EP3423361A1 - Abschnitt einer verpackungslinie für getränkebehältnisse und verfahren zum umgang mit getränkebehältnissen während ihres transportes entlang einer verpackungslinie - Google Patents
Abschnitt einer verpackungslinie für getränkebehältnisse und verfahren zum umgang mit getränkebehältnissen während ihres transportes entlang einer verpackungslinieInfo
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- EP3423361A1 EP3423361A1 EP16819081.7A EP16819081A EP3423361A1 EP 3423361 A1 EP3423361 A1 EP 3423361A1 EP 16819081 A EP16819081 A EP 16819081A EP 3423361 A1 EP3423361 A1 EP 3423361A1
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
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Definitions
- the present invention relates to a section of a packaging line for
- Beverage containers and a method for handling beverage containers during their transport along a packaging line are Beverage containers and a method for handling beverage containers during their transport along a packaging line.
- the articles are assembled in the desired manner and covered with a shrink film.
- the shrink wrap is shrunk around the articles by supplying hot air in a shrink tunnel.
- the articles enter with the shrink film over an entrance in the shrink tunnel and leave the
- Shrink tunnel may extend a conveyor or horizontal conveyor to move the articles during the shrinking process through the shrink tunnel.
- thermoplastic packaging material is applied to an assembly of articles to form a package from the respective assembly over the thermoplastic packaging material in the shrink tunnel.
- Such a shrinking device is known for example from German Utility Model Publication No. DE 20 2007 018 402 111.
- the shrink tunnel of the DE utility model is connected to a gas supply device, via which the packaging materials are charged with a fluid-tempered medium.
- the fluid-tempered medium passes through a flow chamber and is guided in the direction of a plurality of outlet openings.
- the workstation may be preceded by a device for grouping or distributing.
- the respective subsequent to the shrink tunnel horizontal conveyor can serve as a buffer, which all of the shrinking tunnel located in the container at a
- Horizontal conveyor or the buffer upstanding container then be moved in the direction of a respective workstation.
- Reorientation or grouping must be brought in order to be able to be processed by the workstation. Accordingly, it would be desirable, starting from the prior art, to have devices which have a high degree of flexibility.
- An object of the invention is therefore to provide a generic section of a packaging line or a generic method available which require little space and have a high flexibility.
- the device should also be characterized by a simple structure. The procedure should be easy to implement.
- the invention relates to a section of a packaging line for
- the beverage containers may be formed, for example, by bottles or PET bottles or cans.
- the section comprises a shrink tunnel, by means of which shrink tunnels for producing containers, thermoplastic packaging material
- the shrink tunnel may for this purpose have a housing with two mutually aligned openings, the beverage containers entering through one of the two openings in the housing, are then moved through the shrink tunnel and the
- Shrink tunnel are discharged through the further opening.
- a shrink tunnel To transport the beverage containers or containers through the shrink tunnel, a
- Horizontal conveyor be positioned within the shrink tunnel.
- Shrinking tunnel can be arranged at least two opposing shaft walls between which the beverage containers are moved.
- the shaft walls can each have openings through which tempered air emerges and is moved in the direction of the thermoplastic packaging material.
- the section of the packaging line it makes sense for the section of the packaging line to comprise a work station which is arranged upstream of the shrink tunnel in the direction of flow of the beverage containers and via which workstation thermoplastic packaging material can be applied to compilations on beverage containers.
- the workstation may be directly upstream of the shrink tunnel in the flow direction of the beverage containers.
- the workstation may be preceded by an inlet for beverage containers, via which the beverage containers are continued to the workstation.
- the inlet may comprise a plurality of parallel aligned gutter plates over which the beverage containers are guided in parallel rows.
- the section also comprises at least one manipulator, which is designed for preferably clamping and / or positive reception and handling of containers produced via the shrink tunnel. The at least one manipulator follows downstream directly on the shrink tunnel.
- the at least one downstream of the shrink tunnel following Working device can provide the respective container with a tray or formed from plastic and / or cardboard and / or other materials outer packaging.
- the at least one downstream following the shrink tunnel can provide the respective container with a tray or formed from plastic and / or cardboard and / or other materials outer packaging.
- the at least one working device following downstream of the shrinking tunnel is designed as a stretch wrapper.
