EP3826924A1 - Arrangement de manipulation et/ou d'emballage et procédé pour emballer des articles - Google Patents

Arrangement de manipulation et/ou d'emballage et procédé pour emballer des articles

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EP3826924A1
EP3826924A1 EP19728972.1A EP19728972A EP3826924A1 EP 3826924 A1 EP3826924 A1 EP 3826924A1 EP 19728972 A EP19728972 A EP 19728972A EP 3826924 A1 EP3826924 A1 EP 3826924A1
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outer packaging
articles
packaging
handling
conveyor
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Thomas Stadler
Tobias GUT
Johannes KIRZINGER
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Krones AG
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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
    • B65B5/06—Packaging groups of articles, the groups being treated as single articles
    • B65B5/068—Packaging groups of articles, the groups being treated as single articles in trays
    • 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
    • B65B21/00—Packaging or unpacking of bottles
    • B65B21/02—Packaging or unpacking of bottles in or from preformed containers, e.g. crates
    • B65B21/14—Introducing or removing groups of bottles, for filling or emptying containers in one operation
    • B65B21/18—Introducing or removing groups of bottles, for filling or emptying containers in one operation using grippers engaging bottles, e.g. bottle necks
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B35/00—Supplying, feeding, arranging or orientating articles to be packaged
    • B65B35/10—Feeding, e.g. conveying, single articles
    • B65B35/24—Feeding, e.g. conveying, single articles by endless belts or chains
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B35/00—Supplying, feeding, arranging or orientating articles to be packaged
    • B65B35/30—Arranging and feeding articles in groups
    • B65B35/36—Arranging and feeding articles in groups by grippers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B35/00—Supplying, feeding, arranging or orientating articles to be packaged
    • B65B35/30—Arranging and feeding articles in groups
    • B65B35/44—Arranging and feeding articles in groups by endless belts or chains
    • 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
    • B65B43/00—Forming, feeding, opening or setting-up containers or receptacles in association with packaging
    • B65B43/42—Feeding or positioning bags, boxes, or cartons in the distended, opened, or set-up state; Feeding preformed rigid containers, e.g. tins, capsules, glass tubes, glasses, to the packaging position; Locating containers or receptacles at the filling position; Supporting containers or receptacles during the filling operation
    • B65B43/46—Feeding or positioning bags, boxes, or cartons in the distended, opened, or set-up state; Feeding preformed rigid containers, e.g. tins, capsules, glass tubes, glasses, to the packaging position; Locating containers or receptacles at the filling position; Supporting containers or receptacles during the filling operation using grippers
    • 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
    • B65B43/00—Forming, feeding, opening or setting-up containers or receptacles in association with packaging
    • B65B43/42—Feeding or positioning bags, boxes, or cartons in the distended, opened, or set-up state; Feeding preformed rigid containers, e.g. tins, capsules, glass tubes, glasses, to the packaging position; Locating containers or receptacles at the filling position; Supporting containers or receptacles during the filling operation
    • B65B43/52—Feeding or positioning bags, boxes, or cartons in the distended, opened, or set-up state; Feeding preformed rigid containers, e.g. tins, capsules, glass tubes, glasses, to the packaging position; Locating containers or receptacles at the filling position; Supporting containers or receptacles during the filling operation using roller-ways or endless conveyors
    • 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
    • B65B57/02—Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices responsive to absence, presence, abnormal feed, or misplacement of binding or wrapping material, containers, or packages
    • B65B57/06—Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices responsive to absence, presence, abnormal feed, or misplacement of binding or wrapping material, containers, or packages and operating to control, or to stop, the feed of articles or material to be packaged
    • 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
    • B65B59/02—Arrangements to enable adjustments to be made while the machine is running

Definitions

  • the present invention relates to handling and / or
  • Packaging device for repackaging groups of articles with the features of independent claim 1.
