EP3676203A1 - Verfahren und vorrichtung zum umgang mit in mindestens einer reihe hintereinander bewegten stückgütern - Google Patents
Verfahren und vorrichtung zum umgang mit in mindestens einer reihe hintereinander bewegten stückgüternInfo
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
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- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
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- B65G47/00—Article or material-handling devices associated with conveyors; Methods employing such devices
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
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- B65G57/22—Stacking of articles of particular shape three-dimensional [3D], e.g. cubiform or cylindrical in layers each of predetermined arrangement
Definitions
- the present invention relates to a method for handling in at least one row successively moving piece goods with the features of independent method claim 1.
- the invention relates to a device for handling in at least one row successively moving piece goods with the features of the independent apparatus claim 10th
- Each individual piece goods are transferred to the conveyor belt. This transfer can be done by each individual piece goods through a
- Speed difference between the conveyor belt and conveyor belt is transferred individually to the conveyor belt, wherein control by optical sensors such as light barriers may be present. It is also conceivable to transfer the piece goods occasionally from the conveyor belt by stepwise driving the layer forming belt. In order in such a way in each case individual piece goods from the conveyor belt transfer the ply forming belt, the ply forming belt in synchronized steps with the conveyor belt exactly by a length of a piece goods in
- Transport direction are moved. On the conveyor belt these can
- Groupings or parts of the grouped piece goods are also rotated depending on the desired layer formation, in order then to be transferred to the layer forming belt.
- piece goods can be brought together by being brought into a two-dimensional formation (block formation, eg pallet layer).
- block formation eg pallet layer
- Roller conveyor from an alley or from several lanes be supplied linearly.
- the piece goods can be rotated as required before or on the roller conveyor and placed on the roller conveyor mechanically by stopping in the required position.
- the piece goods thus positioned can then be pushed off the roller conveyor orthogonally to the transport direction.
- the inflow, the arrangement and the removal of the piece goods can be considered as one cycle. At least one cycle is needed to make a layer, but normally it takes several cycles.
- the partially discontinuous production with its relatively abrupt changes in speed or direction causes correspondingly high mechanical loads on the piece goods, which is gentle on the product
- Processing of general cargo may be detrimental.
- the document EP 1 456 101 A2 discloses a device for the series formation of packaged goods for packaged palletizers.
- the container palletizer comprises at least one ply station and at least one palletizing station.
- the row forming device comprises at least one positioning station, on which the packaged goods during the
- Transports are arranged in at least one row at desired intervals.
- the positioning station is connected to a supply conveyor associated with the paging station. Upstream of the positioning at least one accumulation conveyor is arranged, wherein the positioning station has a plurality of conveying sections arranged in succession in the transport direction with controllable and controllable drives. With the controllable and controllable drives, it is possible to achieve a desired distance formation of the packaged goods.
- the row forming device has at least one
- Monitoring device for determining and monitoring the formation of the distance of the packaged goods.
- the structure of this known row forming device is relatively expensive and complicated, especially as it requires a variety of bands that are needed for a spacer formation and / or rotation of the packaged goods.
- the groups are fed with a subsequent band of a packaging device.
- the primary object of the invention is to enable precise and precise positioning and handling of piece goods transported in at least one row.
- the corresponding device should be operated faster than those known from the prior art
- the invention relates to a method and a device for handling and / or handling piece goods moved in succession in at least one row, which are transported to a detection area of at least one manipulator.
- the piece goods moving in at least one row one behind the other can optionally be supplied with the same or different gaps between successive piece goods, optionally also with piece goods moved directly and without intervals. Regardless of the sequence of piece goods transported one after the other, they are usually transported one behind the other in alignment.
- the piece goods transported in a row can optionally be transported intermittently, for example in successive rows of a plurality of piece goods etc. If, therefore, in the context of the present description, only one method, one method variant, the
- a handling of cargo in connection with the entire disclosure disclosure is mainly concerned with a handling of cargo, so this includes equally handling, detection, positioning, movement in space, rotation, orientation, etc., especially in connection with a manipulator and / or moving Parts of the manipulator, which are arranged in a detection space and can move there within definable limits.
- the concept of dealing equally includes positioning, promotion and / or all kinds of
- Horizontal conveyors, conveyor belts, etc. may take place, which are part of the device according to the invention and / or with this in operative connection and / or in a transport connection, be it in the transport and / or conveying direction
- the piece goods can be items moved in succession, packages, container combinations, containers, cardboard boxes or similar. act.
- a plurality of identical or different piece goods or articles are combined by a cardboard outer packaging, by a strapping or several strapping, by a film package o. The like.
- a container or mixing container a plurality of beverage containers, which are held together by a shrink wrap, for example, by a strapping band or several strapping bands, each form a piece goods.
- the successively moving piece goods can thereby depending on the requirement of
- the closed formation in the sense of the present invention may have a finite length and a limited number of piece goods, after which a gap and such a gap may possibly follow another such formation, which is subsequently transported. Such a sequence may be repeated, possibly even multiple, multiple or indefinite.
- the closed formation can also be transported as an endless formation, which has no interruption and comprises any number of piece goods. From this formation or closed formation, at least one transported piece goods is clamped and / or positively and / or positively detected, spatially separated from the formation and brought into a defined relative target position and / or target towards subsequent cargo of the formation.
- the piece goods can also be conveyed in clocked feed to the manipulator or to its detection space, which means both conveyance into rows with respectively defined distances of the piece goods from each other and / or rows of finite length with larger gaps between such successive rows can.
- a closed formation in such a sense can also be understood as a longer sequence of several such rows, which thus does not mean a complete succession of piece goods, but in their entirety due to the regular transport with regularly repeating patterns of piece goods transported one behind the other and their respective gaps can also be regarded as a closed formation in the broadest sense.
- such a described transport sequence of piece goods of a clocked infeed or the concept of a clocked infeed comes closer than a strictly continuous succession of piece goods.
- Such a clocked formation may be repeated, possibly even multiple, multiple or indefinite.
