EP4330029A1 - Dispositif et procédé de production de sacs à partir de pièces tubulaires - Google Patents

Dispositif et procédé de production de sacs à partir de pièces tubulaires

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EP4330029A1
EP4330029A1 EP22710477.5A EP22710477A EP4330029A1 EP 4330029 A1 EP4330029 A1 EP 4330029A1 EP 22710477 A EP22710477 A EP 22710477A EP 4330029 A1 EP4330029 A1 EP 4330029A1
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transport
tube
distance
width
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Herbert Fürst
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Starlinger and Co GmbH
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B31—MAKING ARTICLES OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER; WORKING PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31B—MAKING CONTAINERS OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31B70/00—Making flexible containers, e.g. envelopes or bags
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B31—MAKING ARTICLES OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER; WORKING PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31B—MAKING CONTAINERS OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31B70/00—Making flexible containers, e.g. envelopes or bags
    • B31B70/02—Feeding or positioning sheets, blanks or webs
    • B31B70/022—Holders for feeding or positioning sheets or webs
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B31—MAKING ARTICLES OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER; WORKING PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31B—MAKING CONTAINERS OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31B70/00—Making flexible containers, e.g. envelopes or bags
    • B31B70/006—Controlling; Regulating; Measuring; Safety measures
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B31—MAKING ARTICLES OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER; WORKING PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31B—MAKING CONTAINERS OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31B70/00—Making flexible containers, e.g. envelopes or bags
    • B31B70/02—Feeding or positioning sheets, blanks or webs
    • B31B70/04—Feeding sheets or blanks
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B31—MAKING ARTICLES OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER; WORKING PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31B—MAKING CONTAINERS OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31B2150/00—Flexible containers made from sheets or blanks, e.g. from flattened tubes
    • B31B2150/001—Flexible containers made from sheets or blanks, e.g. from flattened tubes with square or cross bottom
    • B31B2150/0014—Flexible containers made from sheets or blanks, e.g. from flattened tubes with square or cross bottom having their openings facing transversally to the direction of movement
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B31—MAKING ARTICLES OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER; WORKING PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31B—MAKING CONTAINERS OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31B2150/00—Flexible containers made from sheets or blanks, e.g. from flattened tubes
    • B31B2150/003—Flexible containers made from sheets or blanks, e.g. from flattened tubes made from tubular sheets
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B31—MAKING ARTICLES OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER; WORKING PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31B—MAKING CONTAINERS OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31B2160/00—Shape of flexible containers
    • B31B2160/20—Shape of flexible containers with structural provision for thickness of contents
    • 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
    • B65B41/00—Supplying or feeding container-forming sheets or wrapping material
    • B65B41/02—Feeding sheets or wrapper blanks
    • B65B41/04—Feeding sheets or wrapper blanks by grippers

Definitions

  • the invention relates to a device and a method for producing cross-bottom bags from pieces of tubing, the pieces of tubing preferably being made of a fabric made of plastic tapes or a nonwoven plastic material (e.g. plastic fabric) or a composite of the fabric made of plastic tapes and the nonwoven plastic material or one, optionally plastic film connected to a network structure, the material optionally being coated on at least one side with at least one plastic layer and optionally at least one plastic film, e.g. an OPP film.
  • the tube pieces are transported on a transport device lying flat transversely to their longitudinal extent at a transport speed in one transport direction, with the tube pieces passing through processing stations during their transport, with which at least one end region of each tube piece is formed into a cross bottom.
  • a top sheet is usually applied to the formed cross bottom.
  • Box sacks also known as cross-bottom sacks, are cuboid sacks that are produced in sack manufacturing plants by providing tube pieces whose open end areas are folded to form cross-bottoms.
  • the pieces of tubing are fed flat through the assembly line so that two layers of the piece of tubing are in contact with one another.
  • the two layers are separated from one another at the end areas of the hose piece and one of the two layers is folded over onto itself by 180° as a side flap, creating an open bottom in which the other layer forms a second side flap.
  • a triangular corner tuck is created at the front and rear part of this end area.
  • valve leaves can be inserted (to produce “box valve bags” that can be filled through the valve using the filling nozzle) and the final bottom configuration is produced by overlapping the bottom side flaps.
  • the overlapping bottom side flaps are glued or thermally welded together depending on the material of the tube piece.