  • the invention also relates to a method for transferring articles conveyed in mass flow and / or in series transport into outer packagings which are moved continuously or intermittently along a conveying path, with the features of independent method claim 10.
  • the automated loading of outer packaging with article groups is usually carried out discontinuously, since the secondary packaging or beverage crates have to be stopped for each loading operation, even if they are transported at a continuous conveyor speed during the rest of the process.
  • Outer packaging with articles naturally has the disadvantage of a comparatively low output, since the conveying process of the outer packaging or boxes has to be stopped again and again in order to be able to use the articles or containers there, and is therefore relatively slow overall.
  • the invention proposes a handling and / or packaging device for repackaging article groups, which has a first conveying path for transporting a large number of articles in mass flow and / or in series transport in a defined conveying direction, and a near the first conveying path and / or second parallel to this
  • Conveyor line for the successive transport of outer packaging, which outer packaging is intended and prepared for receiving at least one article group formed on several articles.
  • Transport of the articles in mass flow or in rows also includes the intermittent transport of previously separated article groups.
  • the articles can be divided into groups and these groups can be separated at least slightly from subsequent articles, so that these groups can then be transferred to the outer packaging.
  • outer packaging can be formed by various containers, which in principle must be suitable for holding the articles.
  • the outer packaging can be formed, for example, by cartons that are open at the top, so-called trays (that is, receiving pads or trays made of cardboard, plastic, or the like), beverage crates, etc., into which the articles can be viewed from above by means of the Handling device explained in detail can be used with its at least one controllable gripper head. If there is also generalization of articles, these are mass-flow goods, their further handling and their transport and / or dispatch are typically carried out by means of outer packaging.
  • the articles can be formed in particular by containers, beverage containers, bottles, cans or the like, which by means of the
  • Packaging device a handling device assigned to the conveyor lines with at least one gripper head, which for the simultaneous pick-up and detection of a respective article group from the first conveyor line, for its transfer to the second Conveyor line and for inserting the article group into one of the conveyed there
  • Outer packaging is provided and designed. If in the present
  • a handling device is spoken of with at least one gripper head, this can be, for example, a portal robot, a multi-axis robot
  • Parallel kinematics robot or another suitable handling device which can be moved back and forth between the at least two conveyor lines for transferring several articles at the same time to the outer packaging and can be raised and lowered at the same time as required.
  • a controllable gripper head for the simultaneous pick-up of several articles such as, for example, beverage containers or bottles, which can be equipped, for example, with controllable suction grippers or with controllable gripping tulips or the like, with which the articles, drink containers or bottles recorded in the neck or head area and securely held for transfer to the outer packaging and for discontinuation in the
  • Handling device is equipped with only one gripper head, can usually at the same time an outer packaging with a defined number of articles,
  • Beverage containers or bottles are equipped, for example with a number of articles arranged in a rectangular combination of a total of twenty or twenty-four or more articles, beverage containers or bottles.
  • the number of articles are arranged in a rectangular combination of a total of twenty or twenty-four or more articles, beverage containers or bottles.
  • the handling device can also be equipped with two or three identical gripper heads, which allow a correspondingly larger number of articles to be gripped simultaneously and conveyed, for example, in two or three in succession
  • the second conveyor section is assigned a position detection device for detecting a position of an outer packaging that is still empty and to be filled and / or filled with articles and / or for detecting a conveying speed of this outer packaging, the output signals generated by the position detection device being processed and with regard to controlling the
  • Handling device at least when inserting an article group into the outer packaging carried on the second conveying path and / or with regard to actuation of the second conveying path for positioning at least one further with articles infested and / or populated outer packaging can be evaluated or evaluated.
  • Handling and / or packaging device its position detection device can be moved approximately parallel to the second conveying path and / or at least temporarily can be moved with it at the conveying speed of the outer packaging. It can also be provided that the position detection device can be moved approximately parallel to the second conveying path in a conveying direction of the outer packaging or counter to the conveying direction, which can be made possible, for example, by a motor drive and by a guide with a guide carriage arranged parallel to the conveying direction of the outer packaging.
