Method and device for forming stacks of packages
AssigneeTeepack Spezialmaschinen GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsHolger Vetter, Wolfgang Reichel
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Abstract
A method and a device for forming stacks of packages by stacking infusion bags is disclosed. In one example, the method includes removing an individual infusion bag from a conveying stretch, on which individual infusion bags are fed, to a removal station. The individual infusion bags, guided by a vertically movable push-in device in a stacking stroke of said push-in device, are transferred into a buffer storage chute of said stack holding device. In a transfer stroke of said push-in device, which is greater than said stacking stroke, an infusion bag completing said stack of packages is raised off of said conveying stretch and transferred into a cartridge storage chute of said stack holding device.
Claims14
A method for forming stacks of packages by stacking infusion bags, comprising:
- conveying an infusion bag by a conveying stretch on which individual infusion bags are fed at a distance from one another and one behind the other to a removal station,
- raising the infusion bag off of said conveying stretch and transferring the infusion bag to a stack holding device for accumulating multiple infusion bags one after another and abutting against one another to form a stack of packages,
- guiding the infusion bag by a push-in device, the push-in device moving translationally in a vertical direction to form the stack of packages,
- wherein the push-in device is moving in a stacking stroke or in a transfer stroke,
- wherein in said stacking stroke, said infusion bag is transferred by said push-in device from said conveying stretch into a buffer storage chute of said stack holding device, and
- wherein in said transfer stroke, an infusion bag completing said stack of packages is transferred by said push-in device from said conveying stretch into a cartridge storage chute of said stacking holding device when a number of infusion bags forming said stack of packages has been reached,
- wherein the transfer stroke is greater than said stacking stroke.
A device for forming stacks of packages by stacking individual infusion bags, comprising:
- a conveying stretch on which infusion bags are conveyed from a bag production device to a removal station,
- a removal device associated with said removal station, and
- a stack holding device for holding a stack of infusion bags,
- wherein
- said removal device is configured to be adapted to move a single infusion bag from said conveying stretch to said stack holding device,
- the stack holding device comprises
- a buffer storage with a buffer storage chute configured to receive the stack of infusion bags, and
- a cartridge arranged on the side of said buffer storage facing away from said conveying stretch with a cartridge storage chute configured to receive the stack of infusion bags,
- said cartridge is movable between a stacking position in which said buffer storage chute is aligned flush with said cartridge storage chute, and a removal position in which a stack is removed from said cartridge,
- said removal device comprises movable pushers guided in a vertical direction and provided on both sides of said conveying stretch which are translationally movable from an initial position at the level of said conveying stretch for introducing an infusion bag resting on said pushers into said stack holding device to an introduction position above said conveying stretch, where said pushers receive said conveying stretch between them when transferring to said introduction position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.