EP3118127A1 - Procédé d'utilisation en toute sécurité d'une machine d'emballage de cigarettes - Google Patents

Procédé d'utilisation en toute sécurité d'une machine d'emballage de cigarettes Download PDF

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EP3118127A1
EP3118127A1 EP16001409.8A EP16001409A EP3118127A1 EP 3118127 A1 EP3118127 A1 EP 3118127A1 EP 16001409 A EP16001409 A EP 16001409A EP 3118127 A1 EP3118127 A1 EP 3118127A1
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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
    • 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
    • B65B65/00—Details peculiar to packaging machines and not otherwise provided for; Arrangements of such details
    • 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
    • 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
    • B65B65/00—Details peculiar to packaging machines and not otherwise provided for; Arrangements of such details
    • B65B65/02—Driving gear

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  • the present invention relates to a method for the safe operation of a packaging machine for producing packages for smokable products - such as cigarettes - wherein the packaging machine has at least one servo drive for driving at least one movable member.
  • the invention further relates to a packaging machine which is suitable for carrying out the method.
  • movable organs are increasingly driven by servomotors.
  • Due to the use of servomotors relevant safety questions must be answered.
  • the servomotors must be safely shut down and / or shut down in the event of an error.
  • the object according to the invention is achieved by a method having the features of claim 1 and by a packaging machine having the features of claim 11.
  • the servomotor may be operated in one of at least two modes of operation when the machine is first set up or after a machine stop.
  • a first mode in which the actual rotational position of the servomotor (or its shaft / rotor) compared with a target rotational position and in case of deviations between the actual and target rotational position of the actual rotational position to the target at Adjusted rotational position.
  • the control unit of the servo drive in this mode of operation of a control device of the packaging machine, usually the control unit of the servo drive, a known in the art attitude control of the servo drive implemented.
  • Such a position control which would be specified as a target rotational position, for example, the stationary rotation of the shaft of the servo motor, after a targeted shutdown of the servomotors or after a targeted stopping the servo motor shaft unwanted movements of the servo motor or operatively connected to him movable member from the stationary rotation prevent or at least counteract such.
  • a target rotational position for example, the stationary rotation of the shaft of the servo motor
  • every possible outer i. Not caused by the servo motor torque action on the shaft, which would lead to a twisting of the desired rotational position, counteract a counter-torque of the servomotor, which would move the shaft back towards the desired rotational position.
  • the controller releases the shaft of the servo motor so that an operator can move the servo motor shaft, in particular without the position control being activated. Also, no other mode (or separate brake, etc.) is selectively activated or adjusted that would prevent free movement of the shaft, such as a so-called secure stop or brake or the like.
  • the shaft of the servomotor is freely movable, at least within one - if applicable, predetermined angle of rotation (less than 360 degrees) - or preferably within the entire range of rotation angle (over the full 360 degrees).
  • the servo drive is automatically transferred from the aforementioned first to the second operating mode, when - while the servo drive is in the first operating mode - an (external) torque is applied to the shaft of the servomotor of the servo drive, in particular by an operator a torque of predetermined size.
  • an operator to selectively switch off the position control, for example for maintenance purposes, around the servomotor shaft or the movable member operatively connected to it (directly or indirectly by hand, possibly by means of a mechanical linkage operatively connected to the shaft) or electronic handwheel).
  • the invention provides that the servo drive can be transferred from the second to the first operating mode by the operator of the shaft of the servomotor is rotated by an operator until the shaft reaches a predetermined target rotational position.
  • the operator could first switch off the position control (acting with the standstill rotational position as setpoint) by the described torque application of the shaft. With the position control switched off, he could then carry out maintenance or repair work on the then manually or freely movable organ. Finally, he could turn back the servomotor shaft in the then acting as a target rotational position of the second mode standstill rotational position to turn on the position control again. The operator would recognize that the servomotor shaft is again in the original standstill rotational position since further rotation would counteract the active position control.
  • the above-mentioned application of the minimum torque is detected on the basis of a thereby increasing current increase of an operating current of the servo drive.
  • the minimum torque of predetermined size is stored as a value in a memory, that the torque applied by the operator to the shaft is determined and compared with the minimum torque value stored in the memory, and that the servo drive in the event that the applied Torque corresponds to the stored minimum torque value, is transferred from the first to the second mode.
  • the minimum torque value is expediently a value greater than zero.
