EP0773162A1 - Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Zuführen und Einwickeln von Schokoladenprodukten - Google Patents

Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Zuführen und Einwickeln von Schokoladenprodukten Download PDF

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EP0773162A1
EP0773162A1 EP96117472A EP96117472A EP0773162A1 EP 0773162 A1 EP0773162 A1 EP 0773162A1 EP 96117472 A EP96117472 A EP 96117472A EP 96117472 A EP96117472 A EP 96117472A EP 0773162 A1 EP0773162 A1 EP 0773162A1
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chocolate
wrapper
base
folder
chocolates
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Luca Beccari
Marco Giovanni Carle
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Carle and Montanari SpA
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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
    • B65B35/00—Supplying, feeding, arranging or orientating articles to be packaged
    • B65B35/56—Orientating, i.e. changing the attitude of, articles, e.g. of non-uniform cross-section
    • 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
    • B65B11/02—Wrapping articles or quantities of material, without changing their position during the wrapping operation, e.g. in moulds with hinged folders

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  • the invention relates to a method and corresponding apparatus for feeding and wrapping domed chocolates (such as chocolate-coated cherry) or other products that require the wrapper to be closed by folding the edges over each other at one end and by screwing the other end into a twist.
  • domed chocolates such as chocolate-coated cherry
  • the present method and apparatus differ from known systems by a more delicate treatment of the product, which is laid horizontally as early as the point where they are fed to the disc in which they are transferred to the wrapping station, as well as by a greater simplicity of execution and, more generally, a greater technological reliability.
  • Figures 1 to 4 show that the chocolates 1 are fed in single file on a conveyor belt 2 whose top side passes along an initial straight horizontal guide 13, an intermediate curved descending guide 113 and a final straight descending guide 213, which has a slope of approximately 60°.
  • the conveyor can be adjusted by means of the extendable telescopic construction of the end part 13' with which the guide 13 is connected to the guide 113 (Figs. 2 and 3). Between the guides 13, 113 and 213 are idle joining rollers 3.
  • the bottom side of the conveyor 2 is fed around a pair of idle rollers 103, one of which acts as a take-up device, and around a drive roller 203.
  • the chocolates 1 stand base down on the top side of the conveyor 2, advance in the direction of the arrow F and are controlled, laterally by guides 4 whose distance from each other can be adjusted, and from above by a middle guide 5 divided into two sections at the point where the conveyor descends.
  • the horizontal section of the guide 5 is mounted on arms 6 connected pivotably to adjustable supports 7 (Fig. 4) to allow for adaptation to the shape of the product and in such a way that this guide can be removed quickly if some unusual action should be required on the flow of the products for wrapping.
  • the descending section of the guide 5 is however connected to a support 8 via an adjustment device 9, and downstream of this guide is an idle wheel 10 that accompanies the chocolates in the final stage as they leave the feed conveyor.
  • the wheel 10 is mounted on the end of a lever 38 which pivots at 39 on a projection integral with the support 8, this lever being urged by a spring 40 towards the conveyor 2 and fitted with an adjusting screw 41 to enable the interference of said wheel with the chocolates to be adjusted.
  • a nozzle 11 connected to a pipe supplying compressed air which in response to a signal emits a blast of air perpendicularly at the conveyor 2 (see later).
  • a transverse bolt 12 which arrests the flow of chocolates with its rounded end, is movable on the guide 14 and is controlled by a rectilinear actuator 15 supported by a support 16 mounted on the frame of said conveyor.
  • the conveyor 2 is arranged tangentially to the ring of through seats 17 of the disc 18 whose axis is vertical.
  • This disc rotates in the direction of the arrow 19 and with each step brings one of said seats underneath the end of the above-mentioned conveyor 2, to receive from the latter one chocolate and then transfer it to the wrapping station.
  • the chocolates are conveyed in single file, initially in a vertical arrangement and then increasingly tilted.
