EP3180279A1 - Dispositif de transformation d'un flux de récipients étroit en un flux de récipients large - Google Patents

Dispositif de transformation d'un flux de récipients étroit en un flux de récipients large

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EP3180279A1
EP3180279A1 EP15734622.2A EP15734622A EP3180279A1 EP 3180279 A1 EP3180279 A1 EP 3180279A1 EP 15734622 A EP15734622 A EP 15734622A EP 3180279 A1 EP3180279 A1 EP 3180279A1
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container
guide
axis
forming
transport
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Ulrich Scholz
Sebastian Götze
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KHS GmbH
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G47/00—Article or material-handling devices associated with conveyors; Methods employing such devices
    • B65G47/52—Devices for transferring articles or materials between conveyors i.e. discharging or feeding devices
    • B65G47/68—Devices for transferring articles or materials between conveyors i.e. discharging or feeding devices adapted to receive articles arriving in one layer from one conveyor lane and to transfer them in individual layers to more than one conveyor lane or to one broader conveyor lane, or vice versa, e.g. combining the flows of articles conveyed by more than one conveyor
    • B65G47/71—Devices for transferring articles or materials between conveyors i.e. discharging or feeding devices adapted to receive articles arriving in one layer from one conveyor lane and to transfer them in individual layers to more than one conveyor lane or to one broader conveyor lane, or vice versa, e.g. combining the flows of articles conveyed by more than one conveyor the articles being discharged or distributed to several distinct separate conveyors or to a broader conveyor lane
    • B65G47/715—Devices for transferring articles or materials between conveyors i.e. discharging or feeding devices adapted to receive articles arriving in one layer from one conveyor lane and to transfer them in individual layers to more than one conveyor lane or to one broader conveyor lane, or vice versa, e.g. combining the flows of articles conveyed by more than one conveyor the articles being discharged or distributed to several distinct separate conveyors or to a broader conveyor lane to a broader conveyor lane
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G15/00—Conveyors having endless load-conveying surfaces, i.e. belts and like continuous members, to which tractive effort is transmitted by means other than endless driving elements of similar configuration
    • B65G15/30—Belts or like endless load-carriers
    • B65G15/50—Endless load-carriers consisting of a series of parallel ropes or belt strips
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G2201/00—Indexing codes relating to handling devices, e.g. conveyors, characterised by the type of product or load being conveyed or handled
    • B65G2201/02—Articles
    • B65G2201/0235—Containers
    • B65G2201/0244—Bottles
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G2207/00—Indexing codes relating to constructional details, configuration and additional features of a handling device, e.g. Conveyors
    • B65G2207/08—Adjustable and/or adaptable to the article size