  • bottom cover sheets can be placed on the overlapped bottom side flaps and glued or welded to them.
  • the amount of time required for the clocked opening of the bases, including the necessary fixing of the opened bases, can even represent an upper limit for the performance of the entire device for producing sacks.
  • the transport speed of tube pieces in bag making plants could be further increased by the invention described in EP 2 711 166 A1, with which the cycle frequency of a workpiece holder in the transfer area of tube pieces was increased from their longitudinal transport to their transverse transport.
  • European patent EP 3041671 B1 discloses a method and a device for producing cross-bottom bags from pieces of tubing, which offer a solution for increasing the cycle frequency without having to increase the transport speed of the transport device on which the pieces of tubing are transported transversely.
  • This solution consists in providing a method and a device for producing cross-bottom bags from tube pieces with a selectable width Bi, in which the tube pieces are transported on a transport device continuously along a transport path in a transport direction x, which is transverse to the direction of extent z and parallel to the Width direction of the hose pieces runs.
  • a bottom opening station for laying an open cross bottom is arranged along the transport device.
  • a transfer device passes the pieces of tubing to the transport device.
  • adjustment means by means of which the device is adjusted depending on the width Bi of the tube pieces in such a way that the tube pieces are arranged and processed on the transport device at a distance A from one another that is independent of the width of the tube pieces, with at least one component of the device has a tool which is brought into contact with the tube pieces in order to transfer and process them, the time interval between the times at which the at least one tool comes into contact with successive tube pieces being adjustable as a function of the width Bi of the tube pieces .
  • the freedom to choose the width B of the tube pieces and their distance A means that the front side edges of the tube pieces exceed a tolerable extent in terms of overhang in the transport direction in relation to the holding elements (and this overhang can be between zero and the entire free path length between two adjacent holding elements), the flatness of the piece of tubing is insufficient due to the large overhang of the front edge of the sack, which increases the frictional resistance during transport and processing of the pieces of tubing and disrupts the manufacture of the sack. Large overhangs in combination with a lack of flatness and air resistance can lead to hose sections getting caught on fixed guide elements or tools (e.g. folding and guide rails), bent over or displaced.
  • fixed guide elements or tools e.g. folding and guide rails
  • the present invention solves the problem set by providing a device for producing cross-bottom sacks with the features of claim 1 and a method for producing cross-bottom sacks with the features of claim 11.
  • Advantageous developments of the invention are set out in the dependent claims and the description.
  • the device according to the invention and the method according to the invention for the production of sacks from pieces of tubing are excellent for processing pieces of tubing made of a fabric made of plastic tapes or a nonwoven plastic material (e.g. plastic fleece) or a composite of the fabric made of plastic tapes and the nonwoven plastic material or a plastic film optionally connected to a network structure, the material being optionally coated on at least one side with at least one plastic layer and optionally at least one plastic film, e.g. an OPP film.
  • a nonwoven plastic material e.g. plastic fleece
  • a composite of the fabric made of plastic tapes and the nonwoven plastic material or a plastic film optionally connected to a network structure the material being optionally coated on at least one side with at least one plastic layer and optionally at least one plastic film, e.g. an OPP film.
  • Tube pieces to be transported are transported lying flat transversely to their longitudinal extent at a transport speed in one transport direction, with the tube pieces passing through processing stations during their transport, with which at least one end region of each tube piece is formed into a cross bottom.
  • a cover sheet is usually applied to the shaped cross bottom to increase the strength of the bottom.
  • the tube pieces are transferred to the transport device one after the other transversely to their longitudinal extension, so that the rear side edge of a tube piece is at a distance from the front side edge of the subsequent tube piece.
  • the transport device has at least one transport chain or a transport belt on which holding elements are arranged at a defined distance from one another, this defined distance being the same for all adjacent holding elements.
  • the distance between the tube pieces is set as a function of the width of the tube pieces and of the defined distance between the holding elements so that - seen in the direction of transport - the holding elements during transport of the tube pieces in relation to the front side edge of each tube piece, regardless of the width of the Hose pieces always take the same, specified positions. This ensures that the hose pieces, particularly in the area of their front side edge, are securely gripped by the holding elements and held during transport, so that the air resistance neither moves nor bends the hose pieces or even tears them out of their clamping position. As a result, the hose pieces lie perfectly flat in the bag making machine, the frictional resistance during transport and processing in the bag making machine is minimal, and the hose pieces cannot get caught on fixed guide elements or tools, be bent over or shifted.
