EP3106398A1 - Verpackungsgruppierungseinheit mit reduzierung der linearen verpackungsgeschwindigkeit - Google Patents

Verpackungsgruppierungseinheit mit reduzierung der linearen verpackungsgeschwindigkeit Download PDF

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EP3106398A1
EP3106398A1 EP15172013.3A EP15172013A EP3106398A1 EP 3106398 A1 EP3106398 A1 EP 3106398A1 EP 15172013 A EP15172013 A EP 15172013A EP 3106398 A1 EP3106398 A1 EP 3106398A1
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grouping unit
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Jon Paul LASKIS
Mark W Davidson
Mathias N Coulomb
Brian Williams
Giorgio Santoni
Alessandro Morselli
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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
    • B65B35/00—Supplying, feeding, arranging or orientating articles to be packaged
    • B65B35/30—Arranging and feeding articles in groups
    • B65B35/40—Arranging and feeding articles in groups by reciprocating or oscillatory pushers
    • B65B35/405—Arranging and feeding articles in groups by reciprocating or oscillatory pushers linked to endless conveyors
    • 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
    • B65B35/00—Supplying, feeding, arranging or orientating articles to be packaged
    • B65B35/30—Arranging and feeding articles in groups
    • B65B35/44—Arranging and feeding articles in groups by endless belts or chains
    • 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
    • B65B59/00—Arrangements to enable machines to handle articles of different sizes, to produce packages of different sizes, to vary the contents of packages, to handle different types of packaging material, or to give access for cleaning or maintenance purposes
    • B65B59/005—Adjustable conveying means
    • 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
    • B65B2210/00—Specific aspects of the packaging machine
    • B65B2210/02—Plurality of alternative input or output lines or plurality of alternative packaging units on the same packaging line for improving machine flexibility
    • 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
    • B65B59/00—Arrangements to enable machines to handle articles of different sizes, to produce packages of different sizes, to vary the contents of packages, to handle different types of packaging material, or to give access for cleaning or maintenance purposes

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  • the present invention relates to a package grouping unit with package linear speed reduction.
  • the present invention although suitable to be used in any multipack production line, may be used to particular advantage in the field of the food industry in a packaging line of pourable food products, such as fruit juices, milk, wine, etc., to which the following description refers purely by way of example.
  • a packaging line of the above type comprises, in general, a packaging machine which is adapted to form the packages with the product already inside.
  • packages are generally produced from a sheet packaging material, which is normally in the form of pre-cut blanks or a continuous strip, and which is subjected to a series of folding and longitudinal sealing operations to form a continuous tube of packaging material, which, after being filled, is welded, transversely divided and formed to take the form of individual packages.
  • the packages are then supplied to a grouping unit to be arranged in groups of a given number of packages and advanced, finally, to a wrapping machine to be wrapped by a wrapping material, normally cardboard or plastic film, and to form multipacks.
  • a wrapping material normally cardboard or plastic film
  • the packaging line may have a single-line or a multi-line configuration.
  • a divider which is adapted to remove the packages from an output of the packaging machine and to distribute the packages, aligned with one another, in a determined number of parallel lines.
  • the grouping unit is configured to group the packages in each line and order the groups along the respective lines to allow a transfer device to withdraw a group from each line, simultaneously, and feed the groups to the wrapping machine to be arranged in a compact configuration and wrapped to form a multipack.
  • An object of the present invention is to provide a package grouping unit, which allows reducing the linear speed of the packages while minimizing the risks of package falling and damage and, moreover, which is relatively flexible in terms of multipack format change.
  • a package grouping unit as claimed in claim 1 and, preferably, in any one of the claims depending directly or indirectly on claim 1.
  • Number 1 in Figure 1 indicates as a whole a grouping unit to group packages 2 in a packaging line for the production of multipacks (not shown).
  • multipack is intended to mean a group of packages 2 arranged in a compact arrangement according to a determined format and kept together by an outer overwrapping formed, typically, by a film of plastic material or packaging cardboard.
  • grouping unit 1 of the present invention is suitable for use in any packaging line for the production of multipacks, the present description refers, purely by way of example, to a packaging line for the production of aseptic packages 2 of pourable food products, such as fruit juices, milk, wine, etc.
