EP3353064A1 - Vorrichtung zur bildung von verpackungseinheiten - Google Patents
Vorrichtung zur bildung von verpackungseinheitenInfo
- Publication number
- EP3353064A1 EP3353064A1 EP16754445.1A EP16754445A EP3353064A1 EP 3353064 A1 EP3353064 A1 EP 3353064A1 EP 16754445 A EP16754445 A EP 16754445A EP 3353064 A1 EP3353064 A1 EP 3353064A1
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- EP
- European Patent Office
- Prior art keywords
- station
- coupling member
- guide
- transport
- binding
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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
- B65B17/00—Other machines, apparatus, or methods for packaging articles or materials
- B65B17/02—Joining articles, e.g. cans, directly to each other for convenience of storage, transport, or handling
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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
- B65B35/44—Arranging and feeding articles in groups by endless belts or chains
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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
- B65B35/46—Arranging and feeding articles in groups by rotary conveyors
Definitions
- the present invention relates to a device for forming packaging units from containers, comprising a transport and treatment station, which is e.g. a glue station and / or an alignment station is, with at least two rotating conveyor rotors which are mounted on a mounting frame and driven by a rotary drive.
- the conveyor gyros are provided at their periphery with receptacles for the containers and in the peripheral region of each conveyor circle, an application station for applying an adhesive to a peripheral region of the container is arranged at a glue station.
- the device has a setting and compression station, which has at least two mutually parallel Abbinde arrangementen for the container, which opens in the setting and compaction station between the two conveyor rotors.
- the device has a guide device for transferring the container from the conveyor gyros to the setting and compression station.
- the containers are conveyed with adhesive joints facing each other, wherein the adhesive applied in the glue station cures and thus a packaging unit is formed from a plurality of containers.
- two containers are transported side by side in the setting and compression station between Abbinde entryen.
- three containers are bonded in series, e.g. Packing units of six containers realize.
- the setting and compacting station has at least two supports arranged side by side, each support each having at least one binding guide and each binding guide each comprising at least one guide track for guiding groups of containers in groups.
- This is in particular a circumferential guideway with deflections on or on which driven, carriage-like carrier or guide elements (movers) or an endless guide belt running between at least two deflections, of which at least one is driven.
- Each carrier is connected by means of a coupling member with the transport and treatment station such that each coupling member is pivotally articulated both at the transport and treatment station concentric to the rotational axis of a delivery gyro and at the setting and compression station concentric to the axis of the inlet side deflection of Abbinde adjustment.
- the coupling member itself is in particular a rigid lever arm made of a flat or a pipe material and has at both ends corresponding pivoting or bearing elements or can be connected to local pivot or bearing elements.
- the device further has an adjusting mechanism for adjusting the pivot angle of at least one of the two coupling members and a parallel guide for adjusting the distance between the two carriers, while maintaining the parallelism of the carrier to each other.
- at least one coupling member or both coupling members are driven only indirectly, by the immediate adjustment of the distance between the two carriers to each other via an actuating mechanism or drive, the parallelism of the carrier is maintained to each other analogous to the aforementioned solution.
- the coupling members follow by the two-sided axial bearing movement of the carrier or the guideway in the Y direction (transverse to the transport direction) by pivoting and simultaneously cause a compensating movement of the carrier in the X direction (transport direction).
- the coupling members on the one hand exactly concentric to the axis of rotation of the two conveyor rotors at the transport and treatment station, preferably on the mounting frame, and on the other hand concentric to the inlet side (the transport and treatment station facing) deflection of Abbinde Entry at the setting and compaction station, preferably hinged to the carrier, the beginnings of Abbinde Entryen always remain on a circumference around the conveyor gyro, so that when changing the mutual distance of the two Abbinde Entry whose distance to the conveyor gyros need not be adjusted separately.
- the device is thus self-adjusting to a certain extent.
- the parallel guide is formed at one end of the Abbindeumble by the coupling members and the adjusting mechanism and at the other end of Abbindeorder by the distance mechanism that allows adjustment of the mutual distance of the carrier while maintaining their parallelism to each other.