- the at least one working device downstream of the shrinking tunnel can be designed to apply a further packaging material designed as a stretch film to containers.
- a detection range of the at least one manipulator can thus extend at least approximately as far as an opening of the shrink tunnel, from which opening the containers emerge from the shrink tunnel.
- the at least one manipulator can receive and manipulate containers, if necessary, directly or at least approximately immediately after leaving the shrink tunnel.
- the term “directly” can be understood as meaning that no further station or working device, such as a horizontal conveyor or the like, is interposed between the at least one manipulator and the shrink tunnel Further, the term “direct” in the context of the present invention may be used be understood that, as previously mentioned, a
- Detection area of the at least one manipulator extends at least approximately up to an opening of the shrink tunnel, from which opening the containers emerge from the shrink tunnel.
- Manipulator immediately connected. Such embodiments are further characterized by a small footprint of the section of the packaging line.
- the shrink tunnel and / or the at least one manipulator is associated with at least one device for cooling the container.
- the at least one device for cooling the container comprises at least one fan, via which at least one fan, the container can be acted upon by a coming in the direction from above and another in the direction of coming from below airflow.
- the bundles can be seen in the area of an exit of the shrink tunnel by the in the direction from above coming air flow and the coming from below
- Air volume flow are applied.
- the device can be positioned such that the containers can be cooled or subjected to an air volume flow before being received by the at least one manipulator. It may also be that the at least one manipulator means for
- Manipulator as described below, designed as a parallel kinematic robot or as an industrial robot, it may be that an air flow is directed by means of a coordinated movement of several working arms on the container and the at least one manipulator temporally following up receiving and manipulating container.
- the device for cooling the container may in this case have at least one nozzle via which an air volume flow for cooling the container can emerge and which nozzle is mechanically in communication with the plurality of working arms, so that the nozzle moves by means of a coordinated movement of the plurality of working arms or can be offset.
- the at least one manipulator is designed as a parallel kinematic robot.
- the at least one manipulator can be designed as a tripod and thus have three independently movable working arms.
- Embodiments in which the at least one manipulator is designed as a parallel kinematic robot have proven to achieve a high throughput when handling containers along the packaging line.
- the at least one manipulator is designed as an industrial robot.
- the at least one manipulator may comprise at least two hanging gripping arms, which cooperate for handling containers and are movable along the packaging line and obliquely to the flow direction of the container.
- the section comprises a storage area for temporarily receiving containers, in which storage area containers are oriented through an obliquely oriented to their flow direction and through the at least one
- Manipulator induced movement are transferable.
- the shrink tunnel, the at least one manipulator and the at least one workstation can thus be positioned in a linear arrangement.
- the memory area can be laterally to the linear Connect installation.
- the storage area can connect laterally in the region of the at least one manipulator to the linear installation.
- a capacity of the storage area for beverage containers may correspond to at least one capacity of the shrink box for beverage containers. If the shrink tunnel is taken out of service, in practice all at a certain time in the shrink tunnel recorded container or
- Beverage containers are removed from the shrink tunnel so that there are no containers in the shrink tunnel after this time.
- these containers removed from the shrink tunnel are connected directly to the shrink tunnel
- Horizontal conveyor which is designed as empty travel route
- Section of the packaging line can be made compact or space-saving.
- the storage area can be arranged offset laterally or obliquely to the flow direction of the container along the packaging line. It may also be that the at least one manipulator has its own horizontal conveying device, above which a clamping and / or gripping device designed as part of the at least one manipulator is movably suspended. The own
- Horizontal conveyor of the at least one manipulator may optionally as
- the section of a packaging line may comprise a control device, coupled to the at least one manipulator, via which the at least one manipulator for generating an arrangement and / or orientation of the containers provided for the at least one working device can be actuated.
- the at least one manipulator for producing the respective arrangement and / or orientation provided for the at least one working device can rotate and / or displace oblique containers to their flow direction.
- the at least one manipulator can form a supply current having a number of n parallel rows from a supply current having a number of n parallel rows, wherein the number n is formed differently from the number m.
- the section may comprise at least one optical sensor for detecting a condition of containers, wherein the at least one manipulator is in operative connection with the at least one optical sensor, so that containers whose If the actual condition deviates from a desired condition, it may be possible to discard it before it is fed to the at least one working device via the at least one manipulator.
