JP2004299709A - Packaging apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make it possible to supply packaging articles consisting of a plurality of aligned groups of bulk items and subdivided packaging articles consisting of a plurality of aligned groups of subdivided packages to an article transfer conveyor in an interchangeable manner. <P>SOLUTION: An aligning guide 40 guides the bulk items (a), which are transferred in multiple rows by a supply conveyor 30, to the spaces between guide members 12 of the article transfer conveyor 10, and is separated into fixed aligning guides 40a and movable aligning guides 40b. A subdivided packaging article supply apparatus 60, which supplies the subdivided packages b to the spaces between the guide members of the article transfer conveyor 10, is arranged upstream on the article transfer conveyor 10. When the movable aligning guides 40b are lowered, the bulk items (a) are supplied from the supply conveyor 30 to the space between the guide members of the article transfer conveyor 10. When the movable aligning guide 40b are raised, the subdivided packages b are supplied from the subdivided packaging article supply apparatus 60 to the space between the guide members of the article transfer conveyor 10. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

[0001]
TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a packaging apparatus for packaging a plurality of bulk goods such as cans and bottles filled with drinking water of beer or juice in a case such as a wrap round case or a setup case.
[0002]
[Prior art]
FIG. 10 shows a blank sheet for a wrap round case (hereinafter, referred to as a sheet) in which a plurality of loose goods such as cans and bottles filled with beer, soft drinks, and the like are packed in a stacked state in which the goods are arranged vertically and horizontally. Are known. The sheet _{S 0} is a side panel _{P 1,} bottom panel _{P 2,} provided continuously in one direction through the eyes fold the side panel _{P 3} and top panel _{P 4,} the bottom panel _{P 2} and top panel _{P 4} the outer flap F ₁ continuously provided through the eyes Slight opposite edges, are consecutively provided the inner flap F ₂ via the eyes Slight both edges of the pair of side panels P _1, P _3. Further, a joint flap J is continuously provided on a side edge of _one side panel P1 via a fold line.
[0003]
To wrap round cable service to automatically packaging packaged goods for using sheet S ₀ as described above (hereinafter, referred to as the packaging device) present applicant has already proposed (JP 2002-308220 Gazette).
[0004]
In the packaging apparatus described in the above publication, as shown in FIG. 11, a pair of side panels P ₁ , P _{3 is provided on} both sides of a bottom panel P ₂ by sequentially taking out sheets S ₀ one by one from a hopper 70. folding, its J-shaped casing K ₁ a pair of side panels P _1, P ₃ thereof is positioned in the longitudinal conveying direction of the arrow, the upper bottom panel P ₂ in the course of its conveyance but the J-shaped so as to stand rose was with pushing the packaged goods for a consisting of the alignment of the items a, is the pushing direction front side of the pair of the inner flap F ₂ to bend 90 ° fold in a direction, respectively.
[0005]
Further, when the packaged goods for A on the bottom panel P ₂ is mounted, the other of the remaining pair of the inner flap F ₂ bend 90 ° folding in direction, and bending the joint flap J inwards the top panel P ₄ by bending to a position overlapping the upper surface of the packaging goods for a with, and bonding the top panel P ₄ to the joint flap J through a pre-applied adhesive to the joint flap J.
[0006]
Further, after the bonding, each pair of outer flaps F ₁ is bent to a position overlapping with each pair of inner flaps F ₂ , and each inner flap F ₂ is bonded to each inner flap F ₂ via an adhesive previously applied to each inner flap F ₂ . the outer flap F ₁ so that assembling to the case K ₀ by bonding.
[0007]
Here, packaging goods for A is supplied between the guide bars of the article transport conveyor provided on one side of the case conveyor, it is conveyed at the same speed in the same direction as the case K ₁ by the article conveyor. Further, the article A to be packaged is supplied to the article transport conveyor as follows. That is, a supply conveyor for transporting loose goods in a double row state is provided on one side of the article transport conveyor, and an alignment guide is provided so as to straddle the supply conveyor and the article transport conveyor, and is conveyed by the supply conveyor. A plurality of rows of loose goods are guided by an alignment guide and sent between guide bars of the article transport conveyor, and are supplied to the article transport conveyor as packages to be packed and aligned between the guide bars.