  • the predetermined target rotational position is stored as a value in a memory that determines the set by the operator by rotations rotational position and compared with the stored target rotational position, and that the servo drive in the event that the set Rotary position corresponds to the stored in the memory target rotational position is automatically transferred from the second to the first mode.
  • the aforementioned comparisons, etc. are preferably carried out by a control device of the packaging machine or the control unit of the servo drive.
  • the invention is based on the in the Fig. 1 and 2 illustrated cigarette packaging machine 10 explained.
  • the nature of the packaging machine ultimately does not matter according to the invention.
  • the invention could also be applied, inter alia, to machines for packaging tobacco in pouches (bag packers) or other machines for packaging smokable products.
  • the illustrated device 10 is used to treat in particular cuboidal packs 11 of relatively rigid packaging material, in particular of (thin) cardboard. It is part of a corresponding plant for the production of (cigarette) packs 11.
  • the concrete example relates to (cigarette) packs 11 in the form of a folding box or hanging lid pack.
  • the package is surrounded on all sides by an outer sheath 12 made of film, which is thermally sealable - in the range of folding flaps - and by heat supply shrinkable (shrink film).
  • a blank of the outer cover 12 is folded around the package 11 or folding box so that a (large-scale) front wall, a corresponding rear wall, narrow, upright side walls and end wall and bottom wall arise.
  • the outer sheath 12 is folded so that on a side wall (partially) overlapping folding flaps, namely hose tabs arise.
  • the front wall and bottom wall are provided with complex folds (envelope folding) with the formation of (trapezoidal) closing flaps.
  • the folding flaps are connected by thermal sealing.
  • a folding turret Coming from a packer, to the outer casing 12 finished packages 11 are fed via an intermediate conveyor intermittently and at a distance from each other a folding device 13, namely a folding turret.
  • a folding turret This is preferably analogous to the folding turret EP 1 103 465 A1 educated.
  • the abovementioned tube tabs are formed and fixed by stapling members 14 in the sense of stapling (connection of the folding tabs by means of small sealing surfaces).
  • the folding turret 13 is provided with successive (different) stapling members 14.
  • the packages 11 reach a horizontal conveying path 15 lying in a first (horizontal) conveying plane.
  • the transport takes place by means of an (endless) conveyor 16 (belt conveyor).
  • the packs 11 are transported through a suitable folding path for the production of the closing flaps.
  • 16 folding switches of known design are arranged laterally next to the conveyor, which form the folding flaps during transport.
  • the packs 11 reach the area of another work station, namely a stapling and shrinking station having a stapling and shrinking device.
  • the staples of the folding flaps of the packs 11 are supplemented or completed with stapling organs.
  • the packs 11 are conveyed in the area of a further processing station 18 with an outer casing sufficiently fixed with regard to the folding flaps, namely to an aggregate station.
  • the aggregate station 18 serves on the one hand to form processing groups or processing units of several, in the present example exactly four, originally successively transported packs 11. Furthermore, the packs 11 in the region of the aggregation station 18 in a vertical conveying plane or along a vertical conveyor track transversely transported to the incoming conveying direction, in the present case vertically or in the upward direction. For this purpose, the packages 11 are transported by a number of vertical conveyors 19. This number of vertical conveyors 19 corresponds to the number of packs 11 (four) contained in one processing unit.
  • the side walls of the packs 11 are shrunk, in each case several or all packs 11 of a unit at the same time. Furthermore, the folding flaps are connected in the region of the side wall by sealing.
  • the aggregate station 18 is equipped for this purpose with three workstations, wherein in each of these stations simultaneously several - in the present case four - packs 10 are processed during a standstill phase.
  • the packs 11 are moved along a further conveying path 20 that runs horizontally and offset from the conveying path 15.
  • the packages 11 are fed by means of a conveyor 26 further treatment stations, and immediately thereafter a combined sealing and shrinking station 21.
  • the packages 11 of a processing unit in the area of this station 21 are sold at each working or conveying cycle.
  • the packs 11 are processed on different sides of the pack during a (longer) standstill phase.
  • a subsequent transfer station 22 is used to transfer the transport of the packages 11 from the conveyor 26 to an end conveyor 24.
  • the transfer station 22 is formed in a special way. Also in the area of the transfer station 22, the packs 11 are treated during the standstill phase. Lateral sealing organs complete the sealing of the folding flaps of the sideward-directed packing walls.
  • the packs 11 subsequently reach the area of a last treatment station 23. There, the tops of the packs 11 are subjected to a shrinkage treatment, in this case the front wall.
  • the finished treated packages 11 are then deposited on a discharge conveyor 25, which supplies the packages for further processing, in particular the production of bundle packs.
