EP1118540B1 - Machine d'emballage avec une table élévatrice pour des outils - Google Patents

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EP1118540B1
EP1118540B1 EP00126947A EP00126947A EP1118540B1 EP 1118540 B1 EP1118540 B1 EP 1118540B1 EP 00126947 A EP00126947 A EP 00126947A EP 00126947 A EP00126947 A EP 00126947A EP 1118540 B1 EP1118540 B1 EP 1118540B1
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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
    • B65B65/00—Details peculiar to packaging machines and not otherwise provided for; Arrangements of such details
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  • EP 0 569 937 B1 discloses a packaging machine with a Workstation having a lifting device, in which the lower tool by a Knee lever system and a piston-cylinder device raised or lowered becomes.
  • this lifting device requires a lot of space, so that the length of the Packaging machine is unnecessarily increased.
  • the Lifting mechanism comparatively slow and expensive, because e.g. two toggle levers needed to avoid tilting of the plate on the guide rods.
  • a workstation according to the invention is e.g. a thermoforming, a sealing and a a cutting station.
  • the rod is in the middle of the plate arranged. This embodiment has the advantage that the plate never canted.
  • crankshaft is in two yokes rotatably mounted.
  • the yokes in turn are with the frame of the Packaging machine connected.
  • the yokes are transverse to Direction of movement of the film arranged to the length of the respective workstation especially short.
  • the bearing of the crankshaft to two yokes has the advantage that the very high Forces when lifting and pressing the plate with the lower tool against The top tool can be introduced very well in the vertical guidance can, without the crankshaft bends and / or tilted.
  • the vertical guidance of the plate is at least one rod, more preferably two rods and most preferably four rods.
  • the plate in turn has at least one preferably two guide bushes, who pick up the rods.
  • the yokes are preferably at the bottom End of the rods preferably mounted vertically displaceable, each one Yoke is held by two poles.
  • This embodiment of the Packaging machine according to the invention has the advantage that the respective Workstation represents a unit and overall in the packaging machine moved or dismantled.
  • a spring element preferably one, is provided on each rod Elastomer spring mounted on which rest the vertically displaceable yokes.
  • This embodiment of the packaging machine according to the invention has the advantage that films with different thickness or with a relatively large tolerances can be processed in thickness without changes to the Adjustment of the stroke must be made. An enlargement of the Film thickness then results in a minimal increase in force.
  • the crankshaft is driven by an electric motor, preferably a servomotor preferably computer controlled, driven.
  • the electric motor has preferably has a transmission, wherein the power transmission between Electric motor or transmission and crankshaft preferably by a toothed belt he follows.
  • the electric motor or the transmission preferably has such a high Torque and such a high rotational speed that the plate with the Lower tool within less than a second, preferably within less than half a second from the bottom to the top position and is raised or lowered vice versa.
  • the electric motor or the transmission preferably has on the output side a holding torque of> 50 Nm particularly preferably> 100 Nm to the forces that e.g. When sealing or cutting occur when the rod, the plate with the Crankshaft does not connect Seconds is able to record.
  • the crankshaft is alternately rotated clockwise and counterclockwise. These Arrangement has surprisingly been found to be very space efficient.
  • the angle of rotation is a maximum of 180 °.
  • the Kubelwelle leads However, a rotation angle of just enough so that the tool the Packaging tray not damaged during further transport. Especially preferred the tool is lowered so far that its upper edge lowered in the Condition is a maximum of 1-10 mm below the packaging tray. Through this Lowering the cycle time of the packaging machine according to the invention be shortened decisively.
  • the packaging machine according to the invention has the advantage that the vertical Movement of the lower tool performed in less than a second becomes.
  • the lift table is easy to make and maintain. Due to the fact that the rod is in the middle of the plate attacks is tilting the plate on the guide locked out.
  • Packaging machine has this means of avoidance Product crushing between upper and lower tool.
  • FIG. 1 shows the packaging machine according to the invention in a schematic representation.
  • a film 1 is unrolled from a roll and first passes through a thermoforming station 2, which consists of an upper tool 3 and a lower tool 4.
  • the lower tool 4 is mounted on a plate 5, which, as indicated by the arrow, can be raised and lowered.
  • the film 1 is deformed into a packaging tray 6.
  • the sealing station 10 consists of an upper tool 12 and a Lower tool 11, wherein also in the sealing station, the lower tool 11th can be raised and lowered.
  • the cutting station also consists of an upper tool 8 and a lower tool 9, wherein also at the cutting station, the lower tool 9th can be raised and lowered.
  • FIGs 2 and 3 The lifting table, with which the lower tools 4, 9, 11 lowered and raised, is shown in Figures 2 and 3 , each allowing a different view of the lifting table.
  • Figure 2 shows the lift table in the lowered state, while in Figure 3, the lift table is raised.
  • the lifting table has a plate 13 on which the lower tool 4, 9, 11 is mounted.