[0008]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
By the way, the conventional packaging apparatus is a dedicated machine for packaging bulk goods which packs, for example, 12 or 24 bulk goods a composed of cans and bottles and the like, and which is packed with bulk goods. Therefore, if a plurality of loose goods are divided into small pieces, and a plurality of the divided package bodies once packaged are to be packaged, the alignment guide becomes an obstacle and the divided package bodies are removed by the article transport conveyor. It cannot be conveyed, and cannot be packaged for subdivision packaging.
[0009]
An object of the present invention is to provide a packaging target product comprising an aligned body in which a plurality of loose goods are stacked and arranged, and a subdivided package comprising an aligned body of a divided package in which a plurality of loose goods are once packaged in a divided state. An object of the present invention is to provide a packaging device that can switch and package an object.
[0010]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
In order to solve the above problems, in the present invention, a case transport conveyor that transports a packaging case in one direction with a pair of side panels standing up and down from both sides of a bottom panel, a guide member in a transport unit, and the like. An article transport conveyor mounted at intervals and configured to convey an article to be packaged comprising an array of loose goods supplied between the guide members at one side of the case transport conveyor at the same speed in the same direction as the case; A pushing device for pushing the article to be packaged conveyed by the article transport conveyor onto the bottom panel of the case being transported by the case transport conveyor, and a discharge end facing one side of the supply end side of the article transport conveyor, and discharging the article. A supply conveyor that transports a large number of loose goods in a double row toward the end, and a goods transport of loose goods conveyed by the supply conveyor An alignment guide that is guided between the guide members of the conveyor and collectively aligns the guide members, wherein a plurality of divided packages are provided between the guide members of the article transport conveyor upstream of the article transport conveyor. A sub-packaging target product supply device for supplying sub-packaging target products consisting of an aligned body, connected to the sub-packaging target product supply device, and a fixed alignment guide fixed to the alignment guide on a supply conveyor; and a vertically movable unit disposed on an article transport conveyor. The movable alignment guide is divided into a plurality of movable alignment guides, and the movable alignment guide is lifted to a position through which the divided package can pass.
[0011]
According to the above configuration, the movable alignment guide is lowered and connected to the fixed alignment guide, so that a plurality of loose goods are supplied from the supply conveyor to the guide members of the article transport conveyor, and the packaging objects are collected and aligned. The goods can be transported to the position of the pushing device on the downstream side. In addition, when the movable alignment guide is raised, the subpackage to be packaged, which is composed of an array of subpackages, is supplied from the subpackage to be supplied to the position of the push-in device. It is possible to perform switching between the packaging of the article to be packaged, which is composed of an array of loose commodities, and the article to be packaged, which is composed of an array of a plurality of divided packages.
[0012]
BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION
Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 1 is a plan view schematically showing a packaging device according to the present invention. The packaging device includes a case transport conveyor 1, an article transport conveyor 10 provided on one side of the case transport conveyor 1, and a push-in device that pushes an article to be packaged transported by the article transport conveyor 10 onto the case transport conveyor 1. An apparatus 20, a supply conveyor 30 having a discharge end facing in parallel to one side of a supply end of the article transport conveyor 10, and arranged so as to straddle the supply conveyor 30 and the article transport conveyor 10. And a sub-packaging target product supply device 60 provided upstream of the arranged alignment guide 40 and the article transport conveyor 10.
[0013]
As shown in FIG. 2, Case conveyor 1 transports the case K ₁ for packaging packaging goods for one direction. The case conveyor 1 includes a double-row first conveyor 2a and a double-row second conveyor 2b. The first conveyor 2a and the second conveyor 2b is attached at equal intervals holding claw 4 to the chain 3, the case K ₁ from the front and back by the holding claws 4 of the first conveyor 2a and the holding claws 4 of the second conveyor 2b It formed so as to convey the casing K ₁ in the direction of the arrow in FIG. 2 by sandwiching.
