EP0357906A1 - Installation pour alimenter en flancs une machine d'emballage - Google Patents

Installation pour alimenter en flancs une machine d'emballage Download PDF

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EP0357906A1
EP0357906A1 EP89112620A EP89112620A EP0357906A1 EP 0357906 A1 EP0357906 A1 EP 0357906A1 EP 89112620 A EP89112620 A EP 89112620A EP 89112620 A EP89112620 A EP 89112620A EP 0357906 A1 EP0357906 A1 EP 0357906A1
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Heinz Focke
Oskar Balmer
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H1/00—Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated
    • B65H1/28—Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated compartmented to receive piles side-by-side
    • 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
    • B65B43/00—Forming, feeding, opening or setting-up containers or receptacles in association with packaging
    • B65B43/12—Feeding flexible bags or carton blanks in flat or collapsed state; Feeding flat bags connected to form a series or chain
    • B65B43/126—Feeding carton blanks in flat or collapsed state
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H1/00—Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated
    • B65H1/30—Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated with means for replenishing the pile during continuous separation of articles therefrom

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  • the invention relates to a device for feeding stacks of blanks for the production of packs, in particular hinged boxes for cigarettes, to a packaging machine.
  • the packaging machine is usually equipped with a blank magazine of relatively low capacity. A certain supply of stacked blanks can be entered into this.
  • the subject of the invention is the transport from outside of the packaging system, in particular in a paper factory, of blanks produced and stacked to the packaging machine.
  • the invention has for its object to propose measures for an efficient transport of large amounts of stacked blanks from the manufacturing site to the processing plant, in particular up to the packaging machine, with relatively little manual use.
  • the device according to the invention is characterized by containers (cassettes) which are open at least on the upper side, for receiving a plurality of stacked blanks, which are held laterally by upright walls or wall parts of the container, in particular by webs.
  • the containers or cassettes are designed in such a way that a plurality of empty cassettes can be nested one inside the other, so that they can be transported as empty goods in a simple and space-saving manner.
  • the invention is based on the idea of packaging the blanks or blank stacks at the place of manufacture in reusable containers and transporting them to the place of use in these. After emptying, units from several nested cassettes (stacking blocks) are transported back to the cut production facility.
  • the cassettes can be packed machine and be emptied there. Alternatively, the cassettes can be transported in the area of the packaging machine and emptied directly in the area of the cutting magazine of the packaging machine.
  • the cassettes are constructed in such a way that they consist of a load-bearing base wall and a plurality of partition wall parts arranged thereon for the lateral delimitation of chambers, which each receive a stack of blanks.
  • the dividing wall parts are designed and arranged in such a way that, in conjunction with openings and additional openings in the bottom wall, they enable the plugging together of empty cassettes.
  • the cassettes nested or stacked one inside the other form a space-saving unit (stacking block) for the return transport to the manufacturing loading location.
  • the cassettes are also set up so that they can be stacked (filled with blank stacks) for transport, for example on pallets. They are also suitable for conveying within a packaging system using an overhead conveyor.
  • the centerpiece of a device for transporting blanks 20 are containers or cassettes 21, in which prefabricated, that is to say punched blanks 20 are stacked and received.
  • the present exemplary embodiment is concerned with the handling of blanks 20, as are used in the cigarette industry for the production of hinged boxes (hinge-lid packs).
  • Blanks 20 with a floor plan typical of the construction of such packs are shown in Fig. 3.
  • the cassettes 21 are reusable containers which circulate between the production site for the blanks 20, in particular a paper factory, and the processing site, in particular a cigarette factory.
  • the cassettes 21 are filled with cut stacks 22. Filled cassettes 21 are then suitably transported to the processing factory, e.g. in a stacked position on pallets or the like (Fig. 4).
  • the cassettes 21 are emptied by removing the blank stacks 22.
  • the empty cassettes 21 are then interleaved in a certain manner and returned to the paper factory in a space-saving manner as empties.
  • each cassette 21 consists of four chambers 23 for receiving a stack of blanks 22 each.
