EP2726377A1 - Packing method and machine for producing a packet containing a group of heterogeneous articles - Google Patents
Packing method and machine for producing a packet containing a group of heterogeneous articlesInfo
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- EP2726377A1 EP2726377A1 EP12759191.5A EP12759191A EP2726377A1 EP 2726377 A1 EP2726377 A1 EP 2726377A1 EP 12759191 A EP12759191 A EP 12759191A EP 2726377 A1 EP2726377 A1 EP 2726377A1
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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
- B65B19/00—Packaging rod-shaped or tubular articles susceptible to damage by abrasion or pressure, e.g. cigarettes, cigars, macaroni, spaghetti, drinking straws or welding electrodes
- B65B19/02—Packaging cigarettes
- B65B19/22—Wrapping the cigarettes; Packaging the cigarettes in containers formed by folding wrapping material around formers
- B65B19/223—Wrapping the cigarettes; Packaging the cigarettes in containers formed by folding wrapping material around formers in a curved path; in a combination of straight and curved paths, e.g. on rotary tables or other endless conveyors
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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
- 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
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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
- B65B2220/00—Specific aspects of the packaging operation
- B65B2220/14—Adding more than one type of material or article to the same package
Definitions
- the present invention relates to a packing method and machine for producing a packet containing a group of heterogeneous articles.
- special packets of cigarettes have been proposed containing, instead of the normal group of twenty cigarettes (in three rows) , a smaller group of cigarettes and one or more promotion items.
- One type may contain a group of thirteen cigarettes (in two rows) and a ⁇ brand name' lighter (i.e. bearing the cigarette trade mark) ; another may contain a group of five cigarettes (in one row) , a ⁇ brand name' lighter, and a ⁇ brand name' metal cigarette case.
- Patent Application US2008016822A1 describes a cigarette packing machine, in the Figure 4 embodiment of which, each seat on a packing wheel receives a wrapped group of cigarettes at a first station, and either another wrapped group of cigarettes or a different item, compatible in size with a wrapped group of cigarettes, at a second feed station. And the group comprising either two wrapped groups of cigarettes or one wrapped group of cigarette and a different item is then transferred to a following packing wheel, on which a blank is folded about the group to form an outer package .
- Figure 1 shows a front view in perspective of a hinged-lid packet, containing a group of heterogeneous articles, in a closed position
- Figure 2 shows a front view in perspective of the Figure 1 packet in an open position
- Figure 3 shows a rear view in perspective of the Figure 1 packet in the closed position
- Figure 4 shows a schematic view in perspective of the group of heterogeneous articles contained in the Figure 1 packet
- Figure 5 shows a schematic view in perspective, with parts removed for clarity, of a packing machine for producing the Figure 1 packet and in accordance with the present invention
- Figure 6 shows a larger- scale view of a packing unit and group-forming unit of the Figure 5 packing machine ;
- Figure 7 shows a larger-scale view of a group- forming unit of the Figure 5 packing machine
- Figure 8 shows a larger-scale view of a combining station of the Figure 5 packing machine
- Figures 9 and 10 show schematics of two consecutive steps in feeding a first article in the group into a group- forming pocket
- Figures 11-14 show schematics of four consecutive steps in feeding a second and third article in the group into the group-forming pocket.
- Number 1 in Figures 1, 2 and 3 indicates as a whole a rigid packet of cigarettes comprising a cup- shaped cardboard container 2, and a group 3 of articles (shown schematically in Figure 2 and in detail in Figure 4) housed inside container 2.
- group 3 of articles comprises a group 4 of cigarettes (five cigarettes in one row) ; a parallelepiped-shaped lighter 5 alongside group 4 of cigarettes; and a roughly parallelepiped-shaped metal cigarette case 6.
- Group 4 of cigarettes and lighter 5 rest side by side on the same major lateral wall of cigarette case 6.
- group 3 of articles is formed differently, e.g. has either no lighter 5 or no cigarette case 6 (in which case, group 4 of cigarettes contains a larger number of cigarettes) .
- Container 2 has an open top end 7; and a cup-shaped lid 8 hinged to container 2 along a hinge 9 to rotate with respect to container 2 between an open position ( Figure 2) and a closed position ( Figures 1 and 3) opening and closing open top end 7 respectively.