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  • the invention relates to a device having the features of the preamble of patent claim 1.
  • Devices of this kind are known (DE 43 17 069 A1), for example also as outlet tables of container treatment machines, and serve to provide e.g. one-lane container stream at the exit of a
  • Container handling machine for example, at the output of a labeling machine to transform into a wide container flow (mass flow), whose delivery width corresponds to a multiple of the diameter of the container.
  • the container guide of such a device is basically realized by at least one inclined, ending on the discharge conveyor ramp or container guide, whereby the
  • Container flow is converted to the large delivery width, which then corresponds to the delivery width of the discharge conveyor.
  • the large delivery width which then corresponds to the delivery width of the discharge conveyor.
  • the transport plane for the container forming conveyor belts designed as a hinge belt chains.
  • the object of the invention is an apparatus for forming a narrow, preferably single-lane container stream into a wide container stream
  • a device for forming the container stream according to the patent claim 1 is formed.
  • the essential advantage of the device according to the invention consists first of all in that the forming of the narrow, for example single-lane, container stream into a broad container stream, i. can be achieved in a container flow with a large delivery width already on a conveyor line with a shortened length.
  • both containers made of plastic or PET, and containers made of glass can be transported equally stable and quiet.
  • the length of the transport path, which is required in the apparatus according to the invention for the transformation of the narrow container stream into the wider container stream and which includes the delay line and the forming section is in the
  • the projections of the two container guides or guide rails of the forming area to the transport plane of the container in a region between the two limit curves as mentioned in claim 1 are that also a container guide the Umform Schemes, which is provided lying inside on the change that undergoes the transport direction of the container on the delay section, at least in a subsequent to the container inlet of Umform Schemes section at its inner side leading the container convexly curved about at least one axis perpendicular to the transport plane is and • that the other opposing container guide of the forming area is concavely curved in at least one axis perpendicular to the transport plane in a subsequent to the container inlet of Umform Schemes section on its inner side leading the container
  • the container outlet of the forming region is also offset in the axial direction in the device according to the invention, which is oriented parallel to the transport plane and also perpendicular to the circulation or conveying direction of the conveyor belts forming this transport plane. Also, in particular, are the
  • Forming conveyor belts preferably driven via reductions with different conveying speed, in such a way that with increasing distance, the conveyor belts have in the aforementioned axial direction of the container inlet, and their conveying speed decreases.
  • the conveyor belts forming the transport plane, their storage and drives and the container guides (guide railings) are provided on a substructure or machine frame.
  • this machine frame has a width of about 71 1 mm. This width results from three laterally adjoining conveyor belts, which form the container inlet and in particular the delay line, from an additional
  • each conveyor belt is about 85 mm.
  • the remaining width of the machine frame not occupied by the conveyor belts serves e.g. for receiving a support frame, in particular for the container guides and a side wall.
  • the number of conveyor belts and thus also the width of the device and its machine frame can deviate from this.
  • the conveyor belts are chains in the inventive device preferably transport chains, in particular hinge.
  • delivery width is to be understood as meaning the width that the container flow occupies in an axial direction parallel to the transport plane on which the containers stand with their bottom and perpendicular to the respective conveying direction or because of the course of the lateral container guides.
  • Containers in the sense of the invention are in particular cans and bottles, in each case made of metal, glass and / or plastic, but also other packaging means which are suitable, for example, for filling liquid or viscous products.
  • FIG. 1 is a simplified representation in plan view of an embodiment of the device according to the invention for forming a conveyed narrow and in the embodiment einspurigen container flow in a queried wide container stream, with an ideal for this forming course of an outer and an inner container guide of
  • Figure 2 is a view similar to Figure 1 with two limit curves for the outer and inner container guide.
  • Fig. 3 is a partial length of a container guide forming profile.
  • X and Y are the axes oriented perpendicular to each other (X-axis, Y-axis) of a coordinate system whose intersection forms the zero point NP of the coordinate system.
  • the distance from the Y-axis in the direction of the X-axis will be referred to below as x and the distance from the X-axis in the direction of the Y-axis will be denoted by y below.
