EP3898472A1 - Verfahren zur formatanpassung von laufwägen an einem linearmotorsystem und linearmotorsystem - Google Patents
Verfahren zur formatanpassung von laufwägen an einem linearmotorsystem und linearmotorsystemInfo
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- EP3898472A1 EP3898472A1 EP19805175.7A EP19805175A EP3898472A1 EP 3898472 A1 EP3898472 A1 EP 3898472A1 EP 19805175 A EP19805175 A EP 19805175A EP 3898472 A1 EP3898472 A1 EP 3898472A1
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- carriages
- linear motor
- motor system
- actuating
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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
- B65G54/00—Non-mechanical conveyors not otherwise provided for
- B65G54/02—Non-mechanical conveyors not otherwise provided for electrostatic, electric, or magnetic
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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
- B65G47/00—Article or material-handling devices associated with conveyors; Methods employing such devices
- B65G47/74—Feeding, transfer, or discharging devices of particular kinds or types
- B65G47/84—Star-shaped wheels or devices having endless travelling belts or chains, the wheels or devices being equipped with article-engaging elements
- B65G47/841—Devices having endless travelling belts or chains equipped with article-engaging elements
- B65G47/842—Devices having endless travelling belts or chains equipped with article-engaging elements the article-engaging elements being grippers
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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
- B65G47/00—Article or material-handling devices associated with conveyors; Methods employing such devices
- B65G47/74—Feeding, transfer, or discharging devices of particular kinds or types
- B65G47/84—Star-shaped wheels or devices having endless travelling belts or chains, the wheels or devices being equipped with article-engaging elements
- B65G47/846—Star-shaped wheels or wheels equipped with article-engaging elements
- B65G47/847—Star-shaped wheels or wheels equipped with article-engaging elements the article-engaging elements being grippers
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B67—OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
- B67C—CLEANING, FILLING WITH LIQUIDS OR SEMILIQUIDS, OR EMPTYING, OF BOTTLES, JARS, CANS, CASKS, BARRELS, OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; FUNNELS
- B67C3/00—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus; Filling casks or barrels with liquids or semiliquids
- B67C3/02—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus
- B67C3/22—Details
- B67C3/24—Devices for supporting or handling bottles
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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
- B65G2207/00—Indexing codes relating to constructional details, configuration and additional features of a handling device, e.g. Conveyors
- B65G2207/08—Adjustable and/or adaptable to the article size
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B67—OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
- B67C—CLEANING, FILLING WITH LIQUIDS OR SEMILIQUIDS, OR EMPTYING, OF BOTTLES, JARS, CANS, CASKS, BARRELS, OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; FUNNELS
- B67C3/00—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus; Filling casks or barrels with liquids or semiliquids
- B67C3/02—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus
- B67C3/22—Details
- B67C3/26—Filling-heads; Means for engaging filling-heads with bottle necks
- B67C2003/2668—Means for adapting the filling head to various sizes of containers
Definitions
- the invention relates to a method for adapting the format of carriages for the transport of bottles or similar containers to a linear motor system and a corresponding linear motor system.
- the disadvantage here is that a large number of different setup parts for the individual container formats must be kept available, which results in investment costs and space requirements for the storage of the setup parts.
- the changeover usually requires manual work and corresponds to the personnel costs and a machine downtime with a corresponding reduction in productivity.
- errors during conversion work are possible, which can cause damage and loss of production.
- the object is achieved with a method according to claim 1.
- the method is used to adapt the format of carriages for the hanging or standing transport of bottles or similar containers on a linear motor system.
- existing container guides on the carriages are adapted to a neck / shoulder / torso cross section of the containers / bottles by automatically adjusting a guide width between, based on the running direction, front and rear guide jaws of the container guides.
- the container guides are adapted to the neck / shoulder / trunk cross-section by automatically adjusting a height position of at least one of the guide jaws present on the container guides and in particular a vertical distance between the upper and lower guide jaws of the container guides.
- the container guides are designed to guide and / or passively grip the neck / shoulder / trunk areas.
- Automatic adjustment makes it unnecessary to change the container guides when adapting the format.
- Automatic adjustment is understood here to mean that the guide jaws of the container guides are adjusted mechanically by means of at least one electronically, pneumatically and / or hydraulically controlled drive. Its actively driven components are arranged outside the carriage, for example a setting station arranged in the area of the linear motor system and / or in the stato ren of the linear motor system.
