case can basically be spoken of a belt tension control.
  • the free-running profile of the tape guide extends at least over a working area 58 of the application heads 28.
  • the working area 58 is defined by the maximum range of movement or radius of action of the application heads 28. This range of movement 58 results, for example, when the application heads 28 follow the conveyed groups or containers 12 during strapping or are converted into a further container 12 or to a group to be strapped after a completed strapping operation.
  • the tape feed can take place from any desired directions, for example laterally, from above, from below, etc.
  • the movement of the application heads 28 can be controlled by means of gantry robots, by means of articulated robots or in another manner.
  • the space which the application heads 28 can reach and cover due to their kinematics defines the aforementioned Working region 58 of the application heads 28.
  • the guideless and "free-floating" designated band extending at least on this work area 58.
  • the "free-flying" band also extend beyond the work area 58 out, for example, the transfer or tape guide portion 40 spaced from the Limits of the work area 58 of the application head 28 is placed.
  • the guideless or free-flying tape course optionally also extend beyond the working area 58 of the application heads 28, if, for example, the magazine 30 or this affiliate or downstream tape guide area 40 with the conveyor rollers 42 therein the transfer point of the guided belt 34 to him subsequent guideless or free-flying tape guide portion 36 forms.

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  1. Procédé de cerclage de regroupements, d'emballages et récipients (12), de produits emballés et/ou d'articles, de produits emballés ou équivalents groupés, lesquels sont déplacés sur un dispositif de convoyage horizontal, avec au moins un feuillard de cerclage (14, 34) ouvert ou formant une boucle fermée, posé et/ou tendu de manière approximativement horizontale et/ou verticale et/ou diagonale autour de la face extérieure des emballages et récipients (12), produits emballés ou du groupement d'articles ou de produits emballés etc., qui est tendu pour former une liaison ferme des emballages et récipients (12), produits emballés etc., ledit feuillard de cerclage (34) étant amené à au moins une tête d'application (28) suivant dans un mouvement synchrone les emballages et récipients, le produit emballé etc. pour appliquer le cerclage (14) respectivement sur les regroupements, emballages et récipients (12), au moins un produit emballé et/ou les articles ou produits emballés groupés, caractérisé en ce que le feuillard de cerclage (34) est amené à l'au moins une tête d'application (28) par une cartouche et en ce que le feuillard de cerclage (34, 36) se trouve et est convoyé au moins à l'intérieur d'une zone de travail (58) de la tête d'application (28) en grande partie sans être guidé et/ou librement.
  2. Procédé selon la revendication 1, dans lequel le feuillard de cerclage (34, 36) s'étend et est convoyé en grande partie sans être guidé et/ou librement entre la cartouche (30) et/ou une zone de guidage de feuillard (40) qui lui est impartie ou agencée après elle, et la tête d'application (28).
  3. Procédé selon la revendication 1 ou 2, dans lequel l'au moins une tête d'application (28) suit, au moins pendant une opération de cerclage et/ou de mise en tension du feuillard, dans un mouvement de sens parallèle et approximativement synchrone, les emballages et récipients (12), produits emballés ou les articles ou produits emballés groupés qui sont déplacés sur un dispositif de convoyage horizontal (24), pour être ensuite amenée à d'autres emballages et récipients (12), produit emballé, etc. à encercler, et le tronçon (36) à mouvement libre et/ou en grande partie sans guidage du feuillard de cerclage (34) étant, entre la tête d'application (28) se déplaçant de manière cyclique et/ou par oscillations, la cartouche (30) et/ou une zone de guidage du feuillard (40) qui lui est impartie ou agencée après elle, maintenu et/ou ajusté dans sa tension ou sa flèche dans des limites pré-déterminables situées entre une flèche maximale autorisée et une tension de feuillard à ne pas dépasser.
  4. Procédé selon l'une quelconque des revendications de 1 à 3, dans lequel la tension du feuillard entre la tête d'application (28) et la cartouche (30) ou la zone de guidage de feuillard (40) est réajustée en permanence ou à intervalles de temps réguliers en fonction de plusieurs grandeurs d'entrée (52, 54, 56) qui changent pendant le cerclage d'emballages et récipients (12), d'un produit emballé, ... etc. et lors des déplacements de l'au moins une tête d'application (28).
  5. Procédé selon l'une quelconque des revendications de 1 à 4, dans lequel l'alimentation d'un nouveau début de feuillard de cerclage (34, 36), de la cartouche (30) dans l'au moins une tête d'application (28), s'effectue par son rapprochement de commande automatique et/ou par son arrimage à la cartouche (30) ou à sa zone de guidage de feuillard (40) située en aval, ainsi que par un enfilage automatisé du feuillard de cerclage (34, 36) dans la tête d'application (28) avec ré-alimentation en parallèle du feuillard de cerclage (34, 36) à partir de la cartouche (30).
