EP3212550A1 - Method and device for handling flat and/or film material which is wound onto reels - Google Patents
Method and device for handling flat and/or film material which is wound onto reelsInfo
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Definitions
- the present invention relates to a method and a device for
- containers which comprise four, six or more containers are known from the prior art.
- Such containers are still one of the most common variants of sales units for beverage containers or bottles made of PET plastic. As fast as possible
- a method and a device by means of which new rolls delivered and used rolls can be changed are known, for example, from DE 40 40 545 A1.
- This known device has several supply rolls with
- Strip material arranged side by side.
- the core of the rollers is placed in each case on a common pin.
- a beginning of the strip material is
- a device with a film splicing station in which the film web of a roll newly inserted into a packaging machine with the assistance of a holding device is fed to a welding device, is furthermore known from DE 10 2004 026 312 A1.
- the holding device can be designed, in particular, as a manually operable terminal strip with the aid of which a film beginning is drawn off from a new roll and made available to a transfer device which is suitable for feeding the paper
- the film can provide a welding device by means of which the film beginning is welded to a film web already in the packaging machine.
- the terminal strip is referred to there as a manually easy to handle tool, with which the film web can be brought into a suitable position.
- the terminal block is loose, i. not connected to the machine or the welder.
- An at least teilautomatisierbarees method for roll change and a corresponding device is known from DE 10 2013 1 10 944 A1.
- the new rolls of film to be supplied to a packaging machine are respectively mounted on differently configured exchange carrier units, which can be alternately inserted into the packaging machine in different installation positions. A manual feed of a free end of the new film rolls is unnecessary, since the
- the invention relates to a method for handling rolls
- the rollers may have a core whose geometric shape corresponds to a hollow cylinder and which may consist at least partially of cellulose-containing material.
- the respective new roll can hereby be placed on a pin corresponding to the core of the packaging machine and rotating upon removal or removal of packaging material from the roll rotating on the pin.
- At least partially unwound and / or used-up rolls for maintaining an approximately continuous or discontinuous packaging operation are taken from at least one installation position of a packaging machine and replaced in each case by new rolls of flat and / or film material.
- the method can also provide that the rolls, which are at least partially developed and / or used up to maintain a continuous packaging operation, are taken alternately from at least two different installation positions of a packaging machine and then each new roll with flat and / or sheet material are inserted into the respective installation position ,
- the at least one mounting position or each of the at least two mounting positions can, as previously mentioned, have a pin on which the new roll is placed and on which the respective roll rotates to unwind its respective flat and / or sheet material.
- the rollers can be fixed in a clamping manner on the journal of their respective installation position.
- the pin can be driven in rotation and a
- each pin can be assigned a drive over which the respective pin is rotated.
- the at least one installation position for the rolls with flat and / or sheet material wound thereon or the typically two installation positions with their rotatable holding means for the rolls with flat and / or sheet material can be designed to be adjustable in height about an adaptation To be able to make different roll diameter and / or a correction of the delivery paths with gradually depleted material supply of a developed and therefore gradually reducing in diameter role.
- Control unit are in communication or be controlled via a control unit described in more detail below for rotating the pin.
- the clamping connection between the pin and the roller can be released, so that the roller is then no longer firmly connected to the pin and can be removed from the pin ,
- the rotating movement of the pin can be interrupted until a new roll is placed on the pin or inserted into the corresponding installation position.
- the rolls which are at least partially developed and / or used up to maintain an approximately continuous packaging operation, may alternately be composed of at least two
- Each of the at least two mounting positions can, as previously mentioned, have a pin on which the new roll is placed and on which the respective roll for unwinding their respective flat and / or
- Film material rotates.
- the packaging company can be interrupted during the roll change or possibly continue uninterrupted.
- the above-mentioned variant with only one installation position for a roll allows only a continuous packaging operation during a roll change, if an additional storage for flat and / or sheet material is provided from which this material transported out during the roll change and made available to the packaging company can be.
- the procedure is basically a
- Packaging material of piece goods, containers or the like is
- Article compositions serving flat and / or sheet material, so that so that a continuously running packaging company can be maintained. For this purpose, however, at least two different mounting positions for each roll with flat and / or sheet material are required, so that in a
- Installation position roller can be continuously unwound, while the other installation position for a reel change and for providing new Flat and / or sheet material is available, so that depending on the configuration of the change and connection, bonding or welding process when
- the stripping can be effected mechanically, for example via negative pressure and / or clamping and a fixing rod, which engages the outward lying position of the respective new role and moves away from the respective new role.
