EP1037803A1 - Device for producing filled, sealed tubular pouch packaging - Google Patents
Device for producing filled, sealed tubular pouch packagingInfo
- Publication number
- EP1037803A1 EP1037803A1 EP98962271A EP98962271A EP1037803A1 EP 1037803 A1 EP1037803 A1 EP 1037803A1 EP 98962271 A EP98962271 A EP 98962271A EP 98962271 A EP98962271 A EP 98962271A EP 1037803 A1 EP1037803 A1 EP 1037803A1
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- Prior art keywords
- cutting
- plates
- clips
- bending
- knobs
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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
- B65B51/00—Devices for, or methods of, sealing or securing package folds or closures; Devices for gathering or twisting wrappers, or necks of bags
- B65B51/04—Applying separate sealing or securing members, e.g. clips
Definitions
- the invention relates to a device for producing filled, sealed tubular bag packages from a filled tube, the filled tube being gathered to form the ends of two successive tubular bag packages and the gathered area of the tube being closed with two spaced-apart closure clips, two groups of Saddle plates can be moved from two opposite sides against the area of the hose to be gathered and devices for cutting and bending the wires provided for the closure clips and a transport device for the U-shaped closure clips are provided for the gathered area.
- EP 0 685 397 C1 describes a device for producing filled, closed tubular pouch packs from a filled tube, in which the individual movable parts of the device are driven by various pneumatic cylinders.
- This type of drive has proven itself, but is not so well suited for higher outputs of, for example, more than 45 cycles per minute. In addition, it is characterized by high energy consumption and a large amount of noise.
- DE-AS 11 40 851 discloses the principle of driving the moving parts of the device by means of linearly movable curve templates. The problem arises, however, that the movement must be symmetrical to the axis of a continuous tubular bag pack so that it is not distorted. In the construction disclosed, this requires a double drive, which must be synchronous. This makes the device complex and large.
- DE 36 10 010 C2 specifies a device for dividing tubular sleeves, in which the moving parts are also driven by rotating cams.
- this construction is characterized by a high manufacturing effort, since the cams must act in two directions.
- the object of the present invention is to design a device according to the preamble in such a way that these disadvantages are eliminated, in particular higher performance is made possible.
- This object is achieved in that the gathering plates and the devices for cutting and bending can be driven by a common drive shaft via rotating cams.
- the device according to the invention with the central cam drive enables a dead-time-free synchronous sequence, the individual functions being coordinated with one another in such a way that they run without dead-time in succession or in parallel.
- the total time from the manufacture of the closure clip to the finished sealed package is thus reduced, so that the desired increase in performance is made possible.
- the device according to the invention performs the following functions:
- the device according to the invention can be designed in such a way that all movements are transmitted in a space-saving manner radially parallel to the functional elements via push rods. It is preferably provided in the device according to the invention that two bidirectionally acting cam disks and a further bidirectionally acting cam disk are provided for the transport device for each group of packer plates.
- the devices for cutting, bending and profiling the locking clips according to EP 0 685 397 can be arranged on external shirring plates and driven with them.
- the transport device is arranged between the outer shirring plates and that the finished locking clips from the device for cutting and bending can be pushed in by openings in the outer shirring plates of plungers which are about Rocker arm and other cams can be driven.
- a cutting device provided for separating the tubular bag packs also requires a drive in the direction of the packer plates, which is, however, offset in time from the latter.
- An additional cam disk for this drive is saved according to an advantageous embodiment of the device according to the invention in that a further cam for actuating a cutting device is arranged on at least one of the cam disks provided for the group of outer shirring plates.
- a feed device for the wires is connected to the common drive shaft via a chain transmission and has two oppositely opening clamping devices for the wires, one of the clamping devices being able to be moved back and forth via a cam in the direction of the wires is. This creates an advantageous drive for the wires to be moved perpendicular to the general direction of movement, which runs synchronously with the other movements of the device according to the invention.
- a compact and space-saving construction is achieved in another advantageous embodiment of the device according to the invention in that, similarly to that disclosed in EP 0 685 397, two strips are provided which extend in the direction of movement of the shirring plates and are connected at their ends to form a frame over the largest Part of its length is designed as a guide for holding blocks which hold the rafters, and each further has a bearing for the common drive shaft, the strips preferably also being provided with elongated holes for the wires fed to the devices for cutting and bending.
- the device according to the invention is preferably designed in such a way that one rotation of the common drive shaft is provided for a working stroke of the packer plates, for transporting and closing the closure clips and for separating the tubular bag packs.
- the speed of the common drive shaft can be controlled continuously.
- the cams are shaped in such a way that the time in which the shirring plates are open is greater than the time in which the shirring plates are closed.
- Closing device must be interrupted constantly.
- the closing device can thus be used in an energy-saving endurance run. It is therefore no longer necessary for the dosing device upstream of the closing device to work with the closing device in the following cycle, that is to say that the closing device is started after the dosing process has ended.
- the drive motor is equipped with a flywheel. As a result, the angle dependence of the drive torque is alleviated due to the various work steps gathering, closing clip cutting, closing clip forming, closing clip closing and opened device.
