WO2021180634A1 - Installation et procédé pour emballer, par technologie de thermoformage, des produits dans des emballages fabriqués à partir d'un film de matériau naturel biodégradable et d'un matériau recyclable ayant des motifs pré-imprimés - Google Patents

Installation et procédé pour emballer, par technologie de thermoformage, des produits dans des emballages fabriqués à partir d'un film de matériau naturel biodégradable et d'un matériau recyclable ayant des motifs pré-imprimés Download PDF

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WO2021180634A1
WO2021180634A1 PCT/EP2021/055753 EP2021055753W WO2021180634A1 WO 2021180634 A1 WO2021180634 A1 WO 2021180634A1 EP 2021055753 W EP2021055753 W EP 2021055753W WO 2021180634 A1 WO2021180634 A1 WO 2021180634A1
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Vittorio LIBRETTI
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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
    • 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
    • B65B9/02—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material between opposed webs
    • B65B9/04—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material between opposed webs one or both webs being formed with pockets for the reception of the articles, or of the quantities of material
    • 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
    • B65B11/00—Wrapping, e.g. partially or wholly enclosing, articles or quantities of material, in strips, sheets or blanks, of flexible material
    • B65B11/50—Enclosing articles, or quantities of material, by disposing contents between two sheets, e.g. pocketed sheets, and securing their opposed free margins
    • 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
    • B65B57/00—Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices
    • B65B57/10—Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices responsive to absence, presence, abnormal feed, or misplacement of articles or materials to be packaged
    • 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
    • B65B7/00—Closing containers or receptacles after filling
    • B65B7/16—Closing semi-rigid or rigid containers or receptacles not deformed by, or not taking-up shape of, contents, e.g. boxes or cartons

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  • the present invention refers to the packing of products in general, in particular consumer goods such as foodstuffs of pharmaceutical products.
  • the present invention relates to a plant for packing products in packages obtained from a film comprising a “eco-friendly” material such as paper, cardboard or the like having a succession of pre-printed patterns, the plant comprising in series, along a forward direction of said film, optionally a forming station for forming a succession of containers each having a pre-printed pattern from said film, a welding station for closing or sealing with a closing film the containers in which the product to be packed has been previously placed or for closing or sealing with a closing film consecutive portions of said film each having a pre-printed pattern on which a product to be packed has been previously placed, and a cutting station for separating the packages so obtained from the film.
  • a “eco-friendly” material such as paper, cardboard or the like having a succession of pre-printed patterns
  • the present invention also relates to a process for packing products in packages comprising a support or container or tray having a pre-printed pattern, preferably made of paper, cardboard or the like, and a closing film, by using a plant of the above-mentioned type.
  • thermoforming station As it is well known in this specific technical field, one of the most common processes for packing consumer goods is the one which employs a plant comprising a thermoforming station, a welding station and a cutting station in succession along a horizontal direction.
  • Said plant uses a lower film unrolled by a specific reel, which film which is moved forward in an intermittent way (pitch-by-pitch) in the horizontal direction and is thermoformed in the thermoforming station in order to obtain a succession of containers, for example cup-shaped containers, and an upper film of extendable material, unrolled by specific reel, which is spread out on the containers and is then welded thereto in the welding station.
  • the cutting station separates the packages so obtained from the lower film.
  • the packages of consumer goods are made of an upper package material, usually a plastic material, pre-printed with patterns, for example images, containing information and logos which promote and facilitate retail sale, while the lower material of which the containers are formed, which is similar to the upper material, is not pre-printed and the possible images are applied with adhesive labels.
  • thermoforming station Since it is a “continuous” high-capacity process, the plant thermoforms and closes more packages at the same time, which packages, before being released, are separated by a cutting process in the above- mentioned cutting station and, are often also pre-etched by a pre cutting station arranged between the thermoforming station and the welding station in order to facilitate their opening. This station is devised for etching the whole material constituting the package in order to facilitate its opening.
  • the upper film i.e. the closing film
  • the lower film are usually made of an (extendable) plastic material such as a plastic material and the images are normally pre-printed on the upper film.