  • the device comprises a controller for controlling the transfer device and for determining a system length, which is the sum of the width of a piece of tubing and its distance from the subsequent piece of tubing.
  • the controller has computing means that calculate the system length as an integer multiple of the defined distance between the holding elements and, based on the calculated system length and the width of the tube pieces, set the distance at which the transfer device transfers the tube pieces one after the other to the transport device.
  • the nominal width of the hose sections of a batch does not change during the course of the bag making system and is manually entered by an operator before the bag making system is started up via input devices such as a keyboard, touchscreen, or entered the like.
  • a width sensor can be provided, which also automatically detects the nominal width of the tube pieces, with no continuous width measurement being required in this case either, since all tube pieces supplied by a tube reel have the same nominal width.
  • a further embodiment of the invention provides for the actual tube width to be continuously recorded with a sensor and for each tube section to be calculated as an integral multiple of the distance between the holding elements. This means that both production-related fluctuations in the actual hose width within a hose batch and a change in width when changing hose reels can be taken into account.
  • width is to be understood as the "nominal width” of the hose sections.
  • the distance between the holding elements is a predefined design feature of the device according to the invention. Due to material stress and the resulting wear and tear on the means of transport, in particular the transport chains or conveyor belts, it can happen that the distance between the holding elements changes over time. To compensate for this change, a preferred embodiment of the invention provides a sensor that measures the wear elongation and adjusts the distance between the holding elements used for the calculation by multiplying the predefined distance between the holding elements by a correction factor corresponding to the wear elongation. This corrected distance between the holding elements is then used for further calculations of the system lengths. As a result, during the transport of the tube pieces, the holding elements always continue to assume the same, predetermined positions in relation to the front side edge of each tube piece, regardless of the width of the tube pieces.
  • the controller defines the system length in such a way that the distance between the successive hose sections is not less than a minimum when they are transported on the transport device.
  • the specified minimum distance can be due to technical requirements for the sack processing plant and/or due to a desired bottom width of the sacks to be produced. However, it can also be determined on the basis of the length of the valves of the sacks, namely when valves are used which protrude beyond one of the side edges of the tube pieces.
  • the computing means of the controller calculate the system length as follows:
  • a minimum system length can be defined in the device according to the invention, which must not be undershot for trouble-free operation of the device. Therefore, in one embodiment of the invention, it is provided that the computing means of the controller compare the calculated system length with a minimum system length and, if the comparison shows that the system length is less than the minimum system length, set the system length as the minimum system length, with the minimum system length being an integer multiple the defined distance between the holding elements.
  • an operator can increase the calculated system length by a whole number multiple of the defined spacing of the holding elements from one another through user input in order to be able to respond to production-specific requirements.
  • the width of the tube pieces can only be adjusted in predefined increments, e.g. in increments of 5 mm.
  • the same inventive idea as explained above is also based on a device and a method for producing bags from tube pieces with the features of the preamble of claim 1 or claim 11, in which / the at least one of the processing stations has processing elements which are arranged at defined distances from one another and work in a clocked manner synchronously with the transport speed, the distance between the tube sections being set as a function of the width of the tube sections and the defined spacing of the processing elements from one another such that - viewed in the direction of transport - When transporting the tube pieces, the processing elements always assume the same, predetermined positions in relation to the front side edge of each tube piece, regardless of the width of the tube pieces.
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic representation of an apparatus for making cross-bottom bags from lengths of tubing in accordance with the principles of the invention.
  • FIG. 2 shows a perspective representation of a device for producing cross-bottom bags from tube pieces according to an embodiment of the invention.
  • FIG. 3 shows a side view of the transfer device with a schematic representation of the transfer of a tube piece to the transport device at a point in time ti.
  • FIG. 4 shows a side view of the transfer device with a schematic representation of the transfer of a piece of tubing to the transport device at a point in time h.
  • FIG. 5 shows a side view of the transfer device with a schematic representation of the transfer of a tube piece to the transport device at a point in time t3.
  • Fig. 6 shows schematically in top view two pieces of tubing moving on the transport device.
  • FIG. 7 shows a diagram of system lengths calculated according to the invention for different tube section widths and the resulting distances between the transported tube sections.
  • the device 1 for the production of cross-bottom bags from tube pieces is also referred to in the description as a bag manufacturing plant.
