EP3895885B1 - Equipment for covering cardboard boxes with cold-sticker sheet portions - Google Patents

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EP3895885B1
EP3895885B1 EP21168298.4A EP21168298A EP3895885B1 EP 3895885 B1 EP3895885 B1 EP 3895885B1 EP 21168298 A EP21168298 A EP 21168298A EP 3895885 B1 EP3895885 B1 EP 3895885B1
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Giulio SALETTI
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B31—MAKING ARTICLES OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER; WORKING PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31B—MAKING CONTAINERS OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31B50/00—Making rigid or semi-rigid containers, e.g. boxes or cartons
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B31—MAKING ARTICLES OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER; WORKING PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31B—MAKING CONTAINERS OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31B50/00—Making rigid or semi-rigid containers, e.g. boxes or cartons
    • B31B50/02—Feeding or positioning sheets, blanks or webs
    • B31B50/022—Holders for feeding or positioning blanks or webs
    • B31B50/024—Rotating holders, e.g. star wheels, drums
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B31—MAKING ARTICLES OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER; WORKING PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31B—MAKING CONTAINERS OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31B50/00—Making rigid or semi-rigid containers, e.g. boxes or cartons
    • B31B50/02—Feeding or positioning sheets, blanks or webs
    • B31B50/04—Feeding sheets or blanks
    • B31B50/07—Feeding sheets or blanks by air pressure or suction
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B31—MAKING ARTICLES OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER; WORKING PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31B—MAKING CONTAINERS OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31B2105/00—Rigid or semi-rigid containers made by assembling separate sheets, blanks or webs
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B31—MAKING ARTICLES OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER; WORKING PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31B—MAKING CONTAINERS OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31B2110/00—Shape of rigid or semi-rigid containers
    • B31B2110/20—Shape of rigid or semi-rigid containers having a curved cross section, e.g. circular
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B31—MAKING ARTICLES OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER; WORKING PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31B—MAKING CONTAINERS OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31B2120/00—Construction of rigid or semi-rigid containers
    • B31B2120/50—Construction of rigid or semi-rigid containers covered or externally reinforced
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B31—MAKING ARTICLES OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER; WORKING PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31B—MAKING CONTAINERS OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31B2120/00—Construction of rigid or semi-rigid containers
    • B31B2120/50—Construction of rigid or semi-rigid containers covered or externally reinforced
    • B31B2120/501—Construction of rigid or semi-rigid containers covered or externally reinforced by applying wrapping material only on the side wall part of a box

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  • the present invention relates to the field of the production of covered cardboard boxes, such as, in particular but not necessarily, straight or microwave paperboard boxes, and more precisely its object is an equipment provided with novel features as regards to the materials and covering methods.
  • the standard technique just mentioned which makes use of a shaped sheet which is made sticky by a distribution of hot adhesive, requires a careful and expensive management of the adhesive and of the device for dispensing it, that is the gluing machine.
  • a preparatory and warm-up phase is necessary at the start of processing, which affects the timing and flexibility of production. It is then necessary to accurately identify and maintain/control the correct viscosity over time, within the context of the other operating parameters.
  • the gluing device or machine is in itself an additional machine on the line, with all that this entails in terms of installation and management costs, as well as overall dimensions. The same applies to the release mat for the glued sheets (necessary for the glue flash-off phase).
  • Prior art patent document WO 2010/010496 A1 discloses a cardboard box/container coating equipment comprising four sequential workstations ( figures 10 -13, 19) adapted to: a) receive a preformed box having a base and side wall(s) ( figures 2-4 ); b) apply a first self-adhesive coating film on the base section, said first film having an excess area, and folding and pressing the excess area of the first film to an area of the side wall(s) so as to secure the film to the side wall(s) ( figures 2-4 , 9 , 12, 13); c) apply a second self-adhesive coating film to the side wall(s), said second film having an excess area ( figures 5-6 , 15); and d) folding and pressing the excess area of the second film to the interior side of the side wall(s) so as to secure the film to the side wall(s) ( figures 7-8 , 17); wherein the workstations a), c) and d) are located on a carousel.
  • a piece of equipment according to the invention is conceptually structured in a plurality of stations n, typically four stations as in the example, defined by angular positions of a carousel 1 (better shown in Figure 6 ) rotating about a vertical axis Z.
  • the carousel which, moved by rotation drive means 11, rotates at angular steps of 360°/n, in this case therefore of 90°, provides four support molds 2 for the box being covered (details are provided shortly), so that at each stop of the carousel 1, a mold is positioned in a respective station for the operations pertaining to the station itself to be performed, and all the molds are therefore simultaneously processed in the stations. From this, it follows that one box to be covered enters the cycle and one covered box exits therefrom at each rotation step of the carousel.
