EP2771244B1 - Improved blister-making machine, connected method for packing in blisters, and blister pack thus obtained - Google Patents

Improved blister-making machine, connected method for packing in blisters, and blister pack thus obtained Download PDF

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EP2771244B1
EP2771244B1 EP12799271.7A EP12799271A EP2771244B1 EP 2771244 B1 EP2771244 B1 EP 2771244B1 EP 12799271 A EP12799271 A EP 12799271A EP 2771244 B1 EP2771244 B1 EP 2771244B1
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Alessandro Amaranti
Alessio FONTANA
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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
    • B65B31/00—Packaging articles or materials under special atmospheric or gaseous conditions; Adding propellants to aerosol containers
    • B65B31/02—Filling, closing, or filling and closing, containers or wrappers in chambers maintained under vacuum or superatmospheric pressure or containing a special atmosphere, e.g. of inert gas
    • 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
    • B65B31/00—Packaging articles or materials under special atmospheric or gaseous conditions; Adding propellants to aerosol containers
    • B65B31/02—Filling, closing, or filling and closing, containers or wrappers in chambers maintained under vacuum or superatmospheric pressure or containing a special atmosphere, e.g. of inert gas
    • B65B31/021—Filling, closing, or filling and closing, containers or wrappers in chambers maintained under vacuum or superatmospheric pressure or containing a special atmosphere, e.g. of inert gas the containers or wrappers being interconnected
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B1/00—Packaging fluent solid material, e.g. powders, granular or loose fibrous material, loose masses of small articles, in individual containers or receptacles, e.g. bags, sacks, boxes, cartons, cans, or jars
    • B65B1/02—Machines characterised by the incorporation of means for making the containers or receptacles
    • 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
    • B65B29/00—Packaging of materials presenting special problems
    • 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
    • B65B47/00—Apparatus or devices for forming pockets or receptacles in or from sheets, blanks, or webs, comprising essentially a die into which the material is pressed or a folding die through which the material is moved
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B55/00—Preserving, protecting or purifying packages or package contents in association with packaging
    • B65B55/24—Cleaning of, or removing dust from, containers, wrappers, or packaging ; Preventing of fouling
    • 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
    • B65B9/00—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material, e.g. liquids or semiliquids, in flat, folded, or tubular webs of flexible sheet material; Subdividing filled flexible tubes to form packages
    • B65B9/02—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material between opposed webs
    • B65B9/04—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material between opposed webs one or both webs being formed with pockets for the reception of the articles, or of the quantities of material