  • the position detection device can be formed particularly advantageously by an optical sensor or by an ultrasound sensor, which detects essentially at least one front edge or a front area of an outer packaging which is located first in the front of the second conveyor line and / or is available or transported for filling or loading with articles provides corresponding position data.
  • an optical sensor or ultrasonic sensor which is moved back and forth along the conveying direction of the outer packaging and in this way each front edge of one of the first in the row of conveyed one behind the other
  • Position detection device provided according to the invention is made possible. Even this comparatively simple sensor technology enables very precise
  • Packaging device with a further or third conveyor line for
  • this further or third conveying path preferably running parallel to the first or second conveying path.
  • This third conveyor line can be used to put the outer packaging on the goods before filling or loading them with article groups third conveyor line and in a detection and / or manipulation area of
  • the third conveyor line can run in an intermittent mode or in a clocked mode, even if the other two conveyor lines run in continuous mode.
  • the third conveyor line can be used to equalize the removal and the positioning effort for the even with fast delivery of articles and outer packaging
  • the handling device with the at least one gripper head of the handling and / or packaging device is variably controllable and movable between the conveyor lines with the articles and the outer packaging, in particular for receiving article groups from the first conveyor line, for transferring them to the second conveyor line and / or for third conveyor line running in cyclical operation, for inserting the article group into one of the outer packaging conveyed there and for moving the gripper head back for mass flow and / or row transport of the articles on the first conveyor line in order to take up further article groups therefrom. It is also provided that the
  • the special advantages of the invention come into play, namely the high assembly performance that can be achieved in this way when the articles are inserted into the outer packaging.
  • the stops which are unavoidable in the prior art can be avoided each time articles are inserted into the outer packaging by means of the gripper heads.
  • the handling and / or packaging device according to the invention allows one
  • gripper heads can be provided for the simultaneous loading of several outer packaging with respective article groups, which enables a faster loading of the outer packaging with articles and thus faster cycle times overall.
  • This controllable discharge device can in particular be combined with another
  • Detection device for detecting and recognizing faulty or flawless outer packaging and for generating a reject signal in the event of detected errors and / or incompleteness in equipping the detected outer packaging.
  • Direction of conveyance or opposite to the conveying direction can be positioned parallel to the second conveying path with the outer packaging moved on it, in order to find and identify the outer packaging located in front in order to identify the
  • the invention proposes in addition to the handling and / or described in various embodiments
  • Packaging device furthermore a method for transferring articles conveyed in mass flow and / or in series transport and / or in groups into outer packaging moved continuously or intermittently along a conveying path, wherein the outer packaging can in each case hold at least one article group formed from several articles, and in each case at least one Article group using at least a handling device and / or a gripper head of such a handling device from the mass flow and / or the row transport or as a group detected and lifted and from above into one of the next to the
  • the method provides that by means of at least one position detection device assigned to the second conveying path, a position of an outer packaging that is still empty and to be filled and / or filled with articles is recognized and / or a conveying speed of this outer packaging is detected, and that the output signals of this position detection device are processed and related a control of the handling device at least when inserting an article group into the outer packaging carried on the second conveyor line.
  • the method can generally dispense with the fact that the outer packaging has to come to a standstill during the insertion of the articles, as a result of which a high processing speed and a correspondingly high throughput can be achieved.
  • the gripper head After inserting an article group into an outer packaging, the gripper head is moved back for mass flow and / or row transport of the articles in order to pick up further article groups therefrom.
  • the at least one gripper head of the handling device after the inclusion of an article group, is moved at least at the same transport speed as the outer packaging moved on the conveyor line parallel to and / or along the conveyor line, at least while the article group is being inserted into the outer packaging .
  • the method can provide that several outer packagings can be loaded with respective article groups by means of multi-part gripper heads, the two, three or more gripper heads preferably each with one
  • Handling device coupled or hung on this.
