US20180148204A1 - Machine for the packaging of fruits and generally spherical products - Google Patents

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US20180148204A1
US20180148204A1 US15/809,551 US201715809551A US2018148204A1 US 20180148204 A1 US20180148204 A1 US 20180148204A1 US 201715809551 A US201715809551 A US 201715809551A US 2018148204 A1 US2018148204 A1 US 2018148204A1
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  • the present invention relates with the type of devices, equipment and appliances used in the processing of generally spherical or near spherical products, including foodstuffs such as fruits; more specifically, the invention is a machine for the packaging of fruits, vegetables and similar products which will be evenly distributed on divider trays and piled up inside packing boxes.
  • the aim of the packing processes for fruits, vegetables and other products is to fill as tightly and evenly as possible the containers or packing boxes.
  • the packing process is performed manually, especially when the product is easily bruised or prone to deterioration caused by inadequate handling or falling when introduced by any kind of dumping machine.
  • the spherical product and/or fruit is introduced in the box manually, alternating said fruit with cardboard trays or packing paper when necessary, being the handling of fragile products and/or fruits an unavoidable task.
  • This manual method is a slow, expensive process in which the absence of marks depends on the degree of ability of each one of the people involved in said manual processing.
  • the object of this invention is to provide a packaging machine for fruits, vegetables and/or any other kind of foodstuffs or other kind of product generally spherical or near spherical which need to be carefully packed in layers inside a box, avoiding bruising or mistreatment.
  • the object of this invention is to provide a machine for the packaging of generally spherical and delicate products such as fruits that can be connected in a compatible way to prior stages of sorting and placing in channels of said fruit or similar products.
  • the object of this invention is to provide a machine for the packaging of fruits and generally spherical products that performs the processes automatically, without human intervention, directly when in contact with the product to be packed.
  • the object of this invention is to provide a machine for the packaging of fruits and generally spherical products that reduces the packaging time and the bruising damage that said fruits or similar products could suffer during packaging.
  • the object of this invention is to provide a machine for the packaging of fruits and generally spherical products that has a support which releases, in a controlled and monitored way, consecutive lines of product on divider trays.
  • the object of this invention is to provide a packaging machine for fruits, vegetables and products of similar spherical shape which receives said fruit through multiple feed channels and is destined to distribute said fruit on compartmented divider trays, and where said fruit-containing trays are piled up inside a packing box, and where said machine has a tray feeding device that leads to a packing crate which includes a tray support and where said packing crate is mounted, in a movable way, along a vertical axis.
  • the object of this invention is to provide a packaging machine for fruits, vegetables and generally spherical products which receives said fruit through multiple feed channels and is destined to distribute said fruit on compartmented divider trays, being said machine able to arrange fruit in a trefoil distribution scheme, alternating between trefoil distribution schemes of 4, 5 or 6 lines, and having said machine three packing cranes in order to satisfy market demands.
  • This is an improvement to the fruit packaging machine with Patent AR061018B1, which only allowed packing fruit in a unique trefoil distribution scheme.
  • FIG. 1 is a lateral view (sectional view), simplified, of the preferred embodiment of this invention, which shows all the stages or processes that fruit and other generally spherical products go through after being sorted by machines and/or methods existing in prior art.
  • FIG. 2 is a plan view of the preferred embodiment of this invention, which shows the lines of interchangeable trays appropriate for each trefoil distribution scheme to be used.
  • FIG. 3 is a plan view of the stage in which the fruit and/or generally spherical product is placed in channels, showing feed channels, according with a preferred embodiment of this invention.
  • FIG. 4 is a perspective view of a movable tray, according with a preferred embodiment of this invention.
  • FIG. 5 is a plan view of an axis which supports multiple stops, according with a preferred embodiment of this invention.
  • FIG. 6 is a lateral view of a stop, according with a preferred embodiment of this invention.
  • FIG. 7 is a lateral view of a system that comprises three axes, each one of which supports multiple stops, according with the preferred embodiment of this invention.