- the fixing rod can be moved back and forth relative to the installation position for the roller or between the at least two installation positions.
- a welding rod may be provided, which is moved in the downward direction and in this case the outer layer of the respective new roll welded to the guided in the packaging machine material web.
- the respective outer layer can be moved into a working area of the welding rod.
- the welding rod can thus, in cooperation with the associated welding device, move the outer layer of the respective new roll against the material web guided in the packaging machine.
- the material web sections can be tempered and welded in this way.
- Embodiments of welding devices have proven effective in which the welding rod is moved vertically up and down, thereby introducing and positioning the material webs in the welding device, wherein, after a vertical lowering movement of the welding rod, the respective outward position of a new roll with one in the packaging machine guided material web to be welded.
- its direction of rotation and / or orientation in conformity with the direction of rotation is detected and / or checked by means of a detection device. In practice, this particular
- the invention is not limited to such embodiments, so that, for example, haptic and / or other mechanisms may be provided to check the direction of rotation and / or direction of rotation conforming orientation of the respective new role.
- a sensory recognition can optionally also with the aid of tactile detectors or a tactile, i. touching detection system, which can be arranged in the region of at least one mounting position. The detection system or the tactile or touching detector and the
- Handling device may be in communication with a control unit.
- Ultrasonic detectors or an ultrasound detection system take place, which can be arranged in the region of the installation positions for the rollers with flat and / or foil material wound thereon.
- the detection system or the ultrasonic detector and the handling device can in turn be in communication with the mentioned control unit. If the detected direction of rotation and / or rotational direction-compliant orientation match or corresponds to a predetermined desired orientation and / or desired direction of rotation, then the respective new roller can be inserted into its assigned installation position or remain in its respective assigned installation position. If an incorrect direction of rotation and / or a wrong rotational direction-compliant positioning determined by the detection device, an alignment correction of the respective new role is made or selected another new role with appropriate direction and / or direction of rotation orientation for insertion and inserted into the respective mounting position.
- Directionally correct positioning of a new role already used in their respective installation position checked by the detection device and / or determined. If an incorrect direction of rotation and / or an incorrect positioning in accordance with the direction of rotation has been detected by means of the detection device, then the respective new roller can be removed from the packaging machine, oriented in the direction of rotation or aligned with a suitable direction of rotation, and then returned to their respective installation position can be used.
- the direction of rotation conforming orientation or the orientation with the appropriate direction of rotation and re-insertion of the role in their respective mounting position can then before connecting or welding their outer layer with the remaining in the packaging machine
- Direction of rotation compliant orientation or appropriate direction of rotation are brought and then be used in the respective mounting position.
- an additional deflection roller can be used, which makes it possible to leave roles that would normally have to be reversed in place and to run the flat and / or film material unwound from this optionally usable deflection roller to the flat track guide to adapt to the required processing direction in the packaging machine. If, however, the roll with the flat and / or foil material wound thereon has been used in the appropriate direction of rotation, this additional deflection roll is not required, so that it can be moved or deactivated or removed from its place by machine.
- the at least partially wound and / or spent rolls can be removed independently by means of a handling device operatively connected to the detection device and new rolls of flat and / or sheet material in the intended installation position or in the optional two or more installation positions are used.
- a handling device operatively connected to the detection device and new rolls of flat and / or sheet material in the intended installation position or in the optional two or more installation positions are used.
- Deflection pulley for correcting the direction of rotation of a newly inserted roller can thus be carried out fully automatically.
- the handling device can be coupled to the detection device via a control unit.
- Packaging material in all of the at least two mounting positions - if the packaging machine is equipped with more than one installation position for rollers - are rotated with the same direction of rotation.
- the rollers may also rotate in different directions of rotation.
- the material webs can be pulled off from below or from above in the case of the rollers, after which the directions of rotation of the rollers are then also directed.
- Marking and in particular at least one reflective mark is applied, by means of which the detection device, the direction of rotation and / or
- the optical marking can be designed as an adhesive mark and glued to the lot of new roles in the region of their free ends or attached by means of surface adhesion.
- at least two optical markings or reflective markings can be provided for each free end of a new roll. If other than optical detection systems are used, it may be useful to attach such recognizable markings on the rollers, for example. Such markings that can be detected by means of ultrasonic detection devices or by means of tactile detection devices.