  • This device 1 comprises a transport device 2, which transports the tube pieces 10 lying flat transversely to their longitudinal extension L at a transport speed V in a transport direction T.
  • the hose pieces have a front side edge 11 and a rear side edge 12 between which the width B is measured.
  • Infinitely circulating Conveying means 20, 21 hold the tube pieces 10 in the correct position on the transport device 2.
  • the hose pieces 10 are made of a fabric made of stretched plastic tapes or a nonwoven plastic material (e.g.
  • plastic fleece or a composite of the fabric made of plastic tapes and the nonwoven plastic material or a plastic film optionally connected to a network structure and are preferably made with a coating of provided with a polymer.
  • Composites can also include plastic foils, paper layers or metal foils.
  • the coating has a layer of an OPP film, further printing layers, etc.
  • a hose 10a of constant width is fed from a storage device (not shown) or an inline hose-making machine to a cross-cutting device 8, which cuts off hose pieces 10 from hose 10a and feeds them to transfer device 4, which is described in detail below.
  • the tube pieces 10 pass through processing stations 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, with which at least one end region 13 of each tube piece 10 is formed into a cross-bottom and a cover sheet 19 is applied to the cross-bottom.
  • the processing stations described below are formed in the described embodiment. In other embodiments of the invention, however, not all of these processing stations are implemented, or other processing stations (quality check, printing device, etc.) can also be provided.
  • a folding station 30 is used to fold the end regions 13 of the tube pieces 10 from the flat state around the guide rails 3 upwards.
  • a bottom opening station 40 is used to pull the two folded-up layers of the end regions 13 of the tube pieces 10 away from each other and to fold them in opposite directions by 90° each time, resulting in an open bottom 17 that has two side flaps 15, 16, one of which side flap 16 can be opened by 180 ° is folded back onto the wall of the hose piece 10.
  • a triangular corner tuck 14 is created at the front and rear part of the open base 17.
  • a valve sheet 18 is placed on the open base 17 of the tube piece 10 and, if necessary, by gluing or thermal welding fixed. Thereafter, in a bottom forming station 60, the final cross bottom configuration is formed by tucking in the bottom side flaps 15, 16, the tucking forming the triangular front and end flaps 14 rear Bodenend Suite be reduced, but retained in their triangular shape. Since the side flaps 15, 16 are folded over at folding edges which are parallel to one another, the triangular envelopes have the shape of an isosceles triangle, the hypotenuse of which runs between the end points of the folding edges.
  • tucked-in bottom side flaps 15, 16 are glued or thermally welded together, depending on the material of the hose piece, if they overlap. However, there are also embodiments of sacks in which the bottom side flaps 15, 16 do not overlap.
  • a cover sheet application station 70 for applying a base cover sheet 19 to the folded base side flaps 15, 16 and a hot-air welding station 80 for fixing the base cover sheet 19 to the folded base side flaps 15, 16 are also provided.
  • the cover sheet application station 70 and the welding station 80 can be integrated into one another.
  • a gluing station can also be provided.
  • the device 1 has a transfer device 4, the tube pieces 10 are fed either transversely or longitudinally.
  • the transfer device 4 transfers the supplied tube pieces 10 in a transverse arrangement to the transport device 2 by means of a movement in the transport direction T.
  • the transfer device 4 can have grippers 4b for gripping, holding and releasing the tube pieces 10.
  • the grippers 4b are fastened to endless belts 4a running around pulleys 4c, 4d.
  • One of the pulleys 4c is driven by a drive 7, which is (automatically) controlled by a controller 6, which can also control the grippers 4b.
  • Vacuum suction cups can be provided as an alternative to grippers 4b.
  • the controller 6 controls the speed of the drive 7 and controls the times at which the grippers 4b grip the tube pieces 10 and release them.
  • the controller 6 may be in the form of a programmable logic controller, an industrial computer or the like, and includes computing means 6a and program and data memories, not shown, as is well known to those skilled in the art.
  • the transport device 2 comprises endlessly circulating conveying means 20, 21, which convey the tube pieces 10 after they have been transferred by the transfer device 4 in the transport direction T at the transport speed V to the processing stations 30, 40, ... 80, with the tube pieces 10 being transported with their longitudinal direction L are aligned transversely to the transport direction T and with their front side edge 11 ahead.
