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AssigneeC.E.R.M.E.X. Constructions Etudes Et Recherches De Materiels Pour L'emballage D'Expedition
InventorAnthony GAUTHERON
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A loading device to supply successively with cardboard sheets a station for handling the sheets by folding to form from them boxes for packaging, the handling station having a storage area to receive the successive sheets, optionally grouped in bundles, the device itself having a manipulator that includes: a gripping tool to pick up the sheets; an actuator to move the tool between an inventory of sheets and the receiving storage area of the station; a detection unit for detecting the status of filling of the storage area; and a control unit that directs the action of the device and that receives detection information from the detection unit to do this, the control unit being independent of the control of the handling station and programmable to adapt the operation of the loading device to the type of sheets handled. A corresponding process is also described.
Loading device (1) to supply successively with cardboard sheets (3) a station (4) for handling said sheets (3) by folding to form from them boxes for packaging, said handling station (4) having a storage area (5) to receive the successive sheets (3), optionally grouped in bundles (2), said device itself having a manipulator (6) that comprises a gripping tool (7) to pick up said sheets (3), and an actuator (8) to move the tool (7) between an inventory (9) of sheets (3) and the receiving storage area (5) of the station (4),
Process for loading bundles (2) of sheets (3) in a storage area (5) of a station (4) for handling by the folding of said sheets (3) to obtain boxes from them, comprising a step consisting essentially in transferring, into said storage area (5), sheets (3) from an inventory (9), using a manipulator (6) of a loading device (1),
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