  • FIG. 8 is a perspective view of different interchangeable packing crates, according with a preferred embodiment of this invention.
  • FIG. 9 is a plan view of different interchangeable packing crates, according with a preferred embodiment of this invention.
  • FIG. 10 is a front view of a preferred embodiment of this invention, which shows the feed system of the divider trays.
  • FIG. 11 is a top view of a preferred embodiment of this invention's conveyor belt for packing boxes, which shows the handles that function as stops in order to keep said packing box properly positioned.
  • This machine is designed to fill packing boxes with fruits of different sizes and proportions, like apples, oranges, tangerines and even vegetables such as zucchini and tomatoes, among others; also, other types of spherical products could be carefully packed by means of this invention; furthermore, by way of explanation, for clarity purposes and for ease of interpretation, the packaging of one kind of fruit will be described below, specifically apples, which will be overlapped and interleaved by divider trays made of cardboard, wood pulp or a similar material.
  • FIGS. 1 and 2 are a preferred embodiment of a machine for the packaging of fruits and generally spherical products, which is an improvement of the machine described in Patent AR061018B1.
  • FIGS. 1 and 2 show that fruits that are generally ready to be packed and sorted descend from the sorting machine and/or hopper and are deposited in multiple feed channels 1 that are leaned downwards in the same direction than the incoming fruit and towards this invention's machine.
  • FIG. 3 shows an illustration of said feed channels 1 , which start in a flat position towards the end near the entrance and increase their depth or concavity towards the end found on the opposite side of the entrance, aligning said fruits along said feed channels 1 .
  • this invention's packaging machine has three feed tray lines 2 a , 2 b and 2 c .
  • Feed tray line 2 a has a total of four feed channels 1 ; feed tray line 2 b has a total of five feed channels 1 ; and feed tray line 2 c has a total of six feed channels 1 .
  • FIG. 3 shows a preferred embodiment of feed tray line 2 a .
  • feed tray lines 2 b and 2 c look similar to feed tray line 2 a , the only difference being the number of feed channels 1 each one has.
  • the width of feed tray lines 2 a , 2 b and 2 c is the same, the width of the feed channels 1 of each feed tray line varies in each one of the different trays, in order to fit in its width.
  • this invention's machine has stops 3 that interfere with the forward movement of the fruit through the feed channels 1 , when these are placed in the correct position.
  • these stops 3 are affixed to an axis 4 and alternating along said axis 4 , which extends throughout the extension of the three feed tray lines 2 a , 2 b and 2 c .
  • FIG. 5 shows that where the feed tray line 2 a is found four stops 3 are placed alternating along axis 4 .
  • the feed tray line 2 b is found five stops 3 are placed alternating along said axis 4 .
  • the axis 4 can be triggered by a regular pneumatic motor controlled by a Programmable Logical Controller (PLC) (not shown) so that it can rotate 180°.
  • PLC Programmable Logical Controller
  • An additional characteristic of the improvement to the machine described in Patent AR061018B1 is a system 5 comprised of three axes 4 , as shown in picture FIG. 7 .
  • the number of fruits per line varies according to its size in each distribution line in trefoil formation in order to accommodate the largest possible amount of fruit inside the box to be packed.
  • stops 3 of different sizes are required so that the staggered arrangement of fruit in that trefoil distribution scheme matches those positions. That is why the system 5 consists of three axes 4 , each of which has its respective stops 3 , arranged according to each feed tray line 2 a , 2 b and 2 c , as appropriate.
  • the size of these stops 3 varies in said three axes 4 so that the position of the fruit in each line in the staggered distribution scheme is appropriate to the box to be packed and to the divider cardboard tray that will be used at the end of the process.
  • the system 5 rotates 120° so that the appropriate axis 4 is in the correct position and can be placed at the end of feed channels 1 .
  • This system 5 rotates due to a regular pneumatic motor controlled by a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) (not shown).
