EP4146548B1 - Unité d'application, procédé de conduite d'une unité d'application ainsi qu'une machine d'emballage avec une unité d'application - Google Patents

Unité d'application, procédé de conduite d'une unité d'application ainsi qu'une machine d'emballage avec une unité d'application Download PDF

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EP4146548B1
EP4146548B1 EP21786227.5A EP21786227A EP4146548B1 EP 4146548 B1 EP4146548 B1 EP 4146548B1 EP 21786227 A EP21786227 A EP 21786227A EP 4146548 B1 EP4146548 B1 EP 4146548B1
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Manfred Van Triel
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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
    • B65B17/00—Other machines, apparatus, or methods for packaging articles or materials
    • B65B17/02—Joining articles, e.g. cans, directly to each other for convenience of storage, transport, or handling
    • B65B17/025—Joining articles, e.g. cans, directly to each other for convenience of storage, transport, or handling the articles being joined by a top carrier element
    • 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
    • B65B49/00—Devices for folding or bending wrappers around contents
    • 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
    • B65B49/00—Devices for folding or bending wrappers around contents
    • B65B49/12—Rotary folders
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B59/00—Arrangements to enable machines to handle articles of different sizes, to produce packages of different sizes, to vary the contents of packages, to handle different types of packaging material, or to give access for cleaning or maintenance purposes
    • B65B59/001—Arrangements to enable adjustments related to the product to be packaged
    • 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
    • B65B59/04—Machines constructed with readily-detachable units or assemblies, e.g. to facilitate maintenance
    • 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
    • B65B65/00—Details peculiar to packaging machines and not otherwise provided for; Arrangements of such details
    • B65B65/02—Driving gear

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  • Application units for packaging machines for pressing on and/or pressing a material blank, for example a cardboard blank, onto containers formed into a group, such as for example cans or bottles, are known in a variety of configurations from the prior art.
  • the material blank is pressed onto the containers in such a way that the material blank is positively connected to the containers via suitable openings adapted to the containers, with the material blank being pushed over the containers in sections in the area of the openings.
  • an application unit for producing a cardboard packaging which has pressing elements fastened to a turntable, which close a cardboard blank, which forms the bottom and the side walls of the cardboard packaging, with a lid.
  • a rotating toothed belt ensures that the application unit's pressure elements always remain horizontal.
  • the WO 96/29247 A1 discloses an apparatus for attaching a cardboard clip to a number of items in a box moving along a conveyor.
  • the device comprises a carrier which is movable along rails and arms which are rotatable about a pivot point and at the ends of which receiving plates are pivotally mounted. The translational movement of the carrier and the rotation of the arms are controlled so that the clip is applied to the objects while the box is moving and at the same time performs a vertical movement during the application.
  • the U.S. 2004 068 961 A1 teaches an apparatus and packaging machine having a device for arranging packaging material in a predetermined position relative to a row of articles to be packed, e.g. bottles, with a conveyor for conveying a row of articles, a feed device for feeding the packaging material from a direction which is substantially perpendicular to the direction of movement of the objects.
  • the feeder accelerates the packaging material to a sufficient speed relative to the speed of the items so that the packaging material is placed in the predetermined position while maintaining the continuous advancement of the items.
  • the invention is based on the object of providing an application unit that can be produced inexpensively and allows a change to changing production conditions in a simple manner, as well as a method for operating such an application unit and a packaging machine with such an application unit.
  • the invention solves the problem by an application unit with the features of claim 1, the method for operating an application unit or a packaging machine with the features of claim 14 or claim 16 and by a packaging machine with the features of claim 10.
  • Advantageous developments of the invention are given for the application unit in claims 2 to 9, for the packaging machine in claims 11 to 13 and for the method in claims 15 and 17.
  • the drive unit has at least one pressing element having a tool plate, the pressing element being connected via its first joint axis to the first drive disk and its second joint axis to the second drive disk in an articulated manner.
  • the connection of the joint axes of the pressing element with the first and second drive disk is preferably designed in such a way that the tool plate arranged on the pressing element is always horizontally aligned due to an arrangement of the joint axes at the same height when the drive disks are rotated, with a horizontal alignment to a proper arrangement refers to the application unit on or in the packaging machine, in which the application unit is arranged parallel at a distance from a generally horizontal transport plane on which the containers provided with the cut material are moved past the application unit in the transport direction.
