US 12,662,278 B2Granted

Method and plant for manufacturing a secondary packaging according to the BOD logic

AssigneeVoidless S.r.l.

InventorsMattia Bertolani, Carlo Villani, Daniel Kaidanovic, Guglielmo Franco Riva

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Abstract

The disclosure concerns a method for manufacturing a secondary packaging according to the BOD logic. The method in particular envisages managing a plurality of orders, each comprising a plurality of items. For each item, it is defined the primary cuboid circumscribed to it and for each order, it is identified the most compact arrangement of the items and the secondary cuboid circumscribed to it. The blanks representing the plane developments of the boxes that contain the secondary cuboids are then defined. After having optimized the arrangement thereof, the blanks are cut out of a sheet of packaging material. The boxes are thus assembled with the blanks and are each filled with their own order in the most compact arrangement. The disclosure further concerns a plant applying the method.

Claims15

Dependent claims

Method for manufacturing a secondary packaging according to a Box On Demand logic, comprising the steps of:

providing a plurality N of orders o, each order oi comprising a plurality of items aij;
for each item aij of each order oi, defining a primary cuboid circumscribed to the item aij;
for each order oi, identifying a relative arrangement of the items aij that is the most compact;
for each order oi, detecting sizes of a secondary cuboid circumscribed to the most compact arrangement;
arranging each order oi in a standby storage;
for each secondary cuboid defining a blank representing the plane development of a box which defines an inner volume equal to the secondary cuboid;
adding each blank in a standby list;
providing a sheet of packaging material of predefined sizes;
optimizing the arrangement on the sheet of at least some of the blanks in the standby list, so as to minimize waste of packaging material;
cutting blanks from the sheet;
deleting the blanks that have been cut from the standby list;
taking one of the blanks that have been cut from the sheet;
assembling the box with the blank that have been taken;
taking from the standby storage the order oi corresponding to the box that have been assembled;
arranging the items aij in the box according to the most compact arrangement;
providing the box for the subsequent steps;
repeating the steps of:
taking one of the blanks, assembling the box, taking the corresponding order, arranging the items in the box, providing the box for the subsequent steps, up to the end of the blanks that have been cut from the sheet;
discarding waste of packaging material;
and
repeating the method up to the end of the orders.

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Plant for manufacturing a secondary packaging according to Box On Demand logic, comprising:

an electronic unit comprising a memory module, an elaboration module, and control modules configured for providing instructions to the plant;
a general storage comprising a plurality of items a;
handling-members configured for, on the basis of the instructions provided by the electronic unit:
taking items a from the general storage;
and
grouping together the taken items a so as to constitute a plurality of orders o,
a standby storage configured for maintaining the orders o in standby;
feeding members configured for making available a sheet of packaging material of predefined sizes, on the basis of the instructions provided by the electronic unit;
wherein the electronic unit is further configured for:
defining a blank of a box relative to each order oi, adding each blank to a standby list;
optimizing arrangement on the sheet of some of the blanks in the standby list;
and deleting the blanks that have been cut from the standby list;
and wherein the plant further comprises:
a cutting station configured for cutting out of the sheet the blank of a box on the basis of the instructions provided by the electronic unit, wherein the blank is defined by the electronic unit in relation to a specific order oi;
a pre-assembly station configured for pre-assembling the box starting from the cut blank;
a packaging station;
and
movement members configured for, on the basis of the instructions provided by the electronic unit, making available to the packaging station the pre-assembled box together with the related order oi.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 18/870,097Filed 29 May 2023
Priority: IT 10202200001147731 May 2022
Published: US 2025/0368372 A14 Dec 2025
Granted: 23 Jun 2026
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification12 codes

B65B 57/12
Responsive to absence, presence, abnormal feed, or misplacement of articles or materials to be packaged: and operating to control, or stop, the…
B65B 5/024
Machines characterised by incorporation of means for making the containers or receptacles: for making containers from preformed blanks
B65B 5/06
Packaging individual articles in containers or receptacles, e.g. bags, sacks, boxes, cartons, cans, jars: packaging groups of articles, the groups…
B65B 35/30
Supplying, feeding, arranging or orientating articles to be packaged: arranging and feeding articles in groups