- Filled tubular bags are preferably closed with the device according to the invention in such a way that the filling material is displaced from the closing area when the already filled tube is gathered with the shirring plates, whereby an air-free filling is produced.
- filling goods such as food or other highly viscous products, such as sealants, which are smooth, lubricious and flowable and do not contain any abrasive components.
- one development of the device according to the invention is a displaceability in the longitudinal direction with respect to the tubular bag packs supplied from above and such a shape of the cams provided that the gathering begins above the fill level, continues while lowering the device, and a closure with closing clips takes place when the gathering has reached the fill level.
- the closure clips are produced fully automatically from the continuous wire in the device, i.e. The wire is pushed into the cutting station with the specified length and cut there. If the wire knives are damaged, blunt or poorly adjusted, there is a risk that the interface, i.e. the face of the locking clip, not clean and smooth, but sharp-edged and can be provided with a burr. Since the closure clip wraps tightly around the film after it has been rolled up, injury to the pouch envelope cannot be ruled out.
- a notch element for notching the wire before cutting is provided at the later interface, which is arranged in this way is that the end of the closure clip is provided on the side facing the casing material after cutting with a rounded smooth bevel.
- notching tools are integrated in the holding tongs of the wire feed device.
- the holding pliers of the wire feeder are thus provided with notching tools and the closing forces are designed so that the locking wire can be preformed at the desired location.
- the bags sealed with closing clips are often subjected to excess pressure after completion, for example the pressure when stacked in box pallets, the weight of the bags resting on the lower layers.
- An overpressure also arises during the thermal aftertreatment of food bags, such as sausages for preservation purposes (broths, smokes, etc.). The heating creates a higher internal pressure. This can lead to the closure clip sliding off and thus to the destruction of the package, in particular where slip-resistant or grease-coated casing material is used.
- closure clips with a profile on the inside for example by AT 171 031 or DE 38 11 978 C1, have become known.
- a stamp penetrating into the closing clip to be formed has a profile on its end face is provided for embossing an adhesive profile at the bottom of the locking clip.
- knobs are arranged in several rows, the knobs being offset by half a distance from row to row. It can be provided that the knobs are lenticular, triangular-pyramid-shaped or square-pyramid-shaped and / or that a central row of knobs is formed from a plurality of caterpillar-shaped knobs extending in the longitudinal direction of the adhesive profile.
- FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an embodiment
- FIG. 2 is an exploded view of the embodiment
- Fig. 3 and Fig. 4 are two views of part of the embodiment
- FIG. 5 is a perspective view of the cutting and bending device
- Fig. 12 shows the wire within a notching tool.
- the number of shirring plates can be selected by the person skilled in the art in individual cases, with eight shirring plates often being advantageous.
- four embodiment plates 1, 2, 3, 4 are shown in the exemplary embodiment, of which the position plates 1, 2 attack an already filled hose 5 from one side and the position plates 3, 4 from the other side and gather them so far that a closing clip can be applied for closing.
- the gathering plates 1, 2 are held by a holding block 6, the gathering plates 3, 4 by a holding block 7.
- the holding blocks 6, 7 each have guides at the bottom and top which engage in guide rails 8, 9.
- the guide rails 8, 9, together with end pieces 10, 11, form a frame which, in addition to guiding the shirring plates, has bearings 12, 13 for the common drive shaft 14.
- the drive shaft 14 is connected to a geared motor 15, the speed of which can be adjusted with a controller 16.
- the drive shaft 14 carries a total of seven cams 21 to 27 and a sprocket 28.
- the cams 21 to 27 and the sprocket 28 are connected to the drive shaft 14 in a manner known per se by means of grooves and springs.
- the movement of the rafters 3, 4 takes place with the aid of the cam disks 21, 27, which are each provided with a circumferential groove and thus act bidirectionally.
- the power transmission between the cam disks 21, 27 and the holding block 7 is carried out by rods 31, 32, which are each connected at one end to the holding block 7 by suitable fastening means and have a bearing plate at their other ends, each with an axis for a sliding roller 33, 34, which rolls in the respective groove.
- the holding block 6 for the rafters 1, 2 is moved over a rod 36, 37 by cams 22, 26, which are constructed in a similar manner to the cams 21, 27 for the rafters 3, 4.
- cams 22, 26, which are constructed in a similar manner to the cams 21, 27 for the rafters 3, 4.
- the cam disc 22 additionally has a cam 38 which moves a push rod 40 via a sliding roller 39 and serves to drive a cutting device.
- a spring not shown, guides the push rod 40 back to its starting position after the finished tubular bag pack has been cut off.
- the wires fed by a wire feed device 41 are each fed along lines 42 to a device for cutting and bending, which is highlighted by a circle in FIG. 2 and shown in more detail in FIG.
- This device does not require a separate drive since the cutting and bending of the wires by the movement of the Raffer plates 1, 2 is made.
- the closure clips which are already bent in a U-shape, are then pushed through openings 43 in the shirring plates 1, 2 into a transport device.
