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US3744649A
US3744649A US00250650A US3744649DA US3744649A US 3744649 A US3744649 A US 3744649A US 00250650 A US00250650 A US 00250650A US 3744649D A US3744649D A US 3744649DA US 3744649 A US3744649 A US 3744649A
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  • ABSTRACT A modern fully automated squaring and bundle counting machine thatis used in the corrugated board box industry is provided to stack, square, "count and eject, l
  • This squaring andbundle counting machine consists of a flatbed frame with feed rollers at one end, where the glued, flat board boxes enter into a first hopper and are stacked, squared, and a compressed therein.
  • a regulated speed belt removes the folded and glued boxes from the bottom of thestack in the first hopper
  • the flat boxes are then counted by an electric eye beam and guidedup onto a multi-beltconveyor where they are stacked again in a second hopper, from the bottom to a preset number per bundle.
  • Another object of this invention is to provide a squaring and bundle counting machine which performs all of the needs described above, its operation is automatic and reliable, and which requires a minimum of supervi-
  • a further object of this invention is to provide a squaring and bundle counting machine that, by the action of an automatic variable speed control device, allows the machine to operate independently of the speed or intervalat which the boxes or sheets are being fed into it from anexternal source.
  • Still another object of this invention is to provide a squaring and bundle counting machine that is compatible with existing modern companion machinery presently being used in the corrugated board box industry.
  • An object of this invention is to provide a squaring and bundle counting machine for the acceptance of
  • Still another object of this invention is to provide a squaring and bundle counting machine which has the ability to handle boxes or sheets. which are flat cut or may have some other odd shape and to positivelyseparate the flow of boxes or sheets in precisely counted bundles.
  • Still even another object of this invention in order to save space in a box plant and in orderto create an easy material flow, to provide a squaring and bundle counting machine in which the printing,,folding, stacking,- squaring counting, and bundling operations are all done in a direct straight line.
  • FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a squaring and bundlecounting type machine invorporating features of this invention
  • FIGS. 2a, 2b, 2c, 2d, and 2c are side elevation sche matic views showing schematically the sequence of operation of the squaring and bundle countingmachine of FIG. 1;
  • FIGS. 3a and 3b are side elevation schematic views
  • FIG. 3c is a top plan view of the squaring and bundle counting machine of FIG. lshowing schematically the belt arrangements and the adjustment of the carriage for the various size sheets of the corrugated board boxes or sheets;
  • FIG. 4a is a partial sideelevation view showing an al ternate belt arrangement of the input end of the squaring and bundle counting machine; i
  • FIG. 4b is a partial top plan view of FIG.
  • FIG. 5 is a schematic of a modifcation of the bundle counting machine.
  • FIG. 1 there is shown a complete squaring and bundle counting machine 10, while FIGS. 2a, 2b, 2c, 2d, and 2e and FIGS. 3a, 3b, and 3c show schematically the sequence of its operation.
  • FIG. 1 As shown in FIG. 1, and FIG. 2a, folded flat, glued, board boxes indicated generally by reference numeral 22 and specifically by reference numeral 22a (positions the squaring and bundle counting machine of FIG.
  • the lower feed roller 46 is knurled to aid in obtaining a positive grip of the end of each box 22. As the boxes 22 are deflected into the hopper 23,
  • Spanking panels or guides 44b are provided to help, guide the incoming boxes 22a squarely into the top of the pile of boxes 22 in hopper 23 so as to maintain a neat pile of boxes in that area. These spanking panels or guides 44b may be adjusted inwards or outwards to accommodate boxes of different sizes.
  • the flat board boxes 22b progressively accumulate into a pile in the hopper 23.
  • the control or sensor roller 50 actuates a switch which starts the drive to the vacuum belt 14, which as previously mentioned, forms the floor of the first hopper 23.
  • the boxes 22b are attracted to the belt 14 by means of a vacuum box or chamber 36 which is located directly under the belt 14.
  • This belt 14 is provided with two rows of holes running lengthwise of it, so that as the belt travels, these holes pass over the vacuum box 36.
  • the boxes 220 are then fed one at a time out and along the surface of the vacuum belt 14 through a gap between the gate assembly or stop panel 42 and the belt 14.
  • the boxes 22a are fed into the hopper 23 at substantially the same rate that boxes 22c are fed out the bottom of the hopper 23, onto the belt 14.
  • the control or sensor roller 50 controls a switch to start the belt 14, as well as a rheostat control which controls the speed of the belt 14. This operates so that as the pile of boxes 22 in the hopper 23 approaches its low limit, the belt 14 will slow down so that fewer boxes 220 are being fed out of the hopper 23 than the boxes 22a that are being fed into the hopper 23. The pile height of boxes 22 then beginsto fill up again in the hopper 23.
  • the rheostat increases the speed of the belt 14 progressively and the flow of the boxes 220 out of the bottom of the hopper 23 will match or perhaps exceed the rate in which the boxes 22a are being fed into the hopper 23.
