Classifications

• • 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
  • B65B57/00—Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices
  • B65B57/02—Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices responsive to absence, presence, abnormal feed, or misplacement of binding or wrapping material, containers, or packages
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
  • G01G—WEIGHING
  • G01G13/00—Weighing apparatus with automatic feed or discharge for weighing-out batches of material
  • G01G13/02—Means for automatically loading weigh pans or other receptacles, e.g. disposable containers, under control of the weighing mechanism
• • 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
  • B65B21/14—Introducing or removing groups of bottles, for filling or emptying containers in one operation
• • 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
  • B65B57/00—Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices
  • B65B57/18—Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices causing operation of audible or visible alarm signals
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
  • G01G—WEIGHING
  • G01G13/00—Weighing apparatus with automatic feed or discharge for weighing-out batches of material
  • G01G13/24—Weighing mechanism control arrangements for automatic feed or discharge
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
  • B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
  • B29C49/00—Blow-moulding, i.e. blowing a preform or parison to a desired shape within a mould; Apparatus therefor
  • B29C49/02—Combined blow-moulding and manufacture of the preform or the parison
  • B29C2049/024—Combined blow-moulding and manufacture of the preform or the parison not using inherent heat of the preform, i.e. 2 step blow moulding
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
  • B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
  • B29C2949/00—Indexing scheme relating to blow-moulding
  • B29C2949/07—Preforms or parisons characterised by their configuration
  • B29C2949/0715—Preforms or parisons characterised by their configuration the preform having one end closed
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
  • B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
  • B29C49/00—Blow-moulding, i.e. blowing a preform or parison to a desired shape within a mould; Apparatus therefor
  • B29C49/02—Combined blow-moulding and manufacture of the preform or the parison
  • B29C49/06—Injection blow-moulding
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
  • B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
  • B29C49/00—Blow-moulding, i.e. blowing a preform or parison to a desired shape within a mould; Apparatus therefor
  • B29C49/42—Component parts, details or accessories; Auxiliary operations
  • B29C49/4205—Handling means, e.g. transfer, loading or discharging means
  • B29C49/42051—Means for stripping, aligning or de-stacking
  • B29C49/42057—Aligning disorderly arranged preforms, e.g. delivered disorderly

Definitions

• the present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for
• a bottling plant in the beverage industry comprises a module for producing the
• Beverage container in particular a blow molding machine, a module for filling of
• Packaging units are assembled and packaged. Ongoing operation in such a bottling plant is monitored by an operator. This must ensure that there is always enough consumables available, if necessary make retooling, fix faults on the system, etc.
• the preforms represent the consumable material and are provided in silos and supplied to the blow molding machine via a feeder, for example.
• the preforms are
• packaging units such as boxes or
• Containers Deliver and poured into the silo.
• the operator operating and monitoring the machine monitors in the
• the level of preforms in the silo to ensure that there is always enough consumables available, so that the operation of the blow molding machine can run continuously.
• the monitoring is carried out by a visual inspection. For example, a narrow recess or window is provided in the silo. The operator then has to estimate how much time he has before he has to refill.
• level monitoring via a light barrier is currently taking place in the silo. Are there only a small amount of consumables in the silo, so is this is communicated to the operator via a message on a display so that he can fill the silo in time.
• the silo must first be completely emptied before the new preforms can be filled. This is done conventionally by the preforms are discharged through the feederhouse. Depending on how many
• DE 203 08 513 U1 shows a device for feeding preforms to a blow molding machine, wherein the preforms are provided in a silo and fed via a feeder, a roller sorter and a vertical conveyor a heating section, where the preforms heated and then in the subsequent blow molding machine be transformed.
• closures are provided in silos to seal the bottles after being filled with beverages.
• the silo must be completely emptied during a product change before new closures can be filled.
• the object of the invention is to monitor the amount of consumable in a magazine to easily make an adjustment of the level in the magazine can.
• the above object is achieved by an apparatus comprising the features in claim 1.
• the above object is further achieved by a method comprising the features in claim 9. Further advantageous
• the invention relates to a device for providing consumables for a packaging machine.
• the device comprises a magazine for the
• Supply device consumables removed and the packaging machine is supplied.
• Such a device is in particular in filling plants with a
• Stretch blow molding machine and / or a filler used By packaging machine is meant for example a blowing device for the production of containers, in particular bottles, of so-called preforms.
• the preforms constitute the consumable material which is provided in a silo and fed, for example, via a feeder, a roller sorter and a height conveyor first to a heating section and subsequently to a blow molding machine.
• a packaging machine is also understood to mean a capper which supplies bottles filled with crown corks or other closures from a filler and filled with a liquid, for example a drink or the like.
• the closures represent the consumables provided
• Packaging machine can also be a so-called Unscrambler, sorted as a piece goods delivered finished bottles and / or sets up so that they can be filled.
