EP3093243B1 - Dispositifs de centrage pour conditionneurs de porteuse - Google Patents

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EP3093243B1
EP3093243B1 EP15167878.6A EP15167878A EP3093243B1 EP 3093243 B1 EP3093243 B1 EP 3093243B1 EP 15167878 A EP15167878 A EP 15167878A EP 3093243 B1 EP3093243 B1 EP 3093243B1
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Franco Grappoli
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B39/00—Nozzles, funnels or guides for introducing articles or materials into containers or wrappers
    • B65B39/006—Grids for introducing bottles into cases
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B39/00—Nozzles, funnels or guides for introducing articles or materials into containers or wrappers
    • B65B39/007—Guides or funnels for introducing articles into containers or wrappers

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  • the present invention relates generally to carrier packers, that is machines for placing articles, typically bottles, in carriers or cartons, in a predetermined array. More specifically, this invention relates to devices for centering and guiding articles such as bottles to be loaded into upwardly open packing cases.
  • a carrier packer articles such as bottles or cans are continuously supplied to the packer by a conveyor.
  • the moving bottles are formed into a predetermined number of parallel lines, typically two, three or four lines.
  • the lines are separated in lanes, spaced apart by lane dividers.
  • the bottles are fed into the respective lanes by the movement of a conveyor.
  • the conveyor feeds the bottles into an array-forming section where the bottles are grouped into a desired pattern for packing.
  • This array that is the number of lines and the number of bottles in each line, corresponds to the particular carrier into which the bottles are to be packed.
  • a carrier will generally have an outer paperboard box and inner grid-like partitions which subdivide the space within the carrier into upwardly open compartments or cells where the bottles are fitted individually.
  • a transfer device grips an array of bottles and drops them in an upright position into the carrier. As they drop, the bottles are guided toward and into the respective cells, between the partitions of the carrier, by an intermediate grid having a number of flexible fingers or flaps around the fall path of each bottle, which funnels the bottle into its particular cell within the carrier.
  • Such devices are provided with flexible members for directing the bottles being dropped from a gripping assembly into particular locations within the container.
  • Finger assembles or clusters are generally mounted to parallel rails in a vertically movable grid assembly (see e.g. US 2 686 623 ), either at the sides of individual passages for the bottles, or at the corners of square passageways for the bottles. With conventional finger assemblies, it may happen that the fingers will catch against the upper edges of the partitions, thus causing the entire production line to stop.
  • a primary object of the invention is to improve the performance of a carrier packer. In particular, it is desired to speed up the cycles of loading or filling of the carriers and eliminate down times due to failures of the loading device.
  • a specific object of the invention is to provide highly reliable centering devices which are simple in construction.
  • centering devices may be installed at loading or filling stations in a carrier packer or packing machine, where groups or arrays of bottles or other containers are placed in carriers each having two rows of upwardly open cells.
  • a carrier packer or packing machine where groups or arrays of bottles or other containers are placed in carriers each having two rows of upwardly open cells.
  • two series of flexible tabs aligned along two respective rotatable shafts.
  • the shafts are mounted on two opposite sides of the loading station, from where a conveyor belt carries away the carriers once they have been filled.
  • the two shafts are rotatable in order to rotate simultaneously all the flaps between two alternative angular positions.
  • the tabs are introduced partly in the top parts of the carrier cells, to guide the individual articles (bottles or cans or other containers) towards the center of the respective cells.
  • the tabs are rotated so as not to interfere with the articles, in particular with bottle necks, once the bottles have been located in the cells, so that a conveyor may take the carrier away.
  • the carrier 12 has an upwardly open outer box 13 with a rectangular base, with a wall or vertical median partition 14 that extends in a direction defined herein as "longitudinal", and one or more internal walls or partitions 15 parallel to one another and extending in a transverse direction.
  • the partitions 14, 15 define, within the carrier, two parallel rows of upwardly open cells or receptacles 16, 17 each suitable for accommodating a respective bottle.
  • Designated at 19 are upper edges of the transversal partitions 15.
  • the outer box has two pairs of vertical side walls 13a, a transversal vertical front wall 13b and a transversal vertical rear wall 13c.
  • the number of bottles and corresponding cells in each row may be greater or less than three. There may be, for example, two, or four, or more than four cells.
  • the material which the carrier is made of may be paperboard or cardboard. However, other materials may be used as well.
  • the carrier may be made of plastic material.
  • the container 11 need not necessarily be a bottle. As alternatives, the containers 11 may be cans, flasks, or other containers, typically containers for liquids.
  • FIG 4 Shown in Figure 4 is a centering device, designated as a whole at 20, which serves to direct the bottles that are dropped or deposited by a gripping device (designated as 34 in Figure 10 ) in respective cells 16, 17 of the carrier.
  • the centering device 20 can be inserted in a machine schematically illustrated in plan view in figure 3 , in this example carrier erector and packer, i.e. a machine which forms the carriers erecting them from folded blanks and fills the carriers with articles such as bottles or other containers.