  • a resulting reliable horizontal alignment of the tool plate ensures that it horizontally guides or holds the material blank to be mounted on or on the containers, so that when the tool plate is displaced due to the rotational movement of the drive disks, the material blank is reliably attached to the containers.
  • the attachment of the material blank takes place during the displacement of the tool plate from the disengaged position with the containers into the engaged position with the containers. H. the maximum displacement in the direction of the containers, the material cut placed on or on the containers. If the material blank is attached, a form-fitting connection of the material blank to the individual containers of the container group takes place, with a container-forming connection preferably being produced via the material blank.
  • the application unit according to the invention is characterized in that it can be produced particularly simply and inexpensively and enables reliable horizontal alignment of the tool plates of the pressing elements. Deviations of the tool plate from the horizontal alignment required for smooth operation are effectively prevented by the application unit according to the invention.
  • the application unit can be easily adapted to the transport speed of the containers via the rotational speed of the drive disks about the respective axis of rotation. With the help of the application unit, it is possible to provide the containers with a material cut in a continuous process.
  • the group of containers can consist, for example, of 4, 6 or 8 containers, which are preferably grouped in a 2x2 arrangement, a 3x2 arrangement or a 4x2 arrangement.
  • the containers of the group of containers are preferably beverage containers or containers for liquid foods.
  • the containers can be in the form of cans or bottles, for example.
  • the concrete design of the material cuts can be freely selected.
  • the respective material blank expediently has a plurality of holes through which the containers, in particular their upper section, can be passed. On the circumference of the holes, tooth-like fixing elements designed to be tiltable relative to a base area of the material blank can be provided for positive connection with the containers.
  • the material blanks are particularly preferably made of cardboard, in particular corrugated cardboard, or of cardboard.
  • the respective material cut can have lateral folding flaps. In the folded state, the folding flaps advantageously form a cover for the upper section of the containers, for example to protect against soiling.
  • the configuration of the connection of the pressing element to the tool plate can in principle be freely selected.
  • the pressing element is designed for the detachable arrangement of the tool plate.
  • This embodiment of the invention makes it possible to adapt the application unit to changing production conditions, such as the size of the container groups, the size of the containers, the product division or the like, in a particularly simple manner.
  • the term "product division" is to be understood as meaning the centre-to-centre distance between two successive groups of containers in the direction of transport.
  • the arrangement of the pressing elements on the first and second drive pulleys can basically be designed in any way. It is thus possible to fix the pressing element or several pressing elements in a fixed position on the drive disks, in which case an adaptation to, for example, changing product divisions of the containers can be carried out by simply changing the rotational speed of the pressing elements resulting from the rotational speed of the drive disk.
  • the first and the second drive disk have receiving openings for the detachable arrangement of the joint axes of the pressing element.
  • the detachable arrangement of the joint axes allows the pressing elements to be easily replaced if necessary, which also makes inspection and maintenance work easier.
  • the arrangement of several receiving openings on each of the drive disks which is provided according to a particularly advantageous manner, with the receiving openings being distributed over their circumference on the drive disks in such a way that several pressing elements can be fastened to the driving disks, also makes it possible to provide the application unit with several pressing elements
  • the number and arrangement of the pressing elements can then be selected as a function of the product divisions of the containers, with an arrangement of the receiving openings being particularly preferred that allows the application unit to be adapted to product divisions of 160 mm, 240 mm and/or 320 mm.
  • This embodiment of the invention thus makes it possible to adapt the application unit to different product divisions by simply replugging the pressing elements, without the need for an adjustment of the rotational speed of the pressing elements by regulating the speed of the drive pulleys.
  • the peripheral speed of the pressing elements can permanently correspond to the production speed of the packaging machine, so that different speed profiles for drive motors or the like can be dispensed with.
  • each of the drive pulleys has a plurality of, preferably at least eight, receiving openings which are arranged on a circular path with a predetermined circumference, in particular a circumference of 960 mm.
  • the receiving openings are divided into a first group with n receiving openings arranged equidistantly from one another, a second group with n receiving openings arranged equidistantly from one another, which is arranged opposite the receiving openings of the first group, and two individual receiving openings arranged centrally between the two groups , which are arranged on a common circular path, where n is a natural number and preferably greater than or equal to 3.
