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US 2016/0176656 A1Published application
Packaging assembly
AssigneeMultivac Sepp HaggenmüLler SE & Co. KG
InventorMichael Lang
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Abstract
The invention relates to a packaging assembly and a method of operating such a packaging assembly comprising a thermoform packaging machine, a separation robot, a conveyor and a checkweigher. The invention is characterized in that a flow of products that is constant to a very large extent with approximately constant distances between the individual products can be supplied to the checkweigher.
Claims11
A packaging assembly comprising:
- a packaging machine;
- a conveyor;
- and
- a separation robot for transferring packages, the separation robot including a gripper with a plurality of product take-up devices that are displaceable relative to one another, wherein the product take-up devices are displaceable between:
- a first position, at which neighboring product take-up devices are spaced apart at a first distance and at which the gripper is adapted to take up a respective package through each product take-up device;
- and
- a second position, at which neighboring product take-up devices are spaced apart at a second distance and at which the gripper is adapted to put down the packages, which have been taken hold of by the product take-up devices, onto the conveyor;
- wherein the second distance is at least one and a half times the size of the first distance.
5 more elements
A method of operating a packaging assembly, the method comprising the steps of:
- providing a packaging machine, a conveyor, and a separation robot;
- wherein the separation robot transfers a group of packages from the packaging machine to the conveyor and, in so doing, enlarges, prior to putting the packages down onto the conveyor, a first distance between the packages to a second distance between the respective packages;
- wherein the second distance is at least one and a half times the size of the first distance.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.