EP3619120A1 - Device and method for cushioning at least one object in a container - Google Patents
Device and method for cushioning at least one object in a containerInfo
- Publication number
- EP3619120A1 EP3619120A1 EP18724193.0A EP18724193A EP3619120A1 EP 3619120 A1 EP3619120 A1 EP 3619120A1 EP 18724193 A EP18724193 A EP 18724193A EP 3619120 A1 EP3619120 A1 EP 3619120A1
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- European Patent Office
- Prior art keywords
- cushioning
- padding
- signal
- container
- filled
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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
- B65B55/00—Preserving, protecting or purifying packages or package contents in association with packaging
- B65B55/20—Embedding contents in shock-absorbing media, e.g. plastic foam, granular material
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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
- B65B57/00—Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices
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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
- B65B59/00—Arrangements to enable machines to handle articles of different sizes, to produce packages of different sizes, to vary the contents of packages, to handle different types of packaging material, or to give access for cleaning or maintenance purposes
- B65B59/001—Arrangements to enable adjustments related to the product to be packaged
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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
- B65B61/00—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages
- B65B61/20—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for adding cards, coupons or other inserts to package contents
- B65B61/22—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for adding cards, coupons or other inserts to package contents for placing protecting sheets, plugs, or wads over contents, e.g. cotton-wool in bottles of pills
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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
- B65B2210/00—Specific aspects of the packaging machine
- B65B2210/04—Customised on demand packaging by determining a specific characteristic, e.g. shape or height, of articles or material to be packaged and selecting, creating or adapting a packaging accordingly, e.g. making a carton starting from web material
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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
- B65B5/00—Packaging individual articles in containers or receptacles, e.g. bags, sacks, boxes, cartons, cans, jars
- B65B5/04—Packaging single articles
Definitions
- the invention relates to a device and a method for cushioning at least one article in a container according to the preambles of the two independent claims. Both from the market as well as from the
- crumpled paper forming a cushion pad and is in a pad forming device of a web-shaped
- the number and length of cushion pads are determined by the packer during manufacture, the determination being based on an estimate of the void volume present in the container by the packer.
- Web material are generated in a cushioning device in a sheet material enclosed air cushion. Again, the number or the length of the interconnected cushion pads is determined by the packer.
- padding means such as the padding with a plurality of foamed moldings, e.g. in the form of chips or pellets, etc.
- the number of padding means to be used is specified by the packer.
- systems are available on the market in which the packer using the hand or foot switch
- the packer does not have hands free during this time, which affects the speed of packing, especially if there are more
- Polsterstoff must be requested.
- the position of the packer specified, which may not be desirable from an ergonomic point of view.
- Container comprises a cushioning means providing means for providing cushioning means and a Requirement means that with the
- Padding means providing means is coupled, and a signal for requesting cushioning means to the
- a method for cushioning at least one article in a container comprises the following steps: a) feeding the container to a container
- Pad means providing means b) transmitting a signal requesting
- Cushioning means via a requesting means to the cushioning means providing means; c) providing the cushioning means based on the cushioning means
- the packer must not interrupt the packing process or can to fix the packaging object in the desired position in the container or continue the packaging process with already requested cushioning means until new
- the packer is less "static" tied to his workplace, but can change his position from an ergonomic point of view easier than if a foot control is provided. As a result, among other benefits, an increase in efficiency can be achieved.
- a request via an acoustic signal, in particular a voice signal as a particularly intuitive form of operation
- Request means processed and causes the provision of the cushioning agent.
- the cushioning agent providing device can be designed both mobile and stationary. If a mobile solution is provided, the flexibility of the site can be increased. In particular, solutions are also conceivable which are suitable for smaller quantities of goods to be packed.
- a corresponding device in particular a
- Voice recognition software can be part of the
- Request means comprise a microphone.
- a memory be present in the control and / or regulating device, in which a certain type of cushioning material and / or a certain amount of cushioning material certain acoustic signal, for example in the form of a specific word, is assigned.
- foam-filled upholstery bags are known, for example, from WO 2010/076026 A1, the disclosure of which is hereby expressly also the subject of the present invention
- Patent application is made.
- Padding means providing positioning means
- Padding forming unit comprises, in which the
- Starting material is provided. It may be provided particularly advantageous as a cushioning agent to use crumpled paper from which cushions are made by crumpling and cutting the starting material. Creased paper is special
- the web-shaped starting material can be both rolled up on a roll and folded, for example as a flat material in a zig-zag.
- the amount of crumpled paper may be a number and / or a length of individual crumpled paper
- Polsterffenumform With a bag provided in the film material with a gas, preferably air, filled and then the pad pocket z. B. closed by a conventional thermal welding process.