- the at least one marking or the at least one optical marking is applied to the respective new roll prior to insertion into its respective installation position in such a way that the free end of the respective new roll is at least substantially immovable at the respective new one by means of the marking Roll is fixed. Since hereby the free end is immovably fixed to the respective new role, after their respective insertion of the new role, their outer lying position in the vicinity or in the region of their free end can be easily removed. The removal can, as already mentioned, for example via a fixing rod, which preferably mechanically fixed or engages the outsize position of the new role in the region of its free end and then moves away from the new role to the outer layer of to subtract the new roll.
- pneumatic gripper or squeegee have been found that have a variety of suction points or holes or grooves on which a variable or fixed set vacuum is applied, so that so that the material webs can be reliably detected and gripped;
- pneumatic suction pads are also able to
- the optical detection device can have an optical detector, which is moved via the handling device into the area of the respective new roll and recognizes its respective optical marking for checking and / or determining the direction of rotation and / or positioning of the new roll in conformity with the direction of rotation.
- the optical detector can be designed as a camera system which is connected to a control unit. If other sensor systems or sensor principles are used, the detector used in each case can be moved via the handling device into the region of the respective new roll and recognize its respective detectable marking there for checking and / or determining the direction of rotation and / or positioning of the new roll.
- the detector as
- Ultrasonic detection system or be designed as a tactile detection system, which is in communication with a control unit.
- the handling device may have a retaining mandrel, which dips into the front side designed as a hollow body new role, its maximum cross-sectional diameter enlarged and hereby fixes the respective new role by clamping the handling device.
- the optically or otherwise operating detection system can be arranged in the region of the retaining mandrel, so that in a timely successive steps, first a review or a determination of the direction of rotation and / or directionally correct positioning of a respective new role can be performed and hereafter the respective new Role is taken at the appropriate direction of rotation and / or rotationally compliant positioning on the retaining pin of the handling device by increasing its maximum cross-sectional diameter.
- the longitudinal extent of the retaining mandrel can be made smaller with respect to a longitudinal extension of the hollow core of the new rolls, so that the respective new Roll can be pushed under engagement of the retaining mandrel in the core on one of the respective installation position of the packaging machine associated pin.
- the cross-sectional diameter of the retaining pin can be reduced in time thereto, so that the clamping connection between the retaining pin and the respective new role is solved.
- Handling device can then be guided in the direction of another new role, while the new role used via the handling device in the respective installation position is rotationally fixed on the pin assigned to the respective installation position.
- the new role used via the handling device in the respective installation position is rotationally fixed on the pin assigned to the respective installation position.
- the new rollers can be used in their respective installation position such that after insertion their free ends are oriented in the direction of an opposite of the at least two mounting positions.
- the at least one optical marking which has been applied to a lot of the new rolls in the area of their free ends is recognized by the optical detector or the optical detection system, an information item for this purpose is transmitted to a control unit and the Control unit the
- Handling device controls such that after insertion, the free ends of the new rollers in the direction of a respective opposite of the at least two
- Installation positions are oriented. The same applies in principle to other measuring principles that do not work with optical detection, so for example for tactile detection variants or for ultrasonic measurements o. The like. More.
- the detector or the optical detector or the optical or otherwise operating detection system is arranged in the region of at least two mounting positions and after insertion of a respective new role orientation of the at least one label (eg the optical label or the tactile detectable label or ultrasound detectable label) recognizes and transmits information to the control unit.
- the control unit can further cause a rotation of the pins on which the new rollers seat, so that after rotation, the free ends or the optical labels of the new roles in the direction of each
- the horizontal conveyor moved into the area of the handling device and the handling device are provided.
- the horizontal conveyor may be formed as a revolving endless conveyor belt. At the beginning or side of one
- a section of the horizontal conveyor can be positioned a manipulator, with the help of new roles preferably standing on the
- the handling device may optionally accept new rolls directly from the horizontal conveyor and into the packaging machine or in the at least two installation positions of the
- the manipulator may also have a retaining pin, which is frontally introduced into new roles or in a core of the new roles and engages by enlarging its cross-sectional diameter, the new roles.
- a retaining pin which is frontally introduced into new roles or in a core of the new roles and engages by enlarging its cross-sectional diameter, the new roles.
- the manipulator is manually operated and a placement of new roles by means of the manipulator via a user.