[0014]
Here, the case K ₁ is the same as the case K ₁ shown in FIG. 11, the bottom panel P side panels P ₁ from both sides a pair of _2, P ₃ for supporting the packaging goods for A upright, whereas each side panel P ₁ to be provided continuously to the continuously provided to the joint flaps J and the other side panel P ₃ the top panel P ₄ is also a folded state of the J-shaped, which is the standing state. The case K ₁ is top panel P ₄ is transferred to side panel P ₃ that is continuously provided as the front side.
[0015]
As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the article transport conveyor 10 includes a bar-shaped guide member 12 having a length orthogonal to and substantially transverse to the endless transport band 11 that is a transport unit. Consisting of a conveyor attached to The article transport conveyor 10 is adapted to convey at the same speed in the same direction as the case K ₁ which is transported to the packaging subject article A supplied between the guide member 12 by the case conveyor 1.
[0016]
Between the article conveyor 10 and the case conveyor 1, the outer flap F ₁ on the receiving side of the article to be packaged, which is connected to the bottom panel P ₂ of the case K _{1 and} conveyed by the case conveyor 1, is folded downward. same flap folding guides 13, in the same direction passing packaging goods for a and case K ₁ between the bottom panel P ₂ of the article transport conveyor 10 and the case K ₁ on the downstream side of the flap folding guide 13 to bend A transfer conveyor 14 is provided which runs while traveling at a speed.
[0017]
As shown in FIG. 2, the pushing device 20 is provided with pushers 22 at equal intervals on a belt 21 such as a timing belt and the like, and the carrier side belt 21 a of the belt 21 crosses the conveying path of the article conveying conveyor 10 in an oblique direction. the moved, on the bottom panel P ₂ case K ₁ which is transported to the packaging goods for a located between the guide member 12 of the article transport conveyor 10 by pusher 22 which is mounted on the carrier side belt 21a by the case conveyor 1 It is configured to be pushed in.
[0018]
As shown in FIGS. 3 to 5, the supply conveyor 30 has a transport belt 31 formed of a wide belt, and a pair of upper and lower carrier-side transport belts 31a for guiding the movement of the loose article a is provided on both upper sides. Side guide 32 is provided. The space between the pair of side guides 32 is set to a size that allows loose goods a such as cans and bottles to move in a double row (six rows in the embodiment).
[0019]
The supply conveyor 30 conveys the loose goods a arranged in a double-row state of six rows between the pair of side guides 32 to the downstream side.
[0020]
As shown in FIG. 3, the alignment guide 40 is configured to have six rows of guide paths 41 in which inclined paths 41 b are connected to the end of a straight path 41 a disposed on the transport path of the supply conveyor 30. The product outlets 41c in the six rows of guide paths 41 are located on the transport path of the article transport conveyor 10, and the product outlets 41c are located in the width direction of the transport path of the article transport conveyor 10 and are close to the supply conveyor 30 from a far side. The position is sequentially shifted to the side, and the amount of the shift is substantially equal to the diameter of the loose goods a.
[0021]
A guide plate 42 is provided downstream of the product outlet 41c of each guide path 41 to guide the movement of the loose goods a discharged from the product outlet 41c when the goods transport conveyor 10 conveys the loose goods a. Have been.
[0022]
The alignment guide 40 guides the loose goods a transported by the supply conveyor 30 to the downstream side between the guide members 12 of the article transport conveyor 10 and collectively aligns the guide members 12 between the guide members 12.
[0023]
In this embodiment, four rows are arranged in a row, and six rows are arranged in a row.
[0024]
As shown in FIG. 1, a guide bar 15 for guiding the movement of the aligned body A as a product to be packaged is provided on the case conveying conveyor 1 side of the conveying path of the article conveying conveyor 10. The downstream end faces a position corresponding to a position where the pushing device 20 starts pushing the packaging target product A.
[0025]
As shown in FIGS. 3 and 9, the alignment guide 40 is divided into a fixed alignment guide 40 a fixedly arranged close to the supply conveyor 30 and a movable alignment guide 40 b arranged on the article transport conveyor 10. ing.