  • the elongated chambers 23 extend over the full width of the cassettes 21, which are rectangular in plan.
  • the chambers 23 are for loading and emptying the cassettes 21 open on two sides, namely at the top and on one long side of the cassette 21, the open side 24.
  • the load-bearing element of the cassette 21 is a stable bottom wall 25.
  • the blank stacks 22 lie on this.
  • upright partition elements are arranged on the top of the bottom wall 25.
  • the chambers 23 are delimited by upright webs which are firmly connected to the bottom wall 25.
  • separating webs 26 Between adjacent chambers 23 there are two separating webs 26 of the same size lying in one plane, and an edge web 27 arranged on the edge of the bottom wall 25 and extending in the same plane in the present case, a smaller cross-section, namely a smaller dimension in the direction parallel to the blank stacks 22, than the separating webs 26.
  • the edge web 27 is located on the side (closing side 28) of the cassette 21 that is closed for holding the blank stack 22 .
  • the webs 26, 27, 29, 30 described above are aligned on the one hand in the planes parallel to the chambers 23. In addition, however, the webs are also aligned in rows in the transverse direction to the chambers 23, that is to say in the longitudinal direction of the cassette 21.
  • edge webs 27 and the corner webs 30 on the closing side 28 of the cassette 21 are provided with support members for abutment of the blank stack 22.
  • upright support strips 31 are arranged laterally on the edge webs 27 and on one side of the corner web 30, on which edge regions of the blanks 20 fit in a form-fitting manner.
  • the special, approximately trapezoidal cross-sectional shape of the support strips 31 results from the shape of the blanks 20, which is characteristic of hinged boxes. These are formed in the area of a front wall of the hinged box and in the area of adjacent side tabs to form side walls of the hinged box with jagged projections 32.
  • the cassettes 21 filled with blank stacks 22 are arranged to be stacked, e.g. on pallets.
  • mutual interlocking of the cassettes 21 arranged one above the other is provided.
  • the side webs 29 and the corner webs 30 are provided on the top and bottom with projections for positive engagement.
  • conical centering pins 35 are arranged on the upper side of the above-mentioned webs 29, 30, which, when stacked (FIG. 4), enter into corresponding conical recesses 36 on the underside of the same, corresponding webs 29, 30 in a form-fitting manner.
  • the aforementioned organs have a self-centering effect when the cassettes 21 are stacked.
  • openings 37 and additional openings 38 are arranged in the bottom wall 25. These are adapted in size and shape to the separating webs 26 so that they can be inserted alternately through the openings 37 or additional openings 38 for the purpose of nesting cassettes 21.
  • the openings 37 and 38 are arranged aligned in longitudinal and transverse rows, respectively.
  • recesses 39 which are open to the side are arranged between adjacent edge webs 27 or corner webs 30. The dimensions of these correspond to the cross-sectional dimensions of the side webs 29.
  • the number of openings 37 and that of the additional openings 38 corresponds in each case to the number of separating webs 26 of a cassette 21.
  • the dividing webs 26 of two cassettes 21 can thereby be passed completely or partially through the bottom wall 25 of a third one.
  • the arrangement is such that openings 37 are each arranged in the same plane as the separating webs 26 used to delimit a chamber 23.
  • the distance between two adjacent separating webs 26 is filled here by an opening 37.
  • the additional openings 38 are arranged centrally between two adjacent openings 37, that is to say centrally within a chamber 23, and — as seen in the longitudinal direction of the cassette 21 — are aligned with the openings 37. In this way, two rows of openings 37 and additional openings 38, as well as recesses 39 at the edges, run in the longitudinal direction of the cassette 21.
  • Two cassettes 21a, 21b designed in this sense are nested in one another in the transverse direction, in such a way that the separating webs 26 of one cassette 21a are guided through the openings 37 of the second cassette 21b from below or from the underside of the bottom wall 25.
  • the side webs 29 of the cassette 21a enter the recesses 39 of the cassette 21b.
