EP3495279A1 - Verfahren und vorrichtung zum verpacken von hygieneartikeln - Google Patents

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EP3495279A1
EP3495279A1 EP17205678.0A EP17205678A EP3495279A1 EP 3495279 A1 EP3495279 A1 EP 3495279A1 EP 17205678 A EP17205678 A EP 17205678A EP 3495279 A1 EP3495279 A1 EP 3495279A1
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Georg Pfeifer
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Optima Nonwovens GmbH
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Priority to US16/761,250 priority patent/US20200361648A1/en
Priority to PCT/EP2018/082333 priority patent/WO2019110324A1/en
Priority to BR112020008543-0A priority patent/BR112020008543A2/pt
Priority to CN201880079064.1A priority patent/CN111417579A/zh
Priority to JP2020528034A priority patent/JP7269241B2/ja
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  • the invention relates to a method and a device for packaging sanitary articles such as absorbent articles, like diapers, sanitary napkins, panty liners, incontinence pads or similar.
  • sanitary articles are produced by production lines.
  • US2010/071318 A1 discloses a method and an arrangement for handling nappies, wherein nappies coming from a production line are alternately transferred to a first grouping subassembly and a second grouping subassembly, and wherein one or more removal conveyors are assigned to the grouping subassemblies, via which groups of articles are fed to the packaging devices.
  • FR2798370 A1 discloses a diverter wherein a first batch and a second batch of articles comprising a first and a second number of articles, respectively, are alternately directed towards a first and a second grouping device.
  • WO 2013/038310 A1 discloses a diverter wherein a batch of articles and one individual article are alternately directed towards a first and a second grouping device.
  • the at least one diverter has at least two outlet lines, wherein in accordance with the invention by means the diverter at least two batches differing in count can be fed to at least one of the two outlet lines of the diverter.
  • a packaging device of at least one of the first and the second packaging arrangement is adapted to packing two batches of articles differing in size into one common package or successive packages.
  • at least a first packaging arrangement is provided with two or more packaging devices or one or more dual lane packaging device.
  • the device comprises a first and a second packaging arrangement, wherein the first packaging arrangement comprises two packaging devices to which first batches A of count a and second batches B of count b are fed, respectively, and the second packaging arrangement comprises one packaging device to which third batches C of count c are fed.
  • the diverter can be controlled to feed a articles to the first packaging arrangement, c articles to the second packaging arrangement, b articles to the first packaging arrangement, c articles to the second packaging arrangement, and so on.
  • the repeated series of four batches is A-C-B-C, wherein the counts a and b of the batches B can be chosen to be not equal.
  • the number of articles in each batch in one embodiment equals the number articles to be packaged in one packaging unit. In other embodiments, successive batches are grouped and a number of grouped batches are packaged together.
  • the packaging arrangements each comprise at least two packaging devices or at least one dual lane packaging device.
  • the device comprises two packaging arrangements arranged downstream of one associated diverter.
  • a diverter is simple in design.
  • additional diverters could be provided.
  • the diverter feeding a first and a second packaging arrangement can be controlled to feed a first count a of articles to the first packaging arrangement, a third count c of articles to the second packaging arrangement, a second count b of articles to the first packaging arrangement, and fourth count d of articles to the second packaging arrangement.
  • the repeated series of four batches is A-C-B-D, wherein at least the two counts a and b are not equal.
  • Counts c and d of the third batch C and the fourth batch D in one embodiment are chosen equal.
  • the counts c and d are also set differently.
  • the two counts a and b can be packaged together using a common packaging device or packaged using two packaging devices or a dual lane packaging device.
  • the grouping device of at least one of the M packaging arrangements is a stacker comprising a conveyor with a number of pockets for receiving individual articles.
  • a stacker is described for example in US 2007/0065270 A1 and/or US 7475771 B2 enclosed herewith by reference.
  • the batches of articles are grouped in the stacker and groups of articles are offloaded or removed from the stacker for a subsequent packaging.
