EP2845812A1 - Packaging system - Google Patents
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Abstract
Description
- The present invention relates to a packaging system that comprises two intermittent rotation-type bag filling and packaging apparatuses disposed in close proximity to each other.
- An intermittent rotation-type bag filling and packaging apparatus is an apparatus that holds two lateral edges of each one of bags using a pair of left and right grippers and intermittently conveys the bags along a circular conveying path in equiangular steps while successively performing packaging operations to each bag during the conveyance such as opening the mouth of the bag, filling the bag with the material to be packaged, sealing the mouth of the bag, and unloading a product bag (bag on which the packaging operations have been completed).
- The intermittent rotation-type bag filling and packaging apparatus includes a rotary table which, for each of these packaging operations, has multiple pairs of right and left grippers disposed around the periphery of the table. The rotary table intermittently rotates, thereby causing the grippers to intermittently travel along circular travel paths in equiangular steps.
- Other various packaging devices of the intermittent rotation-type bag filing and packaging apparatus include an empty bag supplying device that supplies empty bags to the grippers, a mouth-opening device that opens the mouths of the bags held by the grippers, a packaged material filling device that fills the bags held by the grippers with material to be packaged, a mouth-sealing device that seals the mouths of the bags held by the grippers, a product bag-unloading device that receives sealed product bags from the grippers and removes them from the conveying path. These packaging devices are disposed in the vicinity of the respective stop positions in the travel path of the grippers and successively perform the above-mentioned packaging operations.
- The intermittent rotation-type bag filling and packaging apparatuses generally comprises two types. One type of intermittent rotation-type bag filling and packaging apparatus uses a pair of right and left grippers to hold bags in an upright (vertical) orientation so that the bag mouth faces upward (see Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open (Kokai) No.
2007-126208 H6-144403 - Intermittent rotation-type bag filling and packaging apparatuses have the following advantages.
- (1) The packaging operations are carried out to grippers that have come to a stop in the travel path or to bags that have come to a stop in the conveying path. Accordingly, packaging can be performed in a reliable and stable manner.
- (2) Unlike continuous transport-type bag filling and packaging apparatuses (see Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open (Kokai) No.
2001-72004 - (3) Bags are conveyed along a circular conveying path in generally the bag width direction. Accordingly, bag swing motions are less likely to occurs during bag conveying process in comparison with intermittently conveying-type bag filling and packaging apparatuses, in which bags are conveyed along a rectilinear conveying path in the thickness direction of the bags (see Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open (Kokai) No.
3-29650 - (4) Each packaging device can be disposed around the periphery of the rotary tables, namely, in the vicinity of the peripheral edges of the packaging apparatus. Accordingly, it is easy to perform part replacements, to make adjustments, etc. associated with changes in the type of the product to be handled. For this reason, intermittent rotation-type bag filling and packaging apparatuses are highly versatile and easy to maintain and clean. By contrast, in intermittently conveying-type bag filling and packaging apparatuses (see Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open (Kokai) No.
3-29650 - (5) The bag conveying path is circular. Accordingly, intermittent rotation-type bag filling and packaging apparatuses can effectively utilize substantially all of the conveying path for packaging and can provide space-saving and effective packaging operations. To the contrary, in intermittently conveying-type bag filling and packaging apparatuses (see Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open (Kokai) No.
3-29650 - Although the intermittent rotation-type bag filling and packaging apparatuses possess the above-described advantages, they have structural limitations on their speed of operation, and their processing power is inferior to that of continuous transport-type bag filling and packaging apparatuses. In addition, since intermittent rotation-type bag filling and packaging apparatuses convey bags in the bag width direction, they have a longer single conveying distance (conveying distance between the intermittent stop positions) than intermittently conveying-type bag filling and packaging apparatuses, which convey bags in the thickness direction (see Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open (Kokai) No.