  • the operation of a foIder-gluer is such that it will operate over a range of speed and thus the squaring and bundle counting machine 10 must maintain a fixed pile height of boxes 22 in the hopper 23 in order to allow the control or sensor roller 50 cooperating with lower feed roller 46 to create a certain downward pressure on that pile which creates a compressive load in the sheets and as well as time to set the freshly glued joints of the boxes 22.
  • Oscillating plate 44a is driven by a shaft with a cam on it.A link is looped around the cam which, in turn, is connected then to the plate.
  • the gate assembly or stop panel 42 is arranged to be shifted longitudinally either towards or away from the oscillating plate 44a to accommodate boxes 22 of different lengths, as shown by the position of the movable carriage 20 in FIGS. 3a and 3b.
  • This carriage 20 is adjustable for the various size lengths of the flat board boxes or sheets 22.
  • FIG. 3a shows the carriage 20 adjusted in the direction of the arrow 40a for small size boxes or sheets 22h
  • FIG. 3b shows the carriage 20 adjusted in the direction of the arrow 40b for large size boxes or sheets 22i.
  • Automatic alignment is provided for the centering of the squaring and bundle counting machine 10 as indicated by the center line 30 in FIG. 3c to the center of the flat board boxes or-sheets 22 which are being fed into it.
  • the boxes 22 can be fed out one at a time from the hopper 23 and laid on'a conventional stacker which would build a stack of predetermined height.
  • the lower belt assembly under the hopper 23 is composed of the vacuum box 36, two drums 39 and 41, about which the conveyor belt 14 is looped and led over the vacuum box 36.
  • the vacuum box 36 is designed in such a way that the vacuum is only applied to about 4 to 6 inches of the leading edge of the box 22c where it is stacked in the compression hopper 23. It was found by experimentation that if this is not done, an alternate method can be used in providing a belt with a high friction surface on it. A drag is applied on the next box 22 to be fed as the bottom box 220 is drawn partially out of the hopper 23.
  • a box 220 is just beginning to leave the hopper 23 through the gap between gate assembly 42 and the belt 14. As that box 220 continues onward, more and more of the trailing edge of the next box in the hopper 23 is exposed to the belt 14.
  • the weight of the control or sensor roller 50 there is a downward driving force from the weight of the control or sensor roller 50 and also from the turning of the lower roller of the two rollers 46 to press the whole upper load of boxes 22 down against the vacuum belt 14.
  • the friction drive on the next box to be fed will drive it into the gate 42 and cause it to hang up on the gate so it will not fall freely into feeding position when its turn comes. So, by limiting the vacuum to the leading edge of the box and by using a belt with a lower slick surface on it, it has been possible to use a vacuum to attract the box 22 to the belt 16 to give it enough traction to pull out without disturbing the next box up in the pile.
  • the box awaits its turn until the first box 22c is out of the way and as it drops down, it is then exposed to the vacuum and adheres to the belt 14 and continues on its way.
  • FIGS. 4a and 4b A more versatile method of pulling the boxes from under the pile of boxes 22 in the hopper 23 is shown in FIGS. 4a and 4b.
  • the vacuum box 36 is eliminated to reduce the cost of the machine 10 considerably.
  • the full width belt 14 is replaced by a multi-belt unit consisting of a series of parallel belts as shown best in FIG. 4b.
  • the muIti-belt unit 100 consists of a series of narrow belts running parallel and spaced across the machine 10.
  • the two rollers 39 and 41 which form the head and tail rollers carrying the multi-belt unit 100 in FIG. 4a are retained,
  • the vacuum box 36 is replaced by a group of three rollers 101,103, and 105.
  • the multi-belt unit 100 will come forward off of the top of the tail roller 41 in the direction as indicated by the arrow.
  • the level of the rnulti-belt unit 100 at this point under the pile or boxes 22 will be an inch or two below the bottom of the pile but the belt unit 100 will be parallel to the bottom of the pile of boxes.
  • the belt unit 100 is then looped around a small roller 105 which will be about 6 or 8 inches back from the leading edge of the pile and it will then go downwards and around a second roller 103 which is below the first roller105.
  • the belt unit 100 will then go up around a third roller 101 which is located substantially under the leading edge of the pile of boxes 22 in the compression hopper 23.
  • the trailing edge of the pile of boxes 22 in the compression hopper 23 is supported by a small angular plate 103 set at an angle of about 45 degrees and located right at the trailing edge of the pile and just above the multi-belt unit 100.
  • the pile of boxes 22 will sit on that angular plate 103 and at least half of the total weight of the pile will be bearing on the belts of the multi'belt unit running up over the third roller 101 positioned at the leading edge of the pile of boxes 22.
  • the belts of the multi-belt unit l00 are designed to have a high coefficient of friction on the surface mate rial so thatthe coefficient of friction of the moving belts will be at least twice the coefficient of friction of two boxes rubbing together so that half of the load of the pile of boxes will have a sufficient driving force to carry the bottom boxes 22c through the gates and out of the hopper 23.