- the at least one optical sensor system can be designed as a camera system. Next, the at least one optical sensor or the
- control device causes the dispensing of the respective actual condition of the desired condition, the separation of the respective container via the at least one manipulator.
- the target condition as the quality of
- thermoplastic packaging material may be given to compilations to beverage containers. If the quality of the shrinkage does not correspond to the predetermined target condition or if the actual condition differs from the predetermined desired condition, the respective container, as previously described, can be discarded via the at least one manipulator. It is also conceivable that the at least one manipulator to a
- Control device is coupled, which brings about when discarding a respective container over the at least one manipulator effected replacement by another container, wherein the actual condition of the other container of the desired condition corresponds.
- the further containers can be positioned, for example, in the previously described storage area, in which the at least one
- Manipulator transferred a segregated container and temporal succession receives another container, the other container instead of the
- Movement via the at least one manipulator in the memory area can be transferred.
- the section comprises at least one horizontal conveying device, via which manipulated containers can be fed to the at least one working device, wherein the at least one manipulator for stacking the containers is formed on the at least one horizontal conveying device.
- the at least one manipulator for stacking the containers is formed on the at least one horizontal conveying device.
- Decommissioning be provided that all at a given time in the Shrink tunnels located beverage containers are removed from the shrink tunnel.
- the beverage containers located at the given time in the shrink tunnel are at least partially accepted and stacked by the at least one manipulator after discharge from the shrink tunnel.
- the at least one manipulator may have its own horizontal conveyor. The containers can be stacked on their own horizontal conveyor.
- the containers can be moved in stacked form to at least one working device. It may also be that, when the shrinking tunnel is put into operation again, a stacked formation of the containers is removed via the at least one manipulator and the containers are carried on in non-stacked formation to the at least one working device.
- Horizontal conveyor is formed and in which at least one downstream of the at least one manipulator following working means is provided, via which further packaging material can be applied to the container in a stacked formation.
- the at least one manipulator for producing a specific and a palettierDirecten position corresponding target orientation of multiple containers is formed to each other. After establishing the desired orientation, the plurality of containers can be compacted, as a result of which a palettable layer is produced. The palletizable layer can then be deposited on an associated pallet or transferred to an associated pallet. It is also conceivable that the section comprises a horizontal conveyor, which is followed by a grouping, by means of which Gruppierstation a certain orientation of the container to each other for a palettable position can be produced.
- the at least one manipulator can thus be designed as a turning and / or distribution system for containers.
- the invention also relates to a method for dealing with
- Beverage containers during their transport along a packaging line Beverage containers during their transport along a packaging line.
- thermoplastic packaging material is shrunk onto compilations of beverage containers and thereby respective containers are made from the compilations.
- the thermoplastic packaging material can be subjected to a tempered fluid flow in order to shrink the thermoplastic packaging material to the particular composition of beverage containers. For example, compilations formed from two, four, or six beverage containers may be produced, to which thermoplastic packaging material is applied, the compositions being compatible with their respective thermoplastic materials
- the packaging material enters the shrink tunnel or is fed to the shrink tunnel.
- the beverage containers Before forming the compilations, the beverage containers may be guided in parallel rows.
- the compilations may be delayed by delaying or accelerating leading beverage containers
- the containers are removed from the shrink tunnel.
- the container in the direction of at least one following on the shrink tunnel in the flow direction
- the containers can be moved in a linear direction and optionally via a horizontal conveyor.
- the containers after removal from the shrink tunnel, the containers reach a detection area of at least one manipulator immediately following the shrink tunnel, which at least one directly adjoins the shrink tunnel
- the detection range of the at least one manipulator can connect at least approximately directly to an exit or an opening of the shrink tunnel.
- Manipulator be supplied in a flow direction of the container following working device, which applies additional packaging material on the container.
- Air flow to be cooled It is conceivable here that the containers are cooled by an airflow coming from below and by another air volume flow coming from above. In this case, containers in the region of the shrinking tunnel and / or in the area or detection area of the at least one manipulator can be cooled by means of the air volume flow.
- respective containers can be cooled before receipt by the at least one manipulator.
- Shrink tunnels can have a high temperature.