  • the at least one position detection device is moved parallel to the second conveying path and / or at least temporarily moved along with it in the conveying speed of the outer packaging.
  • the method can alternatively provide that the
  • Outer packagings are transported up by means of a third conveyor line, the outer packagings being transferred to the second one before they are filled or equipped with article groups Conveyor line and in a detection and / or manipulation area of
  • the method it is preferably provided that after inserting an article group into an outer packaging, at least one gripper head of the handling device is moved back for mass flow and / or row transport of the articles in order to pick up further article groups therefrom.
  • the method can provide that the at least one gripper head of the handling device after picking up an article group at least during the insertion of the
  • Article group in the outer packaging at approximately the same transport speed as the outer packaging moving on the conveyor line is moved parallel to and / or along the conveyor line.
  • the method can provide that several outer packagings are loaded with respective article groups by means of multi-part gripper heads, the two, three or more gripper heads
  • the second conveyor section is controlled by a controllable one
  • Discharge device for discharging faulty outer packaging and / or faulty and / or incompletely equipped with outer packaging.
  • the controllable discharge device with a
  • Detection device for the detection and detection of faulty or faultless outer packaging can be coupled, which in the case of detected errors and / or
  • FIG. 1 shows, using a schematic plan view, the basic structure of an embodiment variant of a handling and / or
  • FIG. 2 shows a schematic plan view of a further embodiment variant of the handling and / or packaging device according to the invention.
  • FIG. 3 shows a total of ten schematic plan views (FIGS. 3A, 3B, 3C, 3D, 3E, 3F, 3G, 3H, 3I and 3J) in successive process phases, the loading of outer packaging with groups of articles, the outer packaging being moved continuously in one conveying direction.
  • FIG. 4 shows in two schematic plan views (FIGS. 4A and 4B) two further embodiment variants of the handling and / or
  • FIG. 5 shows a schematic top view of a further embodiment variant of the handling and / or packaging device according to the invention with a two-lane inlet for the outer packaging.
  • FIG. 1 The schematic plan view of FIG. 1 is only intended to show the basic structure of a handling and / or packaging device 10 according to the invention
  • the handling and / or packaging device 10 which is only indicated schematically here, comprises a first conveyor section 12 for
  • upright articles 14 which here can be formed, for example, by upright beverage containers, but this is not shown in detail here or in the following figures.
  • the articles 14 or containers are transported in mass flow and / or in row transport or also after grouping in grouped arrangements in a defined conveying direction 16 which leads to the device 10.
  • device 10 includes one near the first
  • Conveyor line 12 located and in the exemplary embodiment shown running parallel to this second conveyor line 18 for the successive transport of outer packaging 20, which can be formed, for example, by cartons or beverage crates or the like, and which as outer packaging 20 for receiving at least one several articles 14 or beverage containers formed article group are provided and prepared.
  • the outer packaging 20, for example formed by beverage crates is also moved on the second conveying path 20 to the device 10 in the same conveying direction 16 as the articles 14, for example formed by beverage containers, on the first conveying path 12
  • this alignment of the two conveying sections 12 and 18 with respect to one another is not absolutely necessary, but can in practice also vary as necessary, so that non-parallel conveying directions 16 of the two conveying sections 12 and 18 for the articles 14 and for the outer packaging 20 are also conceivable and manageable are.
  • the arrangement of the first conveyor section 12 and the second conveyor section 18 is chosen in the schematic representation of FIG. 1 in such a way that the conveying direction 16 points to the right and that the first conveyor section 12 is below the second one running parallel to it
  • Conveyor path 18 is located, which is selected in reverse in the following figures.
  • the exact arrangement of the conveyor lines 12 and 18 should not be of interest, however fundamentally different arrangements are possible, which also depend, among other things, on the available space for installing the machine or device 10.