  • the conveyer is an open-loop conveyor, wherein pockets can be selectively added or removed from the conveyor.
  • the conveyor is a closed-loop circulation conveyor.
  • walls separating successive pockets are arranged fixed in position on the conveyor. In other embodiments, the walls are moveable within limits with respect to the conveyor allowing a pocket size to be decreased after receiving the article. This may be used for compressing the articles and/or calibrating the articles.
  • the speed of the stacker is adapted to the speed of the diverter and the product stream such that successive batches are inserted without gaps into pockets of the stacker.
  • successive batches of the same series of batches are separated by one or more empty pocket(s).
  • successive batches of articles of the successive series of batches of articles are separated by one or more empty pocket(s).
  • the empty pockets could be filed with additional articles of the same or different type to be packaged together with a batch of articles.
  • the size of the empty pockets between successive batches can vary.
  • the grouping device of at least one of the M packaging arrangements is a stacker comprising a conveyor with a number of compartments for batches of articles.
  • the size of each compartment is adjustable for adjusting the size of the compartment to the size of the batch received.
  • walls defining the compartment are moveable with respect to each other.
  • a leading wall is moved faster than a trailing wall thereby increasing the size of the compartment.
  • the trailing wall is moved towards the leading wall for compressing the articles in the compartment.
  • a gap is formed between the trailing wall and a leading wall of a successive compartment.
  • the trailing wall of the successive compartment is coupled to the leading wall of the compartment and when moving the trailing wall towards the leading wall of the same compartment, the size of the successive compartment is increased.
  • the movement of successive trailing walls and/or successive leading walls is coupled, wherein preferably the sizes of the compartments differ to match the size of the associated batches.
  • Fig. 1 schematically shows a device 1 for packaging sanitary articles (5, see Fig. 2 ) such as absorbent articles, like diapers, sanitary napkins, panty liners, incontinence pads or similar.
  • sanitary articles such as absorbent articles, like diapers, sanitary napkins, panty liners, incontinence pads or similar.
  • the device 1 shown in Fig. 1 comprises a diverter 10, a first packaging arrangement 11 and a second packaging arrangement 12 arranged downstream of the diverter 10.
  • the first packaging arrangement 11 comprises a first grouping device 21 and two packaging device 31, 32.
  • the second packaging arrangement 12 comprises a second grouping device 22 and two packaging device 33, 34.
  • a control unit 100 is assigned to the diverter 10.
  • the control unit 100 in one embodiment is part of a central control unit (not shown) provided for a monitoring and/or control of the device 1. In other embodiments, an individual control unit 100 is assigned to the diverter 10.
  • a product stream S coming from a production line (not shown) is fed to the diverter 10.
  • the diverter 10 is controllable such that by means of the diverter 10 batches of articles A, B, C, D are alternately directed towards the first packaging arrangement 11 and the second packaging arrangement 12, wherein in the embodiment shown, a first batch A and a second batch B are fed to the first packaging arrangement 11 and a third batch C and a fourth batch D are fed to the second packaging arrangement 12.
  • the first batch A is processed in the first packaging device 31 and the second batch B is processed in the second packaging device 32.
  • the third batch C is processed in the third packaging device 33 and the fourth batch D is processed in the fourth packaging device 34.
  • the control unit 100 By means of the control unit 100, the number of articles in each batch A, B, C, D, is individually settable, wherein each batch A, B, C; D comprises at least one article.
  • the diverter 10 is controllable for alternately directing the batches of articles A, B, C, D towards the first packaging arrangement 11 and the second packaging arrangement 12 in a repeated series of four batches A-C-B-D.
  • the number of articles in each batch A, B, C, D can be chosen identical.
  • at least the first batch A of articles and the second batch B of articles processed in the first packaging device 11 can also be chosen to differ in count.
  • the third batch C of articles and the fourth batch D of articles processed in the second packaging device 11 can also be chosen to differ in count.