  • the most common system to center the images which is used in traditional plants using elastic films is to brake the lower film stretching it out according to the detection of the reference “mark” of the position of the printed image, by the system of reading until the image brought by the upper film corresponds to the lower container and to the cutting imprint formed in the pre-cutting station.
  • packaging materials other than plastic in particular paper, cardboard or the like, possibly coupled to plastic materials according to modern technologies which allow a simple separation thereof, so as to facilitate their disposal/ recycle.
  • Said materials are not elastic (extendable) and are thus scarcely deformable. This characteristic provides the opportunity to print images also on the lower part of the package, a solution which is so far not much used because of the deformation the image undergoes on elastic materials during thermoforming.
  • the photocell is arranged upstream of the welding station (with respect to the direction of forward movement of the lower film) and close thereto, to ensure that the process of coupling the upper film with the lower container having the image is correctly performed in the desired position.
  • the maximum tolerance allowed for image fluctuation should be less than 3/ 100 mm between one reference (mark) and the next if the package allows a position error of about 1mm.
  • the main aim of the present invention is thus to provide a plant and a process for in-continuum packing products in packages comprising a “flat” support (non-formed tray) or a container and a closing film obtained from a film comprising an “eco-friendly” substantially rigid material, such as paper, cardboard or the like, and having a succession of pre-printed patterns which have structural and/or functional characteristics that allow to correctly perform the various packing operations, in particular forming and cutting, so as to overcome the drawbacks mentioned above in relation to the known plants for packing.
  • a further aim of the present invention is to provide a plant and a process for packing as above which have a high production capacity.
  • a plant for packing products in packages each package comprising a substantially flat support of a substantially rigid material and having a pre-printed pattern, a product placed on said support and a closing film that covers said product and is preferably seal -joined to said support, the plant comprising: - means for pitch-by-pitch moving a first film comprising a layer of substantially rigid material having a succession of pre-printed patterns according to a pitch (P) that is substantially constant along a forward direction,
  • said cutting station is movable along said forward direction and in that it further comprises:
  • command and control unit in communication with said detection means and with said cutting station, said command and control unit comprising means for processing position data of at least one pre printed pattern transmitted by the detection means and position data of said cutting station during each movement of said first film comprising a layer of substantially rigid material, and actuation means for controlling, substantially simultaneously with the pitch-by-pitch forward movement of said first film comprising a layer of substantially rigid material, a displacement of said cutting station along said forward direction of a magnitude determined by the processing means according to said data in case of a wrong positioning of said cutting station.
  • a plant for packing products in packages each comprising a container of a substantially rigid material and having a pre-printed pattern, a product placed in said container and a closing film preferably seal -joined to said container, the plant comprising:
  • a forming station for obtaining a succession of containers each having a pre-printed pattern from a first film comprising a layer of substantially rigid material having a succession of pre-printed patterns with pre-fixed pitch
  • said forming station, said welding station and said cutting station being arranged in series along said forward direction, the plant being characterized in that said forming station and/or said cutting station is/ are movable along said forward direction and in that it further comprises:
  • command and control unit in communication with said detection means and with said forming station and/or said cutting station, said command and control unit comprising means for processing position data of at least one pre-printed pattern transmitted by the detection means and position data of said forming station and/or of said cutting station during each movement of said first film comprising a layer of substantially rigid material, and actuation means for controlling, substantially simultaneously to the pitch-by-pitch forward movement of said first film comprising a layer of substantially rigid material, a displacement of said forming station and/or said cutting station along said forward direction of a magnitude determined by the processing means according to said data in case of wrong positioning of said forming station and/or said cutting station.
  • the forming station and the cutting station are both movable along said forward direction and the command and control unit is capable of controlling, through the actuation means, a displacement of the forming station and/or of the cutting station along said forward direction determined by the processing means according to said data in case of wrong positioning of said forming station and/or of said cutting station.
  • said first film is a multilayer film comprising a sheet of substantially rigid material and a film of plastic material coupled to the sheet of substantially rigid material and the plant further comprises, upstream of the welding station or the forming station if present:
  • a heating station for heating said film of plastic material to a temperature not higher than the softening temperature of said plastic material and thus favor its adhesion on the sheet of substantially rigid material
  • Said coupling station is calibrated to provide an adequate and homogeneous pressure to the two films in order to obtain an easily separable multilayer film and consequently 100% recyclability of the package.
