EP3012201B1 - Method and apparatus for winching and erecting collapsed or folded cardboard products into standing compartments and/or packaging - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a device for mounting and erecting collapsed or folded cardboard boxes for standing arranged compartments and / or outer packaging according to the features of the preamble of claim 1 and a method for erecting cardboard to standing arranged compartments and / or outer packaging according to the features of Preamble of claim 15.

The handling of articles often provides one or more articles with an outer packaging.

This is done in the case of individual articles for their improved protection and / or their improved sales presentation.

In the case of several items, the package will additionally receive a package of several items.

Containers are an effective way to handle multiple items simultaneously, for example, to facilitate the transport of multiple items at the same time. Therefore, packages of several held together articles represent the most common variant of sales units for many articles, such as beverage containers.

The articles may, for example, be objects such as, for example, packaged or unpacked articles, containers, such as beverage bottles or cans, or themselves containers of several objects, the objects of a container being conveyed, for example by means of a group of objects Peripheral surrounding enclosure, such as a strapping, an overwrapping, such as a wrapping, a shrink tube or a cardboard box or a support frame, such as a beverage crate, can be held together, to name only a few conceivable embodiments.

Folding cartons, among other things, are used as outer packaging accommodating one or more articles each, since these offer a high, optionally additional protection for the articles housed in them, moreover are stackable with the articles housed in them and also identify the ones they contain To allow articles to be printed or pasted on their outside. Furthermore, they can serve as an advertising medium through appropriate information on their outside.

Folding boxes are industrially prefabricated, mostly folded or folded to a particularly small space or pack size, usually rectangular containers that are transported to save space and stored in the collapsed state to their use to their needs with simple handles or by machine for repackaging unfolded, as is known, for example, from folding cartons used for postal packages. When folded, they require little space for their transport and storage.

As formed by folding boxes, for example, containers formed outer packaging may be executed with or without arranged therein, or individual items can be separated and / or remote holding, also referred to as so-called Baskets Gefache.

As compartments, a so-called interior arrangement to be arranged or arranged in an outer packaging, which may for example consist of nested and / or connected to each other, for example, by kinked edges and / or adhesive connections webs referred to.

The webs may for example consist of cardboard and / or cardboard or plastics. To protect sensitive articles, for example, corrugated board can be used for the webs. By folding edges and / or adhesive connections and / or slots in the webs are and / or the webs are connected to each other, provided for one or more items provided compartments with, for example, rectangular or triangular or polygonal base, in which articles are fixed against slipping ,

In a nutshell, compartments allocate fixed space to the articles within the outer packaging and thereby protect them during the further transport and / or storage of the outer packaging which harbors them, for example, from a collision and rubbing against each other until removal of the articles and their articles Consumption, which can otherwise have a negative impression of quality otherwise, for example, by signs of sweat, such as information applied to the articles, for example in the form of labels, and / or damage to the articles.

At an outer edge of a compartment so-called blind pockets or blind pockets can be realized, which may for example be designed as too small for the inclusion of articles. Blindfolds or blindfolds on the periphery of a compartment used in an outer packaging or arranged in an outer packaging allow additional protection of the housed in the outer packaging items, for example, in mechanical stress and / or deformation of article accommodating outer packaging.

Analogous to the provision of folding cartons as outer packaging compartments to be used in outer packaging are preferably prefabricated and folded or collapsed to a particularly small space or pack size, so that they can be transported and stored space-saving in collapsed state until their use to their needs with simple To be unfolded by hand or by machine.

In addition, outer packaging with already arranged in these compartments are known. These can be designed as folding boxes with interior arranged therein, which can also be folded and transported folded and stored and folded in their need with simple handles or by machine.

Representative of the described, in their need with simple handles or machine unfoldable or erectable, designed as cartons outer packaging, as well as collapsible and unfolded compartments, as well as cartons with already arranged in these compartments repackaging is below the wording Gefache and / or Used outer package, which includes the three different design variants, unless it is explicitly something else, for example, only one of the design variants mentioned.

Compartments and / or outer packaging are preferably made of single or multi-part cardboard boxes made of stabilized paper types, such as cardboard and / or cardboard. For each type of compartments and / or outer packaging there are cardboard boxes in different strengths and sizes. For sensitive items, for example, corrugated board will be used to protect them.

To compartments and / or packaging auffalt- or retractable, folded or folded cardboard have by kinking edges and / or adhesive connections and / or connectors interconnected cardboard walls, which may be cut out and / or punched example of sheet material. In the collapsed state at least two interconnected Kartonagewände form an upper and a lower flat side of a flat folded cardboard.

For example, by printing on the sides of a folded cardboard box, this can be unfolded into a compartment and / or outer packaging. It is also possible to hold the folded cardboard on the surfaces of each one Kartonagewand their upper and lower flat side, for example by means of suckers and raise by increasing the initially limited to the thickness of the collapsed cardboard packaging distance between the surfaces of the cardboard walls. By connecting the cardboard walls with each other here cardboard walls of the cardboard are unfolded or raised, which are arranged within the space spanned by the cardboard walls of the upper and lower flat side space.

Combinations of folding by lateral pressure and mounting are possible.

By unfolding or mounting in the case of an outer packaging designed as a folding box, an interior and, in the case of a foldable or unfoldable compartment or a folding box with a compartment already arranged in this compartment, one compartment per compartment of the compartment is formed by one or respectively one, a normal to the cardboard walls extending plane spanning access opening is accessible through which access opening articles can be introduced into the corresponding interior.

A significant cost factor when dealing with articles, for example in food and / or beverage and / or packaging technology and / or in the food and / or beverage and / or packaging industry, is the timing, with the within the shortest possible time with as many articles can be handled. The higher the clocking, the higher is the article turnover and the higher and higher this improves the utilization of the machines, systems and equipment intended for this purpose. The clocking can thus be described as the quotient of the number of articles and the length of time within which this number of articles is handled.

In order to be able to achieve high timings, in packaging technology and in the packaging industry, fully automatic, as unfolding or straightening machines (such as the document WO 2013/159180 ) or short Auffalter or Aufrichter designated devices for unfolding and / or mounting of cardboard to trays and / or outer packaging used, which in conjunction with the provision of collapsed or collapsed cardboard boxes within a fraction of seconds, a folded or collapsed cardboard remove a cardboard storage and to a compartment and / or an outer packaging to raise and / or unfold.

By WO 2013/053646 A1 For example, an apparatus and method are known for the combined drawing and unfolding of cardboard into a jacket of a container. A cardboard storage in the form of a standing, lying or hanging magazine accommodates by a compressive force against a withdrawal side of the magazine pressed flat folded cardboard consisting of four along parallel creases interconnected Kartonagewänden of which two each have an upper and a lower or - in the case lying arrangement of the magazine - form a front and a rear flat side of a flat folded cardboard. The removal side of the magazine releases one flat side each. A gripper grasps one of the cardboard walls of the flat side of the cardboard box located on the removal side of the magazine and pulls the detected cardboard wall and thus the whole cardboard along a path of movement out of the magazine. The path of movement describes a quarter-circle-shaped path along which the cardboard wall detected by the gripper undergoes a 90 ° pivoting movement about an axis parallel to the bending edges. During this movement, not detected by the gripper cardboard wall of the magazine released flat side, which not detected by the gripper cardboard wall in flat collapsed state of the cardboard with the gripper detected cardboard wall encloses an obtuse angle of at least approximately 180 °, along a backdrop, which unrecognized cardboard wall wall forces at the end of the movement path to take an angle of 90 ° to the gripper detected cardboard wall, so that a rectangular cross-section of the shell is obtained. This is followed by the separately prepared floor and the separately produced lid of the container connected to the jacket and the container filled.

In the horizontal arrangement of the magazine, the coats can be raised upright and unfolded. However, the space requirement of the horizontal magazine in the horizontal direction is considerable. In addition, the arrangement has the disadvantage that the lying to the underlying arrangement necessarily against the withdrawal side of the magazine pressed, stored in the magazine cardboard can get caught, as is unfortunately known from paper towel dispensers.

Another significant cost factor when dealing with articles is the space requirement for the construction of the system technology. The highest cost factor is the footprint required for the construction, since most systems do not exhaust the available room heights in production halls.

A contribution to achieving a smallest possible footprint required small horizontal space requirement can be obtained by the cardboard boxes are stored stacked in the vertical direction.

This has the disadvantage that the cardboard boxes must be taken lying down and handed over to an arrangement arranged as close as possible to their storage, which the cardboard boxes by an opposite force, for example by pulling on each of a Kartonagewand their upper and lower flat sides, and / or by Press on the outer edges of folds to compartments and / or wrappers raises and / or unfolds.

A contribution to achieve a smallest possible footprint required small horizontal space requirement can also be obtained by the winding or unfolding of cartons to compartments and / or outer packaging takes place as little as possible in the horizontal direction, preferably only in the vertical direction.

The disadvantage of this is that the flat collapsed cardboard must be raised or unfolded thereby, whereby access openings through which articles in the interiors of the resulting compartments and / or packaging can be introduced, each a vertical, normal to the flat sides of the cardboard forming Stretch cardboard boxes upright. Articles in which they are usually dealt with up to their introduction into a compartment and / or an outer packaging in compartments and / or outer packaging either the articles must be placed so that they can be inserted through the access openings, or the compartments and / or outer packaging must be erected so that the access openings lie in a horizontal plane.

This can be done by following the winding flat collapsed cardboard by means normal to a plane formed by the flat sides of the still flat folded carton level moving suckers, the suckers after mounting the cardboard to lying compartments and / or outer packaging they do not yet share, but are first pivoted about a horizontal pivot axis before they release the cardboard wall covered by them.

It can be seen that this pivoting of the vertically movable suction still has a considerable amount of space in the horizontal direction. In addition, the additional movement of sucking necessarily vertically movable suckers adversely affects the achievable timing.

An object of the invention is an apparatus and a method for mounting and erecting collapsed or collapsed cardboard boxes to vertically arranged compartments and / or outer packaging with reduced compared to the prior art space requirements in the horizontal direction and with a higher compared to the prior art developable clocking.

The above object is achieved in each case with the features of the independent claims. Further advantageous embodiments are described by the subclaims.

A first subject of the invention accordingly relates to a device for mounting and erecting collapsed or folded cardboard boxes to vertically arranged compartments and / or outer packaging.

In standing arranged compartments and / or outer packaging are the access openings through which articles can be introduced into the compartments and / or outer packaging, in a horizontal plane.

The device has a cardboard storage comprising at least one stack of stacked cardboard containers folded flat.

The cardboard boxes consist of several, for example, by kinked edges and / or adhesive joints and / or connectors connected Kartonagewänden that can be cut out and / or punched example of sheet material. In the collapsed state at least two interconnected Kartonagewände form an upper and a lower flat side of a flat folded cardboard.

The device further comprises an erecting device arranged next to the cardboard storage.

The apparatus further comprises a gripping device for the simultaneous detection of in each case one uppermost cardboard box after the other of each stack of stacked cardboard boxes of the cardboard stock arranged one above the other.

The number of stacks of stacked, flat-folded cardboard boxes lying on top of one another preferably corresponds to the number of cardboard boxes that can be grasped or grasped simultaneously by the gripping device.

The gripping device has at least one tool at a time from its registered cardboard packaging, with which a cardboard box located at the top on a stack of the cardboard supply can be grasped and lifted on a cardboard wall of its upper flat side.

In order to be able to move the at least one tool of the gripping device between the cardboard storage supply and the erecting device horizontally, and also for vertically bridging differences in height and / or for mounting cardboard boxes to compartments and / or outer packaging in the room, the gripping device moreover has at least one manipulator with a at least along a horizontal axis horizontally and preferably also along a vertical axis vertically movable manipulator head on which the at least one tool of the gripping device is arranged.

The erector and the Kartonagevorrat are arranged adjacent in the direction of the horizontal axis.

Preferably, at least in a starting position, the erecting device and the surface of the cardboard supply formed by the uppermost cardboard of the at least one stack of cardboard articles are at the same level.

Particularly preferably, the surface of the cardboard deposit formed by the uppermost cardboard box of the at least one stack of cardboard boxes is at least at the level of a horizontally mounted compartment and / or outer packaging on a level of the erecting device formed by the at least one tool of the erecting device in the horizontal position higher level. In this way, to increase the achievable timing a vertical stroke of the manipulator head is saved at a after retraction of a cardboard to a lying compartments and / or outer packaging for detecting the next cardboard boxes required return movement of the erecting device for cardboard supply.

The at least one arranged on the at least one Manipulatorkpf tool of the gripping device is thus horizontally between the cardboard storage and seen in the direction of the horizontal axis next to this erecting back and forth movable, and preferably can be raised and lowered. The at least one manipulator can be, for example, a multi-axis, for example six-axis robot arm or a laterally movable back and forth along a horizontal axis, and preferably also liftable and lowerable along a vertical axis, or a tri or quadropode to list only a few possible manipulators.

The erector has at least one about a horizontal, for example, orthogonal to the horizontal axis and orthogonal to the vertical axis extending pivot axis from a horizontal position to a vertical position and vice versa, for example, by folding down and fold back up and forth pivotable carrier.

The erecting device has at least one of the gripping device detectable or detected cardboard at least one arranged on at least one support tool with which recorded in its or in its horizontal position at least one means of gripping device spent on the erector cardboard on a cardboard wall of their lower flat side and recorded can be, and with the after mounting the cardboard by increasing the distance between the tools of the gripping device and the erector along the vertical axis, for example by a vertical lifting of the preferably already vertically movable manipulator head arranged tool of the gripping device, then the Solve only the at least one tool of the gripping device which are further erected by the at least one tool of Aufrichteinrichtung held lying reclined compartments and / or outer packaging by folding down the carrier standing.

The erecting device may have at its at least one support, for example, as a folding flap device, which reared and at least until after pivoting the at least one support of the erector about its horizontal, for example, orthogonal to the horizontal axis and orthogonal to the vertical axis pivot axis from a horizontal position in a Vertical position erected compartments and / or packaging keeps in shape and possibly prevents it from slipping off of the carrier when the at least one tool of the erector releases a at least held by him until the end of winding up compartments and / or outer packaging.

In order to ensure that such compartments and / or outer packaging, which would completely or partially collapse when loosened after being put on, remain in the pulled-up state, a holding device may alternatively or additionally be provided per carrier.

If the erecting device is vertically movable, can be dispensed with a vertically movable manipulator head by this spends only cardboard from Kartonagevorrat to Aufrichteinrichtung horizontally and the erector by lowering down the distance between their and the tools of the gripping device for mounting the cardboard to lying compartments and / or outer packaging increased.

In summary, the erecting device forms together with the gripping device at the same time also a Aufzieheinrichtung which by enlarging the distance between held by at least one tool of the gripping device Kartonagewand the upper flat side of a flat folded cardboard and held by at least one tool of Aufrichteinrichtung cardboard wall of the lower flat side of the flat collapsed cardboard box this raises to a lying compartment and / or outer packaging.

For lying compartments and / or outer packaging, the access openings are through which items in the compartments and / or outer packaging can be introduced, in contrast to standing arranged compartments and / or outer packaging not in a horizontal, but in a vertical plane.

• den mindestens einen Manipulator der Greifeinrichtung so steuert, dass dieser einen zyklischen Bewegungsablauf ausführt, in dessen Verlauf der Manipulator das mindestens eine Werkzeug auf eine Kartonagewand der oberen Flachseite einer zuoberst auf wenigstens einem Stapel des Kartonagevorrats liegenden Kartonage absenkt, wieder anhebt, zur Aufrichteinrichtung verfährt, auf die Aufrichteinrichtung absenkt, wieder anhebt und schließlich wieder über den Kartonagevorrat verfährt,
• das mindestens eine Werkzeug der Greifeinrichtung so steuert, dass dieses nach dem Absenken auf eine Kartonagewand der oberen Flachseite einer zuoberst auf wenigstens einem Stapel des Kartonagevorrats liegenden Kartonage erfasst und festhält, bis das Werkzeug der Greifeinrichtung im Verlauf des zyklischen Bewegungsablaufs wieder von der Aufrichteinrichtung zumindest so weit angehoben worden ist, dass die Kartonage zu einem Gefache und/oder Umverpackung aufgezogen ist,
• den mindestens einen Träger der Aufrichteinrichtung so steuert, dass dieser einen zyklischen Bewegungsablauf ausführt, in dessen Verlauf er um 90° aus der Horizontalen in die Vertikale und wieder zurück um dessen Schwenkachse geschwenkt wird, wobei der Träger spätestens eine Horizontalstellung einnimmt, wenn der mindestens eine Manipulator während seines Bewegungsablaufs das wenigstens eine Werkzeug der Greifeinrichtung auf die Aufrichteinrichtung absenkt oder abgesenkt hat, und die Horizontalstellung so lange beibehält, bis das Werkzeug der Greifeinrichtung im Verlauf des zyklischen Bewegungsablaufs des Manipulators wieder von der Aufrichteinrichtung zumindest so weit angehoben worden ist, dass die Kartonage zu einem Gefache und/oder Umverpackung aufgezogen ist, um hiernach durch Abklappen und/oder Verschwenken um dessen Schwenkachse eine Vertikalstellung einzunehmen, und
• das mindestens eine Werkzeug der Aufrichteinrichtung so steuert, dass dieses nach dem Absenken des mindestens einen Manipulators eine Kartonagewand der unteren Flachseite der wenigstens einen von dem zumindest einen Werkzeug der Greifeinrichtung gehaltenen Kartonage erfasst und zumindest so lange festhält, bis die zu einem Gefache und/oder Umverpackung aufgezogene Kartonage durch Abklappen und/oder Verschwenken des mindestens einen Trägers der Aufrichteinrichtung um 90° um dessen Schwenkachse aus der Horizontalstellung in die Vertikalstellung aufgerichtet worden und zur Übergabe zu deren weiteren Verwendung bereit ist.