  • a carrier erector and packer includes a bottle input zone A, from where the bottles are sorted and arranged in two parallel rows in a bottle sorting and gathering zone B.
  • the bottles are handled in an upright position, carried on conveyor belts.
  • the carriers 12 are formed from a store C where the carriers are initially stacked in a closed or flattened condition.
  • the carriers are taken one by one from the store C, opened in an opening area D, and taken in a carrier preparation E located to the left of a conveyor belt F which advances in a longitudinal direction of advancement L.
  • the carriers are placed in an upstream area on the conveyor belt F and are transferred in a row by the belt F to a packing station G located transversely to the left of the bottle sorting and gathering area B.
  • a gripping and transferring device 34 ( Figure 10 ), picks up a group or array of six bottles 11 from the bottle sorting and gathering area B and drops the bottles letting them fall in a vertical position into a carrier 12 located in the packing station G, where the centering device 20 (not shown in Figure 3 ) is arranged.
  • the array of bottles is arranged in two parallel rows of three bottles each, in a pattern that corresponds to the particular carrier 12 in which the bottles are to be packed.
  • Designated at 21, 22 in Figure 4 are two parallel longitudinal side boards, transversely spaced from one another.
  • the side boards delimit laterally a path for the carriers 12 placed on the belt conveyor F.
  • the centering device 20 comprises two rows of flexible tabs 23, 24, adapted to guide the movement of descent of the bottles, centering them each in a respective carrier cell.
  • Each row 23, 24 of the flexible tabs is mounted along a respective one of a pair of parallel longitudinally extending rotatable shafts 25, 26.
  • the shafts 25, 26 are rotatable simultaneously to bring the tabs 23, 24 alternately in an angular position or lowered engagement condition, in which the tabs are introduced partly in the top parts of the carrier cells ( Figures 10-12 ), and an angularly raised position or disengagement condition ( Figure 14 ), wherein the tabs are rotated away so as not to interfere with the bottle necks to be removed by the conveyor F along with the carrier in which the bottles have been placed.
  • the shafts 25, 26 are placed along two opposite and transversely facing sides of the loading or packing station G, above the longitudinal side boards 21, 22 which delimit the path of the carriers 12.
  • the tabs 23, 24 are mounted on each shaft 25, 26 in pairs of adjacent tabs, wherein the two tabs of each pair of adjacent tabs are diverging downwards. In this way, each bottle is guided toward the center of the cell by two flaps converging towards the center of the cell and belonging to two consecutive pairs of tabs.
  • tabs 23, 24 may be made out of foils or sheets of flexible plastic material.
  • the two tabs of each pair may have upper adjacent edges 28 which, in the angularly lowered position, are arranged astride or bridging over the upper edges 19 of transverse partitions 15 of the carrier and the front and rear walls 13b, 13c, favoring the downward sliding of the bottles to the cells.
  • the two adjacent tabs of a same pair intended to be inserted into two respective contiguous cells, have their adjacent upper edges 28 defining together a ridge which, in the angularly lowered position of insertion, is inclined downwardly toward the bottom of the carrier. This arrangement favors the sliding of individual bottles and their gradual introduction into the cells.
  • the tabs are fixed in pairs to a rigid block 27 which is locked angularly and longitudinally of the respective shaft.
  • the shafts may have a cross section with at least one flat face, in order to facilitate an accurate angular alignment of all the tabs mounted on a same shaft, and to keep more precisely the angular orientation between each tab relative to the supporting shaft.
  • the shafts 25, 26 have polygonal transversal cross-sections, particularly hexagonal cross-section.
  • the shafts 25, 26 may have a square section, or have a circular cross-section with one or more flat surfaces.
  • the rigid blocks 27 provide a mounting seat 29 of polygonal or flattened shape, at least partially complementary with the cross-sectional shape of the shafts.
  • a carrier 12 arrives in the loading or packing station, with the flaps all rotated in the raised position ( Figures 4-6 ).
  • the carrier is moved by the conveyor belt and may be temporarily stopped in the loading station by a movable detent (not shown). Alternatively, the movement of the conveyor may be stopped for predetermined loading intervals.
  • the tabs are rotated in the lowered position ( Figures 7-9 ), penetrating partially in the top parts of the cells 16, 17.
  • the bottles 11 are inserted from above, and guided in the cells 16, 17 of the tabs 23, 24 ( Figures 10-13 ).
  • the tabs are rotated upwards again ( Figures 14-15 ) and the full carrier is taken away by the conveyor belt.
  • the longitudinal position of the blocks 27 may be adjustable.
  • the blocks 27 each have a transverse seat 30 for a screw or other transversely extending fastening element device which releasably and temporarily locks the block to its shaft and secures the block in a different longitudinal position along the same shaft, depending on the width of the bottles or their mutual distance in the longitudinal direction.
  • the shafts 25, 26 may be height adjustable by vertically extendible upright supports 33 which sustain the opposite ends of the shafts.
