EP0097962A2 - Machine d'étiquetage pour récipients, notamment des bouteilles - Google Patents

Machine d'étiquetage pour récipients, notamment des bouteilles Download PDF

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EP0097962A2
EP0097962A2 EP83106315A EP83106315A EP0097962A2 EP 0097962 A2 EP0097962 A2 EP 0097962A2 EP 83106315 A EP83106315 A EP 83106315A EP 83106315 A EP83106315 A EP 83106315A EP 0097962 A2 EP0097962 A2 EP 0097962A2
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
    • B65C3/00—Labelling other than flat surfaces
    • B65C3/06—Affixing labels to short rigid containers
    • B65C3/08—Affixing labels to short rigid containers to container bodies
    • B65C3/14—Affixing labels to short rigid containers to container bodies the container being positioned for labelling with its centre-line vertical
    • B65C3/16—Affixing labels to short rigid containers to container bodies the container being positioned for labelling with its centre-line vertical by rolling the labels onto cylindrical containers, e.g. bottles
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
    • B65C9/00—Details of labelling machines or apparatus
    • B65C9/02—Devices for moving articles, e.g. containers, past labelling station

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  • the invention relates to a labeling machine for containers, in particular for bottles, with a straight first conveyor line with a predetermined conveying speed for the containers at the inlet, with at least one labeling station provided on the first conveyor line, which labels the labels onto the containers moving past a transfer area of the first conveyor line applies, with a star adjoining the first conveyor line and rotating around a vertical axis with laterally open pockets for receiving one container each, and with a guide arc partially enclosing the star, the star and guide arc forming a circular second conveyor line.
  • labeling machines designed as so-called "straight-line" are known, in which the upright bottles to be labeled are first of all used with the aid of a straight conveyor line, e.g. with the aid of a conveyor belt at a labeling station for applying a label and then subsequently passed elements which finally press or smooth the labels held on the bottles but still partially protruding from the bottle wall.
  • Such straight-line labeling machines which are generally intended for smaller outputs, can in principle be produced more cheaply than machines in which the bottles to be labeled are fed to a turntable and the application and final fitting or pressing on of the Labels are made on this turntable, but the labeling machines previously used as straight-running machines still require a relatively large amount of design effort, especially when parts of the machine, in particular the labeling device or station or their parts must be clocked to apply the labels to the container.
  • the invention has for its object to show a labeling machine that ensures maximum performance with a minimum of design effort, and with which it is above all possible to simultaneously bottle with a circular cross section with both a breast label and a "body label Mistake.
  • a labeling machine of the type described at the outset is designed according to the invention in such a way that a conveyor screw rotatably driven about a horizontal axis is provided on the side of the first conveyor section and forms at least one screw-shaped contact surface for the containers which extends into the first conveyor section so that the slope of the screw-shaped contact surface and thus the conveying speed of the screw conveyor towards the end of the screw conveyor facing the star, and that the rotational speed of the screw conveyor and the incline of the contact surface are selected such that the conveying speed of the first conveyor section and the conveying speed of the screw conveyor at the transfer area are approximately are the same.
  • the conveyor screw or its contact surface in the conveying direction behind the transfer area for the labels has a constant incline and thus also a constant conveying speed, this conveying speed being approximately equal to the conveying speed of the first conveying path and also preferably the speed with which the open pockets of the star revolve around the vertical axis.
  • the labeling machine allows continuous work, i.e. the containers to be treated run continuously through the machine, it not being necessary to drive parts of the machine, such as the star, the screw conveyor or a conveyor belt forming the first conveyor section, in a clocked manner.
  • a simple structural design is achieved with a relatively high output, and the final pressing or fitting of the labels with the elements provided on both sides of the second conveying path also takes place in a particularly simple manner.
  • the labels are initially pressed at the labeling station - based on the conveying direction of the containers - laterally onto these containers. Since at the transfer area between the first conveyor line and the second conveyor line the conveying direction of the first conveyor line runs approximately perpendicular to the orbit of the pockets of the star, the labels can be applied in the labeling station to the area of the outer surface of the container, which is then related in the second conveyor line on the direction of conveyance there - is at the front. As a result, the final pressing or fitting of the labels in the second conveyor line is possible without rotating the containers about their own vertical or longitudinal axis by simple brushing or rolling, etc.