• the device comprises a detection device for
• this is a unit for determining the absolute mass of the magazine or the mass of consumable material in the magazine.
• the detection device with a display and / or
• Control unit coupled. This shows in particular the actual amount
• Detection device determines the mass of the consumable in the magazine and due to the known mass per unit of consumables - for example, due to the known mass of a preform - the number of consumable units located in the magazine calculated and displays. Furthermore, it can be provided that the display and / or control unit based on known and determined data still needed for current production
• the display and / or control unit comprises a warning function and generates a warning signal when the actual amount of consumable material in the magazine falls below a defined minimum amount.
• This may be an acoustic and / or an optical signal. This prevents the magazine from being completely emptied during operation. So that can So a production stop or idling of the following packaging machine can be prevented.
• the number of packaging units to be produced determines the desired quantity of consumables required.
• Control unit to accumulate and display the quantities of each newly filled consumables.
• the respective actual value can be stored in a separate data memory of the display and / or control unit. From the sum of all Ein Shellmengen and the known set amount determines the display and / or control unit by subtracting the sum of filled consumable material from the target amount until the end of production still missing residual amount of consumable material. This residual amount corresponds to the amount of consumables still needed until the conclusion of the packaging process, for example until a product change, etc.
• the display and / or control unit can display an advantageous denomination of the calculated residual quantity in filling units. That the display and / or control unit indicates, for example, how often the magazine should be filled to the maximum, as well as a subset of a last charge or the like to be added.
• Tolerance range varies. This tolerance must also be taken into account and taken into account so that in the end not too few consumable units are provided in the magazine. To prevent this, an additional sensor can be arranged after the packaging machine, for example, the finished
• Packaging units counts. This count is in turn transmitted to the display and / or control unit and then serves as a correction value to the remaining amount
• the detection device may be located below the magazine, i. this stands, for example, on a unit for determining an actual mass.
• Detection device can also be integrated in the bottom area of the magazine,
• the bottom plate of the magazine is designed as a weighing plate.
• the desired amount of consumable material can be determined from the number of packaging units to be produced and the known weight of a consumable unit. That is, from the desired number of bottles to be produced, the known weight of a single preform and the known number or the known weight of a packaging unit, such as a box, on preforms, it can be calculated how many packaging units are required on preforms for the rest of production. For example, it is thus indicated whether an entire or several packaging unit (s) with preforms or only a part of a packaging unit with preforms is to be filled into the magazine or silo next.
• the detection device can also be arranged in front of the magazine. In each case, it is determined how much consumable material is filled into the magazine. The sum of the fill quantities shows how much consumable material is still needed and it can be displayed again whether the magazine has to be completely or partially filled up.
• a scale mounted in front of the magazine can be made substantially smaller and more accurate and allows a more precise dosage of the required number of consumption units, in particular of preforms or closures.
• the display and / or control unit displays the last filled amount and / or the total amount already filled.
• the display and / or control unit is, for example, stationarily integrated into the device, wherein, for example, a display panel is mounted so that the values displayed thereon are clearly visible from outside the device.
• the display and / or control unit comprises at least one mobile display panel.
• the determined or calculated data are transmitted wirelessly, for example via a radio link from the display and / or control unit to the mobile display and can thus be kept in mind by an operator who is not directly on the machine.
• the invention further relates to a method for providing
• Consumables for a packaging machine wherein the consumable material is provided as bulk material in a magazine and from this by means of at least one
• the magazine can hold a defined maximum amount of packaging material.
• a detection device coupled to the magazine detects an actual quantity
• Packaging material in the magazine This actual amount of packaging material can be transmitted to a display and / or control unit, which calculates therefrom, as already described, a required residual amount of packaging material for the current production.
• the display and / or control unit indicates to an operator with what amount of packaging material the magazine has to be filled. For example, it is therefore indicated that the magazine can be filled to the maximum or that the magazine should only be filled to a certain extent in order to produce the last desired packaging units.
• the display and / or control unit may generate a second warning signal when the magazine has been filled with the maximum amount or with the calculated partial amount of consumable material. This in turn may be an audible and / or visual warning signal.
• the display and / or control unit controls an automatic filling device.
• the display and / or control unit stops the filling process by the filling device when the magazine contains the required amount of consumables.
• FIG. 1 shows a device for feeding preforms according to the prior art from DE 203008513.
• FIG. 2 shows a first embodiment of a device according to the invention for providing preforms.
• FIG. 3 shows a second embodiment of a device according to the invention for providing preforms.
• FIG. 4 shows a third embodiment of a device according to the invention for providing preforms.
• identical reference numerals are used.
• only reference symbols are shown in the individual figures, which are required for the description of the respective figure.