- retaining clips for the mouth areas of the containers is also possible.
- the contour of the holding clamps can also be adjusted in principle in the same way as described for the guide jaws.
- the retaining clips are adjusted, for example, when changing the format between narrow-neck bottles and wide-neck bottles.
- the guide width can be defined, for example, by the hull diameter.
- the guidance distance can be understood more generally as the dimension of the fuselage cross section along a vertical plane in which the longitudinal axis of the container and the transport direction of the containers lie.
- the guide jaws can be raised or lowered by one-piece container guides in the vertical direction. It is also possible to raise or lower only one or more guide jaws on multi-part container guides in the vertical direction. If not all guide jaws are adjusted vertically equally, a vertical distance changes between the lower and upper guide jaws of the container guides, based on the running direction.
- upper guide jaws for neck and / or shoulder areas of bottles and lower guide jaws for body areas of the bottles can be present on vertically two-part container guides.
- adjustment of the upper guide jaws is then usually not necessary or only to a relatively small extent, while the lower guide jaws are moved up or down to match the new container length.
- the upper guide jaws would then have to be moved up or down in the opposite manner.
- an actuating element is automatically moved towards the respective carriage and thereby in operative connection with one coupled to the guide jaws Adjustment mechanism brought.
- the actuating element is thus not part of the carriage to be adjusted, but can be formed on another carriage.
- the actuating mechanism of the carriage thus works passively. This simplifies the construction of the carriage, in particular in that the carriage does not have to be supplied with drive energy in order to adjust the container guides.
- An active connection is to be understood to mean that the actuating element which is moved forward itself carries out an adjusting movement transmitted from the adjusting mechanism to the guide jaws or acts as a stationary anchoring for the adjusting mechanism during an adjusting movement, in particular an adjusting movement.
- the carriages are preferably moved into the region of an adjustment station, and the adjustment station executes an adjustment movement with the actuating element to adjust the guide jaws.
- the setting station is then arranged stationary in the area of the linear motor system.
- the carriages are preferably moved into the area of a setting station, and the setting station moves the actuating element into a position for stationary anchoring of a coupling element which is coupled to the actuating mechanism by the drive mechanism.
- the carriage carries out an adjustment run which is transferred from the adjusting mechanism to the guide jaws.
- the coupling element then acts as a stationary Ge counter bearing for the actuating mechanism. The length of the adjustment run determines the adjustment of the guide jaws.
- the setting station then only has to perform a comparatively simple actuating movement, namely to couple the actuating element to the coupling element in a form-fitting manner and / or to position the actuating element as a mechanical stop for the coupling element.
- the more complex adjustment movement for the guide jaws is then carried out by the linear motor system with the adjustment travel.
- the actuating elements are arranged on the carriages, and two carriages move onto one another in such a way that the actuating mechanism and thus the guide jaws of the one carriage is adjusted by the actuating element of the other carriage.
- the setting mechanism of a first Carriage when driving a second carriage actuated by its actuating element and thereby adjusting the guide jaws of the first carriage.
- the guide jaws of the moving carriage it would also be possible for the guide jaws of the moving carriage to be adjusted, or for both carriages to move towards each other during the adjustment.
- the actuating movement is preferably generated by at least one adjustment run of a carriage, in which two carriages are moved towards one another with the coupling element clamped in between.
- One of the carriages can rest here.
- the actuating elements can, for example, be projections formed on the end faces of the carriages or any regions of the end faces of the carriages.
- the actuating element of the one carriage is coupled in terms of drive technology to the actuating mechanism via the coupling element of the other carriage.
- the adjustment run can then be carried out by one and / or the other carriage. An additional drive for adjusting the guide jaws is therefore unnecessary.
- the actuating movement for the guide jaws is effected and controlled exclusively by the linear motor system.
- the guide width is preferably adjusted by changing a horizontal angle of attack between the guide jaws and / or by displacing the guide jaws with respect to the carriage parallel to its direction of travel. This enables simple and flexible adjustment of the guide width without exchanging the guide jaws.
- the carriages for the format adjustment are temporarily diverted to a shunting section of the linear motor system.
- a stationary setting unit can be arranged independently of the normal transport operation of the linear motor system.
