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EP3630657A1 - Dispositif et procédé destinés au transport de récipients - Google Patents

Dispositif et procédé destinés au transport de récipients

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EP3630657A1
EP3630657A1 EP18713898.7A EP18713898A EP3630657A1 EP 3630657 A1 EP3630657 A1 EP 3630657A1 EP 18713898 A EP18713898 A EP 18713898A EP 3630657 A1 EP3630657 A1 EP 3630657A1
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Prior art keywords
transport
section
container
clothoid
transport path
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Andreas Fahldieck
Wilfried Ehmer
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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
    • B65G47/74—Feeding, transfer, or discharging devices of particular kinds or types
    • B65G47/84—Star-shaped wheels or devices having endless travelling belts or chains, the wheels or devices being equipped with article-engaging elements
    • B65G47/846—Star-shaped wheels or wheels equipped with article-engaging elements
    • B65G47/847—Star-shaped wheels or wheels equipped with article-engaging elements the article-engaging elements being grippers
    • 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
    • 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
    • B65G47/74—Feeding, transfer, or discharging devices of particular kinds or types
    • B65G47/84—Star-shaped wheels or devices having endless travelling belts or chains, the wheels or devices being equipped with article-engaging elements
    • 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

Definitions

  • A is a clothoid parameter
  • TW is the tangent angle
  • R is the clothoid radius
  • KL is the clothoid length
  • the clothoid parameter A is selected in the range between 125 mm and 250 mm, in particular in the range between 150 mm and 200 mm, particularly preferably in the range between 170 mm and 180 mm.
  • conventional transport element diameters for example in the range between 1 m and 5 m, to achieve a cross-pressure-free or at least reduced-pressure transfer of the containers.
  • the container gripper for gripping and holding containers is preferably designed such that for initiating a positively guided pivotal movement of the first and second gripper arm of a corresponding container gripper at least one to the machine axis radially displaceable slider element is provided, wherein the slider element, a first control cam for controlling the first gripper arm and a separate second control cam for controlling the second gripper arm, wherein the first and second control cam for positively guiding the respective gripper arm between the gripping and the releasing position is formed, and wherein the first and second gripper arm each having at least one engagement element which in the corresponding first or second control cam for positive guidance of the two gripper arms engages and wherein the support body of a corresponding container gripper has at least one sliding portion over which the respective Be fiscalergeifer r adially displaceable to the machine axis in a corresponding recess is receivable.
  • the slide element has at least one guide section and a control section, wherein the control section is associated with the first and second control cam.
  • the first control cam has a first and second, opposite one another and parallel to the associated pivot axis of the corresponding first gripper arm Guide surface on which the associated first engagement element between the gripping and the releasing position is guided fitting.
  • the first and second control cam is formed such that via the respective first guide surface a closing movement on the two gripper arms in the gripping position and on the respective second guide surface an opening movement on the two gripper arms in the releasing Position at a radial displacement of the slider element can be introduced.
  • a magnet and on the guide portion a magnet or magnetically attractive material are arranged along the sliding axis, that the magnet or magnetically attractive acting material of the guide portion in the gripping position or contact almost contact-engaged with the magnet of the support body and in the releasing position of the magnet of the support body is spaced such that it is further in magnetic interaction with the magnet.
  • the support body along the opening on opposite sides of the longitudinal extension each having a magnet which cooperates magnetically with a magnet associated with the guide portion of the slide element.
  • a magnet or a magnetically attracting material is provided on respective opposite sides of the median plane to the support body, wherein the magnets or a magnetically attractive acting materials two arranged on a holding portion of the slider element magnet are in magnetic interaction, whereby a reverse arrangement can be provided.
  • the cam roller is magnetically held on the slider element.
  • clothing in the sense of the invention is meant a curve whose curvature steadily increases linearly, whereby the product of curve radius and arc length of the curve constitutes a constant In other words, the curvature at each point of the curve is proportional to the length of its arc up to this place.
  • Container in the sense of the invention is understood to mean any container, in particular bottles, cans, cups, etc., each made of metal, glass and / or plastic, preferably of PET (polyethylene terephthalate)
  • PET polyethylene terephthalate
  • the term “essentially” or “approximately” means for the purposes of the invention deviations from the respective exact value by +/- 10%, preferably by +/- 5% and / or deviations in the form of insignificant for the function changes.
  • FIG. 10 shows an example of a sectional side view of a schematic partial representation of a further embodiment of an arrangement of a cam roller on the
  • Container fixing means for example in the form of container receptacles or grippers, are provided peripherally on the transport elements TE1-TE3, by means of which the respective container 2 is held on the respective transport element TE1-TE3 during its transport.