3-29650 5,845,466 and Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open (Kokai) No.H10-77120 - However, in multiple-bag intermittent rotation-type bag filling and packaging apparatuses, the diameter of the rotary tables, i.e., the diameter of the bag conveying path, is inevitably larger, and the conveying distance between the intermittent stop positions is also longer. This results in that even if the speed of rotation of the rotary tables is the same, the speed of bag conveyance and their acceleration/deceleration are high in comparison with ordinary single-bag intermittent rotation-type bag filling and packaging apparatuses. Accordingly, the bag swinging associated with intermittent transport increases, and there is a risk that various problems may arise due to such swinging (see (3) above). The problem is that, for this reason, in multiple-bag intermittent rotation-type bag filling and packaging apparatuses the speed of rotation of the rotary tables has to be made slower in comparison with single-bag intermittent rotation-type bag filling and packaging apparatuses, and, as a result, their processing power cannot be significantly improved. Consequently, in multiple-bag intermittent rotation-type bag filling and packaging apparatuses, improvement in the processing capacity is made by designing them such that the width dimensions of the bags being fed are limited to relatively small sizes and the diameter of the rotary tables is not excessively large.
- On the other hand, installation of multiple intermittent rotation-type bag filling and packaging apparatuses has also been practiced in the past in order to achieve improvements in the processing capacity while exploiting the advantages of intermittent rotation-type bag filling and packaging apparatuses (see Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open (Kokai) No.
H10-77120 - The present invention is devised in view of the current state of the art in the field of intermittent rotation-type bag filling and packaging apparatuses, and it is an object of the invention to provide a packaging system that accomplishes improvements in processing capacity with a pair of intermittent rotation-type bag filling and packaging apparatuses and further contributes installation space reduction and power savings in comparison with the existing art while at the same time simplifies product bag carry-out lines for such two packaging apparatuses.
- The above object is accomplished by a unique structure of the present invention for a packaging system that includes:
- two intermittent rotation-type bag filling and packaging apparatuses which are disposed in close proximity to each other so as to, while holding two lateral edges of each of bags using a pair of left and right grippers and intermittently conveying the bags along a circular conveying path in equiangular steps, successively perform the same packaging operations during the conveyance of the bags such as opening the mouth of the bag, filling the bag with the material to be packaged, sealing the mouth of the bag, and unloading product bags, and
- each intermittent rotation-type bag filling and packaging apparatus is provided with:
- a rotary table that has multiple pairs of right and left grippers disposed around its periphery and intermittently rotates, thereby causing the grippers to intermittently travel along a circular travel path in equiangular steps;
- an empty bag supplying device that supplies empty bags to the grippers;
- a mouth-opening device that opens the mouths of the bags held by the grippers;
- a packaged material filling device that fills the bags held by the grippers with material to be packaged;
- a mouth-sealing device that seals the mouths of the bags held by the grippers; and
- a product bag unloading device that receives sealed product bags from the grippers and removes the bags from the conveying path, and
- the empty bag supplying device, mouth-opening device, packaged material filling device, mouth-sealing device, and product bag unloading device are disposed in the vicinity of stop positions in the travel path of the grippers, and
- the two rotary tables are disposed adjacent each other on a common base and connected to a common drive source so as to intermittently rotate in mutually opposite directions in the same intermittent indexing mode,
- for each rotary table, an empty bag supplying device, a mouth-opening device, a packaged material filling device, a mouth-sealing device, and a product bag unloading device are provided on the base, and
- the empty bag supplying devices and product bag unloading devices are disposed adjacent each other between the two rotary tables.
- In this system, the product bag unloading devices can be disposed adjacent each other in the most mutually proximate stop positions among stop positions of the grippers disposed on both rotary tables, and the empty bag supplying devices are disposed adjacent each other in mutually proximate stop positions that follow, in terms of the direction of rotation of the two rotary tables, the most mutually proximate stop positions.
- Furthermore, the empty bag supplying devices can be disposed adjacent each other in the most mutually proximate stop positions among stop positions of the grippers disposed on both rotary tables, and the product bag unloading devices are disposed adjacent each other in mutually proximate stop positions that precede, in terms of the direction of rotation of the two rotary tables, the most mutually proximate stop positions.
- It should be noted that "the same intermittent indexing mode" means that for both rotary tables, the duration of a single cycle of motion and stationary state, the distribution of travel time and stationary time during a single cycle, and the indexing angles are identical during the intermittent indexing motion of the rotary tables.
- The packaging system according to the present invention can take the form of the following embodiments listed as examples:
- (1) The timing of stop and rotation of the intermittent rotation of the two rotary tables is set to be substantially inverse to each other.
