EP0150944B1 - Dispositif applicateur pour appliquer des cartons porteurs à des articles groupés - Google Patents

Dispositif applicateur pour appliquer des cartons porteurs à des articles groupés Download PDF

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EP0150944B1
EP0150944B1 EP19850300222 EP85300222A EP0150944B1 EP 0150944 B1 EP0150944 B1 EP 0150944B1 EP 19850300222 EP19850300222 EP 19850300222 EP 85300222 A EP85300222 A EP 85300222A EP 0150944 B1 EP0150944 B1 EP 0150944B1
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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
    • B65B17/00—Other machines, apparatus, or methods for packaging articles or materials
    • B65B17/02—Joining articles, e.g. cans, directly to each other for convenience of storage, transport, or handling
    • B65B17/025—Joining articles, e.g. cans, directly to each other for convenience of storage, transport, or handling the articles being joined by a top carrier element

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  • This invention relates to an applicator device for simultaneously applying a plurality of so- called top-gripping type of carriers onto a number of articles arranged in a group.
  • the invention is particularly suitable for applying top gripping carriers to bottles which are accommodated in a crate so that several multi-bottle packages are formed whereafter individual packages may be grasped and removed from the crate.
  • the applicator device which comprises a reciprocal head is, but need not be, adapted to receive known top gripping carriers.
  • a known applicator for applying a top gripping type of paperboard carrier onto grouped bottles is disclosed in GB-A-1 427 510 in which arresting means are provided for engagement with a carrier within a locating zone of the applicator.
  • the arresting means automatically engage and hold the carrier during application of the carrier on the bottles to be secured together and then automatically release the carrier.
  • the present invention utilises natural resilience of the paperboard carrier, which tends to return the carrier to its non-erected condition, to hold the carrier against an arresting lip in the applicator from which it is released during loading by being displaced by the bottle necks introduced into the carrier.
  • the invention provides an applicator device for applying at least one paperboard article carrier to a group of articles such as bottles which device comprises a base plate formed to provide a locating zone for each article carrier, each locating zone being adapted to receive an erected article carrier having apertured top and bottom walls interconnected by spaced side walls to form a generally tubular structure, said base plate having a plurality of spaced apertures formed in each of said locating zones for registry with like spaced apertures formed in the top and base walls of said carrier and arresting means carried by said base plate in each of said locating zones for engagement with the carrier adjacent one of the carrier side walls (known from GB-A-1427510), characterised in that a side wall of each locating zone of the applicator has a downwardly and outwardly inclined face which terminates remote from said base plate in an inwardly directed lip providing said arresting means so that the natural resilience of said carrier, which tends to return the carrier into its non-erected condition, cause the base wall of the carrier to be arrested by the arresting lip and the loading action
  • the applicator head 10 comprises a base plate 12 from one surface 12a of which a series of spaced transverse walls depend.
  • the series of walls include a first end wall 14 which has its outermost face flush with one end of the base plate 12; a first immediate wall 16 spaced from end wall 14; a second intermediate wall 18 spaced from intermediate wall 16; and a second end wall 20 spaced from intermediate wall 18 and which has its outermost face flush with the opposite end of the base plate.
  • a longitudinal rib 22 extends centrally along surface 12a of the base plate and divides each of the transverse walls into two similar sections.
  • the transverse walls and the longitudinal rib together define a number of carrier locating zones Z1-Z6. Thus, each locating zone is defined by a neighbouring pair of transverse walls and the longitudinal rib.
  • the base plate is formed with four circular bottle-neck receiving apertures, e.g. apertures a,-a4 in zone Z 3 , the spacing of which is chosen so as to be in registry with aligned bottle-neck receiving apertures formed in the top and base walls of a suitably sized carton when positioned for loading in that locating zone.
  • the carton 'c' shown schematically in end view in locating zone Z, in FIGURE 2 comprises substantially parallel top and bottom walls 24, 26 respectively, interconnected by spaced side walls 28, 30 respectively, and central upstanding partition panel 32, thereby forming a generally tubular structure.
  • Top wall 24 and bottom wall 26 are each formed with four bottle neck receiving apertures 'A' located in registry.
  • the first transverse end wall 14 has a downwardly and outwardly inclined inner face 34 which terminates remote from surface 12a of base plate 12 in an inwardly directed arresting lip 34a.
  • the inner face 34 also is formed with arcuate downwardly divergent recesses 36, 38 respectively, spaced for alignment with neighbouring bottle neck receiving apertures formed in the bottom panel of an adjacent bottle carrier.
  • the arcuate recesses each provide clearance for receiving a portion of the periphery of a bottle neck when the bottle neck is inserted into an article carrier located in the locating zone.
  • end wall 14 provides one transverse end of locating zones Z, and Z 4 the opposite end of which is provided by face 40 of the first intermediate wall 16.
  • Face 40 also is formed with arcuate recesses 42 and 44, respectively, which are similar to recesses 36 and 38 but which are spaced for alignment with the opposite bottle neck receiving apertures of the same adjacent bottle carrier 'C'.
  • the opposite face 46 of the first intermediate wall 16 is of similar construction and includes arcuate recesses 48 and 50. However, face 46 terminates remote from surface 12a of base plate 12 in an arresting lip 46a for locating zones Z 2 and Z s .
  • the second intermediate wall 18 is of similar construction to intermediate wall 16 described above and therefore provides an arresting lip for locating zones Z 3 and 26.
  • the second transverse end wall 20 also includes a downwardly and outwardly inclined inner face 52 but does not carry an arresting lip.
  • Arcuate bottle neck clearance recesses 54, 56 are formed in the inner face 52 similar to those described in relation to end wall 14.
  • the applicator head is mounted for vertical reciprocal movement in a carton applicator machine which is adapted to receive a loaded crate of bottles beneath applicator head when in its raised position.
  • flat carriers are withdrawn from a hopper, erected and correctly loaded into the locating zones of the applicator head by suitable loading means.
  • Each locating zone e.g. Zone Z, (see FIGURE 2) receives an erected carrier'c' such that the natural resilience of the paperboard carrier which tends to return the carrier into its flat (non-erected) condition causes the base wall 26 of the carrier (adjacent side wall 30) to be held arrested under the arresting lip 34a.
  • Bottle carriers located in the other locating zones are similarly held in position and when the applicator head is fully loaded in which one bottle carrier is present in each locating zone, the applicator head is ready to execute an applicator stroke in relation to a crate of bottles therebelow. Thus, the applicator head is then moved downwards so that the bottle necks of bottles 'B' are received in the bottle neck receiving apertures of the carriers and the caps of the bottles pass into base plate apertures 'A'.