  • the application unit has several, preferably three, four or six pressing elements each having a tool plate, the first joint axes of which are connected to the first drive disk and the second joint axes of which are connected to the second drive disk.
  • the corresponding pressing elements enable in particular a reliable arrangement of the material blanks on containers assembled in groups of four, six or eight, which have a diameter of 58 or 66 mm, for example, if the pressing elements are on a circular path with a preferably provided circumference of 960 mm are arranged. In doing so, e.g. For example, the restriction applies that when processing eight containers assembled into a group and a circumference of 960 mm and three tools evenly distributed over the circumference, only containers with a diameter of 58 mm can usually be processed.
  • the arrangement of the pressing elements is freely selectable, it being provided according to a particularly advantageous embodiment that these are arranged equidistantly from one another in order to be included in a continuously running production process a constant product division to ensure reliable attachment of the material blanks.
  • the drive pulleys can be driven in any manner.
  • the drive unit comprises a drive motor, preferably an electric motor, particularly preferably a servomotor, for driving the drive pulleys.
  • a drive motor in particular an electric motor or servo motor, allows the speed of the drive pulleys and thus the rotational speed of the pressing elements to be determined particularly precisely and accurately, so that an optimal adjustment to the transport speed of the containers to be processed can be achieved.
  • the drive pulleys are particularly preferably made for the drive pulleys to have drive gears which can be brought into engagement with output gears of the drive motor in a rotationally fixed manner, as a result of which a particularly reliable drive of the drive pulleys is ensured.
  • the use of output and drive gears allows the drive motor to be operated in an optimal speed range via a step-up or step-down.
  • the object on which the invention is based is also achieved by a packaging machine with an application unit according to the invention or a further development shown above.
  • the packaging machine according to the invention is a device for attaching the material cuts to the containers, which in addition to the application unit also has a feed unit for the material cuts and a transport device for moving the containers to be provided with the material cuts along the application unit.
  • the packaging machine according to the invention is characterized in that the packaging machine can be manufactured particularly easily and inexpensively due to the simple and compact design of the application unit.
  • the continuously working application unit ensures the processing of an even product flow, which makes it easy to integrate the packaging machine into the preceding and subsequent production processes.
  • the transport device for conveying the containers in the transport direction along a transport plane is arranged opposite the packaging machine in such a way that the two axes of rotation of the application unit are aligned perpendicular to the transport direction and are arranged at the same distance from the transport plane and offset from one another in the transport direction.
  • the tool plates of the pressing elements are aligned parallel to the transport plane due to the intended arrangement of the application unit, which ensures particularly reliable and simple guidance and holding and final attachment of the material blanks to the containers.
  • the application unit is mounted in such a way that its height position can be changed.
  • this enables containers of different heights to be processed in the packaging machine.
  • the packaging machine includes a further application unit.
  • the further application unit is expediently arranged behind the first-mentioned application unit in the transport direction.
  • the first-mentioned application unit is advantageously designed for attaching, in particular for attaching a pack-forming attachment, a material blank to containers put together to form a group of containers, while the further application unit is designed for locking two lateral folding flaps of the material blank attached to the containers.
  • the first-mentioned and the further application unit can be constructed essentially identically to one another, but with the difference that the further application unit preferably has a locking element for locking the lateral folding flaps on the underside of the tool plate or instead of the tool plate.
  • Said locking element can, for example, have a shape tapering downwards.
  • a folding device for folding or turning over the lateral folding flaps of the material blank is preferably arranged between the first-mentioned application unit and the further application unit.
  • a method according to the invention for operating an application unit or a packaging machine - as described above in a manner according to the invention or a further development - provides that the containers are first conveyed with a first product division and then the product division is changed so that the containers are conveyed with a second product division, which differs from the first product division, a fixed number of pressing elements being used independently of the product division and their position on the drive pulleys being left unchanged.
  • the application unit has a fixed number of pressing elements whose position on the drive pulleys cannot be changed, so that the application unit does not have to be reconfigured in the event of a change in the product division, which allows the method to be carried out particularly simply and inexpensively.
  • the pressing elements being designed here in such a way that they can be used with a number of product divisions.