- this clocked formation can also be transported as an endless formation, which has no interruption and comprises any number of piece goods. From the inlet of the closed formation or clocked, i. with defined
- Gaps between successive piece goods or groups of several piece goods, supplied piece goods are in at least one manipulation step within the detection range by means of the manipulator at least two transported piece goods from the at least one row clamping and / or force and / or positively detected, separated from subsequent cargo of the at least one row spatially and placed under rotation and / or displacement in a defined first relative target position and / or target orientation against subsequent cargo of at least one row.
- Detection of piece goods is mentioned, this also includes a non-positive and / or frictional detection, a non-positive and / or frictional gripping or picking up piece goods. All these variants of picking up, grasping and / or gripping piece goods can be combined equally with a form-locking gripping, gripping or picking up the piece goods.
- Target orientation may in particular mean that the piece goods can be detected, moved and / or rotated and / or raised, the piece goods are either only moved or raised (without rotation) or only rotated (without sliding movement) can.
- the at least two detected piece goods are in this case converted into a defined first relative target position and / or target orientation within the detection range of the at least one manipulator, which is laterally offset from the alignment of at least one row downstream cargo arranged / trained or laterally offset to one Escape in at least one row following
- Piece goods is located.
- the manipulator is assigned a horizontal conveying device, on which the manipulator arranges the respectively detected piece goods in the relative target position and / or target orientation.
- the horizontal conveying device preferably moves in a transport direction and at a conveying speed, which in particular corresponds to the transport direction and the transport speed of the piece goods supplied in at least one row, preferably via at least one transport device. That is, the relative arrangement between the feeding
- Piece goods and the items transported by the manipulator are fixed, unless they are again detected and manipulated by the manipulator in further process steps.
- At least one piece goods are transferred from the at least one row and / or from the at least two to the first relative target position and / or target orientation
- Piece goods clamped and / or positively and / or positively detected separated from the respective subsequent piece goods of at least one row and arranged in the first relative target position and / or target piece goods and spatially under rotation and / or shift in more, especially second, defined relative target positions and / or targeting.
- different quantities of one, two or more piece goods can be detected and manipulated by the manipulator in each process step.
- a stackable and / or palatable layer formation or partial layer and / or a precursor to such a layer formation or partial layer is thus formed from a defined number of manipulated piece goods.
- This can be further conveyed in the transport direction and supplied to further handling steps, for example, a Vorgrupp réelle to form a compact layer and then a palletizer for arranging the compact layer on a stacking surface, such as a pallet. If in the context of this application of manipulated piece goods is mentioned, then fall under it all piece goods that run into the detection range of the manipulator and find an arrangement within the layer formation.
- the piece goods can be detected by the manipulator and arranged in a defined relative target position and / or target orientation to subsequent piece goods.
- individual piece goods or groups of piece goods can also be moved without contact to the manipulator on the horizontal conveyor in alignment with the transport direction and thereby occupy a target position within the layer formation.
- a distance to the subsequent piece goods of zuge Formulaten series arises here, for example, by the manipulator in
- Transport direction downstream cargo of the series picks and spends in a target position and / or target orientation according to the position scheme.
- the number of piece goods which can be tapped in the further manipulation steps by the at least one manipulator or by at least one gripper head of the at least one manipulator to be described in more detail below, depends in each case in particular on the layer scheme to be created. In each case, at least one piece goods or a group comprising at least two piece goods is always detected by the manipulator, of the subsequent piece goods the at least one row separated and spent in a respective relative target position and / or target arrangement.
- the transfer of the packaged goods detected by the manipulator into the defined first relative target position and / or target orientation and into further relative target positions and / or target orientations takes place successively in terms of time, in particular in mutually independent
- Piece goods are detected twice by the manipulator and spent in a first manipulator step in a first laterally offset target position and / or target orientation and in a subsequent manipulation step in a further target position and / or target orientation according to a predetermined position scheme.
- Manipulation step at least one of the at least two in the laterally offset first relative target position and / or target orientation transferred cargo through the
- Manipulator detected again and in another relative target position and / or
- Target arrangement according to the predetermined position scheme transferred. That is, the arrangement of this at least one doubly manipulated piece goods in the first target position and / or arrangement does not correspond to the desired arrangement according to a predetermined and produced by the manipulator layer scheme. Also in this embodiment, piece goods moved in succession are transported in at least one row to the detection area of the at least one manipulator.
- At least two cargo items are detected by clamping and / or positive and / or positive, spatially separated from subsequent cargo of at least one row and laterally offset by rotation and / or shift in the defined first relative target position and / or target orientation to escape the in brought at least one row of subsequent piece goods.
- These laterally staggered at least two piece goods form a simulated additional series of piece goods, of which the manipulator can also grasp and relocate piece goods in subsequent process steps.
- the manipulator in subsequent process steps either piece goods of this simulated additional series detected and in a further target position and / or
- Targeting spends, or that the manipulator cargo of normal supplied Row used.
- Target orientation have been added, a stackable and / or palettable layer formation or sub-layer and / or a precursor to such a layer formation or sub-layer.
- This layer formation or partial layer is conveyed in a transport direction and supplied to further handling steps.
- Positioning scheme are positioned.
- Target orientation as a simulated second row arranged piece goods in this first target position and / or targeting remaining part of the to be created
- the necessary return stroke can be shortened.
- the manipulator may delay the detected and laterally offset piece goods against the conveying speed within the detection range.
- the manipulator can delay the piece goods with respect to the conveying speed of the horizontal conveyor.
- the Piece goods are released by the manipulator, preferably in a first target position and / or target orientation, in which the prefabricated cargo of the simulated additional row arranged in the transport direction and the piece goods arranged in the transport direction at the front are in a common height.