- the Abbindestset describes the distance between the two parallel Abbinde adjustmenten.
- the actuators or the actuator for the two coupling members are designed such that they synchronously and in opposite directions to each other adjust the coupling members.
- the Abbindestrange the setting and compression station always runs at right angles to the connecting line between the conveyor rotors.
- the geometrical correlation of the components of the transport and treatment station and the setting and compression station to each other thus remains in an adjustment of the distance of Abbinde adjustmenten ensured by synchronous opposing pivoting of the two coupling members.
- the adjustment of the setting and compression station to different container diameter is thus always self-adjusting.
- the invention thus provides self-alignment of the tangent point between the fixed conveyor rotors and the guide means, e.g. Deflection on the inlet side of the setting and compaction station with parallel synchronized adjustment of the two setting guides, which form the guide sides of the reduction section.
- the Abbinde entryen preferably two containers are arranged side by side, such that they are facing each other with at least one adhesive point.
- the setting and Compacting then hardens the glue point between the two containers, so that at the end of Abbinderow the containers on the adhesive dots are mutually connected in the manner of a packaging unit, eg as a six-pack. Therefore, for example, only one handle must be attached to such a packaging unit in order to make it manageable for the end user.
- the adhesive dots can also have different geometries that deviate from one dot, eg: dashes or circles. This is irrelevant to the invention.
- the device according to the invention comprises an actuator for the synchronous pivoting of the two coupling members, which leads to an automatic centering of the two Abbinde Entryen about a horizontal center axis between the two conveyor rotors.
- the Abbinde entryen are thus autojust Schlierend on the symmetry axis of the Abbindeumble.
- the actuator is controlled by a central control of the device, whereby all parameters of the components of the device are centrally manageable. A conversion to different container sizes and / or shapes is thus easily feasible.
- at least one binding guide is held on its carrier by means of a positioning device, wherein the positioning device allows an adjustment of the position of the Abbinde Entry relative to the carrier at least in the conveying direction x of the setting and compression station. In this way, the Abbinde entryen can be adjusted in the longitudinal direction to each other.
- the positioning allows an adjustment of the position of Abbinde adjustment relative to the carrier in two transverse horizontal directions (Cartesian system) in the manner of an X-Y carriage or cross table.
- the Abbinde adjustmenten can be adjusted by means of the positioning relative to its carrier not only in the longitudinal direction, but also in the transverse direction, ie against each other, if this is required, for example, for a fine adjustment.
- the Abbinde arrangementen are responsible for exerting a defined pressure as possible on the two in the Abbindeffle juxtaposed container so that the glue point or the adhesive dots lead between the two containers to a possible defined adhesive bond. Therefore, it is necessary to precisely adjust the pressure exerted by the setting guides on the adjacent containers.
- each coupling member includes its own actuating mechanism or actuator, and it is also possible in principle to provide a common actuating mechanism for both coupling members, which allows a synchronous opposing adjustment of both coupling members.
- the symmetrical synchronous adjustment of the two distance guides is automatically realized in an adjustment of the system.
- the system is thus autojust Schlierend in an adjustment.
- the adjusting mechanism engages at the transport and treatment station side pivot of the coupling member on the axis of rotation of the delivery gyroscope on a connected to the coupling member ring portion which is concentric with the axis of rotation of the conveyor circle.
- the adjusting mechanism may for example be provided by a drive motor with a pinion, which meshes a toothing on a peripheral edge of the ring portion.
- a drive motor with a pinion, which meshes a toothing on a peripheral edge of the ring portion.
- both coupling members are adjustable in this way, in which case the two motors, which each form the actuating mechanism for a coupling member, are driven synchronously and in opposite directions to each other by a common control.
- the coupling member is supported by a ball bearing on the mounting frame of the transport and treatment station, which is arranged concentrically to the axis of rotation of the delivery gyroscope. In this way, the simplest way to realize a concentric pivoting about the axis of the conveyor gyroscope.