- container 2 is in the form of a rectangular parallelepiped comprising a top wall 10 and an opposite parallel bottom wall 11; two opposite parallel major lateral walls 12 and 13; and two opposite parallel minor lateral walls 14. More specifically, one major lateral wall 12 defines a front wall 12 of container 2, and the other major lateral wall 13 defines a rear wall 13 of container 2.
- Four longitudinal edges 15 are defined between minor lateral walls 14 and front and rear walls 12, 13; and eight transverse edges 16 are defined between top and bottom walls 10, 11 and front, rear and minor lateral walls 12, 13, 14.
- edges 15 and 16 are all square. In alternative embodiments not shown, some of edges 15 and 16 may be bevelled or rounded.
- Packet 1 comprises a rigid (i.e. rigid cardboard) collar 17, which is folded into a U and fitted (glued) to the inside of container 2, and projects partly outwards of open top end 7 to engage a corresponding inner surface of lid 8 when this is closed.
- collar 17 has two lateral projections 18, which interferentially engage the lateral walls of lid 8 to hold lid 8 in the closed position.
- Collar 17 comprises a front wall 19 positioned contacting front wall 12 of container 2; and two lateral walls 20 located on opposite sides of front wall 19 and positioned contacting minor lateral walls 14 of container 2.
- container 2 also contains a coupon 21 resting on a major wall of cigarette case 6, on the opposite side to group 4 of cigarettes and lighter 5.
- An alternative embodiment, not shown, has no coupon 21.
- Container 2 of the Figure 1-3 packet 1 of cigarettes is formed from a known blank 22 (shown schematically in Figure 5) .
- FIG. 5 schematic shows part of a cigarette packing machine 23 for producing packet 1 as described above and shown in Figures 1-3.
- Packing machine 23 comprises a group- forming unit 24 for forming groups 3 of articles; and a packing unit 25, which receives groups 3 of articles from group- forming unit 24, and folds collars 17 and blanks 22 about groups 3 of articles to form containers 2.
- group- forming unit 24 comprises a group-forming wheel 26, which rotates in steps about a vertical axis of rotation 27 and comprises a number of peripheral group-forming pockets 28 (shown more clearly in Figures 9-14), which are rotated in steps about axis of rotation 27 and successively through: a feed station 29 supplying metal cigarette cases 6; a feed station 30 supplying groups 4 of cigarettes together with lighters 5; and a transfer station 31 for transferring groups 3 of articles to packing unit 25.
- group-forming wheel 26 feeds each group- forming pocket 28 (initially empty) through feed station 29, where a cigarette case 6 is inserted inside group- forming pocket 28, and then feeds each group-forming pocket 28 (containing cigarette case 6) through feed station 30, where a group 4 of cigarettes and a lighter 5 (positioned side by side) are inserted together inside group-forming pocket 28 and on top of cigarette case 6 to complete a group 3 of articles.
- each group 4 of cigarettes is formed and combined with a lighter 5 for subsequent insertion, together with lighter 5 and at feed station 30, inside a group-forming pocket 28 containing a cigarette case 6.
- Combining station 32 comprises a hopper 33 containing a mass of cigarettes and terminating with a bottom outlet; and a pusher 34 pushes each group 4 of cigarettes out of the bottom outlet of hopper 33 to feed station 30.
- lighters 5 are positioned successively alongside the bottom outlet of hopper 33, and are each pushed by pusher 34 to feed station 30 together with group 4 of cigarettes.
- a group 4 of cigarettes (in the bottom outlet of hopper 33) and a lighter 5 are fed vertically downwards into a side by side position, and then both pushed horizontally to feed station 30 by pusher 34.
- lighters 5 are fed to combining station 32 along a vertical circular path, terminating alongside the bottom outlet of hopper 33, by a vertical transit wheel rotating in steps about a horizontal axis of rotation and having a number of peripheral pockets.
- a mass of lighters 5 is fed in bulk onto a central portion of a known horizontal orienting disk; and the centrifugal force produced by rotation of the disk pushes lighters 5 to the edge of the disk, from where one lighter 5 at a time (correctly oriented) is unloaded onto a path terminating at combining station 32.
