EP3294636A1 - Machine d'emballage pourvue d'un dispositif de levage - Google Patents

Machine d'emballage pourvue d'un dispositif de levage

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EP3294636A1
EP3294636A1 EP16715546.4A EP16715546A EP3294636A1 EP 3294636 A1 EP3294636 A1 EP 3294636A1 EP 16715546 A EP16715546 A EP 16715546A EP 3294636 A1 EP3294636 A1 EP 3294636A1
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station
packaging machine
lifting
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packaging
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Frank Runte
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GEA Food Solutions Germany GmbH
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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
    • B65B65/00—Details peculiar to packaging machines and not otherwise provided for; Arrangements of such details
    • B65B65/02—Driving gear
    • 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
    • B65B9/00—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material, e.g. liquids or semiliquids, in flat, folded, or tubular webs of flexible sheet material; Subdividing filled flexible tubes to form packages
    • B65B9/02—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material between opposed webs
    • B65B9/04—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material between opposed webs one or both webs being formed with pockets for the reception of the articles, or of the quantities of material

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  • the present invention relates to a packaging machine for producing a
  • Packaging with a sealing station, which seals a film web to a packaging tray, which may have been deep drawn into a film web, wherein the sealing station at least one lower tool, which is raised or lowered with a lifting station and the lifting station has a toggle, the lower tool in supported its raised position.
  • thermoformers for example so-called thermoformers or
  • Tray sealers are known from the prior art, for example EP 1 772 418 B1.
  • a lower film web is unrolled from a supply roll and transported intermittently along the packaging machine.
  • a thermoformer first of all a packaging tray is formed in the lower film web in a forming station, which is then filled with a packaged product, in particular a foodstuff. Subsequently, the packaging tray is sealed in a sealing station with a top film which is sealed to the lower film.
  • the film web is also unrolled from a supply roll.
  • the forming and / or the sealing station generally have a lower and an upper tool, wherein the lower tool is below the lower film web and the upper tool above the upper film web.
  • the respective lower tool When forming the packaging tray into the lower film web and / or when sealing a top film to the lower film web, the respective lower tool must be raised and lowered again by an index before the further transport of the packaging trays.
  • the upper tool In some cases, the upper tool must be raised or lowered, preferably in opposite synchronous to the movement of the upper tool.
  • the packaging machine has at least one lifting station, preferably one lifting station per tool.
  • packaging machines have to be provided with an ever greater preferred length and / or to a forming and / or
  • Sealing tools are additional aggregates such as a heater
  • a packaging machine for producing a packaging, with a sealing station, which seals a film web to a packaging tray, the optionally has been deep drawn into a film web, wherein the sealing station at least one lower tool is raised or lowered with a lifting station and the lifting station has a toggle which supports the lower tool in its raised position, wherein the lifting station has a frame at which one end the knee lever is mounted, wherein the mounting of the toggle lever is provided outside the frame.
  • the present invention relates to a packaging machine. In such a
  • Packaging machine may be, for example, a so-called thermoformer, but also a traysealer on which plastic films are usually processed.
  • thermoformer for example, a lower film web is unrolled from a supply roll and transported intermittently along the packaging machine.
  • a forming station first a packaging tray is formed in the lower film web, which is then filled with a packaged product, in particular a foodstuff. Subsequently, the packaging tray is sealed in a sealing station with one or more top films which are sealed to the lower film.
  • the film web is also unrolled from a supply roll.
  • the sealing station but as a rule also the forming station has a lower tool, which is raised or lowered by a lifting station.
  • lifting station has at least one toggle that supports the lower tool in its raised position.
  • a toggle consists of at least two levers, which are rotatably connected.
  • the lifting station has a frame on which one end of the toggle lever is mounted, wherein the bearing of the
  • Knee lever is provided outside the frame.
  • the frame consists of two side parts, which by two
  • the side parts are preferably yoke-shaped, so that they have a large bending resistance torque.
  • the side parts and the connecting elements are screwed together.
  • the lifting station has two toggle levers, which are respectively provided outside the frame.
  • the toggle are mirror-symmetrical to a drive provided which stretches and kinks the toggle.
  • the lifting station has a lifting table which is raised and lowered.
  • the lower tool is provided on the lifting table and can be raised or lowered therewith.
  • one end of a toggle lever is connected to the lifting table.
  • the movement of the lifting table is guided by at least two, preferably four guide rods. For this, the lifting table per guide rod to a plain bearing and / or rolling bearing, with which the lifting table along the guide rod runs and is guided.
  • the frame is connected to the guide rods.
  • the guide rods carry the frame.
  • the lifting station has a drive which is arranged between the frame and the lifting table.
  • the drive is a
  • Combination cylinder or a motor in particular an electric motor, preferably an electric linear motor.
  • the drive moves the lift table from the lowered to the
  • the drive (23) is rotatably mounted on the frame of the stroke, in particular on the same axis of rotation axis as the lever of the toggle lever or at least collinear to the axis of rotation of a lever of the
  • a stop is provided on the lifting table and / or its toggle and / or its frame and / or its drive, which prevents over-rotation of the toggle lever.
  • the stop prevents the drive from continuing to turn the toggle, i. overstretched.
  • the stop can be mechanical and / or electronic.