- (2) In the above structure in which the tables rotate in opposite directions, the two intermittent rotation-type bag filling and packaging apparatuses have a common carry-out conveyor installed to discharge product bags supplied by each product bag unloading device in an alternating manner.
- (3) In the two intermittent rotation-type bag filling and packaging apparatuses, the empty bag supplying devices, mouth-opening devices, packaged material filling devices, mouth-sealing devices, and product bag unloading devices are disposed in linearly symmetrical positions so that a line perpendicular to the line that connects the rotary shafts of the two rotary tables serves as an axis of symmetry.
- (4) The grippers disposed on the rotary tables are of the duplex type, in which two pairs constitute a single set, and the holding surfaces of the two pairs of grippers of the same set used when holding a bag are disposed substantially in the same plane. When two bags held by two pairs of grippers of the same set are intermittently moved along the travel path, the above-described packaging operations are simultaneously performed on these two bags.
- (5) The bags held by the grippers are in an upright orientation, with the bag mouths facing upward.
- As seen from the above, in the packaging system according to the present invention, the two rotary tables are rotated in opposite directions, and two empty bag supplying devices and two product bag unloading devices are disposed adjacent each other on a common base between the two rotary tables. With this arrangement, the spacing between the two rotary tables can be narrower, and installation space reduction can be achieved for the entire packaging system.
- In addition, such an arrangement as described above allows the direction of empty bag to be supplied to the two adjacent empty bag supplying devices to be the same. As a result, the burden of the operator who replenishes the supply of empty bags to the empty bag supplying device is greatly mitigated, and even a single operator can take care of the operation and management of the entire packaging system (that comprises two intermittent rotation-type bag filling and packaging apparatuses).
- Furthermore, since the two product unloading devices are disposed adjacent each other, the product bags unloaded from the two intermittent rotation-type bag filling and packaging apparatuses are collected in a single location. Accordingly, the product bag transport line used to transport the product bags for post-processing is shared by the two intermittent rotation-type bag filling and packaging apparatuses and thus can be simplified, which also leads to installation space reduction.
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FIG. 1 is a top view illustrating an example of a packaging system according to the present invention. -
FIG. 2 is a top view illustrating another example of a packaging system according to the present invention. -
FIG. 3 is a top view illustrating yet another example of a packaging system according to the present invention. -
FIG. 4 is a top view illustrating still another example of a packaging system according to the present invention. - Below, a packaging system according to the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to
Figures 1 to 4 . - The packaging system illustrated in
FIG. 1 is comprised of two intermittent rotation-type bag filling andpackaging apparatuses packaging apparatuses grippers 4 disposed around their periphery. The rotary tables 5, 6 intermittently rotate, thereby causing thegrippers 4 to intermittently travel along the circular travel paths in equiangular steps. The diameters of the travel paths of thegrippers 4 of the rotary tables 5, 6 are set to be the same. - The intermittent rotation-type bag filling and
packaging apparatuses 2005-67644 - A drive motor, etc. (not shown), which serves as a common drive source to rotate the rotary tables 5, 6, is provided in the base 1. The drive force of the drive motor is transmitted to the index devices (not shown) of the rotary tables 5, 6 through reduction gears (not shown) and is then transmitted to the rotary tables 5, 6. The transmission of the drive force to the index devices of the rotary tables 5, 6 can be individually enabled or blocked using, e.g., a clutch.