  • the bolt 12 is retracted and the chocolate drops into the seat 17 where it lies and remains on its side owing to the special shaping of this seat for this purpose.
  • the optional nozzle 11 is activated and emits a blast of compressed air to slow the descent of the chocolates sufficiently to allow the bolt 12 to retract first and then return to the active position without interfering dangerously with the chocolates.
  • the nozzle 11 stops emitting the blast of compressed air and the disc 18 turns one step to bring a new empty seat 17 under the end of the conveyor 2 for the repeat of the cycle described above.
  • the disc 18 positions the chocolates 1 one by one in the wrapping station where known means place the wrapping material 20 over the chocolate.
  • the chocolate is located between a lifter 21 and a complementary lifter 22, these also being of known type, which at the appropriate moment grip the chocolate with its overlaid wrapper and raise them together on a vertical course to be acted on by a fixed compound folder 23 that comprises:
  • FIG. 12 shows that at the end of its rise (Fig. 12), the chocolate with its wrapper is gripped laterally by the opposing jaws of one of the pincers 30 of the known hub, which is designed to index round on a horizontal axis 130 (Fig. 15), after which the lifter 21 and complementary lifter 22 release the chocolate and return to their starting positions to repeat the work cycle.
  • Figure 12 also shows that as the process continues, a pivoting or translationally movable folder 31 connected to means (not shown) which in response to a signal insert this folder under the wall 29, comes into operation to fold a middle part of the abovementioned portions 320, 420, 520 up underneath the chocolate, as shown in Figures 13 and 14.
  • a side folder 33 mounted for example with the ability to pivot about the same axis 130 of rotation as the pincers 30 and connected to means which in response to a signal insert it underneath the chocolate in order to fold the lateral portion 220 of the wrapper up underneath it (see Fig. 15).
  • the folder 33 positions itself in part also underneath the folder 31 and is provided with a finger 133 which is inserted above this folder against the wrapper portions 320, 420, 520 folded over the base of the chocolate (Figs. 13, 14 and 15) so that when the folder 31 is later withdrawn and returned to the rest position, said wrapper portions remain correctly arranged on the chocolate.
  • the vertical wall 29, as shown in Figure 13, contains a lower recess 32 so as not to interfere with said finger 133 of the folder 33.
  • the pincer holding the chocolate with its wrapper executes a clockwise rotation of precise amplitude and causes the other lateral portion 120 of the wrapper to be acted on by a known fixed arcuate folder 34, which folds this portion up underneath the chocolate.
  • the wrapper encloses the chocolate with a tubular shape which is closed on the base of the chocolate.
  • the chocolate and its wrapper arrive at a station where the pincer 30 pauses, and a gripper 35 of known type grasps the wrapper by its open end in its concave and convex prehensile parts and performs a rotation as shown by the arrow 36 and a simultaneous axial movement 37 towards the chocolate, thereby also closing the other end of the wrapper into a twist 620.
  • the gripper 35 then returns to its rest position, after which the pincer 30 rotates, opens and discharges the wrapped product onto collecting and dispatching means (not illustrated because known).

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EP96117472A 1995-11-10 1996-10-31 Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Zuführen und Einwickeln von Schokoladenprodukten Withdrawn EP0773162A1 (de)

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IT95BO000529A IT1279680B1 (it) 1995-11-10 1995-11-10 Procedimento ed apparato per l'alimentazione e l'incarto di boeri od altri prodotti che comportano analoghe esigenze.

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US7305804B2 (en) * 2003-09-25 2007-12-11 Sacmi Packaging S.P.A. Outlet device for chocolates and the like

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NL7907698A (nl) * 1978-10-20 1980-04-22 Carle & Montanari Spa Automatische bewerkingsinrichting.
GB2224709A (en) * 1988-11-09 1990-05-16 Fmc Corp Article feeder.

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NL7907698A (nl) * 1978-10-20 1980-04-22 Carle & Montanari Spa Automatische bewerkingsinrichting.
GB2224709A (en) * 1988-11-09 1990-05-16 Fmc Corp Article feeder.

Cited By (1)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US7305804B2 (en) * 2003-09-25 2007-12-11 Sacmi Packaging S.P.A. Outlet device for chocolates and the like

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