  • the rotational speed of the pressing elements is variable for the given product division.
  • a change in the rotational speed by changing the rotational speed of the drive pulleys allows the application unit to be adapted in a special way to changing product divisions, as a result of which the flexibility of the method is increased in a special way.
  • the containers are initially conveyed with a first product division and then the product division is changed so that the containers are conveyed with a second product division be that of the first product division is different, the number of pressing elements and/or their position on the drive pulleys being changed when the product division is changed.
  • this method it is provided that depending on the product division, changes are made to the application unit in which the position and/or number of the pressing elements are changed and thus adapted to the changed product division.
  • This method according to the invention allows simple adaptation to different product divisions using an application unit that remains the same, which can be adapted to the changed product division by simply adjusting the number or position of the pressing elements.
  • the rotational speed of the pressing elements is particularly advantageously made for the rotational speed of the pressing elements to be constant for the product division specified in each case, i. H. the circulating speed does not vary over time in the respective product division, with the circulating speed corresponding to the transport speed of the containers.
  • the rotational speed advantageously corresponds to the transport speed of the containers, so that an optimal interaction of the tool plates arranged on the pressing elements with the material blanks to be arranged on the containers is ensured.
  • FIG. 1 shows a first embodiment of an application unit 1a in its position relative to a plurality of container groups 4 to be processed, composed of containers 3, on a packaging machine, not shown here, which has a transport device.
  • the application unit 1a includes four pressing elements 7a. Furthermore, the application unit 1a for driving the pressing elements 7a comprises a drive unit 6a with a first drive disk 11a and a second drive disk 12a.
  • the drive pulleys 11a, 12a are arranged transversely to the transport direction 27 of the containers 3 parallel at a distance from one another.
  • the first drive pulley 11a rotates about its first axis of rotation 9a
  • the second drive pulley 12a rotates about its second axis of rotation 10a, with the first axis of rotation 9a and the second axis of rotation 10a being arranged one behind the other at a distance from one another, as viewed in the direction of transport, the height of the first and second axis of rotation 9a, 10a, d. H. whose distance from a transport plane of the containers 3 is the same.
  • the drive unit 6a having the two drive disks 11a, 12a serves to adjust the pressing elements 7a provided with tool plates 8a, which are arranged in the area between the first drive disk 11a and the second drive disk 12a.
  • the pressing elements 7a are each connected to the first drive disk 11a via a first joint axis 13a and to the second drive disk 12a via a second joint axis 25a.
  • pivot bolts 24 are mounted on the pressing elements 7a in a rotary joint and are arranged with their ends opposite the free ends on the first and second drive disks 11a, 12a via square elements 26 arranged in receiving openings 14a are.
  • the receiving holes 14a differ from the embodiment 1 do not have a square shape, instead of the square elements 26, differently shaped, for example round, connecting elements are preferably used.
  • the arrangement of the pressing elements 7a on the first and second drive pulleys 11a, 12a is such that the first joint axis 13a and second joint axis 25a of a pressing element 7a together always have the same distance from the transport plane, so that the pressing elements 7a and those on the pressing elements 7a arranged tool plates 8a during the rotation of the drive pulleys 11a, 12a always horizontal, i. H. are arranged parallel to the transport plane and parallel to the containers 3 arranged to form a container group 4 .
  • the pressing elements 7a are distributed evenly over the circumference on the first drive disk 11a and the second drive disk 12a, the first drive disk 11a and the second drive disk 12a each having a first group of receiving openings 20a and a second group of receiving openings 21a.
  • Each of these receiving groups 20a, 21a has three receiving openings 14a distributed over the circumference and arranged equidistantly from one another.
  • Two further receiving openings 14a are each arranged centrally between the first receiving opening group 20a and the second receiving opening group 21a on the circular path on which the receiving openings 14a of the first and second receiving opening group 20a, 21a are arranged opposite one another on the drive pulleys 11a, 11b.
  • Driving the application unit 1a causes the first and second drive disks 11a, 12a to rotate about their first and second axis of rotation 9a, 10a, as a result of which the pressing elements 7a rotate with their tool plates 8a about the first and second axis of rotation 9a, 10a.
  • the tool plates 8a come into engagement with the containers 3 assembled into container groups 4 and shift the material blanks 2 arranged on the container groups 4 - preferably cardboard blanks - in the direction of the containers 3.
