Classifications

• • 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
  • B65B11/00—Wrapping, e.g. partially or wholly enclosing, articles or quantities of material, in strips, sheets or blanks, of flexible material
  • B65B11/06—Wrapping articles, or quantities of material, by conveying wrapper and contents in common defined paths
  • B65B11/08—Wrapping articles, or quantities of material, by conveying wrapper and contents in common defined paths in a single straight path
  • B65B11/10—Wrapping articles, or quantities of material, by conveying wrapper and contents in common defined paths in a single straight path to fold the wrappers in tubular form about 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
  • B65B21/00—Packaging or unpacking of bottles
  • B65B21/24—Enclosing bottles in wrappers
  • B65B21/245—Enclosing bottles in wrappers in flexible wrappers, e.g. foils
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
  • Y02W—CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO WASTEWATER TREATMENT OR WASTE MANAGEMENT
  • Y02W90/00—Enabling technologies or technologies with a potential or indirect contribution to greenhouse gas [GHG] emissions mitigation
  • Y02W90/10—Bio-packaging, e.g. packing containers made from renewable resources or bio-plastics

Definitions

• packaging materials that come in particular from renewable sources where there is no competition for food production, in particular.
• the material can be recycled in a simple manner and without great effort in the circular economy (recycling) and also allows other manners of disposal, for example by composting, without negative consequences for the environment.
• These positive properties of the selected packaging materials can be optically facilitated by brown tones of an unbleached paper and/or cardboard packaging, which can be optionally printed, but is or will be only partially printed, in particular.
• the underlying problem of the present invention is to specify a packaging machine with which a plurality of products can be safely held together as a multi -pack, wherein as little material use as possible is necessary for this purpose.
• the packaging material consists in particular of a biocompatible and/or biodegradable material.
• the packaging material can consist of a material consisting substantially of fibers of plant origin.
• the packaging material consists of a paper-containing or cardboard-containing material and/or a wood-, pulp-, and/or semi-pulp-containing material.
• the folding device comprises a lifting unit, which is configured so as to vertically lift the packaging composite fed with the transport device to a packaging material belt pre-positioned with respect to the lifting unit or to a packaging material blank pre- positioned with respect to the lifting unit in such a way that the packaging material belt or packaging material blank lies at least regionally around the packaging composite.
• the folding belt system preferably comprises a plurality of single belts that are circumferential in the transport direction, parallel to one another, and arranged space apart from one another while forming a clearance.
• the folding belt system comprises first single belts extending from the folding belt inlet to the folding belt outlet and configured as full belts as well as second single belts extending from the folding belt inlet to an end region forming a clearance in front of the folding belt outlet and configured as partial belts.
• each partial belt is arranged adjacent to a full belt.
• a further, second adhesive unit is provided between the folding belt inlet and the folding belt outlet of the folding device and preferably in the clearance in front of the folding belt outlet, which unit is configured so as to apply an adhesive to a front end region of the bottom tray of the packaging composite downstream of and different from the first end region of the bottom tray.
• the folding rod is associated with at least one guide rail arranged laterally adjacent to the folding belt system for guiding the folding rod around the folding belt system.
• the apparatus according to the invention further comprises a device for providing and feeding packaging material blanks to the folding device.
• This device is configured in particular so as to guide a corresponding packaging material blank, preferably in coordination with the feeding of a packaging composite, to the folding device in such a way that, at the folding belt inlet, the packaging composite with the upstream first end region of its bottom tray lies upon a front, first end region of the packaging material blank lying upon the folding belt system.
• the packaging material blanks consist in particular of a biocompatible and/or biodegradable material, such as a material consisting substantially of fibers of plant origin.
• the packaging material consists of a paper-containing or cardboard-containing material and/or a wood-, pulp-, and/or semi-pulp-contain- ing material.
• the packaging material blank provision/feeding apparatus is in particular characterized in that the apparatus comprises a device for introducing grooves into the packaging material of the blanks, which device is configured so as to introduce groove lines in predetermined regions of the packaging material, said lines serving as fold edges for the folding of the packaging composite into the packaging material blank.
• the device for introducing grooves comprises a cylinder arrangement composed of two opposed, oppositely rotating cylinders, one of which is configured as a groove or fold cylinder having a groove shape and the other of which is configured as a counter-pressure cylinder.
• a device for feeding a packaging material web to the cylinder arrangement is further provided.
• corresponding groove lines are then introduced into the packaging material web, in particular perpendicular to the transport direction of the packaging material web.
• the groove or fold cylinder should preferably comprise at least one or a plurality of different groove shapes on the outer surface of the groove or fold cylinder and line-shaped indentations extending in the longitudinal direction of the groove or fold cylinder.
• FIG. 3 schematically and in a top plan view, the folding belt system of the folding device of the apparatus according to FIG. 1;
• FIG. 4 schematically, a flow of the apparatus according to the invention according to FIG. 1 when forming a container of single packs by folding a packaging composite of grouped single packs received by a bottom tray into a packaging material blank;
• FIG. 5 schematically and in an isometric view, an exemplary embodiment of a container consisting of single packs formed with the apparatus according to the invention

Landscapes

• Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
• Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
• Making Paper Articles (AREA)
• Container Filling Or Packaging Operations (AREA)

Applications Claiming Priority (2)

Publications (1)

Family

ID=83447929

Family Applications (1)

Country Status (2)

Families Citing this family (1)

Family Cites Families (2)

• 2022
  • 2022-08-31 EP EP22777455.1A patent/EP4396089A2/de active Pending
  • 2022-08-31 WO PCT/US2022/042162 patent/WO2023034385A2/en not_active Ceased

Also Published As

Similar Documents

Legal Events