  • the separating webs 26 and the side webs 29 of the two cassettes 21a, 21b are accordingly aligned in transverse planes, but offset from one another in such a way that the edge webs 27 and corner webs 30 of the two cassettes 21a, 21b are adjacent to the bottom wall 25 of the other cassette 21a, 21b extend (Fig. 9).
  • the two cassettes 21a, 21b are joined together offset by 180 °.
  • a pair of cassettes 21a, 21b plugged together in the above manner forms a stacking unit 40, which already enables space-saving storage of the cassettes 21a, 21b.
  • two stacking units 40, 41 with bottom walls 25 lying apart from one another are inserted into one another.
  • the stacking units 40, 41 are offset from one another in the longitudinal direction by half the width of a chamber 23.
  • the separating webs 26 and side webs 29 of the stacking units 40, 41 are mutually assigned to the additional openings 38 of the facing bottom wall 25 of the other stacking unit 40, 41.
  • the relevant separating webs 26 or side webs 29 enter the additional openings 38 (FIGS. 10 and 11).
  • the total of four cassettes 21 can be handled as a unit, namely as a stacking block 42, and can be stored with little space requirement.
  • the stacking blocks 42 and stacking units 40, 41 are taken apart again in the opposite direction of movement.
  • the separating webs 26, edge webs 27 and side webs 29 and corner webs 30 are extended to the underside of the bottom wall 25.
  • the bottom wall 25 is provided with chamfered, head-like projections 43 corresponding to the aforementioned webs 26, 27, 29, 30.
  • the projections 43 on the underside of the bottom wall 25 rest on stacked, filled cassettes 21 on the upper ends of the webs 26, 27.
  • stacking nested empty cassettes 21, namely stacking blocks 42 FIG. 10
  • the projections 43 occur centering in openings 38 adjacent cassettes 21.
  • the cassettes 21 expediently consist of one lumpy, preferably cast workpiece, in particular made of plastic.
  • depressions are formed in the underside of the bottom wall 25, specifically on the one hand center depressions 44 extending in the longitudinal center plane, and on the other hand on one edge, namely on the edge facing the closing side 28, molded depressions 45.
  • the former depressions 44 extend each over the width of a chamber 23, with projections 43 arranged between adjacent center depressions 44 serving as a stop for positioning the cassette 21, in particular during unloading.
  • the holding depressions 45 are important for the (automatic) transport of the cassettes 21.
  • the (filled) cassettes 21 are expediently introduced into the circuit of an overhead conveyor, in particular with the features of DE patent application P 38 20 735.4.
  • the overhead conveyor is equipped with roller carriages 46 which can be moved along a running rail 47 above the production and packaging machines.
  • material holders 48 which are designed such that they can alternatively transport bobbins made of sheet-like packaging material or cassettes 21.
  • the material holders 48 are equipped with rigid, downwardly diverging support arms 49. At the lower ends of the same crosswise, that is protruding from one side support bars 50 are attached.
  • the objects to be transported, namely bobbins or cassettes 21, rest on these.
  • an upwardly directed nose 51 attached to the free end of the carrying bars 50 enters the holding ver depression 45 of the cassette 21. This is secured against displacements on the support bars 50 during transport.
  • the filled cassettes 21 are taken over by the first roller conveyor 46 from the roller carriage 46 of the above-ground conveyor and conveyed downwards.
  • the cassette 21 is placed on a machine conveyor 54 by the vertical conveyor 53. This is arranged on the back of the packaging machine 52 in the longitudinal direction.
  • the stack of blanks 22 are successively removed from the cassette 21 by an upward movement, specifically by a stack lifter 56. This detects a stack of blanks 22, conveys it upwards and guides the stack of blanks 22 to a machine-side blank. Magazine (not shown).
  • the empty cassettes 21 are transported on the machine conveyor 54 to a second vertical conveyor 57. This takes over the empty cassettes 21 and transfers them to a roller carriage 46 or to a material holder 48 of the same.

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BR8904115A (pt) 1990-04-10
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