  • the material blanks 2 are guided along the container groups 4 on the application unit 1a along the Transport direction 27 from its in 1 shown, placed on the container groups 4 position for the formation of containers 5 in the in 2 shifted to the position shown in transport direction 27 following the application unit, in which the material blanks 2 with holes 23 are slipped over the top of the containers 3, so that the holes 23 are arranged coaxially with the containers 3 in the region of the tops of the containers 3.
  • the tool plates 8a guide the material blanks 2, hold them parallel to the tops of the containers 3 and shift them from a disengaged position into an engaged position with the container groups 4.
  • a further embodiment of an application unit 1b is in 3 reproduced in a perspective view.
  • the drive unit 6b of the application unit 1b has two wheel-shaped drive disks 11b, 12b, the first drive disk 11b being rotatable about the first axis of rotation 9b and the second drive disk 12b being rotatable about the second axis of rotation 10b.
  • Screws 22 are used for the articulated arrangement of the pressing elements 7b on the first drive disk 11b and the second drive disk 12b, with which the pivot bolts 24 extending through the pressing elements 7b are articulated on the first and second drive disks 11b, 12b.
  • the hinge pins 24 form the first and the second hinge axis 13b, 25b of the pressing elements 7b.
  • the drive unit 6a shown has the first and the second drive pulley 11b, 12b of the in 3 illustrated application unit 1b circular receiving openings 14b, through which the screws 22 extend.
  • the first drive pulley 11b and second drive pulley 12b have a first receiving hole group 20b and a second receiving hole group 21b, which are arranged opposite to each other. Between the two groups of receiving openings 20b, 21b, two individual receiving openings 14b are arranged on the circular path of the receiving opening 14b, in each case centrally between the two groups of receiving openings 20b, 21b.
  • the drive unit 6b is driven by a drive motor 15 arranged on a frame 18, the rotational movement of which is transmitted via two output gears 16 to drive gears 17 which are non-rotatably connected to the drive disks 11b, 12b.
  • the drive causes the first and second drive disks 11b, 12b to rotate about their first or second axis of rotation 9b, 10b, whereby the pressing elements 7b with their tool plates 8b arranged thereon are permanently horizontally aligned in accordance with the rotational movement of the first and second drive disks 11b, 12b circulate.
  • the tool plate 8b has openings 19 which are adapted to the containers 3 of the container groups 4 to be processed and allow the material blank 2 to be displaced in the direction of the containers 3, as a result of which the bundles 5 are formed.
  • FIG. 4 and figure 5 show the application unit 1a 1 or. 2 as well as a plurality of container groups 4 to be processed, composed of containers 3, the application unit 1a, however, being used for processing a different type of material blanks 2.
  • material blanks 2 are processed, each of which has two lateral folding flaps 2a. These are used when folded (cf. 6 ) as protection against dirt for the lids of the containers 3.
  • a further application unit 1c follows said application unit 1a in the transport direction 27 .
  • This application unit 1c serves to lock the folded flaps 2a of a material blank 2 to one another.
  • the further application unit 1c is constructed essentially in the same way as the first application unit 1a, but has an additional locking element 28 on each of the tool plates 8a of its pressing elements 7a.
  • the respective Locking element 28 has a shape tapering downwards and preferably extends over the entire length of the associated tool plate 8a.
  • the container groups 4 are transported with the folded material blanks 2 arranged thereon by means of the transport device along the transport direction 27 to the application unit 1c.
  • Driving the application unit 1c causes its first and second drive disks 11a, 12a to rotate about their first and second axis of rotation 9a, 10a, whereby the pressing elements 7a with their tool plates 8a and the locking elements 28 arranged thereon rotate about the first and second axis of rotation 9a , 10a circulate.
  • the locking elements 28 come into engagement with the material blanks 2 and lock the two folding flaps 28 of the respective material blank 2 with one another.