  • the first film comprises a support of substantially rigid material possibly coupled in a separable manner to a film of a plastic material and the plant further comprises a first pre-cutting station arranged upstream of the welding station, in particular between the forming station if present and the welding station, to perform an etching or a separation-facilitating line on the containers or on the consecutive portions of the first film each having a pre-printed pattern in order to facilitate the separation of said film of plastic material possibly coupled to said support of the first film.
  • the plant further comprises a second pre-cutting station arranged upstream of the welding station, in particular between the forming station if present and the welding station, to perform a facilitated opening etching on the edge of the containers obtained in the forming station or on the edge of the portions of the first film each having a pre-printed pattern and whereon the product to be packed is placed.
  • a second pre-cutting station arranged upstream of the welding station, in particular between the forming station if present and the welding station, to perform a facilitated opening etching on the edge of the containers obtained in the forming station or on the edge of the portions of the first film each having a pre-printed pattern and whereon the product to be packed is placed.
  • the first pre-cutting station and/or the second pre-cutting station are movable along said forward direction and in communication with the command and control unit, which is capable of controlling, through the actuation means, a displacement of the first pre-cutting station and/or of the second pre cutting station along said forward direction determined by the processing means according to said data in case of wrong positioning of said first pre-cutting station and/or of said second pre-cutting station.
  • the above-mentioned aims are also achieved by a process for packing which uses a plant of the above-mentioned type.
  • the process according to the invention comprises the steps of:
  • the process according to the invention comprises the steps of:
  • said first film is a multilayer film comprising a sheet of substantially rigid material and a film of plastic material coupled to the sheet of substantially rigid material and the plant comprises a heating station and a coupling station.
  • the process can comprise before the moving forward step of said first film with a substantially constant pitch (P) along a forward horizontal direction, the steps of:
  • the plant of the present invention comprises a first pre-cutting station and the first film comprises a support of substantially rigid material possibly coupled in a separable manner to a film of a plastic material.
  • the process may further comprise, after the forming step, if provided, and before the closing film application step, the steps of:
  • the plant comprises a second pre-cutting station and the process may further comprise, after the forming step if provided, and before the closing film application step, the steps of:
  • the substantially rigid material comprised in the first film or forming the support of the first film consists of paper, cardboard and the like.
  • the first film comprising a layer of substantially rigid material has a thickness preferably between 300gm and 500gm.
  • the material of the second closing film is an extendable and/or stretchable material, in particular a plastic material.
  • FIG. 1 schematically shows a horizontal plant for in-continuum packing according to an embodiment of the invention where the forming stations, the pre-cutting stations, the welding station and the cutting station are highlighted.
  • FIG. 1 shows a schematic perspective view of the forming station of the plant of Figure 1
  • FIG. 3 shows a schematic perspective view of the cutting station of the plant of Figure 1 ,
  • FIG. 4 shows an operative scheme of the plant for packing according to the invention
  • FIG. 5 schematically shows a horizontal plant for in-continuum packing according to another embodiment of the invention
  • - Figure 6 shows an enlarged view of the plant of Figure 5.
  • the plant for in-continuum packing is referred as a whole with the reference numeral 1 and comprises one forming station 2, one pre cutting area 3, one station 4 for loading the product to be packed, one welding station 5 and one cutting station 6 arranged in series along a horizontal direction.
  • the plant comprises a lower reel-holder 7 which contains a reel of a first film 8 comprising a layer of substantially rigid material, such as for example paper, cardboard or the like, having a plurality of pre-printed patterns in the direction of the length of the first film according to a pre fixed pitch detectable by reference marks, which are also pre-printed along the first film 8 between the pre-printed patterns.
  • a first film 8 comprising a layer of substantially rigid material, such as for example paper, cardboard or the like, having a plurality of pre-printed patterns in the direction of the length of the first film according to a pre fixed pitch detectable by reference marks, which are also pre-printed along the first film 8 between the pre-printed patterns.