  • PLC Programmable Logic Controller
  • the system 5 can be moved in a direction perpendicular to the feed tray lines 2 a , 2 b and 2 c by means of a pneumatic cylinder 10 , to allow fruit circulation along the channels.
  • tray lines 6 a , 6 b and 6 c and stops 3 are followed by tray lines 6 a , 6 b and 6 c ; as shown in FIG. 2 .
  • tray lines 6 a , 6 b and 6 c have four, five and six channels 7 , respectively.
  • FIG. 3 shows a preferred embodiment of the tray line 6 a .
  • tray lines 6 b and 6 c look similar to tray line 6 a , the only difference being the number of channels 7 each one has.
  • the width of tray lines 6 a , 6 b and 6 c is exactly the same, so the width of the feed channels 7 of each tray line varies according to the tray, so that it adjusts to its width.
  • Said channels 7 are also leaned downwards in the same direction than the incoming fruit and have stops 3 similar to those previously described, affixed to axes 4 which are mounted in a system 5 . Said channels 7 are supported by two transverse guides 8 .
  • sensors placed in the channels 7 count the fruits in said channels and detect when the amount of fruit required to fill up the cardboard tray has been reached, stops 3 are placed in their position and, by means of a pneumatic cylinder, the width of the appropriate set of channels 7 is narrowed. This way, fruit is arranged in a trefoil distribution scheme which prevents misalignment.
  • the stops 3 are removed from the end of the channels 7 and the fruit rolls to a leaning tray 11 , which is inclined to this purpose.
  • This tray 11 slides sideways by a pneumatic cylinder 12 controlled by the PLC ( FIGS. 4 and 10 ).
  • Two lateral supports 13 affixed to the packaging machine structure keep fruit in position, while tray 11 slides.
  • This anchorage system by absorption 15 can rotate 180° (the cardboard tray rotates too) to alternate said cardboard trays' final positions in the packing box.
  • stops or gates 17 raise and, driven by a pneumatic cylinder 18 controlled by the PLC, said cardboard tray filled with fruit enters into a packing crate 19 , which has a front-end opening that lets the fruit tray pass through.
  • FIG. 8 shows a set of packing crates 19 , of three different sizes.
  • Each packing crate 19 has hinged supports 20 to hold the cardboard tray when it comes in driven by the pneumatic cylinder 18 . At that moment, such hinged supports 20 are positioned at 90° in order to receive the cardboard tray.
  • FIGS. 1 and 10 below the packing crate 19 there is a conveyor belt 22 , where boxes to be packed 23 are transported, controlled by the PLC.
  • a set of stops 24 prevent the boxes to be packed 23 to move forward and the movement of the conveyor belt 22 by means of sensors (not shown) placed in such stops 24 and connected to the PLC.
  • the corresponding packing crate 19 drops down, driven by the pneumatic cylinder 21 .
  • the packing crate 19 will go down almost to the bottom of the box to be packed 23 , leaving enough space for the hinged supports 20 to change from a 90° position into a 180° position, releasing the cardboard tray with fruit.
  • the packing crate 19 will rise to the loading position, beginning a new cycle.
  • the packing crate 19 successive drops with the next cardboard trays will follow the same principle: it will go down until it reaches the required distance to allow for hinged supports movement 20 and each cardboard tray with fruit will fall over the one that has been previously packed, until the box to be packed 23 is filled up.
  • the stops 24 and handles 25 release the box to be packed 23 , and the conveyor belt 22 starts moving again. Once the full box to be packed 23 moves forward, the stops 24 get back to their position in order to detect the next empty box to be packed 23 , and start a new packaging cycle.
  • the complete cycle is controlled and programmed by a PLC, which is previously set up. When it is required to pack some fruit with specific characteristics, it will only be necessary to select the correct program in the PLC, and the latter will control which tray lines, stops and packing crate will be used. Additionally, the sensor system allows the machine to run without human intervention, automatically detecting when the channels are full, same as with cardboard trays and boxes to be packed.

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