- The intermittent indexing modes of the rotary tables 5, 6 (or the duration of a single cycle of motion and stationary state, the distribution of travel time and stationary time during a single cycle, and the indexing angles) are set using the indexing devices such that they are identical. In addition, the rotary tables 5, 6 are intermittently rotated in mutually opposite directions (the rotary table 5 of the intermittent rotation-type bag filling and
packaging apparatus 2 is rotated counterclockwise while the rotary table 6 of the intermittent rotation-type bag filling andpackaging apparatus 3 is rotated clockwise) and, at the same time, the timing of moving (rotation) and stopping is set to be substantially inverse to each other. InFIG. 1 , the rotary table 5 is at a stop while the rotary table 6 is moving (rotating). In this manner, since the timing of moving and stopping of the rotary tables 5, 6 is set to be substantially inverse to each other (the timing of moving and stopping is shifted by a half-cycle), the load applied to the drive source is evened out, and it is possible to render the drive source more compact and improve its durability without reducing the processing power of the packaging system. - During each complete revolution, the rotary tables 5, 6 stop eight times at equiangular intervals, respectively. The position of closest proximity between the travel path of the
grippers 4 of the rotary table 5 and the travel path of thegrippers 4 of the rotary table 6 is selected as one of the stop positions (stop position H of the table 5 and stop position h of the table 6) of thegrippers 4 in the travel path, and seven other stop positions (A-G of the table 5 and a-g of the table 6) are set at angular intervals of 45° from the stop positions H, h along the travel paths. - Product
bag unloading devices 8, 9, which removes theproduct bags 7A out of the conveying path, are disposed so as to be adjacent each other on the base 1 in the vicinity of the most proximate stop positions H, h among the stop positions A-H and stop positions a-h, respectively. In addition, emptybag supplying devices grippers 4, are provided adjacent each other on the base 1 in the vicinity of the next (in terms of the direction of rotation of the tables) stop positions A, a, respectively. - Further provided on the base 1 so as to surround the rotary tables 5, 6, respectively, are:
- bag height sensors 12 (for table 5), 13 (for table 6), which are disposed in the vicinity of stop positions B, b to detect the height of the bags 7 held by the
grippers 4; - mouth-opening devices 14 (for table 5), 15 (for table 6), which are disposed in the vicinity of stop positions C, c to open the mouths of the bags 7 held by the
grippers 4; - packaged material filling devices 16 (for table 5), 17 (for table 6), which are disposed in the vicinity of stop positions D, d to fill the bags 7 with the materials to be packaged (solid materials);
- packaged material filling devices 18 (for table 5), 19 (for table 6), which are disposed in the vicinity of stop positions E, e to fill the bags 7 with the materials to be packaged (liquid materials);
- steam degassing devices 20 (for table 5), 21 (for table 6), which are disposed in the vicinity of stop positions F, f to degas the inside of the bags 7 by blowing steam into the bags 7; and
- ultrasonic sealing devices 22 (for table 5), 23 (for table 6), which are disposed in the vicinity of stop positions G, g to seal the mouths of the bags 7.
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bag unloading devices 8 and 9, emptybag supplying devices bag height sensors devices material filling devices material filling devices steam degassing devices ultrasonic sealing devices - The drive source that intermittently rotates the rotary tables 5, 6 is also the drive source that actuates the various packaging devices that are described above and provided around the tables 5, 6. The transmission of drive force to the various packaging devices, which is done in the same manner as to the rotary tables 5, 6, can be enabled or blocked using the clutch.
- Furthermore, on the base 1, a quadruplex conveyor magazine-type empty
bag supplying device 24 is provided so that it extends from the outside onto the base 1 with its front end being near the emptybag supplying devices bag unloading devices 8, 9, a product bag carry-outconveyor 25 is provided so that it extends out to the outside of the base 1. These conveyor magazine-type emptybag supplying device 24 and product bag carry-outconveyor 25 are shared by the intermittent rotation-type bag filling andpackaging apparatuses bag supplying device 24 and one product bag carry-outconveyor 25 is sufficient for both filling and packaging apparatuses. - The conveyor magazine-type empty
