EP3110702B2 - Verfahren zur überprüfung der position eines klebeetiketts auf einem blattförmigen material - Google Patents

Verfahren zur überprüfung der position eines klebeetiketts auf einem blattförmigen material

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EP3110702B2
EP3110702B2 EP15711864.7A EP15711864A EP3110702B2 EP 3110702 B2 EP3110702 B2 EP 3110702B2 EP 15711864 A EP15711864 A EP 15711864A EP 3110702 B2 EP3110702 B2 EP 3110702B2
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Claudio BONZI
Andrea ANSALONI
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
    • B65C9/00—Details of labelling machines or apparatus
    • B65C9/46—Applying date marks, code marks, or the like, to the label during labelling
    • 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
    • B65B19/00—Packaging rod-shaped or tubular articles susceptible to damage by abrasion or pressure, e.g. cigarettes, cigars, macaroni, spaghetti, drinking straws or welding electrodes
    • B65B19/02—Packaging cigarettes
    • B65B19/025—Packaging cigarettes in webs of flexible sheet material
    • 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
    • B65B19/00—Packaging rod-shaped or tubular articles susceptible to damage by abrasion or pressure, e.g. cigarettes, cigars, macaroni, spaghetti, drinking straws or welding electrodes
    • B65B19/28—Control devices for cigarette or cigar packaging machines
    • 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
    • B65B41/00—Supplying or feeding container-forming sheets or wrapping material
    • B65B41/18—Registering sheets, blanks, or webs
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41P—INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO PRINTING, LINING MACHINES, TYPEWRITERS, AND TO STAMPS
    • B41P2233/00—Arrangements for the operation of printing presses
    • B41P2233/50—Marks on printed material
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
    • B65C9/00—Details of labelling machines or apparatus
    • B65C9/40—Controls; Safety devices
    • B65C2009/402—Controls; Safety devices for detecting properties or defects of labels
    • B65C2009/407—Controls; Safety devices for detecting properties or defects of labels after labelling