The device may further comprise a control device which at least:

• controls the at least one manipulator of the gripping device so that it executes a cyclical course of movement, in the course of which the manipulator lowers the at least one tool onto a cardboard wall of the upper flat side of a carton lying on top of at least one stack of cardboard stock, raises it again, moves to the erecting device, Lowering to the erector, lifting it again and finally moving over the carton stock again,
• the at least one tool of the gripping device controls so that it detects after lowering on a cardboard wall of the upper flat side lying on top of at least one stack of Kartonagevorrats cardboard and holds until the tool of the gripping device in the course of cyclic movement again from the erector at least has been raised so far that the cardboard is drawn up to a compartment and / or outer packaging,
• controls the at least one carrier of the erector so that it performs a cyclic movement, in the course of which it is pivoted by 90 ° from the horizontal to the vertical and back again about its pivot axis, wherein the carrier occupies at least one horizontal position when the at least one Manipulator during its course of motion which has lowered or lowered at least one tool of the gripping device on the erector, and the horizontal position is maintained until the tool of the gripping device has been raised in the course of cyclic movement of the manipulator again by the erector at least so far that the Cardboard is mounted to a compartments and / or packaging, to hereafter take by folding and / or pivoting about its pivot axis a vertical position, and
• the at least one tool of the erector so controls that this after lowering the at least one manipulator a cardboard wall the lower flat side of the at least one held by the at least one tool of the gripping device held carton and holds at least until the carton moved to a compartment and / or packaging by folding and / or pivoting the at least one support of the erector by 90 ° to the Swivel axis has been erected from the horizontal position in the vertical position and ready for the transfer to their further use.

If the erecting device is equipped with a device designed as a folding flap on its at least one carrier, which is wound and until at least after pivoting the at least one carrier of the erector about its horizontal, for example orthogonal to the horizontal axis and orthogonal to the vertical axis pivot axis from a horizontal position to a vertical position erected compartments and / or outer packaging keeps in shape and possibly prevents it from slipping off of the carrier when the at least one tool of the erector releases at least one of him held until the end of Aufziehens compartments and / or outer packaging, the control device can also this folding flap control such that it is opened at the end of the Aufziehvorgangs at the beginning of the pivoting of the carrier from its horizontal to the vertical position, so that at the end of Aufrichtvorgangs the folding flap aufz ogene and erected compartments and / or outer packaging keeps in shape and optionally supported, for example, from below preferably after releasing the tool of the erector so long until the reared and erected compartments and / or outer packaging are fed to their re-use. Following this, the control device can cause the folding flap to return to its original position in the folded state. The folding and folding off of at least one part of the folding flap which prevents slippage can, if appropriate, alternatively or additionally be gravity-assisted and / or gravity-controlled.

Depending on the configuration of the cardboard boxes and the trays and / or outer packagings which can be pulled therefrom, the control device can cause the manipulator to simultaneously execute a horizontal movement parallel to and / or orthogonal to the horizontal axis during the lifting of the tool of the gripping device, at the end of which Cardboard wall of the upper flat side of a cardboard box detected by a tool of the gripping device and the cardboard wall of the lower one covered by a tool of the erecting device Flat side of a cardboard in a plan view seen in the horizontal direction are arranged congruently one above the other, corresponding to two opposite walls of a raised compartment and / or outer packaging.

Preferably, however, the cartons are configured to be erected by merely increasing the spacing between the tools of the gripper and the erector. This is possible, for example, by a concertina-type construction with an even number of cardboard walls which are connected to each other on one of their narrow sides and which cover the cardboard walls covered by the tools.

The lifting that takes place after lowering onto the erecting device can thus take place exclusively in the vertical direction, depending on the configuration of the cardboard packaging.

In order to achieve the highest possible timing, the control device can cause combined movements of the manipulator in the horizontal and vertical direction before and after the mounting of cardboard boxes to compartments and / or outer packaging.

As at least one tool, the gripping device preferably has at least one downwardly directed suction cupboard, which is capable of holding by vacuum pressure the cardboard packaging lying on top of a stack of the cardboard supply on one of the cardboard walls of its upper flat side by negative pressure.

A suction cup has a downwardly open cuff made of an elastic, airtight material, and a leading away from the cuff connection for a vacuum source, such as a vacuum or vacuum pump, or connected to a vacuum or vacuum pump vacuum reservoir. Preferably, a controllably openable and closable valve is arranged between each suction cup associated with a cardboard box and the vacuum source. When the valve is opened, the vacuum source communicates with the suction cup. If the cuff, which is open at the bottom, is not covered, air flows through the suction bell to the vacuum source, which is strictly speaking a sink for the air under ambient pressure. If the cuff, which is open at the bottom, is blocked by a cardboard wall, it forms in the Vacuum cup Vacuum off and the cardboard wall together with associated cardboard packaging is held.

The gripping device preferably has at least four downwardly directed suction cups as a tool for each simultaneously detected cardboard packaging, which can hold the cardboard packaging at the top of a stack in the region of the corners of one of the cardboard walls of its upper flat side by negative pressure. This has the advantage of higher redundancy and at the same time a higher holding force, which, as already explained, is required for mounting the folded cardboard boxes, compared to just one suction bell per cardboard box simultaneously detected.

On the manipulator, the at least one suction cup per stack of cardboard storage of the gripping device is arranged, whereby this lowered onto the cardboard supply, with sucked cardboard again raised, moved laterally to the erector and lowered and raised again, and after release of the then to a compartment and / or re-packaged carton can be moved back to the cardboard supply.

For example, this at least one tool of the erecting device is preferably also one or more suction bells.

The carton stock may comprise a one or more stacks accommodating upstanding magazine which is accessible from its top for removal of cardboard. the magazine a plurality of stacks, so these are preferably at least partially separated from each other by magazine partitions and / or spaced so accommodated in the magazine that a contact of the individual cardboard is excluded by adjacent in the magazine stack. As a result, mutual hooking is simultaneously prevented by a plurality of stacks of the carton stock at the top of the removed cardboard and thus increases the reliability of the device.

Preferably, the cardboard storage in a horizontal direction parallel to the pivot axis of the at least one support of the erector viewed on two or more adjacent juxtaposed stack lying stacked stacked cardboard boxes.

Two or more in the horizontal direction parallel to the pivot axis of the at least one carrier of the erector seen adjacent to each other Stack lying stacked stacked, flat folded cardboard boxes of Kartonagevorrats can be offset in the horizontal direction orthogonal to the pivot axis of the at least one support of the erector offset from each other or aligned parallel to the pivot axis of the at least one support of the erector aligned.

Alternatively or additionally, viewed in the horizontal direction parallel to the pivot axis of the at least one carrier of the erector juxtaposed stack lying lying stacked, flat folded cardboard boxes of Kartonagevorrats relative to each other by 90 ° or 180 ° or 270 ° rotated or mirror image corresponding to a reflection at one between two adjacent stacks orthogonal to the pivot axis of the at least one carrier of the erector extending mirror axis, or be arranged at a lying between the adjacent stacks mirror point.

The erecting device preferably has at least two supports which can each be pivoted about their own pivoting axis from a horizontal position into a vertical position and vice versa. The pivot axes of the carrier in this case run parallel. Viewed in a horizontal direction orthogonal to the pivot axes, the cardboard supply has a number of adjacent stacks lying one above the other, lying flat on top of one another, flat folded together cardboard boxes.

Particularly preferably, the erecting device has two carriers which are each pivotable about their own pivot axis in opposite pivoting directions from a horizontal position into a vertical position and vice versa. The pivot axes of the carrier also run parallel. Seen in a horizontal direction orthogonal to the pivot axes of cardboard storage has two adjacent stack of stacked, flat folded cardboard. The horizontally stacked cardboard boxes of a first stack of the two horizontally orthogonal to the pivot axes seen adjacent stacks are in this case with respect to a parallel between the two stacks parallel to the pivot axis extending mirror axis preferably mirror images of the likewise horizontally stacked cardboard boxes of a second stack of the two in horizontal direction stacked orthogonally to the pivot axes seen adjacent stack.

Both at the same, as well as in opposite pivot directions of two or more carriers of the erector about their respective pivot axes seen in a horizontal direction orthogonal to the pivot axes adjacent stack lying superposed, flat folded cardboard boxes of Kartonagevorrats with respect to a horizontal, orthogonal to the pivot axes extending axis to be aligned or offset from each other. As a result, the arrangement of the stacks in the cardboard storage can be adapted to the folding of the cardboard, so that after the erection and erection of cardboard from corresponding in carton supply adjacent stacks to compartments and / or outer packaging with respect to a horizontal, orthogonal to the pivot axes axis, for example are aligned or offset from one another.

In principle, it is also conceivable here, as already described above, for piles of cardboard stock arranged next to one another along the swivel axes, rotated by 90 ° or 180 ° or 270 ° or mirror-image corresponding to a reflection at one between two adjacent stacks orthogonal to the pivot axis of the at least one carrier the erecting device extending mirror axis, or at a lying between the adjacent stacks mirror point relative to each other arranged adjacent to each other adjacent stack lying stacked, flat folded cardboard boxes of Kartonagevorrats.

Ends erecting offset and an aligned arrangement for further handling is required, it is alternatively conceivable to arrange the carrier of the righting device parallel to their pivot axes relative to each other, mounted and arranged by means of different carriers of the erecting device compartments and / or outer packaging in one another to bring aligned arrangement.

The two supports of the erector may be arranged to be movable in relation to each other and / or together in a horizontal direction with each other or only a few in order to be able to move apart about their pivot axes during their preferably simultaneous pivoting, in order to bring about collision of raised compartments and / or outer packaging To prevent pivoting, and / or driven after reaching the vertical position against each other and / or to be able to move parallel to each other, whereby a grouping of the raised and erected compartments and / or outer packaging is obtained. As a result, an adaptation to compartments and / or outer packaging with different outer dimensions is also possible.

Further, by a horizontal mobility of the carrier or the Aufrichteinrichtung orthogonal to its or its pivot axes stripping of mounted and erected compartments and / or outer packaging possible, which arranged after releasing the tools of Aufrichteinrichtung on the carriers of the erector, for example as a Folding flap per carrier running facilities remain standing, which reared and after pivoting the carrier of the erector to their horizontal, for example orthogonal to the horizontal axis and orthogonal to the vertical axis pivot axes from their horizontal positions in the vertical positions erected compartments and / or outer packaging from slipping from the carriers prevent if the tools of the erector release at least from them until the end of Aufziehens held compartments and / or outer packaging.

The device may comprise a transfer device, which takes up and erected compartments and / or outer packaging of the erector, preferably from the vertical position of the carrier of the erector and their further use, for example by subsequent insertion of mounted and erected compartments in other provided overpacks and / or the introduction of articles in compartments and / or outer packaging supplies.

The transfer device may comprise a tool arranged on a manipulator, which takes over drawn up and erected compartments and / or outer packages from the erecting device and removes them under vertical and / or horizontal movement of the manipulator.

Alternatively, the upright after pivoting of the at least one carrier of the erector erected compartments and / or outer packaging can also be easily released by loosening the at least one tool of the erector and thereby be passed, for example, passing directly below the straightening horizontal conveyor. The vertical distance between such a horizontal conveyor and the righting device can in this case be set so that after the pivoting of the at least one carrier from its horizontal position in the vertical position upright Gefache and / or outer packaging occupy a smallest possible distance from the surface of the horizontal conveyor, this example stripes. It is conceivable beyond that a release movement of the erector preceding the release in the vertical direction.

The at least one tool of the relay device may comprise at least one suction cup.

A second object of the invention relates to a method for mounting and erecting collapsed or folded cardboard boxes to vertically arranged compartments and / or outer packaging.

The method provides, the topmost cardboard from a stack of stacked, flat folded cardboard boxes of a supply of cardboard to a cardboard wall of their upper flat side coming from above hold and remove from the stack.

The method then provides to hold on a Kartonagewand their upper flat side cardboard held on a Kartonagewand their lower flat side from below and by opposing pulling the vertical distance between the Kartonagewand on which the cardboard is held on its upper flat side, and the Cardboard wall, on which the cardboard is held on its lower flat side is to increase so far until the cardboard is mounted to a horizontal compartment and / or outer packaging.

Thereupon, the method provides for releasing the pulled-up compartments and / or outer packaging on its previously unavailable cardboard wall associated with the upper flat side of the cardboard.

Finally, the method provides for the further on his formerly the lower flat side of the cardboard associated cardboard storage detained, lying, reared compartments and / or outer packaging to tilt about a horizontal pivot axis and in connection thereto the reared and now erected compartments and / or outer packaging also release its formerly the lower flat side of the cardboard associated cardboard wall.

Preferably, the method provides, at the same time to raise and erect several cardboard boxes as described to compartments and / or outer packaging.

In this case, two cardboard boxes can form a pair of cartons which are to be wound up and erected at the same time as compartments and / or outer packagings their mounting to lying compartments and / or outer packaging in the same or opposite pivoting direction to each own, parallel, horizontal pivot axes are erected to standing arranged compartments and / or outer packaging.

The cardboard boxes of a pair at the same time to compartments and / or outer packaging wound up and erecting cartons can be arranged in alignment or offset from each other before mounting. Alternatively or additionally, the cardboard boxes of a pair can simultaneously be turned into compartments and / or outer packages to be wound up and erected cartons before being mounted by 90 °, 180 °, 270 ° to each other and / or arranged mirror-image, for example, to a mirror axis or a mirror point.

The compartments and / or outer packagings, which are simultaneously drawn up and erected from a pair of cardboard boxes, can be aligned or staggered after being mounted. As an alternative or in addition, the compartments and / or outer packagings drawn up and erected from a pair of cardboard boxes at the same time can be rotated by 90 °, 180 °, 270 ° relative to each other and / or mirror-inverted, for example, to a mirror axis or a mirror point.

Several cardboard boxes or pairs of cardboard boxes can be simultaneously viewed in a direction parallel to the pivot axis or axes, mounted side by side to lying compartments and / or outer packaging and then erected to standing arranged compartments and / or outer packaging.

It can be seen that the invention can be realized by erecting previously removed cartons of mounted trays and / or outer packaging by an even after releasing their former upper flat sides of the cardboard associated paperboard walls still held capturing the raised compartments and / or outer packaging at the former lower flat sides of the cardboard boxes associated cardboard walls and subsequent pivoting by 90 ° about a horizontal pivot axis of the compartments and / or outer packaging on the former lower flat sides of the cardboard associated paperboard walls still holding erecting device.

Both the device and the method may alternatively or additionally be single or a combination of several in connection with the prior art And / or features described in one or more of the documents mentioned in the prior art.

In addition, the device may alternatively or additionally comprise single or a combination of several features described above or below in connection with the method, just as the method may alternatively or additionally comprise single or a combination of several features described above or below in connection with the device.

It is important to note that the reuse of the raised and erected compartments and / or outer packaging 03 may provide for providing them with a product handling facility comprising a first conveying means for feeding articles, a second conveying means for supplying overpacks and a third funding for the removal of outer packaging with articles used in this includes.

The system also includes an insertion surface disposed between the second and third conveying means, and means for transferring supplied outer packages from the second conveying means to the insertion surface.

The system also includes means for transferring articles from the first conveyor to outer packages transferred to the insert surface.

The article converting device first detects articles provided by the first conveying means, then converts the detected articles from the first conveying means to the inserting surface and sets the articles detected by it and transferred from the first conveying means to the inserting surface, with their transfer to the insertion surface transferred outer packaging.

The system further comprises a device for transferring outer packaging with articles inserted therein from the insertion surface to the third conveying means.

The means for transferring overwrap from the second conveyor to the insert surface may include the means for transferring overwrap with articles inserted therein from the insert surface to the third conveyor or one or more parts of the device for transferring overwrap with articles inserted therein Insertion surface on the third conveyor or be completely or partially from the means for transferring outer packaging with articles inserted therein from the insertion surface on the third conveyor to be included.

The means for transferring supplied outer packages from the second conveyor to the inserting surface and the means for transferring outer packages with articles inserted therein from the inserting surface to the third conveyor thus individually or together constitute at least one independent of the article converting device of the invention first conveying means formed in transferable packaging transferred to the insertion surface and operable transfer device.