  6. Poste de cerclage (10) pour le cerclage de regroupements, d'emballages et récipients (12), de produits emballés et/ou d'articles, de produits emballés ou équivalents groupés, avec au moins un feuillard de cerclage (14, 34) ouvert ou formant une boucle fermée, posé et/ou tendu de manière approximativement horizontale et/ou verticale et/ou diagonale autour de la face extérieure des emballages et récipients (12), produits emballés ou du groupe d'articles ou de produits emballés etc., qui est tendu pour former une liaison ferme des emballages et récipients (12), produits emballés etc., comprenant un dispositif de convoyage horizontal (24) pour convoyer les emballages et récipients (12), produits emballés ou articles ou produits emballés groupés, au moins une tête d'application (28) pouvant être amenée de manière individuelle et par le haut vers les emballages et récipients (12), produits emballés ou vers les regroupements d'articles ou de produits emballés, et étant mobile, dans le sens de convoyage (26), en parallèle et de manière approximativement synchrone avec les emballages et récipients (12), produits emballés ou regroupements d'articles ou de produits emballés respectifs à encercler, pour au moins un cycle de cerclage et de mise en tension du feuillard, caractérisé en ce que le poste de cerclage (10) présente une cartouche (30) avec une réserve sans fin (32) de feuillard de cerclage (34) à dérouler, qui est amenée à l'au moins une tête d'application (28), et en ce que le feuillard de cerclage (34, 36) se trouve et est convoyé au moins au sein d'une zone de travail (58) de la tête d'application (28) en grande partie sans guidage et/ou librement.
  7. Poste de cerclage selon la revendication 6, dans lequel une zone de guidage de feuillard (40) est agencée entre la cartouche (30) avec la réserve sans fin (32) de feuillard de cerclage (34), et l'au moins une tête d'application (28), pour réajuster et/ou tendre à nouveau un tronçon non-guidé (36) du feuillard de cerclage (34) entre la tête d'application (28) se déplaçant de manière cyclique et/ou par oscillations, et la réserve sans fin (32) de la cartouche (30), le feuillard de cerclage (34) se trouvant et étant convoyé entre la cartouche (30) et/ou la zone de guidage de feuillage (40) et la tête d'application (28) en grande partie sans guidage et/ou librement.
  8. Poste de cerclage selon la revendication 6 ou 7, dans lequel est imparti à la zone de guidage de feuillard (40) un dispositif de réglage (44) pour régler la tension du feuillard entre la réserve sans fin (32), voire la cartouche (30), et l'au moins une tête d'application (28) en fonction de sa consommation en feuillard de cerclage (34, 36) ainsi qu'en fonction de ses mouvements superposés verticaux et horizontaux pendant une opération de cerclage et/ou lors du passage à d'autres emballages et récipients (12), à un autre produit emballé à encercler ou à un groupement d'articles ou de produits emballés.
  9. Procédé de règlement et/ou de commande pour le règlement/la commande d'une tension d'un feuillard de cerclage (34, 36) conduit librement entre une cartouche (30) à réserve sans fin (32) et une tête d'application (28) mobile, pour régler la tension de feuillard au cours d'un procédé de cerclage, selon l'une quelconque des revendications de 1 à 5, ou pour un poste de cerclage (10) selon l'une quelconque des revendications de 6 à 8, caractérisé en ce qu'un tronçon (36) du feuillard de cerclage (34) dirigé sans guidage et/ou librement est maintenu et/ou réajusté dans sa tension de feuillard ou sa flèche au sein d'une zone de travail (58) de la tête d'application (28) et/ou entre la tête d'application (28) se déplaçant de manière cyclique et/ou par oscillations et la cartouche (30) à réserve sans fin (32) et/ou une zone de guidage de feuillard (40) qui lui est impartie ou située après elle, dans des limites pré-déterminables situées entre une flèche maximale autorisée et une tension de feuillard à ne pas dépasser,
    la tension de feuillard entre la tête d'application (28) et la cartouche (30) à réserve sans fin (32) ou la zone de guidage du feuillard (40) étant réajustée en permanence ou à intervalles de temps réguliers en fonction de plusieurs grandeurs d'entrée (52, 54, 56) variables,
    une première grandeur d'entrée (52) se formant à partir d'un chemin de réajustement normal pour compenser la longueur consommée du feuillard de cerclage (34, 36) lors du cerclage des emballages et récipients (12), des produits emballés ou des articles groupés, et/ou une deuxième grandeur d'entrée (54) se formant en fonction d'un réajustement du feuillard rapide au cours de l'opération de cerclage effectuée par la tête d'application (28).
  10. Procédé de réglage selon la revendication 9, une troisième grandeur d'entrée (56) se formant en fonction d'un réajustement et/ou d'une remise à tension à oscillation temporaire au vu des mouvements d'oscillation de la tête d'application (28) lorsqu'elle suit les regroupements, emballages et récipients (12), produits emballés et/ou articles ou produits emballés groupés à encercler.
  11. Procédé de réglage selon l'une quelconque des revendications de 9 à 10, dans lequel pour le règlement de la tension du feuillard, au moins deux des trois grandeurs d'entrée (52, 54, 56), notamment les trois grandeurs d'entrée (52, 54, 56) au complet sont prises en compte et calculées par comparaison entre elles pour obtenir une grandeur de réglage pour la commande de réajustement et/ou de remise à tension du feuillard de cerclage (34) dans la zone de guidage du feuillard (40).
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