- the setting station can be specially designed for empty carriages, i.e. without having to take into account a potential collision with transported containers. The setting station can therefore be adapted even better to the requirements when adjusting the guide distance. It would also be conceivable to have special carriages on the marshalling track for format adaptation, that is to say carriages on which special actuating elements are designed to carry out adjustment runs.
- a linear motor system according to claim 8. Accordingly, this is suitable for hanging or standing transport of bottles and comprises individually driven carriages with container guides for the bottles, the container guides comprising front and rear guide jaws and / or lower and upper guide jaws in relation to the direction of travel, and an adjusting mechanism for Adjusting a guide width and / or a vertical distance between the guide jaws by means of an actuating element acting from the outside according to at least one of the previous embodiments.
- the guide jaws are preferably mounted such that they can be pivoted individually about vertical axes and / or are displaceable relative to one another parallel to the running direction of the carriages. This enables a structurally simple to implement adjustment of the guide jaws to one another with an actuating element acting on the actuating mechanism from outside the carriage.
- the guide jaws preferably have vertically aligned and in particular essentially flat guide surfaces for the body regions of the bottles.
- a large number of different container cross sections, in particular both round and non-round container cross sections, can thus be reliably guided.
- the adjusting mechanism preferably has at least one ratchet mechanism for the stepwise enlargement and reduction of the guide width in particular.
- the Rat rule mechanism for example, has a ring gear with a locking device that can be engaged and disengaged in a known manner.
- the ratchet mechanism can include a switching mechanism with which the freewheeling direction and the blocking direction of the ratchet mechanism can be reversed.
- a ratchet mechanism enables unidirectional actuation of the adjusting mechanism.
- the carriages preferably comprise coupling elements to be actuated from below or in / against the running direction and coupled to the actuating mechanism in terms of drive technology.
- the coupling elements are used to transmit an actuating movement from the respective actuating element to the actuating mechanism or a fixed anchoring of the actuating mechanism in such a way that the guide jaws are adjusted by a relative movement of the carriage with respect to the stationary anchored coupling element.
- the coupling elements can be, for example, linearly displaceable bolts, rotatable shafts or spindles.
- the actuating elements can be arranged on linear units, rotary drives or spindle drives to match.
- actuating elements and coupling elements for torque transmission can have interlocking interlocking structures, such as, for example, a Phillips screw and a Phillips screwdriver or the like.
- Linearly operating coupling elements and actuating elements can have corresponding elevations and recesses, likewise matching hooks and eyes, or the like.
- the linear motor system preferably further comprises a setting station arranged in the area of a track for the carriages for motorized actuation or anchoring of a coupling element of the actuating mechanism. It is then only a single adjustment station for adjusting all the carriages.
- the linear motor system further comprises an adjustment station arranged in the region of a running track, in particular a special shunting section, for the carriages for the motor-driven actuation or anchoring of a coupling element mounted on the carriage and coupled to the actuating mechanism in terms of drive technology.
- an adjustment station arranged in the region of a running track, in particular a special shunting section, for the carriages for the motor-driven actuation or anchoring of a coupling element mounted on the carriage and coupled to the actuating mechanism in terms of drive technology.
- the actuating element and the coupling element for a magnetic frictional connection for unlocking the actuating mechanism by approaching the actuating supply element and for driving the actuating mechanism by lifting and / or rotating the actuating element are formed. This is possible without contact and without the use of difficult to clean surfaces and is therefore particularly hygienic.
- a magnet on the actuating element can be moved by motor from a stationary or mobile unit to the coupling element in order to use it to release a locking mechanism for the actuating mechanism that is present in the carriage by falling below a threshold distance to the carriage.
- the guide width of at least one pair of guide jaws can preferably be changed by subsequent rotation of the magnet.
- the height of the guide jaws and / or the vertical distance between the guide jaws arranged one above the other can be changed by the stroke, in particular the vertical stroke, of the magnet.
- the magnet can be an electromagnet, so that the changeover work can be carried out by simply switching the magnet on or off, regardless of precisely defined distances or complicated movement profiles.
- the magnet When designing the magnet as an electromagnet or as a permanent magnet, simultaneous adjustment of the width of the guide jaws and the height is possible by the magnet carrying out both the movement for the width adjustment (e.g. rotary movement) and the movement for the height adjustment (vertical movement).