By the insertion surface in conjunction with the at least one of the means for converting articles from the first conveyor in the transferring transferred to the outer packaging independent transfer device an increase in performance in terms of achievable timing is obtained from a plant without insertion surface. The higher timing is achieved because, by the insertion surface in conjunction with the at least one transfer device independent of the article conversion device, articles delivered by the first conveyor in a first cycle can be detected by the article transfer device and the means for transferring articles may begin to translate the sensed articles by initiating movement of the sensed articles from the first conveyor to the insertion surface while simultaneously forcing empty outer packages from the second conveyor to the insertion surface and outer packaging with articles inserted therein from the insertion surface to the third conveyor be pushed over, and supplied in a second cycle, new, empty outer packaging by means of the second conveyor and at the same time Umverpackungen can be transported with inserted into these articles from the third conveyor Währe At the same time the conversion of articles covered in the first cycle is completed by inserting articles into the outer packaging which is provided on the insertion surface.

In this case, the transfer of the articles detected in the first cycle is stopped by inserting articles detected by the device for converting articles into the empty outer packages pushed onto the insertion surface in the first cycle, and with a return of the device for transferring articles from the insertion surface to the article at least the first funding is started in order to record and implement again articles supplied by the first funding.

The first conveying means, the second conveying means and the third conveying means are preferably arranged parallel to one another along the insertion surface, at least in the region of their portions adjacent to the insertion surface. In the arrangement parallel The transport directions of the conveying means run parallel to one another at least in the region of their portions adjacent to the insertion surface. This applies both to transport directions of all conveying means running in the same direction as well as to transport directions of at least two conveying means running in opposite directions.

Preferably, the mutually parallel sections of the conveyor overlap each other by the length of at least two outer packages. As a result, two or more outer packaging can be provided on the insertion surface at the same time and at the same time articles are used in the several provided outer packaging. As a result, the timing can be increased again.

The direction of the transfer of outer packages from the second conveyor to the insert surface practiced by the means for transferring empty outer packages, referred to as transfer direction for short, is preferably horizontal in the horizontal direction, preferably orthogonal to the transport direction of the second conveyor.

Practiced by the device for transferring outer packaging with articles used in these articles, briefly referred to as the transfer direction of transfer of outer packaging used in these articles from the insertion to the third conveyor in the horizontal direction preferably transversely, preferably orthogonal to the transport direction of the third conveyor.

Thus, preferably the transfer direction of the transfer device (s), preferably both empty outer packages and outer packages with articles used therein, preferably transfers transversely, preferably orthogonally, during transfer from the second conveyor to the insertion surface and from the insertion surface to the third conveyor the transport directions of both the second conveyor, as well as the third conveyor.

By transversely and preferably orthogonal with respect to the transport directions of the second and third conveying means horizontal transfer direction can each be simultaneously transferred several empty outer packaging and several outer packaging with articles used in these articles from the second conveyor to the insertion surface and from the insertion surface to the third conveyor at the same time articles can be inserted into several outer packaging placed on the insertion surface. As a result, the timing is significantly increased.

The device for transferring outer packages from the second conveyor onto the insertion surface and / or the device for transferring outer packages with articles inserted therein from the insertion surface to the third conveyor may comprise at least one slide.

The second and the third conveying means and the insertion surface are preferably at a common, first level, whereas the first conveying means is at a preferably higher, second level. As a result, a necessary for the insertion of articles in outer packaging vertical stroke of the device for converting articles to the essentials can be reduced, whereby the timing can be increased again.

Preferably, the second level is at least the height of an optionally initially open and to be closed after insertion of articles outer packaging above the first level. Stand up from a designed as a closable cardboard packaging to be closed tabs from the top, so the second level is preferably the unlocked state upstanding height of the tabs correspondingly higher above the first level, as if the outer packaging is closed, for example, by a separately provided lid.

The closing of the outer packaging with articles used in this can still be done on the insertion surface, for example, with or after the insertion of the article, or in a separate treatment step, for example, in connection or in the course of the third funding of the system for handling articles. For example, the outer packaging can be closed with lids in this article used in the course of the third funding.

Before the articles are placed in outer packaging which has been transferred onto the insertion surface, compartments known as baskets can be inserted into the outer packaging which fix the articles within the outer packaging and thereby retain them during further transport of the outer packaging into the articles inserted into them Protecting articles and their consumption from colliding with each other and juxtaposing what otherwise, for example by Abwetzungsspuren, such as applied to the articles, for example in the form of labels information, and / or damage to the articles with each other can have a negative quality impression.

The compartments can already be inserted into the outer packaging before the transfer of the outer packaging to the insertion surface, or the compartments can be introduced into the outer packaging before the articles or together with them or after the articles have been inserted. The subsequent introduction of compartments, in particular with lightweight, within the outer packaging with little effort sliding articles, has the advantage of easier placement of the article in the outer packaging along with a reduced control effort, for example, with on their footprints opposite conical or similar course, such as beverage bottles with a bottleneck that widens from top to bottom at least in sections, with the insertion of the compartments through these within the outer packaging can be moved horizontally.

The compartments can for example still be introduced on the second conveyor in the outer packaging, or already introduced, for example, with or after an erection of the outer packaging in this or already be incorporated in a corresponding cardboard with, where the compartments with the erection of the cardboard unfold within the outer packaging.

In connection with the introduction of compartments before or after the insertion of articles in the outer packaging, alternatively, a separate introduction surface between the second conveyor and the insertion surface in the case of insertion before the insertion of the article, or between the insertion surface and third conveying means in the case of introduction after be provided for the insertion of the article. Accordingly, an additional device may be provided for the transfer, which may also be part of or comprise a transfer device.

In the further course of the third conveying means of the system for handling articles, a stacking station may be provided, for example, on which stacked outer packagings are stacked with stacked articles stacked into a stack which, after reaching a predetermined stack height, corresponding to a predetermined number of At the stacking stacked stacking layers is removed to create space for stacking a new stack.

The articles supplied by means of the first conveying means are preferably already arranged, for example, into article groups to be used in each case in an outer packaging. The articles supplied by means of the first conveying means can be present to each other or can be supplied in an incomplete manner in succession. The articles fed by means of the first conveyor may be fed in one or more parallel rows. For this purpose, the articles can be transferred to the first conveying means via a suitable inlet and, after the transfer to the first conveying means, can be guided in one or more lanes oriented parallel to one another.

Accordingly, the articles supplied by means of the first conveying means form a single or multi-row article stream of articles which are closed and / or incompletely arranged one behind the other.

The articles may have previously been treated along an inlet to the first conveyor, for example by producing a container and / or cleaning an exterior and / or interior surface and / or cooling and / or filling and / or sealing, without being exhaustive of the enumeration to mention some examples of treatment of articles and / or the articles may have been previously handled along an inlet to the first conveyor, for example by separating a number of articles from one or more article streams from articles immediately following one another and / or grouping one Number of articles on article groups and / or compilation and summary of a number of articles to containers, to give a few examples of handling articles without claiming completeness of the enumeration before they then by means of the attachment to the article in the outer packaging ei be set.

The conveying means preferably comprise at least one horizontal conveyor, such as a belt conveyor and / or a roller conveyor.

The outer packages are preferably cardboard boxes, for example in the form of cardboard boxes with or without individual articles arranged inside or can be arranged separate from one another and / or holding one another at a distance.

• einem ersten, Artikel in einer ersten Transportrichtung zuführenden Fördermittel,
• einem zweiten, Umverpackungen in einer bevorzugt parallel zur ersten Transportrichtung gleichgerichtet oder entgegengesetzt verlaufenden zweiten Transportrichtung zuführenden Fördermittel,
• einem dritten, Umverpackungen mit in diese eingesetzen Artikeln in einer bevorzugt parallel zur ersten und zur zweiten Transportrichtung gleichgerichtet oder entgegengesetzt verlaufenden dritten Transportrichtung abtransportierenden Fördermittel,
• einer zwischen dem zweiten und dem dritten Fördermittel angeordneten Einsetzfläche,
• einer Einrichtung zum Transfer zugeführter Umverpackungen von dem zweiten Fördermittel zur Einsetzfläche,
• einer Einrichtung zum Umsetzen von Artikeln von dem ersten Fördermittel in auf die Einsetzfläche transferierte Umverpackungen, und
• einer Einrichtung zum Transfer von Umverpackungen mit in diese eingesetzten Artikeln von der Einsetzfläche auf das dritte Fördermittel,

wobei die Einrichtung zum Transfer zugeführter Umverpackungen von dem zweiten Fördermittel zur Einsetzfläche und die Einrichtung zum Transfer von Umverpackungen mit in diese eingesetzten Artikeln von der Einsetzfläche auf das dritte Fördermittel in einer gemeinsamen Transfereinrichtung zusammengefasst sein können.It can be seen that the reuse of previously erected and erected compartments and / or outer packaging 03 can be realized by a facility for handling articles with:

• a first, conveying article in a first direction of transport,
• a second, outer packaging in a preferably parallel to the first transport direction rectified or oppositely extending second transport direction feeding conveyor,
• a third, outer packaging with articles inserted into these in a preferably parallel to the first and to the second transport direction rectified or oppositely extending third transport direction transporting conveyor away,
• an insertion surface arranged between the second and the third conveying means,
• a device for transferring supplied outer packages from the second conveyor to the insertion surface,
• a device for converting articles from the first conveying means into outer packages which have been transferred onto the insertion surface, and
• a device for transferring outer packaging with articles inserted therein from the insertion surface to the third conveying means,

wherein the means for transferring supplied outer packages from the second conveyor to the insertion surface and the means for transferring outer packages with articles inserted therein may be combined from the insertion surface to the third conveyor in a common transfer device.

The re-use of previously mounted and erected compartments and / or outer packaging can be done in a method of handling articles, which provides, in one or more streams of articles closed and / or incomplete sequenced and / or grouped supplied articles in an insertion surface Insert outer packages, which in turn fed independently of the articles in a transport direction and transferred individually or in groups across the transport direction to the insertion and from there after the insertion of articles again individually or in groups transverse to the transport direction - now with articles used in them be transferred - to then regardless of the supply of articles, regardless of the supply of outer packaging and regardless of the insertion of articles in the outer packaging in the direction of the transport direction or opposite to this para llel be transported to the transport direction.

Fig. 1

eine auf die Momentaufnahme in Fig. 14 wiederkehrende Momentaufnahme einer ein erfindungsgemäßes Verfahren zum Aufziehen und Aufrichten von zusammengelegten oder zusammengefalteten Kartonagen zu stehend angeordneten Gefachen und/oder Umverpackungen ausführenden, erfindungsgemäßen Vorrichtung zum Aufziehen und Aufrichten von zusammengelegten oder zusammengefalteten Kartonagen zu stehend angeordneten Gefachen und/oder Umverpackungen in einer perspektivischen Ansicht.

Fig. 2

eine zeitlich unmittelbar auf die Momentaufnahme in Fig. 1 folgende Momentaufnahme einer ein erfindungsgemäßes Verfahren zum Aufziehen und Aufrichten von zusammengelegten oder zusammengefalteten Kartonagen zu stehend angeordneten Gefachen und/oder Umverpackungen ausführenden, erfindungsgemäßen Vorrichtung zum Aufziehen und Aufrichten von zusammengelegten oder zusammengefalteten Kartonagen zu stehend angeordneten Gefachen und/oder Umverpackungen in einer perspektivischen Ansicht.

Fig. 3

eine zeitlich unmittelbar auf die Momentaufnahme in Fig. 2 folgende Momentaufnahme einer ein erfindungsgemäßes Verfahren zum Aufziehen und Aufrichten von zusammengelegten oder zusammengefalteten Kartonagen zu stehend angeordneten Gefachen und/oder Umverpackungen ausführenden, erfindungsgemäßen Vorrichtung zum Aufziehen und Aufrichten von zusammengelegten oder zusammengefalteten Kartonagen zu stehend angeordneten Gefachen und/oder Umverpackungen in einer perspektivischen Ansicht.

Fig. 4

eine zeitlich unmittelbar auf die Momentaufnahme in Fig. 3 folgende Momentaufnahme einer ein erfindungsgemäßes Verfahren zum Aufziehen und Aufrichten von zusammengelegten oder zusammengefalteten Kartonagen zu stehend angeordneten Gefachen und/oder Umverpackungen ausführenden, erfindungsgemäßen Vorrichtung zum Aufziehen und Aufrichten von zusammengelegten oder zusammengefalteten Kartonagen zu stehend angeordneten Gefachen und/oder Umverpackungen in einer perspektivischen Ansicht.

Fig. 5

eine zeitlich unmittelbar auf die Momentaufnahme in Fig. 4 folgende Momentaufnahme einer ein erfindungsgemäßes Verfahren zum Aufziehen und Aufrichten von zusammengelegten oder zusammengefalteten Kartonagen zu stehend angeordneten Gefachen und/oder Umverpackungen ausführenden, erfindungsgemäßen Vorrichtung zum Aufziehen und Aufrichten von zusammengelegten oder zusammengefalteten Kartonagen zu stehend angeordneten Gefachen und/oder Umverpackungen in einer perspektivischen Ansicht.

Fig. 6

eine zeitlich unmittelbar auf die Momentaufnahme in Fig. 5 folgende Momentaufnahme einer ein erfindungsgemäßes Verfahren zum Aufziehen und Aufrichten von zusammengelegten oder zusammengefalteten Kartonagen zu stehend angeordneten Gefachen und/oder Umverpackungen ausführenden, erfindungsgemäßen Vorrichtung zum Aufziehen und Aufrichten von zusammengelegten oder zusammengefalteten Kartonagen zu stehend angeordneten Gefachen und/oder Umverpackungen in einer perspektivischen Ansicht.

Fig. 7

eine zeitlich unmittelbar auf die Momentaufnahme in Fig. 6 folgende Momentaufnahme einer ein erfindungsgemäßes Verfahren zum Aufziehen und Aufrichten von zusammengelegten oder zusammengefalteten Kartonagen zu stehend angeordneten Gefachen und/oder Umverpackungen ausführenden, erfindungsgemäßen Vorrichtung zum Aufziehen und Aufrichten von zusammengelegten oder zusammengefalteten Kartonagen zu stehend angeordneten Gefachen und/oder Umverpackungen in einer perspektivischen Ansicht.

Fig. 8

eine zeitlich unmittelbar auf die Momentaufnahme in Fig. 7 folgende Momentaufnahme einer ein erfindungsgemäßes Verfahren zum Aufziehen und Aufrichten von zusammengelegten oder zusammengefalteten Kartonagen zu stehend angeordneten Gefachen und/oder Umverpackungen ausführenden, erfindungsgemäßen Vorrichtung zum Aufziehen und Aufrichten von zusammengelegten oder zusammengefalteten Kartonagen zu stehend angeordneten Gefachen und/oder Umverpackungen in einer perspektivischen Ansicht.

Fig. 9

eine zeitlich unmittelbar auf die Momentaufnahme in Fig. 8 folgende Momentaufnahme einer ein erfindungsgemäßes Verfahren zum Aufziehen und Aufrichten von zusammengelegten oder zusammengefalteten Kartonagen zu stehend angeordneten Gefachen und/oder Umverpackungen ausführenden, erfindungsgemäßen Vorrichtung zum Aufziehen und Aufrichten von zusammengelegten oder zusammengefalteten Kartonagen zu stehend angeordneten Gefachen und/oder Umverpackungen in einer perspektivischen Ansicht.

Fig. 10

eine zeitlich unmittelbar auf die Momentaufnahme in Fig. 9 folgende Momentaufnahme einer ein erfindungsgemäßes Verfahren zum Aufziehen und Aufrichten von zusammengelegten oder zusammengefalteten Kartonagen zu stehend angeordneten Gefachen und/oder Umverpackungen ausführenden, erfindungsgemäßen Vorrichtung zum Aufziehen und Aufrichten von zusammengelegten oder zusammengefalteten Kartonagen zu stehend angeordneten Gefachen und/oder Umverpackungen in einer perspektivischen Ansicht.

Fig. 11

eine zeitlich unmittelbar auf die Momentaufnahme in Fig. 10 folgende Momentaufnahme einer ein erfindungsgemäßes Verfahren zum Aufziehen und Aufrichten von zusammengelegten oder zusammengefalteten Kartonagen zu stehend angeordneten Gefachen und/oder Umverpackungen ausführenden, erfindungsgemäßen Vorrichtung zum Aufziehen und Aufrichten von zusammengelegten oder zusammengefalteten Kartonagen zu stehend angeordneten Gefachen und/oder Umverpackungen in einer perspektivischen Ansicht.

Fig. 12

eine zeitlich unmittelbar auf die Momentaufnahme in Fig. 11 folgende Momentaufnahme einer ein erfindungsgemäßes Verfahren zum Aufziehen und Aufrichten von zusammengelegten oder zusammengefalteten Kartonagen zu stehend angeordneten Gefachen und/oder Umverpackungen ausführenden, erfindungsgemäßen Vorrichtung zum Aufziehen und Aufrichten von zusammengelegten oder zusammengefalteten Kartonagen zu stehend angeordneten Gefachen und/oder Umverpackungen in einer perspektivischen Ansicht.

Fig. 13

eine zeitlich unmittelbar auf die Momentaufnahme in Fig. 12 folgende Momentaufnahme einer ein erfindungsgemäßes Verfahren zum Aufziehen und Aufrichten von zusammengelegten oder zusammengefalteten Kartonagen zu stehend angeordneten Gefachen und/oder Umverpackungen ausführenden, erfindungsgemäßen Vorrichtung zum Aufziehen und Aufrichten von zusammengelegten oder zusammengefalteten Kartonagen zu stehend angeordneten Gefachen und/oder Umverpackungen in einer perspektivischen Ansicht.