- the invention furthermore relates to a device for handling flat and / or film material wound on rolls and used as packaging material for packaging piece goods, containers or similar article compositions.
- the device can be provided. Furthermore, features which are referred to below as conceivable embodiments of the device according to the invention may be provided in various embodiments of the method according to the invention.
- the device comprises a packaging machine with at least one
- the device may also comprise a packaging machine having at least two different mounting positions, each for rotatably receiving rollers with flat and / or
- Part of the packaging machine are further one or more coupling means for aligning and connecting free end portions of flat and / or sheet material used in the installed position new role or in the at least two mounting positions respectively inserted new roles with a guided already in the packaging machine Material web are executed.
- the guided already in the packaging machine web can from a roll be deducted, which already at the onset of the new role in their respective
- Installation position is arranged in the packaging machine.
- flat and / or sheet material can be continuously unwound from at least one in the packaging machine or at least one roll of the at least two installation positions, whereby a continuous packaging operation can be ensured.
- Packaging machine is equipped with only one installation position for a single role with flat and / or film material for packaging purposes.
- Component of the one or more coupling means may be, for example, a welding rod and a fixing rod, as they have already been described above, so that their function and configuration will not be mentioned again for this reason.
- the device according to the invention also has at least one
- Detection device which preferably by means of an optical detection system or an optical detector for checking and / or determination of a direction of rotation and / or direction of rotation-conforming orientation respectively for the at least two
- Detection system or the optical detector may comprise at least one camera system.
- the device according to the invention also with
- the detection can optionally also with the aid of tactile detectors or a tactile, i. touching detection system, which can be arranged in the region of at least one mounting position.
- the detection system or the tactile or touching detector and the handling device can be in communication with a control unit.
- Ultrasonic detection system carried out, which can be arranged in the field of installation positions for the roles with it wound flat and / or sheet material.
- the detection system or the ultrasonic detector and the handling device can in turn be in communication with the mentioned control unit.
- the device has a control unit coupled to the detection device, by means of which information about the direction of rotation and / or direction of rotation can be output and / or by means of which an insertion of new roles with the appropriate direction of rotation and / or matching
- the device has an optical and coupled to the control unit display unit, such as a display or the like, via which information about the direction of rotation and / or
- Direction of rotation conforming orientation are shown. For example, it may be that in case of wrong direction of rotation or incorrect direction of rotation conforming orientation of new roles via the visual display unit an indication is issued to a user. It is also conceivable that information on the direction of rotation and / or direction-oriented orientation are output as an acoustic signal.
- Initiation may be carried out under operative connection of the control unit with a
- Handling device can be made or the handling device can with appropriate direction of rotation and / or direction of rotation conforming orientation of new roles for inserting a respective new role with the appropriate direction of rotation and / or
- Direction of rotation compliant orientation can be controlled.
- the handling device receives the respective new role and moves in the direction of one of the at least two mounting positions with a suitable detected and / or checked direction of rotation or direction of rotation conforming orientation.
- control unit with a
- Handling device is in communication, by means of which rollers with at least partially unwound and / or used roles independently from the respective installation position removed and new roles with matching direction and / or appropriate direction of rotation conforming orientation can be used independently in the at least two mounting positions.
- an algorithm can be stored on the control unit, wherein the algorithm takes into account the information provided by the
- Detection device detected direction of rotation and / or direction of rotation conforming orientation of each new role a specific control of
- Handling device is effected.
- rollers can optionally use an additional guide pulley come, which makes it possible to leave roles that would normally be reversed in place and to run the unwound flat and / or sheet material on this optional usable pulley to adapt the flat track guide to the required processing direction in the packaging machine. If, however, the roll with the flat and / or foil material wound thereon has been used in the appropriate direction of rotation, this additional deflection roll is not required, so that it can be moved or deactivated or removed from its place by machine.
- the handling device for clamping fixation of the new rollers designed as a hollow body may comprise a preferably cylindrically shaped retaining mandrel with an adjustable maximum cross-sectional diameter.
- Adjustment of the cross-sectional diameter can be done via the control unit or be specified by the control unit.
- the handling device may have a movable gripping arm, wherein at the free end of the gripper arm of the
- Holding mandrel is arranged.
- Horizontal conveyor is arranged upstream, resulting in a work area of
- Handling device extends.