- the simulated additional series can be advantageously used, for example, if due to a disturbance in a subsequent processing module, for example a pre-grouping, a palletizer or the like. the formation of layers must be delayed, but the supply of general cargo can not be stopped immediately. This problem arises in particular if the piece goods are shrinkage packages that are in the
- shrink wrap-wrapped article assemblies may be terminated in a timely manner, those wrapped in shrink-wrap within the shrink tunnel must, at the time of failure, be wrapped in shrink wrap
- shrink tunnel, grouping module comprising horizontal conveyor and at least one manipulator and palletizer without or with only short
- the at least one manipulator can first process the buffered piece goods arranged in simulated rows. It can be provided, for example, that the horizontal conveyor is not turned on again, so that no movement of the buffered cargo in
- Transport direction takes place. Only after at least one new layer arrangement has been formed and / or all buffered piece goods have been processed, are piece goods in at least one row fed again in a transport speed and the
- Horizontal conveyor is operated at a transport speed corresponding conveyor speed. Furthermore, it can be provided that the at least one manipulator detects at least two parcels, separates them from the subsequent parcels of the at least one row and can spend them in respectively different relative target positions and / or target orientations. According to an alternative embodiment, the transfer of piece goods takes place in the defined first relative target position and / or
- Target orientation and in other relative target positions and / or target orientations in terms of time at least in sections simultaneously and / or in time overlapping phases. This is the case, in particular, when two or more manipulators are provided for the movement of the piece goods or when the at least one manipulator comprises two or more individually controllable gripper heads which independently detect piece goods and into a respective one
- Manipulators or the at least two gripper heads of a manipulator can, in particular, independently move, turn, lift, etc., for example one of at least two manipulators can grasp two piece goods and place them laterally offset in a first relative target position and / or target orientation, while the other Simultaneously manipulator or simultaneously with temporally overlapping manipulation phases at least another piece goods of the series and can arrange in the second relative target position and / or target orientation.
- manipulator In the context of this application is generally spoken by manipulator, so at least one manipulator or at least one gripper head of a manipulator is meant.
- embodiments are also encompassed in which a plurality of manipulators or manipulators having a plurality of gripper heads which can be controlled independently of one another are used.
- piece goods in at least two parallel rows are fed to the detection area of at least one manipulator.
- at least one defined manipulation step can be provided, in which at least two piece goods are simultaneously picked up by the at least two parallel rows, can be separated from the at least two rows conveyed in parallel in the same transport direction and moved into respectively different relative target positions.
- the manipulator can, for example, have at least two gripper heads which are rotatable independently of one another about parallel vertical axes of rotation, with which they can each transfer piece goods that they have collected from at least two parallel rows into different target positions, wherein the at least two rotatable gripper heads each hold the piece goods thus grasped in the least two
- Targeting can bring.
- one gripper head arranges the piece goods it detects laterally displaced to run in series trailing cargo, while the other gripper head rotates the detected by him piece goods, for example, 90 degrees about the vertical axis of rotation and in a target position in flight or arranged laterally offset to escape the in line trailing piece goods.
- the gripper heads of the manipulator in their
- Distances between each other are variable, in particular in a time interval between the detection of the cargo and the discontinuation of the cargo in the respective
- Target positions and / or targeting can take place simultaneously in some manipulation steps, in particular wherein the change in the distance between the at least two piece goods and the rotational movements of the respective gripper heads of the manipulator at least coupled at some manipulation steps.
- the Coupling is preferably carried out electronically by means of a suitable
- a manipulator with at least two individually controllable gripper heads can also simultaneously arrange piece goods of different layer formations.
- one of the gripper heads a last piece or a last group comprising at least two cargo in a target position and / or
- the substantially simultaneous tapping of piece goods supplied in at least two parallel rows can alternatively also be carried out with at least two manipulators which can be controlled independently of one another. Also in this case it can be provided that at the same time piece goods of a first layer and piece goods of a second layer can be brought into a respective target position and / or target orientation by the two manipulators.
- Target items and / or target orientations spent piece goods a stacking and / or palettable layer formation or partial position are generated, which can be subsequently supplied to further handling devices.
- the invention further relates to a device for handling in at least one row successively moving piece goods.
- the device comprises at least one manipulator for the piece goods and at least one
- the at least one manipulator is designed for the clamping and / or positive and / or positive reception of at least one piece good, for separating it from subsequent piece goods and for arranging in a relative target position and / or target orientation.
- the manipulator detects at least two piece goods and transfers them to a laterally offset target position and / or target orientation, as already described in connection with FIG the method has been described in detail. Furthermore, by the
- Manipulator in a further process sequence further cargo, in particular in each case at least one cargo, recorded and in each case according to a predetermined
- Layer scheme defined relative target positions and / or targeting spent. These manipulation steps make a stackable and / or palletizable
- the at least one manipulator may further be designed to rotate the at least one detected piece good to this under rotation and / or
- the at least one manipulator comprises at least one gripper head.
- This gripper head must be designed for detecting at least one piece goods, but in particular also for detecting at least two piece goods.
- the at least one gripper head is preferably arranged rotatably about a vertical axis on a rotary joint and serves to detect the piece goods / the piece goods. The positioning of the gripper head of the manipulator relative to the row of the supplied piece goods and / or relative to the previously laterally staggered piece goods in the first target position and / or target orientation is such that by the manipulator one according to the given
- Layer scheme in a target position and / or target orientation to be arranged number of piece goods can be detected.
- the at least one manipulator or parts of the at least one manipulator can be formed by a parallel kinematic robot.
- the manipulator or parts thereof can be based on a so-called delta robot or parallel kinematic robot, which in a three-arm design, as it is increasingly used in practice, can also be referred to as a tripod.
- Each of the arms of such a tripod or delta robot consists of a driven at the base about a frame fixed pivot axis pivotally mounted upper arm and articulated to the upper arm and a coupling element connected to the lower arm.
- Each of the arms of such a tripod or delta robot consists of a driven at the base about a frame-fixed pivot axis pivotally mounted upper arm and articulated to the upper arm and the coupling element connected to the lower arm.
- One or more of the lower arms can be connected, for example, via ball joints with the respectively associated upper arms and the coupling element.
- Such a single forearm is free to pivot and has no inherent stability.
- All upper arms of a delta robot are each mounted pivotably about preferably lying within a common plane pivot axes and can all be driven and equipped with separate drive motors.
- Three connected to the coupling element and each with its associated upper arm forearms form a force triangle in each position, which can only be moved when the three upper arms synchronously or simultaneously calculated for them pivoting movements to the frame-fixed
- a handling device with such a manipulator and various methods that can be carried out with such a manipulator are described, for example, in the application with the file reference DE 10 2016 206 639.0, the content of which is hereby included in this application and the contents of which are considered to be familiar to a person skilled in the art when reading the present application should.