Fig. 14

eine zeitlich unmittelbar auf die Momentaufnahme in Fig. 13 folgende Momentaufnahme einer ein erfindungsgemäßes Verfahren zum Aufziehen und Aufrichten von zusammengelegten oder zusammengefalteten Kartonagen zu stehend angeordneten Gefachen und/oder Umverpackungen ausführenden, erfindungsgemäßen Vorrichtung zum Aufziehen und Aufrichten von zusammengelegten oder zusammengefalteten Kartonagen zu stehend angeordneten Gefachen und/oder Umverpackungen in einer perspektivischen Ansicht.

Fig. 15

eine flach zusammengelegte Kartonage in einer Draufsicht auf deren durch zwei Kartonagewände gebildete obere Flachseite gesehen in Fig. 15 a) und in einer Seitenansicht in Fig. 15 b).

Fig. 16

eine Anlage zum Umgang mit Artikeln in einer Draufsicht.

Fig. 17

eine der Momentaufnahme in Fig. 6 entsprechende Darstellung eines zusätzlichen Ausführungsbeispiels einer ein erfindungsgemäßes Verfahren zum Aufziehen und Aufrichten von zusammengelegten oder zusammengefalteten Kartonagen zu stehend angeordneten Gefachen und/oder Umverpackungen ausführenden, erfindungsgemäßen Vorrichtung zum Aufziehen und Aufrichten von zusammengelegten oder zusammengefalteten Kartonagen zu stehend angeordneten Gefachen und/oder Umverpackungen in einer perspektivischen Ansicht.

Fig. 18

eine vergrößerte Ansicht eines einen um eine horizontale Schwenkachse aus einer Horizontalstellung in eine Vertikalstellung und umgekehrt hin- und her schwenkbaren Träger zeigenden Teils einer ein erfindungsgemäßes Verfahren zum Aufziehen und Aufrichten von zusammengelegten oder zusammengefalteten Kartonagen zu stehend angeordneten Gefachen und/oder Umverpackungen ausführenden, erfindungsgemäßen Vorrichtung zum Aufziehen und Aufrichten von zusammengelegten oder zusammengefalteten Kartonagen zu stehend angeordneten Gefachen und/oder Umverpackungen gemäß eines weiteren Ausführungsbeispiels in einer perspektivischen Ansicht schräg von oben entlang der horizontalen Schwenkachse gesehen.

In the following, embodiments of the invention and their advantages with reference to the accompanying figures will be explained in more detail. The size ratios of the individual elements to each other in the figures do not always correspond to the real size ratios, since some shapes are simplified and other shapes are shown enlarged in relation to other elements for ease of illustration. For identical or equivalent elements of the invention, identical reference numerals are used. Furthermore, for the sake of clarity, 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 according to the invention can be configured and are not an exhaustive limitation. They show in a schematic representation:

Fig. 1

one in the snapshot in Fig. 14 Recurring snapshot of a process according to the invention for mounting and erecting collapsed or folded cardboard boxes to vertically arranged compartments and / or outer packagings, inventive apparatus for mounting and erecting collapsed or folded cardboard boxes to vertically arranged compartments and / or outer packaging in a perspective view.

Fig. 2

a time immediately in the snapshot in Fig. 1 The following snapshot of an inventive method for mounting and erecting collapsed or folded cardboard boxes to standing arranged compartments and outer packaging exporting, inventive device for mounting and erecting collapsed or folded cardboard to standing arranged compartments and / or outer packaging in a perspective view.

Fig. 3

a time immediately in the snapshot in Fig. 2 The following snapshot of an inventive method for mounting and erecting collapsed or folded cardboard boxes to standing arranged compartments and outer packaging exporting, inventive device for mounting and erecting collapsed or folded cardboard to standing arranged compartments and / or outer packaging in a perspective view.

Fig. 4

a time immediately in the snapshot in Fig. 3 The following snapshot of an inventive method for mounting and erecting collapsed or folded cardboard boxes to standing arranged compartments and outer packaging exporting, inventive device for mounting and erecting collapsed or folded cardboard to standing arranged compartments and / or outer packaging in a perspective view.

Fig. 5

a time immediately in the snapshot in Fig. 4 The following snapshot of an inventive method for mounting and erecting collapsed or folded cardboard boxes to standing arranged compartments and outer packaging exporting, inventive device for mounting and erecting collapsed or folded cardboard to standing arranged compartments and / or outer packaging in a perspective view.

Fig. 6

a time immediately in the snapshot in Fig. 5 The following snapshot of an inventive method for mounting and erecting collapsed or folded cardboard boxes to standing arranged compartments and outer packaging exporting, inventive device for mounting and erecting collapsed or folded cardboard to standing arranged compartments and / or outer packaging in a perspective view.

Fig. 7

a time immediately in the snapshot in Fig. 6 The following snapshot of an inventive method for mounting and erecting collapsed or folded cardboard boxes to standing arranged compartments and outer packaging exporting, inventive device for mounting and erecting collapsed or folded cardboard to standing arranged compartments and / or outer packaging in a perspective view.

Fig. 8

a time immediately in the snapshot in Fig. 7 The following snapshot of an inventive method for mounting and erecting collapsed or folded cardboard boxes to standing arranged compartments and outer packaging exporting, inventive device for mounting and erecting collapsed or folded cardboard to standing arranged compartments and / or outer packaging in a perspective view.

Fig. 9

a time immediately in the snapshot in Fig. 8 The following snapshot of an inventive method for mounting and erecting collapsed or folded cardboard boxes to standing arranged compartments and outer packaging exporting, inventive device for mounting and erecting collapsed or folded cardboard to standing arranged compartments and / or outer packaging in a perspective view.

Fig. 10

a time immediately in the snapshot in Fig. 9 The following snapshot of an inventive method for mounting and erecting collapsed or folded cardboard boxes to standing arranged compartments and outer packaging exporting, inventive device for mounting and erecting collapsed or folded cardboard to standing arranged compartments and / or outer packaging in a perspective view.

Fig. 11

a time immediately in the snapshot in Fig. 10 The following snapshot of an inventive method for mounting and erecting collapsed or folded cardboard boxes to standing arranged compartments and outer packaging exporting, inventive device for mounting and erecting collapsed or folded cardboard to standing arranged compartments and / or outer packaging in a perspective view.

Fig. 12

a time immediately in the snapshot in Fig. 11 The following snapshot of an inventive method for mounting and erecting collapsed or folded cardboard boxes to standing arranged compartments and outer packaging exporting, inventive device for mounting and erecting collapsed or folded cardboard to standing arranged compartments and / or outer packaging in a perspective view.

Fig. 13

a time immediately in the snapshot in Fig. 12 The following snapshot of an inventive method for mounting and erecting collapsed or folded cardboard boxes to standing arranged compartments and outer packaging exporting, inventive device for mounting and erecting collapsed or folded cardboard to standing arranged compartments and / or outer packaging in a perspective view.

Fig. 14

a time immediately in the snapshot in Fig. 13 The following snapshot of an inventive method for mounting and erecting collapsed or folded cardboard boxes to standing arranged compartments and outer packaging exporting, inventive device for mounting and erecting collapsed or folded cardboard to standing arranged compartments and / or outer packaging in a perspective view.

Fig. 15

a flat folded cardboard in a plan view of the upper flat side formed by two cardboard walls seen in Fig. 15 a) and in a side view in Fig. 15b) ,

Fig. 16

a plant for handling articles in a plan view.

Fig. 17

one of the snapshot in Fig. 6 corresponding representation of an additional embodiment of a method according to the invention for mounting and erecting collapsed or folded cardboard boxes to standing arranged compartments and / or outer packaging exporting, inventive device for mounting and erecting collapsed or folded cardboard boxes to standing arranged compartments and / or outer packaging in a perspective view.

Fig. 18

an enlarged view of a one about a horizontal pivot axis from a horizontal position in a vertical position and vice versa back and forth pivoting carrier pointing part of a method according to the invention for mounting and erecting collapsed or folded cardboard to standing arranged compartments and / or outer packaging exporting device according to the invention for mounting and erecting collapsed or folded cardboard boxes to standing arranged compartments and / or outer packaging according to another embodiment in a perspective view seen obliquely from above along the horizontal pivot axis.

• einen Kartonagenvorrat 04, bestehend aus wenigstens einem Stapel 41 liegend übereinander angeordneter, flach zusammengelegter Kartonagen 02,
• eine in Richtung einer durch eine gestrichelte Linie angedeuteten Horizontalachse 11 gesehen neben dem Kartonagenvorrat 04 angeordnete Aufrichteinrichtung 05, und
• eine Greifeinrichtung 06 zur gleichzeitigen Erfassung von jeweils einer obersten Kartonage 02 nach der anderen von jedem Stapel 41 übereinander angeordneter, flach zusammengelegter Kartonagen 02 des Kartonagenvorrats 04.

An in Fig. 1 to Fig. 14 as in Fig. 17 and Fig. 18 Wholly or partially shown device 01 for mounting and erecting collapsed or collapsed cardboard boxes 02 to vertically arranged compartments and / or outer packaging 03 essentially comprises:

• a cardboard storage 04, consisting of at least one stack 41 lying one above the other, flat folded cardboard 02,
• an erecting device 05 arranged in the direction of a horizontal axis 11, indicated by a dashed line, next to the cardboard supply 04, and
• a gripping device 06 for the simultaneous detection of each one topmost cardboard 02 after the other from each stack 41 stacked, flat folded cardboard 02 of cardboard storage 04.

The number of stacks 41 lying one above the other, flat folded cardboard 02 of cardboard storage 04 preferably corresponds to the number of each simultaneously detected by the gripping device 06 or detected cardboard 02.

For example, the cardboard storage 04 of a device 01 for mounting and erecting collapsed or folded cardboard 02 to stand arranged compartments and / or outer packaging 03 as in Fig. 1 to Fig. 14 represented twelve stacks 41 from lying on top of each other, flat collapsed cardboard boxes 02 include. The gripping device 06 of a corresponding device 01 is accordingly designed for the simultaneous detection of a total of twelve cardboard 02 according to a respective topmost cardboard 02 of each stack 41 superposed flat folded cardboard 02 of the cardboard supply 04.

The cardboard 02 exist as in Fig. 15 represented in each case from a plurality, with each other, for example, by kinked edges 21 and / or adhesive connections and / or connectors connected Kartonagewänden 22, which may be cut out and / or punched example of sheet material, and of which at least two interconnected Kartonagewände 22 an upper flat side 23 and form a lower flat side 24 of a flat folded cardboard 02.

The gripping device 06 has at the same time from her detectable or detected cardboard 02 at least one preferably downwardly directed tool 61, with a topmost on a stack 41 of cardboard storage 04 cardboard 02 can be detected and held on a cardboard wall 22 of their upper flat side 23 ,

The gripping device 06 has at least one manipulator 62 with a vertically movable at least along the horizontal axis 11 and preferably also along a vertical, indicated by a dashed line vertical axis 12 manipulator head 63 on which the at least one tool 61 of the gripping device 06 is arranged. By means of the manipulator 62 or its manipulator head 63, the at least one tool 61 of the gripping device 06 between the cardboard supply 04 and the erecting 05 at least horizontally and to bridge height differences and / or for mounting cardboard 02 to compartments and / or outer packaging 03 preferably also vertically to be moved in the room.

The erector 05 has at least one indicated by dashed lines horizontal pivot axis 13 of a in Fig. 3 . Fig. 4 . Fig. 5 . Fig. 6 . Fig. 7 . Fig. 8 shown horizontal position in an in Fig. 1 . Fig. 10 . Fig. 11 . Fig. 12 . Fig. 13 . Fig. 14 shown vertical position and vice versa, for example, by folding down and back up and forth pivotable carrier 51 on.

The erecting device 05 has at least one of the at least one carrier 51 in its or its horizontal position, preferably upwardly arranged tool 52, at the same time by the gripping device 06 detectable or detected cardboard 02. With the at least one tool 52, in the horizontal position of the carrier 51 at least one by means of the gripping device 06 spent on the righting 05 cardboard 02 is detected on a cardboard wall 22 of its lower flat side 24 and at least until the end of pivoting of the at least one carrier 51 from its horizontal position held in its vertical position. This pivoting of the at least one carrier 51 from its horizontal position in its vertical position is in this case only after the taking place by increasing the distance between the tools 61, 52 of the gripping device 06 and the erecting device 05 along the vertical axis 12 pulling the cardboard 02 to a horizontal Compartments and / or outer packaging 03 and the release of the at least one tool 61 of the gripping device 06 after mounting instead. By pivoting the lying raised sections and / or outer packaging 03 is erected upright.

The erecting device 05 thus forms together with the gripping device 06 at the same time also a Aufzieheinrichtung which by increasing the distance between a held by at least one tool 61 of the gripping device 06 Kartonagewand 22 of the upper flat side 23 of a flat folded cardboard 02 and one of at least one tool 52 of Erector 05 held cardboard wall 22 of the lower flat side 24 of the flat folded cardboard 02 this pulls up to a horizontal compartment and / or outer packaging 03.

The erecting unit thus simultaneously forms a particularly compact Aufzieh- and Aufrichtstation with extremely small footprint in the horizontal direction. In addition, a particularly high timing is achieved by the simultaneous mounting and erecting of several of a plurality of stacked with respect to the horizontal axis next to and / or successively arranged stacks of cardboard storage box.

In standing arranged compartments and / or outer packaging 03 are the access openings 31 through which articles can be introduced into the compartments and / or outer packaging 03, in a parallel to the pivot axis 13 of the at least one carrier 51 and parallel to the horizontal axis 11 and normal the vertical axis 12 extending, horizontal plane.

In lying compartments and / or outer packaging 03 are in contrast to standing arranged compartments and / or outer packaging 03, the access openings 31 through which articles in the compartments and / or outer packaging 03 can be introduced, not in a horizontal but in a vertical plane ,

The at least one arranged on the manipulator head 63 of the at least one manipulator 62 tool 61 of the gripping device 06 is horizontally between the cardboard supply 04 and seen in the direction of the horizontal axis 11 next to this erecting device 05 back and forth movable, and preferably raised and lowered. The at least one manipulator 62 may be, for example, a multi-axis, for example six-axis robot arm or a laterally movable back and forth along a horizontal axis, as well as a liftable and lowerable portal or a tri or quadropod along a vertical axis enumerate some conceivable manipulators 62.

The at least one carrier 51 of the erecting device 05 can be pivoted back and forth about an arbitrarily horizontal in the horizontal pivot axis. However, the erecting device 05 preferably has at least one horizontal pivot axis 13 that extends about a position orthogonal to the horizontal axis 11 and orthogonal to the vertical axis 12 from a horizontal position to a vertical position and vice versa back and forth pivotable carrier 51, as in the in Fig. 1 to Fig. 14 illustrated device 01 is the case.

If the manipulator head 53 is vertically movable not only along the horizontal axis 11 but additionally along a vertical axis 12 as well, a compartment necessary for mounting cardboard boxes 02 and / or outer packaging 03 takes on a necessary enlargement of the distance between the two viewed along the vertical axis 12 Tools 61, 52 of the gripping device 06 and the erecting device 05 preferably by a vertical lifting of the arranged on the manipulator head 63 tool 61 of the gripping device 06th

Alternatively or in addition to a vertically movable manipulator 52, the erecting device 05 can be designed to be vertically movable, for example, by a vertically movable arrangement of the at least one carrier 51 relative to its pivot axis 13 or together with its pivot axis 13.

An expansion of the cartons 02 arranged to be arranged compartments and / or outer packaging 03 necessary increase in the vertical axis 12 seen distance between the tools 61, 51 of the gripping device 06 and the erecting device 05 can in a device 01 with a vertically movable erecting device 05 by a vertical lowering of the at least one arranged on the at least one support 51 tool 52 of the erector 05 done.

If the erecting device 05 is vertically movable, can be dispensed with a vertically movable manipulator head 63 by the gripping device cardboard 02 from cardboard storage 04 to Aufrichteinrichtung 05 spends only horizontally and the erector 05 the distance between their tools 52 and the tools 61 of the gripping device 06 for Mounting the cardboard boxes 02 to horizontal compartments and / or outer packagings 03 increases by lowering downwards.

The erecting device 05 may have at least one device 54 (for example as at least one folding flap) on its at least one carrier 51 (FIG. Fig. 2 ), which mounted and after pivoting of the at least one support 51 of the erecting device 05 about its horizontal, for example orthogonal to the horizontal axis 11 and orthogonal to the vertical axis 12 extending pivot axis 13 from a horizontal position in a vertical position erected compartments and / or outer packaging 03 at least until holding the pivoting in shape and possibly prevents it from slipping off of the carrier 51 when the at least one tool 52 of the erecting device 05 releases a compartment and / or outer packaging 03 held at least by it until the end of the winding process.