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  • the present invention concerns an improved blister-making machine, more precisely a blister-making machine for packing toxic, toxic-noxious and cancerogenous products and, more generally, products that are dangerous for man, animals or the environment, hereafter referred to generically by the term noxious materials.
  • the present invention also concerns a connected method for packing noxious materials in blister packs, and the blister pack thus obtained containing noxious materials.
  • Blister-making machines that serve to produce blister packs provided with blisters in which noxious materials as indicated above are introduced and sealed.
  • Known blister-making machines are of two types, that is, a first type where they are completely contained in controlled chambers, and a second type that is partly enclosed in an insulated chamber.
  • the first type of blister-making machine has the disadvantage that the operators operating inside the controlled chamber have to wear protective clothing such as protective suits. These can be the type that allow autonomy of movement, or the type with continuous blowing of air.
  • protective clothing such as protective suits.
  • These can be the type that allow autonomy of movement, or the type with continuous blowing of air.
  • the choice of which type of protective suit to use depends on the type of noxious product that is handled by the blister-making machine. This entails considerable costs, long times, encumbrance for the operators, waste of energy, powerful depression systems, complex rooms or premises that in themselves are costly.
  • the second type of blister-making machine provides that the insulated chamber encloses at least the unit that distributes the noxious material.
  • This known technique generates considerable problems every time the operators have to intervene on the distribution unit for cleaning, maintenance or for change-of-format of the product processed, or other operations such as replacement.
  • Purpose of the present invention is to obtain a blister-making machine which is simple to make, is not bulky, which allows to intervene easily and quickly for maintenance operations, cleaning, change-of-format of the product, or other.
  • the Applicant has devised, tested and embodied the present invention to overcome the shortcomings of the state of the art and to obtain these and other purposes and advantages.
  • the improved blister-making machine comprises a sealing device to seal a noxious material between a strip provided with blisters (hereafter referred to as blister strip) and a covering or sealing strip to define the blister packs, and an insulated chamber disposed upstream of the sealing device.
  • the insulated chamber is protected toward the inside and kept in a condition of depression using known systems, depending on the type of noxious material that is handled and inserted into the blister packs.
  • the insulated chamber is kept at a depression comprised between 30 Pa and about 100 Pa, also depending on the type and characteristics of the powders that the noxious material processed can generate.
  • a pre-sealing device is present in the insulated chamber, as well as at least part of the device that delivers and inserts the noxious material to be packed into the blisters present in the blister strip.
  • the pre-sealing device applies the covering strip on the blister strip, in the blisters where the noxious material is already present, so as to close the blisters made in the blister strip.
  • the application of the covering strip only affects two continuous bands located near the lateral and longitudinal edges of the blister strip to be covered by the covering strip.
  • the sealed continuous bands are at the ends of the longitudinal edges, ends which can later be eliminated.
  • pre-sealing bands also at intermediate positions between the two lateral edges of the blister strip.
  • the blister strip in proximity to the exit from the insulated chamber is cleaned of any possible powders present on its surface.
  • a cleaning system may be provided which cleans the possible powders on both longitudinal sides from the surfaces of a band equal to or larger than the band that will be formed by the pre-sealing.
  • an improved blister-making machine according to the present invention is denoted in its entirety by the reference number 10.
  • the blister-making machine 10 comprises known devices such as a moldable strip 11, a molding machine 12 of blisters 30, a distributor device 16 to distribute the noxious material 33 to be introduced into blisters 30 made in the moldable strip 11 to define a blister strip 13, a sealing device 18, a possible pre-sectioner 20 of blister packs, a coding device 21 and a shears 22 that eliminates lateral bands 19, in this case pre-sealed, as will be explained hereafter.
  • the distributor device 16 is put in an insulated chamber 15 and can be connected, with the appropriate strategies, with the outside in order to feed the noxious material or noxious products 33 to be packed into the blisters 30, made in the molding machine 12 on the moldable strip 11 to define the blister strip 13.
  • the blister-making machine 10 also comprises another insulated chamber, also subject to a depression, solely in order to contain the distributor device 16 that sends the noxious material 33 to the insulated chamber 15 only through the distribution pipes, of a known type.
  • the insulated chamber 15 has a suction and filter system 24 and a control and adjustment system, that is, depression means 25, to control and adjust the depression to which the insulated chamber 15 is subjected.
  • the shears 22 can cooperate with a safety container 23 that collects the eliminated bands and that can also be equipped with a suction and filter system 24 identical to the one provided for the insulated chamber 15.
  • the safety container 23 may cooperate with a continuous or discontinuous shearing system for the eliminated bands.
  • the pre-sealing device 17 has two pairs of opposite wheels 29-129 ( figs. 4 and 5 ), which operate in coordination and each of which seals one of the two lateral bands of the blister strip 13 joined with the covering strip 14 along respective lateral edges 119 of the combined blister strip 13 and covering strip 14, obtaining sealed longitudinal and continuous bands 19.
  • a pair or both pairs of opposite wheels 29-129 is subject to pressure toward the other pair of wheels 129-29.
  • each pair of opposite wheels 29-129 can be replaced by a wheel and a stationary sealing element, for example shaped like a tile or plate, positioned above the strip 13, 15 on which it slides.
  • each pair of opposite wheels 29-129 can be replaced by a fixed guide, located under the strip 13, 14 and on which the strip 13, 14 slides, and a wheel or stationary sealing element, for example shaped like a tile, located above the strip 13, 14.
  • possible fluid jets clean the surfaces of the coupled and pre-sealed strip, rejecting inside the insulated chamber 15 the possible powders that might be present on said surfaces.
  • cleaning means in this case nozzles 26-34, which send fluid jets (air, inert or particulate gases) that clean the surfaces and send possible powders inside the insulated chamber 15.
  • suction means for sucking in any possible powders present on said surfaces cooperate with the surfaces of the combined blister strip 13 with noxious material 33 pre-sealed by the covering strip 14.
  • a cleaning device 35 that delivers a jet of fluid to clean the surface of the edges 119 of possible powder of noxious material deposited there.
  • the entrances and exits of the insulated chamber 15 are structured and organized in a known manner so that there is no danger that possible powders created in the insulated chamber 15 can leak out.
  • the means that deliver the gaseous fluid 26 and 34 as in fig. 5 can be located inside the insulated chamber 15.
  • the cleaning device that delivers the jet of gaseous fluid 35 can be replaced by a brush system, fixed or rotating.

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EP12799271.7A 2011-10-26 2012-10-24 Improved blister-making machine, connected method for packing in blisters, and blister pack thus obtained Not-in-force EP2771244B1 (en)

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IT001944A ITMI20111944A1 (it) 2011-10-26 2011-10-26 Blisteratrice migliorata, procedimento connesso di confezionamento in blister, e blister cosi' ottenuto
PCT/IB2012/002142 WO2013061137A1 (en) 2011-10-26 2012-10-24 Improved blister-making machine, connected method for packing in blisters, and blister pack thus obtained

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