  • the device for converting the single-lane container stream into a wider, multi-lane container stream consists of its basic function of a Zuforderer 1, a subsequent to the feeder 1 in the transport direction A forming area 2 and from a discharge conveyor 3, with respect to the feeder 1 in The direction of the Y-axis is offset and on the the wide
  • Container flow is discharged in the transport direction B with a delivery width which corresponds to a multiple of the diameter of the container 4.
  • Transport directions A and B are each oriented parallel to the X-axis, which together with the Y-axis form a horizontal or substantially horizontal transport plane or surface, on which the container 4 with its bottom upstanding from the feeder 1 via the forming area 2 at the discharge conveyor 3 are moved.
  • the forming area 2 forms immediately after the Zuforderer 1 then a container inlet 2.1, then a delay line 2.2, on which the transport direction of the container 4 is increasingly changing and the
  • Delivery speed of the container 4 is delayed such that at least in normal operation on the delay line 2.2 reliable first a one-lane container flow is formed in which the container 4 directly follow each other or touch.
  • the delay line 2.2 then follows in the transport direction, the forming section 2.3, on which increasingly forms the broad container flow.
  • the discharge conveyor 3 connects.
  • Conveyor belts (preferably hinge bands) formed, which are denoted in Figure 1 with 4.1 - 4.7 and according to the value of their numbering in an axial direction parallel to the Y-axis laterally adjoin one another, wherein the conveyor belt 4.7 with the highest value of its numbering in the
  • Axial direction parallel to the transport plane and parallel to the Y-axis has the largest distance from the container inlet 2.1 and is immediately adjacent to the selected for the figure 1 representation of the X-axis.
  • the conveyor belts 4.1 - 4.7 form in the manner known to those skilled in each case a self-contained loop and are endlessly driven by drives circumferentially and arranged such that the upper horizontal or substantially horizontal lengths of these loops form the transport plane, with a transport direction parallel to the X-axis.
  • the upper feed conveyor 1 with the greatest distance y from the X axis in the illustration of FIG. 1 is part of the container inlet 2.1 and, for example, also part of the feed conveyor 1.
  • the conveyor belts 4.1 and 4.2 and also partially the conveyor belt 4.3 form the transport plane of the increasingly oblique
  • Transport direction A extending delay line 2.2.
  • the conveyor belts 4.4 - 4.7 and sometimes even the conveyor belt 4.3 form the transport plane of the forming section 2.3, wherein the conveyor belts 4.4 - 4.7, for example, the conveyor belts at least a partial length of the discharge conveyor 3 and thus extend in the transport direction B on the container outlet 2.4 out.
  • the conveyor belts 4.1 - 4.3 are driven, for example, at the same conveying speed v.
  • Conveying speed v Conveying speed v, but also different from each other.
  • the conveying speed v4 of the conveyor belt 4.4 by a reduction or by a factor i4 is smaller than the conveying speed v and also conveyor speeds v5 - v7 decrease by a factor with increasing value of their indices, ie the conveying speed v5 of the conveyor belt 4.5 by one Factor i5 is smaller than the conveying speed v4, the
  • Conveying speed v6 of the conveyor belt 4.6 by a factor i6 is smaller than the conveying speed v5 and the conveying speed v7 of Conveyor belt 4.7 by a factor of i7 is smaller than the conveying speed v6, and preferably according to the following table:
  • the different conveying speeds v and v4 - v7 are achieved, for example, using a common drive with corresponding reduction ratios in the drive train.
  • the feed conveyor 1 has two lateral container guides 5 and 6 (eg.
  • the inner container guide 7 is followed by a
  • the outer container guide 8 is followed by a container guide 10 of the discharge conveyor 3, which extends parallel to the X-axis and has a distance y from the X-axis equal to the conveying width of the transformed container stream and the discharge conveyor 3.
  • the container guides 5, 6, 9, 10 extend in the illustrated embodiment in each case parallel or substantially parallel to the X-axis.
  • the container guides 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and / or 10 are for example
  • the container guides 7 and 8 generally extend obliquely to the X-axis, for example in such a way that a imaginary connecting line L1 between the beginning of the container guide 7 on the container inlet 2.1 and the end of the container guide 7 at the container outlet 2.4 an angle ⁇ of about 25 ° - 30 ° with X-axis, preferably 30 ° or substantially 30 ° with the X-axis includes, and that a connecting line L2 between the beginning of the container guide 8 on the container inlet 2.1 and the end of the container guide 8 at the container outlet 2.4 an angle ß of 13 ° - 15 °, preferably 15 ° or substantially 15 ° with X-axis ,
  • the two container guides 7 and 8 are not rectilinear, but curved and / or curved, namely in the embodiment shown in Figure 1 in such a way that the container guide 7 on its side facing away from the connecting line L1, the container 4 inside leading convex and the container guide 8 at its container 4 leading inside are S-shaped curved, respectively about axes perpendicular to the transport plane.
  • the inner side of the container guide 7 with increasing distance x from the Y-axis initially has an increasing distance from the connecting line L1, then approaches again to the connecting line L1 and meets the connecting line L1 at the container outlet 2.4.