  • the handling and / or packaging device 10 shown comprises a handling device 22, which is equally spatially and functionally assigned to the two conveying sections 12 and 18, with a gripper head 24 or several gripper heads 24 which can be controlled in parallel, the one for simultaneous recording and detection, respectively an article group with everyone
  • the handling device 22 which is only indicated schematically in FIG. 1, with at least one gripper head 24 or with a plurality of gripper heads 24 which can be moved and controlled approximately synchronously, can, for example, by a gantry robot, a multi-axis robot
  • Parallel kinematics robots or another suitable handling device 22 may be formed, the gripper head 24 or the gripper heads 24 of which move back and forth between the two conveyor sections 12 and 18 for transferring several articles 14 or beverage containers to the outer packaging 20 or beverage crates moved in the parallel conveying direction 16 and can be raised and lowered as needed.
  • Handling device 22 located controllable gripper head 24 or the plurality of gripper heads 24 are used for the simultaneous reception of several articles 14 such as.
  • the gripper head 24 or the gripper heads 24 are equipped with controllable suction grippers or with controllable gripping tulips or the like, with which the articles 14, beverage containers or bottles are gripped in their neck or head area and for the transfer and the approximately vertical
  • the handling device 22 is equipped in a simplest configuration with only one gripper head 24, one can normally at the same time
  • Outer packaging 20 or a beverage crate can be equipped with a defined number of articles 14, beverage containers or bottles, for example with a number of in Rectangularly arranged articles 14 or beverage containers of a total of twenty or twenty-four or more articles 14, beverage containers or bottles.
  • the handling device 22 can preferably also be equipped with two or three identical gripper heads 24, which make it possible to simultaneously grasp a correspondingly larger number of articles 14 or beverage containers and, for example, in two or three outer packages 20 or
  • FIG. 1 further shows the second conveyor path 18 leading out or continuing from the device 10 in the conveying direction 16 on the right, the conveying direction 16 thereof for conveying away the outer packaging 20 or beverage crates equipped with articles 14 such as beverage containers for their further Handling such as palletizing is unchanged.
  • the section of the second conveyor line 18 leading out to the right of the device 10 is its continuation, since the outer packaging 20 or beverage crates do not come from the second conveyor line 18 when they are loaded with articles 14 or beverage containers
  • Position detection device 26 which can be moved back and forth parallel to and along the second conveyor line 18 in order to detect the exact positions of the outer packaging 20 which is moved on the second conveyor line 18 and is to be fitted with articles 14, in which FIG. 1 cannot be seen, however, it is part of the handling and / or packaging device 10 according to the invention.
  • Position detection device 26 its arrangement and its more precise function are only to be explained in more detail with reference to FIGS. 2 ff.
  • FIG. 2 illustrates an example
  • the articles 14 or beverage containers can flow in a mass flow on the first conveyor line 12 forming the first horizontal conveyor 28 in the conveying direction 16 (here again pointing from left to right; upper conveyor section) and conveyed into an engagement and / or takeover area of the handling device 22.
  • the articles 14 or containers initially conveyed in the mass flow can be divided and brought together on their conveying path, for example by means of vertically standing alley plates (not recognizable here) or in another way in rows of articles 14 or containers conveyed one after the other.
  • the outer packaging 20 or beverage crates to be filled are conveyed up in the conveying direction 16 and how the articles 14 in the engagement and / or takeover area of the handling device 22, where each outer packaging 20 depending on their
  • Capacity is equipped with a defined number of articles 14. While the article 14 is transported in mass flow, the second one is transported
  • the handling device 22 acting in the engagement and / or takeover area of the handling and / or packaging device 10 comprises a total of two gripper heads 24 which can be controlled in parallel and which are used for the simultaneous recording and detection of A total of three article groups, each with twenty articles 14 or beverage containers, are able to capture and pick them up on the first horizontal conveyor 28, to transfer them from the first conveyor section 12 to a forming table 32 arranged in parallel and there in each case into the available outer packaging 20 or use beverage crates.
