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US 11,198,570 B2Granted
Transfer device for transferring flat boxes contained infernally of a carton to an inlet line of a boxing machine
AssigneeMarchesini Group S.p.A.
InventorGiuseppe Monti
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Abstract
A transfer device raises batteries of flat boxes inside a carton so that one battery at a time is in a waiting position beyond an open upper face of the carton at an inlet line of a boxing machine. A frame is predisposed to translate above the positioning station and the inlet line between a first position above the waiting position and a second position above the inlet line. Grippers on the frame both grip and retain a box battery at two ends thereof and release the battery. The grippers are activated, with the frame in the first position, to grip and retain the battery of boxes at its two ends and, with the frame in the second position, to release the battery into the inlet line.
Claims9
A transfer device for transferring flat boxes contained internally of a carton to an inlet line of a boxing machine, comprising:
- a positioning station of a carton, for receiving a carton with a relative upper face open and internally containing flat boxes which are predisposed, neared and flanked to one another, to form batteries of boxes which are arranged one above another internally of the carton and each contained internally of a relative support sheet, the positioning station being predisposed with respect to the inlet line of the boxing machine so as to receive the carton and to halt the carton in a halted position with a relative transversal wall facing towards the inlet line and with the open upper face in front of and substantially at a same level as a start of an inlet line;
- raising means, associated to the positioning station of the carton, which are configured and predisposed so as, time by time, to raise the batteries of boxes present internally of the carton so that a battery of boxes at a time is positioned in a waiting position beyond the open upper face of the carton in front of the start of the inlet line of the boxing machine;
- a frame predisposed so as to be activatable in translation above the positioning station of the carton and the inlet line of the boxing machine between a first position, wherein the frame is situated above the waiting position in which the raising means time by time raise a battery of boxes beyond the open upper face of the carton, and a second position in which the frame is situated above the inlet line of the boxing machine;
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- gripping means mounted and predisposed on the frame so as to be activatable both for gripping and retaining a battery of boxes at the two ends thereof and for releasing the battery of boxes, the gripping means are predisposed on the frame in such a way that, when the frame is in the first position above the waiting position, to be activatable for gripping and retaining the battery of boxes at the two ends thereof, once the battery of boxes is raised by the raising means into the waiting position, and are also predisposed in such a way, when the frame is in the second position above the inlet line, as to be activated for releasing the battery of boxes into the inlet line,
- wherein the positioning station of the carton comprises a rest plane, conveying means for conveying the carton with the open upper face above the rest plane and maintaining means for halting and keeping the carton halted on the rest plane in the halted position so that the raising means can raise the batteries of boxes with the carton maintained stably stationary on the rest plane,
- further comprising stop elements of the cartons, situated on the rest plane upstream of the halted position in which a carton is halted by the maintaining means of the carton, predisposed to halt the cartons successively conveyed by the conveying means towards the rest plane while waiting for the carton stopped in the halted position to be completely emptied.
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A transfer device for transferring flat boxes contained internally of a carton to an inlet line of a boxing machine, comprising:
- a positioning station of a carton, for receiving a carton with a relative upper face open and internally containing flat boxes which are predisposed, neared and flanked to one another, to form batteries of boxes which are arranged one above another internally of the carton and each contained internally of a relative support sheet, the positioning station being predisposed with respect to the inlet line of the boxing machine so as to receive the carton and to halt the carton in a halted position with a relative transversal wall facing towards the inlet line and with the open upper face in front of and substantially at a same level as a start of an inlet line;
- raising means, associated to the positioning station of the carton, which are configured and predisposed so as, time by time, to raise the batteries of boxes present internally of the carton so that a battery of boxes at a time is positioned in a waiting position beyond the open upper face of the carton in front of the start of the inlet line of the boxing machine;
- a frame predisposed so as to be activatable in translation above the positioning station of the carton and the inlet line of the boxing machine between a first position, wherein the frame is situated above the waiting position in which the raising means time by time raise a battery of boxes beyond the open upper face of the carton, and a second position in which the frame is situated above the inlet line of the boxing machine;
- gripping means mounted and predisposed on the frame so as to be activatable both for gripping and retaining a battery of boxes at the two ends thereof and for releasing the battery of boxes, the gripping means are predisposed on the frame in such a way that, when the frame is in the first position above the waiting position, to be activatable for gripping and retaining the battery of boxes at the two ends thereof, once the battery of boxes is raised by the raising means into the waiting position, and are also predisposed in such a way, when the frame is in the second position above the inlet line, as to be activated for releasing the battery of boxes into the inlet line;
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- abutting means of the support sheets of the batteries of boxes, predisposed at the halted position of the carton, on the opposite side with respect to the inlet line, in a position such as to be able to abut and retain a tab of the support sheet of the battery of boxes which is raised by the raising means into the waiting position above the open upper face of the carton, the abutting means being movable, once the battery of boxes has been transferred to the inlet line of the boxing machine, so as to transport the support sheet to an unloading station.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.