  • the screw conveyor extends with its one end directly to the star (transfer area between the first and second conveyor sections).
  • the labeling machine according to the invention preferably has a rectilinear third conveyor line which adjoins the star, the first and second conveyor lines being formed by a single conveyor belt which is passed under the star.
  • the labeling machine according to the invention which is particularly suitable for labeling bottles with a circular cross-section, several labels can be applied to a container or a bottle in one operation, even to areas with different cross-sections, such as breast and torso labels.
  • 1 is the only drive for the entire machine (electric motor with gear), which is connected via a further gear 2 to a gearwheel 3, which is provided on the vertical output shaft of the gear 2.
  • the gear wheel 3 engages in a ring gear 4 which is provided on a star 6 rotating around the vertical axis 5 or is connected to this star in terms of drive.
  • the star 6 consists, for example, essentially of two circular disk-shaped elements 6 'arranged one above the other and parallel to one another in the vertical direction, which are fastened to one another at a distance by one or more spacers (not shown).
  • Each element 6 has on its circumferential surface a plurality of recesses B which form pockets for the bottles 7 to be labeled and which are approximately semicircular, with a radius of curvature which is equal to or slightly larger than half the diameter of the bottles 7 have 7 'on their fuselage
  • the "body” refers to that part of the bottle 7 which is adjoined at the top by the bottle part 7 "(breast) which narrows approximately in the shape of a funnel and which at the upper end of the bottle 7 is in the actual bottle neck merges with the opening.
  • each recess 8 provided at a uniform distance on the circumferential surface of the elements 6 ' are provided in such a way or the elements 6' are arranged one above the other in the vertical direction that each recess 8 on the upper element 6 'is congruent with a recess 8 on lower element 6 '.
  • a guide arc 9 which is formed, for example, by two crescent-shaped elements 9 'arranged one above the other in the vertical direction and spaced from one another, the guide arc 9 or its elements 9' - as well as, for example, the drive 1 and the like Gear 2 - are held stationary on a machine frame, not shown.
  • the two elements 9 'd 5 guide arc 9 each form a circular arc-shaped guide surface 10 on their inside facing the star 6, the arrangement being such that the guide surface 10 of the lower element 9' roughly corresponds to the peripheral surface of the lower element 6 'and the guide surface 10 of the upper element 9 'is approximately opposite the peripheral surface of the upper element 6'.
  • Each guide surface 10 is at a distance from the center of the axis 5, which (distance) is approximately equal to the radius of an element 6 'plus half the diameter of a bottle 7 in the region of the fuselage 7'.
  • the two guide surfaces 10 arranged congruently one above the other in the vertical direction have in the illustrated Embodiment an arc length of approx. 130 0 .
  • the star 6 in the illustration selected for FIG. 1 is driven by the drive 1 such that this star rotates counterclockwise about the vertical axis 5, ie in the direction of the arrow A.
  • a conveyor belt 11 is passed, which is formed, for example, by an endless hinge belt chain, which is mounted at the two ends of the conveyor belt 6, in each case by a roller which is rotatable about a horizontal axis and is not shown in FIG. 1 or around a corresponding sprocket rotates.
  • the upper length of the conveyor belt 11 forms with its upper side a horizontal standing surface on which the upright bottles 7 stand with their bottom.
  • the conveyor belt 11 is driven so that the respective upper length of this belt from left to right, i.e. moved in the direction of arrows B.
  • the conveyor belt 11 is driven with the roller provided in FIG. 1 at the right end of this belt or with the sprocket provided there via a gear 12 and a shaft 13, one end of which has the input of the gear 12 and the other end of which the output of another gear 14 is connected.
  • a gear wheel, which engages in the ring gear 4 is fastened to the input shaft of the transmission 14.
  • the gears 12 and 14 the rollers or chain wheels serving to deflect or drive the conveyor belt 11 and additional elements used to guide the conveyor belt 11 are also fixed or mounted on a machine frame (not shown).