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1. Dispositif applicateur (10) pour poser au moins un porte-objets en carton (c) sur un groupe d'objets, tels que des bouteilles "B", lequel dispositif comporte une plaque de base (12) formée pour constituer une zone de positionnement (Z) pour chaque porte-objets, chaque zone de positionnement étant adaptée pour recevoir un porte-objets dressé ayant des parois supérieure et inférieure perforées reliées entre elles par des parois latérales espacées pour constituer une structure de forme généraletubulaire, cette plaque de base (12) présentant une multiplicité d'ouvertures espacées (a) formées dans chacune des zones de positionnement (Z) pour correspondre à des ouvertures espacées analogues (A) formées dans les parois supérieure et de base du porte-objets et des moyens d'arrêt (34a) portés par cette plaque de base (12) dans chacune des zones de positionnement (Z) pour coopérer avec le porte-objets, adjacents à l'une des parois latérales du porte-objets, caractérisé en ce qu'une paroi transversale (14, 16, 18) de chaque zone de positionnement (Z) de l'applicateur a une face (34) inclinée vers le bas et vers l'extérieur, qui se termine à une certaine distance de la plaque de base (12) sous la forme d'une lèvre dirigée vers l'intérieur (34a) constituant lesdits moyens d'arrêt de façon que l'elasticité naturelle du porte-objets, qui tend à ramener ce dernier dans son état non dressé, fait que la paroi de base (26) du porte-objets est arrêtée par la lèvre d'arrêt (34a) et que le chargement des objets (B) dans le porte-objets déplace celui-ci longitudinalement par rapport à l'applicateur pour l'amener dans une position plus verticale, libérant ainsi le porte-objets de la lèvre d'arrêt.
2. Dispositif applicateur selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en outre en ce que plaque de base comporte une multiplicité de parois transversales espacées (14, 16, 18, 20) partant vers le bas d'une surface (12a) de la plaque et définissant en partie ces zones de positionnement et en ce que la lèvre d'arrêt est formée sur un bord libre de certaines de ces parois à une certaine distance de ladite surface de telle sorte que chaque lèvre interfère avec l'espace définissant une zone de positionnement.
3. Dispositif applicateur selon la revendication 2, . caractérisé en outre en ce que parois transversales une extrémité de la plaque de base, une première paroi intermédiaire (16) espacée de cette paroi terminale, une deuxième paroi intermédiaire (18) espacée de la première paroi intermédiaire, et une deuxième paroi terminale (20) à l'extrémité opposée de la plaque de base et espacée de la deuxième paroi intermédiaire, la première paroi terminale et la première et la deuxième paroi intermédiaire ayant chacune une lèvre d'arrêt s'étendant dans une direction faisant face à la deuxième paroi terminale.
4. Dispositif applicateur selon la revendication 3, caractérisé en outre en ce qu'une nervure longitudinale (22) s'étend depuis la première extrémité de la plaque de base vers l'extrémité opposée de celle-ci et divise chacune des parois transversales en deux parties similaires, chacune des zones de positionnement étant constituée par l'espace compris entre une paire opposée de parties de parois transversales et une portion de cette nervure longitudinale.
5. Dispositif applicateur selon la revendication 4, caractérisé en outre en ce que la surface latérale de chaque partie de parois transversales constituant une frontière d'une zone de positionnement comporte un évidement (36, 38) aligné avec chaque ouverture (a) de réception de goulots de bouteilles formée dans la plaque dans cette zone de positionnement, cet évidement divergeant vers la surface (12a) de la plaque de base et procurant un passage pour recevoir une portion de la périphérie d'un goulot de bouteilles lorsque celui-ci est introduit dans un porte-objets disposé dans la zone de positionnement.
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