  • the molds 2 will be replaced with appropriate molds (and by means of known quick coupling/uncoupling systems in order to minimize the set-up time of the machine), according to what is obvious to the expert in the field, without however the principle of structure and operation of the machine varying substantially with respect to the one described herein.
  • the format of the covering material will vary, taking into account in particular the need to cover a bottom which may be elliptical, regularly or irregularly polygonal, etc., rather than circular.
  • the equipment comprises a quadrilateral top-plan base 7, and in particular a rectangular one, which defines the support infrastructure of all the components of the equipment and which has a first long side 7a that an assigned operator faces, and exposing the loading/unloading station 3.
  • the lateral covering station 5 can be found on a second long side 7c opposite to the first one, and finally the tucking station 6 on the second short side 7d.
  • the carousel 1 has radial arms 8 each capable of supporting a mold 2.
  • Each mold illustrated in particular detail in Figures 5 and 5a , is represented by a drum supported at the base by the arm 8 by means of an idle spindle 8a, with its own axis Z' parallel to the axis of rotation Z of the carousel and provided with a central cavity 2a which gives the mold a cup-shaped configuration.
  • the outer radial dimensions of the drum/mold are such as to be slightly smaller than the inner ones of the box to be made, so that the box, or more precisely the relative blank A, which represents the cylindrical body thereof defining the lateral surface to be covered, can be inserted therein to size.
  • the height extension of the mold is then such as to leave a free edge of the blank A protruding from the mold, an edge that is lower, i.e. at the base of the mold, in the working configuration fitted on the latter but that corresponds to the opening edge - normally to be positioned upwards - of the finished box in use.
  • a plate 9 is superimposed on the carousel in the central region and has a shape such that the molds 2, only at the loading/unloading 3 and bottom covering stations 4, are superimposed with their lower end at a peripheral area of the plate, in contact with or in close proximity to it, so that the latter can exert, at those stations, a stop action of the blank A inserted on the mold.
  • the mold 2 is not associated with other equipment, given that, as seen, the mold in this station is intended at the manual insertion of the cylindrical blank A, to precisely cover its lateral surface, as well as at the positioning on the upper part/surface, to shut the aperture of the cavity 2a, of a discoidal blank B representing the bottom of the box. It should be noted here that in principle, there can also be provided to insert directly a previously formed box, i.e. with a bottom already "joined" to the wall or lateral walls using known techniques.
  • the covering will not serve also the function of consolidating the structure of the box, as instead in the preferred and advantageous example considered herein, and as will be seen shortly.
  • this station it is not possible to exclude equipping this station with accessory equipment capable of performing the loading/unloading functions automatically, thus replacing human intervention.
  • the mold 2 cooperates with a suction plate 41 which is adapted to affix a sticker sheet portion RF having corresponding shape on the upper face of the bottom of the box (blank B).
  • the suction plate reciprocated both according to an up-down direction parallel to the axis Z and according to a horizontal direction Y of forward/reverse advancement (parallel to the long sides of the frame) on a plane orthogonal to the axis Z, all by means of an actuation system 42 of an obviously implementable type, has the task of catching the sheet portions RF one by one and releasing them on the bottom of the box.
  • the operating principle of these machines involves the application of a series of sticker paper labels on a given product or packaging, by unwinding a liner or continuous tape made of siliconized paper on which the labels are positioned in regular sequence, by means of a series of drive rollers, up to an area where the labels are separated from the siliconized support and applied individually on the target product.
  • this machine supports the label reel, pulls the siliconized liner with the labels on it to a precise point of separation between the liner and the label and applies the label to the target object.
  • the labelling machine operates in an intermittent step mode, the latter being determined by the positioning distance of the individual labels on the liner.
  • the portion RF has a larger diameter than that of the bottom B of the box, so that once released and pressed by the plate 41 so as to make it stick well to the bottom, an excess edge band RFe protrudes beyond the outline of the wall or lateral walls of the box. Once folded over the cylindrical blank A, said edge serves to make it structurally integral with the bottom B, and a bottom covering folding device 44 in turn provided in the station 4, is provided for this folding task.
  • the essential component of said device 44 is a disc-shaped cup die 441 ( Figure 9 , in particular), which suitably sized in accordance with the bottom of the box and alternatively moved, is capable of being lowered onto the mold 2 coaxially to the axis Z', its peripheral skirt 441a abutting the edge RFe and making it stick to the lateral surface of the blank A, leaving said edge hanging after its lifting to free the box.