  • lateral sealing organs are effective, which are moved up again to the front wall and bottom wall to complete the sealing of the folding flaps.
  • All driven members of the device 10 are driven by servo drives, not shown.
  • one organ is assigned in each case a servo drive.
  • the servo drives are synchronized with each other and with respect to the machine cycle of the packaging machine 10. Accordingly, the movements of these moving bodies 13, 16, 24-26 are also synchronized or matched in speed and phase.
  • the servo drives must be transferred to safe states.
  • various safety functions of servo drives are used profitably.
  • the drives can be reliably brought to a standstill over a defined period of time as part of a defined braking process.
  • Such a safety function may include, for example, a position control designed as a standstill monitoring.
  • a position control designed as a standstill monitoring.
  • the actual rotational position of the servomotor of the servo drive or the shaft is monitored during the standstill thereof or during the machine stop duration.
  • the standstill rotation position forms the setpoint rotational position of the position control.
  • the actual position of the rotational position of the respective servomotor is detected (continuously or repeatedly at certain time intervals) and compared with the desired rotational position or the stationary rotational position.
  • deviations of the actual rotational position of the target rotational position of the corresponding servo drive reacts by applying the shaft with a torque which counteracts the deviation.
  • an external, not initiated by the servo drive torque acting on the shaft a counteracted by the servo drive counter torque.
  • this standstill monitoring or this position control with the standstill rotational position as a desired rotational position advantageously leads to the fact that the engine does not start by mistake can, because the position control would counteract the start. Further, an operator who wants to maintain the movable members at a standstill of the machine can not readily change the standstill rotational position of the servomotor or the standstill position of the movable member, which would liberate the movable member from its synchronism with the machine cycle and cause an error in the Restart the packaging machine 10 can lead.
  • the position control described at standstill of the servo drive is also disadvantageous in various situations. So there may be situations in practice, in which it would just be necessary to be able to move the movable organ by hand after a machine stop. For example, in a case where a trouble occurs that can be resolved only by moving the movable organ. An individual manual operation of the packaging machine or individual movable organs thereof, which is particularly necessary in order to eliminate such disturbances, would be limited.
  • the invention provides for the operator to be able to switch off this position control in a simple manner.
  • the servo drive is automatically transferred from the first "attitude control" mode described above to a second mode in which it no longer occurs when the operator applies torque to the servomotor servo motor shaft.
  • a torque of a certain minimum size or a certain amount must be applied in order to switch off the position control or to change from the first operating mode to the second operating mode.
  • the torque can be applied by the operator by operating a movable handwheel connected directly to the shaft of the servomotor, for example, or a separate handwheel, which is electrically or electronically coupled to the shaft. If necessary, it is also sufficient to move the coupled to the shaft movable member accordingly.
  • the application of this torque is detected by the servo drive or the control thereof.
  • As an indicator for example, can serve a measured increase in current of the operating current of the servo drive, which adjusts, since the application of the outer Torque (due to the position control) is answered with a corresponding counter torque.
  • the scenario described above refers to a situation in which a machine servo motor was braked to a standstill during a machine stop, and then the controller selectively activates a position control related to the standstill rotational position.
  • the operator can turn off the attitude control of the drive in a simple manner, in order to move the shaft of the servo motor free of counter torques and to be able to easily remove the packing 11.
  • the operator must apply an external, additional torque to the servomotor or on its shaft, cf. Fig. 6 , This can be done for example by using a coupled to the shaft of the servo motor 28 handwheel.
  • the synchronous rotation corresponds in the example of Fig. 3-8 a rotation angle of 135 °.
  • the control of the servo drive monitors the respective actual rotational position and, when the operator has rotated the shaft of the servo motor so far that the synchronous rotation position is reached, switches the position control automatically again: the servo drive changes from the second operating mode without position control to the first one Operating mode with position control.
  • the controller monitors the current operator-set rotational angle of the servomotor or servomotor shaft (or servomotor rotor). As soon as the actual rotational angle of the servo motor corresponds to the corresponding nominal rotational angle or the corresponding nominal synchronization rotational position, the position control of the motor is reactivated.
  • the initial commissioning or maintenance of a machine can be significantly facilitated. It can be stored for each servo drive corresponding target synchronous loops, which would have to be set in order to operate the respective drives synchronously to the machine cycle or to the other drives can.
  • the drives could initially be switched off in the context of the initial setup / maintenance and it would initially be activated in particular no position control.

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