- the width adjustment e.g. rotary movement
- the movement for the height adjustment vertical movement
- 1 is an oblique view of a linear motor system
- Figure 2 is a schematic plan view of the carriage with guide jaws with different guide width.
- FIG. 3 shows a schematic illustration of a first embodiment of the method
- FIG. 6 shows a schematic representation of a fourth embodiment of the method.
- Fig. 7 is a schematic representation of a fifth embodiment of the method.
- the linear motor system 1 comprises carriages 2 which are individually driven by long stators 3 and run along guide rails 5 of the linear motor system 1 by means of guide rollers 4. In principle, this is just as well known as weighing on the barrel 2 existing retaining clips 6 for the hanging transport of containers, such as for example beverage bottles, at their mouth areas and / or neck areas.
- the carriages 2 further include automatically adjustable container guides 7 for the trunk areas and / or neck / shoulder areas of the containers to be transported.
- Be the container guides 7 include relatively adjustable guide jaws 8, for example lower for the torso areas and upper for the neck / shoulder areas, and a passive actuating mechanism 9 with a coupling element 10 for an actuating element 1 1 to be automatically moved from the outside.
- the actuating mechanism 9 is drive technology to the Guide jaws 8 coupled in order to adapt them to the trunk areas and / or neck / shoulder areas of the containers.
- the actuating element 11 here is part of an adjusting station 12 which is arranged in the area of the linear motor system 1 in such a way that the actuating element 11 moves to the coupling element 10 and can be effectively coupled with it in terms of drive technology.
- the setting station 12 is shown in a simplified manner without associated fastening means.
- the setting station 12 includes an automatically, such as electronically, pneumatically, hydraulically or the like controllable drive 12a for the actuating element 1 1, for example with a spindle drive for performing a combined rotary movement and translation of the actuating element 1 1.
- the actuating element 1 1 can in this way are moved up to push the coupling element 10 up and / or to rotate.
- the actuating element 11 could, however, also execute only a rotary movement or a movement suitably superimposed from several degrees of freedom.
- the actuating element 1 1 optionally interacts with the coupling element 10 together.
- corresponding interlocking end faces may be present on the actuating element 11 and on the coupling element 10, which is known in principle and is therefore not further explained in this context.
- the coupling element 10 for adjusting the container guides 7 can alternatively also be anchored in a stationary manner by means of a positively acting actuating element 11. As will be explained in the following, the carriage 2 then executes a guide movement which adjusts the guide jaws 8 relative to the stationary anchored coupling element 10.
- Fig. 2 illustrates the principle of operation of the automatically adjustable container guides 7 in a schematic plan view of a pair of guide jaws 8, for example the lower pair of FIG. 1, for the sake of clarity without the retaining clips 6. Accordingly, a guide width 13 of the container guides 7 can be adjusted by adjusting one Angle of attack 14 and / or egg nes distance 15 between the guide jaws 8 can be adapted to different trunk cross-sections 16 or neck / shoulder cross-sections of the container.
- the guide width 13 is, for example, generally defined with regard to a dimension of the trunk cross section 16 or neck / shoulder cross section along a vertical plane 18 parallel to the running direction 17 and extending through the central axes of the containers.
- the Guide width 13 can also be defined by the diameter of the trunk cross section 16 to be guided or the neck / shoulder cross section.
- the guide jaws 8 are mounted on the carriages 2 in pairs in relation to the direction of travel 17. As a result, the fuselage areas 16 or neck / shoulder cross sections are carried out obliquely from the front and rear as well as obliquely transverse to the running direction 17.
- the guide surfaces 8a of the guide jaws 8 are preferably aligned flat and vertically. A large number of different fuselage cross sections 16 can thus be guided both in / against the running direction 17 and transversely thereto.
- the guide jaws 8 can also have gripping elements 8b in addition to the guide surfaces 8a, for example to stabilize filled containers in an upright transport position.
- the gripping elements 8b are designed, for example, as elastic gripping fingers.
- the guide jaws 8 can thus work as passive gripping jaws.
- the containers can be guided, for example, first against the guide surfaces 8a transversely to the direction of travel 17, press the gripping elements 8b outwards and finally snap behind the inwardly resilient gripping elements 8b in the container guide 7.
