US3352435A - Article stacker - Google Patents

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US3352435A
US3352435A US587738A US58773866A US3352435A US 3352435 A US3352435 A US 3352435A US 587738 A US587738 A US 587738A US 58773866 A US58773866 A US 58773866A US 3352435 A US3352435 A US 3352435A
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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
    • B65B35/00—Supplying, feeding, arranging or orientating articles to be packaged
    • B65B35/30—Arranging and feeding articles in groups
    • B65B35/50—Stacking one article, or group of articles, upon another before packaging
    • 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
    • B65B5/00—Packaging individual articles in containers or receptacles, e.g. bags, sacks, boxes, cartons, cans, jars
    • B65B5/06—Packaging groups of articles, the groups being treated as single articles
    • 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
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S414/00—Material or article handling
    • Y10S414/10—Associated with forming or dispersing groups of intersupporting articles, e.g. stacking patterns
    • Y10S414/102—Associated with forming or dispersing groups of intersupporting articles, e.g. stacking patterns including support for group
    • Y10S414/103—Vertically shiftable

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  • the lifting means comprises a control lever operatively connected with each of the linkage means and through the latter with the table portions.
  • the linkage means comprise vertical rods, the lower end of which is connected with the control lever by pivots. The latter are spaced apart such that one of the table portions disposed adjacent the folding carton which receives packages is lifted to the level of the lower edge of the folding carton and the other of the table portions is liftable further for the height of one of the packages.
  • the present invention relates to an apparatus for boxing-in into a folding carton of a plurality of prismatic packages disposed side by side or on top of each other.
  • Diflerent devices of this type are known, in which the individual packages are fed in series from a packaging machine to a collecting plate, which collecting plate can be lowered in turn about the height of one package.
  • a collecting plate which collecting plate can be lowered in turn about the height of one package.
  • the insertion of this stack of packages into a collecting package can be performed by turning thereover a folding carton, which is closed upon turning over or the packages are inserted by means of a slide, package for package or stack by stack, into the open folding carton.
  • the known devices have the drawback that the conveyor belt, the collecting plate and the lower edge of the open collecting carton must be disposed in one plane.
  • the slide for the stack of packages is forced to grip laterally and from above, respectively, behind the stack, in order to insert it into the folding carton.
  • This requires not only an additional and complicated control member for the slide, but also an additional space for the same.
  • -It is to be added, that the arrangement of packages one at a time on the collecting plate influences the output of the collecting packaging disadvantageously, if each package layer consists only of a few packages.
  • the collecting plate not only must the collecting plate be lowered, but also the mechanism for the slide must be put into operation.
  • the linkage is connected thereby with a control lever, such that in case of a lever movement, the part plate disposed adjacent the open folding carton is lifted up to the height of the lower edge of the folding carton and the other part plate is liftable for the height of a package.
  • the particular advantages of the present invention reside in the fact that the lower edge of the folding carton is disposed in a different plane than that of the conveyor belt and the collecting table, so that thereby not only a better separation of the packages between the folding carton and the collecting table is brought about, but also the slide suffices without additional movement for rendering the same operative or inoperative and can be set in a space-saving manner without interference of the fed packages.
  • a further advantage is present, as thereby the possibility exists to lift the individual parts of the collecting table by means of a single movement stepped up such, that the packages disposed thereabove are brought again into the folding carton by means of a single sliding movement next to each other or superposed to each other. This arrangement permits an extremely high output during the collecting packaging.
  • FIGURE 1 is a schematic elevation of an apparatus disclosing a conveyor belt, a filled collecting table with slide still in starting position and a cell carrying the opened folding carton;
  • FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the elements disclosed in FIG. 1 with a collecting table lifted in several layers;
  • FIG. 3 is a schematic elevation of the packages moved by means of a slide into the opened folding carton.
  • the individual packages 1 are fed by means of a conveyor belt 2 to a collecting station 3.
  • Four packages 1 should be boxed always in a folding carton 4, whereby two packages are disposed adjacent each other and two on top of each other. It is suitable, to collect at first the four packages, after being released from the packaging machine, and to feed the same in closed position to the conveyor belt 2.
  • the particular advantage resides in the fact, that the conveyor pause between two packaging units is used for the purpose to perform at the collecting station 3 the boxing-in of the unit into the opened folding carton 4.
  • a collecting table 5 is disposed at the end of the conveyor belt 2, which collecting table 5is divided crosswise to the direction of conveyance.
  • the collecting table 5 thus comprises a table portion 5a and a table portion 5b.
  • the table portion 5a is limited by an abutment plate 13 which terminates at the level of the lower edge of the open folding carton 4 into a curved guide sheet 13a.
  • the two table portions 5a and 5b are equipped on their underside with a linkage 6a and 6b, which, in turn, are pivoted to a control lever 7.
  • the control lever 7, which is swingably mounted about the pivot 7a, is designed as a double lever, the shorter arm 8 of which carries at its end a follower roller 9, which engages a cam 10.
  • the two linkages 6a and 6b are connected by means of the pivot points and 6d with the control lever 7 at such a distance relative to each other, which corresponds to the distance between the pivot point 7a and the pivot point 6c.
  • a lifting of the pivot point 60 for a length takes place during the swinging of the control lever 7, which corresponds exactly to half of the length with which the pivot point 6d is lifted.
  • the table portions 5a and 5b are thereby lifted for the same different lengths, whereby the table portion 5a remains at the level of the lower edge of the open folding carton 4, while the table portion 5b is lifted additionally for the height of a package. In this position, indicated in FIG. 1 in point-dotted lines and in FIG.
  • a double slide 12 and 12a suspended from a horizontal guide rail 11 pushes during its movement at first with its wide slide portion 12, the upper package 'row and moves the latter onto the lower package row until both rows are disposed on top of each other.
  • the slide portion 12a which has not been used yet, stands in abutment with the lower row, so that now the block consisting of four packages is moved over the guide sheet 13a into the open folding carton 4.
  • the lower slide portion 12a performs at first an idle movement.
  • this movement is only possible such that the table portion 5! has a longitudinal slot 16 disposed in the direction of conveyance, whereby both parts of the table portion 5b are maintained by thefork-shaped upper end of the linkage 6b.
  • the width of the longitudinal slot 16 corresponds to the-width of the slide portion 12a, while the upper slide 12 corresponds to the width of the package 1.
  • the folding carton 4 sits in a cell 14 of a folding wheel 15 having a plurality of cells 14, which folding wheel 15 receives during its intermittent movement the blanksof the carton, which are then filled and closed and expelled. While such folding wheel 15 is suitable for the reception of the packages prepared with high speed, it is possible to substitute therefor a swingable folding cell, which receives during an oscillating movement the empty blanks and releases the same again after filling and closing.
  • the packaging output is below the output which is possible with a folding wheel coordinated to the collecting device.
  • a collecting table including a plurality of table portions and disposed at one end and in the plane of said conveyor belt, said table portions being adapted to receive packages to be boxed in into a folding carton,
  • said lifting means comprising'a common control lever operatively connected with each of .said linkage means and through the latter with said table portions,
  • said linkage means comprising vertical rods, the lower end of which is connected with said control lever by pivots,
  • said pivots on said control lever being spaced apart such that one of said table portions disposed adacent said folding carton receiving packagesbeing lifted to the level of the lower edge of said folding carton, and V the other of said table portions being liftable further for the height of one of said packages.
  • the apparatus as set forth in claim 2, which includes a slide having an upper portion and a lower portion and being adapted to move said packages disposed on different levels on said table portions simultaneously into said folding carton by a single movement of said slide, and
  • said lower portion of said slide moving the lower packages is of a width substantially equal with the width of said longitudinal slot.