  • the inner side of the container guide 8 is initially concavely curved over a partial length starting from the container section 2.1 and in this case has an increasing distance from the connecting line L2 with increasing distance x from the Y axis and then approaches the connecting line L2 again.
  • the inside of the container guide 8 is then convexly curved and in this case has an increasing distance from the first with increasing distance x from the Y-axis
  • Connecting line L2 then approaches again to the connecting line L2 and meets this at the container outlet 2.4. At the transition between the two
  • Partial lengths intersects the inside of the container guide 8, the connecting line L2.
  • the width of the conveying path for the containers 4 increases from the width corresponding to the single-lane container stream to the width of the wide container stream, for example assuming a container diameter of e.g. 80 mm of 90 mm
  • the initially narrow single-lane container stream can be converted into the broad container stream in a manner that interacts with the different conveying speeds of the conveyor belts 4.1 - 4.7, whose delivery width corresponds to a multiple of the diameter of the container 4, ie in the case of 1 shows an ideal for the forming process of the container guides 7 and 8.
  • the container guide 7 ie for the course of the projection of the container guide 7 on the transport plane applies:
  • x is the distance from the Y axis or from a Y reference plane enclosing this axis and oriented perpendicular to the transport plane
  • y is the distance from the X axis or from an X reference plane enclosing this axis and oriented perpendicular to the transport plane.
  • a1 is a factor between 1, 03 and 1, 5, such that, for example
  • E means exponent.
  • the end points of the container guides 7 and 8 have the following coordinates or distances x and y:
  • Container guide 7 on the container inlet 2.1 x about 90 units, y 600 units
  • a unit is, for example, in the range 0.8 mm to 1, 0 mm.
  • the container guide 7 may also be designed so that it merges with a short concave on the inside section 7 'in the container guide 9.
  • FIG. 1 shows the ideal course of the container guides 7 and 8 in FIG.
  • Forming range 2 The actual course of the container guides 7 and 8 may deviate from this, for example by +/- 5%. For a trouble-free operation of the device, however, it is definitely necessary that the course of the
  • limit curve 7.1 i. for the course of the projection of the limit curve 7.1 on the transport plane, the following applies:
  • y 1 E-0.6 x 3 - 0,0015x 2 - 0,3439x + k4
  • x are the distance from the Y axis or from a Y reference plane which encloses this axis and oriented perpendicular to the transport plane
  • y the distance from the X axis or from an X reference plane enclosing this axis and oriented perpendicular to the transport plane
  • k1 and k2 are constants.
  • K3 a2 * k1, where a2 is a factor between 1, 02 and 1, 04, which is preferably 1.033.
  • k4 a3 * k1, where a3 is a factor between 1.18 and 1.2, which is preferably 1.177.
  • a3 is a factor between 1.18 and 1.2, which is preferably 1.177.
  • the region 12 lying between the two limit curves 7.1 and 8.1 is the permissible range in which, according to the knowledge underlying the invention, the container guides 7 and 8 or their projections on the
  • Transport level between the container inlet 2.1 and the container outlet 2.4 must extend to achieve the trouble-free deformation of the container stream. It has been found that only in compliance with these aforementioned limit curves 7.1 and 8.1 trouble-free forming of the single-lane container stream in the multi-lane container stream, especially in a multi-lane
  • Container flow is possible, the conveying width of which corresponds to at least four times the conveying width or lane width of the single-lane container stream. But it is also necessary
  • Transport plane is curved convex
  • Container 4 leading inside around at least one axis is curved concavely perpendicular to the transport plane.
  • the container guides 7 and 8 at least of the forming region 2 are realized in practice, for example, that along the course of the respective
  • Container guide 7, 8 a variety of attachment points or
  • Fastening elements 1 1 are provided, which then either a
  • A, B Transport or conveying direction X Coordinate or X-axis

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Attitude Control For Articles On Conveyors (AREA)
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  • Wrapping Of Specific Fragile Articles (AREA)
  • Feeding Of Articles To Conveyors (AREA)

Abstract

L'invention concerne un dispositif de transformation d'un flux de récipients étroit en un flux de récipients large qui possède une première largeur de convoyage, de préférence un flux de récipients à voie unique, en un flux de récipients large qui possède une largeur de convoyage agrandie par rapport à la première largeur de convoyage, comprenant un convoyeur d'alimentation (1) servant à acheminer les récipients (4) jusqu'à l'entrée des récipients (2.1) d'une zone de transformation (2), qui possède un segment de ralentissement (2.2) à la suite de l'entrée des récipients (2.1) dans le sens du transport des récipients (A) et, après celui-ci, un segment de transformation (2.3).
EP15734622.2A 2014-08-11 2015-06-30 Dispositif de transformation d'un flux de récipients étroit en un flux de récipients large Withdrawn EP3180279A1 (fr)

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PCT/EP2015/064824 WO2016023670A1 (fr) 2014-08-11 2015-06-30 Dispositif de transformation d'un flux de récipients étroit en un flux de récipients large

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