FR2710316A1 - Packaging line for forming and separating sets of products - Google Patents
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Abstract
Description
La présente invention a pour objet un dispositif de formation de lots de produits et de séparation desdits lots entre eux en vue de leur conditionnement. The subject of the present invention is a device for forming batches of products and for separating said batches from one another with a view to their packaging.
On connait actuellement des systèmes de séparation de produits à l'aide de vis à pas variables, mais celles-ci ne peuvent former des lots que sous la forme d'une rangee d'unités ou de plusieurs rangées placées côte à côte avec un écart relativement important entre elles, et non des lots de produits groupés. There are currently known systems for separating products using variable pitch screws, but these can only form batches in the form of a row of units or of several rows placed side by side with a gap relatively large between them, and not lots of bundled products.
Dans les installations automatiques de manipulation de bouteilles ou de flacons verticaux en vue de leur encartonnage on utilise depuis longtemps des séries de têtes preneuses, montées sur le même support commun d'une machine, d'un vérin ou tout autre dispositif, pourvues de moyens de préhension destinés à saisir dans un premier poste par exemple des goulots de bouteilles, et à relacher dans un autre poste, où ils sont conditionnés, les lots ainsi formés. In automatic installations for handling vertical bottles or flasks with a view to their cartoning, a series of gripping heads have been used for a long time, mounted on the same common support of a machine, a jack or any other device, provided with means gripping intended to seize in a first station for example bottle necks, and to release in another station, where they are conditioned, the lots thus formed.
Toutefois ces types d' installation ne permettent pas de travailler en continu et comportent des moyens mécaniques complexes susceptibles d'avoir des pannes nécessitant des interruptions de fonctionnement des chaînes de production pour la mise en place de nouvelles pièces. However, these types of installation do not allow continuous work and include complex mechanical means liable to have breakdowns necessitating interruptions in the operation of the production lines for the installation of new parts.
La présente invention a pour objet de remédier à ces inconvénients en proposant un dispositif permettant de travailler en continu sans nécessité de transférer d'un poste à un autre des produits tels que des bouteilles. The object of the present invention is to remedy these drawbacks by proposing a device making it possible to work continuously without the need to transfer products such as bottles from one station to another.
Le dispositif selon l'invention est destiné à être placé à l'arrivée des produits à conditionner transportés par un convoyeur et disposés en rangées jointives, et il se caractéris essentiellement en ce qu'il comprend une chaîne ou une courroie de transfert tendue entre deux roues d'entrainement d'axes verticaux et munie de moyens de fixation régulièrement espacés, destiné chacun à la solidarisation d'un chariot comportant un élément de séparation et de maintien, de type coiffe avec ou sans préhenseur, mobile en translation verticale ou autres, ayant pour fonction de couvrir un certain nombre de produits pour en former un lot, l'un des brins de ladite chaîne comportant deux décrochements, le premier situé à courte distance après la roue d'amenée des chariots, permettant de les désolidariser de la chaîne à leur passage, la fixation desdits chariots à la chaîne étant alors relayée par engagement, dans la gorge d'une vis à pas variable d'axe parallèle à la droite joignant les deux points de décrochement, d'un galet solidaire dudit chariot, qui poursuit l'entraînement du chariot, et donc du lot, en créant progressivement un espace croissant entre lesdits chariots, et donc entre les lots successifs, les chariots venant se raccrocher à la chaîne lorsqu'ils arrivent au niveau du deuxième décrochement situé à courte distance avant la roue de retour des chariots. The device according to the invention is intended to be placed on the arrival of the products to be packaged transported by a conveyor and arranged in contiguous rows, and it is essentially characterized in that it comprises a chain or a transfer belt stretched between two vertical axis drive wheels and provided with regularly spaced fixing means, each intended for securing a carriage comprising a separation and holding element, of the cover type with or without gripper, movable in vertical translation or the like, having the function of covering a certain number of products to form a batch, one of the strands of said chain having two recesses, the first located a short distance after the supply wheel of the carriages, making it possible to separate them from the chain in their passage, the fixing of said carriages to the chain then being relayed by engagement, in the groove of a variable pitch screw of parallel axis the straight line joining the two points of attachment, of a roller integral with said carriage, which continues to drive the carriage, and therefore of the batch, gradually creating an increasing space between said carriages, and therefore between successive batches, the carriages coming hang on to the chain when they reach the level of the second recess located a short distance before the carriages return wheel.