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US4281452A (en) * 1977-11-01 1981-08-04 Kolosov Ivan A Method of assembling banks of battery electrodes
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US4342531A (en) * 1980-02-29 1982-08-03 Ea Industries, Incorporated Method and apparatus for handling bricks
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US4938656A (en) * 1987-10-02 1990-07-03 G.D. Societa Per Azioni Feed equipment for supplying a machine unit with commodities arranged in substantially parallelepiped groups
US4993907A (en) * 1987-11-07 1991-02-19 Simon Container Machinery Limited Stacking equipment
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EP0709319A1 (de) * 1994-10-21 1996-05-01 BAUMER S.r.l. System zum vertikalem Stapeln von Reihen von prismatischen Gegenständen
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US3479792A (en) * 1967-09-11 1969-11-25 Mayer & Co Inc O Package banding machine
US3760553A (en) * 1972-02-03 1973-09-25 Alto Corp Product handling equipment
US3850282A (en) * 1973-02-27 1974-11-26 Mead Corp Article stacking mechanism
US4281452A (en) * 1977-11-01 1981-08-04 Kolosov Ivan A Method of assembling banks of battery electrodes
US4221518A (en) * 1978-02-16 1980-09-09 Cir - S.P.A. - Divisione Sasib Method and apparatus for stacking and transferring packets
US4342531A (en) * 1980-02-29 1982-08-03 Ea Industries, Incorporated Method and apparatus for handling bricks
US4326439A (en) * 1980-03-26 1982-04-27 Clarksville Machine Works, Inc. Apparatus and method for stacking and facing uncured brick
US4805758A (en) * 1987-07-08 1989-02-21 Van Dam Machine Corporation Crossed turret cup feeder
US4938656A (en) * 1987-10-02 1990-07-03 G.D. Societa Per Azioni Feed equipment for supplying a machine unit with commodities arranged in substantially parallelepiped groups
US4993907A (en) * 1987-11-07 1991-02-19 Simon Container Machinery Limited Stacking equipment
WO1993002003A1 (en) * 1991-07-18 1993-02-04 Tulane Designs Limited Methods and apparatus for forming a stack of articles
EP0709319A1 (de) * 1994-10-21 1996-05-01 BAUMER S.r.l. System zum vertikalem Stapeln von Reihen von prismatischen Gegenständen
US5718558A (en) * 1994-10-21 1998-02-17 Baumer S.R.L. System for vertically stacking rows of prismatic objects
US5769599A (en) * 1995-12-09 1998-06-23 Topak Verpackungstechnik Gmbh Method of and apparatus for superimposing discrete rows of packets of the tobacco processing industry
US11286068B2 (en) * 2017-09-28 2022-03-29 Fabio Perini S.P.A. Machine for packaging and method of packaging articles in tubular packs of plastic film

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