- the manipulator or the gripper head of the manipulator has according to a
- gripping and / or detection principles useful, possibly even in combined form. Since in the present description in addition to the positive detection of cargo also often from a jamming detection of cargo is mentioned, it should be mentioned at this point that it should also be included a non-positive detection, as in the individual gripping operations usually not exactly determinable and in particular not exactly delimited from each other, as the actual power transmission of the
- Detection with simultaneous slight clamping usually contains at least a slight adhesion.
- a further embodiment provides for the arrangement of manipulators arranged one behind the other in the transport direction within the device.
- Transport direction upstream manipulator each detected at least two cargo and arranges them in a staggered to escape the feeding row arrangement within the detection range, whereby at least one additional feeding row is simulated.
- the subsequently arranged in the transport direction manipulator engages the items needed for the layer formation each of the feeding row or from the at least one simulated series. So can be easily created from a feeding row of piece goods several rows of cargo for subsequent processing. This reduces the paths for the subsequent, the
- Lagenformation creating manipulator in particular, thus the necessary return stroke of the manipulator between the discontinuation of cargo in a target position and / or target arrangement and the detection of other cargo can be reduced or minimized.
- a further embodiment variant of the method according to the invention for handling piece goods moved in at least one row one behind the other, which are transported to a detection area of at least one manipulator provides that in at least one manipulation step in the detection area at least two transported piece goods from the at least one row and / or positively and / or positively detected detected, separated from subsequent cargo of at least one row and placed under rotation and / or displacement in a defined first relative target position and / or targeting towards subsequent cargo of at least one row. Besides, this one looks more
- the at least two detected cargo to be transferred to the defined first relative target position and / or target orientation, which is laterally offset to escape the subsequent in at least one row cargo or laterally offset to an escape in at least one row
- this variant of the method provides that in at least one further manipulation step at least one piece goods from the at least two transferred into the first relative target position and / or destination cargo unit gripping and / or positively and / or positively detected and from the subsequent cargo of at least two in the first relative target position and / or target orientation transferred piece goods separated in space and under rotation and / or displacement in a further defined relative target position and / or
- a defined number of manipulated piece goods form a stackable and / or palletable layer formation or partial layer and / or a precursor to such a layer formation or partial layer, which is conveyed in a transport direction and fed to further handling steps.
- Embodiment variants which have been explained in connection with the device according to the invention likewise partial aspects of the method according to the invention concern or may be. Therefore, if at some point in the description or in the claim definitions for the device according to the invention of certain aspects and / or relationships and / or effects is mentioned, this is equally true for the inventive method. Conversely, the same applies, so that all aspects and variants which have been explained in connection with the method according to the invention can equally relate to or may be partial aspects of the device according to the invention. Therefore, if at some point in the description or in the claim definitions for the method according to the invention of certain aspects and / or relationships and / or effects is mentioned, this applies equally to the inventive device.
- Device to be performed procedures are used in particular the collision avoidance of piece goods with machine components and / or the maintenance of the
- Figures 1 to 16 show schematically a timing of a first
- Embodiment of a method for handling in at least one row successively moving piece goods by a handling device Embodiment of a method for handling in at least one row successively moving piece goods by a handling device.
- Figures 17 and 18 show schematically a timing of a second embodiment of a method for handling in two rows one behind the other moving piece goods by a corresponding handling device.
- Fig. 19 shows a third embodiment.
- Figures 20 to 22 show a further sequence of a method for dealing with in two rows one behind the other moving piece goods by a corresponding
- Figures 23 to 33 show an alternative sequence of a method for handling in at least one row successively moving piece goods by a corresponding handling device.
- FIGS. 1 to 16 schematically show a time sequence of a first embodiment
- the handling device 10 is in particular a layer forming module comprising at least one grouping module 20.
- the illustrated handling device 10 comprises a first transport device 3, via which directly successive piece goods 2 in a first row 1 without interruption and / or with continuous
- the detection area 4 means in particular the maximum and / or the respective program-controlled movement space of the manipulator 5.
- the detection area 4 or its outer spatial boundary may be larger than the outer limits of the horizontal conveyor Specify 6, transported on the approximately horizontal top of the cargo 2 and / or positioned by means of the manipulator 5 and / or moved.
- the detection area 4 of the manipulator 5 is the reasonable range of motion in which can be located to be detected cargo 2 and / or in which the ab candidateden cargo 2 can be positioned.
- Horizontal conveyor 6 form essential components of the Gruppiermoduls 20, in which the arrangement of the piece goods 2 takes place according to a predetermined position scheme.
- Piece goods 2 in the sense of the present invention or of the described
- Exemplary embodiments may be, for example, individual articles, packages or containers.
- Parcels or containers can, for example, shrink-film containers and / or strapping packages o. The like. be more, with usually several items such as particular containers, liquid and / or beverage containers are bundled into containers.
- the piece goods 2 can be transported on the transport device 3, for example, continuously continuously in the transport direction TR.
- rows can be delivered, each comprising the number of piece goods 2, which are needed for example for the formation of a layer of piece goods 2 for further processing.
- Such a row may be followed by further similar or shorter or longer rows, where distances may be present between successive rows, if necessary.
- the distances and lengths of the respective rows are expediently based on the respectively desired layer pattern or after
- Detection area 4 of the manipulator 5 are conveyed until a planned or unplanned plant stop occurs. If in the present context of gapless succession or of directly consecutive cargo 2 is mentioned, this includes both the case of touching piece goods 2 and the case of the closely spaced piece goods 2, these cases due to random and / or small size deviations of General cargo 2 etc.
- the transport device 3 is, for example, at least one conveyor belt or at least one other suitable conveyor on which the parcels 2 are preferably transported in a single row, wherein between each directly consecutive parcel 2 no or only a slight, possibly process-related and / or predetermined gap consists.
- the transport device 3 is, for example, at least one conveyor belt or at least one other suitable conveyor on which the parcels 2 are preferably transported in a single row, wherein between each directly consecutive parcel 2 no or only a slight, possibly process-related and / or predetermined gap consists.