In order to ensure that such compartments and / or outer packaging 03, which would completely or partially collapse when loosened after being pulled up, remain in the pulled-up state, a holding device 55 can be provided per carrier 51, which, as in FIG Fig. 17 shown on the carrier 51 and is arranged together with this pivotable about the pivot axis 13, or as in Fig. 18 represented by its own, parallel to the pivot axis 13 extending or coincident with this pivot axis 14 is arranged independently of the carrier 51 together with this synchronous and / or time-shifted with respect to this pivot.

By pivoting the holding device 55 about the pivot axis 14 independently of the pivoting of the carrier 51 about the pivot axis 13, the Holding device 55 are pivoted away independently of the carrier 51 after erecting the compartments and / or outer packaging 03, so that in an arrangement of the holding device 55 after erecting below the compartments and / or outer packaging 03, the reared and erected compartments and / or outer packaging 03 also after can be delivered down below.

In an arrangement of the holding device on the carrier 51 and / or in a joint, synchronous pivoting with the carrier 51 about the pivot axis 13, the reared and erected compartments and / or outer packaging 03 can be removed only upwards if the holding device 55 after erecting is arranged below the compartments and / or outer packaging 03, or they can only be delivered down when the holding device 55 is arranged after erecting above the compartments and / or outer packaging 03.

Each holding device 55 assigned to a carrier 51 comprises at least one actuator 56 arranged by means of the carrier 51 erected compartment and / or upright outer packaging 03. The actuator or actuators 56 are preferably arranged on a parallel to the pivot axis extending rod 57 particularly preferably along the rod 57 adjustable. The adjustable arrangement along the rod 57 allows the adjustment of the positions of the actuators 56 along the rod 57 to different dimensions of the compartments and / or outer packaging 03.

The rod 57 may be disposed on at least one cantilever 58 which holds the rod 57 in a required or desired relative position relative to the carrier 51. If a plurality of cantilevers 58 are provided, they can form a framework with increased stability relative to a single cantilever 58.

Each actuator 56 may have at least one example pneumatically or electromagnetically off and retractable pin 59 which is inserted after the mounting of compartments and / or outer packaging 03 in each case a compartment and / or outer packaging 03 and thereby also after a removal of a the pulling-up force prevents the compartment and / or the outer packaging 03 from completely or partially collapsing again into a collapsed or folded cardboard 02. If the compartment and / or the outer packaging 03 is mounted and erected, the pin 59 can be retracted again so that it retracts again from the compartment and / or the outer packaging 03. In an upright position, in which the carrier 51 about the pivot axis 13 down is folded down, the re-collapse of the retracted Gefaches and / or the rear package 03 favoring influence of gravity is repealed, since by raising a change in the direction of action of gravity on the reared compartment and / or the mounted outer packaging 03 takes place is. Thus, the risk of collapsing is banned and the task of the holding device 55 done.

Alternatively or additionally, a previously described, for example, designed as at least one folding flap device 54 as already mentioned at the same time with the obstacle to prevent slipping from the carrier 51 mounted compartments and / or outer packaging 03 after releasing in the wound-up state.

The cardboard storage 04 may comprise a one or more stacks 41 accommodating, upright magazine 42, which is accessible from its upper side for the removal of cardboard 02.

The magazine accommodates 42 several stacks 41, as in the case of Fig. 1 to Fig. 14 illustrated device 01, they are preferably at least partially separated from each other by magazine partitions 43 from each other and / or so spaced from each other in the magazine 42 accommodates a contact of the individual cardboard 02 is excluded in the magazine 42 adjacent stack 41. As a result, a mutual entanglement is simultaneously prevented by a plurality of stacks 41 of the cardboard supply 04 uppermost removed cardboard 02 and thereby increases the reliability of the device 01.

The Kartonagevorrat 04, as in the in Fig. 1 to Fig. 14 illustrated device 01 seen in the horizontal direction parallel to the pivot axis 13 of the at least one carrier 51 of the erector 05 seen two or more adjacent juxtaposed stack 41 lying stacked stacked arranged flat folded cardboard 02.

In this case, the gripping device 06 for simultaneous detection of one uppermost cardboard 02 after the other from each of parallel to the pivot axis 13 of the at least one support 51 of the erecting 05 seen next to each other adjacent stack 41 several parallel to the pivot axis of the at least one support 51 of the erecting device 05 seen juxtaposed tools 61 on. Likewise, in this case, the erecting device 05 has correspondingly seen a plurality of parallel to the pivot axis of the at least one carrier 51 of the erecting device 05 juxtaposed tools 52 for the then at the same time from the detected cardboard 02 parallel to the pivot axis 13 of the at least one carrier 51 of the erector 05 seen side by side aufziehenden and erected compartments and / or outer packaging 03.

The cardboard 02 seen along the pivot axis 13 adjacent, at the same time to compartments and / or outer packaging 03 aufziehender and aufzurichtender cardboard 02 may be aligned prior to mounting or offset from one another. Alternatively or additionally, the cardboard 02 seen along the pivot axis 13 adjacent, at the same time to compartments and / or outer packaging 03 aufziehicht and aufrichtichtender cardboard 02 before mounting by, for example, 90 °, 180 °, 270 ° to each other rotated and / or mirror image, for example, to a mirror axis or a mirror point.

The viewed along the pivot axis 13 adjacent, simultaneously raised and erected compartments and / or outer packaging 03 may be arranged flush or offset from one another after mounting. Alternatively or additionally, viewed along the pivot axis 13 adjacent, simultaneously reared and erected compartments and / or outer packaging 03 after mounting by, for example, 90 °, 180 °, 270 ° to each other rotated and / or arranged mirror-image, for example, to a mirror axis or a mirror point ,

• verlaufen die Schwenkachsen 13 der Träger 51 parallel,
• weist der Kartonagevorrat 04 in einer horizontalen Richtung orthogonal zu den Schwenkachsen 13 gesehen eine der Anzahl der jeweils um eigene Schwenkachsen 13 schwenkbaren Träger 51 entsprechende Zahl von benachbarten Stapeln 41 liegend übereinander angeordneter, flach zusammengelegter Kartonagen 02 auf, und
• weist die Greifeinrichtung 06 zur gleichzeitigen Erfassung von jeweils einer obersten Kartonage 02 nach der anderen von jedem der orthogonal zu den Schwenkachsen 13 der mindestens zwei Träger 51 der Aufrichteinrichtung 05 gesehen nebeneinander benachbarten Stapel 41 entsprechend mehrere orthogonal zu den Schwenkachsen 13 der mindestens zwei Träger 51 der Aufrichteinrichtung 05 gesehen nebeneinander angeordnete Werkzeuge 52 für die dann gleichzeitig aus den erfassten Kartonagen 02 orthogonal zu den Schwenkachsen 13 der mindestens zwei Träger 51 der Aufrichteinrichtung 05 gesehen nebeneinander aufzuziehenden und aufzurichtenden Gefache und/oder Umverpackungen 03 auf.

Alternatively or - as in the in Fig. 1 to Fig. 14 device 01 shown in addition, can be provided in a device 01 for mounting and erecting collapsed or folded cardboard 02 to standing arranged compartments 03 and 03, that the erecting 05 at least two to each own pivot axis 13 from a horizontal position to a vertical position and vice versa pivotable carrier 51 having disposed thereon tools 52 for detecting and holding at least one by means of the gripping device 06 on the erecting device 05 spent cardboard 02 on a cardboard wall 22 of their lower flat side 24 per carrier 51 in their horizontal position. Here:

• are the pivot axes 13 of the carrier 51 parallel,
• the cardboard storage 04 in a horizontal direction orthogonal to the pivot axes 13 seen one of the number of each pivotable about its own pivot axes 13 support 51 corresponding number of adjacent stacks 41 lying superimposed, flat folded cardboard 02 on, and
• has the gripping device 06 for the simultaneous detection of each one uppermost cardboard 02 after the other of each orthogonal to the pivot axes 13 of the at least two carriers 51 of the erecting 05 seen adjacent stack 41 corresponding to a plurality of orthogonal to the pivot axes 13 of the at least two carriers 51 of Aufrichteinrichtung 05 seen juxtaposed tools 52 for the then at the same time seen from the detected cardboard 02 orthogonal to the pivot axes 13 of the at least two carriers 51 of the erector 05 side by side to be raised and erected compartments and / or outer packaging 03 on.

The cardboard 02 seen orthogonal to the pivot axes 13 adjacent, at the same time to compartments and / or outer packaging 03 aufziehender and aufrichtichtender cardboard 02 may be aligned or offset from each other before mounting. Alternatively or additionally, the cardboard 02 seen orthogonal to the pivot axes 13 adjacent, at the same time to compartments and / or outer packaging 03 aufziehicht and aufrichtichtender cardboard 02 before mounting by, for example, 90 °, 180 °, 270 ° rotated each other and / or mirror image, for example to a Mirror axis or a mirror point to be arranged.

The orthogonal to the pivot axes 13 seen adjacent, simultaneously raised and erected compartments and / or outer packaging 03 may be arranged flush or offset from each other after mounting. Alternatively or additionally, the orthogonal to the pivot axes 13 adjacent, simultaneously raised and erected compartments and outer packaging 03 after mounting by, for example, 90 °, 180 °, 270 ° rotated to each other and / or arranged mirror-image, for example, to a mirror axis or a mirror point be.

Particularly preferred is the device 01 as in Fig. 1 to Fig. 14 shown equipped with a straightening device 05, which has two about its own pivot axis 13 in opposite pivot directions from a horizontal position in a vertical position and vice versa pivotable carrier 51. The cardboard storage 04 of such a device 01 has, viewed in a horizontal direction orthogonal to the pivot axes 13, two adjacent stacks 41 of stacked cardboard boxes 02 arranged one above the other. The horizontally stacked cardboard boxes 02 of a first stack 44 of the two orthogonal in the horizontal direction seen the pivot axes 13 adjacent stack 41 are preferably seen in relation to a parallel between the two stacks 41 parallel to the pivot axis extending mirror axis mirrored to the likewise lying cardboard 02 a second stack 45 of the two horizontally orthogonal to the pivot axes 13 adjacent stack 41 stacked.

The pivot axes 13 of the carrier 51 are also parallel.

The at least two carriers 51 of the erecting device 05 can be arranged to be movable in a horizontal direction in order to be able to be moved apart about their pivot axes 13 during their preferably simultaneous pivoting, in order to prevent abutting collapsed compartments and / or outer packagings 03 during pivoting, and / or to be driven against each other after reaching the vertical position and / or to be able to move parallel to each other, whereby a grouping of the raised and erected compartments and / or outer packaging 03 is made possible. As a result, an adaptation to compartments and / or outer packaging 03 with different outer dimensions is also possible.

The gripping device 06 can as at least one tool 61 each simultaneously detected cardboard 02 have at least one downwardly directed suction cup 64 which by applying vacuum with each of the uppermost lying on a stack 41 of cardboard storage 04 cardboard 02 on one of the cardboard walls 22 of their upper flat side 23rd is able to hold by negative pressure.

A suction cup 64 has a downwardly open cuff made of an elastic, airtight material, and a leading away from the sleeve connection for a vacuum source, such as a vacuum or vacuum pump, or connected to a vacuum or vacuum pump vacuum reservoir. Preferably, a controllably openable and closable valve is arranged between each suction cup associated with a cardboard box and the vacuum source. When the valve is opened, the vacuum source communicates with the suction cup. If the cuff, which is open at the bottom, is not covered, air flows through the suction bell to the vacuum source, which is strictly speaking a sink for the air under ambient pressure. If the cuff, which is open at the bottom, is blocked by a cardboard wall, negative pressure is formed in the suction cup and the cardboard wall together with the associated cardboard packaging is retained.

Preferably, the gripping device 06 per simultaneously detected cardboard 02 at least four downwardly directed suction cups 64 as a tool which can hold the uppermost lying on a stack 41 cardboard 02 in the corners of one of the cardboard walls 22 of their upper flat side 23 by vacuum. This has in comparison to only one suction cup 64 each simultaneously detected cardboard 02 the advantage of higher redundancy and at the same time a higher holding force, which is required for mounting the folded cardboard 02 to initially lying compartments and / or outer packaging 03, which then mediate after mounting the erecting device 05 by pivoting the at least one carrier 51 are erected standing about its pivot axis 13.

In this case, the at least one per stack 41 of the cardboard supply 04 provided suction cup 64 is arranged on the manipulator head 63 of the at least one manipulator 62 of the gripping device 06, whereby this - in the case of not only horizontally but also vertically movable manipulator head 63 is lowered onto the cardboard supply 04 with sucked cardboard 02 again raised, moved laterally to the erector 05 and lowered and raised again, and after release of the then brought to a compartments and / or outer packaging 03 cardboard 02 can be moved back to the cardboard supply 04.

The at least one tool 52 of the straightening device 05 may alternatively or in addition to the execution of the at least one tool 61 of the gripping device 06 also be one or more suction cups 53.

Preferably, the erecting device 05 each simultaneously detected cardboard 02 at least four in the horizontal position whose at least one support 51 upwardly directed suction cups 53 as a tool 52 which the means of gripping device 06 spent on them cardboard 02 in the corners of one of the cardboard walls 22 of her lower flat side 24 can hold by vacuum. This has in comparison to a use of only one suction cup 53 each simultaneously detected cardboard 02 the advantage of higher redundancy and at the same time a higher holding force, which is required for mounting the folded cardboard 02 to first lying compartments and / or outer packaging 03, then after mounting by means of the erector 05 by pivoting the at least one carrier 51 are erected standing about its pivot axis 13.

• den mindestens einen Manipulator 62 der Greifeinrichtung 06 so steuert, dass dieser einen zyklischen Bewegungsablauf ausführt, in dessen Verlauf der Manipulatorkopf 63 parallel zur Horizontalachse 11 von über dem Kartonagevorrat 04 über die Aufrichteinrichtung 05 und wieder zurück verfährt,
• die Greifeinrichtung 06 und/oder die Aufrichteinrichtung 05 so steuert, dass diese in Richtung der Vertikalachse 12 gesehen einen wiederkehrenden Bewegungsablauf relativ zueinander ausführen, in dessen Verlauf der Abstand zwischen den Werkzeugen 61, 52 der Greifeinrichtung 06 und der Aufrichteinrichtung 05 zumindest so weit vergrößert wird, dass eine zwischen den Werkzeugen 61, 52 der Greifeinrichtung 06 und der Aufrichteinrichtung 05 festgehaltene Kartonage 02 zu einem liegenden Gefache und/oder Umverpackung 03 aufgezogen wird, und in dessen weiterem Verlauf der vertikale Abstand zwischen den Werkzeugen 61, 52 der Greifeinrichtung 06 und der Aufrichteinrichtung 05 zumindest bis auf ein normal zu deren oberen und unteren Flachseite 23, 24 gemessenes Dickenmaß einer liegenden, flach zusammengefalteten Kartonage 02 wieder verkleinert wird,
• das mindestens eine Werkzeug 61 der Greifeinrichtung 06 so steuert, dass dieses wenn es sich über dem mindestens einen Stapel 41 des Kartonagevorrats 04 befindet, eine Kartonagewand 22 der oberen Flachseite 23 einer zuoberst auf wenigstens einem Stapel 41 des Kartonagevorrats 04 liegenden Kartonage 02 erfasst und so lange festhält, bis es sich über der Aufrichtvorrichtung 05 befindet und der Abstand zwischen den Werkzeugen 61, 52 der Greifeinrichtung 06 und der Aufrichteinrichtung 05 im Verlauf des wiederkehrenden Bewegungsablaufs der Greifeinrichtung 06 und der Aufrichteinrichtung 05 zumindest so weit vergrößert worden ist, dass die Kartonage 02 zu einem liegenden Gefache und/oder Umverpackung 03 aufgezogen ist,
• den mindestens einen Träger 51 der Aufrichteinrichtung 05 so steuert, dass dieser einen zyklischen Schwenkbewegungsablauf ausführt, in dessen Verlauf er um dessen Schwenkachse um 90° aus dessen Horizontalstellung in dessen Vertikalstellung und wieder zurück geschwenkt wird, wobei der Träger 51 spätestens eine Horizontalstellung einnimmt, wenn sich der mindestens eine Manipulatorkopf 63 während seines Bewegungsablaufs entlang der Horizontalachse 11 über der Aufrichteinrichtung 05 befindet, und die Horizontalstellung so lange beibehält, bis der Abstand zwischen den Werkzeugen 61, 52 der Greifeinrichtung 06 und der Aufrichteinrichtung 05 im Verlauf des wiederkehrenden Bewegungsablaufs der Greifeinrichtung 06 und der Aufrichteinrichtung 05 zumindest so weit vergrößert worden ist, dass eine von den Werkzeugen 61, 52 der Greifeinrichtung 06 und der Aufrichteinrichtung 05 festgehaltene Kartonage 02 zu einem liegenden Gefache und/oder Umverpackung 03 aufgezogen ist, um hiernach durch Abklappen und/oder Verschwenken um dessen Schwenkachse 13 eine Vertikalstellung einzunehmen, und
• das mindestens eine Werkzeug 52 der Aufrichteinrichtung 05 so steuert, dass dieses sobald sich der Manipulatorkopf 63 mit der mindestens einen von dem mindestens einen an ihm angeordneten Werkzeug 61 erfassten und gehaltenen Kartonage 02 über der Aufrichteinrichtung 05 befindet, eine Kartonagewand 22 der unteren Flachseite 23 der wenigstens einen von dem zumindest einen Werkzeug 61 der Greifeinrichtung gehaltenen Kartonage 02 erfasst und zumindest so lange festhält, bis die durch eine vertikale Abstandsvergrößerung zwischen den Werkzeugen 61, 52 der Greifeinrichtung 06 und der Aufrichteinrichtung 05 zu einem Gefache und/oder Umverpackung 03 aufgezogene Kartonage 02 durch Abklappen und/oder Verschwenken des mindestens einen Trägers 51 der Aufrichteinrichtung 05 um 90° um dessen Schwenkachse 13 aus der Horizontalstellung in die Vertikalstellung aufgerichtet worden und zu deren weiteren Verwendung, beispielsweise zur Übergabe an eine Weitergabeeinrichtung 07 bereit steht.

