EP3303155B1 - A system for providing automatic packaging of products - Google Patents

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EP3303155B1
EP3303155B1 EP16725253.5A EP16725253A EP3303155B1 EP 3303155 B1 EP3303155 B1 EP 3303155B1 EP 16725253 A EP16725253 A EP 16725253A EP 3303155 B1 EP3303155 B1 EP 3303155B1
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47F—SPECIAL FURNITURE, FITTINGS, OR ACCESSORIES FOR SHOPS, STOREHOUSES, BARS, RESTAURANTS OR THE LIKE; PAYING COUNTERS
    • A47F9/00—Shop, bar, bank or like counters
    • A47F9/02—Paying counters
    • A47F9/04—Check-out counters, e.g. for self-service stores
    • A47F9/046—Arrangement of recording means in or on check-out counters
    • A47F9/047—Arrangement of recording means in or on check-out counters for recording self-service articles without cashier or assistant
    • A47F9/048—Arrangement of recording means in or on check-out counters for recording self-service articles without cashier or assistant automatically
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47F—SPECIAL FURNITURE, FITTINGS, OR ACCESSORIES FOR SHOPS, STOREHOUSES, BARS, RESTAURANTS OR THE LIKE; PAYING COUNTERS
    • A47F9/00—Shop, bar, bank or like counters
    • A47F9/02—Paying counters
    • A47F9/04—Check-out counters, e.g. for self-service stores
    • A47F9/042—Shopping bags or carton-dispensing systems therefor
    • A47F9/043—Shopping bags or carton-dispensing systems therefor with mechanical action
    • 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
    • B65B35/10—Feeding, e.g. conveying, single articles
    • B65B35/22—Feeding, e.g. conveying, single articles by roller-ways
    • 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
    • B65B43/00—Forming, feeding, opening or setting-up containers or receptacles in association with packaging
    • B65B43/12—Feeding flexible bags or carton blanks in flat or collapsed state; Feeding flat bags connected to form a series or chain
    • B65B43/123—Feeding flat bags connected to form a series or chain
    • 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
    • B65B43/00—Forming, feeding, opening or setting-up containers or receptacles in association with packaging
    • B65B43/26—Opening or distending bags; Opening, erecting, or setting-up boxes, cartons, or carton blanks
    • 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
    • B65B43/00—Forming, feeding, opening or setting-up containers or receptacles in association with packaging
    • B65B43/26—Opening or distending bags; Opening, erecting, or setting-up boxes, cartons, or carton blanks
    • B65B43/267—Opening of bags interconnected in a web
    • 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
    • B65B5/00—Packaging individual articles in containers or receptacles, e.g. bags, sacks, boxes, cartons, cans, jars
    • B65B5/10—Filling containers or receptacles progressively or in stages by introducing successive articles, or layers of articles
    • 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
    • B65B57/00—Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices
    • B65B57/10—Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices responsive to absence, presence, abnormal feed, or misplacement of articles or materials to be packaged
    • B65B57/12—Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices responsive to absence, presence, abnormal feed, or misplacement of articles or materials to be packaged and operating to control, or stop, the feed of wrapping materials, containers, or packages
    • 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
    • B65B61/00—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages
    • B65B61/04—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for severing webs, or for separating joined packages
    • B65B61/06—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for severing webs, or for separating joined packages by cutting
    • 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
    • B65B67/00—Apparatus or devices facilitating manual packaging operations; Sack holders
    • B65B67/02—Packaging of articles or materials in containers
    • B65B67/04—Devices facilitating the insertion of articles or materials into bags, e.g. guides or chutes
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47F—SPECIAL FURNITURE, FITTINGS, OR ACCESSORIES FOR SHOPS, STOREHOUSES, BARS, RESTAURANTS OR THE LIKE; PAYING COUNTERS
    • A47F9/00—Shop, bar, bank or like counters
    • A47F9/02—Paying counters
    • A47F9/04—Check-out counters, e.g. for self-service stores
    • A47F9/042—Shopping bags or carton-dispensing systems therefor
    • A47F2009/044—Shopping bags or carton-dispensing systems therefor dispensing from a roll

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    Technical Field
  • The invention relates to the system bought during shopping in the markets, supermarkets or similar places providing automatic packaging of the products enhanced for the reduction of waiting time passed during packaging of the products by a cashier, a customer or personnel and for the simplification of packaging process.
    • State of the Art
  • Today, the increase of population; consequently, the increase of consumption rate and the changing needs led to many markets, supermarkets and similar places where almost all kinds of needs can be found and that have been established in every neighborhood, every street and shopping malls. An apparatus that sorts the purchase items and then packages them into bags is e.g. known from US 2008/0054071 A1 .
  • However, the line waited to pay the price of products bought during shopping in these mentioned places is inevitable.
  • In the state of art, the barcode of the product brought to the cash point by the customer to buy is read and then left for packaging. The personnel or if there is not a personnel in this part, the customer packages the products passed from the cash point by opening the bags.