- the coupling member is formed by an elongated strut, in the end regions of which the corresponding components for the pivotable articulation are provided on the mounting frame of the transport and treatment station and on the carrier.
- the coupling member may be, for example, an elongate solid or hollow profile made of metal.
- the carrier is formed by a frame, which has the advantage that one or more x-y carriages for the adjustable mounting of the Abbinde Entryen can be easily mounted / can.
- each binding guide is formed by at least two circulating rollers running around vertical axes, over which a guide belt runs in a horizontal plane, but the belt itself is vertically oriented.
- a rotary drive is provided for at least one deflection, so that the guide belts forming the setting guides can be actuated at a speed adapted to the rotational speed of the conveyor rotors.
- the guide belts of both Abbinde exiten are driven at the same speed and in opposite directions to each other.
- guides can be provided between the deflections on the side facing away from the containers of the guide belts, which press the guide belts against the container, so that sufficient pressure can be exerted on the container located on the Abbindeumble by the guide belts.
- the AbbindestTH is preferably a double distance, ie at least two containers are arranged side by side in this route, between each of which at least one adhesive point is arranged, which was applied in the conveyor rotors.
- Each Abbinde Entry can of course be formed by a plurality of successively arranged guides, in which case a plurality of deflections and guide bands are provided accordingly.
- the Abbindestrange can thereby also extend over the corner.
- a lacing line does not have to be exactly linear, but may also be curved. Individual components of the invention, as described in the claim, may be provided simply or repeatedly.
- all the actuators and other drives for example for the delivery rotors and the deflections of Abbinde entryen preferably have a control that is as central as possible for the entire device for forming packaging units to one or as many driven components synchronously and in accordance with each other Taxes.
- the adjusting mechanism may be designed for the motor or manual drive and acts on the Abbindestrange or their support, in particular on parts of the XY -Verstelliser example.
- the cross slide may be designed for the motor or manual drive and acts on the Abbindestrange or their support, in particular on parts of the XY -Verstelliser example.
- a linear drive is provided, such as, for example, a named linear drive by means of one or more threaded rods.
- FIG. 1 is a perspective, very schematic view of a glue station with two Abbinde Adjustmenten, which are held on separate carriers in an adjustable mutual distance,
- Fig. 2 shows a detail of the connection of the carrier two Abbinde arrangementen with the mounting frame of a glue station, and an alternative drive for the transverse adjustment of Abbinde arrangementen.
- Fig. 1 shows an apparatus 10 for forming packaging units from a plurality of containers, eg bottles or cans.
- the device 10 comprises a glue station 12, on which, inter alia, two delivery gyros 14, 16 are rotatably mounted on a mounting frame 18.
- the supporting and supporting structural parts are only sketchily indicated, such as the mounting frame 18 for the delivery gyros 14, 16 or the mounting frame 19, on which essentially the Abbinde Entryen are arranged and stored. Esp.
- the two mounting frames 18, 19 may also be parts of a common support and support structure.
- the container to be connected to a packaging unit are received and provided there with adhesive dots.
- the adhesive-coated containers are conveyed by means of a guide device, e.g. a deflection, transferred from the glue station 12 to a setting and compression station 20 containing two parallel Abbinde Installationen 22, 24.
- a guide track for circulating holding and carrier carriages or a circulating endless guide strip 26, which around a first deflection 28 with the rotation axis 29 at the beginning of the setting and compression station 20 and a second deflection 30 with the rotation axis 31 on the End of the setting and compression station 20 is guided.
- carriage-like carrier or guide elements (mover) holding devices and / or shaping body for position stabilization of the grouped containers are not shown.
- Each Abbinde arrangement 22, 24 is held on an associated carrier 32, 34 by means of a positioning device consisting of two cross slides 36, 38. At least two containers are arranged side by side and / or one behind the other with adhesive dots facing each other on the lapping line defined between the setting guides 22, 24; groups of six containers are usually pressed against one another by the setting guides.