  • Packaging machine on a forming station with a lifting station, which lowered and raises a lower tool of the forming station. Such a packaging machine is then a so-called thermoformer. Alternatively or additionally, a cutting tool that separates the finished packages, with the above
  • FIG. 1 shows the packaging machine according to the invention.
  • Figures 2 and 3 each show a view of a stroke of the packaging machine
  • Figure 1 shows the packaging machine 1 according to the invention, in the present case, a so-called thermoformer, a deep-drawing station 2, a filling station 7 and a
  • Sealing station 15 has.
  • a lower film web 8, here a plastic film web 8, is withdrawn from a supply roll and intermittently along the inventive
  • the film roll is usually mounted on a shaft.
  • the sub-web 8 is a preference
  • the packaging machine has two transport means (not shown), in the present case in each case two endless chains, which are arranged to the right and left of the lower film web 8. Both at the beginning and at the end of the
  • Packaging machine is provided for each chain in each case at least one gear around which the respective chain is deflected. At least one of these gears is driven.
  • the gears in the input area and / or in the output area may be connected to each other, preferably by a rigid shaft.
  • Each transport means has a plurality of clamping means which grip the lower film web 8 in the inlet region 19 in a clamping manner and transmit the movement of the transport means to the lower film web 8. In the outlet region of the packaging machine, the clamping connection between the transport and the lower film web 8 is released again. Downstream of that
  • thermoforming station 2 which here has an upper tool 3 and a lower tool 4, which has the shape of the packaging tray to be produced, the packaging trays 6 are formed in the warmed film web 8.
  • Lower tool 4 is arranged on a lifting table 5, which, as is symbolized by the double arrow, is vertically adjustable, which is done by the explained with reference to Figures 2 and 3 lifting device.
  • the lower tool 4 is lowered and then raised again.
  • the packaging trays are then filled in the filling station 7 with the packaged goods 16.
  • the subsequent sealing station 15 which also consists of an upper tool 12 and a vertically adjustable lower tool 1 1, a top film 14 is firmly bonded, for example, by sealing to the lower film web 8.
  • the upper tool and / or the lower tool are lowered or raised before and after each film transport.
  • the upper film 14 is unrolled by a film roll, which is mounted on a shaft, and may be guided in means of transport or of
  • a heatable sealing frame is provided as a lower tool 11, for example, which has an opening per packaging cavity into which the packaging cavity is sealed during sealing, i. in the
  • the tools 1 1, 12 are moved apart vertically again. Between the respective supply roll and the sealing tool is preferably a dancer
  • the dancer can as
  • Foil web storage and / or serve to generate a certain film tension The person skilled in the art understands that several top films may be present, for example in a multi-layered package or a package with several top films. Preferably, a dancer is then provided in the course of each top sheet. The expert understands the
  • a dancer can also be provided in the area of the lower film 8, preferably downstream of its supply roll.
  • the finished packages are separated, which is done in the present case with the cross cutter 18 and the slitter 17.
  • the cross cutter 18 can also be raised or lowered in the present case with a lifting device 9.
  • the packaging machine according to the invention may also be a so-called tray sealer, in which filled packaging trays are closed with a cover film.
  • Figures 2 and 3 show the lifting station 9 of the packaging machine according to the invention, which raise and lower a lower tool 4, 1 1 and / or an upper tool 3, 12 of the forming or sealing station.
  • the lifting station has at least one, in the present case, two toggle levers 13, which are each provided with a first lever arm 20 and a second lever arm 21.
  • the one end of the lever arm 20 is preferably rotatably connected to a lifting table 5.
  • the other end of the first lever arm 20 is rotatably connected to one end of the second lever arm 21, the other end of which is in turn rotatably connected to a frame 27.
  • the lifting table 5 and thus the on it located tools can be transferred from a lowered, in a raised position.
  • the respective knee lever is either bent or stretched. In the stretched state, the two levers are in line and thus can absorb a maximum of force.
  • the lifting table 5 the lifting table 5 and thus the on it located tools can be transferred from a lowered, in a raised position.
  • Lifting device 9 to a drive which is designed in the present case as a pneumatic cylinder, wherein the cylinder is rotatably provided on the frame and the cylinder rod rotatably mounted on the lifting table.
  • the frame 27 consists of two side parts 24 which are yoke-shaped in the present case. These two side parts 24 are connected to each other by two connecting elements 25, for example by the illustrated screw connection.
  • the lifting device 9 at least two, here four, guide rods 10 which guide the lifting table 5 in its up and down movement.
  • For the lifting table is equipped with plain bearings 26, wherein in each case a sliding bearing cooperates with a guide rod.
  • the toggle levers 13 are each located outside the frame 27, which is provided by the two side parts 24 and the
  • Connecting elements 25 is clamped. As a result, the risk of tilting of the bearing 26 is at least reduced and the entire lifting station can larger

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Containers And Plastic Fillers For Packaging (AREA)
  • Closing Of Containers (AREA)

Abstract

La présente invention concerne une machine d'emballage destinée à la production d'un emballage et comprenant une station de scellement qui assure le scellement d'une bande de film sur une barquette ayant éventuellement été réalisée par emboutissage profond d'une bande de film, la station de scellement présentant au moins un outil sous-jacent qui est soulevé ou abaissé par une station de levage, et la station de levage présentant une genouillère qui soutient l'outil sous-jacent dans sa position soulevée.
EP16715546.4A 2015-05-13 2016-04-11 Machine d'emballage pourvue d'un dispositif de levage Revoked EP3294636B1 (fr)

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PCT/EP2016/057925 WO2016180587A1 (fr) 2015-05-13 2016-04-11 Machine d'emballage pourvue d'un dispositif de levage

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