WO2006008624A1 - Unit for feeding infusion material to a machine producing filter packs - Google Patents
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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
- B65B29/00—Packaging of materials presenting special problems
- B65B29/02—Packaging of substances, e.g. tea, which are intended to be infused in the package
- B65B29/025—Packaging of substances, e.g. tea, which are intended to be infused in the package packaging infusion material into pods
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- This invention relates to a unit for feeding infusion material to a machine producing packs made from filter material.
- the present invention can be advantageously employed to feed powdered, ground coffee to an automatic packing machine designed to produce coffee "pods" made from filter paper.
- feeding powdered coffee to machines which make and fill filter-paper coffee pods is performed by a unit fitted to the machine itself where the unit consists of feeder devices designed to drop an amount of coffee into a dosing chamber.
- the dosing chamber is horizontal and inside has a sliding, reciprocating piston designed to push the dose of coffee dropped down by the feeders into a vertical feed tube from where the coffee drops down into a series of circular filter paper impressions; the impressions are formed by embossing a strip of filter paper on a corresponding series of circular recesses on an intermittent conveyor which forms the pod shaping and conveying line of the packing machine.
- Vertical, reciprocating pressers are mounted at the feed tube and compress the coffee in the circular impressions before the impressions are covered on the top with a strip of filter paper in order to close and complete the pod.
- a serious drawback to the feeding-dosing unit described above is that the powdered coffee is not distributed uniformly inside the circular pod impressions.
- the aim of the present invention is to produce a feeder unit which overcomes the drawbacks cited above.
- the aim of the present invention is to produce a coffee feeder unit for a packing machine that produces filter paper coffee pods of the specified quality and which operates at high production speeds.
- the present invention describes a unit for feeding infusion material to a machine producing packs made from filter material.
- the machine comprises a production line for making such packs and consists of a conveyor with mobile recesses moving in the feed direction and designed to be covered with filter material in order to form impressions in the filter material.
- the unit is characterised in that it comprises rotary feeders designed to feed an amount or dose of infusion material into the impressions, and rotary precompactors mounted on the rotary feeders acting together with the rotary feeders to distribute the doses uniformly inside the impressions.
- FIG. 1 is a front view, with some parts cut away and others in cross section to better illustrate certain details, of an embodiment of the feeder unit in a first operating position;
- FIGS 2a and 2b are enlarged views of the unit in Figure 1 as seen from the front and from above respectively;
- FIG. 3 is a front view, with some parts cut away and others in cross section to better illustrate certain details, of the feeder unit in Figure 1 in a second operating position;
- - Figure 4 is front view of an infusion material pack filled by the feeder unit described in this invention.
- the numeral 1 indicates a feeder unit for feeding powdered, ground coffee to the production line 2 of a packing machine M producing coffee pods 3 ( Figure 4) made from filter paper, the feeder unit 1 being an integral part of this machine.
- the production line 2 comprises a intermittent-motion conveyor 4 moving in a horizontal feed direction L carrying a filter-paper strip 5, and having a series of modular elements 6.
- Each modular element 6 has at least one, mobile circular recess 7 moving in the direction L and designed to make a corresponding circular impression 8 in the filter paper (dashed line in Figure 1) .
- the impression is formed, using a known embossing method not illustrated here, by pressing the strip 5 into the recess 7 in order to form the lower portion or half-shell 9 ( Figure 4) of the pod 3 being formed by the machine.
- FIGS 1, 2a and 3 show a feeder unit 1 consisting of rotary feeders 10 in the form of a feed screw 11 rotating about a vertical axis 12 inside a hollow, tubular, cylindrical container
- the cylindrical container 13 is mounted at a distance D from the conveyor 4 ( Figure 1) and supports, on its outer surface, a sliding precompactor 14.
- Figures 1 and 3 show the precompactor 14 which consists of a hollow, ring-shaped cap 15 fixed to a hollow, cylindrical, tubular element 16.
