WO2007106916A1 - Machine de formage, remplissage, scellage verticale a mouvement continu - Google Patents

Machine de formage, remplissage, scellage verticale a mouvement continu Download PDF

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WO2007106916A1
WO2007106916A1 PCT/ZA2007/000018 ZA2007000018W WO2007106916A1 WO 2007106916 A1 WO2007106916 A1 WO 2007106916A1 ZA 2007000018 W ZA2007000018 W ZA 2007000018W WO 2007106916 A1 WO2007106916 A1 WO 2007106916A1
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August Egli
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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
    • B65B51/00—Devices for, or methods of, sealing or securing package folds or closures; Devices for gathering or twisting wrappers, or necks of bags
    • B65B51/10—Applying or generating heat or pressure or combinations thereof
    • B65B51/26—Devices specially adapted for producing transverse or longitudinal seams in webs or tubes
    • B65B51/30—Devices, e.g. jaws, for applying pressure and heat, e.g. for subdividing filled tubes
    • 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
    • B65B9/00—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material, e.g. liquids or semiliquids, in flat, folded, or tubular webs of flexible sheet material; Subdividing filled flexible tubes to form packages
    • B65B9/10—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material, in preformed tubular webs, or in webs formed into tubes around filling nozzles, e.g. extruded tubular webs
    • B65B9/20—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material, in preformed tubular webs, or in webs formed into tubes around filling nozzles, e.g. extruded tubular webs the webs being formed into tubes in situ around the filling nozzles
    • B65B9/2014—Tube advancing means

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  • This invention relates to a continuous motion vertical form, fill and seal machine.
  • a form, fill and seal (FFS) machine typically takes a flat roll of plastics sheet material, forms it into a tube which is then formed into a plurality of bags. The bags are filled automatically and then sealed. The process is usually fully automated.
  • a fill and seal machine comprises means to convey a tube of plastics sheet material through the fill and seal machine and at least two sets of gripping and sealing jaws adapted to grip, seal and cut the tube at predetermined intervals to form a plurality of bags, characterised in that:
  • each set of jaws is mounted for reciprocating travel on each side of the travel path of the tube for travel along the travel path of the tube and for reciprocating travel in a direction normal to the travel path of the tube, in use to close on and grip the tube and to open away from the tube; the jaws being adapted to move, in their reciprocating travel along the travel path of the tube, from a starting position, in synchronicity with the tube and in the travel direction of the tube, to a point remote from the starting position and to return to the starting position in a direction counter to the travel direction of the tube;
  • the jaws being adapted to move, in their reciprocating travel normal to the travel path of the tube, from a starting position in which the jaws touch, with the tube gripped between them in use, to a position in which they are open and remote from the tube travel path;
  • the jaws being adapted, when moving with the tube, to close and grip the tube and to open when moving counter to the tube;
  • the opening and closing of the jaws being synchronised such that at least one set of jaws is in grip contact with the tube at all times in use;
  • the opening of the jaws being adapted to allow the jaws that are not in grip contact, when in use they return to their starting position, to bypass the jaws that are in grip contact with the tube.
  • the jaws are adapted to move, during return travel, at a speed greater than the tube travel speed, to bypass the jaws in grip contact and to emerge, at their starting position before the jaws in grip contact have released the tube, thereby enabling the jaws at the starting point to close and grip the tube and to start their cycle of movement in grip contact with the tube, thereby to ensure that both sets of jaws are momentarily in grip contact with and moving in the travel direction of the tube. This will ensure continuous tension on the tube.
  • the fill and seal machine of the invention may include means to convey the tube through the machine, such as a belt drive, but in the preferred form of the invention, no such conveying means is necessary since the jaws draw the tube through the machine.
  • the machine is preferably a form, fill and seal machine adapted to form plastics sheet material into a tube prior to the conveyance of the tube through the machine and more preferably a vertical form, fill and seal machine.
  • Figure 1 is a diagrammatic front elevation of a form, fill and seal machine according to this invention
  • Figure 2 is a diagrammatic section on a line 2 - 2 in Figure 1 ;
  • Figure 3 is a diagrammatic section on a line 3 - 3 in Figure 1.
  • the form, fill and seal (FFS) machine 10 illustrated in the drawings begins with a preprinted roll stock web or foil (illustrated in dotted outline 12 in Figure 1) that is loaded onto material reels (not shown) located at the rear of the form, fill and seal machine 10.
  • the roll stock is initially flat and is fed into the FFS machine 10 over a folding collar 14 that forms the initially flat roll stock 12.1 into a tubular foil preform 12.2.
  • the preform 12.2 is then drawn through a vertical heat welding station 16 by means of a belt drive 18 made up of tractor belts that bear against a tubular bag former 20 where the preform 12.2 is sealed longitudinally by means of a vertical heat welding station 16 into a foil tube 12.3.
  • the foil tube 12.3 is then fed into the grip of a set of gripping and sealing jaws 22 fitted with heat welding elements as well as a guillotine or knife (not shown) by means of which bags 12.4 can be cut loose from the foil tube 12.3 when each bag 12.4 has been formed, filled and sealed.
  • the jaws grip and seal the base of one bag 12.4 and the top of the filled bag 12.4 immediately therebelow, cutting that filled and sealed bag 12.4 free and then opening the jaws 22 to start the cycle over again.
  • Each set of jaws 22 is mounted on a tracked carriage 26 that is mounted for reciprocating travel along a set of rails 28 that extend vertically on each side of and parallel to the travel path of the foil tube 12.3 within the FFS machine 10.
  • the reciprocating travel of the jaws along the rails 28 takes place in the travel direction of the tube 12.3.
  • the jaws 22 on each carriage 26 are horizontally reciprocable across the carriage by means of hydraulic rams 30 that open and close the jaws 22 as and when required (see Figure 3 in particular).
  • the reciprocating travel of the jaws 22 along the carriages 26 takes place in a direction normal to the travel direction of the tube 12.3.
  • the jaws 22 are fitted with heat welding elements as well as a guillotine or knife (not shown) by means of which bags 12.4 can be cut loose from the foil tube 12.3 when the bag 12.4 has been formed, filled and sealed.
  • both sets of jaws are wide open to allow the full diameter of the foil tube 12.3 to pass.
  • the first set of jaws 22.1 is positioned at the top of their vertical stroke and the second set of jaws 22.2 is positioned at the bottom of their vertical stroke on the rails 28.
  • the foil tube 12.3 is drawn through the vertical form, fill and seal machine 10 at a predetermined speed by means of the belt drive 18.
  • the first set of jaws 22.1 When fully closed, the first set of jaws 22.1 start a programmed cycle of sealing the base of the bag 12.4 and the top of the filled bag 12.4 immediately therebelow. The downward movement of the first set of jaws 22.1 continues until a signal, prompted by the eye mark passing a photocell, causes the FFS machine 10 to activate the jaws 22.1 to cut the filled and sealed bag 12.4 free and to activate the rams 30.1 to open the first set of jaws 22.1.
  • the FFS machine 10 is programmed first to open and then to stop the first set of jaws 22.1 which then come to rest at the lower end of the vertical travel of the carriage 26.1 on the rails 28.1.
  • the second set of jaws 22.2 starts to move upwards from the lower to the upper end of the vertical travel of the carriage 26.2 on the rails 28.2. Since there is no need to synchronise this reciprocating movement of the second set of jaws 22.2 with that of the foil tube 12.3, the first set of jaws 22.1 can be set to travel upwardly at much greater speed than the downwards movement. Since the second set of jaws 22.2 are open, they bypass the downwardly moving first set of jaws 22.1 around the outside.
  • the second set of jaws 22.2 come to rest and await the signal to start their clamping, sealing and cutting cycle.
  • a signal activates the second set of jaws 22.2 to move downwards on the rails 26.2.
  • the rams 30.2 close the jaws 22.2.
  • the second set of jaws 22.2 start a similar programmed cycle to that described above of sealing the base of the bag 12.4 and the top of the filled bag 12.4 immediately therebelow, cutting that filled and sealed bag 12.4 free, opening and then coming to rest at the lower end of the vertical travel of the carriage 26.2 on the rails 28.2.
  • the first set of jaws 22.1 still in their open position, starts to move upwards from the lower to the upper end of the vertical travel of the carriage 26.1 on the rails 28.1 , bypassing the downwardly moving second set of jaws 22.2 around the outside.
  • This process is simply repeated thereby providing a continuous forming, filling and sealing process that does not compromise the welding and cooling time required in respect of certain types of plastics sheet materials.