- Transport device 3 by an endless circulating conveyor belt, an endless
- Conveyor chain o The like. Be formed so that so that the piece goods 2 for
- Horizontal conveyor 6 can be delivered and brought up.
- the piece goods 2 located in row 1 on the transport device 3 thus enter into the detection area 4 of the manipulator 5 in a so-called closed formation F.
- the manipulator 5 is designed and equipped for the clamping and / or positive and / or non-positive reception of piece goods 2 within the detection area 4 (see FIG.
- the piece goods 2 detected by the manipulator 5, ie generally the piece goods 2 detected in the formation F first, are subsequently distinguished from the others in the formation F or
- General information arranged piece goods 2 by the reference numeral 2 * denotes.
- the manipulator 5 engages at least one, preferably at least two or three consecutively arranged piece goods 2, 2 * entering in a closed formation F, separating them from the single-row formation F of the piece goods and transferring the separated article 2 * or the separated group of two or three piece goods 2 * arranged in a row without gaps in each case into a target position and / or target orientation according to a predetermined layer scheme for producing a layer 12 or partial layer.
- the piece goods 2 or the group of packaged goods 2 * * is shifted laterally with respect to the incoming formation F of individually packaged products 2 and / or it may be provided that the piece goods 2 * or the group of packaged goods 2 * is spaced by the manipulator 5 in the transport direction TR of the formation F of the cargo 2 and / or that the cargo 2 * or the group of cargo 2 * is rotated relative to the cargo 2 of the formation F o.ä. Furthermore, the manipulator 5, the at least one detected cargo 2 * also raise and possibly already on the horizontal conveyor 6 in
- Target position P arranged piece goods 2, 2 * or over piece goods 2 of the row 1 overweight.
- a manipulator 5 the part of the manipulator 5 intended for transferring the at least one piece good 2, 2 * to the target position P and / or target orientation can be used concretely for example, a tool head, a rapier head or the like. act, which is, for example, supported on movably mounted cantilever arms and stored, which cantilever arms in turn typically on a frame or frame o. The like. Can be mounted fixed to the frame.
- Manipulator assembly allows the desired mobility of the gripper head (also: the manipulator 5), the piece goods 2, 2 * in the desired manner capture, move, position, place, rotate, etc., to the respective target positions P and / or target orientations for the General cargo 2, 2 * to be able to approach.
- Other suitable manipulator configurations for example those with Gantry robot guides or similar. These other manipulator configurations may optionally refer to single, multiple or all variant embodiments mentioned in the context of the present description of the drawings and / or the entire description of the invention.
- the schematic plan views of Figures 1 to 16 show the in
- Transport direction TR seamlessly continued transport of the series 1 or formation F, which reach the detection area 4 of the handling device 10 and the manipulator 5.
- the piece goods 2 of the series 1 in the detection area 4 on the horizontal conveyor 6 without interruption and with unchanged
- the detection area 4 (shown only in FIG. 1) is assigned, in particular, the horizontal conveying device 6, whose surface carrying the piece goods 2, 2 * moves at a conveying speed v6.
- Transport speed v3 of the transport device 3 correspond.
- the transport speed v3 and the conveying speed v6 may also differ slightly, provided that it can be ensured that the uninterrupted conveyance of the piece goods 2, 2 * to the horizontal conveyor 6 is maintained.
- the piece goods 2 arriving in row 1 or formation F via the transport device 3 can be pushed onto the horizontal conveying device 6 at least at different speeds v3 and v6 by the dynamic pressure of the subsequent piece goods 2 possibly arising due to the higher transport speed v3
- Brake band which is characterized by a piece goods 2 carrying surface with a particularly high coefficient of friction.
- the Gruppiermodul 20 downstream of the transport direction TR for example, a Vorgrupptechnik 21 is arranged in which the arranged as a layer 12 piece goods 2, 2 * with suitable centering elements (not shown) are pushed together to form a compact layer 13.
- a larger number of piece goods 2, 2 * detected by the manipulator 5 and arranged as a second new row 1 -2 within the Gruppiermoduls 20 on the horizontal conveyor 6 and / or gripped ( Figures 1 to 3).
- subsequent piece goods 2 or else piece goods 2, 2 * of the row created within the grouping module 20 are now transported via the transport device 3 within the row 1
- Piece goods 2 are detected by the row 1 that enters via the transport device 3 (see Fig. 1) and laterally offset as a new row 1 -2 on the horizontal conveyor 6 (compare FIGS. 2 and 3).
- the new second row 1 -2 is offset in particular in the transport direction TR to the right on the transport device. 3
- Horizontal conveyor 6 created row 1 -3 successively detected by the manipulator 5 and arranged according to the predetermined position scheme for forming a further layer according to the predetermined target positions P4 etc. and / or target arrangements on the horizontal conveying surface 6 (see Figures 15 and 16). Due to the continuous movement of the horizontal conveyor 6 in
- Transport direction TR the already finished in Fig. 1 layer 12 is transported to positioned piece goods 2, 2 * continuously in the direction of Vorgroupptechnik 21 on. If all piece goods 2, 2 * of the layer 12 are located within the pre-grouping 21 (see Fig. 12), these are pushed together by means of suitable centering elements (not shown) to form a compact layer 13 (see Fig. 13). As centering, for example, each against each deliverable, parallel to each other
- Push bar used.
- at least one stop bar extending transversely to the transport direction TR may be provided, and a first push bar extending laterally in the transport direction TR and extending transversely to the transport direction TR.
- the first push bar can be moved in the transport direction TR.
- the first push bar pushes the piece goods 2, 2 * of the layer 12 in the transport direction TR against the first stop bar, thereby closing the gaps between the cargo 2, 2 * of the layer 12.
- movable second push bar be provided, which the
- Piece goods 2, 2 * of the layer 12 by a feed movement against each other
- FIGS. 17 and 18 schematically show a time sequence of a second exemplary embodiment of a method for dealing with at least one row 1 successively moving piece goods 2 by a corresponding
- Handling device 10 piece goods 2 in two parallel rows 1 a, 1 b via two parallel transport devices 3 a, 3 b supplied to the grouping module 20.
