US3785115A - Apparatus for producing a packaged assortment of different sweets - Google Patents

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US3785115A
US3785115A US00127935A US3785115DA US3785115A US 3785115 A US3785115 A US 3785115A US 00127935 A US00127935 A US 00127935A US 3785115D A US3785115D A US 3785115DA US 3785115 A US3785115 A US 3785115A
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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
    • B65B25/00—Packaging other articles presenting special problems
    • B65B25/005—Packaging other articles presenting special problems packaging of confectionery
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    • B65B35/30—Arranging and feeding articles in groups
    • B65B35/46—Arranging and feeding articles in groups by rotary conveyors
    • 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
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  • An intermittently movable main feeder which contains consecutively disposed pockets for the reception of the sweets and for delivering the same to the feeding ram of the wrapping mechanism.
  • a plurality of supplementary, inter-' mittently movable feeders are arranged which have pockets adapted to be fed from storage means, in
  • the main feeder is positioned adjacent to the supplementary feeders.
  • the number and relative spacing of the pockets of both the main and supplementary feeders and their frequency of intermittent movement are so synchronized, that each supplementary feeder fills only a predetermined associated pocket or pockets in the main feeder.
  • the present invention relates to an apparatus for producing a packaged assortment, of the type known as a rod package, which contains a predetermined number of different kinds of sweets packed in the same package in the form of a rod.
  • Wrapping machines for sweets use in known manner a feeding ram, which transmits the sweets to be wrapped jointly with the surrounding wrapping material through a brush shaft into a gripper, which passes the already partly wrapped sweet along folding members, which complete the wrapping.
  • a feeding ram feeder which transmits the sweets to be wrapped jointly with the surrounding wrapping material through a brush shaft into a gripper, which passes the already partly wrapped sweet along folding members, which complete the wrapping.
  • the feeding ram feeders by example, in form of an intermittently rotating plate are known, which are equipped at their periphery with receiving pockets, which are adjusted as to their configuration to the particular sweet shape. From a storage container the plate is fed by means of a vibrating channel or the like with sweets such, that the latter fill up the still empty receiving pockets in the plate and are brought individually to the feeding ram of the packing device.
  • Such packing devices are not suitable for obtaining a predetermined mixing ratio in the total packing, if a variety of types of sweets are applied. Often a demixture occurs on the feeding plate of the packing machine upon feeding of a plurality of types of sweets, so that in the total packing once small or less sweets of a particular type are contained and it could even occur, re-
  • the main feeder which supplies the feeding ram of the wrapping mechanism may be a pan feeder formed around its periphery with a plurality of consecutive pocketspand the supplementary feeders formed by similar pan feeders disposed about the circumference of the main feeder pan in such a way that the path of their pockets overlaps the path of the pockets of the main feeder pan and a sweet transfer point is formed between the main feeder pan and each supplementary-feeder pan where for the purpose of transfer the respective pockets move into exact register.
  • the main feeder and the associated supplementary feeders may rotate intermittently at the same angular speed and the angular pitch of the pockets around the peripheries of the feeder be a multiple of the angular pitch of the pockets in the main feeder.
  • the actual pitch of the pockets of the feeder depends upon the sequence of the sweets in the packaged assortment that is to be produced. For example, if the sweet from a particular supplementary feeder is to occupy each third or sixth position in the completed package, then the pitch of the pockets in that feeder must be three times or six times of the pockets in the main feeder.
  • the size of the completed packaged assortment depends upon the number of sets of different kinds of sweets it contains, the number of pockets in the main feeder being a multiple of the number in one set of sweets.
  • the spacing of the sweet transfer points of the supplementary feeder is equal to the number of sweets contained in a set of sweets multiplied by the spacing of the pockets in the main feeder.
  • the number of supplementary feeders is determined by the composition of a set of sweets.
  • the several supplementary feeders may, for the purpose of varying the composition of the sets of sweets be exchangeable for other feeder pans having differently pitched pockets.
  • the same feeder pans may be retained and some of their pockets not intended to participate in the feeding of sweets, either masked or filled.
  • Each of the feeder pans may be provided with its own supply conveyor for sweets from an appropriate storage bin.
  • FIG. l is a schematic representation of a packaged assortment of different kinds of sweets produced by an apparatus according to the present invention
  • FIG. 2 is a schematic plan view of a main feeder and four associated supplementary feeders of an apparatus according to the present invention.
  • FIG. 3 is a vertical section through the main feeder and one of the supplementary feeders of the apparatus shown in FIG. 1.
  • FIG. 1 is an example of a package containing an assortment of sweets.
  • This type of package is sometimes referred to as a rod package and contains in a common enveloping wrapper ll an assortment of individually wrapped sweets of kinds a,
  • the single rod package shown contains two such sets A, each comprising the six sweets a, b, c, d, b, c, in that order, so that there are two sweets of type b and two sweets of kind 0, but only one sweet of kinds a and d in each set.
