US2483155A - Alignment controlling packaging machine - Google Patents

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US2483155A
US2483155A US641569A US64156946A US2483155A US 2483155 A US2483155 A US 2483155A US 641569 A US641569 A US 641569A US 64156946 A US64156946 A US 64156946A US 2483155 A US2483155 A US 2483155A
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Leroy L Salfisberg
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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
    • 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
    • B65B51/00—Devices for, or methods of, sealing or securing package folds or closures; Devices for gathering or twisting wrappers, or necks of bags
    • B65B51/10—Applying or generating heat or pressure or combinations thereof
    • B65B51/26—Devices specially adapted for producing transverse or longitudinal seams in webs or tubes
    • B65B51/30—Devices, e.g. jaws, for applying pressure and heat, e.g. for subdividing filled tubes
    • B65B51/306—Counter-rotating devices
    • 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
    • B65B61/00—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages
    • B65B61/04—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for severing webs, or for separating joined packages
    • B65B61/06—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for severing webs, or for separating joined packages by cutting
    • B65B61/08—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for severing webs, or for separating joined packages by cutting using rotary cutters

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  • This invention relates in generai to methods' of and machines for packaging commodities, such as tablets, pellets, powdered or granular substances, etc., wherein layers or strips of packaging material are continuously fed into juxtaposition, the material to be packaged is deposited between the layers, and the layers then are sealed around the commodity to form a compartment in which the commodity is encased, thereby forming a strip or chain of packages which later can be severed singly or in groups.
  • commodities such as tablets, pellets, powdered or granular substances, etc.
  • one of such layers or strips bears indicia, such as printed matter, a zone of color, a particular design, or the like for each compartment, which itis desired to locate in a predetermined relation to the corresponding compartment, for example in alignment or in register with the compartment.
  • indicia such as printed matter, a zone of color, a particular design, or the like for each compartment, which itis desired to locate in a predetermined relation to the corresponding compartment, for example in alignment or in register with the compartment.
  • One object of this invention is to provide a novel and improved method of and machine for periodically registering or compensating for mis-register of said indicia-bearing zones with their respective compartments.
  • a specic lobject is to provide novel and improved manually actuated means for controlling thefeeding movement of the packaging material.
  • Y Another object isv to provide apparatus of this kind that is simple in construction, inexpensive to manufacture and highly eilicient in operation.
  • Figure 2 is a sectional view of the rollers shown Figure l with the strips of packaging material in normal position therebetween.
  • FIG. 3l is a view similar to Figure 2 but showing the strips being operated upon bythe alignment ⁇ restoring devices.
  • Figure 4 is a sectional view showing the strip aligning devices in normal or .neutral position.
  • Figure .5 is a view similar to Figure 4 .but showing thestrip. aligning devices .moved to'y an adiusting position.
  • Figure 6 is a fragmentary top plan View of a stripn proper aligned position with the article receiving recessin the, roller, and
  • Figure 7 is a view similar to Figure 6 but showing the strip out of alignment with the recess.
  • strips I and 2 of packaging material are fed from any suitable supply of such material.
  • the strip material may lconsist of chlorinated rubber otherwise known as #cellophane or other suitable materials.
  • the strips pass over idler rollers 3 and 4 past an article feed and depositing mechanism, for example, such as shown in my Patent No. 2,083,617 or my copending application Serial No. 560,306, filed October 25, 1944, now Patent No. 2,420,982, issued May 20, 1947, including a chute 5 to a crimping and sealing mechanism which includes rollers 6 and 'I which frictionally contact with and receive the strips between them.
  • the rollers 6 and 1 are mounted on and rotated in opposite directions by shafts 8 and 9, respectively, journalled in frame members I0 and II and are driven by intermeshing gears I2 from any suitable source of power.
  • the rollers have complemental registering recesses I 3 to provide clearance between them for the tablets I4 between the strips I and 2, the recesses being spaced circumferentially of the rollers.
  • the rollers may have their peripheries between the recesses and on the sides thereof roughened or serrated as shown in my Patent No.- 2,083,617 for transversely crimping or corrugating and pressing together the strips between adjacent articles and along the edges for encasing the tablets and forming the units l5'.
  • the strip I is provided on its surface with spaced indicia bearing portions I6 adapted to form one wall of the unit I5 containing the tablet.