  • the two side boards 21, 22 also may be moved away or toward each other in the transversal direction, depending on the width of the carrier.
  • the centering device may be adjusted, appropriately spacing the tabs in two or more longitudinally spaced groups of tabs, in order to simultaneously pack more than one carrier in a same loading cycle.
  • each tab may be fixed to the block 27 at two distinct points 31, 32, for example by screws or other fasteners.
  • the two tabs of each pair of adjacent tabs may be formed together as a single piece having a V-shaped section with two radiused flaps downwardly diverging toward the centers of two contiguous cells.
  • the invention provides centering devices which are particularly compact and which allow to operate the insertion of bottles at high speed due to the low inertia of the centering tabs which can be rotated quickly out of the carrier, releasing it.

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  1. Dispositif de centrage (20) pourvu de pattes flexibles pour diriger des récipients (11) à insérer dans des cellules respectives (16, 17) d'un panier (12), le panier comprenant une boîte extérieure ouverte vers le haut (13) avec une base rectangulaire, une cloison verticale médiane (14) s'étendant dans une direction longitudinale, et une ou plusieurs cloisons internes verticales (15) s'étendant dans une direction transversale, de manière à définir, dans le panier, deux rangées parallèles de cellules ouvertes vers le haut (16, 17), caractérisé en ce que le dispositif de centrage (20) comprend
    un premier (25) et un second (26) arbres parallèles l'un à l'autre, s'étendant longitudinalement et transversalement espacés l'un de l'autre,
    une première (23) et une seconde (24) rangée de pattes flexibles montées le long du premier (25) et du second (26) arbres ;
    les arbres (25, 26) pouvant tourner afin de faire tourner simultanément toutes les pattes (23, 24) entre deux positions angulaires alternatives :
    une position angulaire abaissée, dans laquelle les pattes (23) de la première rangée sont introduites partiellement dans des parties supérieures respectives des cellules d'une première rangée de cellules (16) du panier, et les pattes (24) de la seconde rangée de pattes sont partiellement introduites dans des parties supérieures respectives des cellules de la seconde rangée de cellules (17), afin de guider les récipients (11) vers les centres des cellules, et
    une position angulaire élevée, dans laquelle toutes les pattes (23, 24) sont tournées à l'écart de manière à ne pas interférer avec les récipients (11) qui doivent être emportés avec le panier (12) dans lequel ils sont placés.
  2. Dispositif de centrage selon la revendication 1, dans lequel les pattes (23, 24) sont montées sur chaque arbre (25, 26) par paires de pattes adjacentes, dans lequel deux pattes de chaque paire de pattes adjacentes divergent vers le bas.
  3. Dispositif de centrage selon la revendication 2, dans lequel les deux pattes de chaque paire de pattes contiguës ont des bords supérieurs (28) qui, dans la position angulairement abaissée, sont disposées à cheval sur les bords supérieurs (19) des cloisons transversales (15) du panier.
  4. Dispositif de centrage selon la revendication 2 ou 3, dans lequel les deux pattes de chaque paire de pattes adjacentes ont des bords supérieurs (28) qui, dans la position angulairement abaissée, sont inclinés vers le bas.
  5. Dispositif de centrage selon la revendication 1, dans lequel les arbres (25, 26) ont chacun une section transversale ayant au moins une face plate.
  6. Dispositif de centrage selon la revendication 5, dans lequel les pattes (23, 24) sont fixées à des blocs rigides (27) offrant chacun un siège (29) ayant une forme correspondant au moins partiellement à une section transversale de l'un des arbres (25, 26), et chaque bloc (27) a un siège ou un élément (30) pour blocage amovible sur l'un des arbres afin de régler la position longitudinale des blocs et des pattes le long des arbres.
  7. Dispositif de centrage selon la revendication 1, comprenant en outre deux planches latérales longitudinales parallèles (21, 22), transversalement espacées et se faisant mutuellement face, afin de délimiter latéralement une longueur d'un chemin pour les paniers (12), dans lequel chaque arbre (25, 26) est agencé sensiblement au-dessus de l'une des deux planches latérales (21, 22).
  8. Dispositif de centrage selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, dans lequel les arbres (25, 26) sont supportés par des éléments de support réglables en hauteur (33).
  9. Conditionneur de panier comprenant un dispositif de centrage selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes.
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EP15167878.6A EP3093243B1 (fr) 2015-05-15 2015-05-15 Dispositifs de centrage pour conditionneurs de porteuse
PT151678786T PT3093243T (pt) 2015-05-15 2015-05-15 Dispositivos de centragem para embaladora de suportes
DK15167878.6T DK3093243T3 (en) 2015-05-15 2015-05-15 CENTER FITTING FOR CARRIER PACKAGING
ES15167878.6T ES2665941T3 (es) 2015-05-15 2015-05-15 Dispositivos de centrado para empaquetadores de portador
CA2929807A CA2929807A1 (fr) 2015-05-15 2016-05-13 Dispositifs de centrage destines a des garnitures de transporteur

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