  • first film comprising a layer of substantially rigid material refers to any monolayer or multilayer film consisting of or comprising a material other than plastic in the form of a sheet or film, having a texture and a thickness suitable for producing containers for the packing of the product of interest and substantially not or little extensible and/or stretchable.
  • said film consists of a natural or “eco-friendly” material (biodegradable and / or recyclable) or of a support (multilayer film) consisting of a natural or “eco-friendly” material coupled with a film of plastic material whose separation from the support is predetermined and facilitated.
  • Said “eco-friendly” material has a lesser environmental impact because it is mostly made of a biodegradable material which it is easy to dispose of in the recycling system compared to plastic materials.
  • said material is selected from paper, cardboard and the like and is being introduced in the market with the characteristics required by the recycling disposal system.
  • pre-printed pattern refers to any graphic composition comprising drawings, symbols, writing and/or images which is impressed on the first film of substantially rigid material (or on the layer of rigid material of the first film) by per se conventional printing processes.
  • the pre-printed patterns contain information such as personalized (i.e. referring to the product to be packed) images, writing, logos, composition, expiration date etc..
  • Plant 1 further comprises handling means for moving the first film 8 comprising a layer of substantially rigid material unwound by the reel- holder 7 along the horizontal direction according to a predefined pitch P of forward movement to the forming station 2 and, from this, to the subsequent above-mentioned stations of plant 1.
  • Said handling means may comprise for example a plurality of rollers or other handling means arranged along the horizontal direction of plant 1 which are in contact with the first film on the upper and/or the lower side.
  • the predefined pitch P of forward movement may be measured in continuum (pitch-by-pitch measurement) during the forward movement of the first film 8 comprising a layer of substantially rigid material by per se conventional means.
  • the first film 8 is bent in a conventional manner, for example by applying pressure and possibly heat, in a position corresponding to an area which is longitudinally delimited by consecutive reference marks and has impressed a pre-printed pattern so as to form a succession of containers 9 each having a corresponding pre-printed pattern and attached to the first film 8 comprising a layer of substantially rigid material.
  • the pre-cutting area 3 comprises a first pre-cutting station 3a followed by a second pre-cutting station 3b along the forward direction of the first film 8.
  • the first pre-cutting station 3a receives the containers 9 coming from the forming station 2 and has per se conventional means capable of performing an etching or a separation-facilitating line on the containers 9 to facilitate the separation of the film of plastic material possibly coupled to the support of natural of “eco-friendly” material of the first film 8 after the use of containers 9 for a proper disposal of the above- mentioned materials.
  • the forming station 2 may be omitted or made non-functioning, in particular when the package is made as a sealed, substantially “flat” support free of lower forming.
  • the first pre cutting station 3a may be omitted or made non-functioning, in particular when the first film 8 consists only of natural or “eco-friendly” material as defined in the present invention without coupling with a film of plastic material.
  • the second pre-cutting station 3b receives the containers 9 coming from the forming station 2 (or from the pre-cutting station 3a) and has per se conventional means capable of performing an etching or a weakening line on the edge of the containers 9 which is intended for facilitated opening of the resulting package by a consumer/user.
  • the second pre-cutting station 3b may also be omitted or made non functioning (inactive) in some embodiments of the present invention.
  • the welding station 5 receives the containers 9 coming from the pre cutting area 3, and in said containers the product to be packed was loaded in the loading station 4 (manually or by per se conventional automatic loaders), and is assigned for closing containers 9.
  • plant 1 comprises an upper reel-holder 10 for a second closing film 11 associated to the welding station 5 and per se conventional handling means to move the second closing film 11 so as to spread it out on each container 9 entering the welding station.
  • the second film 11 is preferably made of an extendable and / or stretchable material, such as in particular a plastic material.
  • the second film 11 spread out on the container 9 is welded to the same by conventional welding means, for example by heat-sealing with an adhesive of a welding layer of the second closing film facing the containers 9, thus obtaining a succession of packages 12 still attached to the first film 8 comprising a layer of substantially rigid material.