bag supplying device 24 hasquadruplex conveyors 24a-24d aligned longitudinally in parallel to each other. The right-hand duplex conveyors bag supplying device 10 of the intermittent rotation-type bag filling andpackaging apparatus 2, and the left-hand duplex conveyors bag supplying device 11 of the intermittent rotation-type bag filling andpackaging apparatus 3. The product bag carry-outconveyor 25 receivesproduct bags 7A, which are alternatingly discharged from the two filling andpackaging apparatuses bag unloading devices 8, 9 and carries them out of the system for post-processing (for example, disinfection, boxing, and the like). The direction of transport of the bags 7 in the conveyor magazine-type emptybag supplying device 24 and the carrying-out direction of theproduct bags 7A in the product bag carry-outconveyor 25 is the same, and these directions are perpendicular to the imaginary line that connects the rotary shafts of the rotary tables 5, 6 (and extends from the front side towards the opposite side inFIG. 1 ), thus being parallel to line Z - The packaging operations successively performed in the intermittent rotation-type bag filling and
packaging apparatuses - (1) Empty bags 7 positioned at the distal end of the conveyor magazine-type empty
bag supplying device 24 are adhered by suction cups, not shown, and picked up thereby from theconveyors 24a-24d, with the orientation of the bags 7 changed to a vertical orientation, in which the mouths of the bags are oriented (or facing) upward (bags in such a vertical orientation are indicated with reference number "7a" inFIG. 1 ). - Subsequently, the chuck members (not shown) of the empty
bag supplying devices grippers 4 that have come to a stop in stop positions A, a (see the packaged bag supplying device S described in Patent No.5,044,844 , and the supplying device described in Utility Model Registration No.3123709 bag supplying device 10 and the chuck members of the emptybag supplying device 11 operate in mutually opposite directions (in a linearly symmetrical manner). - The operation to supply the bags 7 (two at a time) to the
grippers 4 of the intermittent rotation-type bag filling andpackaging apparatus 2 by the emptybag supplying device 10 and the operation to supply the bags 7 (two at a time) to thegrippers 4 of the intermittent rotation-type bag filling andpackaging apparatus 3 by the emptybag supplying device 11 are performed in an alternating manner. - In the above, the operation to supply the bags 7 to the two intermittent rotation-type bag filling and
packaging apparatuses 2, 3 (or to the emptybag supplying devices 10, 11) is executed using one conveyer magazine-type emptybag supplying device 24. Accordingly, it is possible to render the packaging system more compact and reduce its installation space, and the operation to replenish the supply of empty bags on theconveyors 24a-24d can be easily performed by the operator. In addition, since there is no need to provide two conveyer magazine-type empty bag supplying devices, the entire packaging system can be simplified, and installation space can be reduced. - (2) In stop positions B, b, the height of the bags 7 held by the
grippers 4 is checked by thebag height sensors grippers 4 are opened and such defective bag(s) 7 is discharged from the system through a chute and the like. Alternatively, packaging operations can still be performed on such defective bag(s) 7 in the subsequent stop position such that the elevation of the ultrasonic horn and anvil (not shown) of theultrasonic sealing devices - (3) In stop positions C, c, the mouths of the bags 7 held by the
grippers 4 are opened by the mouth-openingdevices - (4) In stop positions D, d, the bags 7 held by the
grippers 4 are filled with the material to be packaged (solid material) by the packagedmaterial filling devices - (5) In stop positions E, e, the bags 7 held by the
grippers 4 are filled with the material to be packaged (liquid material) by the packagedmaterial filling devices - (6) In stop positions F, f, steam is injected into the bags 7 held by the
grippers 4 by thesteam degassing devices - (7) In stop positions G, g, the mouths of the bags 7 held by the
grippers 4 are sealed by theultrasonic sealing devices - (8) In stop positions H, h, the chuck members (not shown) of the product
bag unloading devices 8, 9 clamp theproduct bags 7A held by thegrippers 4 and, after thegrippers 4 are opened, convey theproduct bags 7A in a horizontal plane to the product bag carry-outconveyer 25, and then release theproduct bags 7A onto the carry-outconveyer 25. While theproduct bags 7A are being conveyed, their orientation is changed 90° in a horizontal plane. The productbag unloading devices 8, 9 are substantially the same as the emptybag supplying devices bag unloading device 9 operate in mutually opposite directions (in a linearly symmetrical manner). - The timing of the
grippers 4 of the rotary table 5 coming to a stop in stop position H and of thegrippers 4 of the rotary table 6 coming to a stop in stop position h are relatively shifted by a half-cycle, as a result of which the unloading of theproduct bags 7A by the productbag unloading devices 8, 9 is carried out in an alternating manner. Accordingly, theproduct bags 7A are transported out from the system in two rows by the product bag carry-outconveyer 25 and sent to the next step (disinfection, boxing, etc.). - Since the product
bag unloading devices 8, 9 are disposed adjacent each other and theproduct bags 7A are discharged onto a common product bag carry-outconveyer 25, the product bag transport line is simplified and installation space can be reduced. -
FIG. 2 shows another packaging system that differs from the packaging system illustrated inFIG. 1 - The difference of the packaging system of