- Cooling is the possibility of containers at least approximately immediately after leaving the shrink tunnel by means of at least one manipulator
- Memory area the respective containers located in the storage area means of the at least one manipulator taken from the storage area and in
- Work device provided arrangement and / or new orientation can be brought. For example, this can be selectively rotated and / or oblique to their containers
- Offset flow direction and / or delayed or accelerated to subsequent containers Offset flow direction and / or delayed or accelerated to subsequent containers.
- a condition of containers can be sensory checked, with packages whose actual condition deviates from a desired, condition, are discarded before being supplied to the at least one working device via the at least one manipulator.
- the desired nature as previously described, as the quality of the shrinkage of the thermoplastic
- Packaging material may be formed on compilations to beverage containers.
- Figure 1 shows a schematic view of a conceivable embodiment of a section of a packaging line
- Figure 2 shows a schematic view of another conceivable
- FIG. 3 shows individual steps as they may be in a conceivable embodiment of a method according to the invention.
- FIG. 1 shows a schematic view of a conceivable embodiment of a section 1 of a packaging line for beverage containers 3.
- the section 1 comprises in the embodiment of Figure 1 an inlet 7, via which individual beverage containers 3 in indicated by means of arrow representation
- the inlet 7 comprises a plurality of gutter plates, over which parallel tracks for guiding the beverage containers 3 are formed in parallel rows.
- leading beverage containers 3 can be accelerated with respect to subsequent beverage containers 3, so that between the leading beverage containers 3 and the respectively following beverage containers 3 certain distance is formed.
- Leading beverage containers 3 and trailing beverage containers 3 then form a respective compilation in the area of the workstation 9
- FIG. 1 shows with reference to FIG. 13 a shrink tunnel which directly adjoins the work station 9. To get out of the compilations
- thermoplastic packaging material is applied in the shrink tunnel 13 with thermal energy, wherein the thermoplastic
- Packaging material is formed.
- the shrink tunnel 13 comprises a device 14 for cooling the container 5. Before leaving the shrink tunnel 13, the containers 5 pass through the device 14. Via the device 14, the containers 5 are each cooled with one coming from below and one from above impinged air flow coming. After passing through the device 14 or after cooling, the containers 5 leave the shrink tunnel 13.
- the section 1 also comprises at least one downstream or in
- Packaging material or stretch film is applied.
- the following in the flow direction SR on the shrink tunnel 13 working device 30 is therefore designed as a stretch wrapper.
- an outer packaging is applied to the container 5 by means of the working device 30.
- the outer packaging can, for example, as a tray or as formed by cardboard and / or cardboard
- Umverpackung be formed.
- the working device 30 and the shrink tunnel 13 is a manipulator 20 interposed, which connects directly to the shrink tunnel 13 or
- Shrink tunnel 13 can be formed by a first module, the manipulator 20 by a second module, wherein the second module directly connects to the first module.
- manipulator 20 has its own
- Horizontal conveyor comprises, which connects directly to the shrink tunnel 13.
- the manipulator 20 can detect and manipulate upstanding containers 5 on the own horizontal conveyor. The coverage of the
- Manipulator 20 may be at least approximately up to an opening of the
- Shrink tunnels 13 extend over which opening containers 5 leave the shrink tunnel 13.
- the manipulator 20 is formed in the embodiment of Figure 1 as Parallelkinematik- robot 21 and tripod and has a plurality of working arms whose movements for receiving and handling containers 5 are coordinated.
- a memory area of the section 1 is shown.
- the manipulator 20 or the parallel kinematic robot 21 can accept containers 5, an obliquely oriented to the flow direction SR movement for the respective
- the transfer of the container 5 in the storage area 17 by the manipulator 20 can via a Control device S are predetermined, which is coupled to the manipulator 20 and the parallel kinematic robot 21. In this way, a continuation of the respective container 5 to the working device 30 is at least temporarily prevented. If the shrink tunnel 13 is taken out of service, all recorded at a certain time in the shrink tunnel 13 container 5 or
- Beverage containers 3 are removed from the shrink tunnel 13, as in
- Shrink tunnel 13 a high temperature level prevails, which would lead to damage of the respective container 5 at a long residence time of containers 5 in the shrink tunnel 13. It may be that at the given time in the shrink tunnel
- the containers 5 transferred to the storage area 17 and deposited in the storage area 17 can be removed from the storage area 17 via the manipulator 20 or the parallel kinematic robot 21 and further in the direction of the working device 30 to be moved. Even with disturbances it may be necessary to remove all containers 5 from the shrink tunnel 13. A transfer into the storage area 17 can then take place via the manipulator 20, as described above.