  • T he technique of using an electric eye or other type of sensor to count the boxes or spaces between boxes is not new and it quite common in all kinds of counting operations. The problem has always been, however, to actually separate the flow of boxes into accurately counted bundles once the count has been determined.
  • the boxes 22d are being fed into asecond hopper 45 as shown in FIG. 2a by means of bolts of a multi-belt conveyor 16 located at l the forward end of belt 14, as shown best in FIGS. 1,
  • edge of the box 22d breaks the beam of the electric eye 28, it is counted.
  • Each succeeding box 22d follows the same path and the pile of boxes is being built up from below in the hopper
  • the pile of boxes is built from below because the coefficient of friction of the belts of the conveyor 16 is higher than the coefficient of friction of two boxes rub bing one against the other.
  • the weight of the pile of boxes itself is sufficient to cause the oncoming boxes to adhere to the belts l6 and then have enough driving oncoming boxes 22f stop, at the face of that stop bar 26b instead at the face of stop bar 24, as shown in FIG. 20.
  • This means that the box 22f which has been stopped short by the stop bar 26b is now the first box in the next bundle and all boxes 22e above it can be ejected as being part of the bundle just counted by the electric eye 28.
  • bar 26b continues to lift another step as indicated in FIG. 2d by bar 260.
  • This bundle of boxes 22e is then free to continue out of the machine 10 on the conveyor system l8 as shown bythe direction of the arrow 58 in FIG. 2e.
  • the pusher bar 340 As soon as the pusher bar 340 reaches the end of its travel, it triggers another sensor, in this case it is usually a limit switch, which causes the intermediate stop her 26c as shown in FIG. 2d to drop down intothe down position of the stop bar 26a as shown in FIG. 2e.
  • another sensor in this case it is usually a limit switch, which causes the intermediate stop her 26c as shown in FIG. 2d to drop down intothe down position of the stop bar 26a as shown in FIG. 2e.
  • FIG. shows an alternate method of operation of the movable stop bar 26 over that discussed in connection with FIGS. 2a through 2e.
  • a roller assembly 110 lowers the conveyor 16 in the direction of the arrow 112 instead of the movable stop bar 26 being raised as shown in FIG. 2b.
  • the effect is the same, that is, lowering the conveyor 16 so that the stop bar 26a without moving stops the first several boxes in the succeeding bundle.
  • the stop bar 26a is then moved to the position shown in FIG. 2d to raise the first mentioned bundle as previously described.
  • the stop bar 26 and conveyor 16 are subsequently moved to their inti'al positions so that the cycle of operation can be repeated.
  • the squaring and bundle counting machine is controlled and preset from a control box 12, as shown in FIG. 1, and a handwheel 56 which controls the adjustment for the various thicknesses of the flat board boxes or sheets 22.
  • a system for counting and separating of flat stiff articles into counted bundles as recited in claim 1, and additionally means for removing said bundle of articles of a predetermined number pushed by said pusher means from said machine.
  • a system for counting and separating of flat stiff articles into counted bundles as recited in claim 1, wherein said conveyor means for feeding said stiff arti-,
  • cles for counting consists of a vacuum belt.
  • a system for counting and for separating the flow of fiat stiff articles into counted bundles of articles of a predetermined number comprising, a fixed abutment, a movable pusher means spaced from said fixed abutment, a movable abutment positioned intermediate and below said fixed abutment and said movable pusher means, said abutments being in the line of flow of said articles, conveyor means for advancing successively articles in the direction of the face of said fixed abutment, said fixed abutment being adapted to limit the advance of the lowermost article so as to build up at said face a bundle of articles from below, with one article entering the bundle lifting the other articles comprised in the bundle, means for counting a predetermined number of articles advanced by said conveyor means and stacked in said bundle adjacent the face of said fixed abutment, means for lowering said conveyor means after a predetermined number of articles have been stacked in said bundle adjacent said fixed abutment so that the next oncoming article stops at the face of said movable a
  • a fully automatic squaring and bundle counting machine comprising, a pair of spaced hopper mechanisms, the first of said hopper mechanisms receiving in the top thereof substantially flat stiff articles for stacking and squaring thereof, means for feeding said stacked and squared articles from the bottom of said first hopper mechanism to the second of said hopper mechanismsso as tobuild up a first bundle of articles from belowin said second hopper mechanisms, means for counting apredetermined number of said squared articles fed to said second hopper mechanism, means for forming a start of several articles of a succeeding bundle of articles adjacent to and offsetlaterally from said first bundle of articles in said second hopper mechanisms, means for separating said first bundle of articles from the adjacent succeeding bundle of articles after several articles have accumulated in the succeeding bundle, meansfor moving said first bundle of articles from said second hopper mechanism, and means for moving the succeeding bundle of several articles into the position previously occupied by the first bundle of articles in said second hopper mechanisms to complete the succeeding bundle of articles having a predetermined number of articles in said bundle.

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