  • the grouping unit 1 is arranged normally downstream of a packaging unit (not shown), in which the packages 2, filled with the product, are formed through a (known) sequence of operating steps essentially comprising forming a continuous tube of wrapping material, filling the tube with the product, welding and transversally cutting the tube to obtain individual units, and forming the packages 2 from the individual units.
  • the packages 2 thus obtained are then supplied to the grouping unit 1 so as to be grouped to form groups 3 containing a number N > 1 of packages 2 aligned with each other so as to form a row of packages 2.
  • the multipack forming process ends in a wrapping machine (not shown), which is arranged downstream of the grouping unit 1 and is configured to receive in succession, from the grouping unit 1, a number M ⁇ 1 of groups 3 and to wrap the M groups 3, previously grouped in a compact assembly, with a wrapping material, normally a plastic film or a cardboard, so forming a multipack.
  • a wrapping machine normally a plastic film or a cardboard
  • the multipack can contain only one group 3, namely a single row of N packages, or M groups 3, namely MxN packages ordered in M rows.
  • the grouping unit 1 has a multi-line configuration for the production of multipacks with MxN packages 2, where N > 1 is the number of packages 2 forming each group 3, and M > 1 is the number of groups 3, namely the number of rows in the multipack.
  • the packages 2 have a generally parallelepiped shape and are bounded externally by two larger flat lateral walls 4 parallel to each other, two smaller flat lateral walls 5 parallel to each other and substantially perpendicular to the larger lateral walls 4, and two end walls substantially perpendicular to the lateral walls.
  • the packages 2 are fed to the grouping unit 1 through a divider (known and not illustrated), which is adapted to remove packages 2 from an output of the packaging machine (not shown) and to feed them, at an input speed V1, to the grouping unit 1 while distributing the packages in M lines 6, which extend parallel to one another in a substantially horizontal advancement direction 7.
  • the divider is operable to feed the lines 6 sequentially, namely from the first to the last, and cyclically, namely by repeating the sequence continuously, and releasing each time, on each line, N packages 2 before starting to feed the next line 6.
  • Each line 6 comprises a linear conveyor 8, which has an package feeding inlet, to which the packages 2 are advanced with the speed V1, an intermediate portion, along which packages 2 arranged in groups 3 are advanced in the advancement direction 7, and a group delivery outlet, at which the groups 3 are advanced with a speed V2 lower than the speed V1 and equal to the input speed of the wrapping machine (not shown).
  • each linear conveyor 8 comprises two belt conveyors 9, 10 aligned with each other in the advancement direction 7 and of which the belt conveyor 9 is operating at the speed V1, at which packages 2 are fed to the linear conveyor 8 from the divider (not shown), and the belt conveyor 10 is operating at the speed V2, at which the groups 3 are to be feed to the wrapping machine (not shown).
  • each belt conveyor 9 comprises a belt looped around pulleys, one of which is a drive pulley, and which are mounted on a frame 11 of the grouping unit 1 to rotate about respective axes transverse to the advancement direction 7 and define, on the belt conveyor 9, a straight work branch 12 extending in the advancement direction 7, and a return branch extending on a vertical plane below the respective work branch 12.
  • each belt conveyor 10 comprises a belt looped around pulleys, one of which is a drive pulley, and which are mounted on the frame 11 to rotate about respective axes transverse to the advancement direction 7 and define, on the belt conveyor 10, a straight work branch 13, which extends in the advancement direction 7 and is substantially coplanar and contiguous with the work branch 12, and a return branch extending on a vertical plane below the respective work branch 13.
  • work branch 12 and work branch 13 of one and the same line 6 are movable within a respective channel defined laterally by a pair of vertical plates 14 rigidly mounted on the frame 11 and extending along the entire length of the line 6.
  • the plates 14 are bounded at their top by respective longitudinal free edges, which are arranged at a level slightly lower than or, at most, equal to the upper surface of the work branch 12 and the work branch 13.