- the horizontal conveyor 6 of the Gruppiermoduls 20 may be formed by a wide endless conveyor belt, or by a plurality of parallel juxtaposed conveyor belts.
- two manipulators 5a, 5b are provided in this case.
- the manipulator 5 a pick each piece 2 of the series 1 a and according to the predetermined position scheme as a partial layer 12 a on the
- Layer scheme as a sub-layer 12b on the horizontal conveyor 6 arranges.
- the two manipulators 5a, 5b are preferably independently controllable, wherein, however, the movement profile of the two manipulators 5a, 5b is matched to one another such that they do not collide.
- a manipulator 5a, 5b always picks up and processes only the piece goods 2 of a row 1 a or 1 b
- embodiments are also conceivable in which one of the manipulators 5 a or 5b each piece goods 2 of both rows 1 a, 1 b picks up.
- one of the manipulators 5a or 5b generates a new, additional row (not shown) within the grouping module 20, from which the other manipulator 5b or 5a picks up pieces 2 for further arrangement in a target position and / or target arrangement.
- FIG. 19 shows a third embodiment.
- two manipulators 5a, 5b are arranged in the grouping module 20 such that their detection areas 4a, 4b are arranged one after the other in the transport direction TR and do not or only partially overlap.
- the horizontal conveyor 6 is aligned in the illustrated embodiment of two in the transport direction TR
- the first manipulator 5a essentially only generates further additional rows 1-2, etc.
- the manipulator 5b following in the transport direction TR creates the piece goods 2 arriving via the transport devices 3a, 3b and the piece goods 2 of the rows 1 additionally created within the grouping module 20 -2, etc., the desired position 12 according to the predetermined layer scheme. It can also be provided that the first manipulator 5a in the normal
- the first manipulator 5a is used in particular in the event of a malfunction in the subsequent operation, for example in the event of a malfunction of the subsequent palletizing or the like.
- a malfunction there is the problem that there are still piece goods in an upstream shrink tunnel. These should be removed from the shrink tunnel, i.
- the shrink tunnel should be run empty in order to avoid damage to the piece goods due to excessive heat input. Is no or insufficient buffer area between the shrink tunnel and the
- At least one additional additional parallel row can be generated by the first manipulator 5b from the piece goods 2 fed from the shrink tunnel on account of the idling.
- a larger number of piece goods 2 can be arranged within the grouping module 20, which thus additionally forms or provides a buffer area.
- the second manipulator 5b can first use the piece goods 2 arranged in at least one additional row 1 -2 to create further layers before the new supply of piece goods 2 arrives from the shrink tunnel at the grouping module 20 ,
- Shrink tunnel will resume only when the fault of the subsequent Machining module is safely fixed, there is a time offset until finished piece goods 2 from the shrink tunnel on the transport device 3 for
- Grouping module 20 arrive. This time offset can be advantageously compensated by the buffering of piece goods 2 within the Gruppiermoduls 20, since now this first by the first manipulator 5a in at least one additional row 1 -2 buffered piece goods 2 for layer formation by the second manipulator 5b
- FIG. 20 to 22 show a further sequence of a method for handling in at least one row 1 successively moving cargo 2 by a corresponding handling device 10.
- Embodiment takes place a supply of piece goods 2 to the Gruppiermodul 20 in two parallel rows 1 a, 1 b via a common transport device 3 or via two parallel arranged transport devices 3a, 3b.
- the transport devices 3a, 3b are, for example, horizontal conveyors, in particular belt or chain conveyors.
- the piece goods 2 are immediately successively in rows 1 a, 1 b without interruption and / or with a continuous transport speed v 3 in a detection area 4 at least one manipulator 5 of
- the detection area 4 means, in particular, the maximum and / or the respectively programmatically predetermined movement space of the manipulator 5.
- the detection area 4 or its outer spatial boundary can be greater than the outer limits of the horizontal conveyor 6 dictate, transported on the approximately horizontal top of the cargo 2 and / or positioned by the manipulator 5 and / or moved. Normally, however, the detection area 4 of the manipulator 5 is the reasonable range of motion in which can be located to be detected cargo 2 and / or in which the ab candidateden cargo 2 can be positioned.
- Horizontal conveyor 6 form essential components of the Gruppiermoduls 20, in which the arrangement of the piece goods 2 takes place according to a predetermined position scheme.
- Piece goods 2 in the sense of the present invention or of the described
- Exemplary embodiments may be, for example, individual articles, packages or containers.
- Parcels or containers can, for example, shrink-film containers and / or strapping packages o. The like. be more, with usually several items such as particular containers, liquid and / or beverage containers are bundled into containers.
- the piece goods 2 can be transported on the transport device 3, for example, continuously continuously in the transport direction TR. Rows can be delivered, each comprising the number of piece goods 2, which are required for example for the formation of a layer of piece goods 2 for further processing. Such a series can be followed by further similar or shorter or longer rows, wherein, if necessary, distances can be present between successive rows, in particular greater than 10 cm.
- the distances and lengths of the respective rows are expediently based on the respectively desired position pattern or on the processing speed of the manipulator 5 of the grouping module 20 of the handling device 10 or on the maximum movement speeds of the moving parts of the manipulator 5 to be maintained for a long time during regular operation. Also conceivable, however, are endless rows 1 with a basically endless successive piece goods sequence, as long as in one
- Detection area 4 of the manipulator 5 are conveyed until a planned or unplanned plant stop occurs. If in the present context of
- the transport device 3 or transport devices 3a, 3b is / are
- Transport devices 3a, 3b by an endlessly circulating conveyor belt, an endless conveyor chain o. The like. Be formed so that so that the piece goods 2 to
- Horizontal conveyor 6 of the Gruppiermoduls 20 can be delivered and brought up.
- the piece goods 2 located in row 1 on the transport device 3 thus enter into the detection area 4 of the at least one manipulator 5 in a so-called closed formation F.
- two manipulators 5a, 5b are arranged in the present embodiment, which can preferably be controlled independently of each other. Alternatively, it can be provided that the two manipulators 5a, 5b can be controlled and operated synchronously via a control device (not shown).