- the guide surfaces 8a are contoured guide surfaces (not shown here) in order to be able to make the guidance of the container to be transported even more effective by fitting it to the contour of the container.
- This con tured guide surface is quasi designed as a negative of the outer contour of the container.
- the guide jaws 8 can also include lower guide elements 8c for the bottom regions of the containers in addition to the guide surfaces 8a for the trunk cross sections 16 or neck / shoulder cross sections.
- the lower guide elements 8c can, for example, be designed as rigid / immovable support plates for a standing transport of the containers or only serve as guide surfaces in order to guide the bottom regions of the containers essentially orthogonally.
- the lower guide elements 8c can generally relieve the mechanical stresses on the guide surfaces 8a and their adjusting mechanisms and / or the gripping elements 8b, for example by the guide elements 8c absorbing part of the weight and / or inertia force occurring on the container.
- the guide elements 8c can comprise insertion ramps or the like which are inclined downwards away from the carriage 2.
- weight force measuring sensors are attached in or on the guide elements 8c and / or on the holding clips 6 in order to determine the weight force of the container. Derives can be made from this, e.g. the correct filling of a container (after filling), the empty weight of the container (before filling).
- the empty weight can e.g. be interesting in order to determine the container format or the container type (e.g. 0.3 liter container or 1.0 liter container) and to use this to derive the correct settings for the carriages and their guide elements.
- the information is sent to a control unit, e.g. the machine control is transmitted and processed.
- the position of the mouth / neck regions 19 of the container and thus the position of the holding clips 6 when the guide width 13 is adjusted preferably does not change.
- the adjustment of the angle of attack 14 shown on the left and in the middle in FIG. 2 is possible with a comparatively simple adjusting mechanism 9 and is usually sufficient for the format adjustment.
- the variant shown on the right in FIG. 2 for changing the distance 15 between the guide jaws 8 is alternatively or additionally also conceivable.
- the actuating mechanism 9 comprises a first coupling element 10 (shown on the right) for increasing the guide width 13 and a second coupling element 10 (shown on the left) for reducing the guide width 13.
- first coupling element 10 shown on the right
- second coupling element 10 shown on the left
- the first or second coupling element 10 is moved via the setting station 12 and actuated by the actuating element 1 1 in particular mechanically.
- the adjusting mechanism 9 can comprise at least one ratchet mechanism 9a in order to unidirectionally (in this case upwards) and in particular stepwise the guide width 13 by actuating at least one coupling element 10 to change.
- the ratchet mechanism 9a could then, for example, release and the coupling element 10 could be moved back by spring tension to the lower end of the adjustment range. Then the ratchet mechanism 9a could again perform an actuating movement, possibly with a snap.
- Ratchet mechanisms 9a would also be conceivable, in which a changeover mechanism is triggered at the end of their adjustment range, which reverses the freewheeling direction and locking direction of the ratchet mechanism 9a in order to alternately increase and decrease the guide width 13 by unidirectional actuation of the adjustment mechanism 9.
- the actuating element 11 of the setting station 12 executes an adjusting movement 20.
- This is to be understood to mean that the position of the actuating element 11 moved towards the coupling element 10 corresponds directly to the position of the guide jaws 8.
- the adjustment of the guide width 13 is therefore greater, the greater the adjustment movement 20 of the actuating element 11.
- a further embodiment is indicated in Fig. 4, in which the actuating supply element 1 1 of the setting station 12 carries out an anchoring movement 21 to anchor the coupling element 10 to the extended actuating element 1 1 in a stationary manner.
- the carriage 2 At closing the carriage 2 performs a setting run 22, which adjusts the guide distance 13 accordingly the distance traveled.
- the ratchet mechanism 9a shown in FIG. 4 would in principle not be necessary in the type of anchoring shown.
- the anchoring of the coupling element 10 by means of the actuating element 11 would also be conceivable in the sense of a one-sided stop (indicated by dashed lines).
- the carriage 2 would then be driven to the correspondingly extended actuating element 1 1 until the coupling element 10 strikes. At the end of the setting run 22 is carried out. In this case, a unidirectional actuation of the actuating mechanism 9 would be possible with the ratchet mechanism 9a.
- FIG. 5 shows a further embodiment in which the setting station 12 is unnecessary.
- the actuating movement is generated by at least one adjustment run 22, 23 by moving two carriages 2, 24 towards one another with the coupling element 10 clamped in between.