  • the belt conveyors 9 are driven by a common motor (not shown) operable to cause the respective work branches 12 to advance at the speed V1 of the packaging machine output; similarly, belt conveyors 10 are driven, independently of the conveyor belt 9, by a common motor (not shown) operable to cause the work branches 13 to advance at the speed V2 of the wrapping machine inlet.
  • the grouping unit 1 comprises slowdown devices 15, each of which is operable to move along the respective line 6 independently of the corresponding linear conveyor 8 and is formed by a series of generally U-shaped variable configuration elements 17 arranged close to one another around the linear conveyor 8 in such a way as to define, as a whole, and with the linear conveyor 8, a movable seat 16 adapted to contain a group 3 of packages 2.
  • the number of slowdown devices 15 in each line 6 is variable depending on the package input speed V1, the length and the number of lines 6, and the size of the multipack, i.e. the number N of packages in each group 3.
  • each slowdown device 15 is movable along a respective annular path comprising a straight work branch 18, which is parallel to the advancement direction 7, is vertically aligned to the linear conveyor 8 and extends below the work branch 12 of the belt conveyor 9 and part of the work branch 13 of the belt conveyor 10.
  • Each slowdown device 15 is conveyed along the annular path by an endless conveyor, preferably a chain endless conveyor 19 comprising at least one chain 20 looped around four pulleys 21, one of which is a drive pulley driven by a respective motor (not shown) independently of the drive motors of the belt conveyors 9 and 10.
  • the pulleys 21 are mounted to the frame 11 to rotate about respective axes which are substantially horizontal and perpendicular to the advancement direction 7, and define, on the annular path, the work branch 18 and a return branch 22, which comprises a lower portion parallel to work branch 18 and two vertical intermediate portions connected to the work branch 18 and to the lower portion by respective curved portions.
  • the grouping unit 1 comprises, for each linear conveyor 8, four slowdown devices 15 (shown in Figure 2 ) and two chain endless conveyors 19 (for the sake of clarity referenced in the drawings by the reference numerals 19a and 19b), whose chains 20 (referenced in the drawings by the reference numerals 20a and 20b) extend along identical annular paths which are arranged side by side and lie on respective vertical planes parallel to each other.
  • Each chain endless conveyor 19a, 19b carries two slowdown devices 15 evenly spaced along the respective chain 20a, 20b and is operated by a respective motor (not shown) independent of the motor of the other chain endless conveyor 19b, 19a.
  • variable configuration elements 17 in each slowdown device 15 are firmly connected, via respective connecting members 23, to the chain 20a or 20b of the chain endless conveyor 19a or 19b associated with the respective slowdown device 15.
  • each connecting member 23 is defined by an elongated element, which extends along an axis 24 perpendicular to the advancement direction 7 and over both the chain 20a and 20b.
  • each connecting member 23 of one and the same slowdown device 15 is rigidly connected, by means of screws or similar connecting means, to one of the chains 20, at its axial end portion facing the chain 20, while the opposite axial end portion facing the other chain 20 has a recessed part, which defines a gap between the connecting member 23 and the chain 20 to ensure that no contact occurs between the variable configuration element 17 and the chain 20 when the variable configuration element 17 advances along its annular path.
  • Each variable configuration element 17 further comprises a pair of fingers 25 lying on a respective plane radial to the annular path and passing through the axis 24.
  • the fingers 25 are hinged at the ends of the respective connecting member 23 to rotate about respective axes 26 perpendicular to the axis 24 and parallel to the advancement direction 7 and to move between a closed position, in which the fingers 25 form the seat 16, and an open position, in which the fingers 25 assume a V-configuration.
  • variable configuration elements 17 are movable between the closed position and the open position independently from each other.
  • each finger 25 defines a rocker arm hinged about the axis 26 and comprising a first arm, which extends from the axis 26 to the connecting member 23, and a second arm, which is aligned and opposed to the first arm and carries, at its free end, a head 27 provided, on the side facing the other finger 25, with a projecting portion 28, whose function will be explained in the following.
  • the length of the fingers 25 is such that, along the work branch 18, the fingers 25, which are arranged externally to the plates 14, protrude beyond the upper free edge of the plates 14, and the heads 27 are arranged above the work branch 12 and the work branch 13.