  • the control unit 100 comprises a man-machine-interface allowing user to individually set the count of each batch A, B, C, D.
  • two packaging devices 31, 32, 33, 34 are provided at each packaging arrangements 11, 12.
  • at least at one of the packaging arrangements 11, 12 a dual-lane packaging device is provided instead of two packaging devices 31, 32, 33, 34.
  • one packaging arrangement 11, 12 comprises only one packaging device.
  • the number of articles in each batch A, B, C; D in one embodiment equals the number articles to be packaged in one packaging unit at the four packaging devices 31, 32, 33, 34. In other embodiments, successive batches fed to one of the four packaging devices 31, 32, 33, 34 are grouped and a number of batches are packaged together at the respective packaging device 31, 32, 33, 34.
  • Fig. 2 schematically shows a grouping device 21 of the device 1 of Fig. 1 , which in the embodiment shown is a stacker comprising a closed-loop circulating conveyor 210 with a number of pockets 212 for receiving individual articles 5. It will be understood that in preferred embodiments, pockets 212 are provided along the entire path of the conveyor 210, however, for the sake of clarity, only a number of pockets 212 is shown in Fig. 2 .
  • articles 5 are inserted into the pockets 212.
  • the articles 5 are supplied in two batches A, B that differ in count.
  • batch A comprises three articles 5 and batch B comprises four articles 5.
  • one empty pocket 212 is provided in each case between successive batches A, B of the same series of batches A-C-B-D (see Fig. 1 ) as well as between successive batches B, A of successive series of batches A-C-B-D.
  • FIG. 3 schematically shows an alternative embodiment of a grouping device 21 of the device 1 of Fig. 1 , which in the embodiment shown is a stacker comprising a closed-loop circulating conveyor 210 with a number of pockets compartments 213, 214, 215, 216, 217 for receiving batches A, B of articles 5.
  • compartments 213, 214, 215, 216, 217 are provided along the entire path of the conveyor 210, however, for the sake of clarity, only a number of compartments 213, 214, 215, 216, 217 is shown in Fig. 3 .
  • Each compartment 213, 214, 215, 216, 217 is limited by a leading wall and a trailing wall.
  • leading wall and the trailing wall are moveable with respect to one another.
  • one or more additional separation wall is provided between the leading wall and the trailing wall of one compartment, separating a batch of articles in two or more sub-batches. The sub-batches of one batch are subsequently supplied to a common packaging device.
  • successive batches A, B that differ in count are inserted between a leading wall and a trailing wall of a common compartment and supplied to a common packaging device.
  • the embodiment shown in Fig. 3 allows minimizing unused parts along the conveyor path, in particular in case a thickness products 5 are smaller in size than the pockets 212 of the stacker shown in Fig. 2 .
  • a clearance 218 between successive compartments 213, 214, 215, 216, 217 in one embodiment is chosen to equal a set size.
  • the clearance is variable. This allows to move two successive batches A, B close to one another for pushing both batches A, B into a common bag as well as to move successive batches A, B further apart in particular when filling two bags at least in part at the same or time.

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EP17205678.0A EP3495279A1 (de) 2017-12-06 2017-12-06 Verfahren und vorrichtung zum verpacken von hygieneartikeln
US16/761,250 US20200361648A1 (en) 2017-12-06 2018-11-23 Method and device for packaging sanitary articles
PCT/EP2018/082333 WO2019110324A1 (en) 2017-12-06 2018-11-23 Method and device for packaging sanitary articles
BR112020008543-0A BR112020008543A2 (pt) 2017-12-06 2018-11-23 método e dispositivo para embalar artigos higiênicos
CN201880079064.1A CN111417579A (zh) 2017-12-06 2018-11-23 用于包装卫生用品的方法和装置
JP2020528034A JP7269241B2 (ja) 2017-12-06 2018-11-23 衛生用品の包装のための方法及び装置

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