- each group-forming pocket 28 has no top wall and no bottom wall, and group- forming wheel 26 comprises a static surface 35 extending between feed station 29 and transfer station 31 and supporting the underside of cigarette cases 6 inside group-forming pockets 28.
- group-forming wheel 26 comprises a static surface 35 extending between feed station 29 and transfer station 31 and supporting the underside of cigarette cases 6 inside group-forming pockets 28.
- each cigarette case 6 is fed upwards into group-forming pocket 28 by a lifting device 36 on which cigarette case 6 rests.
- each group-forming pocket 28 is stopped over lifting device 36 supporting cigarette case 6, and is aligned vertically with cigarette case 6; and lifting device 36 moves up to insert cigarette case 6 vertically upwards into group- forming pocket 28.
- Feed station 30 comprises a lifting device 37 located at a break in static surface 35 and movable vertically between a lowered position ( Figures 11 and 14) aligned vertically with and forming a natural continuation of static surface 35, and a raised position ( Figures 12 and 13) close to a static surface 38 supporting group 4 of cigarettes and lighter 5 (directly from combining station 32) .
- lifting device 37 is first set to the lowered position to allow group- forming wheel 26 to rotate and deposit cigarette case 6 on lifting device 37.
- lifting device 37 is moved vertically into the raised position, in which the top wall of cigarette case 6 is aligned vertically with static surface 38 ( Figure 12) ; at this point, group 4 of cigarettes and lighter 5 are pushed (e.g. by pusher 34) onto cigarette case 6 ( Figure 13) to complete group 3 of articles; and, finally, as shown in Figure 14, lifting device 37 is moved vertically into the lowered position to insert group 3 of articles inside group- forming pocket 28 and allow group-forming wheel 26 to feed group 3 of articles to transfer station 31. As shown in Figure 7, at transfer station 31, each group 3 of articles is expelled radially from group- forming pocket 28 by a pusher (not shown) and subsequently fed vertically downwards onto packing unit 25.
- cigarette cases 6 are fed to feed station 29 on a horizontal belt conveyor 39 with a number of partitions projecting perpendicularly from the belt and defining seats for cigarette cases 6.
- Belt conveyor 39 terminates at feed station 29, where it pushes cigarette cases 6 successively onto lifting device 36.
- belt conveyor 39 is fitted with a vertical, variable-volume FILO (First In Last Out) store, which comprises two secondary belt conveyors on opposite sides of belt conveyor 39, and is designed to remove one or more cigarette cases 6 vertically upwards off belt conveyor 39 (when supply of cigarette cases 6 to belt conveyor 39 is more than group-forming unit 24 can handle) , or to release one or more cigarette cases 6 vertically downwards onto belt conveyor 39 (when supply of cigarette cases 6 to belt conveyor 39 is less than group-forming unit 24 can handle).
- vertical store 40 provides for compensating for any temporary difference between the feed rate of cigarette cases 6 to and from belt conveyor 39.
- packing unit 25 comprises a transit wheel 41, which rotates in steps about a vertical axis of rotation- 42 parallel to axis ' of rotation 27, and comprises a number of peripheral transit pockets 43, each of which, as transit wheel 41 rotates, is rotated in steps about axis of rotation 42 and successively through: a feed station 44 where a flat coupon 21 (if any) is inserted into transit pocket 43; transfer station 31 where a group 3 of articles is inserted vertically downwards into transit pocket 43; and, finally, a transfer station 45 where group 3 of articles with coupon 21 (if any) is expelled from transit pocket 43 and transferred to a following packing wheel 46.
- Group-forming wheel 26 is higher than transit wheel 41 and, at transfer station 31, overlaps transit wheel 41 to allow a group 3 of articles to be transferred vertically downwards from a group- forming pocket 28 on group-forming wheel 26 to a transit pocket 43 on transit wheel 41.
- group 3 of articles is ⁇ gripped' at the top and bottom by a pusher and a counter-pusher, as it is transferred vertically downwards from group-forming pocket 28 on group-forming wheel 26 to transit pocket 43 on transit wheel 41.