  • the gripper heads 24 of the handling device 22 can be suspended movably in three axes, for example on a gantry robot, as a result of which the gripper heads 24 between the two conveyor lines 12 and 18 or between the conveying path 12 and the forming table 32 for transferring simultaneously several articles 14 or beverage containers to the outer packaging 20 or beverage crates provided on the forming table 32 and at the same time being raised and lowered as required.
  • the gripper heads 24 are preferably with controllable suction pads or with controllable gripping tulips or the like.
  • Insert securely held in the open top packaging 20 or beverage crates and can be reliably released for deposition in the respective outer packaging 20 provided for this purpose.
  • FIG. 2 and the schematic plan views of FIGS. 3A to 3J also show a further handling device 34, which is designed as a gripping device, and which is used to transfer an outer packaging 20 from the second conveyor line 18 or the second horizontal conveyor device 30 to Forming table 32 ensures.
  • This further handling device 34 with its
  • Gripping device can also be movably suspended, for example, on a gantry robot in three axes, as a result of which this gripping device of the further handling device 34 is moved back and forth between the second conveying path 18 and the forming table 32 for transferring an outer packaging 20, and is simultaneously raised and lowered as required can, so that on the forming table 32
  • ready-made and either slowly moving in the conveying direction 16 or stationary packaging 20 for loading with articles 14 can be filled and then transported in the conveying direction 16 to an outlet area in order to be subjected to further handling and / or packaging steps there, for example palletizing.
  • FIGS. 2 ff Show the position detection device 26 assigned to the second conveyor section 18, which is used to detect a position of an outer packaging 20 that is still empty and to be filled and / or filled with articles 14 and / or to detect a conveying speed of this outer packaging 20.
  • the position detection device 26 serves to control the others
  • Handling device 34 since after removal of an outer packaging 20 and its transfer to the forming table 32, it must be positioned as exactly as possible again over the next outer packaging 20 transported in the conveying direction 16 on the second conveying path 18 in order to pick it up and transfer it to the forming table 32 after there the outer packaging 20 equipped with articles 14 was transported on.
  • the output signals generated by the position detection device 26 are processed in this way and for the purpose of controlling the others
  • Handling device 34 for taking over the outer packaging 20 and / or for Control of the handling device 22 during the direct insertion of an article group into an outer packaging 20 conveyed on the second conveying path 18 and / or with regard to actuation of the second conveying path 18 for positioning at least one further outer packaging 20 to be filled and / or equipped with articles 14 is evaluated.
  • Handling and / or packaging device its position detection device can be moved approximately parallel to the second conveying path and / or at least temporarily can be moved along with it at the conveying speed of the outer packaging. It can also be provided that the position detection device can be moved approximately parallel to the second conveying path in a conveying direction of the outer packaging or counter to the conveying direction, which can be made possible, for example, by a motor drive and by a guide with a guide carriage arranged parallel to the conveying direction of the outer packaging.
  • the position detection device 26 shown can be formed, for example, by an optical sensor 36 or by an ultrasound sensor or the like, which essentially has at least one front edge or a front area of a respective one located first on the second conveyor path 18 and / or for filling or loading with outer packaging 20 that is available or transported or that is ready for or taken over by the further handling device 34 and delivers corresponding position data.
  • each leading edge of one of the first in the row of the outer packaging 20 transported one behind the other can easily provide very reliable position data of the outer packaging 20 without, for example, a camera image or the like having to be analyzed, which would be much more complex than a relative one simple edge detection or light-dark detection, as provided by the position detection device 26 provided according to the invention.
  • Gripping device if this is as exact as possible to its intended detection positions to accommodate an outer packaging 20 for the purpose of transferring it to the forming table 32.