  • the Fig o 1 further shows that the two ends of the conveyor belt 11 are approximately diametrical with respect to the axis 5 are opposite, but the arrangement is such that the longitudinal or central axis L of the conveyor belt 11 does not pass through the center or the central axis of the axis 5, but is radially offset from this central axis.
  • the section of this conveyor belt extending to the left of the star 6 can be referred to as the "bottle inlet” and the section of the conveyor belt 11 extending to the right of the star 6 can be referred to as the "bottle outlet", i.e.
  • the bottles 7 are first brought up for labeling or during labeling in the direction of arrow B from the left, then at the transfer area between the left-hand section of the conveyor belt 11 and the star 6 in each case into a prepared recess 8 or pocket of the star 6 then moved by the star revolving around the axis 5 for a purpose to be explained later on an arc-shaped path, the length of which is essentially determined by the length of the guide surfaces 10, and then leave the star 6 in the area of the right one in FIG. 1, ie Ends of the guide surfaces 10 located away from the bottle inlet so that the bottles 7 reach the part of the conveyor belt 11 which forms the bottle outlet and are conveyed away to the right in the direction of arrow B.
  • a stationary guide 15 is attached to the machine frame, which in the embodiment shown extends with a section 15 'into the space between the two elements 6'.
  • the guide 15 it is also possible to arrange or design the guide 15 in such a way that the section 15 'is above the upper element 6' or below the lower element 6 ', if this is possible for reasons of space.
  • designs are also conceivable in which a plurality of sections 15 'are arranged one above the other in the horizontal direction.
  • section 15' is designed such that the free end of the guide surface formed by section 15 'is at a distance from axis 5 , which is equal to or smaller than the distance between the axis 5 and the surface of the recesses B closest to this axis. It is understood that the bottles 7 when they are gripped by a pocket 8 of the star 6 and by the circumferential one Star 6 are carried up on a surface that is level with the top of the upper length of the conveyor belt 11. Moreover, the upper length of the conveyor belt 11 is only arranged so far below the star 6 that the bottles 7 are still gripped by the recesses or pockets 8 on their body 7 'and also the guide surfaces 10 with the outer surface of the bottle in the region of the body 7 'cooperate.
  • a labeling device 17 is provided on the machine frame.
  • This labeling device has, in a manner known per se, a cylinder 18 rotating around a vertical axis (eraser cylinder), which is arranged laterally on the path of movement of the bottles 7 to be labeled and with which the labels already glued, for example body labels 19 and / or breast labels 20, are attached be pressed in the middle of the bottles 7 moving past.
  • the cylinder or cylinder device 1B contains the labels, for example, from a device 21 which is formed by a plurality of label pallets which rotate around a vertical axis and which, after a glue application by a glue roller 22, remove the labels from a label magazine.
  • the device 21 is driven by gears 23, 24, 25, of which the gear 25 in the Gear ring 4 engages.
  • the cylinder 18 is also driven synchronously with the device 21 and thus with the star 6 by means of gears or similar drive means, not shown in detail.
  • the cylinder 18 is located in the illustration selected for FIG. 1 on the lower longitudinal side of the bottle inlet.
  • a screw conveyor 26 is arranged, which in the embodiment shown is formed by a cylindrical or roller-shaped body, the axis 5 of which lies in the horizontal direction and parallel to the conveying direction B of the conveyor belt 11.
  • the roller-shaped body of the screw conveyor 26 is rotatably supported about the axis S on the machine frame (not shown in more detail) and has in its jacket surface a groove 27 which extends in several turns around this jacket surface.
  • FIGS shows o 1, which slope increases the screw-like groove at the chosen for this figure view from the left to the right end of the feed screw 26 towards, whereby the left inwardly conveyed, and the groove 27 detected upright bottles 7, the first against each other abut or have a small distance from each other, are pulled apart by the rotating screw conveyor 26 or brought to the predetermined machine distance, so that there is a bottle 7 in the working area of the cylinder 18 when one or more labels for transfer to this cylinder the bottle 7 is ready, or a bottle 7 leaves the end of the screw conveyor 26 which extends directly to the star 6 when a pocket formed by recesses 8 is available at the transfer area between the conveyor belt 11 and the star 6.
