EP2712815A1 - Machine de fermeture de coques - Google Patents

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EP2712815A1
EP2712815A1 EP12006757.4A EP12006757A EP2712815A1 EP 2712815 A1 EP2712815 A1 EP 2712815A1 EP 12006757 A EP12006757 A EP 12006757A EP 2712815 A1 EP2712815 A1 EP 2712815A1
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Wolfgang Buchenberg
Patrick Wiedenmann
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Multivac Sepp Haggenmueller GmbH and Co KG
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B7/00—Closing containers or receptacles after filling
    • B65B7/16—Closing semi-rigid or rigid containers or receptacles not deformed by, or not taking-up shape of, contents, e.g. boxes or cartons
    • B65B7/162—Closing semi-rigid or rigid containers or receptacles not deformed by, or not taking-up shape of, contents, e.g. boxes or cartons by feeding web material to securing means
    • B65B7/164—Securing by heat-sealing
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B43/00—Forming, feeding, opening or setting-up containers or receptacles in association with packaging
    • B65B43/42—Feeding or positioning bags, boxes, or cartons in the distended, opened, or set-up state; Feeding preformed rigid containers, e.g. tins, capsules, glass tubes, glasses, to the packaging position; Locating containers or receptacles at the filling position; Supporting containers or receptacles during the filling operation
    • B65B43/46—Feeding or positioning bags, boxes, or cartons in the distended, opened, or set-up state; Feeding preformed rigid containers, e.g. tins, capsules, glass tubes, glasses, to the packaging position; Locating containers or receptacles at the filling position; Supporting containers or receptacles during the filling operation using grippers

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  • the invention relates to a method for operating a tray sealing machine according to claim 1 and to a tray closing machine according to the preamble of claim 6.
  • the first feeding belt performs a buffering function for other trays which must be intermittently picked up by the feeding chain, since the filling process should not be stopped.
  • the possibility of buffering the first feeding belt is determined by the length of the belt and the number of trays per unit of time that have to be taken over by the feeding chain.
  • the feed chain is operated in a continuous operation at a constant speed and products are manually placed in the trays.
  • the shells are not always repeatedly stopped and accelerated, but are gently moved with a constant or slightly variable speeds without stopping from the feed chain on the feed belts and the gripper system.
  • the buffer capacity of the first conveyor belt is in turn determined by the strip length and the number of trays per unit of time, which are introduced by the feed chain.
  • the performance (ie trays per unit time to be processed) of the tray sealing machine including the feed chain is limited by the Buffering function of the first feed belt to bridge the waiting time for gripping a group of trays from the second feed belt.
  • the constant speed of the feed chain is selected to be correspondingly low. This has a negative effect on the performance of the tray sealing machine.
  • a tubular bag packaging machine ie no tray sealing machine having a feed conveyor with drivers, is from the EP 2 484 611 A2 known.
  • the object of the present invention is to increase the performance of a tray sealing machine with a continuously running tray feed.
  • the process of loading the Mit favoritezu arrangement with trays can be done by a Abstapelaji or manually by the operator. Due to the gap between two successive groups on the driver feed, the time required for transferring the trays from the accumulation conveyor by means of the gripper system into the sealing device is available. In contrast to a continuous, but slow running driver feeder without a gap, with only a minimal amount of time to Handover is available, the feed rate of the driver feed, which has a gap between the groups of n shells, can be increased and doubled, for example. This means an increased performance. In addition, a known prior art feed belt in front of the accumulation conveyor can be dispensed with, thus reducing the machine length and the cost of the tray sealing machine.
  • the gap is created by an unoccupied shell between two consecutive groups, i. H. by not inserting a shell to a driver or to a position actually intended for a shell.
  • the Mitschzu operation on several drivers all of which have an equal distance from each other.
  • n five consecutive carriers are provided for transporting the five shells and thus five shells are inserted in front of the respective successive drivers.
  • a subsequent sixth or n + 1-th driver receives no shell, but at the earliest only a seventh or n + 2 -th Mit vide receives the first shell of the following new group.
  • either the operator ensures a correct insertion of the shells and forming the groups or gaps, or a Abstapelech puts the shells automatically in front of the driver.
  • the driver feed and the accumulation conveyor are preferably operated in synchronism with the transfer of the shells in order to position the shells in a positionally exact and with a new distance optimized for the gripper system on the accumulation conveyor.
  • a sensor for example designed as a light barrier, checks the position or the presence of the gap.
  • the sensor may be provided at the end of the Mit Menuzu operation.
  • the tray sealing machine comprises a sealing device, a gripper system, a collecting conveyor and a carrier feed operable at a constant feed speed for transporting trays.
  • the invention is characterized in that a group of n shells can be transferred from the driver feed to the accumulation conveyor and the group of n shells can be taken over by the gripper system from the accumulation conveyor to feed the shells of the sealing device, and that on the driver feed between two successive groups of n shells a gap with at least a length of 2 times the driver distance (D) minus shell width (B) is provided by at least one shell.
  • the gap between the groups of n trays results in a period of time when no new trays are fed to the accumulation conveyor after a picked up group and the gripper system can pick up this group from the accumulation conveyor and feed it to the sealing device.
  • the shells can be picked up by the synchronous with the collecting conveyor mitbewegten gripper system with running accumulation conveyor, without causing a stop of the shells.
  • the Mit Menuzu operation itself can meanwhile continue to run at a constant feed rate in order to maintain continuous operation. Continuous operation is beneficial to the loading of the affected mechanics and the product loaded in the shell.
  • a known from the prior art conveyor belt between a supply chain or driver feed and the accumulation conveyor can be omitted, so that reduce the machine length and the cost of a tray sealing machine.
  • a sensor is provided to check the gap between the groups of trays. If a gap does not exist, then the driver feed can be stopped or the speed can be reduced until the collecting conveyor can take over shells again.
  • the sensor is preferably arranged at the end of the Mit Menuzu operation.
  • the senor is a light barrier to monitor one or more tracks.
  • the trays can be transferred synchronously from the driver feed to the accumulation conveyor so that the position of each tray on the accumulation conveyor is known for further positioning.
  • these positions can be tracked to control the accumulation conveyor and the gripper system accordingly.
  • a controller which has a switchover between a continuous operation and an intermittent operation of the driver feed, in order to allow greater flexibility for the use of such a tray sealing machine.
  • the Mitschzu operation preferably comprises at least one chain with drivers, which have an equal distance from each other in the transport direction.
  • the distance limits the dimensions of the shells in the transport direction.
  • the tray closing machine is designed in two lanes and the driver feed can thus supply two tracks of trays to the accumulation conveyor.
  • Fig. 1 shows a Schalenversch separatemaschine invention 1 with a driver feed 2, the groups 3 of shells 4 in a transport direction R of a sealing device 11 of the tray sealing machine 1 feeds.
  • the driver feed 2 is designed in two tracks and comprises two laterally juxtaposed chains 5, each having drivers 6, each in the transport direction R an equal distance D. to each other.
  • the two chains 5 have a common drive, not shown, to drive the chains 5 in a continuous mode at a constant feed rate.
  • a Abstapelü 7 is provided to drop empty shells 4 two rows on the driver feed 2 or store.
  • the drivers 6 push the trays 4 along an insertion area 8 along which the driver feed 2 can stand on both sides in order to fill the trays 4 with products before the trays 4 transfer from the entrainment feed 2 to a subsequent accumulation conveyor 9 of the tray closing machine 1 become.
  • the tray sealing machine 1 comprises a controller 10 with a touch screen monitor for operator control.
  • a sealing device 11 is arranged to each close a group 3 of trays 4 with a lid film, which is withdrawn from a receiving unit 12 and received as a residual foil grid by means of a winding mandrel 13.
  • the group 3 is transported out of closed trays 4 in the transport direction R from the tray sealing machine 1.
  • the shells 4 are pushed by the drivers 6 on the chains 5 in the transport direction R continuously at a constant feed rate. Between two successive groups 3, a gap 15 is provided by a shell 4.
  • the gap 15 thus corresponds to a length of 2 times a driving distance D of two consecutive driver 6 minus a shell width B of a shell 4 in the transport direction.
  • the driver feed 2 each comprises one sensor 17 per track or per chain 5 for testing the gap 15.
  • the sensors 17 are arranged at the end of the driver feed 2.
  • the distance between two successive shells 4 is changed so that it corresponds to a distance C, which is predetermined for a recording by a gripper system 16.
  • the speed of the accumulation conveyor 9 is synchronized to the speed of the driver feed 2.
  • the speed of the accumulation conveyor 9 between two take-overs of trays 4 can be reduced.
  • the design is not limited to a multi-lane system.
  • the performance of a single-track tray sealing machine 1 can also be increased with the invention.