The device 01 may comprise a control device which at least:

• controls the at least one manipulator 62 of the gripping device 06 so that it performs a cyclic movement, in the course of which the manipulator head 63 moves parallel to the horizontal axis 11 of the cardboard supply 04 on the erector 05 and back,
• the gripping device 06 and / or the erecting device 05 controls such that they perform a recurring sequence of movements relative to one another in the direction of the vertical axis 12, in the course of which the distance between the tools 61, 52 of the gripping device 06 and the erecting device 05 is increased at least so far in that a cardboard box 02 retained between the tools 61, 52 of the gripping device 06 and the erecting device 05 is drawn up to form a horizontal compartment and / or outer packaging 03, and in its further course the vertical distance between the tools 61, 52 of the gripping device 06 and the Aufrichteinrichtung 05 is at least reduced to a normal to the upper and lower flat side 23, 24 measured thickness of a lying flat folded cardboard 02 again
• the at least one tool 61 of the gripping device 06 controls so that when it is above the at least one stack 41 of the cardboard supply 04, a cardboard wall 22 of the upper flat side 23 of a carton 02 located on top of at least one stack 41 of the cardboard storage 04 and so on holds long until it is above the erector 05 and the distance between the tools 61, 52 of the gripping device 06 and the erector 05 has been increased at least so far in the course of the recurrent movement of the gripping device 06 and the erector 05 that the cardboard 02 is mounted to a horizontal compartment and / or outer packaging 03,
• the at least one carrier 51 of the erector 05 controls so that it performs a cyclic Schwenkbewegungsablauf in the course of which it is pivoted about its pivot axis by 90 ° from its horizontal position in the vertical position and back again, wherein the carrier 51 occupies a horizontal position at the latest, if the at least one manipulator head 63 is located above the erecting device 05 during its course of movement along the horizontal axis 11, and the horizontal position is maintained until the distance between the tools 61, 52 of the gripping device 06 and the erecting device 05 in the course of the recurrent movement sequence of the gripping device 06 and the erecting device 05 has been enlarged at least so far that one of the tools 61, 52 of the gripping device 06 and the erecting device 05 held cardboard 02 to a horizontal compartment and / or outer packaging 03 is rearranged to hereafter by folding and / or pivoting about the pivot axis 13 assume a vertical position, and
• the at least one tool 52 of the erecting device 05 controls such that, as soon as the manipulator head 63 is located above the erecting device 05 with the at least one cardboard box 02 held and held by the at least one tool 61, a cardboard wall 22 of the lower flat side 23 of FIG at least one held by the at least one tool 61 of the gripping device held cardboard 02 and holds at least until the by a vertical increase in distance between the tools 61, 52 of the gripping device 06 and the erector 05 to a compartment and / or outer packaging 03 mounted cardboard 02 by folding and / or pivoting of the at least one carrier 51 of the erector 05 has been erected by 90 ° about the pivot axis 13 from the horizontal position to the vertical position and ready for their further use, for example, for transfer to a relay device 07.

• den mindestens einen nachfolgend auch stellvertretend für dessen Manipulatorkopf 63 erwähnten Manipulator 62 der Greifeinrichtung 06 so steuert, dass dieser einen zyklischen Bewegungsablauf ausführt, in dessen Verlauf der Manipulator 06 das mindestens eine Werkzeug 61 der Greifeinrichtung 06 auf eine Kartonagewand 22 der oberen Flachseite 23 einer zuoberst auf wenigstens einem Stapel 41 des Kartonagevorrats 04 liegenden Kartonage 02 absenkt, wieder anhebt, zur Aufrichteinrichtung 05 verfährt, auf die Aufrichteinrichtung 05 absenkt, wieder anhebt und schließlich wieder über den Kartonagevorrat 04 verfährt,
• das mindestens eine Werkzeug 61 der Greifeinrichtung 06 so steuert, dass dieses nach dem Absenken auf eine Kartonagewand 22 der oberen Flachseite 23 einer zuoberst auf wenigstens einem Stapel 41 des Kartonagevorrats 04 liegenden Kartonage 02 erfasst und festhält, bis das Werkzeug 61 der Greifeinrichtung 06 im Verlauf des zyklischen Bewegungsablaufs wieder von der Aufrichteinrichtung 05 zumindest so weit angehoben worden ist, dass die Kartonage 02 zu einem Gefache und/oder Umverpackung 03 aufgezogen ist,
• den mindestens einen Träger 51 der Aufrichteinrichtung so steuert, dass dieser einen zyklischen Bewegungsablauf ausführt, in dessen Verlauf er um 90° aus der Horizontalen beziehungsweise dessen Horizontalstellung in die Vertikale beziehungsweise dessen Vertikalstellung und wieder zurück um dessen Schwenkachse 13 geschwenkt wird, wobei der Träger 51 spätestens eine Horizontalstellung einnimmt, wenn der mindestens eine Manipulator 62 während seines Bewegungsablaufs das wenigstens eine Werkzeug 61 der Greifeinrichtung 06 auf die Aufrichteinrichtung 05 absenkt oder abgesenkt hat, und die Horizontalstellung so lange beibehält, bis das Werkzeug 61 der Greifeinrichtung 06 im Verlauf des zyklischen Bewegungsablaufs des Manipulators 62 wieder von der Aufrichteinrichtung 05 zumindest so weit angehoben worden ist, dass die Kartonage 02 zu einem Gefache und/oder Umverpackung 03 aufgezogen ist, um hiernach durch Abklappen und/oder Verschwenken um dessen Schwenkachse 13 eine Vertikalstellung einzunehmen, und
• das mindestens eine Werkzeug 52 der Aufrichteinrichtung 05 so steuert, dass dieses nach dem Absenken des mindestens einen Manipulators 62 auf die Aufrichteinrichtung 05 eine Kartonagewand 22 der unteren Flachseite 24 der wenigstens einen von dem zumindest einen Werkzeug 61 der Greifeinrichtung 06 gehaltenen und zur Aufrichteinrichtung 05 verbrachten Kartonage 02 erfasst und zumindest so lange festhält, bis die zu einem Gefache und/oder Umverpackung 03 aufgezogene Kartonage 02 durch Abklappen und/oder Verschwenken des mindestens einen Trägers 51 der Aufrichteinrichtung 05 um 90° um dessen Schwenkachse 13 aus der Horizontalstellung in die Vertikalstellung aufgerichtet worden und zur Übergabe zu deren weiteren Verwendung bereit ist.

The device 01 can, for example, in conjunction with a non-horizontally but also vertically movable manipulator head 63 comprise a control device, which at least:

• the at least one manipulator 62 of the gripping device 06, which is also mentioned below as representative of its manipulator head 63, controls such that the manipulator 06 applies the at least one tool 61 of the gripping device 06 to a cardboard wall 22 of the upper flat side 23 of an uppermost part on at least one stack 41 of the cardboard supply 04 lowers cardboard box 02, raises again, moves to the erecting device 05, lowered to the erecting device 05, lifts again and finally moves back over the cardboard supply 04,
• the at least one tool 61 of the gripping device 06 controls so that it detects after lowering on a cardboard wall 22 of the upper flat side 23 of an uppermost on at least one stack 41 of the cardboard storage 04 carton 02 and holds until the tool 61 of the gripping device 06 in the course the cyclical movement sequence has been raised again by the erecting device 05 at least so far that the cardboard 02 is drawn up to a compartment and / or outer packaging 03,
• the at least one carrier 51 of the erector controls so that it performs a cyclic movement, in the course of which he 90 ° out of the Horizontal or its horizontal position in the vertical or its vertical position and is pivoted back about the pivot axis 13, wherein the carrier 51 occupies a horizontal position at the latest, if the at least one manipulator 62 during its movement, the at least one tool 61 of the gripping device 06 on the erecting 05 lowered or lowered, and the horizontal position is maintained until the tool 61 of the gripping device 06 has been raised in the course of cyclic movement of the manipulator 62 again by the erecting device 05 so far that the cardboard 02 to a compartment and / or outer packaging 03 is moved to hereafter by folding and / or pivoting about the pivot axis 13 assume a vertical position, and
• the at least one tool 52 of the erecting device 05 controls such that, after the at least one manipulator 62 has been lowered onto the erecting device 05, it holds a cardboard wall 22 of the lower flat side 24 of the at least one of the at least one tool 61 of the gripping device 06 and the erecting device 05 Cardboard 02 recorded and holds at least until the carton 02 drawn up to a compartment and / or outer packaging 03 erected by folding and / or pivoting the at least one carrier 51 of the erector 05 by 90 ° about its pivot axis 13 from the horizontal position to the vertical position and ready to be handed over for their further use.

Depending on the configuration of the cardboard 02 and the pull-out of these compartments and / or outer packaging 03, the control device may cause the manipulator 62 and its manipulator head 63 that during the lifting of the tool 61 of the gripping device 06 at the same time a parallel and / or orthogonal to Horizontal axis 11 extending horizontal movement executes, at the end of which detected by at least one tool 61 of the gripping device 06, formerly the upper flat side 23 of the cardboard 02 attributable cardboard wall 22 and the at least one tool 52 of the erector 05 detected, formerly the lower flat side 24 of the cardboard zuzuschnende cardboard wall 22 are seen in a plan view along the vertical axis 12 in the horizontal direction congruently arranged one above the other, corresponding to two opposite walls of a mounted compartment and / or outer packaging 03rd

Preferably, however, the cartons are configured so that they can be drawn up by merely increasing the spacing between the tools 61, 52 of the gripping device 06 and the erecting device 05. This is possible, for example, by means of a concertina-type construction with an even number of cardboard walls 22 grasped by the tools 61, 52 on each of their narrow sides in the region of a cardboard edge 21 interconnecting cardboard walls 22, as shown in FIG Fig. 15 using the example of a cardboard 02 with two an upper flat side 23 and a lower flat side 24 forming cardboard walls 22 and each one another, the upper flat side 23 with the lower flat side 24 connecting cardboard wall 22 is shown. In such a cardboard 02, the two superimposed in the folded state, but not directly at a common bending edge 21 interconnected Kartonagewände 22 by the tools 61, 52 of the gripping device 06 and the Aufzieheinrichtung 05 detected and can in an exclusively along the normal on the surfaces the cardboard walls 22, which are grasped by the tools, are raised in the direction of vertical axis 12 which extends upwards.

The lifting that takes place after lowering onto the erecting device 05 can thus take place exclusively in the vertical direction, depending on the design of the cardboard box 02.

In order to achieve the highest possible timing, the control device can cause combined relative movements between the gripping device 06 and the erecting device 05 in the horizontal and vertical direction before and after the assembly of cardboard boxes 02 into compartments and / or outer packagings 03.

The device 01 may comprise a transfer device 07, which is also controlled, for example, by a control device, which picks up and erected compartments and / or outer packagings 03 from the erecting device 05, preferably from the vertical position of the carrier 51 of the erecting device 05 and their further use, for example fed by subsequent insertion of mounted and erected compartments in outer packaging provided and / or the introduction of articles in compartments and / or outer packaging 03.

The relay device 07 may comprise at least one tool 73 arranged on a head 71 of a relay manipulator 72, which tool reared and erected compartments and / or outer packaging of the erecting takes over, for example by immersing it through the after erecting in a horizontal plane access openings 31 of the compartments and / or outer packaging 03 and the compartments and / or outer packaging 03 engages from the inside, for example by lateral pressure, and with vertical and / or horizontal movement of the head 71 of the relaying device manipulator 72.

Alternatively, the upright after pivoting of the at least one carrier 51 of the erecting device 05 upright compartments and outer packaging 03 can also be easily released by loosening the at least one tool 52 of the erector 05 and thereby be passed, for example, a directly below the erecting device 05 leading horizontal conveyor. The vertical distance between such a horizontal conveyor and the erecting device 05 can in this case be set so that after pivoting of the at least one carrier 51 about the pivot axis 13 from its horizontal position in the vertical position upright Gefrech and / or outer packaging 03 a smallest possible distance from the surface take the horizontal conveyor, this example, strip. It is also conceivable releasing the preceding Aufsetzbewegung the erector 05 in the vertical direction.

Preferably, at least in a starting position, the erecting device 05 and the surface of the cardboard supply 04 formed by the uppermost cardboard 02 of the at least one stack 41 of cardboard boxes are at least approximately at the same level.

However, the surface of the cardboard supply 04 formed by the uppermost cardboard box 02 of the at least one stack 41 cardboard boxes 02 is particularly preferably located on one of the at least one tool 52 of the erecting device 05 in the horizontal position whose at least one carrier 51 during the detection of a cardboard wall 22 of the lower one Flat side 24 of a cardboard 02 formed level of the erector 05 at least by the height of a horizontally mounted Gefaches and / or outer packaging 03 higher level. As a result, to increase the achievable timing, for example, a vertical stroke of the manipulator head 63 is saved from the erecting device 05 to the cardboard supply 04 in the case of a return movement of the manipulator head 63 required after the mounting of a cardboard box to a horizontal compartment and / or outer packaging 03 for detecting the next cardboard boxes 02.

The mentioned horizontal and vertical axes 11, 12 are geometric axes, wherein the pivot axis or axes 13 mentioned can also be machine axes.

The device 01 allows the execution of one in a recurring sequence in the Fig. 1 to Fig. 14 illustrated method for mounting and erecting collapsed or folded cardboard 02 to standing arranged compartments and / or outer packaging 03.

Starting in Fig. 12 provides the method, the topmost cardboard 02 from a stack of 41 stacked, flat folded cardboard 02 a supply of cardboard 02 on a cardboard wall 22 of their upper flat side 23 coming from above to capture and from the stack 41, for example in a through the sequence of Fig. 13 . Fig. 14 . Fig. 1 . Fig. 2 . Fig. 3 decrease movement shown.

Subsequently, the method provides for the cardboard packaging 02 held on a cardboard wall 22 of its upper flat side 23 also to be retained from below on a cardboard wall 22 of its lower flat side 24, for example as shown in FIG Fig. 4 takes place, and by opposing pulling the vertical distance between the Kartonagewand 22, on which the cardboard 02 is held on its upper flat side 23, and the Kartonagewand 22, on which the cardboard 02 is held at its lower flat side 24, for example, as in the sequence of the Fig. 5 and Fig. 6 shown to zoom so far until the cardboard 02 is mounted to a horizontal compartment and / or outer packaging 03.

Thereupon, the method provides for releasing the recessed compartment and / or outer packaging 03 at its formerly the upper flat side 23 of the cardboard 02 associated cardboard wall 23, as in the sequence of Fig. 6 and Fig. 7 exemplified.

Finally, the method provides, further on its formerly the lower flat side 24 of the cardboard 02 associated cardboard storage wall 22 held, lying, reared compartments and / or outer packaging 03, for example, as in the sequence of Fig. 8 . Fig. 9 and Fig. 10 shown to tilt a horizontal pivot axis 13.

Following this, the method finally provides for the drawn-up and now erected compartment and / or outer packaging 03 also at its formerly the lower flat side 24 of the cardboard 02 associated cardboard wall 22 to a Release for further use, for example, as in the sequence of Fig. 11 . Fig. 12 . Fig. 13 . Fig. 14 and Fig. 1 is shown.

The method preferably provides for simultaneously drawing and erecting a plurality of cardboard boxes 02, as described, into compartments and / or outer packagings 03.

In this case, two cardboard 02 each form a pair simultaneously to compartments and / or outer packaging 03 aufziehichtenden and aufrichtichtender cardboard 02, which after their mounting to lying compartments and / or outer packaging 03 in the same or opposite pivoting about their own, parallel, horizontal pivot axes 13th erected to standing arranged compartments and / or outer packaging 03.

In addition, a plurality of cardboard boxes 02 or pairs of cardboard boxes 02 can be seen simultaneously in a direction parallel to the pivot axis or axes 13, juxtaposed to lying compartments and / or outer packaging 03 and then erected to standing arranged compartments and / or outer packaging 03.

During or after the mounted compartment and / or outer packaging 03 has been erected upright, the compartments and / or outer packaging 03 in a horizontal direction, for example along the horizontal axis 11 can at a simultaneous mounting and erecting several cardboard 02 to stand arranged compartments and outer packaging 03 and / or orthogonal to this relative to each other and are grouped by, for example, as in the sequence of Fig. 10 and Fig. 11 on the example of a successive movement along the horizontal axis 11 of two groups of pairs of two seen in the direction of the horizontal axis 11 side by side to compartments and / or outer packaging 03 mounted and erected cardboard 02 is shown.

