Transport apparatus for supply rolls with packaging material wound thereon
AssigneeKrones Aktiengellschaft
InventorsAugust Peutl, Martin Wagner, Oliver Kotz, Andreas Hack
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Abstract
The invention includes a transport apparatus (1) for supply rolls (8) with packaging material wound thereon. The transport apparatus (1) comprises at least one driverless transport vehicle (2) and at least one adapter (3). The adapter (3) is preferably connectable to the driverless transport vehicle (2), as well as being separable from the driverless transport vehicle (2). The adapter (3) is moreover designed to hold at least one supply roll (8).
Claims21
A transport apparatus (1) for supply rolls (8) with packaging material wound thereon comprising:
- at least one driverless transport vehicle (2);
- at least one adapter (3), wherein the at least one adapter (3) is separably connectable to the at least one driverless transport vehicle (2) and capable of holding at least one supply roll (8),
- wherein the at least one driverless transport vehicle (2) has a plug (44), and wherein the at least one adapter (3) comprises a mating plug (46), which corresponds to the plug (44), wherein the plug (44) and the mating plug (46) are pluggable into each other via an actuator, wherein an electric or fluidic connection is producible between the at least one driverless transport vehicle (2) and the at least one adapter (3).
A packaging system (100) used to package articles comprising:
- at least one packaging apparatus (20), which can unwind packaging material from a supply roll (8), and which is capable of applying the packaging material unwound from the supply roll (8) onto articles,
- at least one driverless transport vehicle (2), which interacts with the at least one packaging apparatus (20) in feeding supply rolls (8) to the packaging apparatus (20), and
- at least one adapter (3), wherein the at least one adapter (3) can be separably connected to the at least one driverless transport vehicle (2) and is capable of holding at least one supply roll (8), wherein;
- the at least one driverless transport vehicle (2) has a plug (44), and wherein the at least one adapter (3) comprises a mating plug (46), which corresponds to the plug (44), wherein the plug (44) and the mating plug (46) are pluggable into each other via an actuator, wherein an electric or fluidic connection is producible between the at least one driverless transport vehicle (2) and the at least one adapter (3).
A method used to operate a packaging apparatus, comprising:
- feeding at least one supply roll (8) to at least one packaging apparatus (20) with at least one driverless transport vehicle (2) comprising at least one adapter (3) that is separably connected to the driverless transport vehicle (20), wherein
- the at least one driverless transport vehicle (2) has a plug (44), and wherein the at least one adapter (3) comprises a mating plug (46), which corresponds to the plug (44), wherein the plug (44) and the mating plug (46) are pluggable into each other via an actuator, wherein an electric or fluidic connection is producible between the at least one driverless transport vehicle (2) and the at least one adapter (3), and
- wherein the at least one driverless transport vehicle (2) transports the at least one supply roll (8), being held via the at least one adapter (3), along a defined transfer path to the at least one packaging apparatus (20), and introducing the at least one supply roll (8) into the at least one packaging apparatus (2);
- unwinding packaging material from the at least one supply roll (8), and
- applying the packaging material unwound from the at least one supply roll (8) onto articles.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.