- the handling device can be provided with new rolls on pallets or the like. It is also possible to place new rolls in a container or the like, which is located in the working area of the handling area and over which the handling device new roles are provided. The new rolls can be placed in a random manner or with any orientation in the container, wherein by means of the detection device, the direction of rotation and / or direction of rotation-compliant orientation can be checked and / or determined.
- the detection device may also have an optical detector or an optical detection system which is mechanically coupled to the
- Handling device is connected and is movable over the handling device in the direction of the respective provided for the at least two mounting positions new roles.
- the optical detector or the optical detection system can in this case be arranged in the region of a free end of a gripping arm of the handling device.
- the holding mandrel already described can be arranged in the region of a free end of a gripping arm of the handling device.
- the optical Detection system or the optical detector and the retaining mandrel can thus be moved together by the handling device to the respective new role.
- the optical detector or the optical detection system can also be designed as a camera system in conceivable embodiments of the device according to the invention.
- the detection device can have at least one detection system or a fixed detector fixed in the region of the at least two installation positions, whereby the direction of rotation and / or orientation of the respective new rollers inserted in the at least two installation positions can be detected via the detection system or the fixed detector. or verifiable.
- the fixed detection system or the fixed detector can also be designed as a camera system. It is conceivable that the device in the region of at least two mounting positions at least one fixed
- Detection system or a fixed detector has and also has a mechanically coupled to the handling device detector or coupled to the handling device detection system.
- the device may have only one fixed detection system or a fixed detector or a detection system mechanically coupled to the handling device or a detector mechanically coupled to the handling device.
- Fig. 1 shows a schematic perspective view of a first embodiment of a device according to the invention.
- Fig. 1 illustrates a conceivable
- FIG. 2 shows a schematic perspective view of another embodiment of a device according to the invention.
- FIG. 2 illustrates a further conceivable implementation of an embodiment for the method according to the invention
- Fig. 3 shows a schematic perspective view of two mounting positions, as they may be provided for a device according to the embodiments of Figures 1 and 2;
- Fig. 4 shows the mounting positions of Figure 3 with inserted new role for the second mounting position.
- Fig. 5 shows the installation positions of Figures 3 and 4 with deducted outer layer of the inserted into the second mounting position new role
- Fig. 6 shows a perspective view of a handling device, as may be provided for conceivable embodiments of the device according to the invention and for implementing the method according to the invention;
- Fig. 7 shows the handling device of Fig. 6 after receiving a new role with direction of rotation conforming orientation of a pallet.
- FIG. 1 The schematic perspective view of Fig. 1 shows a first
- FIG. 1 illustrates a possible implementation of an embodiment of the inventive method.
- the device 1 is used to handle packaging material or
- the new rollers 5 are fed via a handling device 7.
- the handling device 7 sets the respective new rollers 5 in two different installation positions EB1 and EB2, which can only be seen rudimentarily in FIG. 1 and are illustrated by way of example in the detail view of FIG.
- Device 1 can be operated continuously without having to interrupt the process for replacing an applied roll 5.
- the new rolls 5 are made up of packaging material or
- Horizontal conveyor 13 dips the handling device 7 via a retaining pin 17 frontally in a core 6 of the new role 5 a.
- handling device 7 can be moved in rotation about an axis of rotation 16, as shown by way of example in FIG. 6 of the present invention description. After immersing the retaining pin 17 in the core 6, the cross-sectional diameter of the retaining pin 17 is increased so that the new roll 5, as shown in Fig. 7, is fixed by clamping on the retaining pin 17.
- the core 6 is hollow cylindrical, the shape of the retaining pin 17 corresponding thereto, so that the retaining pin 17 is to be clamped fixation of the new roll 5 on its outer circumference with an inner circumferential surface of the core 6 in conjunction.
- the handling device 7 is provided with new rollers 5 in such a manner that upon removal of a new roller 5 from the horizontal conveyor device 13, a further new roller 5 in the direction of
- Handling device 7 is moved further or in the direction of
- the horizontal conveyor 13 can thus be clocked or continuously operated at a constant speed. Their operation is specified by the control unit S.
- Horizontal conveyor 13 are placed and the handling device 7 selects new rollers 5 with the appropriate direction of rotation or direction of rotation conforming orientation and inserted into the respective installation position EB1 or EB2 of the packaging machine 7.
- the new rollers 5 rest on a pallet 9, from which the user 30 receives them by means of the manipulator 12 and places them on the horizontal conveyor 13.
- a working area of the manipulator 12 therefore extends over the pallet 9 as well as a section of the horizontal conveyor 13.