  • the station 5 is configured to cover the outer lateral surface of the cylindrical blank A (box body), also in this case with a sticker paper portion RL.
  • the station 5 firstly provides a (second) peeling device 51, which like the first device 41, in itself can be assimilated in turn with a known peeling or labelling device such as the one already mentioned above, prepared to unwind a siliconized paper-based reel D supporting the sticker portions RL, which in this case are quadrilateral with sides whose length substantially corresponds to the height and base perimeter of the cylinder, as well as to detach the portions one by one.
  • the device 51 is configured to tangentially extend a side of height of the portion RL (side that corresponds to a generatrix of the cylindrical wall of the box) to the mold, and in particular to the blank A arranged therein, until contact by a head flap thereof so as to make said flap stick thereto.
  • the station 5 then comprises a first drive device 52 for the rotation of the mold (clearly shown in particular, in Figure 10 ) about its own axis (Z'), which in the illustrated embodiment advantageously provides a motorized roller 521 which, when the mold reaches the station, is engaged on the generatrix of the blank/body A, thus bringing it into rotation by tangential friction, a rotation which promotes and assists the unwinding of the covering portion RL all about the blank, being it synchronized with the advancement speed of the covering portion established by the second labelling device 51.
  • Two idle rollers 522 in a position diametrically opposite to that of the motorized roller 521 exert an appropriate radial anvil force, which allows the establishment of the friction necessary for the action of the motorized roller, at an obviously controlled speed.
  • the position of the idle rollers 522 in the radial direction i.e. approaching and moving away from the mold 2) is variable and controllable through a manually operable linear guide system 523.
  • Both the motorized roller 521 and the anvil rollers 522 comprise at least one surface layer of rubbery material so as to generate a pressure action distributed over the sticky covering portion towards the paperboard box, which evidently also and above all serves the function of making the sticker material stick well to the blank paperboard, material which is used between the rollers and the box paperboard, without creating folds, bubbles or in any case defects.
  • the whole perimeter of the box is externally wrapped, including a slight superimposing of the end flaps, in order not to leave uncovered any portion of the cylindrical blank A.
  • the lateral sticker portion RL has dimensions on the side that are slightly higher than the height of the blank A in order to have excess material RLe on the already-mentioned free edge of the box (base of the mold), which is useful for the following tucking phase on the inner surface of the box itself.
  • the mold 2 cooperates with a device 61 for tucking the lateral covering, and particularly the above-mentioned excess flap RLe, about the free edge of the box since, as will be seen shortly, the tucking in is performed with a folding operation in a point of the perimeter development of the box; a revolving movement of the box itself is necessary so that it can extend along the entire perimeter of the edge.
  • a second device 62 for rotating the mold about its own axis, for example completely analogous to the first drive device 51 of the lateral covering station.
  • Said device therefore in turn comprises a motorized roller 621 and two anvil idle rollers 622 which are adjustable in position by means of a guide system 623, whose structure and operation are entirely similar to those of the corresponding components of the first device 51 described above.
  • the anvil rollers 622 have, at their base, a conical shaping 622a adapted to push the excess covering flap RLe radially inwards with an incipient folding which assists the subsequent action of the actual tucking element.
  • a shaped skid 611 made of anti-friction material is movable between a lowered or inactive position ( Figure 6 ) and a raised (or active, Figures 7, 7a and 11 ) position, in which it is inserted into the box thanks to the space left free by the edge that protrudes as said, beyond the base of the mold, and applies a pressure action precisely on the inner surface of the paperboard with the interposition of the sticker paper folded by the skid with its movement.
  • the bottom covering sticker portion RF caught from the peeling device is first placed and pressed onto the bottom blank through the suction plate 41.
  • the die 431 of the folding device 43 then folds the perimeter edge RFe of the portion RF over the lateral surface of the box, structurally binding the two parts of the box (bottom B and cylindrical blank A).
  • a further rotation step of the carousel 1 guides the box to the last station 6, the bottom tucking one, where the operation in question is carried out as already described and as shown in particular in Figure 11 , in which the movement of the excess covering flap is shown in its successive positions until tucking is complete, each corresponding to a degree of rotation of the lever 612 carrying the skid 611.
  • the final rotation of the carousel brings the finished box back to the loading/unloading station, where the operator pulls it out so that a new box can be loaded.
  • the stations work simultaneously on four boxes, so each complete turn of the carousel results in the creation of four boxes, and a finished box exits the loading/unloading station at each rotation step.
  • the equipment control system which is not described in detail, can evidently be implemented in order to achieve the above functionality based on traditional design criteria.

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