  • the conveyor screw 26 extends with a part of its circumference into the movement path for the bottles 7 formed by the bottle inlet, the wall area of the groove 27 facing the star 6 in FIG. 1 each having a driving surface for the bottles 7 forms.
  • the screw conveyor 26 is driven by a gear 28, the output shaft of which is coupled to the shaft of the screw 26 and the input shaft of which is connected to the gear 25 via a chain or belt drive 29/30 31. As a result, the screw conveyor 26 inevitably rotates synchronously with the star 6.
  • a guide bar 32 held stationary on the machine frame on the side of the bottle inlet opposite the screw 26 ensures that the bottles 7 cannot come out of engagement with the groove 27.
  • FIG. 1 further shows, in the area of the star 6 at least two pressing or smoothing elements 33 and 34 for the labels 19 and 20, each formed by brushes in the illustrated embodiment, are fixed in place on the machine frame.
  • the elements 33 and 34 are located on different sides of the arcuate movement path of the bottles 7 carried by the star 6, ie the element 33 extends from the inside with its effective area (end of the bristles) into the movement path of the recesses B, while the element 34 extends from the outside to the vicinity of the peripheral surface of the star 6.
  • the elements 33 and 34 lie approximately radially one behind the other and are offset in the direction of rotation (arrow A) of the star 6 by approximately 90 ° with respect to the transfer area between the bottle inlet and the star 6. In the embodiment shown, this angle is approximately 85 ° .
  • Each bottle 7 thus provided with one or more labels 19 or 20 then passes into a pocket 8 of the star 6 and is finally moved past the elements 33 and 34. Since the guide surfaces 10 are formed from a low-friction material, and thus the bottles 7 in the pockets 8 do not rotate about their own longitudinal axis, the sides 33 of the labels 19 and 20, which are initially still missing, are applied to the bottle in question by the elements 33 and 34 7 pressed and smoothed.
  • the labeled bottles leave the star 6 in the region of the guide 15 and are conveyed to the right via the part of the conveyor belt 11 forming the bottle outlet.
  • the labeling machine described has the advantage of a relatively simple and inexpensive construction. It allows continuous work, i.e. the bottles 7 run continuously through the machine, in particular the star 6, the screw conveyor 26 and the elements of the labeling device 17 (e.g. cylinder 18) running continuously. This also results in a relatively high performance with a relatively simple design.
  • Another advantage, particularly in the embodiment described, is that a single continuous conveyor belt 11 can be used as a bottle inlet and bottle outlet.
  • the labels 19 and 20 are dispensed by the labeling device 17 or their cylinder 18 in the immediate vicinity of the bottle inlet into the star 6, so that the possibility of undesired rotation of the upright bottles about their vertical axis is largely avoided .
  • This arrangement of the labeling device is in principle also useful in other conceivable designs.

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DE19828218679 DE8218679U1 (de) 1982-06-30 1982-06-30 Etikettiermaschine fuer behaelter, vorzugsweise fuer flaschen
DE19823231346 DE3231346A1 (de) 1982-08-24 1982-08-24 Etikettiermaschine fuer behaelter, vorzugsweise fuer flaschen
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EP0238009B1 (fr) * 1986-03-18 1989-08-30 John Waddington PLC Dispositifs d'alimentation en articles
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EP0238009B1 (fr) * 1986-03-18 1989-08-30 John Waddington PLC Dispositifs d'alimentation en articles
CN108313670A (zh) * 2017-01-24 2018-07-24 宁波市第医院 一种体液试管的输送机构
CN107792450A (zh) * 2017-09-29 2018-03-13 南京创贝高速传动机械有限公司 一种轮胎外包贴标装置
CN107792450B (zh) * 2017-09-29 2019-10-18 南京创贝高速传动机械有限公司 一种轮胎外包贴标装置
CN113580540A (zh) * 2021-08-31 2021-11-02 河南腾越机械科技有限公司 一种瓶胚传送装置及瓶胚传送方法
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