[0026]
As shown in FIGS. 8 and 9, the movable alignment guide 40b is supported by a lifting frame 43, and is moved up and down by a lifting device 50 that moves the lifting frame 43 up and down.
[0027]
The lifting device 50 fixes the nut members 52 to a pair of brackets 51 attached to both ends of the upper surface of the lifting frame 43, and rotates the screw shafts 53 screwed to the nut members 52 by the fixed frame 54. The screw shaft 53 is freely supported, and one of the screw shafts 53 is rotated by operating a handle (not shown). The rotation is transmitted to the other screw shaft 53 by a belt transmission 55, and the lifting frame 43 is raised and lowered by the rotation of each screw shaft 53. It is configured to make it work.
[0028]
As shown in FIGS. 6 and 7, the sub-packaging target product supply device 60 conveys the sub-package b in which sub-packages of some loose goods a are sub-packaged toward the article conveyor 10 in two rows. Conveyors for separating the plurality of sub-packages b to be conveyed in contact with each other in the front-rear direction by the lower-supply conveyor 61 and a plurality of sub-packages b (a total of four in two columns and two rows in the embodiment). 62, and an upper supply conveyor 63 for supplying an aligned body as a subpackage to be packaged B composed of, for example, four subdivided packages b between the guide members 12 of the article transport conveyor 10.
[0029]
The lower supply conveyor 61 comprises a double-row belt conveyor 61a. The lower supply conveyor 61 conveys the subpackage B to be packaged at the same speed as the conveying speed of the article conveying conveyor 10.
[0030]
The sorting conveyor 62 is composed of a double-row belt conveyor 62a disposed between the double-row belt conveyors 61a of the lower supply conveyor 61, and a plurality of rotatable rollers 62c are attached at equal intervals to the belt 62b of each belt conveyor 62a. Have been.
[0031]
The distance between the rollers 62c is slightly smaller than the width between the front and rear surfaces of the subpackage B.
[0032]
The belt conveyance speed of the sorting conveyor 62 is lower than the belt conveyance speed of the lower supply conveyor 61. Due to the speed difference, the sub-package b is received by the upper roller 62c on the carrier side, and is received by the subsequent roller 62c. When the sub-package b following the sub-package b is lifted and the front roller 62c starts moving to the lower return side, the sub-package B is moved at the feed speed of the lower supply conveyor 61, and the subsequent sub-package is performed. An interval is provided between the package and the package b.
[0033]
In the upper supply conveyor 63, bar-shaped pressing members 65 are attached at equal intervals between belts 64 composed of side-by-side timing belts, and the belt 64 is moved at substantially the same speed as the conveyance speed of the lower supply conveyor 61 in the direction of the arrow in FIG. The pressing member 65 is moved into the subdivided packaging target product B, and the subdivided packaging target product B is sent between the guide members 12 of the article transport conveyor 10 by the pressing member 65.
[0034]
The packaging device shown in the embodiment has the above-described structure, and when packaging the article to be packaged A, which is an aligned body of loose goods a, lowers the movable alignment guide 40b shown in FIG. With the movable alignment guide 40b connected to the fixed alignment guide 40a, the loose article a is transported by the supply conveyor 30.
[0035]
On the other hand, at the time of packing the subpackage B to be packaged, which is composed of an array of subpackages b, the movable alignment guide 40b shown in FIG. 8 is raised to a position where the subpackage b can pass below the subpackage b. The supply device 60 supplies the goods B to be subdivided and packaged to the article transport conveyor 10.
[0036]
Now, when the loose goods a are conveyed in a double-row state by the supply conveyor 30 with the movable alignment guide 40b lowered, the loose goods a are guided by the alignment guide 40 and between the guide members 12 of the article conveying conveyor 10. And are accumulated and aligned between the guide members 12. The article to be packaged A comprising the aligned body is transported to the downstream side by the article transport conveyor 10 and sent to the position of the pushing device 20, and as shown in FIG. 2, the case transport conveyor 1 is moved by the pusher 22 which moves in an oblique direction. It is pushed into the bottom panel P ₂ case K ₁ carried by. Case K ₁ for supporting the packaging goods for A is, during transport to the downstream side, as shown in FIG. 11, is a case K ₀ is folded.