  • the hose pieces 10 processing tools are arranged.
  • Each conveyor 20, 21 comprises a transport chain 20a, 21a (alternatively, a transport belt) and a metal belt 20b, 21b, which are arranged one above the other to form a transport gap for the tube pieces 10 and endlessly revolving in opposite directions (see directional arrows k, l), the transport chains 20a, 21a running below the metal belts 20b, 21b in the operating position of the plant.
  • Holding elements 22 in the form of magnets with opposite polarity are arranged on the transport chains 20a, 21a at equal distances t from one another and pointing in the direction of the metal belts 20b, 21b, which magnets attract the metal belts 20b, 21b, as a result of which the metal belts 20b, 21b are attached to the holding elements 22 of the transport chains 20a, 21a and clamp the hose pieces 10 between them, as can be seen in FIG.
  • the holding elements 22 can also be designed, for example, as suction cups, as a result of which the metal strips 20b, 21b can be omitted.
  • the tube pieces 10 are continuously moved uniformly at the transport speed V and are not stopped.
  • the conveying means 20, 21, in particular their holding elements 22, always hold the tube pieces 10 in the correct position on the transport device 2.
  • the holding elements 22 are designed as discrete, i.e. individual elements.
  • the grippers 4b attached to endless belts 4a running around belt pulleys 4c, 4d are arranged above the transport surface of the transport device 2, as already explained above, with the belt pulleys 4c, 4d are aligned so that the endless belts 4a are aligned parallel to the transport direction T of the conveyors 20, 21.
  • the grippers 4b always draw the next tube piece 10 to be transferred from a storage area 4f of the transfer device 4 until they are transported by the conveyor means 20, 21 into the Transport gap fed and clamped by the holding elements 22 are transported in the correct position to the processing stations 30, 40 ... 80.
  • the rotational speed of the endless belts 4a from the first contact between the gripper 4b and a piece of tubing 10 until it is released and drawn into the transport gap is synchronous with the conveying speed V.
  • a compensatory movement of the endless belts 4a with acceleration and deceleration phases takes place in order to realize different system lengths SL or to compensate for any slippage or manufacturing inaccuracies.
  • the system length SL is the width B of the tube pieces 10 plus the distance A between the rear side edge 12 of a tube piece 10 and the front side edge 11 of the following tube piece 10.
  • Figures 3, 4 and 5 show the transfer process at three different times ti, h and t 3 in detail, where
  • the grippers 4b press the piece of tubing 10 to be transferred against a belt 4e of the transfer device 4, pull it in from the storage area 4f of the transfer device 4 in the conveying direction T and thus initiate the transfer to the conveyor means 20, 21;
  • the time interval between the contacting of a tube piece 10 by the gripper 4b, the transfer of the tube piece 10 to the conveying means 20, 21 and the contacting of the following tube piece 10 by the gripper 4b cannot be arbitrarily reduced. Due to the design, the distance between successive hose sections 10 cannot fall below a minimum distance A min between the rear side edge 12 of a hose section 10 and the front side edge 11 of the following hose section 10, since the grippers 4b circulating on the endless belt 4a always require a certain amount of time. until after the transfer of a piece of tubing 10 to the conveyor means 20, 21 are again in position to pull in the next piece of tubing 10 from the storage area 4f. Although this time can be shortened by providing several grippers 4b on the endless belts 4a, as shown, and/or increasing the rotational speed of the endless belts 4a, a certain minimum period of time for positioning the grippers 4b is necessary.
  • the minimum distance Amin to be observed is based not only on the limited dynamics of the transfer device 4, but also on the process-related processing times in the processing stations 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80 and the tools used there. Furthermore, the minimum distance Amin to be maintained also depends on the bottom width of the sacks to be produced and/or the length of the valve sheets 18.
  • the device 1 for producing cross-bottom bags from tube pieces 10 also has a minimum system distance SL min , which also depends on the limited dynamics of the transfer device, as well as on the process-related processing times in the processing stations 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80 , e.g. on the welding speed when manufacturing the cross bottoms, but also on the number of cycles and the resulting conveying speed V.
  • the holding elements 22 are arranged one behind the other at defined, equal distances t on the transport chains 20a, 21a in order to hold the front side edges 11 of the tube pieces 10 while they are being transported.