  • indicia bearing portions are spaced apart a distance correspending. to the distance between the recesses in the roller 6.
  • the tablets are fed periodically and the rollers are rotated in timed relationship with respect to the movements of the strips and the tablets and with respect to each other in a manner such that the recesses coincide with each other as the rollers are. rotated in opposite directions and so that nor-4 mally a tablet and an indicia bearing portion of strip I are simultaneously received in register with each other between the coinciding recesses.
  • the presen-t invention contemplates mechanism for restoring the indicia bearing portion of the strip I to proper relationship or alignment with the tablet received between the. recesses in case said portion gets outV of alignment withsaid tablet as shown in Figure 7 ⁇ Referring to Figures l, ⁇ 2 kand 3, between thevv recesses Yi301" roller. l.. the
  • periphery of said roller has transverse slots I1, the base of each slot being straight.
  • the periphery of roller 6 is likewise formed with transverse grooves I8 between the recesses formed thereon.
  • the base of each groove is tapered as shown in Figures 4 and 5.
  • Slidably mounted in each groove I8 is a blade or plate IS.
  • the blade projects beyond the ends of the roller and is substantially triangular in shape with a straight rounded outer edge 20 and a nat tapered inner edge 2i slidable on the tapered base of the groove. The broader end of the blade is notched to form a hook 22.
  • the mechanism for actuating the blades comprises a disc 23 slidably mounted on shaft 8, the l periphery of which is positioned in the hooked portions 22 of the blades.
  • the blades are yieldingly held on the disc and roller by means of coiled springs 24 encircling the projecting ends ll by a bracket 3l is a knurled nut 32. Turning of the nut will cause rotation and sliding movement of shaft 2S carrying the yoke member 23 along with it which will slide the disc 23 along shaft 8 thereby moving the blades along the grooves and radially of the roller 6 as shown in Figures 4 and 5.
  • the blades are positioned with their narrow ends in thegrooves so that their outer edges normally project a short distance outwardly beyond the periphery of the roller S, which is the neutral position.
  • the proper alignment may be restored by turning the nut 32 in the proper direction to move the shaft 29 and thereby move the blades along the grooves I8 and radially outwardly or inwardly of the roller as may be required toward the positions shown in Figure 2 or 3.
  • the structure of the package may be Widely modified, for example instead of using two strips of packaging material, a single strip folded longitudinally to produce a plurality of layers could be utilized.
  • one of the layers might be opaque while the other is transparent, and the indicia may be placed on either the transparent layer or on the opaque laver to be visible through the transparent layer.
  • suitable automatic Vmeans such'as photo-electric mechanism may be utilized foi' actuating the means for adjusting the layers of packaging material.
  • a packaging machine including the combination with means for periodically feeding portions of a commodity, of a pair of rotatable rollers to receive between them opposed layers of packaging material at least one of which has indicia-bearing zones and between which each of said commodity portions is deposited normally in Y register with one of said indicia-bearing zones,
  • rollers for adjusting said layers Vof packaging material to vary the relationship of said indicia-bearing zones to the respective commodity portions, and means for rotating said rollers simultaneously in opposite directions.
  • A' packaging machine including the combination with means for periodically feeding portions of a commodity, of a pair of rotatable rollers to receive between them opposed layers of packaging material at least one of which has indicia-bearing zones and between which each of said commodity portions is deposited normally in register' with one of said indicia-bearing zones, one of said rollers having a plurality of longitudinal slots spaced circumferentially thereof, and the other roller having a plurality of radially adjustable blades, one to enter each of said slots as said rollers rotate for pressing said layers of packaging material into said slots, whereby to adjust said layers to vary the relationship of said indicia-bearing zones to the respective commodity portions.
  • a packaging machine means for feeding a commodity, a pair of opposed parallel rotatable rollers for feeding between them strips of packaging material one of which has spaced indiciabearing portions on its surface on opposite sides of said commodity in predetermined relationship with certain cir-cumferentially spaced zones on the peripheries of the rollers, and means for restoring said predetermined relationship in case said relationship is disturbed including members to bend said strips laterally during their feeding movement.
  • means for periodically feeding a commodity means including opposed parallel rotatable rollers for automatically feeding between them strips of packaging material one of which has spaced indicia-bearing portions on its surface on opposite sides of said commodity feeding line in predetermined re- Number blades press said strips in the corresponding slots as said rollers rotate.