- the adhesive hardens when transported simultaneously, at the end of the Abbindestrange an off a plurality of containers existing packaging unit is obtained, which comprises at least the two in the Abbindeumble side by side or in succession arranged container.
- Each carrier 32, 34 is connected at its end facing the glue station 12 via a respective coupling member 40, 42 with the mounting frame 18 of the glue station 12.
- Each coupling member 40, 42 is pivoted at its first end to the mounting frame 18 concentric with the axis of rotation 15, 17 of a respective conveyor circle 14, 16 hinged. At its other end, the coupling member 40, 42 on the carrier 32, 34, preferably concentric with the axis 28 of the first deflector 28 articulated.
- the two coupling members 40, 42 about the rotation axis 15, 17 of the respective conveyor circle 14, 16 synchronously and in opposite directions to each other adjustable.
- Fig. 2 shows a detailed perspective view of a device 50 for forming packaging units. 1 identical or functionally identical components are in this case provided with identical reference numerals. The device 50 from FIG.
- each coupling member 52, 54 is held with a second pivot joint 60, 62, which is preferably arranged concentrically to a deflection 28 of Abbinde Adjust 22, 24 at the glue station side end of the setting and compression station 20.
- an actuator 64, 66 is respectively formed on the mounting frame 18, which constitutes an actuating mechanism for synchronous counter-pivoting of the two coupling members 52, 54, preferably controlled by a central (microprocessor) control of the device 50 ,
- Fig. 3 shows an analogous to the embodiment of Figure 2 arrangement.
- the motors 70.1 and 70.2 serve the drive and the rotation of the two conveyor circuits 14 and 17 and the adjustment of Abbinde adjustmenten 22, 24 and the carrier 32, 34 is made via a transverse to the conveying direction linear drive 69, the two cross slide 36.1 and 36.2 shifts synchronously in the Y direction.
- the rotary drive of the threaded rod is not shown.
- the carrier 32, 34 on the cross slide 36.1 and 36.2, as well as the not dargestellen cross slide 38 is mounted such that the force resulting from the rigid, pivotable coupling members 40, 42 during the adjustment in the Y direction by the drive 69 also a causing compensating shift in the X direction.
- the invention thus allows a simple, self-adjusting (Autojustage) adjustment of the setting and compression station to different container diameter.
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Applications Claiming Priority (2)
| Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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| DE102015116225.3A DE102015116225B4 (de) | 2015-09-25 | 2015-09-25 | Vorrichtung zur Bildung von Verpackungseinheiten |
| PCT/EP2016/068707 WO2017050475A1 (de) | 2015-09-25 | 2016-08-04 | Vorrichtung zur bildung von verpackungseinheiten |
Publications (2)
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| EP3353064A1 true EP3353064A1 (de) | 2018-08-01 |
| EP3353064B1 EP3353064B1 (de) | 2019-03-20 |
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| EP16754445.1A Active EP3353064B1 (de) | 2015-09-25 | 2016-08-04 | Vorrichtung zur bildung von verpackungseinheiten |
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| US (1) | US10577139B2 (de) |
| EP (1) | EP3353064B1 (de) |
| DE (1) | DE102015116225B4 (de) |
| WO (1) | WO2017050475A1 (de) |
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| DE102009025912A1 (de) | 2009-06-03 | 2010-12-09 | Krones Ag | Körper und aus Körpern erstellte Gebinde sowie Vorrichtung und Verfahren zur Erstellung von Gebinden |
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| DE102012100810B4 (de) | 2011-12-02 | 2014-12-24 | Khs Gmbh | Vorrichtung zur Bildung von Verpackungseinheiten |
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| DE102015116225A1 (de) | 2017-03-30 |
| US20180237178A1 (en) | 2018-08-23 |
| US10577139B2 (en) | 2020-03-03 |
| EP3353064B1 (de) | 2019-03-20 |
| WO2017050475A1 (de) | 2017-03-30 |
| DE102015116225B4 (de) | 2017-05-11 |
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