  • the plate is provided with two guide bushings 14, the guide rods 15th take up.
  • the plate 13 On its lower side, the plate 13 has a bearing 16 in which the upper end 18 of the rod 17 is pivotally mounted about an axis.
  • the rod 17 is rotatably connected at its lower end 19 to the crankshaft 20, which in turn is rotatably mounted in the yokes 21, 22.
  • the yokes 21, 22 are vertically displaceable mounted on the rods 15 and lie on the elastomeric spring 26.
  • the lower tool and its hub can be used as a unit in be moved or dismantled the packaging machine.
  • the crankshaft 20 is driven by the toothed belt 23 by the electric motor 24.
  • the engine is like that switched that he the crankshaft crank in the change from the highest to the rotates lowest point and vice versa, whereby the rotation alternately against and in the Clockwise takes place.
  • the distance 25 is dimensioned such that it at least the half depth of the deepest processable on the respective packaging machine Packaging recess corresponds.
  • the electric motor 24 has a transmission. Of the Electric motor or the transmission is dimensioned so that a rotation of the crankshaft in less than a second.
  • the electric motor 24 has a holding torque of> 10 Nm, so that the gearbox has a holding torque of> 100 Nm on the output side, so that the be absorbed in the respective machining process forces can, especially if the rod 17 is not absolutely vertical.

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  1. Machine de conditionnement comportant au moins un poste de travail (2,7,10), qui présente un outil supérieur et/ou un outil inférieur (3,8,12), moyennant quoi les outils inférieurs (4,9,11) sont déplaçables verticalement sur des tables élévatrices et la table élévatrice présente :
    une plaque (13) coulissable verticalement, sur laquelle l'outil inférieur (4,9,11) est monté
    au moins un dispositif de guidage vertical (15) de la plaque (13),
    un vilebrequin (20),
    une barre (17), qui est reliée par une extrémité (18) à la plaque (13) autour d'au moins un axe et est reliée de manière rotative par l'autre extrémité (19) au vilebrequin (20) et
    un entraínement rotatif sous la forme d'un moteur électrique, qui entraíne le vilebrequin,
    caractérisée en ce que le moteur électrique est rotatif dans deux sens et le vilebrequin est mis en rotation de 180° au maximum en alternance dans le sens horaire et anti-horaire.
  2. Machine de conditionnement selon la revendication 1, caractérisée en ce que la barre (17) est montée au milieu de la plaque (13).
  3. Machine de conditionnement selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisée en ce que le vilebrequin est positionné à droite et à gauche dans une chape respective (21,22).
  4. Machine de conditionnement selon une des revendications 1 à 3, caractérisée en ce que le dispositif de guidage vertical (15) est constitué d'une barre, de préférence deux barres et de manière encore préférée quatre barres.
  5. Machine de conditionnement selon la revendication 4, caractérisée en ce que une chape (21,22) est respectivement positionnée de manière à coulisser verticalement sur deux barres (15).
  6. Machine de conditionnement selon la revendication 5, caractérisée en ce que chaque chape repose respectivement sur deux éléments de ressort (26).
  7. Machine de conditionnement selon la revendication 6, caractérisée en ce que un élément de ressort (26) respectif est monté sur une barre (15) respective.
  8. Machine de conditionnement selon une des revendications 6 ou 7, caractérisée en ce que les éléments de ressort (26) sont des ressorts en élastomère.
  9. Machine de conditionnement selon une des revendications 1 à 8, caractérisée en ce que le moteur électrique est un servomoteur.
  10. Machine de conditionnement selon la revendication 9, caractérisée en ce que le moteur présente un couple de retenue supérieur à 10 Nm.
  11. Machine de conditionnement selon la revendication 10, caractérisée en ce que l'angle de rotation du vilebrequin est réglé de telle sorte que l'outil (4,9,11) est uniquement abaissé jusqu'à un certain point, de telle sorte que les barquettes de conditionnement ne soient pas endommagées pendant le reste de leur transport.
  12. Machine de conditionnement selon la revendication 12, caractérisée en ce que l'arête supérieure de l'outil (4,9,11) est abaissée lors de la descente uniquement de 1 à 10 mm sous l'arête inférieure de la barquette de conditionnement.
  13. Machine de conditionnement selon une des revendications 1 à 12, caractérisée en ce que le temps de levage correspond au maximum à 1 seconde, de préférence à 0,5 seconde au maximum.
  14. Machine de conditionnement selon une des revendications 1 à 13, caractérisée en ce que la distance (25) correspond au moins à la moitié de la profondeur de la barquette de conditionnement (6).
  15. Machine de conditionnement selon une des revendications 1 à 13, caractérisée en ce qu'elle présente un moyen permettant d'éviter que le produit ne soit écrasé entre l'outil supérieur et l'outil inférieur.
  16. Machine de conditionnement selon la revendication 15, caractérisée en ce que le moyen est une limitation de la consommation électrique permissible lors du mouvement vers le haut de l'outil inférieur.
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