- stretch film can be applied to the respective containers 5 via the working device 30.
- the working device 30 is thus designed as a stretch wrapper. For this purpose, it is necessary to bring the container 5 before being fed to the working device 30 in a corresponding predetermined orientation and orientation. On the controller S can this
- control device S can effect a handling of the containers 5 or alignment of the containers 5 via the manipulator 20 or the parallel kinematics robot 21 such that the containers 5 reach the working device 30 in the predetermined desired orientation and desired orientation ,
- the section 1 has an optical sensor 23, which as
- Camera system 24 is formed and is in communication with the control device S.
- the optical sensor 23 or the camera system 24 provides information to the Control device S to the actual condition of containers 5, which the
- Exit shrink tunnel 13 the optical sensor 23 or the camera system 24 can supply information on the quality of the shrinkage of the thermoplastic packaging material to the respective composition of beverage containers 3.
- the control device S compares the actual condition of containers 5 with a predetermined desired condition. If the actual condition of a container 5 or more containers 5 deviates from a predetermined desired condition, the control device S may be a separation of the respective one container 5 or the respective plurality of containers 5, the actual condition of which deviates from the predetermined desired condition , via the manipulator 20 and via the parallel kinematic robot 21 effect. For example, segregated container 5 of the
- Manipulator 20 and the parallel kinematic robot 21 are transferred to the memory area 17.
- the memory area 17 For various embodiments is also conceivable that the
- Manipulator 20 a segregated container 5 replaced by another container 5, the actual condition of the desired nature corresponds.
- the further containers 5 may possibly be stored in the storage area 17 or are located in the storage area 17.
- Figure 2 shows a schematic view of another conceivable
- Embodiment of a section 1 of a packaging line has according to the section 1 of the
- Embodiment of Figure 1 an inlet 7, a workstation 9, a
- the section 1 has a manipulator 20, which is designed as a parallel kinematic robot 21.
- the manipulator 20 or the parallel kinematic robot 21 directly adjoins the shrink tunnel 13.
- the components mentioned are identical to
- Embodiment of Figure 1 is formed, so that is referred back with respect to the structural and functional design on Figure 1.
- a layer-forming belt 18 is additionally provided which directly adjoins the manipulator 20 or the parallel-kinematics Robot 21 connects.
- the manipulator 20 are containers 5 on the layer forming belt 18 in a specific and for a palettierShe position
- the palletizable layer is continued to a palletizing device 22.
- the palette device 22 sets the palettierShe position on an associated and in the figures present patent application not shown with palette.
- a working area of the manipulator 20 may extend at least in sections over the ply-forming belt 18 in order to pass on packs 5 in the specific orientation to the ply-forming belt 18 or to deposit them on the ply-forming belt 18. It may also be that the manipulator 20 has its own
- Horizontal conveyor has, to which reference is made in Figure 2 by way of example with numeral 60.
- the manipulator 20 can produce a specific orientation of the container 5 for a palletizable layer on its own horizontal conveyor 60 and the container 5 thereon by means of its own horizontal conveyor 60 to the
- FIG. 3 shows individual steps as they may be in a conceivable embodiment of a method according to the invention.
- beverage containers 3 are fed to a shrink tunnel 13, wherein
- thermoplastic packaging material on compilations
- Beverage containers 3 is shrunk. As a result, several
- Beverage containers 3 combined into a container 5.
- the container 5 are removed from the shrink tunnel 13, whereupon the containers 5 reach at least one manipulator 20 immediately following the shrinking tunnel 13 into the detection area.
- Manipulator 20 accepts container 5 and handles after receiving the respective container 5. From the receipt and handling by the at least one manipulator 20 resulting in the container 5 in one for a
- Working device 30 provided orientation and / or arrangement are brought. Subsequently, the containers 5 are continued in the direction of the working device 30. By the working device 30 then stretch film is applied to the container 5.
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