  • the packages 12 coming from the welding station 5 are separated in a conventional manner, for example by die cutting, and then released from the plant for subsequent operations for example storage and/or transport in/ to the destination site.
  • the forming station 2 and the cutting station 6 are movable back and forth along the forward direction of the first film 8 comprising a layer of substantially rigid material so as to take the correct position for each operation of forming and cutting, respectively, in the manner that will be better illustrated below.
  • the forming station 2 has a forming group 13 which is slidingly mounted, through its lower portion 14, on a frame 15 along opposite longitudinal guides 16 which are substantially cylindrical.
  • the lower portion 14 of the forming group 13 is in friction engagement with opposite driving belts 17 that are operatively connected to respective motors 18 which, in turn, are in electric communication with a command and control unit (not shown) of the plant 1.
  • the actual magnitude of the displacement of the forming group 13 in the same sense of forward movement of the first film 8 or in the opposite sense, is determined by the input signal received by the motors 18 from the command and control unit in the manner which will be better described below.
  • the cutting station 6 has a cutting group 20 which is slidingly mounted, through its lower portion 21, on a frame 22 along opposite longitudinal guides 23 which are substantially cylindrical.
  • the lower portion 21 of the cutting group 21 is in friction engagement with opposite driving belts 24 that are operatively connected to respective motors 25 which, in turn, are in electric communication with a command and control unit (not shown) of the plant 1.
  • the cutting group 20 when driven by the belts 24, can slide back and forth on the guides 23 along the forward direction of the first film 8 by a stretch B delimited by two limit stops 26 on the frame 22.
  • the actual magnitude of the displacement of the cutting group 20 in the same sense of forward movement of the first film 8 or in the opposite sense, is determined by the input signal received by the motors 25 from the command and control unit in the manner which will be described below.
  • first pre-cutting station 3a and/or the second pre-cutting station 3b may be provided with structural and/or functional characteristics equivalent to those described above in order to be made movable back and forth along the forward direction of the first film 8 comprising a layer of substantially rigid material so as to take the correct position for each pre-cutting operation.
  • the position of the pre printed patterns on the first film 8 comprising a layer of substantially rigid material to compensate possible errors of pitch-by-pitch forward movement of the first film 8 and consequently errors of position of the pre-printed patterns so that the operations of packing, in particular forming, cutting and possibly pre-cutting are all correctly performed.
  • the present invention proposes to “chase” the actual position of the pre-printed patterns on the first film 8 comprising a layer of substantially rigid material which is moved forward with a constant pitch P by an appropriate movement of the forming station 2 and/or of the cutting station 6 and possibly also of the first pre-cutting station 3a and/or of the second pre-cutting station 3b, if provided.
  • the manufacturing stations of the plant for packing with particular reference to the forming station 2, to the cutting station 6 and to the pre-cutting stations 3a, 3b, if provided, are advantageously positioned in a substantially “centered” way with respect to each pre printed pattern entering each of said stations, thereby ensuring that the manufacturing operations are correctly performed regardless of the error of forward movement of the pre-printed patterns which is due to both the variation of the diameter of the reel of the first film 8 which is being unwound, and to the normal tolerances of the position of the printed image.
  • the plant 1 comprises means for detecting the position of at least one pre-printed pattern passing in a pre-fixed area along the forward direction during each pitch-by-pitch forward movement of said first film 8 comprising a layer of substantially rigid material, said detection means being in communication with the command and control unit of the machine.
  • Said detection means may be for example a photocell 27 or similar means and the position of the at least one pre-printed pattern passing in said area as a result of the pitch-by-pitch movement of the first film 8 may be determined indirectly from the detection (reading) of the reference marks printed on the first film 8 between consecutive pre printed patterns.
  • the means for detecting the position of the at least one pre-printed pattern are arranged along the forward direction of the first film 8 comprising a layer of substantially rigid material immediately upstream of the welding station 5 (or in other words close to the welding station 5).
  • control unit is structured so as to process position data of the pre-printed patterns transmitted by the detection means and position data of the forming station 2 and/or of the cutting station 6 and possibly of the pre-cutting stations 3a, 3b during each forward movement of the first film 8, and to control, in case of errors of positioning of one or more of said stations, a calculated displacement of one or more of said stations along said forward direction according to the processed data, so as to compensate for each error of positioning and ensure the correct positioning of said stations with respect to each pre-printed pattern entering them and thus ensure that the packing operations are correctly performed.
