WO2001010715A1 - Automatic packaging machine - Google Patents
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- WO2001010715A1 WO2001010715A1 PCT/ES2000/000294 ES0000294W WO0110715A1 WO 2001010715 A1 WO2001010715 A1 WO 2001010715A1 ES 0000294 W ES0000294 W ES 0000294W WO 0110715 A1 WO0110715 A1 WO 0110715A1
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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
- B65B65/00—Details peculiar to packaging machines and not otherwise provided for; Arrangements of such details
- B65B65/003—Packaging lines, e.g. general layout
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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
- B65B43/00—Forming, feeding, opening or setting-up containers or receptacles in association with packaging
- B65B43/42—Feeding or positioning bags, boxes, or cartons in the distended, opened, or set-up state; Feeding preformed rigid containers, e.g. tins, capsules, glass tubes, glasses, to the packaging position; Locating containers or receptacles at the filling position; Supporting containers or receptacles during the filling operation
- B65B43/46—Feeding or positioning bags, boxes, or cartons in the distended, opened, or set-up state; Feeding preformed rigid containers, e.g. tins, capsules, glass tubes, glasses, to the packaging position; Locating containers or receptacles at the filling position; Supporting containers or receptacles during the filling operation using grippers
- B65B43/465—Feeding or positioning bags, boxes, or cartons in the distended, opened, or set-up state; Feeding preformed rigid containers, e.g. tins, capsules, glass tubes, glasses, to the packaging position; Locating containers or receptacles at the filling position; Supporting containers or receptacles during the filling operation using grippers for bags
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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
- B65B9/00—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material, e.g. liquids or semiliquids, in flat, folded, or tubular webs of flexible sheet material; Subdividing filled flexible tubes to form packages
- B65B9/06—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material, in a longitudinally-folded web, or in a web folded into a tube about the articles or quantities of material placed upon it
- B65B9/08—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material, in a longitudinally-folded web, or in a web folded into a tube about the articles or quantities of material placed upon it in a web folded and sealed transversely to form pockets which are subsequently filled and then closed by sealing
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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
- B65B9/00—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material, e.g. liquids or semiliquids, in flat, folded, or tubular webs of flexible sheet material; Subdividing filled flexible tubes to form packages
- B65B9/06—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material, in a longitudinally-folded web, or in a web folded into a tube about the articles or quantities of material placed upon it
- B65B9/08—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material, in a longitudinally-folded web, or in a web folded into a tube about the articles or quantities of material placed upon it in a web folded and sealed transversely to form pockets which are subsequently filled and then closed by sealing
- B65B9/093—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material, in a longitudinally-folded web, or in a web folded into a tube about the articles or quantities of material placed upon it in a web folded and sealed transversely to form pockets which are subsequently filled and then closed by sealing the web having intermittent motion
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- the object of the invention is an automatic packaging machine which, in general, is applicable to the packaging of liquid, granulated, crushed or powdered solids, such as fruit juices, soft drinks, medicaments, condensed condiments, and the like.
- thermoplastic bags of relatively reduced thickness and essentially quadrangular format.
- known embodiments of packaging machines comprise a frame on which a forming train and a packaging train arranged in longitudinal succession are arranged; and these trains, in turn, comprise a plurality of means which in turn comprise a plurality of devices formed by a plurality of mechanisms that operate continuously in synchronized form and that perform all the operations related to the packaging conformation. and product packaging.
- the means comprising the packaging train are: means for opening the package, filling means, closing means and means for collecting bags containing the packaged product.
- EP-A-0376174 describes a packaging machine of the type explained above.
- Packaging machines such as those described above work in a way that distinguishes the following operational phases: a first phase in which the bag is formed and comprising those operations intended for the continuous supply of bags to the opening means; a second phase in which the bag is filled; a third phase in which the bag is closed containing the product to be packaged; and, a fourth phase in which the bag is collected for disposal inside similar boxes or packaging receptacles for transport, storage and distribution to the points of sale.
- the packaging machines are structured so that one, two or more bags simultaneously participate in the packaging phases described above, the number of bags that evolve simultaneously depending on, among other factors, the nature of the product to be packaged, of the dimensions of the bags, etc.
- the bag forming train, the opening means, the filling means and the bag closing means containing the packaged product remain static, the bag being moved during its journey through the successive phases by means of the transport.
- the bag After being shaped, is transferred to the opening means, where it is waiting for the previous bag to be filled, by the filling device, with the product to be packaged, being produced in consequence a waiting time that will be a function of the volume and physical properties of the product to package.
- This waiting time between consecutive filling phases is a determining factor in terms of the packaging capacity (units / minute) of the machines. For guidance purposes, it is mentioned that a medium type machine has a packaging capacity of the order of 100 bags / minute.
- the packaging capacity of the packaging machines described above is also directly related to the speed of movement of the bags, and this speed of movement must be reduced to a very important extent when the product to be packaged is a low density liquid product, as is the case, for example, in the packaging of soft drinks.
- the passage of the bag from the filling means to the closing means produces inertial displacements of the liquid contained in the bag still open. If the speed of travel is high, a small swell is generated in the liquid so that it can wet the upper edges of the bag where the surfaces to be welded by the closing device are, which makes it difficult when the sealing or closing of the bag that takes place in the next phase. To avoid this inconvenience, it is essential to work at low travel speeds, which very importantly affects the packaging speed.