  • the fingers 25 of each pair are adapted to be moved from the closed position to the open position, and viceversa, when they run through the two sections of the annular path which connect the return branch 22 to the work branch 18.
  • each line 6 comprises a first pair of cam profiles 29 arranged to cooperate with the fingers 25 when the fingers 25 move through an inlet portion of the work branch 18, and a second pair of cam profiles 29 arranged to cooperate with the fingers 25 when the fingers 25 move through an outlet portion of the work branch 18.
  • Each cam profile 29 in the first pair is defined by a curvilinear profile comprising an outlet portion 30 (in the direction of advance of the fingers 25 along the annular path, clockwise in the drawings), which is rigidly connected to the corresponding plate 14, extends parallel to an initial portion of the work branch 12 and, at its free end, is joined to the plate 14 by an inclined plane that allows the fingers 25 to move gradually and smoothly to the closed position from the open position.
  • each cam profile 29 in the second pair is defined by a curvilinear profile comprising an inlet portion 31, which is rigidly connected to the corresponding plate 14, extends parallel to an intermediate portion of the work branch 13 and, at its end free, is joined to the plate 14 by an inclined plane that allows the fingers 25 to gradually and smoothly spread apart.
  • the cam profiles 29 are arranged in such a way that, when they are engaged by a pair of fingers 25, each one of them comes into contact with a surface of the respective finger 25 facing the plate 14 and arranged between the head 27 and the axis 26.
  • each cam profile 29 imparts to the respective fingers 25 a rotation around the axis 26 against the action of a return spring 32, which extends parallel to the axis 24 and is compressed between the first arms of the fingers 25 to impart to the fingers 25 a counter rotation about the axis 26 when the fingers 25 disengage from the cam profiles 29, and return the fingers 25 in the closed position.
  • each slowdown device 15 comprises, preferably, three types of fingers 25 which differ from each other in the shape of the head 27, which is preferably removably mounted to allow it to be replaced quickly and easily.
  • each slowdown device 15 the front pair of fingers 25, i.e. the first pair of fingers 25, (in the sense of advancement along the annular path) differs from the other fingers 25 in that the respective projecting portions 28 extend one toward the other in such a way that, when the fingers 25 are arranged in the closed position and a group 3 of packages 2 is arranged inside the respective seat 16, the projecting portions 28 define, as a whole, a transverse abutment having the function of intercepting the package 2 entering in the work branch 12 and to allow the accumulation of the packages 2 and the formation of a group 3.
  • the rear pair of fingers 25, i.e. the last pair of fingers 25, differs from the other fingers 25 in that, when the fingers 25 are arranged in the closed position and a group 3 of packages 2 is arranged in the seat 16, the respective projecting portions 28 protrude toward each other so that they come into contact with the larger lateral walls 4 of one or more of the last package 2 and impart a slight lateral pressure on the respective packages 2 so as to prevent any displacement between packages 2 and maintain group 3 in a compact configuration.
  • each slowdown device 15 is provided with two or more pairs of fingers 25 of the latter type in order to guarantee in any case a sufficient gripping on the packages 2. If the last pair of fingers 25 closes right at the back of the last package 2, the projecting portions 28 of the fingers 25 protrude toward each other to such an extent to define, as a whole, a rear transverse abutment adapted to prevent the last package 2 to tip backwards.
  • the projecting portions 28 of the central pairs of fingers 25 are so shaped and sized as to prevent them to come into contact, when in the closed position, with larger lateral walls 4 of the packages 2 so as to leave the packages 2 free to move forwards under the thrust of the linear conveyor 8 which slides under the packages 2 and come in a compact configuration and form a group 3.
  • grouping unit 1 The operation of the grouping unit 1 is described below with reference to the example illustrated in the attached Figures, in which the grouping unit 1 is of a multi-line type to produce multipacks having a 4x3 format i.e. multipacks made up of four groups 3, each of which is formed by three packages 2.
  • the divider (not shown) is operated to supply the lines 6 cyclically and sequentially and, at each cycle, delivers on each linear conveyor 8 a number N of packages 2, in the illustrated example three packages 2.