  • the processing of position data can be performed by the command and control unit by per se conventional processing means, for example by a software provided with suitable positioning algorithms.
  • the command and control unit also comprises actuation means to control the displacement calculated by the software for each of the movable stations. For example, if the software identifies an error of positioning of the forming station 2 during the pitch-by-pitch forward movement of the first film 8 according to the position data received from the detection means, the actuation means control substantially simultaneously the drive of motors 18 so as to determine a longitudinal displacement of the forming group 13 of a “correction” stretch calculated by the software so as to ensure “centering” (or in other words the correct alignment) of the forming group 13 with respect to the pre printed pattern entering the forming station and, consequently, to ensure that the next forming cycle is correctly performed.
  • the actuation means control substantially simultaneously the drive of motors 25 so as to determine a longitudinal displacement of the cutting group 20 of a “correction” stretch calculated by the software so as to ensure “centering” (or in other words the correct alignment) of the cutting group 20 with respect to the package 12 entering the cutting station and, consequently, to ensure that the next cycle of cutting the packages 12 is correctly performed.
  • Figures 5-6 show a plant for in-continuum packing according to another embodiment of the invention, which is indicated as a whole with the reference number 50.
  • the packaging plant 50 which are structurally and/or functionally equivalent to corresponding elements of the packaging plant 1 described above will be attributed the same reference number of the latter and will not be described further for conciseness.
  • the packaging plant 50 comprises a forming station 2, a pre-cutting area 3, a loading station 4 for the product to be packaged, a welding station 5 and a cutting station 6 which are completely equivalent structurally and functionally to those previously described in relation to the plant 1 of Figures 1-4.
  • the plant 50 is structured to implement the packaging steps described above from a multilayer film 8 obtained by coupling "in situ" a sheet of substantially rigid material 8a with a film of plastic material 8b, instead of using a similar already preformed multilayer film from an external procurement, for example from a supplier.
  • the plant 50 further comprises, upstream of the welding station 5 and of the forming station 2 if present, a heating station 82 for the film of plastic material 8b followed, along the forward direction, by a coupling station 81 of the film of plastic material 8b with the sheet of substantially rigid material 8a, and means for feeding the film of plastic material 8b and the sheet of substantially rigid material 8a into the heating station 82 and, from this, into the coupling station 81.
  • the plant 50 comprises a first reel-holder 7a which contains a reel of a sheet of substantially rigid material 8a, such as for example paper, cardboard or the like, having a succession of pre printed patterns in the direction of the length of this sheet according to a pre-fixed pitch detectable by reference marks, which are also pre printed along the first sheet between the pre-printed patterns, and a second reel-holder 7b which contains a reel of a film of plastic material 8b to be coupled to the sheet of material substantially rigid 8a.
  • substantially rigid material 8a such as for example paper, cardboard or the like
  • the sheet of substantially rigid material 8a and the film of plastic material 8b, unwound from the respective reels 7a-b, are passed together through rollers 83 and from these feeding into the heating station 82 where the film of plastic material 8b is heated to a temperature not higher than the softening temperature of said plastic material and thus favor its adhesion on the sheet of substantially rigid material 8a in the subsequent coupling station 81.
  • the sheet of substantially rigid material 8a and the film of plastic material 8b are fed into the coupling station 81 where they are passed through heated rollers and coupled by lamination between said rollers, thus obtaining the multilayer film 8 which is then fed into the subsequent packaging stations described above.
  • the lamination of the sheet of substantially rigid material 8a with the film of plastic material 8b in the coupling station 81 can be carried out at a temperature and pressure suitable for obtaining a sufficiently stable coupling and at the same time allowing a relatively easy separation between the sheet of substantially rigid material 8a and the film of plastic material 8b after opening the package that comprises them by the consumer so as to facilitate their disposal/ recycling according to modern technologies.