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  1. Unité d'application (1a, 1b) pour une machine d'emballage pour le montage, en particulier le montage formant un emballage groupé, d'une ébauche de matériau (2) au niveau des récipients (3) rassemblés en un groupe de récipients (4), avec
    - au moins un élément de pression (7a, 7b) présentant une plaque d'outil (8a, 8b) pour la liaison de l'ébauche de matériau (2) avec les récipients (3) à transporter le long d'un plan de transport du groupe de récipients (4) et
    - une unité d'entraînement (6a, 6b) qui est réalisée afin de déplacer l'élément de pression (7a, 7b) de telle manière que la plaque d'outil (8a, 8b) soit réglable entre une position de mise hors prise et une position de mise en prise avec les récipients (3),
    caractérisée en ce que
    - l'unité d'entraînement (6a, 6b) présente un premier disque d'entraînement (11a, 11b) rotatif autour d'un premier axe de rotation (9a, 9b) et un second disque d'entraînement (12a, 12b) rotatif autour d'un second axe de rotation (10a, 10b) agencé parallèlement à distance du premier disque d'entraînement (11a, 11b), dans laquelle le premier et le second axe de rotation (10a, 10b) sont orientés horizontalement et sont agencés à la même hauteur ainsi que de manière non coaxiale l'un à l'autre et
    - l'élément de pression (7a, 7b) comporte un premier et un second axe d'articulation (13a, 13b, 25a, 25b), dans laquelle l'élément de pression (7a, 7b) est relié par le biais de son premier axe d'articulation (13a, 13b) de manière articulée au premier disque d'entraînement (11a, 11b) et par le biais du second axe d'articulation (25a, 25b) de manière articulée au second disque d'entraînement (12a, 12b), que la plaque d'outil (8a, 8b) est orientée horizontalement lors d'une rotation des deux disques d'entraînement (11a, 11b, 12a, 12b) autour de l'axe de rotation (9a, 9b, 10a, 10b) respectif.
  2. Unité d'application (1a, 1b) selon la revendication 1,
    caractérisée en ce que l'élément de pression (7a, 7b) est réalisé pour l'agencement amovible de la plaque d'outil (8a, 8b).
  3. Unité d'application (1a, 1b) selon la revendication 1 ou 2,
    caractérisée en ce que le premier et le second disque d'entraînement (11a, 11b, 12a, 12b) présentent des ouvertures de réception (14a, 14b) pour l'agencement amovible des axes d'articulation (13a, 13b, 25a, 25b) de l'élément de pression (7a, 7b).
  4. Unité d'application (1a, 1b) selon l'une ou plusieurs quelconques des revendications précédentes,
    caractérisée en ce que chacun des disques d'entraînement (11a, 11b, 12a, 12b) présente plusieurs ouvertures de réception (14a, 14b) qui sont agencées réparties sur leur périphérie de sorte que plusieurs éléments de pression (7a, 7b) puissent être fixés aux disques d'entraînement (11a, 11b, 12a, 12b) et leur distance l'un à l'autre puisse être adaptée à différents écartements de produit, en particulier écartements de produit de 160 mm, 240 mm et/ou 320 mm.
  5. Unité d'application (1a, 1b) selon l'une ou plusieurs quelconques des revendications précédentes,
    caractérisée en ce que chacun des disques d'entraînement (11a, 11b, 12a, 12b) présente plusieurs, de préférence huit ouvertures de réception (14a, 14b) qui sont agencées sur une trajectoire circulaire avec une périphérie prédéfinie, en particulier une périphérie de 960 mm, et qui sont agencées dans un premier groupe d'ouvertures de réception (20a, 20b) de n ouvertures de réception (14a, 14b) agencées à équidistance l'une de l'autre, un second groupe d'ouvertures de réception (21a, 21b) de n ouvertures de réception (14a, 14b) agencées à équidistance l'une de l'autre qui sont agencées à l'opposé des ouvertures de réception (14a, 14b) du premier groupe d'ouvertures de réception (20a, 20b), et deux ouvertures de réception (14a, 14b) individuelles agencées respectivement au milieu entre les deux groupes d'ouvertures de réception (20a, 20b, 21a, 21b) sur la trajectoire circulaire, dans laquelle n est un nombre naturel et de préférence supérieur ou égal à 3.
  6. Unité d'application (1a, 1b) selon l'une ou plusieurs quelconques des revendications précédentes,
    caractérisée par plusieurs éléments de pression (7a, 7b) présentant, de préférence 3, 4 ou 6 respectivement une plaque d'outil (8a, 8b), dont les premiers axes d'articulation (13a, 13b) sont reliés au premier disque d'entraînement (11a, 11b) et dont les seconds axes d'articulation (25a, 25b) sont reliés au second disque d'entraînement (12a, 12b).
