Classifications

• • 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
  • B65B7/00—Closing containers or receptacles after filling
  • B65B7/16—Closing semi-rigid or rigid containers or receptacles not deformed by, or not taking-up shape of, contents, e.g. boxes or cartons
  • B65B7/28—Closing semi-rigid or rigid containers or receptacles not deformed by, or not taking-up shape of, contents, e.g. boxes or cartons by applying separate preformed closures, e.g. lids, covers
  • B65B7/2842—Securing closures on containers
  • B65B7/2871—Securing closures on containers by gluing
• • 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
  • B65B51/02—Applying adhesives or sealing liquids
  • B65B51/023—Applying adhesives or sealing liquids using applicator nozzles
• • 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
  • B65B57/00—Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices
  • B65B57/02—Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices responsive to absence, presence, abnormal feed, or misplacement of binding or wrapping material, containers, or packages
  • B65B57/08—Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices responsive to absence, presence, abnormal feed, or misplacement of binding or wrapping material, containers, or packages and operating to stop, or to control the speed of, the machine as a whole
• • 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
  • B65B65/003—Packaging lines, e.g. general layout
• • 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
  • B65B7/00—Closing containers or receptacles after filling
  • B65B7/16—Closing semi-rigid or rigid containers or receptacles not deformed by, or not taking-up shape of, contents, e.g. boxes or cartons
  • B65B7/28—Closing semi-rigid or rigid containers or receptacles not deformed by, or not taking-up shape of, contents, e.g. boxes or cartons by applying separate preformed closures, e.g. lids, covers
  • B65B7/2842—Securing closures on containers
  • B65B7/285—Securing closures on containers by deformation of the closure
• • 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
  • B65B59/00—Arrangements to enable machines to handle articles of different sizes, to produce packages of different sizes, to vary the contents of packages, to handle different types of packaging material, or to give access for cleaning or maintenance purposes
  • B65B59/003—Arrangements to enable adjustments related to the packaging material

Definitions

• the machines in relation to the manufacture of cardboard boxes are already known in the current state of the art.
• the boxes that are manufactured come from sheets of cardboard stamped with the measures determined for the formation of the box in particular. These boxes can be opened or with flaps to carry out the closing later.
• the closing process of the machines is also known in the state of the art, being used in the industry in a general way and, mainly, by companies dedicated to the delivery of parcels. Once the boxes have been filled, the closing process must proceed. In these cases, a distinction is made between boxes with flaps and open boxes without flaps.
• the flapless boxes also comprise an initial phase in which they must be closed by an independent lid.
• the covers used can be of two types: ones that incorporate a perimeter flange, so that they fit into the open perimeter edge of the box to be closed and others that are simply a flat sheet that is placed on the box.
• the closure must include a additional phase consisting of fixing the lid to the box.
• the application of packing tape or strapping is used, so that the closure is final, and must be broken to open the box.
• these methods of closing the boxes have the disadvantage that they have additional elements, such as the packing tape or the strap, which can be caught during handling and opened, triggering the emptying of the box and the subsequent logistic problem.
• the present invention solves this problem by presenting a machine for covering cardboard boxes that incorporates a lid with perimeter flaps that fold and then join the box by means of glue. In this way, the inviolability of the content is ensured, since any manipulation must break the lid without any possibility of repair.
• the present invention relates to a machine for covering boxes by implementing a flat lid with flaps that fold to attach them to the box by glue.
• the machine comprises a supply zone, a work zone and an exit zone.
• the supply zone incorporates a conveyor rail, at least one mechanism with elevators that acts on a box for a certain time, so that the box is raised and immobilized, creating a pause in the supply of boxes.
• the supply area incorporates brakes that, with the box in an elevated position, imprison it in a way that ensures its immobilization, either giving it stability or preventing it from being pushed by a box that comes from behind. It also incorporates a dimensional reading station to capture the dimensions of the box.
• the work area incorporates at least one gluing device configured to apply glue on a box, a cover or both. It also incorporates at least one capping device.
• the capping device comprises a vertical drive mechanism attached to a cross termination that incorporates two rails located in parallel to house the top.
• the cross termination also incorporates, in each of the arms, a folding device that is used to, once the vertical drive mechanism is deployed, fold the flaps of the lid and maintain the pressure for a predetermined time.
• Each of the folding devices incorporates an actuator and can be positioned along the respective arms of the cross termination, so that they are valid for different sizes of covers. The rotation movement of each folding device is activated by exerting pressure on the actuators.
• a lid positioner configured to move a lid and position it on the rails of the capping device.
• the exit zone also incorporates a conveyor rail for the extraction of the boxes of the machine.
• the machine can incorporate a mechanical arm with at least one vacuum cup and a lid feeder.
• the mechanical arm can be moved to remove covers from the feeder by vacuum suction cups.
• the machine capping device may also comprise a thrust plate fixed to the cross termination by means of at least one retractable shaft.
• the lid When the vertical drive mechanism is deployed, the lid is positioned on the box. As it continues to unfold, the lid leaves the rails until the push plate touches the lid and exerts pressure on a large surface of the lid, helping to adjust the position of the lid on the box.
• the retractable shafts contract, so that the push plate retracts and exerts pressure on the actuators, which cause the rotational movement of the folding devices.
• the machine can comprise two capping devices configured to act simultaneously on two caps.
• one of the capping devices when one of the capping devices is deployed to exert pressure on a lid, instead of remaining static for a pusher to drag the box later, it is the capping device itself that drags the box, so that Make the most of the time.
• the capping devices are located in opposite positions with respect to the longitudinal axis of the conveyor rail and are configured to move along two rails parallel to the conveyor rail. so that they do not interfere with each other.
• the other capping device moves in the folded position in the return direction.
• the activation of the different components of the machine can be carried out through electromechanical means.
• the cadence of the boxes in the supply zone, the activation and stop of the pushers, the activation of the mechanical arm and the suction cups for the extraction of a lid, the activation of the lid positioner to place the lid is controlled on the rails of the capping device and the activation of the capping device.
• the machine can also incorporate electronic means for process control, such as a configured microprocessor, in addition to activating the different components of the machine, to receive the data obtained at the dimensional reading station and make them accessible to the gluing devices and the capping device, so that they obtain data on the height of the box, the position of the lid and the dimensions of the lid.
• the different components are electrically connected to the microprocessor, physically or by wireless means.
• the gluing devices apply the tail cords in the predetermined position
• the capping devices have information on the height to be positioned so that Push plates exert pressure on the covers.
• FIG. 3 represents a side view of the machine supply area.
• FIG. 4 represents the lid feeding area.
• FIG. 5 represents a lid positioner
• FIG. 7 represents a sectional view of the capping device where the folding devices are shown in detail.
• FIG. 8 represents a plan view of the machine of the invention in the second embodiment.
• FIG. 10 represents a capping device in the second embodiment by pressing on the flaps of a lid on a box.

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