FIG. 2 from that ofFIG. 1 is that the timing of moving and stopping of the rotary tables 5, 6 is synchronized and, at the same time, ordinary chutes (not shown; see the product discharge (14) described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open (Kokai) No.2007-126208 product unloading devices 8, 9. In other respects, the packaging system ofFIG. 2 is essentially identical to the packaging system illustrated inFIG. 1 . InFIG. 2 , parts that are substantially the same as the parts of the packaging system illustrated inFIG. 1 are assigned the same reference numerals. - The packaging system illustrated in
FIG. 2 is designed such that a total of four (4)product bags 7A (two at a time) are simultaneously released from thegrippers 4 that have come to a stop in stop positions H, h and fall onto the product bag carry-outconveyer 25 through the chutes, and then theproduct bags 7A, aligned in two rows, are transported out of the system and sent to the next step (disinfection, boxing, etc.). In this packaging system ofFIG. 2 , the orientation of theproduct bags 7A transported on the product bag carry-outconveyer 25 differs from the orientation of transport in the packaging system illustrated inFIG. 1 by 90°, and theproduct bags 7A are transported in the width direction. -
FIG. 3 shows still another packaging system that differs from the packaging system illustrated inFIG. 1 - The difference of the packaging system of
FIG. 3 from that ofFIG. 1 is that the timing of moving and stopping of the rotary tables 5, 6 is synchronized, and at the same time the spacing between the rotary tables 5, 6 is set larger or slightly expanded and the width of the product bag carry-outconveyer 25 is set also larger or increased. In other respects, the packaging system ofFIG. 3 is essentially identical to the packaging system illustrated inFIG. 1 . InFIG. 3 , parts that are substantially the same as the parts of the packaging system illustrated inFIG. 1 are assigned the same numerals. - The packaging system illustrated in
FIG. 3 is designed such that the twoproduct bags 7A held by thegrippers 4 that have come to a stop in stop position H of the table 5 are clamped by the chuck members (not shown) of the product bag unloading device 8, and the twoproduct bags 7A held by thegrippers 4 that have come to a stop in stop position h of the table 6 are clamped by the chuck members (not shown) of the productbag unloading device 9. After thegrippers 4 of both intermittent rotation-type bag filling andpackaging apparatuses product bags 7A are conveyed in a horizontal plane to the product bag carry-outconveyer 25, and, after reaching the conveyor, theproduct bags 7A are released onto the carry-outconveyer 25. While the fourproduct bags 7A are being conveyed, their orientation is changed 90° in a horizontal plane, and they are lined up in one row in the bag width direction on product bag carry-outconveyer 25, such that the twoproduct bags 7A clamped by the chuck members of the product bag unloading device 8 fall on the right-hand side relative to the center of the product bag carry-outconveyer 25 and, simultaneously, the twoproduct bag 7A clamped by the chuck members of the productbag unloading device 9 fall on the left-hand side relative to the center of the product bag carry-outconveyer 25. Consequently, theproduct bags 7A are transported out from the system in four rows by the product bag carry-outconveyer 25 and sent to the next step (disinfection, boxing, etc.). - In the above-described packaging systems, the two intermittent rotation-type bag filling and
packaging apparatuses - In addition, while in the above-described packaging systems the intermittent rotation-type bag filling and packaging apparatuses are of a type in which the bags are held by a pair of right and left grippers in an upright orientation with the bag mouth facing upward, the present invention is also applicable to bag filling and packaging apparatuses of the type in which the bags are held by a pair of right and left grippers in a horizontal attitude (see Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open (Kokai) No,
H6-144403 - Furthermore, while in the above-described packaging systems, the product
bag unloading devices 8, 9 are disposed adjacent each other in the vicinity of the most proximate stop positions H, h, and the emptybag supplying devices bag supplying devices bag unloading devices 8, 9 in the vicinity of the preceding stop positions G, g (located on the upstream side of the stop positions H, h in terms of the direction of rotation of the tables). One example of this structure is shown inFIG. 4 . - The packaging system shown in
FIG. 4 differs from the packaging system ofFIG. 3 in that the emptybag supplying devices bag unloading devices 8, 9 are disposed adjacent each other in the vicinity of the stop positions G, g that precede the stop positions H, h. in terms of the direction of rotation of the rotary tables 5, 6. In addition, in the packaging system shown inFIG. 4 , thebag height sensors devices material filling devices material filling devices steam degassing devices ultrasonic sealing devices FIG. 3 . InFIG.4 , parts that are substantially the same as the parts of the packaging system illustrated inFIG. 1 are assigned the same reference numerals.