It can be seen that the invention can be realized by erecting previously lying cardboard boxes 02 mounted compartments and / or outer packaging 03 by a letting go even after releasing their former upper flat sides 23 of the cardboard 02 associated cardboard walls 22 continues to hold captive Gefache and / or outer packaging 03 at the former lower flat sides 24 of the cardboard 02 associated cardboard walls 22 and then pivoting 90 ° about a horizontal pivot axis 13 of the compartments and / or outer packaging 03 at the former lower flat sides 24 of Cardboard 02 associated cardboard storage walls 22 still holding upright 05.

Both the device 01 and the method may alternatively or additionally comprise single or a combination of several features described in the introduction in connection with the prior art and / or in one or more documents mentioned in the prior art.

In addition, the device 01 may alternatively or additionally comprise single or a combination of several features previously described in connection with the method, as well as the method may alternatively or additionally comprise single or a combination of several features previously described in connection 01 with the device.

• ein erstes Fördermittel 300 zur Zufuhr von Artikeln 200,
• ein zweites Fördermittel 400 zur Zufuhr von Umverpackungen 031,
• ein drittes Fördermittel 600 zum Abtransport von kurz als Umverpackstücke 700 bezeichneten Umverpackungen 031 mit in diese eingesetzten Artikeln 200, und
• eine zwischen dem zweiten Fördermittel 400 und dem dritten Fördermittel 600 angeordnete Einsetzfläche 800, sowie
• eine gestrichelt dargestellte Einrichtung 900 zum durch Pfeile 910 angedeuteten Transfer zugeführter Umverpackungen 031 von dem zweiten Fördermittel 400 zur Einsetzfläche 800,
• eine gestrichelt dargestellte Einrichtung 1000 zum durch Pfeile 1010 angedeuteten Umsetzen von Artikeln 200 von dem ersten Fördermittel 300 in auf die Einsetzfläche 800 transferierte Umverpackungen 031, und
• eine gestrichelt dargestellte Einrichtung 1100 zum durch Pfeile 1110 angedeuteten Transfer von kurz als Umverpackstücke 700 bezeichneten Umverpackungen 031 mit in diese eingesetzten Artikeln 200 von der Einsetzfläche 800 auf das dritte Fördermittel 600.

An in Fig. 16 Wholly or partially illustrated Appendix 100 for handling articles 200, which previously by means of a previously described device 01 according to a previously described method for mounting and erecting collapsed or folded cardboard 02 to standing arranged compartments and / or outer packaging 03 can be supplied for further use , includes:

• a first conveyor 300 for feeding articles 200,
• a second conveying means 400 for supplying outer packages 031,
• a third conveying means 600 for the removal of oversized packaging 031 briefly referred to as repacking pieces 700 with articles 200 inserted therein, and
• an arranged between the second conveyor 400 and the third conveyor 600 insertion surface 800, and
• a device 900 shown in dashed lines for the indicated by arrows 910 transfer supplied outer packaging 031 from the second conveyor 400 to the insertion surface 800,
• a device 1000 shown in dashed lines for indicated by arrows 1010 converting articles 200 of the first conveyor 300 in transferred to the insert surface 800 outer packaging 031, and
• a device 1100 shown in dashed lines for the indicated by arrows 1110 transfer of short Umverpackstücke 700 designated outer packaging 031 with articles 200 inserted therein from the insertion surface 800 on the third conveyor 600th

The means 1000 for translating articles 200 indicated by arrows 1010 initially detects articles 200 provided by the first conveyor 300, then translates the detected articles 200 from the first conveyor 300 to the inserting surface 800, thereby setting the area of the first conveyor and of the first conveyor 300 to the insertion surface 800 converted article 200 in the transferred to the insert surface 800 outer packaging 031 a.

The system 100 allows the implementation of a method for handling articles 200, which provides, in one or more article streams of closed and / or incomplete sequentially arranged and / or grouped supplied articles 200 in deployed on an insertion surface 800 outer packaging 031, which in turn even fed independently of the articles 200 in a direction indicated by arrows 410 transport direction and shown individually or in groups by arrows 910 transversely to the transport direction indicated by arrows 410 transferred to the insertion surface 800 and from there after the insertion of articles 200 again individually or in groups Arrows 1110 shown transversely to the direction indicated by arrows 410 transport direction - now provided with them used in articles 200 - are transferred to then regardless of the indicated by arrows 310 supply of articles 200, regardless of the indicated by arrows 410 at interpreted supply of outer packaging 031 and regardless of the indicated by arrows 1010 insertion of articles 200 in the outer packaging 031 in the direction indicated by arrows 410 transport direction or opposite to this transported parallel to the direction indicated by arrows 410 transport direction.

Both the system 100 and the method can be developed as explained below.

The device 900 for the transfer of outer packages 031, indicated by arrows 910, from the second conveying means 400 onto the inserting surface 800 may comprise the means 1100 for transferring, as indicated by arrows 1110, outer packages 031 briefly referred to as overwrapping pieces 700 with articles 200 inserted therefrom from the inserting surface 800 the third conveying means 600 or one or more parts of the device 1100 to the indicated by arrows 1110 transfer of briefly referred to as Umverpackstücke 700 outer packaging 031 with articles 200 inserted therein from the insertion surface 800 on the third conveyor 600 include.

Alternatively, the means 900 for the transfer of outer packages 031, indicated by arrows 910, from the second conveyor 400 onto the insertion surface 800 may be wholly or partly of the means 1100 for the transfer indicated by arrows 1110 of outer packages 031 briefly referred to as overwrapping pieces 700 with articles 200 inserted therein from the insertion surface 800 to the third conveyor 600 may be included.

The means 900 for transferring supplied outer packaging 031 from the second conveyor 400 to the insertion surface 800 and the device 1100 for transferring Umverpackstücken 700 from the Einsetzfläche 800 on the third conveyor 600 thus each form together or together at least one independently of the means 1000 for converting from articles 200 from the first conveying means 300 in transfer packs 031 transferred to the inserting surface 800 and operable transfer device 1200.

Through the insertion surface 800 in conjunction with the at least one independent transfer device 1200 transferred from the first conveyor 300 to the insert surface 800 by the device 1000 for transferring articles 200, an increase in performance in terms of achievable timing is obtained from a device without an insert surface 800 , The higher timing is achieved because article 200 200 fed from the article transfer device 1000 by the insert surface 800 in conjunction with the at least one transfer device 1200 independent of the article transfer device 1000 in a first cycle by means of the first conveyer 300 and the means 1000 for relocating articles 200 may begin to translate the detected articles 200 by starting a movement of the detected articles 200 from the first conveyor 300 to the inserting surface 800, while still leaving empty outer packages 031 from the second conveyor 400 Inserting surface 800, for example, transferred by pushing or pushing over and Umverpackstücke 700 are transferred from the insertion surface 800 on the third conveyor 600 by sliding or pushing over, and in a second cycle new, empty outer packaging 031 fed by means of the second conveyor 400 and simultaneously Umverpackstücke 700 can be removed from the third conveyor 600, while at the same time the implementation of the first cycle detected articles 200 is completed by articles 200 are used by means of the means 1000 for converting articles 200 in the ready on the insertion surface 800 outer packaging 031.

In this case, the conversion of the detected in the first cycle article 200 is terminated by 200 items detected by the means 1000 for converting articles 200 in the first cycle on the insertion surface 800 by removing or pushing over transferred, empty outer packaging 031 are used, and with a return of the means 1000 for converting articles 200 from the insertion surface 800 to the first conveying means 300 is at least started to re-detected by the first conveying means 300 to detect articles 200 and implement in a repetition of the first clock.

The indicated by arrows 910 transfer supplied outer packaging 031 from the second conveyor 400 to the insert 800 can be done by sliding over.

The translation indicated by arrows 1010 may be accomplished by gripping the articles 200, pushing over the edge of the first conveyor 300, or lifting lightly from the first conveyor 300, as well as lowering the gripped articles into overpacks 031 provided on the insert surface 800.

The indicated by arrows 1110 transfer Umverpackstücken 700 from the insertion surface 800 to the third conveyor 600 can be done by sliding over.

Preferably, at least the second conveying means 400 and the third conveying means 600 are arranged parallel to each other along the insertion surface 800 adjacent to the insertion surface 800, or the second conveying means 400 and the third conveying means 600 extend at least in the region of their in other words, the insertion surface 800 adjacent to parts 320, 420, 620 parallel to each other.

In addition, the first conveying means 300 can run parallel to the second conveying means 400 and parallel to the third conveying means 600.

In the arrangement parallel to one another, the transport directions of the conveying means 300, 400, 600 indicated by arrows 310, 410, 610 run at least in the region 820 between the arrows 810 of their portions 320, 420 adjacent to the insertion surface 800 or overlapping in the region of the insertion surface 800 , 620 parallel to each other. This applies both to transport directions of all conveying means 300, 400, 600 running in the same direction and to conveying directions of at least two conveying means 300, 400, 600 running in opposite directions.

The mutually parallel batches 320, 420, 620 of the conveying means 300, 400, 600 may overlap one another by a distance indicated by the double arrow 830 the length of at least two, preferably at least three provided on the insertion surface 800 outer packaging 031.

As a result, two or more outer packages 031 from the second conveying means 400 to the insertion surface 800 and two or more outer packaging pieces 700 can be simultaneously transferred from the insertion surface 800 to the third conveying means 600, and at the same time, articles 200 into the plurality of outer packages 031 provided thereby on the insertion surface 800 be used. As a result, the timing can be increased again.

The direction of the transfer of outer packages 031 from the second conveyor 400 to the insertion surface 800 in the horizontal direction practiced by means 900 for transferring empty outer packages 031, referred to as the transfer direction and indicated by arrows 910, is preferably transverse, preferably orthogonal to the transport direction indicated by arrows 410 the second conveyor 400.

The outer packaging 031, which is briefly referred to as the transfer direction and indicated by arrows 1110 by the device 1100 for transferring short as outer packaging 700, extends in the horizontal direction. The transfer area 700 is transferred from the insertion surface 800 to the third conveyor 600 preferably transversely, preferably orthogonal to the direction indicated by the arrow 610 transport direction of the third conveying means 600th

Thus, the direction of transfer indicated by arrows 910 and arrows 1110 of the device or devices 900, 1100 preferably proceeds for the transfer of both empty outer packaging 031 and outer packaging 031 designated as outer packaging 700 with articles 200 inserted therein during transfer from the second conveyor 400 to the insertion surface 800 and during transfer from the insertion surface 800 to the third conveyor 600 in the horizontal direction, preferably transversely, preferably orthogonal to the indicated by arrows 410 and 610 transport directions of both the second conveyor 400, and the third conveyor 600th

Due to the direction of transport indicated by arrows 410 and 610 of the second conveyor 400 and the third conveyor 600 transversely and preferably orthogonal horizontal, indicated by arrows 910 and arrows 1110 transfer direction can each simultaneously one or more empty outer packaging 031 and one or more designated as Umverpackungsstücke 700 outer packaging 031 with articles 200 used in these from the second conveyor 410 to the insertion surface 800 and the insertion surface 800 are transferred to the third conveying means 600, whereby at the same time article 200 can be used in several parked on the insertion surface 800 outer packaging 031. As a result, the timing is significantly increased.

By way of example, the device 900 may be used to transfer outer packaging 031 from the second conveying means 400 to the insertion surface 800 and / or the means 1100 to transfer outer packaging 031, also referred to as outer packaging pieces 700, with articles 200 inserted therein from the setting surface 800 onto the third conveying means 600 comprise at least one slide.

The second conveying means 400 and the third conveying means 600 and the insertion surface 800 are preferably located on a common, first level.

The first conveyor 300 is preferably at a higher, second level.

As a result, a vertical lift necessary for the insertion of articles 200 into outer packaging 031 of the device 1000 for converting articles 200 to the essential can be reduced, whereby the timing can be increased even further.

The second level may be above the first level at least by the height of an optionally initially open packaging material O31 to be closed after insertion of articles 200.

If an outer packaging 031 to be closed, which is designed as a closable cardboard packaging, projects upward, the second level is preferably higher than the first level in the unlocked height of the tabs, as if the outer packages 031 were closed, for example, by a separately provided lid become.

The closing of the outer packaging 031, which is also referred to as outer packaging piece 700, with articles 200 inserted in it can still occur on the insertion surface 800, for example with or following the insertion of the articles 200 into the outer packaging 031, or in a separate treatment step, for example take place subsequent to or in the course of the third conveyor 600 of the system 100 for handling articles 200.

For example, the outer packages 031, which are also referred to as outer packaging pieces 700, can be closed with lids with articles 200 inserted into them in the further course of the third conveying means 600.

Before or after insertion of the articles 200 into outer packages 800 transferred to the insertion surface 800, compartments 032 referred to as baskets can also be inserted into the outer packagings 031, which assign fixed locations to the articles 200 within the outer packagings 031 and thereby further transport the outer packagings 031 with articles 200 inserted therein until removal of the articles 200 and their consumption from collision and juxtaposition, otherwise caused, for example, by signs of wear, such as information applied to articles 200 in the form of labels, for example, and / or damage to articles 200 can lead to a negative quality impression among each other.

The compartments 032 can already be inserted into the outer packaging 031 before the transfer of the outer packaging 031 to the insertion surface 800, or the compartments 032 can be inserted into the outer packaging 031 before the articles 200 or together with them or after the articles 200 have been inserted ,

For example, the slices 032 may be provided by a separate device 1400, which may, for example, simultaneously erect the slices 032.

The subsequent introduction of compartments 032, in particular with light, within the outer packaging 031 sliding with little effort Articles 200, has the advantage of a simplified placement of the articles 200 in the outer packaging 031 along with a reduced control effort for the means 1000 for moving the articles 200 on since, for example, articles 200 with conical or similar progress on their contact surfaces, such as beverage bottles with a bottleneck extending at least in sections from top to bottom, can be horizontally displaced by inserting the trays 032 within the outer packaging 031.

The compartments 032 can, for example, still be introduced into the outer packaging 031 on the second conveyor 400, or already for example with or in the Connection to an erection of the outer packaging 031 be introduced into this or already be incorporated in a corresponding cardboard with, where the compartments 032 unfold with the erection of the cardboard inside the outer package 031.

In connection with the introduction of compartments 032 before or after the insertion of articles 200 in the outer packaging 031, alternatively, a separate introduction surface between the second conveyor 400 and the insertion surface 800 in the case of the introduction of compartments 032 before the insertion of the articles 200, or between the Insertion surface 800 and third conveyor 600 may be provided in the case of the introduction of compartments 032 after insertion of the articles 200.

In this case, an additional device for the transfer of provided with compartment 032 outer packaging 031 may be provided from such an insertion surface to the insertion surface 800 or from the insertion surface 800 to the introduction surface, which may also be part of a transfer device 1200 or from this.

In the further course of the third conveying means 600 of the system 100 for handling articles 200, a stacking station can be provided, on which, for example, as closed outer packages 200 with outer articles 700 executed in these articles 200 are stacked into stack layers, which are then stacked up a predetermined stack height, corresponding to a predetermined number of stacked stacking stack layers is removed to create space for stacking a new stack.

The articles 200 fed by means of the first conveying means 300 are preferably already arranged, for example, in article groups 210 to be inserted into an outer packaging 031. The articles 200 fed by means of the first conveying means 300 can be present to each other or can be supplied in a fragmented manner in succession. The articles 200 fed by means of the first conveyor 300 may be fed in one or more parallel rows. For this purpose, the articles 200 can be transferred to the first conveying means 300 via a suitable feed and, after the transfer to the first conveying means 300, can be guided in one or more lanes oriented parallel to one another.

The articles 200 fed by means of the first conveying means 300 accordingly form a single or multi-row article stream of articles 200 which are closed and / or incompletely arranged one behind the other.

The articles 200 may have been treated beforehand along an inlet to the first conveyor 300, for example by manufacturing a container and / or cleaning an exterior and / or interior surface and / or cooling and / or filling and / or sealing, to make no claim to completeness To list only a few examples for handling articles 200 and / or articles 200 may have been previously handled along a feed to the first conveyor 300, for example, by sequentially transporting a number of articles 200 from one or more article streams following one another Articles 200 and / or grouping a number of articles 200 into article groups 210 and / or compiling and summarizing a number of articles 200 into containers, to give a few examples of how to deal with articles 200 without claiming completeness of the enumeration, before subsequently using them the plant 100 be used to handle articles 200 in the outer packaging 031.

The conveying means 300, 400, 600 preferably comprise at least one horizontal conveyor, such as a belt conveyor and / or a roller conveyor.

The outer packagings 031 are preferably cardboard boxes, for example in the form of cardboard boxes with or without individual articles 200 that are arranged or can be arranged inside them and which separate and / or keep separate compartments 032.