  • the number of sets A contained in a single rod 1 may be varied and the order of the individual sweets as well as the numbers of a particular kind of sweets in each set can also be changed by effecting appropriate changes in the apparatus that will be hereinafter described.
  • the apparatus comprises a main feeder pan 2, which is formed around its periphery with a plurality of pockets 3, each for the reception of a sweet that is to be wrapped.
  • these pockets may be round, polygonal or oval.
  • the main feeder pan contains 42 such pockets around its periphery and can therefore accommodate seven sets A of sweets.
  • the pitch of the pockets expressed in angular degrees is therefore three hundred and sixty divided by fortytwo.
  • the pan 2 is rotatable intermittently anticlockwise in the arrowed direction in consecutive steps, the sweets which are received in the bare unwrapped state being conveyed in the pockets 3 over a lifting ram 4 which rises when the pan is stationary and from below lifts the sweet from the pocket 3, together with a wrapper 5 placed over the sweet, through a folding shaft or forming brush 6 to grippers 7 which accept the sweet and convey it past folding elements which complete the wrapping of the sweet.
  • the sweets in predetermined numbers are then transferred to another part of the apparatus at which they are stacked in the form of a rod and together packed in a common wrapping envelope 1.
  • Supplementary feeders pans, 8, 9, 10 and 11 which are likewise formed with pockets 30, 3b, 3d, and 3a, respectively, are positioned around the periphery of the main feeder pan 2 as shown.
  • Each ofthe supplementary feeder pans S to 11 is provided with an upright rim 12.
  • the sweets a, b, or d are supplied from a storage bin 14 down a vibratory chute 13 is shaken by a vibrator 15.
  • the main feeder pan 2 is driven by an intermittent drive (not shown), preferably a Geneva stop. This rotates the pan 2 through an angle equal to l/42 of its full circumference driving each intermittent movement. Chains and spur wheels, (not shown) transmit the drive to the supplementary feeder pans 8 to 11, which rotate in intermittent steps at the same angular speed.
  • the supplementary feeder pans pockets are so placed about the peripheries of the pans that their paths overlap the path of the pockets of the main feeder pan and that at a point of transfer B of a sweet a pocket 30 will be in exact register with a pocket 3 in the main feeder pan 2.
  • All the pans 2 and 8 to 11 are exchangeable for other containing pockets of other shapes differently pitched.
  • Supplementary feeder pans for other types of sweet may be associated with the main pan and, by suitably choosing the pan disposition, the angular pitch of the pockets and the number ofpans, a considerable variety of assortments can be assembled for packaging.
  • Partic- 'ularxpockets in the feeder pans may be masked or filled in order to accommmodate different variations in the arrangement of kinds of sweet in the completed package without exchanging the pan.
  • Preferably all the pans are arranged to rotate synchronously at the same frequency of intermittent movement. At the sweet transfer points B the sweets fall from the supplementary feeder pan into a pocket of the main feeder pan underneath.
  • main and supplementary pans Although the illustrated example uses main and supplementary pans, the possibility of using chains or other conveyors should be specially noted. Furthermore, it is possible to dispose the supplementary feeder pans below the edge of the main pan and to convey the sweets from the pockets in the supplementary feeder pans from below by a lifting ram to the main feeder pan. It is also unnecessary to provide the main pan with fortytwo pockets. Other numbers of pockets variously pitched may be used for preparing packaged assortments, in which the sweets are combined in different ways.
  • An apparatus for the production of a rod packing containing a predetermined order of succession and mixture ratio of sweets of different types by a wrapping device individually wrapping the sweets and thereafter stacking up the sweets into a rod package comprising a intermittent switching main feeder,
  • a feeding ram means for wrapping sweets in sequence and conveying same to a stacking device and being fed by said intermittent switching main feeder
  • said main feeder having on its periphery receiving pockets disposed in a uniform spacing, said pockets for receiving sweets therein,
  • a plurality of supplementary feeders one for each type of sweet, and having receiving pockets on its peripheries, disposed in uniform spacings for receiving said sweets, at least one of said supplementary feeders having a different number of receiving pockets than any of the other supplementary feeders - said supplementary feeders and said main feeder rotatably disposed such that the path of movement of said pockets of said main feeder overlapping the path of movement of said pockets of said supplementary feeders,
  • the'number of said receiving pockets of said main feeder being an integral multiple of the number of saidreceiving pockets of each of-said supplementary feeders
  • said common intermittent switching means for driving said main feeder and said supplementary feeders such that the number of revolutions of each of said supplementary feeders corresponds to an integral multiple, including one, of the number of revolutions of said main feeder,
  • said supplementary feeders are exchangeably mounted to be exchanged for other supplementary feeders having a different uniform spacing of receiving pockets.
  • the number of said pockets in said main feeder is an integral multiple of the number of sweets of said sweets succession.
  • the number of said pockets provided on each of said supplementary feeder pans is equal with the number of said pockets of said main feeder pan multiplied with the number of sweets contained in sweets succession of a predetermined type and divided by the total number of sweets contained in said sweets succession.

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