- Shrink film of a placed in the packaging machine 3 roles 5 exhausted is removed by means of the handling device 7 made of cellulose or plastic core 6 of an empty roll 5 from the packaging machine 3 and stored in the container 20. Only after removal of the core 6, a new roll 5 can be used in the respective installation position EB1 or EB2 of the packaging machine 3, so that the handling device 7 first removes the core 6 and temporal nachauf following a new role 5 in the respective installation position EB1 or EB2 is used.
- Packaging machine 3 are in communication with a control unit S.
- the control unit S the clocked operation of the horizontal conveyor 13, initiates an insertion and removal of rollers 5 through the
- Handling device 7 from the two installation positions EB1 and EB2 and controls, as described in more detail below, a rolling of packaging material or shrink film of the rollers used in the packaging machine 7 5th
- the control unit S has or is also connected to a display, not shown, via which information about the direction of rotation or
- Direction of rotation conforming orientation of new roles 5 for a user 30 visible output.
- Control unit S is in communication. Since the handling device 7 can remove the respective core 6 of an empty roll 5 from the packaging machine 7 and with the aid of the detection device 23 independently uses new rollers 5 with suitable direction of rotation or direction of rotation in the packaging machine 3, the device 1 can be operated completely automatically from the horizontal conveyor 13 at least from the beginning of receipt of new rollers 5.
- FIG. 2 shows a further embodiment of the device 1 according to the invention.
- FIG. 2 illustrates a further conceivable implementation of an embodiment of the method according to the invention.
- the handling device 7 and the packaging machine 3 have an identical structure to the embodiment of FIG. 1. Furthermore, a control unit S is provided with the
- Handling device 7 and the packaging machine 3 is in communication.
- the handling device 7 takes new roles 5 directly from a
- Pallet 9 and sets this, provided they have a suitable direction of rotation or
- Handling device 7 via the detection device 23 detects new rollers 5 with the appropriate direction of rotation or direction of rotation conforming orientation and in the respective installation position EB1 or EB2 of the packaging machine 3 begins.
- Pallets 9 with new rollers 5 can be provided by a user 30 (see Fig. 1) or placed in the working area of the handling device 7.
- FIG. 3 illustrates two mounting positions EB1 and EB2, as they may be provided for a device 1 and a packaging machine 3 according to the embodiments of Figures 1 and 2.
- Each of the mounting positions EB1 and EB2 has its own pin 27, on which pin 27 new rollers 5 are attached via the handling device 7 (see FIGS. 1 and 2) and fixed in a clamping manner by increasing the diameter of the pins 27 on the respective pin 27.
- a welding bar 25 is shown, which ßeren for connecting a externa
- Position 15 (see Fig. 5) of the inserted into the respective installation position EB1 or EB2 new roller 5 (see Fig. 4) is provided with the remaining material in the packaging machine 3 MB and this is lowered vertically. After joining the externa ßeren layer 15 with the remaining material in the packaging machine 3 MB is the
- Welding beam 25 is raised vertically and brought into the position shown in Fig. 3.
- Fig. 3 sits in the first mounting position EB1 a roller 5 on the pin 27 of the first mounting position EB1 and is moved by the pin 27 rotating.
- Handling device 7 taken so that the second mounting position EB2 or the pin 27 of the second mounting position EB2 is ready for receiving a new roll 5 with packaging material.
- FIG. 3 also shows a detection device 23, which in the present case is composed of two cameras 19. So is the first installation position EB1 and the second
- Installation position EB2 each assigned its own camera 19.
- the exemplary embodiment according to FIG. 3 is to be understood merely as an example, so that further embodiments can be envisaged, in which two mounting positions EB1 and EB2 only one camera 19 is assigned whose detection range extends over the two mounting positions EB1 and EB2.
- the detection device 23 or the two cameras 19 are connected to a control unit S and are used for detection and / or checking a respective direction of rotation and / or direction of rotation conforming orientation of new roles. 5
- FIG. 4 The schematic perspective view of Fig. 4 shows the mounting positions EB1 and EB2 of FIG. 3 with inserted new role 5 for the second mounting position EB2.