  • the transport elements TE1 - TE3 may be partially designed for container treatment.
  • the first transport element TE1 may be a filler in which empty containers are filled with a filling material.
  • the third transport element TE3 can be, for example, a capper, with which closure elements, for example screw caps or crown corks, are applied to the container mouth in order to close the container opening.
  • the transport path TS on which the containers 2 are conveyed, is deflected several times.
  • the transport path TS has a plurality of circular-arc-shaped or substantially circular arc-shaped transport path sections. Between these transport sections are located in the turning point WP, at which changes the curvature of the transport path, for example, from a left-curve curvature in a right-hand curve-like curvature or vice versa. This change in the curvature behavior is also referred to as a bow change.
  • a transverse pressure on the container which may lead, for example, in filled but not yet closed containers cause filling material spills out of the container opening.
  • the first clothoid section KA1 immediately adjoins the first transport path section TSA1 and ends after a clothoid length KL.KA1 at a point of inflection WP at which a change of curvature of the transport path TS takes place, i. the curvature of the transport path TS changes, for example, from left-curved to right-curved.
  • the second Klothoidenabêt KA2 follows, which merges after a clothoid length KI_KA2 in the second transport path section TSA2.
  • FIG. 3 shows the profile of the centrifugal acceleration acting on a container 2 over time during the passage of the container 2 through the section of the transport path TS shown in FIG. 2.
  • the value of the centrifugal acceleration is constant.
  • the centrifugal acceleration is directed in opposite directions in these transport sections TSA1, TSA2 and in this example of a different amount, which is expressed by the sign difference of the centrifugal acceleration values and the numerical values.
  • a clothoid is a curve in which the curvature changes linearly with the arc length, also called the clothoid length.
  • KL - R A 2 (Equation 2)
  • TW tangent angle between the main tangent HT at the beginning of the clothoid (ie at the point of inflection WP) and the tangent at any curve point of the clothoid.
  • the tangent angle TW can be described as follows:
  • the clothoid parameter A is preferably selected in the range between 125 mm and 250 mm, preferably in the range between 150 mm and 200 mm, particularly preferably in the range between 170 mm and 180 mm, in particular 177 mm.
  • the first and second control cam 12, 13 the control section 1 1 .2 of the slide element 1 1 assigned.
  • the preferably hollow cylindrical recess 14 extends in its longitudinal extension in or substantially along the median plane M and forms a perpendicular to the machine axis MA extending sliding axis SCA, along which the accommodated in the recess 14 guide portion 1 1 .1 is displaceable.
  • the guide section 1 1 .1 is designed as a cylindrical sliding bolt, which is slidably received in the hollow cylindrical recess 14 along the sliding axis SCA.
  • a slot-shaped opening 14.1 is provided in the Bellespringper 8, which extends in its longitudinal extent in or substantially in the center plane M and thus in a parallel to the sliding axis SCA.
  • the recess 14 or the slot-shaped opening 14.1 have a length which allows a displacement of the slide element 1 1 radially to the machine axis MA (double arrow B) at least a movement stroke of the circuit of the slide element 1 1 between the releasing and the gripping position FP, GP equals.
  • the container gripper 4 can thus be displaceable both radially via the control roller 36, which rolls on the control cam 35 to the machine axis MA as a whole assembly, which is symbolized by the double arrow 200. Furthermore, the slider element 1 1 via the cam roller 16, which rolls on the control cam 25, be designed to be radially displaceable to the machine axis MA, which is symbolized by the double arrow 100.
  • the slide element 1 for example, with this integrally formed holding portion 1 1 .3, which may preferably be arranged below the control section 1 1 .2 on the slide element 1 1.
  • Der Haltering 1 1 ist in Fig. 2 regarding.
  • the Holding section 1 1 .3 may have at least two, the open end 14.2 facing holding surfaces 32.1, 32.2, to each of which one of the two magnets 31 .1 and 31 .2 is fixedly arranged.
  • the slide element 1 in particular the guide portion 1 1 .1, for this purpose a bearing portion 17, for example in the form of a rotationally symmetrical recess or opening, in particular a cylindrical blind hole, in the (bearing portion 17) by means of a bearing pin 18 which on this bearing pin 18 fixed cam roller 16 is rotatably supported and in particular magnetically.

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Abstract

L'invention concerne un dispositif destiné à transporter des récipients (2) sur un trajet de transport (TS), comprenant au moins un premier élément de transport (TE1) et un deuxième élément de transport (TE2), le trajet de transport (TS) comportant des première et deuxième parties de trajet de transport en forme d'arcs de cercle (TSA1, TSA2) et une troisième partie de trajet de transport (TSA3) située entre les première et deuxième parties de trajet de transport (TSA1, TSA2). À cet effet, la troisième partie de trajet de transport (TSA3) comprend au moins une région de trajet de transport dont l'allure comporte la forme d'une partie de courbe présentant une courbure sans coude, croissant ou décroissant constamment et sans à-coups.
EP18713898.7A 2017-06-02 2018-03-27 Dispositif et procédé destinés au transport de récipients Withdrawn EP3630657A1 (fr)

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PCT/EP2018/057703 WO2018219523A1 (fr) 2017-06-02 2018-03-27 Dispositif et procédé destinés au transport de récipients

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