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EP3366616A1 (fr) 2017-02-23 2018-08-29 MULTIVAC Sepp Haggenmüller SE & Co. KG Dépileur à vis comprenant un dispositif de sécurité pour l'opérateur

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GB1581570A (en) * 1976-06-07 1980-12-17 Fmc Corp Article feed apparatus
US5547004A (en) * 1992-01-28 1996-08-20 Klockner Hansel Tevopharm B.V. Method and device for arranging a stream of products
EP2241862A2 (fr) * 2009-04-16 2010-10-20 MULTIVAC Sepp Haggenmüller GmbH & Co KG Machine d'emballage et dispositif d'affichage pour une machine d'emballage
US20120138424A1 (en) * 2009-08-10 2012-06-07 Livio Valli Feeder and positioner for discrete articles, and system for sealing containers using such feeder and positioner
EP2484611A2 (fr) 2011-02-08 2012-08-08 CT Pack S.R.L. Machine et procédé de conditionnement

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GB1581570A (en) * 1976-06-07 1980-12-17 Fmc Corp Article feed apparatus
US5547004A (en) * 1992-01-28 1996-08-20 Klockner Hansel Tevopharm B.V. Method and device for arranging a stream of products
EP2241862A2 (fr) * 2009-04-16 2010-10-20 MULTIVAC Sepp Haggenmüller GmbH & Co KG Machine d'emballage et dispositif d'affichage pour une machine d'emballage
US20120138424A1 (en) * 2009-08-10 2012-06-07 Livio Valli Feeder and positioner for discrete articles, and system for sealing containers using such feeder and positioner
EP2484611A2 (fr) 2011-02-08 2012-08-08 CT Pack S.R.L. Machine et procédé de conditionnement

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
EP3366616A1 (fr) 2017-02-23 2018-08-29 MULTIVAC Sepp Haggenmüller SE & Co. KG Dépileur à vis comprenant un dispositif de sécurité pour l'opérateur
US10294043B2 (en) * 2017-02-23 2019-05-21 Multivac Sepp Haggenmüller Se & Co. Kg Screw denester with trigger plate

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