- a plunger 44, 45, a rocker arm 46, 47 and a slide roller 48, 49 are provided on each side of the rafters, which are each operatively connected to a cam plate 25, 23.
- Brackets 50 which are arranged on struts 51 connecting the guide rails 8, 9, serve as pivot bearings for the rocker arms 46, 47.
- the transport device is not shown in the figures, but is described in more detail in EP 0 685 397 C2.
- a further cam plate 24, together with a slide roller 52 and a rod 53 serves as a drive for the transport device of the U-shaped closing clips from a position behind the opening 43 to the gathered tubular bag pack (closed position).
- the wire feed device comprises two clamping devices 63, 64, with the aid of which the wires can each be clamped between a block and a clamping plate.
- the clamping devices 63, 64 are actuated alternately via cam disks 65, 66, the cam disks being arranged on a drive shaft 67 with a chain wheel 68 and a bevel gear 69.
- the bevel gear 69 together with the sprocket 28 and a chain 70 form a chain gear with the transmission ratio of 1, so that the drive shaft 67 is driven synchronously with the drive shaft 14.
- the upper clamping device 63 is arranged vertically displaceably on two guide rods 71, 72 and is moved up and down by means of a cam disk 73 which is in engagement with a rod 74.
- the cam disc is driven via a bevel gear 75, which is in engagement with the bevel gear 69.
- the bevel gears 69 and 75 have the same Number of teeth, so that the cam disk 73 is moved synchronously with the cam disks 21 to 27 arranged on the drive shaft.
- the clamping device 63 While the clamping device 63 is running down closed, the non-displaceable clamping device 64 is open so that the wires are advanced. In the lower position of the clamping device 63, the clamping device 64 is closed and the clamping device 63 is opened so that it can return to the upper position without moving the wires.
- the filled hose 5 is one
- Tubular bag filling device supplied, which is known per se and need not be described in connection with the present invention. To clarify the movement of the already filled tube 5, only foil straps 17, 18 are shown in FIG. 1. A suitable tubular bag filling device is described, for example, in EP 0 739 292 C2.
- FIG. 5 shows a device for cutting and bending the locking clips in an enlarged view compared to FIG. 2 with a bending punch 81 and a cutting block 82 on the packer plate 1, which can be moved back and forth in the direction of the double arrow.
- the cutting block 82 and thus the wire 42 are moved to the left against the shear bar 83, so that the downward end 84 of the wire 42 is cut off.
- the cut wire end is pressed by the further movement of the shirring plate 1 to the left of the bending die 81 into the bending die 85, so that a U-shaped locking clip results.
- the U-shaped locking clip is pushed by the plunger 44 through the opening 43 (FIG. 1) in the rafters plate 1 into a guide groove in a transport device (not shown) behind the rafters plate 1. From there, the U-shaped closure clip is pushed into the position required to close the closure clip on the shirred hose and pressed there against an existing bending die, so that the legs of the closure clip are bent around the shirred area of the hose.
- Fig. 6 shows the stamp 81 and an already bent locking clip 85 in two views.
- An adhesive profile 87 is applied to the bottom 86 of the closure clip 85, for which purpose the stamp 81 is provided with the negative 89 of the adhesive profile 87.
- the closing clip which is thus provided with an adhesive profile, is pushed onto the shirred film and closed without further deforming work steps. So there are no further operations in which the adhesive profile could be damaged in any way. Experiments have shown that with superior adhesive patterns, significantly better adhesive results are achieved than is the case with area-wide depressions.
- the individual segments of the raised adhesive pattern are designed in the form of triangular pyramids and are arranged in rows so that the adhesive profile covers the entire gathered surface of the envelope transversely to the possible sliding direction of the clip.
- the triangular pyramids are aligned against the force to be expected so that the individual segments interlock with the film.
- Such an adhesive profile is shown in Fig. 8.
- Others can Adhesive profiles are used, for example in the form of lenses (Fig. 7) and square pyramids (Fig. 6) or beads, which are arranged according to Figures 9 and 10 in a middle row between two outer rows of pyramids.
- Another advantage of the device described in connection with FIG. 6 is that the bottom of the closure clip is slightly flattened when the adhesive profile is embossed. This provides the adhesive profile with an enlarged effective area. With the offset arrangement of the knobs, an improved gas tightness of the closure clip can also be achieved.
- FIG. 11 shows a section of a wire in three views, into which a notch 95 is made in the later sectional plane 94.
- Fig. 12 shows such a wire within the notching tool, which consists of a resistor 96 and a punch 97, also in three views.
- This notching tool can preferably be integrated into the holding tongs of the wire feed device.
- the distance between the notching tool and the wire knife is an integer multiple of the wire length provided for each locking clip.
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DE19754199A DE19754199C1 (en) | 1997-12-06 | 1997-12-06 | Device for producing filled, sealed tubular bag packs |
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PCT/DE1998/003364 WO1999029574A1 (en) | 1997-12-06 | 1998-11-16 | Device for producing filled, sealed tubular pouch packaging |
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EP1037803A1 true EP1037803A1 (en) | 2000-09-27 |
EP1037803B1 EP1037803B1 (en) | 2002-04-24 |
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