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- A packaging system wherein:two intermittent rotation-type bag filling and packaging apparatuses, which are provided in close proximity to each other, hold two lateral edges of each one of bags using a pair of grippers to intermittently convey bags along a circular conveying path in equiangular steps and successively perform, during conveyance of bags, same packaging operations including opening mouths of bags, filling bags with material to be packaged, sealing the mouths of the bags, and unloading product bags; andeach intermittent rotation-type bag filling and packaging apparatus comprises:a rotary table that has multiple pairs of grippers disposed around a periphery thereof and intermittently rotates, thereby causing the grippers to intermittently travel along a circular travel path in equiangular steps;an empty bag supplying device for supplying a bag to the grippers;a mouth-opening device for opening a mouth of the bag held by the grippers;a packaged material filling device for filling the bag held by the grippers with material to be packaged;a mouth-sealing device for sealing the mouth of the bag held by the grippers; anda product bag unloading device that receives a sealed product bag from the grippers and removes the product bag from the conveying path; andthe empty bag supplying device, mouth-opening device, packaged material filling device, mouth-sealing device, and product bag unloading device are disposed in vicinity of stop positions in the travel path of the grippers, and wherein:said two rotary tables are disposed adjacent each other on a common base and connected to a common drive source so as to intermittently rotate in mutually opposite directions in a same intermittent indexing mode,said empty bag supplying device, mouth-opening device, packaged material filling device, mouth-sealing device, and product bag unloading device are provided on the base for each one of said rotary tables, andsaid empty bag supplying devices and product bag unloading devices are disposed adjacent each other between said two rotary tables.
- The packaging system according to claim 1, wherein said product bag unloading devices are disposed adjacent each other in a most mutually proximate stop positions among stop positions of the grippers disposed on both rotary tables, and said empty bag supplying devices are disposed adjacent each other in mutually proximate stop positions that follow, in terms of a direction of rotation of said two rotary tables, said most mutually proximate stop positions.
- The packaging system according to claim 1, wherein said empty bag supplying devices are disposed adjacent each other in a most mutually proximate stop positions among stop positions of the grippers disposed on both rotary tables, and said product bag unloading devices are disposed adjacent each other in mutually proximate stop positions that precede, in terms of a direction of rotation of said two rotary tables, said most mutually proximate stop positions.
- The packaging system according to any one of claims 1 through 3, wherein timing of moving and stopping the intermittent rotation of said rotary tables is set to be substantially inverse to each other.
- The packaging system according to claim 4, wherein
said two intermittent rotation-type bag filling and packaging apparatuses are provided with a common carry-out conveyor, and
said product bag unloading devices discharge the product bag in an alternating manner. - The packaging system according to claim 4 or 5, wherein in said two intermittent rotation-type bag filling and packaging apparatuses, the empty bag supplying devices, mouth-opening devices, packaged material filling devices, mouth-sealing devices, and product bag unloading devices are disposed in linearly symmetrical positions with a line perpendicular to a line that connects the rotary shafts of the two rotary tables serving as an axis of symmetry.
- The packaging system according to any one of claims 1 through 6, wherein
said grippers disposed on the rotary tables are of a duplex type, in which two pairs of grippers constitute a single set, and
holding surfaces of said two pairs of grippers of a same set used when holding a bag are disposed substantially in a same plane, and,
while two bags held by two pairs of grippers of the same set intermittently travel along the travel path, the packaging operations are simultaneously performed on said two bags. - The packaging system according to any one of claims 1 through 7, wherein the bag held by said grippers is in an upright orientation with bag mouth thereof facing upward.
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