- One end 17 of the tubular element 16 is designed to engage with the gear wheel (not shown here) of a motor unit (also not shown here) which rotates the tubular element around the cylinder 13 on special bearings and around the axis 12; the tubular element also slides vertically (arrow F in Figures 1 and 3) on the cylinder 13 between a rest position A, where the cap 15 is positioned at a distance from the conveyor 4 substantially the same as the distance D ( Figure 1) , and an operating position B where the cap 15 is designed to act on the upper portion of the powdered coffee dose C fed into the pod impression 8 by the feed screw 11 in order to aid the uniform distribution of the dose C ( Figure 3) by levelling it out uniformly inside the impression 8.
- FIGS 2a and 2b show the end of the feed screw 11 where there is a separator 18 consisting of blades 19 extending radially at one end of a rotary cylinder 20 which rotates around the cylinder 13 which in turn rotates, independent of the feed screw 11 action, together with the tubular element 16 to which it is connected.
- the rotary blades 19 are designed to act on the coffee dose C in the impression 8 already distributed uniformly by the action of the rotary cap 15 and thereby produce a dynamic separation between the dose C and the lower end of the screw feed 11.
- the blades 19 are rotated together with the precompactor 14 by the tubular element 16 to which they are both connected and rotate together with the feed screw 11 to aid the flow of coffee downwards towards the impressions 8 when the feed screw 11 itself is rotating; when the feed screw 11 stops rotating, the blades 19 continue to rotate thus producing a dynamic separation.
- the tubular element 16 slides downwards from position A to position B and, at the same time, rotates around the cylinder 13. This has the effect of rotating the feed screw 11 of the unit 1 so that a coffee dose C drops down into the impression 8.
- the rotary cap 15 presses down and rotates on the upper part of the dose C currently being formed thus effectively and uniformly precompacting the dose C being formed so that it is uniformly distributed inside the impression 8; a paper presser 21 mounted on the element 14 holds and stabilises the filter paper strip 5 while the dose C is being compacted.
- the blades 19 of the separator-leveller 18 continue to rotate thus separating the dose C from the feed screw 11.
- the tubular element 16 travels upwards carrying the cap 15 of the precompactor 14 back to the home position A.
- the impression 8 now filled with the precompacted dose C, moves forward towards another presser element (of a known type and not shown here) which completes compaction of the dose C after the conveyor 4 feeds forward by one step in the direction L.
- the next impression 8 is now in position under the feed screw 11 ready to be filled with a new dose from the feeder unit 1.
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Priority Applications (4)
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|---|---|---|---|
| JP2007520915A JP4741590B2 (en) | 2004-07-16 | 2005-06-30 | Powder leaching material supply unit to filter pack manufacturing machine |
| EP05755421A EP1786676B1 (en) | 2004-07-16 | 2005-06-30 | A machine producing filter packs comprising a unit for feeding infusion material |
| US10/569,736 US7614205B2 (en) | 2004-07-16 | 2005-06-30 | Unit for feeding infusion material to a machine producing filter packs |
| DE602005007248T DE602005007248D1 (en) | 2004-07-16 | 2005-06-30 | A FILTERSETZDRODUCTIVE MACHINE WITH ONE UNIT FOR DISPOSAL OF INFUSION MATERIAL |
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| IT000442A ITBO20040442A1 (en) | 2004-07-16 | 2004-07-16 | UNIT FOR THE SUPPLY OF MATERIAL FROM INFUSION TO A MACHINE PRODUCING PACKAGES IN FILTER MATERIAL |
| ITBO2004A000442 | 2004-07-16 |
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| WO2006008624A1 true WO2006008624A1 (en) | 2006-01-26 |
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| US (1) | US7614205B2 (en) |
| EP (1) | EP1786676B1 (en) |
| JP (1) | JP4741590B2 (en) |
| CN (1) | CN100471761C (en) |
| AR (1) | AR053089A1 (en) |
| AT (1) | ATE396924T1 (en) |
| DE (1) | DE602005007248D1 (en) |
| ES (1) | ES2307186T3 (en) |
| IT (1) | ITBO20040442A1 (en) |
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| WO (1) | WO2006008624A1 (en) |
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