- the individual cushion cushions can be made from the web material
- bags or bags filled with expanding foam can also be used as padding material.
- the bags may be connected to and cut from a web material or provided individually prefabricated.
- loose particular foamed padding materials which are usually not made on site, however, offer the advantage that they allow a particularly good enclosure of the material to be packaged due to their smaller size. These can then be dosed, for example, in the form of units, wherein a unit can comprise a defined amount of poster materials.
- a voice control makes it possible that as precisely as possible the necessary number of cushioning means required
- the invention makes the
- a packaging scenario that is to say a given combination of container and article, generally always requires the same amount of cushioning agent, so that an experienced packer, when visually registering a packaging scenario, receives the correct number of cushioning agents can request. In addition, the request is easily possible.
- Objects in the container is responsible, relieved.
- the packer can then do the final positioning.
- the cushioning means is transported by gravity into the container. An expensive transport device with a separate drive is thereby saved, which in turn saves costs.
- the cushioning means can be transported along a chute into the container.
- a precise and reliable transport at the same time low cost and high reliability due to the lack of drive means is feasible.
- Figure 1 is a schematic representation of the
- Figure 2 is a schematic representation showing the
- Figure 3 is a schematic representation, which is a
- FIG. 4 shows a schematic representation of containers
- illustrated containers carry the reference numerals 10a, 10b and 10c.
- These containers are, for example, containers made of cardboard material, such as those used by mail order companies to ship ordered articles.
- the containers but also containers made of plastic or another
- an object 12a, 12b or 12c is arranged in each case.
- an object 12a-c is drawn in each case, In principle, however, it is also conceivable that several objects are arranged in a container 10a-c. It can be seen that the drawn objects 12a-12c
- container 10a-c and article 12a-c thus defines a very specific packaging scenario 14a-c. This is among other things
- the amount of cushioning required for the size of the void volume 16a-c of the specific packaging scenario 14a-c by a packer may be a control and / or
- Control device 18 are communicated, which is indicated in Figure 1 by respective arrows 20a-c.
- the control and / or regulating device 18 may be, for example, a conventional PC.
- cushion pads are provided from a crumpled paper material as a cushioning means.
- Control and / or regulating device 18 will now for each of the packaging scenarios 14a-c according to the requested by the packer number of cushioning pillows the required amount of cushioning means at a
- air-filled bags bags filled with an expanding foam
- foam bag bags filled with an expanding foam
- loose-fill material can also be used as cushioning means.
- Detection of the packaging scenario 14a-c is carried out by a person, for example by trial and error or experience. Instead, as known, for example, the
- Control device 18 to transmit, according to the invention an acoustic signal output, preferably a
- Speech signal used.
- the signal may be, for example, "1 short, 1 medium, 1 long" to request three cushion pads 28a-c of different lengths. It is also possible that the type of the desired
- Padding material is assigned a specific keyword. For example, the user may say "Paper 30" to add a 30 cm long padded paper cushion pad
- FIG. 2 a container 10a with an object 12a is transported on a roller conveyor 22.
- One person now evaluates which packaging scenario is involved (arrow 21).
- the packer now requests the required number and quantity of padding means (28a-28c) by means of the speech signal (arrow 23) in the padding agent provisioning device 19 which includes the control and / or regulating device 18 (eg 1 ⁇ short, 1 ⁇ middle, 1 x long).
- the control and / or regulating device 18 for this purpose a corresponding speech recognition
- a request means 25 having a microphone is coupled.
- the padding means in the present case the padding pads 28a-c, are provided (FIG. 3). As mentioned, this information is about the signal
- a padding means forming device 40 belongs to the padding means provision device (18).
- the padding means Provisioning device 19 may be stationary, but it may also be a mobile device. This is indicated here by the fact that the
- Upholstery conversion device 40 comprises a stand 42 which can be moved by means of rollers 42.
- the control and / or regulating device 18 controls the
- Pad forming device 40 so that from a present on a roller 46 stocked web-like
- the paper stock 48 is produced and thus provided with the above-mentioned 3 cushion pads 28a, 28b and 28c (it is understood that the sheet-like paper stock is also zig-zag folded instead of on a roll
- Cushion pad 28a LI where the cushion pad 28b L2 and the cushion pad 28c L3.
- the cushion pads 28a-c are output from the cushion forming device 40 from a machine exit 50.
- Container 10a can now be closed and transported by folding flaps 52.
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DE102017109736.8A DE102017109736A1 (en) | 2017-05-05 | 2017-05-05 | Apparatus and method for cushioning at least one article in a container |
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