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US2724939A (en) * 1950-08-14 1955-11-29 Clarence W Vogt Method of and apparatus for controlling registry
US2916285A (en) * 1953-07-03 1959-12-08 Fernseh G M B H Fa Film transporting apparatus
US3054236A (en) * 1959-06-22 1962-09-18 Vol Pak Inc Multi-purpose packaging machine
US3350840A (en) * 1963-02-18 1967-11-07 Hesser Ag Maschf Packaging machine
US3411767A (en) * 1965-07-09 1968-11-19 Hoffiger & Karg Apparatus for positioning a web
US3490196A (en) * 1967-08-21 1970-01-20 Anderson Bros Mfg Co Packaging apparatus
US3854031A (en) * 1972-05-27 1974-12-10 Windmoeller & Hoelscher Welding apparatus
US4384438A (en) * 1979-07-25 1983-05-24 Tetra Pak International Ab Arrangement on packing machines
US4420923A (en) * 1980-10-21 1983-12-20 Robert Bosch Gmbh Method and apparatus for combined guidance, incorporating a register, of two continuously advanced foil strips
DE3527097A1 (de) * 1984-07-31 1986-02-13 Shibuya Kogyo Co., Ltd., Kanazawa, Ishikawa Vorrichtung zum querversiegeln von verpackungen
US5636501A (en) * 1996-03-28 1997-06-10 Eastman Kodak Company Packaging equipment
US20040197443A1 (en) * 2001-11-02 2004-10-07 Paolo Scarabelli Sheet material for producing packages of food products, and packages made of such material
US20090266034A1 (en) * 2005-01-10 2009-10-29 Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A. Device and a method for controlling a twist of a tube

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US2724939A (en) * 1950-08-14 1955-11-29 Clarence W Vogt Method of and apparatus for controlling registry
US2916285A (en) * 1953-07-03 1959-12-08 Fernseh G M B H Fa Film transporting apparatus
US3054236A (en) * 1959-06-22 1962-09-18 Vol Pak Inc Multi-purpose packaging machine
US3350840A (en) * 1963-02-18 1967-11-07 Hesser Ag Maschf Packaging machine
US3411767A (en) * 1965-07-09 1968-11-19 Hoffiger & Karg Apparatus for positioning a web
US3490196A (en) * 1967-08-21 1970-01-20 Anderson Bros Mfg Co Packaging apparatus
US3854031A (en) * 1972-05-27 1974-12-10 Windmoeller & Hoelscher Welding apparatus
US4384438A (en) * 1979-07-25 1983-05-24 Tetra Pak International Ab Arrangement on packing machines
US4420923A (en) * 1980-10-21 1983-12-20 Robert Bosch Gmbh Method and apparatus for combined guidance, incorporating a register, of two continuously advanced foil strips
DE3527097A1 (de) * 1984-07-31 1986-02-13 Shibuya Kogyo Co., Ltd., Kanazawa, Ishikawa Vorrichtung zum querversiegeln von verpackungen
US5636501A (en) * 1996-03-28 1997-06-10 Eastman Kodak Company Packaging equipment
US20040197443A1 (en) * 2001-11-02 2004-10-07 Paolo Scarabelli Sheet material for producing packages of food products, and packages made of such material
US7521075B2 (en) * 2001-11-02 2009-04-21 Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance Sa Sheet material for producing packages of food products, and packages made of such material
US20090266034A1 (en) * 2005-01-10 2009-10-29 Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A. Device and a method for controlling a twist of a tube
US7827768B2 (en) * 2005-01-10 2010-11-09 Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A. Device and a method for controlling a twist of a tube

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