- the manipulators 5 a, 5 b are for clamping and / or positive and / or non-positive receiving of cargo 2 within the
- Detection area 4 is formed and equipped.
- the piece goods 2 detected by the manipulator 5, ie generally the piece goods 2 detected first in the formation F, are subsequently designated by the reference character 2 * to distinguish them from the remaining piece goods 2 arranged in the formation F or the overall formation.
- the manipulators 5a, 5b each engage at least one, preferably at least two or three piece goods 2, 2 * entering the closed formation F, separate them from the single-row formation F of the piece goods 2 and transfer the respectively separated at least one piece goods 2 * or the separated group of two or three piece goods 2 * arranged in a row without gap in each case into a target position and / or target orientation according to a predetermined layer scheme for producing a layer or partial layer.
- Piece goods 2 * laterally opposite the incoming formation F is moved to piece goods 2 and / or it can be provided that the cargo 2 * or the group of piece goods 2 * by the respective manipulator 5a, 5b in the transport direction TR of the formation F of Piece goods 2 is spaced and / or that the cargo 2 * or the group of piece goods 2 * compared to the cargo 2 of the formation F is twisted or similar. Furthermore, the respective manipulator 5 a, 5 b , the at least one detected cargo 2 * also raise and possibly already on the
- a manipulator 5a, 5b is mentioned in general terms, it can be used concretely for the transfer of the at least one piece good 2, 2 * into the
- Target position P and / or target orientation provided part of the manipulator 5a, 5b for example, a tool head, a gripper head or the like. act, for example, to movably mounted cantilever arms is supported and stored, which cantilever arms in turn typically on a frame or frame o. The like. Can be mounted fixed to the frame. Such - also known as parallel kinematic arrangement - manipulator suspension or manipulator arrangement allows the desired
- the piece goods 2, 2 * in the desired manner capture, move, position, place, rotate, etc., to the respective target positions P and / or target orientations for the piece goods 2, 2 * to be able to start.
- the piece goods 2, 2 * in the desired manner capture, move, position, place, rotate, etc., to the respective target positions P and / or target orientations for the piece goods 2, 2 * to be able to start.
- Manipulator configurations such as those with gantry robot guides or the like. These other manipulator configurations may optionally refer to single, multiple or all variant embodiments mentioned in the context of the present description of the drawings and / or the entire description of the invention.
- the piece goods 2 of the rows 1 a, 1 b are grouping module 20 on the
- a pre-grouping 21 is arranged in which the piece goods 2 * arranged as a layer with suitable centering elements (not shown) form a compact layer
- the compact layer can then be fed to the palletizing.
- a shrinking tunnel upstream of the grouping module 20 can be used for shrinking shrinking film
- Shrink wrap wrapped article assemblies are still transported out of the shrink tunnel in order to avoid excessive heating of the same, which would lead to product damage. For this reason, it can be particularly in a spatially close arrangement of shrink tunnel, grouping module 20 and palletizer without or with only short intermediate buffer sections or the like make sense to stop the layer formation within the Gruppiermoduls 20 immediately due to the disturbance in the subsequent processing module, but instead to delay it.
- Movement profile of the manipulators 5a, 5b is tuned accordingly, so that the desired arrangement of the cargo 2 is also delayed according to the predetermined position scheme.
- “Slower operated” or “delayed operated” means in this context that the transport speed after the onset of the disturbance less is as before without interference. In particular, the slower, slower speed may assume a value less than 50% of that
- a "tact" of the manipulator preferably consists of a movement of the
- Fig. 20 shows, for example, a laterally offset
- each group of goods 7a, 7b comprising three piece goods 2 * .
- the manipulators 5a, 5b would arrange the subsequently picked piece goods 2 * in a target position according to FIG. 21, ie in a target position which is behind the two groups of goods 7a, 7b in the transport direction TR. Closing the gaps between the cargo 2 * the
- the piece goods of the laterally arranged cargo groups 7a, 7b are not part of the im
- Delay mode to create location. Instead, the arrangement is created according to the positional scheme from below via the transport devices 3a, 3b supplied piece goods, while the laterally arranged cargo groups 7a, 7b by the manipulators 5a, 5b repeatedly against the transport direction TR of
- Horizontal conveyor 6 are moved to ensure that the
- the piece goods groups 7a, 7b constitute a buffer for piece goods 2 * .
- the layer formation by the grouping module 20 can also be stopped until the disruption of the palletizer etc. is fixed.
- the manipulators 5a, 5b can first use the piece goods 2 * buffered within the group of unit loads 7a, 7b to create further layers before the new supply of piece goods 2 arrives from the shrink tunnel at the grouping module 20.
- Figures 20 to 33 are by means of a transport device 3, for example by means of a horizontal conveyor, a horizontal conveyor 6 of a
- the grouping module 20 includes at least one
- Manipulator the supplied articles or general cargo recorded by moving or Turning in a target arrangement and / or target orientation spends and thus prepared according to a defined location scheme.
- the thus prepared layer is palletized by means of a grouping module 20 downstream palletizer, where appropriate, between the Gruppiermodul 20 and the palletizer further handling steps are necessary to complete the prepared within the Gruppiermoduls layer 12 for palletizing.
- a malfunction can be caused for example by a collision of a palletizing head or a lack of intermediate layers or a lack of pallets.
- the speed of the transport device 3 and / or the horizontal conveyor 6 of the Gruppiermoduls is reduced after the disturbance thereof, at least during a period of time during the fault period.
- Transport device 3 incoming piece goods, already manipulated to piece goods 2 * by re-manipulation of the same by means of the manipulator 5 can be reduced.
- the invention can also be described such that the manipulator 5 moves the piece goods 2 faster in the event of a disturbance in the transport direction TR than the transport device 3 and / or the horizontal conveyor 6 are moved. In this way, buffering of the piece goods 2, 2 * on the horizontal conveyor 6 can be carried out by the manipulator 5, without the piece goods 2, 2 * having to be manipulated again after the disturbance has been eliminated. In particular, the piece goods 2, 2 * during the disturbance already in the right or intended
- Horizontal conveyor 6 of the Gruppiermoduls in the transport direction in about twice as long as the detection area 4, ie working and working area of the manipulator. 5
- the invention can also be realized by means of a device 10 whose control is programmed to carry out the method.