  • FIGS. 3A to 3J show
  • FIGS. 3A to 3J also show, the forming table 32 is the handling and / or
  • Packaging device 10 in the embodiment shown is equipped with a further or third conveyor line 38 for the further transport of the outer packaging 20 filled or equipped with articles 14, this further or third conveyor line 38 running parallel to the first conveyor line 12 and to the second conveyor line 18.
  • This third conveyor section 38 which adjoins the forming table 32, can open into an outlet area to which, for example, a palletizing device (not shown here) can connect.
  • the third conveyor line 38 can, for example, run in an intermittent mode or in a clocked mode, even if the other two conveyor lines 12 and 18 run in continuous mode.
  • the third conveyor line 38 can be used to equalize the removal and the positioning effort for the even with rapid delivery of articles 14 and outer packaging 20
  • Handling devices 22 and 34 at least slightly reduced when positioning the outer packaging 20 and / or when inserting the article 14 into the outer packaging 20.
  • FIG. 3A does not yet reveal any outer packaging 20 that is ready on the forming table 32 and that, according to the following figures, will have to be equipped with articles 14 by means of the handling device 22, these articles 14 from the two gripper heads 24 from the first horizontal conveyor device 28 are taken from the first conveyor section 12.
  • grid-like insertion aids 33 can be seen in the area of the grouping table 32, which can be designed as rectangular stencils or grids or the like, and which during the insertion of the articles 14 into the respective one below located outer packaging 20 in a position that exactly matches the intended article positions within the respective outer packaging 20. The articles 14 are then lowered through these insertion aids 33 and into the
  • Handling devices 22 or the gripper heads 24 could be substituted.
  • Position detection device 26 is ready until the first outer packaging 20 is conveyed in (FIGS. 3B ff.) In order to be picked up by the second handling device 34 and transferred to the forming table 32.
  • the articles 14, formed for example by beverage containers, are in the mass flow on the first
  • Handling device 22 conveyed with its two gripper heads 24.
  • 3B illustrates how a plurality of outer packaging 20 is conveyed in an uninterrupted row one behind the other on the second horizontal conveyor 30 in the conveying direction 16 into the engagement or takeover area of the further handling device 34, where a front edge of the outer packaging 20 conveyed foremost is detected by the optical sensor 36 of the position detection device 26 is, so that with the help of a signal evaluation of the sensor signals supplied by the sensor 36 the further
  • Handling device 34 can be controlled very precisely.
  • 3C shows the detection and gripping of an outer packaging 20 by means of the further handling device 34 and the transfer of the
  • Handling device 34 together with the gripped and gripped outer packaging 20 to the forming table 32 in order to be equipped with articles 14 there.
  • FIG. 3D shows the empty gripper of the others moved back to the second horizontal conveyor 30 after the outer packaging 20 has been deposited
  • Horizontal conveyor 30 moved further and the sensor 36 for detecting the front edge of the following outer packaging 20 to be taken over was positioned exactly at the front edge thereof, which is the subsequent positioning shown in FIG. 3E can control the further handling device 34 for taking over this outer packaging 20.
  • FIGS. 3D to 3F also show how the outer packaging 20 deposited on the forming table 32 there is by means of the third conveyor section 38 in
  • the conveying direction 16 is transported further and brought exactly into the loading position for inserting the article 14 (FIGS. 3I and 3J).
  • FIGS. 3F and 3G show the transfer of a further outer packaging 20 from the second conveyor line 18 to the forming table 32, where the last one set down
  • Outer packaging 20 is moved further in the conveying direction 16 to the loading position. 3H while the gripper of the further handling device 34 is moved back to the second conveyor section 18, the position detection device 26 uses the optical sensor 36, which is movable along the second conveyor section 18, to detect the position of the front edge of the outer packaging previously moved on the second conveyor section 18 20 (FIGS. 3G and 3H), so that the gripper is correctly positioned according to FIG. 3I and the further handling device 34 is another
  • Outer packaging 20 can be transferred in the direction of the forming table 32, as shown in FIG. 3J.