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Abstract

L'invention concerne une machine de formage, remplissage, scellage verticale à mouvement continu, dans laquelle une feuille ou une bande de matière plastique en rouleau initialement plate est pliée et soudée pour former un tube 12.3 qui est acheminé à travers la machine 10. La machine 10 comprend non pas un jeu unique de mâchoires de saisie, mais deux jeux de mâchoires de saisie et de scellage 22 qui saisissent, scellent et coupent le tube à des intervalles prédéterminés de façon à former une pluralité de sachets 12.4. Chaque jeu de mâchoires 22 est monté sur un chariot guidé 26 effectuant un mouvement de va-et-vient sur un jeu de rails 28 qui s'étendent verticalement de chaque côté de la trajectoire du tube 12.3 et parallèlement à celle-ci. Les mâchoires 22 peuvent être animées d'un mouvement de va-et-vient horizontal grâce à des vérins hydrauliques 30 qui les ouvrent et les ferment. Les mâchoires 22 sont conçues pour se fermer et saisir le tube 12.3 lorsqu'elles se déplacent dans le même sens que lui et pour s'ouvrir lorsqu'elles se déplacent dans le sens contraire au sein. L'ouverture et la fermeture des mâchoires 22 s'effectuent de façon synchronisée de façon à ce qu'au moins un jeu de mâchoires 22 soit à tout instant (lors du fonctionnement de la machine) au contact du tube 12.3, et de façon à permettre aux mâchoires 22 qui ne sont pas au contact du tube 12.3 de revenir à leur position de départ en contournant les mâchoires 22 qui sont au contact du tube 12.3.
PCT/ZA2007/000018 2006-03-15 2007-03-14 Machine de formage, remplissage, scellage verticale a mouvement continu WO2007106916A1 (fr)

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WO2009103296A1 (fr) 2008-02-22 2009-08-27 Beanstalk Aps Emballage à ouverture facile
DE212009000003U1 (de) 2008-02-22 2009-11-26 Beanstalk Aps Leicht zu öffnende Verpackung
WO2012066585A1 (fr) * 2010-11-19 2012-05-24 Minipack-Torre S.P.A. Machine d'emballage automatique verticale et procédé de fonctionnement associé
CN102407954A (zh) * 2011-11-02 2012-04-11 汕头市甜甜乐糖果食品有限公司 圆筒制造系统
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US10730647B1 (en) 2014-03-31 2020-08-04 Paul A. Olson Systems and methods for automated food packaging
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