  • the two chain endless conveyors 19a, 19b of one and the same line 6 are independent of each other and are controlled in such a way that, when the packages 2 are fed on the work branch 12 of the linear conveyor 8, only one of the four slowdown devices 15 in the line 6, is moved through the inlet portion of the work branch 18 at a speed V3 lower than the speed V1.
  • the feeding of packages 2 and the advancement of the slowdown device 15 takes place in such a way that, when the first package 2 enters the work branch 12 at the speed V1, the front pair of fingers 25 have already spread apart and returned in their closed position or, at least, in a position close enough to define the aforementioned front transverse abutment. It follows that, since the speed of the packages 2 is greater than the speed of the fingers 25 of the slowdown device 15, the packages 2 are slowed down and, as they enter the seat 16 gradually formed by fingers 25, are pushed by linear conveyor 8 one against another to form a compact group 3.
  • Central fingers 25 are spread apart when they come into contact with cam profiles 29 and return to their closed position when the packages 2 are already in the seat 16. As soon as the last package 2 has entered the seat 16, the last pair(s) of fingers 25 closes against the lateral surface of the last package 2 and/or right at the back of the last package 2. Except from the fingers 25 arranged at the rear portion of the group 3, all the other fingers 25 do not touch the packages 2 and define two containment lateral shoulders movable with the group 3.
  • the slowdown device 15 with the group 3 is advanced, by the respective chain endless conveyor 19, along the linear conveyor 8 according to a given motion profile such that, before reaching the second pair of cam profiles 29, the speed of the slowdown device 15 is equal to the speed V2 of the belt conveyor 10.
  • the inlet of the work branch 12 is reached by the slowdown devices 15 of one and the other of the chain endless conveyors 19, alternately, and the slowdown device 15 of each chain endless conveyor 19 reaches the inlet of the work branch 12 one after the other.
  • the slowdown devices 15 are two, the slowdown devices 15 of each chain endless conveyor 19 reach the inlet of the work branch 12 in an alternating manner.
  • the chain endless conveyors 19 of lines 6 are operated independently from each other according to respective motion profiles in such a way that the slowdown devices 15 reach the inlet of the respective lines 6 synchronously with the package feeding sequence of the divider (not shown) and move through the delivery outlet of the respective line 6 only when the delivery outlet of all of the lines 6 have been reached by respective slowdown devices 15 in such a way that M groups 3, each from a respective line 6, are delivered at the same time to the wrapping machine.
  • Figure 11 illustrates, by way of a non-limiting example, a space-time diagram representing the slowdown device motion profiles of the four lines 6 shown in Figure 1 .
  • the motion profiles of the chain endless conveying 19 are set to take account of a plurality of operating conditions, in particular the speed V1 and the speed V2, the number N of packages in each group 3, the number of lines 6, the length of each line 6, the number of chain endless conveyors 19 in each line 6 and the number of slowdown devices 15 on each chain endless conveyor 19.
  • each endless conveyor chain 19 carries two slowdown devices 15
  • at least the first line 6 is necessarily to be equipped with at least two chain endless conveyor 19, each of which is to be equipped with at least one slowdown device 15. In this way, when one of the two slowdown device 15 releases the respective group 3, another slowdown device 15 is already present at the inlet of the line 6 to receive packages 2.
  • the advantages of the grouping unit 1 of the present invention may be readily appreciated. Firstly, the fact that the seats 16 can be opened during package receiving and delivery, and define a laterally closed pocket housing a group 3 and moving with it along the linear conveyor 8 allows package 2 to be handled in a controlled and precise manner, substantially eliminating the risk of package tipping or damage during the grouping and the speed reduction.
  • the structure of the grouping unit 1 results in a high flexibility in terms of multipack format change.
  • the grouping unit 1 is quickly adaptable to different formats by simply changing the number of active lines 6 and/or the number and the motion profiles of the chain endless conveyors 19 in each line 6.
  • variable configuration elements 17, i.e. the pairs of fingers 25 with the respective connecting members 23, operate as independent "sections", which may rapidly be removed from and/or moved along the chain 20 to vary their number or position in order to change the size of the seat 16.

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