  • In state of the art, the packaging step is a separate process. This process extends the time passed in the cash point and causes to line. There is not always a personnel working for packaging in each cash point. In addition to this, even if there is a personnel, this increases unnecessary labor force and time cost for the owners of markets, supermarkets and similar places.
  • Such situations create negative effects in terms of satisfaction of other customers waiting in the payment line.
  • In other state of the art, shopping bags are attached to the apparatus having two long arms. The cashier opens the bags attached here by hand and puts the products passed from the cash point with the barcode reader into the bags. Then, the cashier pulls out the filled bag and opens a new one. Although this system is more advantageous than the previous case, it does not solve these problems completely. The disadvantage of this system is similar that it affects the effective working of the cashier and causes loss of time.
  • An example for the applications performed related to the packaging in state of the art; patent application no TR2006/06506 titled "The apparatus providing the product being packaged by the cashier in the markets" is the / utility model application / document. The summary of this application / document is as follows: "The invention consists of the carrier section consisting of the support section and body strength bars (4), top strength bars (5) and packaging bars (6) consisting of mounting bracket (1), fixing screws (2) and base support plates (3). The cashier packages the product read by the barcode reader by putting it into the bag (7) directly attached to the packaging bars (6) and delivers the product (7) as packaged in the bag to the customer at the end of the process.
  • Another example for the applications performed related to the swabs in state of the art; TR2008/04655 application numbered "the packaging system with rotary hanger" titled patent is the / utility model application / document. The summary of this application / document is as follows: "This invention relates to the packaging system with rotary hanger used in the big shopping malls, supermarkets and all kinds of places where the packaging is intense and providing labor-saving; basically, it consists of trestle (1), hanger (2), package (3), bearing (4), marble (5), shaft (6) rotary body (7) and rotary accent (8)."
  • "Another example for the applications performed related to the swabs in state of the art; patent application no TR2008/04654 tittles as "Practical openable bag" is the / utility model application / document. The summary of this application / document is as follows: " This invention relates to the packaging system with rotary hanger used in the big shopping malls, supermarkets and all kinds of places where the packaging is intense and providing labor-saving; basically, it consists of the flap (3) on the hanger holes (2), bag mouth (5) on the body (1) and 6 perforations (4) around the flap (3)."
  • Consequently, due to the disadvantages explained above and also in the abovementioned examples, causing extra cost for the producers and thus for the customers and it is insufficient in terms of its existing solutions about the issue, it is required to perform the system providing automatic packaging of the products subject to our invention.
    • Short Description of the Invention
  • The present invention relates to the system meeting the requirements mentioned above, resolving all of the disadvantages and bringing some additional advantages, providing automatic packaging of the products.
  • The main object of the system subject to the invention is that, the products sent from the cash point by the cashier and get into the shopping bag without an interference of the customer or personnel, the bag gets out of its location when it is in a certain weight and a new bag opens out.
  • Another object of the invention is to prevent this extra labor force for the cashier in the systems where the cashier performs the packaging process and to increase the satisfaction of employees.
  • A similar object of the invention is to eliminate the extra labor force cost arising from a personnel separately working for packaging.
  • A similar object of the invention is to increase the satisfaction of customer by preventing the packaging for the customers in the markets, supermarkets and similar places where there is not a personnel separately working for the packaging.
  • Another object of the invention is to minimize the cash point lines where the dissatisfaction of customer comes out most.
  • Another object of the invention is to prevent the bag waste due to the packaging processes being performed by especially the customers in the cash points.
  • The structural and characteristic features and all advantages of the invention will be understood clearly by way of the figures given below and the brief description made by referring to these figures and therefore, the evaluation has to be carried out by considering these figures and the detailed explanation.
    • Brief Description of the Drawings
  • "The system providing automatic packaging of the products" subject to our application is shown in the attached drawings and;
    Figure 1: is the schematic drawing related to "the system providing automatic packaging of the products."
  • It is not required to scale the drawings certainly and the unnecessary details for understanding the present invention may be neglected. Furthermore, the components that are largely identical at least or largely have identical functions at least are shown with the same number.
    • Brief Description of Part References
    • 1. A system providing automatic packaging of the products
    • 2. Reel
    • 3. Product guider palette
    • 4. Product flow channel
      4.1. Bag stopper
    • 5. Packaging section
      5.1. Solenoid valve
    • 6. Product slideway
    • 7. Bag roller
    • 8. Cash point connection protrusion
    • 9. Carrier body
    Brief Description of Invention
  • In this brief description, the preferred construction of the system providing automatic packaging of the products are described only for better understanding of the issue and in a way not to create any restrictive effect.
  • The invention relates to the system (1) bought during shopping in market, supermarket and etc. providing automatic packaging of the products, enhanced for the reduction of waiting time passed during packaging of the products by a cashier, a customer or a personnel and for the simplification of packaging process.