  • FIGS. 3I and 3J also show the insertion of two groups of articles into the outer packaging 20 provided on the forming table 32 by activating the gripper heads 24 of the handling device 22, which are moved from the first conveyor line 12 to the forming table 32 after the articles 14 have been picked up, around the articles 14 to be inserted there into the prepared outer packaging 20 from above, in particular through the grid-like insertion aids 33 arranged there.
  • the outer packaging 20 filled in this way can be pulled in a short way in the conveying direction by means of the handling device 22 or by means of other suitable devices.
  • FIGS. 4A and 4B show two
  • Discharge device 40 is equipped for rejecting outer packaging 20 identified as being defective. Such outer packaging recognized as faulty, faulty and / or
  • Beverage crates, faulty and / or incomplete crates or beverage crates or faulty beverage crates or faulty and / or incomplete crates are referred to in the following context for better differentiation from the perfect outer packaging or the outer packaging recognized as perfect with the reference number 21.
  • the second conveyor section 18 is equipped with such a controllable discharge device 40 for discharging faulty outer packaging 21, with the discharge device 40 in the
  • Packing device 10 of the second conveyor line 18 such a controllable
  • Discharge device 40 for discharging faulty outer packaging 21 is assigned, with the reject device 40 being assigned the affected outer packaging 21 and recognized as faulty by the further handling device 34, so that the outer packaging 21 thus transferred to the reject device 40 by means of the further handling device 34 in a parallel or vertical direction or be conveyed further in the angled direction to the conveying direction 16 in order to be subsequently removed from the destination location for the defective outer packaging 21, which is controlled by the handling device 34, at a suitable point.
  • the discharge device 40 shown in FIG. 4B can also be used, for example, as
  • controllable discharge device 40 is expediently provided with a further detection device for detecting and recognizing faulty outer packaging 21 or
  • FIG. 5 finally shows a two-lane transport of outer packaging 20 on the second two-lane
  • Conveyor path 18 which is equipped with two parallel conveying horizontal conveying devices 30, each with a row of boxes in an aligned arrangement
  • Outer packaging 20 are transported so that a single
  • Position detection device 26 is sufficient to control the positioning processes of the further handling device 34.
  • This further handling device 34 is to be equipped in a corresponding manner with two synchronously controllable grippers for simultaneously taking over two outer packaging 20 from each of the two parallel horizontal conveying devices 30.
  • Disclosure of the invention should be of minor importance.
  • the person skilled in the art is quite capable of extracting enough information from the schematically and abstractly drawn representations that make it easier for him to understand the invention, without having to draw from the drawn and possibly not exactly

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L'invention concerne un arrangement de manipulation et/ou d'emballage (10) ainsi qu'un procédé pour suremballer des groupes d'articles. L'arrangement (10) comporte une première section de convoyage (12), destinée à transporter une pluralité d'articles (14) dans un flux massique et/ou en un transport en ligne dans une direction de convoyage (16) définie, et une deuxième section de convoyage (18), qui se trouve à proximité de la première section de convoyage (12) et/ou qui s'étend parallèlement à celle-ci, destinée à transporter successivement des suremballages qui sont conçus et préparés pour accueillir respectivement au moins un groupe d'articles formé par plusieurs articles (14). L'arrangement (10) comporte en outre un dispositif de manipulation (22) associé à l'une des sections de convoyage (12, 18), comprenant au moins une tête de préhenseur (24) qui est conçue et configurée pour accueillir et saisir simultanément respectivement un groupe d'articles de la première section de convoyage (12), pour le transférer vers la deuxième section de convoyage (18) et pour introduire le groupe d'articles dans les suremballages qui y sont transportés. Un dispositif de détection de position (26) destiné à reconnaître une position d'un suremballage encore vide et à remplir et/ou à garnir d'articles (14) et/ou destiné à détecter une vitesse de convoyage de ce suremballage est associé à la deuxième section de convoyage (18).
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