- a device 10 shown in FIGS. 20 to 22 can also comprise a manipulator 5 with two gripper heads 8, 9 which can be controlled independently of one another.
- the following description may apply both to FIGS. 20 to 22 and to FIGS. 23 to 33.
- Gripper heads 8, 9 can be attached to a common part, for example a robot arm, of the manipulator 5 and together execute the mentioned movement with a movement component in the transport direction TR.
- the two gripper heads 8, 9 may additionally have respective assigned drives for gripping and / or turning.
- one or more of the drives described below can be arranged at an end region of the common part.
- a first drive can be used to rotate the gripper head 8 relative to the common part of the manipulator 5, and a second drive can be designed to rotate the gripper head 9 relative to the common part of the manipulator 5.
- a fifth drive can be provided in order to move the gripper head 8 linearly relative to the common part of the manipulator 5 and to space it, for example, from the gripper head 9.
- a sixth drive may be provided to linearly move the gripper head 9 relative to the common part of the manipulator 5 and to space it apart, for example, from the gripper head 8.
- FIG. 23 to 33 show an alternative sequence of a method for handling in at least one row 1 successively moving piece goods 2 by a corresponding handling device 10.
- a supply of cargo 2 to the Gruppiermodul 20 takes place in two parallel rows 1 a, 1 b via a common transport device 3 or via two parallel arranged transport devices 3a, 3b.
- a manipulator 5 with two gripper heads 8, 9 is provided, wherein the gripper heads 8, 9 can preferably be controlled independently of each other.
- the gripper heads 8, 9 can, as shown above, be arranged on a common part of a manipulator and moved together by this.
- Figures 24 to 33 show the creation of a second layer 12-2 according to the same layer scheme as layer 13-1, wherein the two gripper heads 8, 9 in the first method steps in
- Target position P1, P2 and / or target arrangement spend on the horizontal conveyor 6 (Fig. 26). Then grab the two gripper heads 8, 9 each again three piece goods 2 of the rows 1 a, 1 b and spend them by a movement in
- Target arrangement on the horizontal conveyor 6 ( Figures 28, 29).
- the gripper heads 8, 9 no longer move synchronously, instead the two gripper heads 8, 9 are guided apart in opposite directions and thus an increased distance between the groups gripped by a respective gripper head 8, 9 groups of pieces 2 * produced . Due to the lateral offset, the piece goods 2 * in the target positions P3, P4 are not arranged in alignment with the piece goods 2 entering in formation F.
- FIG. 30 it can be seen that the piece goods 2 * arranged in the target position P1, P2, P3, P4 and / or target orientation are moved by the horizontal conveyor 6 in the transport direction TR, so that the relative arrangement to the
- Transport direction TR formed gaps L between the cargo 2 * to be created a layer 13 can be eliminated.
- the gripper heads 8, 9 also no longer move synchronously. Instead, the gripper head 9 detects a group of three pieces 2 * of the series 1 a and spends them to complete a second layer 12-2 in a target position P5 and / or target arrangement. At the same time, the
- Gripper head 8 a group of three piece goods 2 * of the series 1 b. However, these are no longer needed for the second layer 12-2. Instead, the gripper head 8, together with the detected piece goods 2 * of the row 1 b, performs a rotation through 90 degrees and spends them in a target position P6 and / or target arrangement. The piece goods 2 * arranged in the target position P6 are already part of a subsequently assembled third layer (not shown).
- the second layer 12-2 prepared in this way can now be transferred into the preliminary grouping 21 and pushed together there to form the finished layer (compare also position 13-1 in FIG In connection with the description of Figures 1 to 16 have been described.
- the grouping module 20 further piece goods 2 for the preparation of the third layer by the gripper heads 8, 9 of the manipulator 5 can be arranged according to the horizontal conveyor 6.
- Target alignment is created differently than the second layer 12-2 below.
- the piece goods 2 * according to FIG. 33 which are brought into the target position P6 and / or target orientation, are subsequently shifted to the left, as seen in the transport direction, so that these are subsequently arranged in a target position and / or target orientation corresponding to the above-described target position P2 and / or target orientation on the
- Horizontal conveyor 6 corresponds (see Figures 27 and 33).
- gripper heads 8, 9 are respectively used to grasp groups comprising three packaged goods 2 * and transfer them to target positions and / or target orientations corresponding to the target positions P1 and P3 and / or target orientations (compare FIGS.
- the piece goods compilations for the target positions P5 and P4 and / or target orientations are manipulated and arranged accordingly (see Fig. 33).
- the third layer (not shown) is now finished and the manipulator 5 can proceed with the creation of a further layer according to FIGS. 23 ff.
- both manipulators 5 each arrange piece goods 2 for producing a layer 12-2, while at least one further method step provides that one of the two manipulators 5 detects piece goods 2 to complete one layer, while the other manipulator 5 already secures piece goods 2 recorded for a new situation.
- Figures 20 to 33 are by means of a transport device 3, for example by means of a horizontal conveyor, a horizontal conveyor 6 of a
- the grouping module 20 includes at least one
- Manipulator the supplied articles or general cargo recorded and spends by moving or rotating in a target arrangement and / or target orientation and thus prepared according to a defined location scheme.
- the situation prepared in this way is by means of a Grouping module 20 palletizer downstream, where appropriate, between the Gruppiermodul 20 and the palletizer further handling steps are necessary to complete the prepared within the Gruppiermoduls layer 12 for palletizing finished.
- the manipulator 5 simultaneously, ie detected 2 * or at least two groups of piece goods 2 * within a cycle, at least two piece goods, wherein the at least two piece goods 2 * or at least two groups of piece goods 2 spent * in target positions and / or destination devices which are subsequently assigned to different layer formations.
- a first of the piece goods 2 * or a first group of piece goods 2 * serves to finish a first layer.
- a second piece good 2 * or a second group of piece goods 2 * already the formation of a subsequent
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