Le séquencement des opérations est le suivant: dans un premier temps les chariots sont amenés, à la vitesse de la chaîne de transfert, au dessus des produits à conditionner, vers le premier décrochement où leur vitesse est ralentie lors du relai effectué par engagement des galets dans la vis à pas variable dont le pas se réduit d'abord sur une certaine longueur de ladite vis pour permettre de placer côte à côte un certain nombre de chariots dont la coiffe est alors translatée temporairement de manière à couvrir une quantité de produits déterminée formant un lot, après quoi la vitesse des chariots est accrue par augmentation du pas de la vis en même temps qu'ils sont écartés les uns des autres d'une certaine distance en vue de permettre l'encartonnage ultérieur des lots, et enfin, en arrivant au niveau du deuxième décrochement, situé sensiblement à la sortie de la vis à pas variable, lesdits chariots sont raccrochés à la chaîne de transfert, la coiffe regagnant sa position initiale, tandis que le lot de produits est pris en charge par une deuxième chaîne munie de moyens de maintien desdits lots en vue de leur encartonnage. The sequencing of operations is as follows: firstly, the carriages are brought, at the speed of the transfer chain, above the products to be packaged, to the first step where their speed is slowed down during the relay carried out by engagement of the rollers in the variable-pitch screw, the pitch of which is first reduced over a certain length of said screw to allow a number of carriages to be placed side by side, the cap of which is then temporarily translated so as to cover a determined quantity of products forming a batch, after which the speed of the carriages is increased by increasing the pitch of the screw at the same time as they are spaced from each other by a certain distance in order to allow subsequent cartoning of the batches, and finally, by arriving at the level of the second recess, situated substantially at the outlet of the variable-pitch screw, said carriages are hung up on the transfer chain, the cap re gaining its initial position, while the batch of products is supported by a second chain provided with means for maintaining said batches for their cartoning.
Les avantages et les caractéristiques de la présente invention ressortiront plus clairement de la description qui suit et qui se rapporte au dessin annexé, lequel en représente un mode de réalisation non limitatif appliquée au conditionnement de lots de bouteilles. The advantages and characteristics of the present invention will emerge more clearly from the description which follows and which relates to the appended drawing, which represents a non-limiting embodiment thereof applied to the packaging of batches of bottles.
La figure unique du dessin annexé représente une vue shcématique en perspective d'un dispositif selon l'invention. The single figure of the accompanying drawing shows a perspective schematic view of a device according to the invention.
Si on se réfère à cette figure on peut voir que le dispositif selon l'invention comporte une chaîne 1 tendue entre deux roues d'entraînement 11 et 12 d'axes verticaux 111 et 121 et munie de paire d'ergots 13 régulièrement espacés, des chariots 2 comprenant un corps 21 solidaire à sa partie inférieure d'une coiffe 22 mobile en translation verticale grâce à un vérin hydraulique, non représenté, et guidée par des tiges 23, le corps 21 comportant à sa partie supérieure une patte verticale 24 à l'extrémité de laquelle est fixée un doigt d'accrochage 241 permettant la solidarisation du chariot 2 à la chaîne 1 par insertion dudit doigt d'accrochage 241 dans une paire d'ergots 13, la patte verticale 24 comportant en outre en son milieu un galet 242 d'axe parallèle au doigt 241. If we refer to this figure we can see that the device according to the invention comprises a chain 1 stretched between two drive wheels 11 and 12 with vertical axes 111 and 121 and provided with pair of regularly spaced pins 13, carriages 2 comprising a body 21 secured at its lower part to a cap 22 movable in vertical translation by means of a hydraulic cylinder, not shown, and guided by rods 23, the body 21 comprising at its upper part a vertical tab 24 to the end of which is fixed a hooking finger 241 allowing the carriage 2 to be secured to the chain 1 by insertion of said hooking finger 241 in a pair of lugs 13, the vertical tab 24 further comprising in its middle a roller 242 with an axis parallel to finger 241.
On peut remarquer également que la chaîne 1 comporte sur son brin 10 deux décrochements 14 et 15 crées chacun par deux roues libres 141, 142 et 151, 152 situées dans le même plan horizontal et en dessous desquelles est positionnée une vis 5 a gorge 51 de pas variable, dont l'axe est parallèle au brin 25 rectiligne de la chaîne 1 et dont la longueur est approximativement égale à la distance séparant les deux roues 151 et 141 les plus proches des roues d'entraînement 11 et 12 de la chaîne 1. It can also be noted that the chain 1 has on its strand 10 two recesses 14 and 15 each created by two free wheels 141, 142 and 151, 152 located in the same horizontal plane and below which is positioned a screw 5 with groove 51 of not variable, whose axis is parallel to the straight strand 25 of the chain 1 and whose length is approximately equal to the distance separating the two wheels 151 and 141 closest to the drive wheels 11 and 12 of the chain 1.
La roue d'amenée 12 des chariots 2 se trouve approximativement au niveau et au dessus de l'arrivée des bouteilles 3, disposées debout sur un convoyeur 4 et présentées en quatre rangées jointives. The feed wheel 12 of the carriages 2 is located approximately at the level and above the arrival of the bottles 3, arranged upright on a conveyor 4 and presented in four contiguous rows.