  • Such holding elements 22 are indispensable for the desired high transport speeds, because otherwise the air resistance would shift the tube pieces 10 into indefinable positions or partially bend them over, and the frictional resistance of the sack body 10 would increase during transport in the sack manufacturing plant and consequently no high-quality cross bottoms would be produced could or it would come to machine stops or damage to the device 1. It is particularly important that the front side edges 11 of all transported pieces of tubing 10 are arranged in a precisely defined geometric relationship to the holding elements 22 in order to hold the To ensure hose pieces 10 by the holding elements 22.
  • the width B of the tube pieces 10 and their distance A from one another are freely selected and the front side edges 11 of the tube pieces exceed a tolerable extent of overhang U in the transport direction T in relation to the holding elements (and this overhang U can, with a free choice of width B and distance A are between zero and the total free path length between two adjacent holding elements 22), the flatness of the tube piece 10 is insufficient due to the large overhang of the front edge of the bag, which increases the frictional resistance during transport and processing of the tube pieces and disrupts bag production . Large overhangs in combination with a lack of flatness and air resistance can lead to hose sections 10 getting caught on fixed guide elements or tools (eg folding and guide rails), bent over or displaced. In both cases described, no geometrically correct processing of the tube pieces 10 is possible.
  • two sensors 25, 26 are shown schematically, which are arranged at a defined distance from each other, look at a straight run of the transport chains 20a, 21a and measure their wear elongation.
  • the distance t of the holding elements 22 used for the calculation is corrected on the basis of the measured wear elongation, preferably by the predefined distance t of the holding elements 22 from one another being multiplied by a correction factor corresponding to the wear elongation.
  • processing elements in the processing stations 30, 40 . . .
  • a free choice of the width B of the tube pieces 10 and their distance A on the transport device 2 also pose a problem, because of course it also applies to such processing elements that the position of the front side edge 11 of each tube piece 10 in relation to the processing elements changes depending on the setting of width B of the tube pieces 10 and their distance A from one another changes.
  • the present invention provides for the distances A of successive tube pieces 10 on the Adjust transport device 2 depending on its width B or only allow such distances A that the front side edges 11 of all tube pieces 10 transported on transport device 2 have an exactly defined geometric reference or always the same, predetermined positions to the holding elements 22 or the Take processing elements in the processing stations 30, 40 ... 80 and maintained during operation of the device 1.
  • the defined geometric reference to the holding elements 22 or the processing elements in the processing stations 30, 40 . . . 80 can preferably be a defined overhang U.
  • the defined geometric reference can be selected such that the front side edges 11 of the hose pieces 10 each coincide with the front ends of the holding elements 22 or the holding elements 22 with their effective surface for clamping hose pieces 10 always lie flat on the hose pieces 10.
  • this inventive concept requires that, in addition to the width B of the tube pieces 10 , the specified distance t between adjacent holding elements 22 of the transport device 2 is taken into account as a parameter when determining permissible distances A from successive tube pieces 10 . The input of the distance A by an operator is not intended.
  • FIG. 6 shows a schematic plan view of two tube pieces 10 which move on the transport device 2 in the transport direction T at the transport speed V and are held in place by the holding elements 22 mounted on the transport chains 20a, 21a, which are each at a distance t from one another.
  • the tube pieces 10 have a width B.
  • the rear side edge 12 of the front tube piece 10 is spaced from the front side edge 11 of the following tube piece 10 by a distance A.
  • the front side edge 11 of the front hose section 10 projects by an overhang U1 in relation to the foremost holding element 22 by which it is held.
  • the front side edge 11 of the rear tube piece 10 is in relation to the foremost Holding element 22, by which it is held, in front of a supernatant U2.
  • material stress and the resulting wear and tear on the conveying means 20, 21 can cause the distance t between the holding means 22 attached to the transport chains 20a, 21a to change.
  • a sensor 23 is also provided, via which the positions of the holding elements 22 can be detected directly or indirectly, e.g. via the position of the driven gear wheel 24 of the chain guide of the transport chains 20a, 21a.
  • the required offset of the grippers 4b is then adjusted (e.g. by setting the rotational speed of the grippers 4b), and thus also those points in time at which they contact the tube pieces 10 and initiate the transfer by pulling the tube pieces 10 from the storage area 4f.
  • the point in time at which the tube pieces 10 are pulled into the transport gap and thus also the position of the front side edge 11 in relation to the holding elements 22 can thus be determined by the control unit 6 of the device 1 .