  • For the operation of the system, generally
    • Reel
    • Product guider palette
    • Product flow channel
    • Bag stopper
    • Packaging section
    • Bag holder connecting tabs
    • Solenoid valve
    • Product slideway
    • Bag roller
    • Carrier body
    are required.
  • The invention is a system enhanced in a way to provide packaging of the product sent from the cash point and leaving the bag after it is in a certain weight and pulling out of the new bag.
  • Reels (2) are the section providing the products read by the barcode reader and sent from the cash point to move towards the packaging part and created with the sequentially sorting of the reels curvedly. It is made of polyethylene.
  • Product guider palette (3) is the section providing the products came through the reels (2) to move towards the product flow channel (4).
  • Product flow channel (4) is the section having connecting tabs in a way to prevent the products to overflow into the out of packaging section (5) and having at least one bag stopper (4.1) in the head part.
  • Packaging section (5) is the part including the solenoid valve (5.1) operating with the information comes from the cash point and at least one bag holder connecting tab performing the process of pulling out of the bag to be stored inside the products from the bag roller (7) and of leaving from the system when the bag is in a certain weight.
  • Product slideway (6) is the part where the bag full of products leaves the system.
  • Bag roller (7) is the component including the bags where the products are put. In case of the decrease of the bags in the bag roller, there is a sensor providing warning for the user.
  • The products sent from the cash point pass through the cash point connection protrusion (8) and reach to the reels (2). The products easily passed through the reels (2) having a certain slope are directed to the product flow channel (4) with the product guider (3) whatever its arrival form and positions are. Thus, it is prevented for the products to fall out of the bag.
  • The bag mouth pulled from the bag roller (7) through the bag holder connecting tabs is opened with the bag stopper (4.1). The products to fall off the product flow channel (4) fall into the opened bag.
  • The bag full of products is left to the product slideway (6) after it is in a certain weight and a new bag is pulled from the bag roller (7) automatically.
  • If the weight of the products is less than the weight determined in the system, the bag will not leave the system. In this case, the customer or cashier can take the bag from the system directly and the system can continue to operate by pulling a new bag. Or, the solenoid valve (5.1) gets the instruction that the cashier finishes the process and provides the bag full of products to be left to the product slideway (6). The system can continue to operate by pulling a new bag.
  • In case of the bags wrapped in the bag roller (7) do not break, a knife system is added to cut the bag.

Claims (12)

  1. A system (1) enhanced for the simplification of the packaging process of the products by the cashier, customer or personnel in the markets, supermarkets and similar places, providing the automatic packaging of the products, characterized in that it comprises:
    • reels (2) providing the products read by the barcode reader and sent from the cash point to move towards the packaging part.
    • product guider palette (3) providing the products coming through the reels (2) to move towards the product flow channel (4).
    • product flow channel (4) preventing the products to overflow into the exiting part of the packaging section (5), having at least one bag stopper (4.1) in the head part.
    • packaging section (5) including the solenoid valve (5.1) operating with the information coming from the cash point and at least one bag holder connecting tab performing the process of pulling out of the bag to be stored inside the products from the bag roller (7) and of leaving from the system when the bag is in a certain weight.
    • product slideway (6) where the bag full of products leaves the system.
    • bag roller (7) including the bags where the products will be put.
    • carrier body (9) carrying the whole system.
  2. A system (1) providing automatic packaging of the products according to claim 1 characterized in that the reels (2) are made of polyethylene.
  3. A system (1) providing automatic packaging of the products according to claim 1 characterized in that the product guider palette (3) is made of durable materials such as steel and etc.
  4. A system (1) providing automatic packaging of the products according to claim 1 characterized in that it includes reels (2) arranged in order curvedly.
  5. A system (1) providing automatic packaging of the products according to claim 1 characterized in that it includes a sensor to sense the decreasing bags in the bag roller (7).
  6. A system (1) providing automatic packaging of the products according to claim 1 characterized in that it includes flanges to prevent overflowing of the products to the side of the product flow channel (4).
  7. A system (1) providing automatic packaging of the products according to claim 1 characterized in that it includes cash point connection flange (8) to provide combination of the cash point and the system before the reels (2).
  8. A system (1) providing automatic packaging of the products according to claim 1 characterized in that it includes one bag holder connecting tab at least to pull the bags from the bag roller (7).
  9. A system (1) providing automatic packaging of the products according to claim 1 characterized in that it can be used manually in case of the bag is not in the intended weight at the end of the shopping.
  10. A system (1) providing automatic packaging of the products according to claim 1 characterized in that it includes a knife system to cut the bags in case of the bags wrapped in the bag roller (7) do not break while the products are falling.
  11. A system (1) providing automatic packaging of the products according to claim 1 characterized in that the carrier body (9) includes one tyre and motion, height stopper.
  12. A system (1) providing automatic packaging of the products according to claim 1 characterized in that the weight in the bags carried in the packaging section (5) is set in desired range.
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