De plus on peut voir une deuxième chaîne 6 tendue entre deux roues d'axe verticaux dont seuls la roue 61 et son axe 612 sont représentés, disposée parallèlement à la chaîne 1 et sur laquelle sont fixées radialement des paires de taquets 62 espacés de la largeur d'un lot en l'occurence ici un lot de douze bouteilles. In addition we can see a second chain 6 stretched between two wheels with vertical axes of which only the wheel 61 and its axis 612 are shown, arranged parallel to the chain 1 and on which are fixed radially pairs of cleats 62 spaced apart by the width of a lot in this case here a lot of twelve bottles.
Le fonctionnement du dispositif est le suivant: les chariots 2 arrivent par la roue 12 à une vitesse v, la coiffe 22 étant en position haute au dessus des bouteilles 3 à conditionner, puis ils rencontrent le décrochement 14 qui désolidarise le doigt 241 de la paire d'ergots 14 alors que simultanément le galet 242 pénètre dans le pas de la vis à pas variable 5 et ils sont alors décélérés par diminution du pas de la vis jusqu'à une vitesse v' suffisament faible pour que la coiffe 22 puisse descendre et couvrir un lot 31 de douze bouteilles 3, qui est alors pris en charge par le chariot 2 et la coiffe 22, glissant sur le convoyeur 4, et qui est ensuite accéléré par augmentaion du pas de la vis 5 jusqu'à retrouver approximativement la vitesse v, les paires de taquets 62 de la chaîne 6 venant alors enserrer le lot 31 de bouteilles 3 tandis que le chariot 2 rencontre le décrochement 15 et est repris en charge par la chaîne 1 grâce à la solidarisation du doigt 241 à une paire d'ergots 13 alors que le galet 242 quitte le pas de la vis 5, la coiffe 22 étant simultanément remontée en position haute en libérant le lot 31 maintenu par les taquets 62. The operation of the device is as follows: the carriages 2 arrive by the wheel 12 at a speed v, the cap 22 being in the high position above the bottles 3 to be packaged, then they meet the recess 14 which separates the finger 241 from the pair lugs 14 while simultaneously the roller 242 enters the pitch of the variable pitch screw 5 and they are then decelerated by reducing the pitch of the screw to a speed v 'sufficiently low so that the cap 22 can descend and cover a batch 31 of twelve bottles 3, which is then supported by the carriage 2 and the cover 22, sliding on the conveyor 4, and which is then accelerated by increasing the pitch of the screw 5 until approximately regaining speed v, the pairs of cleats 62 of the chain 6 then come to enclose the lot 31 of bottles 3 while the carriage 2 meets the recess 15 and is taken over by the chain 1 thanks to the attachment of the finger 241 to a e pair of lugs 13 while the roller 242 leaves the pitch of the screw 5, the cap 22 being simultaneously raised in the high position by releasing the batch 31 held by the tabs 62.
il va de soi que la présente invention ne saurrait être limitée à la description qui précède d'un de ses modes de réalisation, susceptible de subir un certain nombre de modifications sans pour autant sortir du cadre de l'invention. Notamment les lots formés peuvent l'être différemment, par exemple par retenue de certaines unités de produits lors de la remontée des coiffes des chariots, de manière à former un second lot ou à être éventuellemnt réintégrées dans la ligne d'arrivée des produits. It goes without saying that the present invention cannot be limited to the foregoing description of one of its embodiments, liable to undergo a certain number of modifications without departing from the scope of the invention. In particular, the batches formed can be formed differently, for example by retaining certain units of products when raising the caps of the carriages, so as to form a second batch or to be optionally reintegrated into the finish line of the products.
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FR9311546A FR2710316A1 (en) | 1993-09-24 | 1993-09-24 | Packaging line for forming and separating sets of products |
FR9315407A FR2710317B1 (en) | 1993-09-24 | 1993-12-17 | Device for the formation of batches of products for their packaging. |
ES94440060T ES2113072T3 (en) | 1993-09-24 | 1994-09-20 | DEVICE FOR THE FORMATION OF LOTS OF PRODUCTS WITH A VIEW TO THEIR CONDITIONING OR PACKAGING. |
EP94440060A EP0647561B1 (en) | 1993-09-24 | 1994-09-20 | Device for forming groups of products in view of their packaging |
DK94440060.5T DK0647561T3 (en) | 1993-09-24 | 1994-09-20 | Device for grouping objects in connection with their packaging |
DE69407251T DE69407251T2 (en) | 1993-09-24 | 1994-09-20 | Device for grouping objects for subsequent packaging |
AT94440060T ATE160989T1 (en) | 1993-09-24 | 1994-09-20 | DEVICE FOR GROUPING ITEMS FOR SUBSEQUENT PACKAGING |
PCT/FR1994/001118 WO1995008475A1 (en) | 1993-09-24 | 1994-09-26 | Device for forming sets of products in order to provide for their packaging |
US08/436,441 US5630311A (en) | 1993-09-24 | 1994-09-26 | Apparatus for forming lots of products for the packing thereof |
GR980400476T GR3026305T3 (en) | 1993-09-24 | 1998-03-09 | Device for forming groups of products in view of their packaging. |
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