[0037]
On the other hand, in the state where the movable alignment guide 40b is raised, as shown in FIG. 7, when the divided packages b are transported in a double row by the lower supply conveyor 61, the divided packages b are transported in the transport direction by the sorting conveyor 62. The subpackage to be packaged B is formed by being divided into four pieces, and the subpackage to be packaged B is pressed by the pressing member 65 of the upper supply conveyor 63 and fed into the space between the guide members 12 of the article transport conveyor 10, and the product is conveyed. It is conveyed downstream by the conveyor 10.
[0038]
At this time, since the movable alignment guide 40b is held at the raised position as shown in FIG. 8, the subpackage B is conveyed to the downstream side without being hindered by the movable alignment guide 40b. is transported to the position of 20, it is pushed onto the bottom panel P ₂ case K ₁ which is transported by the case conveyor 1 by the pusher 22 shown in FIG.
[0039]
Case K ₁ for supporting the dispensing package goods for B is a case K ₀ is folded in the same manner as described above during transport to the downstream side.
[0040]
【The invention's effect】
As described above, according to the present invention, by lowering the movable alignment guide and connecting the movable alignment guide to the fixed alignment guide, loose goods can be supplied from the supply conveyor to the guide members of the article transport conveyor, and can be collected and aligned. By raising the movable alignment guide, it is possible to supply the subdivided packages between the guide members of the article conveying conveyor from the subpackaging target product supply device. Can be packaged by switching the subpackage to be packaged consisting of the above and the subpackage to be packaged consisting of an array of a plurality of subpackages.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a plan view schematically showing a packaging apparatus according to the present invention. FIG. 2 is a plan view showing a pushing device section of an article to be packaged. FIG. 3 is a plan view showing an alignment guide section. FIG. FIG. 5 is a plan view showing a subdivided package supply unit; FIG. 5 is a plan view showing a transport state of the subdivided package; FIG. 6 is a front view of FIG. 4; FIG. FIG. 8 is a front view showing the lifting / lowering device of the movable alignment guide shown in FIG. 6; FIG. 9 is a cross-sectional view taken along line IX-IX in FIG. 8; FIG. FIG. 11 is a perspective view showing stepwise a state in which a case is formed by a wrap round caser.
K ₁ case P ₁ , P ₃ side panel 1 case transport conveyor 10 article transport conveyor 11 transport band 12 guide member 20 pushing device 30 supply conveyor 40 alignment guide 40a fixed alignment guide 40b movable alignment guide 50 elevating device 60 apparatus

Claims (1)

A case transport conveyor for transporting the packaging case in one direction with a pair of side panels standing up and down from both sides of the bottom panel, and guide members attached to the transport unit at equal intervals, and the rose supplied between the guide members. An article transport conveyor for transporting an article to be packaged consisting of an array of goods at one side of the case transport conveyor at the same speed in the same direction as the case; and a case transport conveyor for transporting the article to be packaged by the article transport conveyor. A push-in device for pushing on the bottom panel of the case conveyed by the case, and a discharge end facing one side of the supply end side of the article conveying conveyor, and a large number of loose goods are arranged in a double row toward the discharge end. Conveyor, and the bulk goods conveyed by the supply conveyor are guided between guide members of the article conveyor, and the guide member A packaging device comprising: an alignment guide for accumulating and aligning a plurality of sub-packages, comprising an array of a plurality of sub-packages between guide members of the article transport conveyor, on the upstream side of the article transport conveyor. The object supply device is connected, and the alignment guide is divided into a fixed alignment guide fixedly arranged on a supply conveyor and a movable alignment guide movable up and down arranged on an article transport conveyor. A packaging device, comprising an elevating device that raises a subpackage to a position through which the package can pass.

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