- the automatic packaging machine comprises a frame on which the following known elements are arranged:
- the automatic packaging machine is characterized in that the virtual longitudinal axis of the forming train and the virtual longitudinal axis of the packaging train are arranged perpendicularly to each other, which packaging train comprises the opening means that are arranged in longitudinal alignment with the means of filled, with the closing means and with the collection means, the forming train being connected to the packing train through a multiple bag transfer device, which transfer device has mechanisms for transferring two bags at the same time how minimum from the supply line of the forming train to the opening means located perpendicularly and at the beginning of the packaging train and comprising respective packaging lines, said packaging lines being independent and parallel with respect to each other, so that the bags transferred at the same time in the same transfer maneuver they are located in a respective packaging line, and face each other and keeping a symmetry relationship.
- the bag opening means comprise for each packaging line an opening device.
- the filling means comprise for each packaging line a filling device.
- the closing means comprise for each packaging line a closing device.
- the collection means comprise for each packaging line a collection device.
- the above-described characteristics of the automatic packaging machine according to the invention provide a solution to the problems arising from the low packaging capacity described above, which the known embodiments of packaging machines have, in which the train contains Forming containers and the opening means, filling means, closing means and collection means are all arranged in longitudinal succession, that is, forming the same rectilinear production train.
- Due to the innovative structure of the automatic packaging machine according to the invention in which two or more independent packaging lines are fed from a packaging forming line thanks to the action of a multiple transfer device, achieves, at the same time as the package and the product to be packaged, at least double the production capacity with respect to the known embodiments of packaging machines. In this way, the requirement of low travel speed of the bags imposed by some products to be packaged, particularly liquid products, can be compensated.
- Figure 1 is a plan view of the packaging machine according to the invention.
- Figure 2 is a perspective view of the packaging machine according to the invention.
- Figure 1 schematically shows how the automatic packaging machine object of the invention which as an example of embodiment is described comprises: a frame 1 in the form of "L" with a conformation line 2 of known technology; a bag forming train TC; a multiple transfer device 3; opening means 24; filling means 4; closing means 5; collection means 6; and means of transport 7.
- Said opening means 24, filling means 4, closing means 5, collection means 6, and transport means 7 are mounted on the wrapper train TE.
- the forming train TC is arranged longitudinally on the portion 11 (a branch of the "L") of the frame 1, determining a respective virtual longitudinal axis X-X.
- the packing train TE is arranged longitudinally on the portion 12 (the other branch of the "L") of the same frame 1, determining a respective virtual longitudinal axis Y-Y. Accordingly, the two longitudinal axes X-X and Y-Y of the TC forming train and the TE packaging train, respectively, are arranged with mutual perpendicularity and linked to each other through the multiple transfer device 3.
- the forming train TC comprises a bobbin holder 8 on which a coil 9 is arranged in which a sheet 10 of composite heat-weldable material is wound to, essentially, by a plurality of layers of paper material and heat-sealable plastic material.
- the sheet 10 is unrolled by stretching and folded in a "U" shape to configure a bag-shaped container of relatively reduced thickness and essentially square format.
- the forming train TC comprises a bottom welder 13 and a side welder 14 which, from the initial forming line 2, define a supply line 15 (shown schematically in Figure 1) of bags 16 linked by welding.
- the bags 16 are separated from the supply line 15 by means of a cutting mechanism 17 which, in each cutting operation, proceeds to separate two bags 16 from said supply line 15.
- the transfer device 3 transfers the two bags 16 separated by the cutting mechanism 17 to the opening means 24, each bag 16 being arranged in a respective packing line 18, shown schematically in Figure 1. Said transfer is carried out. so that the packaging lines 18 are parallel to each other and the two bags 16 transferred by the transfer device 3 face each other.
- the opening means 24 comprise for each of the packaging lines 18, a bag opening device 25.
- the filling means 4 comprise, for each of the packaging lines 18, three filling devices 19 of the product to be packaged, such as fruit juices, powdered milk, nuts and the like, which in this embodiment of the packaging machine according to the invention, simultaneously fill three bags 16 in each packaging line 18.
- the closing means 5 comprise, for each of the packaging lines 18, three welders 20 that simultaneously proceed to the closure of the three bags 16 from the previous filling operation.
- the collection means 6 comprise, for each of the packaging lines 18, a respective exit ramp or tape 21 on which the closed bags 16 containing the packaged product slide, which bags 16 are received, for example, by a device Packaging not shown.
- the transport means 7 of bags 16 comprise, in the supply line 15, in which the bags 16 are joined laterally by welding previously applied to the cutting operation, drag rollers 22, and in each of the two packaging lines 18, a plurality of tweezers 23 which, in a reciprocating motion, carry the bags 16 from the transfer device 3 to the two exit ramps or belts 21.
- the automatic packaging machine according to the invention described above provides an innovative solution to the problems derived from the low production capacity of those known embodiments of packaging machines in which a bag forming train and a packaging train, the latter comprising, opening means, filling means, and closing means, are arranged in longitudinal alignment.
- a bag forming train and a packaging train the latter comprising, opening means, filling means, and closing means, are arranged in longitudinal alignment.
- the only supply line 15 of bags 16 is connected by means of the transfer device 3 with two packaging lines 18 parallel to each other and arranged perpendicularly with respect to said supply line 15, allows, as explained above, on equal terms of packaging referred to bag volume 16 and product to be packaged, double the production capacity with respect to the previously known embodiments of packaging machines.
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- Containers And Plastic Fillers For Packaging (AREA)
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EP00951535A EP1172295A1 (en) | 1999-08-10 | 2000-07-31 | Automatic packaging machine |
AU64436/00A AU6443600A (en) | 1999-08-10 | 2000-07-31 | Automatic packaging machine |
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ES9901832A ES2156563B1 (en) | 1999-08-10 | 1999-08-10 | AUTOMATIC PACKING MACHINE. |
ESP9901832 | 1999-08-10 |
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ES2007416A6 (en) * | 1987-10-08 | 1989-06-16 | Oliver & Battle Sa | Packaging machine of products in envelopes. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) |
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