  • the sack production takes place in the device 1 as follows:
  • a storage device S of the device 1 is equipped with a hose supply, for example a hose reel 10a of a certain width B.
  • the control unit 6 of the device 1 is informed via an input unit 5a of the width B of the hose reel 10a and thus of the cross-bottom sacks to be produced, whereby this width B is fixed for the batch to be produced from the hose reel 10a.
  • the device 1 only accepts widths between a maximum and a minimum width that the device 1 is able to process.
  • the limit values are determined by the design and can vary from one sack processing plant to the next, but they cannot be changed in completed sack processing plants without costly conversions.
  • a sensor 5 for detecting the tube width B can be provided.
  • This sensor 5 can also detect the slight fluctuations in the actual tube widths (i.e. deviations from the entered nominal width) that occur in practice due to production. With the actual hose widths continuously detected by the sensor 5, the system length can then be calculated for each piece of hose as an integer multiple of the distance between the holding elements. This means that both production-related fluctuations in the actual hose width within a hose batch and a change in width when changing hose reels can be taken into account.
  • the computing means 6a of the control unit 6 of the device 1 calculate the required system length SL, knowing the specified hose width B and taking into account a design or bag-related minimum distance Amin, in order to ensure that each piece of hose 10 makes contact at the same position in relation to the front side edge 11 of which must be met by the holding elements 22, regardless of the tube width B, according to the following formula:
  • the width B of the hose pieces 10 and the minimum distance (Amin) to be maintained between successive hose pieces 10 are added together to form a temporary system length and this temporary system length is divided by the defined distance t between the holding elements 22 .
  • the division result is rounded up to the next higher whole number by eliminating the fractional part of the division result and adding 1.
  • the next higher whole number determined in this way is multiplied by the defined distance t between the holding elements 22, resulting in the system length SL.
  • the system length SL is compared with the specified minimum system length SL m in and the larger of the two values is defined as the system length SL.
  • Table 1 below shows the system lengths SL calculated according to the above formula for different hose piece widths B and the resulting distances A of the transported hose pieces 10 from one another for hose piece widths B of 260 mm to 570 mm, graduated in 5 mm increments, with a minimum bag distance of 35 mm, a nominal distance t of the holding elements 22 from each other of 31.75 m m, and a minimum system length SLmin of 444.5 mm, which corresponds to a number of 14 spacings of the holding elements 22 from one another. 7 shows a diagram with the values determined in this way.
  • the rotational speed of the grippers 4b is then determined with knowledge of SL in order to transfer the hose pieces 10 in accordance with the calculated system distance SL on the transport device 2 to accomplish.
  • the storage facility S is reloaded with a new supply of tubing, e.g., reel 10a, and apparatus 1 is ready to produce a new batch of cross-bottom bags.
  • the new stock of tubing may be the same width B as the previous batch. In this case, the device leaves the system length SL unchanged.
  • the new batch of cross-bottom sacks can also be produced using a tube stock with a width B that differs from the width B of the first batch.
  • the control unit 6 of the device 1 calculates a new system length SL according to the formula given above after entering and defining the new width B. This is then retained until a batch with a different hose width B is to be produced, etc.

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Selon l'invention, un dispositif de transport (2) du dispositif (1) de production de sacs à partir de pièces tubulaires (10) transporte les pièces tubulaires (10). Les pièces tubulaires (10) passent ici à travers des stations de traitement (30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80) pour former des fonds croisés. Un dispositif de transfert (4) transfère les pièces tubulaires (10) l'une après l'autre vers le dispositif de transport (2), avec pour résultat que, dans chaque cas, le bord latéral arrière (12) d'une pièce tubulaire (10) se trouve à un espacement (A) donné par rapport au bord latéral avant (11) de la pièce tubulaire suivante (10). Des éléments de maintien (22) sont disposés à un espacement (t) défini sur une chaîne de transport (20a, 21a). L'espacement (A) des pièces tubulaires (10) l'une par rapport à l'autre est réglé en fonction de la largeur (B) des pièces tubulaires (10) et de l'espacement (t) défini des éléments de maintien (22), de sorte que lors du transport des pièces tubulaires (10), les éléments de maintien (22) adoptent toujours les mêmes positions par rapport au bord latéral avant (11) de chaque pièce tubulaire (10) indépendamment de la largeur (B) des pièces tubulaires (10).
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