  7. Unité d'application (1a, 1b) selon la revendication 6,
    caractérisée en ce que les éléments de pression (7a, 7b) sont agencés à équidistance l'un de l'autre.
  8. Unité d'application (1a, 1b) selon l'une ou plusieurs quelconques des revendications précédentes,
    caractérisée en ce que l'unité d'entraînement (6a, 6b) comporte un moteur d'entraînement (15), de préférence un moteur électrique, de manière particulièrement préférée un servomoteur, pour l'entraînement des disques d'entraînement (11a, 11b, 12a, 12b).
  9. Unité d'application (1a, 1b) selon la revendication 8,
    caractérisée en ce que les disques d'entraînement (11a, 11b, 12a, 12b) présentent des roues dentées d'entraînement (17) pouvant être mises en prise sans pouvoir tourner avec des roues dentées de sortie (16) du moteur d'entraînement (15).
  10. Machine d'emballage avec une unité d'application (1a, 1b) selon l'une ou plusieurs quelconques des revendications précédentes.
  11. Machine d'emballage selon la revendication 10,
    caractérisée par un dispositif de transport pour le transport des récipients (3) dans le sens de transport (27) le long d'un plan de transport, dans laquelle les deux axes de rotation (9a, 9b, 10a, 10b) sont orientés perpendiculairement au sens de transport (27) et sont agencés à distance identique au plan de transport ainsi qu'en déport dans le sens de transport (27) l'un à l'autre.
  12. Machine d'emballage selon la revendication 10 ou 11,
    caractérisée par une autre unité d'application (1c), en particulier selon au moins l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 9, dans laquelle la première unité d'application citée (1a, 1b) est réalisée pour le montage, en particulier pour le montage formant un emballage groupé, d'une ébauche de matériau (2) au niveau de récipients (3) rassemblés en un groupe de récipients (4), et l'autre unité d'application (1c) est réalisée pour le verrouillage de deux languettes de pliage (2a) latérales de l'ébauche de matériau (2) montée au niveau des récipients (3).
  13. Machine d'emballage selon la revendication 12,
    caractérisée par un dispositif de pliage agencé entre la première unité d'application citée (1a, 1b) et l'autre unité d'application (1c) pour le pliage des languettes de pliage (2a) latérales de l'ébauche de matériau (2).
  14. Procédé de fonctionnement d'une unité d'application (1a, 1b) ou d'une machine d'emballage selon l'une ou plusieurs quelconques des revendications précédentes, pour lequel les récipients (3) sont tout d'abord transportés avec un premier écartement de produit et ensuite l'écartement de produit est modifié de sorte que les récipients (3) soient transportés avec un second écartement de produit qui est différent du premier écartement de produit,
    caractérisé en ce que
    indépendamment de l'écartement de produit, un nombre fixe d'éléments de pression (7a, 7b) est utilisé et leur position est laissée intacte au niveau des disques d'entraînement (11a, 11b, 12a, 12b).
  15. Procédé selon la revendication 14,
    caractérisé en ce que pour l'écartement de produit respectivement prédéfini, la vitesse périphérique des éléments de pression (7a, 7b) est variable.
  16. Procédé de fonctionnement d'une unité d'application (1a, 1b) ou d'une machine d'emballage selon l'une ou plusieurs quelconques des revendications 1 à 13,
    pour lequel les récipients (3) sont tout d'abord transportés avec un premier écartement de produit et ensuite l'écartement de produit est modifié de sorte que les récipients (3) soient transportés avec un second écartement de produit qui est différent du premier écartement de produit,
    caractérisé en ce que
    lors de la modification de l'écartement de produit, le nombre des éléments de pression (7a ,7b) et/ou leur position au niveau des disques d'entraînement (11a, 11b, 12a, 12b) est modifiée.
  17. Procédé selon la revendication 16,
    caractérisé en ce que pour l'écartement de produit respectivement prédéfini, la vitesse périphérique des éléments de pression (7a, 7b) est constante, dans lequel la vitesse périphérique correspond à la vitesse de transport des récipients (3).
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