  • the realization of said multilayer film 8 by means of in line coupling allows the choice of materials for making a package on the basis of the specific production needs of the user to obtain, for example, an improvement in the performance of the packaging process and / or an increase in the shelf life of the packaged product.
  • first multilayer film 8 of the type described allows to reduce the thickness of the layer of substantially rigid material used, for example paper, cardboard, and the like, thus leading to a greater precision of the packaging process by way of reduction of the pitch variation of forward movement thanks to the smaller unwinding radius of the reel for the same producible packages.
  • the use of a first multilayer film 8 of the type described advantageously allows the use of larger reels with consequent reduction in the procurement costs of packaging materials and the number of production stops for the replacement of the exhausted reel.
  • the present invention achieves the predetermined aims and has numerous advantages compared to the known plants for packing.
  • the plant and the process according to the invention advantageously allow to correctly perform in continuum the packing of products in packages having a pre-printed pattern also when said packages are obtained from a substantially rigid material having a succession of pre-printed patterns such as “eco-friendly” materials that substitute plastic, which are currently demanded by the market and in the future required by new regulations, such as paper, cardboard and the like, possibly coupled with easy-to-separate plastic materials to facilitate their correct disposal.
  • a substantially rigid material having a succession of pre-printed patterns such as “eco-friendly” materials that substitute plastic, which are currently demanded by the market and in the future required by new regulations, such as paper, cardboard and the like, possibly coupled with easy-to-separate plastic materials to facilitate their correct disposal.
  • the plant and the process according to the invention advantageously have also a high production capacity.
  • the plant and the process according to the invention allow to efficiently use materials intended for the thermoforming process made of material derived from paper, cardboard and the like possibly coupled with an isolating protective film which can be easily separated to the advantage of a lower environmental impact and a resulting energy saving.
  • the plant and the process according to the invention provide also a station dedicated for etching only the plastic coating (protective film) if present, as well as the absence of the forming step for making a flat tray containing a sealed protruding product.

Abstract

L'invention concerne une installation (1) et un procédé pour emballer des produits dans des emballages ayant des motifs pré-imprimés. L'installation comprend un poste de formage (2) pour la formation d'un film (8) comprenant un matériau rigide ayant une succession de motifs pré-imprimés qui est thermoformé dans des conteneurs (9), un poste de soudage (5) pour souder un film supérieur (11) aux conteneurs préformés (9) afin de sceller hermétiquement l'emballage, des stations de pré-découpage (3a, 3b) pour effectuer une attaque sur un film protecteur potentiellement accouplé au matériau rigide du film (8) afin de faciliter sa séparation et d'effectuer une attaque sur le bord des conteneurs (9) afin de faciliter l'ouverture des emballages (12) résultants et un poste de découpage (6) pour séparer les emballages (12), et est caractérisée par le fait que le poste de formage (2) et/ou ladite station de découpage (6) sont déplaçables le long de la direction vers l'avant du film (8) en même temps que les postes de pré-découpage (3a, 3b) afin de garder dans la même position les images sur l'emballage définitif en dépit de la déformation causée par le film pré-imprimé inférieur, et par le fait qu'elle comprend également : des moyens de détection (27) de la position d'au moins un motif pré-imprimé passant dans une zone prédéfinie le long de la direction vers l'avant durant chaque mouvement intermittent dudit premier film (8) comprenant un matériau sensiblement rigide (8) ; et une unité d'instruction et de commande permettant de traiter les données de position d'au moins un motif pré-imprimé transmis par les moyens de détection (27) ainsi que les données de position dudit poste de formage (2) et/ou dudit poste de découpage (6) durant chaque mouvement intermittent dudit premier film (8) comprenant un matériau sensiblement rigide, et permettant de commander, pratiquement simultanément à la direction vers l'avant dudit premier film (8) comprenant un matériau sensiblement rigide, un déplacement dudit poste de formage (2) et/ou dudit poste de découpage (6) le long de ladite direction vers l'avant d'une magnitude définie par les moyens de traitement selon lesdites données en cas de mauvais positionnement de ladite image dans l'évidement de l'emballage effectué par ledit poste de formage et/ou ledit poste de découpage (6).
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