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  • This invention relates to a method for checking the position of an adhesive label on a sheet material.
  • this invention relates to a method for checking the correct positioning of an adhesive label applied to sheet material forming or designed to form an inner wrapper in a container such as a packet of cigarettes of the "sealed" type.
  • Rigid, hinged-lid packets for cigarettes are currently the cigarette packets of the most widespread type on the market because they are simple to make, easy and practical to use and provide good mechanical protection for the cigarettes they contain.
  • a rigid, hinged-lid packet for cigarettes comprises a hollow container having an extraction opening at the top of it for taking out the cigarettes and a lid which has a downward facing concavity and which is joined to the container along a hinge allowing it to rotate relative to the container itself between a position where the opening is open and a position where it is closed.
  • the container houses an inner wrapper, usually made of metallized paper and wrapped around a group of cigarettes.
  • cigarette packets commonly known as “sealed packets", where the inner wrapper has an opening for extracting the cigarettes and is provided with a re-positionable label with a tab which can be held between two fingers and pulled in order to move part of the label away from the inner wrapper.
  • the label usually covers a large part of the top of the packet and an upper portion of the front wall of the inner wrapper and is provided with spots of adhesive material which allow it to be placed in a closed position several times after every extraction of a cigarette from the inner wrapper.
  • this check is performed using control devices of the optical type, which identify on each label the position of a printed ornamental pattern and compare a parameter relating to the position detected with a sample parameter to determine, even quantitatively, any deviations in the position of the label relative to the correct position.
  • EP 1 770 015 A2 discloses a method for checking the position of an adhesive label on a sheet material in accordance with the preamble of claim1.
  • the invention accordingly provides a method for checking the position of an adhesive label applied to sheet material as described in one or more of the appended claims.
  • the centering mark comprises a first and a second centering eye mark, the eye marks extending, respectively, as far as a first and a second perimetric edge of the label; the first and second perimetric edges being substantially orthogonal to each other.
  • the centering mark be printed using invisible ink, that is to say, not visible by the human eye with sources of light in the field of vision. In that case, it is preferable that the centering mark be printed using an ink which is visible under lighting within the ultraviolet or infrared range.
  • the numeral 1 denotes in its entirety a rigid cigarette packet comprising an outer container 2 and an inner wrapper 3 housed inside the container 2.
  • the packet 1, in the embodiment of Figures 1 and 2 is of the hinged lid type, but it might be of any other type.
  • the outer container 2 is made of stiff card or paperboard.
  • the container 2 might house more than one inner wrapper 3, as described for example in patent application WO200230790A2 .
  • the lid 4 gives the outer container 2 the shape of a rectangular parallelepiped having a top wall 6 and a bottom wall 7 which are parallel and opposite to each other, two large side walls 8 and 9 which are parallel and opposite to each other, defining the front and rear walls of the packet 1, respectively, and two small side walls 10 which are parallel and opposite to each other, defining the respective flanks of the packet 1.
  • the inner wrapper 3 has an opening 17 for taking out the cigarettes 16 and is substantially sealed from the outside of the opening 17 so as to maintain the aroma and/or the humidity of the cigarettes 16.
  • the inner face of the label 18 has the film of re-positionable adhesive.
  • a front edge of the label 18 is associated with a tongue 23 which is located at least partly under the front wall 11 of the lid 4.
  • the label 18 has, on its surface opposite the surface designed to adhere to the inner wrapper 3, a printed film which, as will become clearer as this description continues, constitutes a centering mark 33 which comprises one printed mark (eyemark) shaped and positioned in different ways in Figure 3 .
  • the label 18 has, on its surface opposite the surface designed to adhere to the inner wrapper 3, a printed film which, as will become clearer as this description continues, constitutes a centering mark 33 which comprises two printed marks (eyemarks) shaped and positioned in different ways in Figures 4 to 6 .
  • the centering mark 33 of the label 18 of Figure 3 comprises a single mark 24 printed with a triangular shape, positioned at a vertex of the label 18 (at the top left in Figure 3 ) and matching the vertex. More specifically, two sides intersecting and perpendicular to each other of the mark 24 are substantially matched with respective sides of the label 18 defining the vertex.
  • the label 18 of Figure 4 is, however, equipped with a centering mark 33 comprising two marks 25 and 26 printed with an elongate shape, perpendicular to each other and positioned near to a vertex of the label 18 (at the top left in Figure 4 ) lying parallel to the respective sides of the label 18 intersecting and defining the vertex.
  • the mark 25 in Figure 4 lies horizontally, whilst the mark 26 lies vertically, and a side of each of the marks 25, 26 is substantially matching with a respective side of the label 18 defining the above-mentioned vertex.
  • the label 18 of Figure 5 is equipped with a centering mark 33 having substantially an "L" shape, comprising two marks 27 and 28 printed with an elongate shape, perpendicular to each other and concurrent at a vertex of the label 18 (at the top left in Figure 5 ) lying parallel to the respective sides of the label 18 intersecting and defining the vertex.
  • the mark 27 in Figure 5 lies horizontally, whilst the mark 28 lies vertically, and a side of each of the marks 27, 28 is substantially matching with a respective side of the label 18 defining the above-mentioned vertex, so that the sides of the marks 27, 28 are perpendicular to each other, and respective ends of the sides of the marks 27, 28 coincide.
  • the labels 18 are obtained by cutting and separating, that is to say, removing, from a web 31, on which are printed, relative to each label 18, the centring marks 33 comprising the above-mentioned marks 24-30 ( Figure 7 shows marks 25 and 26).
  • the marks 24-30 are printed across sides or edge zones of the label 18, in such a way as to be present in the label 18 in the ways described with reference to Figures 3 to 6 , and to also touch portions of the web 31 close to the sides or edge zones.
  • the web 31 is printed, relative to each label 18, with at least one centering mark 24-30 positioned across two sides of the label 18 perpendicular to each other, in such a way as to touch, in the proximity of each of the sides, parts of the web 31 both inside and outside the label 18.
  • the operating method described makes it possible to have with certainty the marks 24-30 of the labels 18 removed from the adjacent web 31 with two sides or edge zones of the label 18 perpendicular to each other, and therefore allows a reading of maximum precision to be performed of the position of these adjacent zones or edges of the marks 24-30, substantially coinciding with respective edges of the respective label 18, using control devices of the photocell optical type, shown schematically in the form of arrows in Figures 3-6 and denoted by the reference numeral 32.
  • each label 18 is firstly separated from the web 31 and connected to the sheet material which will form the inner wrapper 3, and then the sheet material is wrapped around a group 15 of cigarettes 16, with subsequent inclusion in the outer container 2. For this reason, the described position checking of the label 18 by optical reading of the marks 24-30 may be performed, as preferred, either when the sheet material which will form the inner wrapper 3 is still laid out on a plane, that is to say, not yet folded to form the wrapper 3, or on the wrappers 3 already formed and not yet enclosed in the respective outer containers 2.
  • the marks 24-30 might be printed on the label 18 using invisible ink, that is to say, not visible by the human eye with sources of light in the field of vision. More specifically, it is preferable that the ink used is visible under lighting within the ultraviolet or infrared range.
  • the advantage in this case, is both that of making the mark invisible and also preventing that the sensitivity of the control is influenced by the background colour, that is to say, the colour of the sheet material.