• einem ersten, Artikel 200 in einer ersten durch Pfeile 310 angedeuteten Transportrichtung zuführenden Fördermittel 300,
• einem zweiten, Umverpackungen 031 in einer bevorzugt parallel zur ersten, durch Pfeile 310 angedeuteten Transportrichtung gleichgerichtet oder entgegengesetzt verlaufenden zweiten, durch Pfeile 410 angedeuteten Transportrichtung zuführenden Fördermittel 400,
• einem dritten, auch als Umverpackstücke 700 bezeichnete Umverpackungen 031 mit in diese eingesetzen Artikeln 200 in einer bevorzugt parallel zur durch Pfeile 310 angedeuteten ersten und zur durch Pfeile 410 angedeuteten zweiten Transportrichtung gleichgerichtet oder entgegengesetzt verlaufenden, durch einen Pfeil 610 angedeuteten dritten Transportrichtung abtransportierenden Fördermittel 600,
• einer zwischen dem zweiten Fördermittel 400 und dem dritten Fördermittel 600 angeordneten Einsetzfläche 800,
• einer Einrichtung 900 zum durch Pfeile 910 angedeuteten Transfer zugeführter Umverpackungen 031 von dem zweiten Fördermittel 400 zur Einsetzfläche 800,
• einer Einrichtung zum durch Pfeile 1010 angedeuteten Umsetzen von Artikeln 200 von dem ersten Fördermittel 300 in auf die Einsetzfläche 800 transferierte Umverpackungen 800, und
• einer Einrichtung 1100 zum durch Pfeile 1110 angedeuteten Transfer von auch als Umverpackstücke 700 bezeichneten Umverpackungen 031 mit in diese eingesetzen Artikeln 200 von der Einsetzfläche 800 auf das dritte Fördermittel 600,

wobei die Einrichtung 900 zum Transfer zugeführter Umverpackungen 031 von dem zweiten Fördermittel 400 zur Einsetzfläche 800 und die Einrichtung 1100 zum Transfer von auch als Umverpackstücke 700 bezeichneten Umverpackungen 031 mit in diese eingesetzen Artikeln 200 von der Einsetzfläche 800 auf das dritte Fördermittel 600 in einer gemeinsamen Transfereinrichtung 1200 zusammengefasst sein können.It can be seen that a plant 100 for handling articles 200, which are previously supplied by means of a previously described device 01 according to a previously described method for mounting and erecting collapsed or folded cardboard 02 to standing up compartments and / or outer packaging 03 for further use can be equipped with:

• a first, article 200 in a first direction indicated by arrows 310 transport direction conveying means 300,
• a second, outer packaging 031 in a preferably parallel to the first, indicated by arrows 310 direction of transport rectified or oppositely extending second, indicated by arrows 410 transport direction conveying means 400,
• a third, also referred to as Umverpackstücke 700 outer packaging 031 with inserted into these articles 200 in a preferably parallel to the arrows 310th indicated first and the direction indicated by arrows 410 second transport direction rectified or oppositely extending, transported away by an arrow 610 indicated third transport direction conveying means 600,
• a between the second conveyor 400 and the third conveyor 600 arranged insertion surface 800,
• a device 900 for the transfer of supplied outer packaging 031, indicated by arrows 910, from the second conveying means 400 to the insertion surface 800,
• a device for the indicated by arrows 1010 moving articles 200 of the first conveyor 300 in transferred to the insert surface 800 outer packaging 800, and
• means 1100 for the transfer indicated by arrows 1110 of outer packaging 031, also referred to as outer packaging pieces 700, with articles 200 inserted therein from the insertion surface 800 onto the third conveying means 600,

the device 900 for transferring supplied outer packaging 031 from the second conveying means 400 to the insertion surface 800 and the device 1100 for transferring outer packaging 031 also referred to as outer packaging 700 with articles 200 inserted therein from the insertion surface 800 to the third conveying means 600 in a common transfer device 1200 can be summarized.

The described system 100 may be part of a device 01 or comprise a device 01, or may be comprised by a device 01.

The invention has been described with reference to a preferred embodiment. However, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that modifications or changes may be made to the invention without departing from the scope of the following claims.

LIST OF REFERENCE NUMBERS

01

contraption

02

cardboard packaging

03

Compartments and / or outer packaging

04

cardboard stock

05

erector

06

gripper

07

Relay means

11

Horizontal axis

12

vertical axis

13

swivel axis

14

swivel axis

21

bend edge

22

cardboard wall

23

upper flat side

24

lower flat side

31

access opening

41

stack

42

magazine

43

Magazine partition

44

first pile

45

second stack

51

carrier

52

Tool (erecting device)

53

suction cup

54

Facility

55

holder

56

actuator

57

pole

58

cantilever

59

pen

61

Tool (gripping device)

62

manipulator

63

A manipulator head

64

suction cup

71

head

72

Relay device manipulator

73

Tool

100

investment

200

items

300

first funding

400

second funding

031

overpack

600

third funding

700

Umverpackstück (outer packaging with inserted into these articles)

800

insertion surface

900

Facility for transfer

1000

Device for implementing

1100

Facility for transfer

1200

transfer device

032

partitions

1400

Facility

210

Product group

310

arrow

320

game

410

arrow

420

game

610

arrow

620

game

810

arrow

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Claims (15)

1. An apparatus (01) for expanding and erecting collapsed or folded cardboard packagings (02) to standing compartments and/or outer packagings (03) comprising:

   - a cardboard packaging supply (04) comprising at least one stack (41) of flatly collapsed cardboard packagings (02) arranged lying on top of each other,

   - an erecting device (05) arranged next to the cardboard packaging supply (04) as seen in the direction of a horizontal axis (11), and

   - a gripping device (06) for the simultaneous seizing of respectively one topmost cardboard packaging (02) from each stack (41) of the cardboard packaging supply (04),

   wherein:

   - the cardboard packagings (02) respectively consist of a plurality of cardboard packaging walls (22) interconnected with each other, of which respectively at least two cardboard packaging walls (02) connected with each other form a top flat side (23) and a bottom flat side (24) of a flatly collapsed cardboard packaging (02),

   - per each cardboard packaging (02) simultaneously seized by the gripping device (06), the gripping device (06) has at least one tool (61) with which a cardboard packaging (02) lying topmost on a stack (41) is holdable at a cardboard packaging wall (22) of its top flat side (23),

   - the gripping device (06) has at least one manipulator (62) with a manipulator head (63) that is at least horizontally movable along a horizontal axis (11), at which manipulator head (63) the at least one tool (61) of the gripping device (06) is arranged, by means of which manipulator head (63) the at least one tool (61) of the gripping device (06) is movable at least horizontally in space between the cardboard packaging supply (04) and the erecting device (05),

   characterized in that

   - the erecting device (05) has at least one carrier (51) which is pivotable back and forth about a horizontal pivoting axis (13) from a horizontal position to a vertical position and vice versa, and

   - the erecting device (05) has at least one tool (52) arranged at its at least one carrier (51) per each cardboard packaging (02) that is simultaneously seizable by the gripping device (06), with which tool (52), in its horizontal position, a cardboard packaging (02) having been brought to the erecting device (05) by means of the gripping device (06) is seized at a cardboard packaging wall (22) of its bottom flat side (24) and is holdable at least until the end of a pivoting of the at least one carrier (51) from its horizontal position into its vertical position, said pivoting taking place after the subsequently carried out expanding of the cardboard packaging (02) to a lying set of compartments and/or to an outer packaging (03) by an increase of the distance between the tools (61, 52) of the gripping device (06) and the erecting device (05) along a vertical axis (12), and after the release of the at least one tool (61) of the gripping device (06) after the expanding.
2. The apparatus as recited in claim 1 wherein the erecting device (05) has at least one carrier (51) which is pivotable back and forth from a horizontal position to a vertical position and vice versa about a horizontal pivoting axis running in orthogonal to the horizontal axis (11) and in orthogonal to the vertical axis (12).
3. The apparatus as recited in claim 1 or 2 wherein the manipulator head (63) is additionally movable along the vertical axis (12).
4. The apparatus as recited in claim 3 wherein an increase of the distance between the tools (61, 52) of the gripping device (06) and the erecting device (05) is carried out by a vertical lifting of the tool (61) of the gripping device (06) arranged at the manipulator head (63).
5. The apparatus as recited in one of the claims 1 to 4 wherein the erecting device (05) is designed to be vertically movable.
6. The apparatus as recited in claim 5 wherein an increase of the distance between the tools (61, 52) of the gripping device (06) and the erecting device (05) is carried out by a vertical lowering of the at least one tool (52) of the erecting device (05).
7. The apparatus as recited in one of the previous claims wherein the cardboard packaging supply (04) comprises an uprightly standing magazine (42) accommodating one or a plurality of stacks (41) which magazine (42) is accessible from its top side for removing cardboard packagings (02).
8. The apparatus as recited in one of the previous claims wherein the cardboard packaging supply (04) has two or more stacks (41) of cardboard packagings (02) arranged lying stacked on top of each other, which stacks (41) are adjacent next to each other as seen in a horizontal direction in parallel to the pivoting axis (13) of the at least one carrier (51) of the erecting device (05), and the gripping device (06) and the erecting device (05) have a plurality of tools (61, 52) which are arranged next to each other as seen in parallel to the pivoting axis (13) of the at least one carrier (51) of the erecting device (05), the gripping device (06) tools for the simultaneous seizing of the respectively topmost cardboard packaging (02) from each of the stacks (41) which are adjacent next to each other as seen in parallel to the pivoting axis (13) of the at least one carrier (51) of the erecting device (05), and the erecting device (05) correspondingly tools for the compartments and/or outer packagings (03) then to be simultaneously expanded and erected, from the seized cardboard packagings (02), next to each other as seen in parallel to the pivoting axis (13) of the at least one carrier (51) of the erecting device (05).
9. The apparatus as recited in one of the previous claims wherein the erecting device (05) has at least two carriers (51) with tools (52) arranged thereat, which carriers (51) are pivotable from a horizontal position to a vertical position and vice versa respectively about an own pivoting axis (13), wherein:

   - the pivoting axes (13) of the carriers (51) run in parallel,

   - as seen in a horizontal direction in orthogonal to the pivoting axes (13), the cardboard packaging supply (04) has adjacent stacks (41) of cardboard packagings (02) arranged lying on top of each other, the stacks (41) of a number corresponding to the number of carriers (51) that are respectively pivotable about their own pivoting axes (13),

   - the gripping device (06) for the simultaneous seizing of the respectively topmost cardboard packaging (02) from each of the stacks (41), which are adjacent next to each other as seen in orthogonal to the pivoting axes (13) of the at least two carriers (51) of the erecting device (05), correspondingly has a plurality of tools (61), which are arranged next to each other as seen in orthogonal to the pivoting axes (13) of the at least two carriers (51) of the erecting device (05), for the compartments and/or outer packagings (03) then to be simultaneously expanded and erected, from the seized cardboard packagings (02), next to each other as seen in orthogonal to the pivoting axes (13) of the at least two carriers (51) of the erecting device (05).
10. The apparatus as recited in claim 9 wherein the erecting device (05) has two carriers (51), which are respectively pivotable about their own pivoting axes (13) in opposite pivoting directions from a horizontal position to a vertical position and vice versa, and the cardboard packaging supply (04) has two stacks (41) of cardboard packagings (02) arranged lying stacked on top of each other, which stacks (41) are adjacent next to each other as seen in a horizontal direction in orthogonal to the pivoting axes (13), wherein the cardboard packagings (02) of a first stack (44) of the two stacks (41), which are adjacent next to each other as seen in a horizontal direction in orthogonal to the pivoting axes (13), are stacked, as seen in relation to mirror axis running in parallel to the pivoting axes (13) between the two stacks (41), mirror-invertedly with respect to the cardboard packagings (02) of a second stack (45) of the two stacks, which are adjacent as seen in a horizontal direction in orthogonal to the pivoting axes (13).
11. The apparatus as recited in claim 9 or 10 wherein the at least two carriers (51) of the erecting device (05) are arranged to be movable in a horizontal direction.
12. The apparatus according to one of the previous claims, wherein:

    - the gripping device (06) as at least one tool (61) per each simultaneously seized cardboard packaging (02) has at least one downwardly directed suction cup (64), which, by impingement with a vacuum, is able to hold a cardboard packaging (02) lying respectively topmost on a stack (41) of the cardboard packaging supply (04) at one of the cardboard packaging walls (22) of its top flat side (23) by means of the vacuum, and/or

    - the at least one tool (52) of the erecting device is one or a plurality of suction cups (53).
13. The apparatus as recited in one of the previous claims wherein the apparatus (01) comprises a control device, which at least:

    - controls the at least one manipulator (62) of the gripping device (06) such that it carries out a cyclical movement path, in the course of which the manipulator head (63) traverses in parallel to the horizontal axis (11) from above the cardboard packaging supply (04) over the erecting device (05) and back again,

    - controls the gripping device (06) and/or the erecting device (05) such that they carry out a recurring movement path relative to each other as seen in direction of the vertical axis (12), in the course of which movement path the distance between the tools (61, 52) of the gripping device (06) and the erecting device (05) is increased at least so far that a cardboard packaging (02) being held between the tools (61, 52) of the gripping device (06) and the erecting device (05) is expanded to a lying set of compartments and/or an outer packaging (03), and in the further course of which movement path the vertical distance between the tools (61, 52) of the gripping device (06) and the erecting device (05) is again reduced to at least a thickness dimension measured normal to the top and bottom flat sides (23, 24) of a lying, flatly collapsed cardboard packaging (02),

    - controls the at least one tool (61) of the gripping device such that, when it is located above the at least one stack (41) of the cardboard packaging supply (04), it seizes a cardboard packaging wall (22) of the top flat side (23) of a cardboard packaging (02) lying topmost on at least one stack (41) of the cardboard packaging supply (04) and holds it for as long as until it is located above the erecting device (05) and the distance between the tools (61, 52) of the gripping device (06) and the erecting device (05) has been increased at least so far that the cardboard packaging (02) is expanded to a lying set of compartments and/or to an outer packaging (03) in the course of the recurring movement path of the gripping device (06) and the erecting device (05),

    - controls the at least one carrier (51) of the erecting device such that it carries out a cyclical pivoting movement path, in the course of which it is pivoted about its pivoting axis by 90 degrees from its horizontal position into its vertical position and back again, wherein the carrier (51) takes up a horizontal position at the latest when the at least one manipulator head (63) is located, during its course of movement along the horizontal axis (11), above the erecting device (05), and maintains the horizontal position for as long as until the distance between the tools (61, 52) of the gripping device (06) and the erecting device (05) has been increased at least so far that a cardboard packaging (02) being held by the tools (61, 52) of the gripping device (06) and the erecting device (05) is expanded to a lying set of compartments and/or to an outer packaging (03) in the course of the recurring movement path of the gripping device (06) and the erecting device (05), in order to hereafter take up a vertical position by swinging down and/or pivoting about its pivoting axis (13), and

    - controls the at least one tool (52) of the erecting device (05) such that, as soon as the manipulator head (63) is located above the erecting device (05), the tool (52) seizes a cardboard packaging wall (22) of the bottom flat side (24) of the at least one cardboard packaging (02) being held by the at least one tool (61) of the gripping device (06) and holds it at least for as long as until the cardboard packaging (02) which was initially expanded to a lying set of compartments and/or an outer packaging (03), has been erected to standing position and is available for its further use by swinging down and/or pivoting the at least one carrier (51) of the erecting device (05) by 90 degrees about its pivoting axis (13) from its horizontal position to its vertical position.
14. The apparatus as recited in one of the previous claims wherein the surface of the cardboard packaging supply (04) formed by the topmost cardboard packaging (02) of the at least one stack (41) is located at a level that is higher by at least the height of a lying, expanded set of compartments and/or of a lying outer packaging (03) than a level of the erecting device (05) formed by the at least one tool (52) of the erecting device (05) in the horizontal position of its at least one carrier (51) during the seizing of a cardboard packaging wall (22) of the bottom flat side (24) of a cardboard packaging (02).
15. The method for expanding and erecting collapsed or folded cardboard packagings (02) to standing compartments and/or outer packagings (03), which method provides

    - to hold the topmost cardboard packaging (02), coming from above, at a cardboard packaging wall (22) of its top flat side (23) from a stack (41) of flatly collapsed cardboard packagings (02) arranged on top of each other of a supply (04) of cardboard packagings (02) and to remove it from the stack (41),

    characterized in that

    - to subsequently also hold the cardboard packaging (02), which is being held at a cardboard packaging wall (22) of its top flat side (23), at a cardboard packaging wall (22) of its bottom flat side (24) from below, as well, and to increase the vertical distance between the cardboard packaging wall (22), at which the cardboard packaging (02) is being held at its top flat side (23), and the cardboard packaging wall (22), at which the cardboard packaging (02) is being held at its bottom flat side (24), by oppositely pulling so far until the cardboard packaging (02) has been expanded to a lying set of compartments and/or to a lying outer packaging (03),

    - then to release the expanded set of compartments and/or the outer packaging (03) at its cardboard packaging wall (22) that was previously assigned to the top flat side (23) of the cardboard packaging (02),

    - to finally tilt the lying, expanded set of compartments and/or the outer packaging (03) still being held at its cardboard packaging wall (22) that was previously assigned to the bottom flat side (24) of the cardboard packaging (02) about a horizontal pivoting axis (13) and to subsequently also release the expanded and now erected set of compartments and/or the outer packaging (03) at its cardboard packaging wall (22) that was previously assigned to the bottom flat side (24) of the cardboard packaging (02).

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