- the container guide 7 of a first carriage 2 is to be adjusted with the aid of a second carriage 24.
- the coupling element 10 of the first carriage 2 and the actuating element 11 of the second carriage 24 are moved against one another and then at least one of the adjustment runs 22, 23 is carried out.
- the second carriage 24 is at rest.
- the actuating element 11 is present on the carriages 2, 24 itself, for example in the form of a suitable counterpart to the coupling element 10 or simply in the form of a front / rear end face of the carriage 2. In principle, it does not matter whether the actuating element 1 1 is driven against the corresponding coupling element 10 or vice versa.
- a ratchet mechanism 9a is particularly advantageous for unidirectional actuation of the actuating mechanism 9.
- FIG. 6 a variant schematically shown in FIG. 6 is also conceivable, in which the adjusting mechanism 12 is arranged in the region of the guide rails 5 (for the sake of clarity only indicated in a simplified manner).
- the actuating element 1 1 could then be, for example, a toothed strip 25 which is movably integrated into one of the guide rails 5 or embedded between them.
- the setting station 12 brings the toothed strip 25 preferably by an anchoring movement 21 into engagement with a coupling element 10 formed on the carriage 2, for example a gearwheel 26.
- the toothed strip 25 could be magnetically moved a few millimeters in the direction of the carriage 2 and thus to the toothed wheel 26 or the like coupling element 10 who coupled.
- the carriage 2 In order to adjust the container guide 7, the carriage 2 is then moved along the toothed rack 25 extended in this way for an adjustment run 22. After the adjustment, the tooth bar 25 is retracted again and thus disengaged. The carriage 2 can then travel to the subsequent supply of a container.
- Such an adjustment of the container guide 7 is preferably conceivable in a special adaptation section of the linear motor system 1, for example in a one-part train station, on a special auxiliary track of the linear motor system 1 or the like, in order to reduce the number of adjusting stations 12 and actuating elements 11 required for format adaptation overall, to minimize, for example, the toothed racks movable in this way.
- FIG. 7 shows schematically further optional aspects of the format adaptation according to the invention, namely, on the one hand, a contact-free actuation which is advantageous from a hygienic point of view the container guides 7 by magnetic force and on the other hand separate actuating movements un lower guide jaws 8 for body cross sections of the container and upper guide jaws 8 for assigned neck / shoulder cross sections.
- the actuating element 11 then comprises a magnet 27, for example a permanent magnet with differently magnetized partially circumferential sections, which interacts with a magnetically reactive coupling element 10 in the carriage 2 in order to actuate the actuating mechanism 9 and, if appropriate, also to activate it.
- a magnet 27 for example a permanent magnet with differently magnetized partially circumferential sections, which interacts with a magnetically reactive coupling element 10 in the carriage 2 in order to actuate the actuating mechanism 9 and, if appropriate, also to activate it.
- the magnetic actuating element 1 1 can preferably be moved in several degrees of freedom for different functions, for example to carry out an approach movement 28 to the carriage 2, which is used to unlock a locking mechanism for the coupling element 10 and / or to couple it to the actuating mechanism 9. Also possible are a preferably vertical stroke 29 and / or a rotary movement 30 with respect to a longitudinal axis 31 of the actuating element 11 and / or the magnet 27, around lower guide jaws 8 for body cross sections and / or upper guide jaws 8 for associated neck / shoulder cross sections of the containers adjust.
- the preferably vertical stroke 29 of the actuating element 11 and the magnet 27 can be transmitted from the coupling element 10 to the actuating mechanism 9, for example, in order to adjust a height position 32 of the lower and / or the upper guide jaws 8 with respect to the carriage 2.
- a vertical distance 33 can be adjusted between the guide jaws 8 arranged one above the other by the stroke 29.
- the rotary movement 30 of the actuating element 11 and the magnet 27 can be transmitted to the adjusting mechanism 9 in accordance with the adjustment of the guide width 13 of existing guide jaws 8, for example lower guide jaws 8 for torso cross sections and / or upper guide jaws 8 for associated neck / shoulder cross sections for the other embodiments has already been described.
- the magnetic actuating element 11 can be brought up to the carriage 2 from the rear or the front, for example by means of a mobile or stationary adjustment unit (not shown).