- a new roller 5 has been pushed onto the journal 27 of the second installation position EB2 by means of the handling device 7 (compare FIGS. 1 and 2), with reference to FIG. Furthermore, packaging material or shrink film is unwound from the roller 5 of the first installation position EB1, so that the packaging machine 3 (see Figures 1 and 2) can continue to operate even when replacing the roller 5 from the second mounting position EB2. If a new roll 5 is inserted into the first installation position EB1, then packaging material or shrink film can still be unwound from the roll 5 of the second installation position EB2, thus enabling a continuous and uninterrupted operation of the packaging machine 3.
- the new roll 5 of the second mounting position EB2 of Fig. 4 has a reflective adhesive mark 22 which is applied to the externa ßere layer 15 of the new roll 5 in the region of its free end.
- the detection device 23 or the camera 19 assigned to the second installation position EB2 is now able to check by means of the adhesive marking 22 whether the new roller 5 has been pushed onto the journal 27 with a suitable direction of rotation or with a direction-conforming orientation.
- a synopsis of Figures 4 and 5 illustrates that with new role 5 of the second mounting position EB2 the externa ßere layer 15 is guided from above the roller 5 and dives in the downward direction.
- Positioning of new rollers 5 or insertion of new rollers 5 into the respective installation position EB1 or EB2 with a suitable direction of rotation is thus essential in order to be able to ensure trouble-free operation of the device 1 or the packaging machine 3.
- Detection device 23 and the cameras 19 an au ° lying layer 15 of new rollers 5 and the free end portions of new roles 5 without additional optical identification of the new rollers 5 recognize.
- Shape of the rotatable pin 27 for the rollers 5 with flat and / or sheet material can be made adjustable in height to about an adaptation to different roll diameter and / or a correction of the delivery paths with gradually exhausted material supply of a developed and therefore gradually in diameter to be able to make reducing role 5.
- the frame, on which the horizontally arranged pins 27 are rotatably supported and mounted have suitable means for adjusting the height of the rotatable pins 27.
- FIG. 6 shows a handling device 7, as they are for conceivable embodiments of the device 1 according to the invention and the
- the gripping arm 8 of the handling device 7 is pivotable about the horizontally oriented axis 16, so that the retaining pin 17 of the handling device 7 can be aligned for immersion in the core 6 of the respective new roll 5 with vertical orientation of its longitudinal axis. If the respective new roll 5 has been grasped by means of the handling device 7 or by means of the holding mandrel 17, the new roll 5 can be rotated about the axis 16 by a renewed pivotal movement of the gripping arm 8 and chronologically thereafter moved into its respective assigned installation position EB1 or EB2 (cf. Figures 3 to 5) are used.
- Fig. 6 shows a camera 21 and a detection device 23.
- the detection device 23 and the camera 21 is fixedly coupled to the gripping arm 8 mechanically, so that they together with the movement of the gripping arm 8
- Gripper arm 8 is guided. If the gripper arm 8 is pivoted about the axis 16, so by means of the camera 21 and the detection device 23, a direction of rotation or
- the detection device 23 or the camera 21 is connected to the
- Control unit S in conjunction, which causes a receipt of a new roll 5, which has a suitable direction of rotation or direction of rotation-compliant orientation, by means of the handling device 7 of the pallet 9.
- the new rollers 5 of the pallet 9 may have optical markings 22, as exemplified in Fig. 5, to the camera 21 and the
- Detection device 23 to facilitate the respective checking or determining a respective direction of rotation or direction of rotation conforming orientation of the new rollers 5. It is also conceivable, however, that the new rollers 5 no optical
- Detecting means 23 can for this purpose detect the position of the outer layer 15 of the new rollers and, in operative connection with the control unit S, make a statement about the appropriate or wrong direction of rotation or orientation of the respective new roller 5.
- FIG. 7 shows the handling device 7 according to Fig. 6 upon receipt of a new roll 5 with direction of rotation conforming orientation of a pallet 9 (see Fig. 6).
- the gripping arm 8 was starting from the position of Fig. 6 about the axis 16, which extends in Fig. 7 in the direction of the image plane, pivoted.
- the new roller 5 now has an at least approximately horizontal orientation and can be used in their respective assigned installation position EB1 or EB2. Since the detection device 23 or the camera 21 mechanically fixed to the
- Gripper arm 8 is coupled, the detection device 23 and the camera 21 has been pivoted together with the gripping arm 8.
- the holding mandrel 17 shown in FIG. 6 is completely immersed in the core 6 of the new roll 5 in FIG. 7 and holds the new roll 5 in a clamping manner on the gripping arm 8 or on the handling device 7.
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