• the illustrated embodiments are merely examples of how the device or method of the invention may be configured and are not an exhaustive limitation.
• the preforms 2 are provided as bulk material in boxes 3. Preforms 2 are transferred at periodic intervals by pouring into a silo 4, and form the supply of preforms 2 for the blow molding machine 1 1st
• the preforms 2 pass via an inclined conveyor 5 to a roller sorter 6, where they are aligned accordingly. Via a height conveyor 7 and a slide 8, the preforms 2 reach an inlet star 9 of a heating section 10.
• the chute 8 additionally causes a buffer function, which allows a gapless loading of the heating section 10 and the subsequent blowing device 1 1.
• the preforms 2 are converted according to the blow molds used in bottles 12, the like via a conveyor 13 further processing devices (not shown), such as a pen or the like. be supplied.
• the arrows represent the transport direction TR of the preforms 2 or bottles 12.
• FIG. 2 shows a first embodiment of a device according to the invention
• the preforms 24 are removed via a discharge conveyor 26 from a silo 22 and fed to a blow molding machine 30.
• a balance 41 with which the actual mass Va of the preforms 24 located in the silo 22 is determined and displayed on a display and / or control unit 42.
• the actual mass Va of the preforms 24 located in the silo 22 is determined and displayed on a display and / or control unit 42.
• the actual number Na of preforms 24 in the silo 22 can be calculated.
• the time t can be calculated until the silo 22 again with
• the display and / or control unit 42 preferably comprises a mobile
• Display 43 in particular a touchpad, that the operator can carry around and gets the calculated and calculated data of the display and / or control unit 42 transmitted by radio. This allows the operator to better allocate his time. He can thus better structure and organize his work.
• 3 shows a second embodiment of a device 20 according to the invention for providing preforms 24.
• the preforms 24 are located in a silo 22, from where they are removed and fed via a discharge conveyor 26 to a blow molding machine 30 (see also FIG.
• the silo 22 is associated with a detection device 40.
• the silo 22 is arranged on a balance 41, which in each case determines and displays the mass Va of the preforms 24 located in the silo 22.
• the display takes place via a display field 43 of a display and / or control unit 42.
• the display field 43 can be located, for example, directly on the balance 41. Alternatively, it can be a mobile display, which preferably receives the determined values wirelessly, in particular by radio, so that an operator can read the values, even if he is not directly at the device 20.
• Production parameters are stored at the beginning of each new production. These include, for example: the known mass of a single preform 24;
• the display and / or control unit 42 stores, for example, the data on the already filled into the silo 22 amounts Vi on preforms 24. From the
• Sum of the filled amounts Vi and the known target amount Vt calculates the display and / or control unit 42 a quantity Vr of preforms 24, which are still necessary for the planned production.
• the display and / or control unit 42 can determine from this residual quantity Vr a filling scheme that, for example, pretends that the silo is filled three times with in each case a maximum amount Vmax of preforms 24 and then only For example, four packing units (3, see FIG. 1) are poured three times into preforms 24 into the silo 22 and subsequently only a partial quantity Vp of approximately 2.5 packing units.
• This partial quantity Vp is calculated in such a way that with completion of the production no or only a small number of preforms 24 are in the silo 22.
• the partial quantity Vp takes into account that the mass of the individual preforms 24 is subject to fluctuations within a certain tolerance range. This ensures that the
• End of production silo 22 is largely empty and thus the loss of time
• a first warning signal S1 is generated when the balance 41 determines that the amount of preforms 24 in the silo 22 is below a defined minimum Vmin. This is intended to prevent the ongoing operation of the blow molding machine 30 must stop because the supply of preforms 24 is not sufficient.
• a second warning signal S2 is generated if the maximum filling quantity Vmax or the calculated partial quantity Vp
• FIG. 4 shows a third embodiment of a device according to the invention
• the detection device 40, or the balance 41 determines the mass of the preforms 24 in the silo 22, whereby the display and / or control unit 42 calculates the actual amount Va of preforms 24.
• the display and / or control unit 42 determines and stores the quantity Vi of preforms 24 filled in. For example, the respective actual value Va is written into a separate data memory of the display and / or control unit 42 directly after the filling of new preforms 24 .
• the display and / or control unit 42 determines a residual quantity Vr (not shown, compare FIG. 3) from the sum of all filling quantities Vi and the known setpoint quantity Vt. From this residual quantity Vr, the display and / or control unit 42 calculates the respective filling quantity Vr, in particular whether a maximum quantity Vmax or a partial quantity Vp is to be filled. These data are transmitted to a filler 44, which receives the silo 22 with the corresponding maximum quantity Vmax or the calculated partial value. Quantity Vp filled on preforms 24. If the predetermined amount of filling Vmax, Vp reached, the filling process is automatically stopped by the filler 44.

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