- Packing wheel 46 rotates in steps about a vertical axis of rotation 47 parallel to axis of rotation 42, is structurally the same as transit wheel 41, and comprises a number of peripheral packing pockets 48, each of which, as packing wheel 46 rotates, is rotated in steps about axis of rotation 47 and successively through: a feed station 49 where a collar 17 is inserted and folded into a U inside packing pocket 48; transfer station 45 where a group 3 of articles is inserted vertically downwards into packing pocket 48 and the U- folded collar 17; and, finally, a transfer station 50 where group 3 of articles, enclosed in the U- folded collar 17, is expelled from packing pocket 48 and transferred to a following packing wheel 51.
- Transit wheel 41 is higher than packing wheel 46 and, at transfer station 45, overlaps packing wheel 46 to allow group 3 of articles to be transferred vertically downwards from a transit pocket 43 on transit wheel 41 to a packing pocket 48 on packing wheel 46.
- group 3 of articles is gripped' at the top and bottom by a pusher and a counter-pusher, as it is transferred vertically downwards from transit pocket 43 on transit wheel 41 to packing pocket 48 on packing wheel 46.
- Packing wheel 51 rotates in steps about a horizontal axis of rotation 52 crosswise to axis of rotation 47, and comprises a number of peripheral packing pockets 53, each of which, as packing wheel 51 rotates, is rotated in steps about axis of rotation 52 and successively through: transfer station 50 where packing pocket 53 receives a blank 22, and a group 3 of articles enclosed in a U- folded collar 17; a succession of folding stations where blank 22 is folded about group 3 of articles and collar 17 to form container 2; and, finally, a transfer station 54 where the substantially finished packet 1 (the final lateral
- Output conveyor 55 transfers packets 1 to a drying area, which forms the output of packing machine 23, and from where packets 1 are fed to a cellophaning machine (not shown) for applying an overwrap of transparent plastic material to each packet 1.
- Packing wheel 51 is higher than packing wheel 46 and, at transfer station 50, overlaps packing wheel 46 to allow group 3 of articles, enclosed in the U- folded collar 17, to be transferred vertically upwards from a packing pocket 48 on packing wheel 46 to a packing pocket 53 on packing wheel 51.
- group 3 of articles, enclosed in the U- folded collar 17, is ⁇ gripped' at the top and bottom by a pusher and a counter-pusher, as it is transferred vertically upwards from packing pocket 48 on packing wheel 46 to packing pocket 53 on packing wheel 51.
- each blank 22 is interposed between packing pocket 53 of packing wheel 51 and group 3 of articles enclosed in the U-folded collar 17 (i.e. is interposed between packing pocket 53 of packing wheel 51 and packing pocket 48 of packing wheel 46) so that, as it is inserted inside packing pocket 53, blank 22 folds into a U about group 3 of articles and collar 17.
- group- forming wheel 26, transit wheel 41, packing wheel 46 and/or packing wheel 51 may be replaced with other types of (e.g. belt) conveyors for feeding items along straight paths .
- group 3 of heterogeneous articles i.e. group 4 of cigarettes, lighter 5, and cigarette case 6
- group 3 of heterogeneous articles i.e. group 4 of cigarettes, lighter 5, and cigarette case 6
- group 3 of heterogeneous articles i.e. group 4 of cigarettes, lighter 5, and cigarette case 6
- a substantially standard packing machine such as G.D. Societa per Azioni models X500, X2 , X3 and X6, which have a packing unit almost identical to packing unit 25, have a group- forming conveyor which, though used for different functions, may be used to perform the functions of group-forming wheel 26 of group-forming unit 24, and so provide an ideal basis from which to produce packing machine 23 cheaply and easily.
- the packing method described provides for producing groups 3 of articles quickly and accurately (i.e. with the component parts in precise mutual positions) , as well as for excellent end product (packet 1) quality, and high packing speed.
- the packing method described may also be used for producing packets containing groups of heterogeneous articles other than group 3 of packet 1 described.
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IT000379A ITBO20110379A1 (en) | 2011-06-29 | 2011-06-29 | METHOD OF WRITING AND PACKAGING MACHINE TO PRODUCE A PACKAGE CONTAINING A SET OF ARTICLES AMONG THEIR HETEROGENEOUS. |
PCT/IB2012/053339 WO2013001515A1 (en) | 2011-06-29 | 2012-06-29 | Packing method and machine for producing a packet containing a group of heterogeneous articles |
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