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Making Paper Articles (AREA)
  • Packaging Of Annular Or Rod-Shaped Articles, Wearing Apparel, Cassettes, Or The Like (AREA)

Claims (6)

  1. Verfahren zur Überprüfung der Position eines Klebeetiketts auf einem Blattmaterial, wobei das Blattmaterial eine Umhüllung (3), die Teil einer Zigarettenschachtel (1) ist, und das Etikett (18), das auf das Blattmaterial nach Trennung des Etiketts von einer Bahn (31) aufgebracht wird, formt oder ausgelegt ist, sie/es zu formen; wobei das Verfahren dadurch gekennzeichnet ist, dass es vor der Trennung des Etiketts (18) von der Bahn (31) das Bedrucken mindestens einer Zentriermarkierung (33) auf dem Etikett (18) umfasst, die sich bis zum Außenumfang des Etiketts (18) erstreckt; wobei die Überprüfung der Position des Etiketts (18) auf dem Blattmaterial durch die Erfassung der Position des Teils des Umfangs des Etiketts (18) erfolgt, auf dem sich die Zentriermarkierung (33) erstreckt, wobei die Zentriermarkierung (33) eine erste und eine zweite Zentrierlesemarkierung (24 bis 30) umfasst, wobei sich die Lesemarkierungen jeweils bis zu einer ersten und einer zweiten umlaufenden Kante des Etiketts (18) erstrecken; wobei die erste und die zweite umlaufende Kante im Wesentlichen orthogonal zueinander sind.
  2. Verfahren nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass während des Druckvorgangs die Zentriermarkierung (33) des Etiketts (18) über den Außenumfang des Etiketts (18) hinaus auf die Bahn (31) ragt.
  3. Verfahren nach Anspruch 1 oder 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Zentriermarkierung (33) des Etiketts (18) mindestens eine umlaufende Kante umfasst, die mit einer jeweiligen umlaufenden Kante des Etiketts (18) zusammenfällt.
  4. Verfahren nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche 1 bis 3, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die erste und die zweite umlaufende Kante vom gleichen Scheitelpunkt des Etiketts (18) ausgehen.
  5. Verfahren nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 4, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Zentriermarkierung (33) unter Verwendung unsichtbarer Tinte gedruckt wird.
  6. Verfahren nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 4, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Zentriermarkierung (33) unter Verwendung einer Tinte gedruckt wird, die unter Beleuchtung im ultravioletten oder infraroten Bereich sichtbar ist.
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