- a mobile or stationary adjustment unit not shown
- the adjusting mechanism 9 can have, for example, a linear guide 34 and / or an eccentric guide 35.
- the adjusting mechanism 9 can be locked / deactivated again by reversing the approach movement 28 and thus by releasing the magnetic coupling of the actuating element 11 with its magnet 27, for example by an automatically spring-back locking mechanism.
- the adjustment of the guide jaws 8 is in principle possible in three dimensions, for example separately along mutually orthogonal axes (longitudinal, transverse, vertical to the transport direction) or combinations thereof.
- a height adjustment to adapt to lower / higher containers and / or a width adjustment to adapt to leaner / bulbous container contours is particularly practical.
- all format-specific parts on the carriage 2 can be designed to be adaptable, for example as neck-handling clips with adjustable opening width and / or contour.
- the coupling elements 10 can also be assigned to different (pairs of) guide jaws 8 and / or actuating functions.
- the first coupling element 10 shown in FIG. 3 for increasing the guide width 13 and the second coupling element 10 for reducing the guide width 13 could, for example, also be assigned different guide jaws 8 instead of different adjustment directions.
- the first coupling element 10 could be assigned to a lower pair of guide jaws 8 and the second coupling element 10 to an upper pair of guide jaws 8 or vice versa.
- the upper and lower levels of the container guide 7, if present, can preferably be set separately from one another. This can be used both for separate adjustment of the upper and lower guide width 13 of the guide jaws 8 as well as for the separate adjustment of an upper and lower height position 32 of the guide jaws 8 and therefore also for adjusting a vertical distance 33 between the upper and lower guide jaws 8.
- an adjustment of upper and lower guide jaws 8 independently of one another may be expedient or even necessary.
- the actuating element 11 engages at different points on the carriage 2, that is to say then generally also on different coupling elements 10.
- the actuating element 1 1 could carry out a first stroke in order to formally couple the coupling element 10 to a first transmission in the actuating mechanism 9, and then a second stroke in order to formally couple the coupling element 10 to a second transmission in the actuating mechanism 9. It would therefore be conceivable to select the actuating function by extending the actuating element 11, for example a shaft, to different extents, and to set the respective actuating position of the guide jaws 8 selected in this way by rotating the actuating element 11, for example the shaft.
- the retaining clips 6 and the guide rollers 4 have been omitted in FIGS. 3 to 7, since they do not play a special role for the function of the passive actuating mechanism 9 as a drive coupling of the guide jaws 8 to an externally active actuator 11.
- the setting trips 22, 23 can be carried out with the linear motor system 1 using the control functions available for the trans port function of the linear motor system 1 by suitable programming.
- the adjustment of the guide width 13, the altitude 32 and / or the vertical distance 33 can be carried out on a shunting route (not shown) for empty carriages 2 connected by means of at least one switch to a transport section of the line arm motor system 1. Since no container transport is necessary there, the design and arrangement tion of a setting station 12 and its actuating element 1 1 and the Ankopplungsele elements 10 are not taken into account the transport function of the carriage 2 or a possible collision with containers.
- the coupling elements 10 could in principle perform any rotary movements, linear movements and / or pivoting movements as well as combinations of these basic movement types.
- An example of this is a combined rotary movement and linear movement of a spindle drive or the like.
- Coupling elements 10 in the form of linearly displaceable bolts are particularly practical.
- any anchoring mechanisms are conceivable here, such as, for example, combinations of hooks and eyes, projections and depressions, bolts and bores or similar positive connections.
- An actuation of the coupling elements 10 from below is advantageous for a collision-free arrangement of the setting station 12 below a transport path of the containers.
- Coupling elements 10 to be actuated in / against the running direction 17 are particularly advantageous for executing adjustment runs 22, 23 with the carriages 2, 24.
- the carriages 2 can be designed both for hanging transport by means of the holding clips 6 for the mouth / neck regions of the containers and for standing transport by means of the lower guide elements 8c, such as support plates, for the bottom regions of the containers.
- the retaining clips 6 can be adjusted for example in a format change between narrow-neck bottles and wide-neck bottles.
- a flexible format adaptation of the carriages 2 is possible without exchanging setup parts. This minimizes the effort for warehousing and personnel as well as production interruptions and sources of error.
- the described format adjustment is in principle also possible with increased hygienic requirements.
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