US 2023/0249919 A1Published application

Packaging line of a packaging installation and method for operating such a packaging line

AssigneeIllinois Tool Works Inc.

InventorsHermann SCHOHAUS, Theo SCHULTE, Linus WÖHLE

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Abstract

A method for operating a packaging line of a packaging installation, wherein the packaging line includes at least one packaging machine having an infeed conveyor belt, wherein the packaging line further includes at least one transport belt which is disposed upstream of the infeed conveyor belt, wherein the method includes the steps of: i) defining and/or determining a current machine performance of the at least one packaging machine; ii) determining an output request for the at least one transport belt; and iii) defining and setting a transport speed of the at least one transport belt, wherein the transport speed is defined as a function of the determined output request.

Claims15

Dependent claims

A method for operating a packaging line of a packaging installation, wherein the packaging line comprises at least one packaging machine having an infeed conveyor belt, wherein the packaging line further comprises at least one transport belt which, viewed in the a transport direction of the packaging line, is disposed upstream of the infeed conveyor belt of the at least one packaging machine and in series with the infeed conveyor belt of the at least one packaging machine, wherein the method comprises the following method steps:

i) defining and/or determining a current machine performance of the at least one packaging machine, wherein the current machine performance defines the number of products to be processed by the at least one packaging machine per unit of time;
ii) determining an output request for the at least one transport belt, wherein the output request defines a number of products to be delivered to the infeed conveyor belt of the at least one packaging machine by the at least one transport belt per unit of time;
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iii) defining and setting a transport speed of the at least one transport belt, wherein the transport speed is defined as a function of the determined output request.

1 more element

A packaging line of a packaging installation, wherein the packaging line comprises:

at least one packaging machine having an infeed conveyor belt or at least two packaging machines, which are connected in series and work together and each comprise an infeed conveyor belt and an outfeed conveyor belt, wherein the packaging line further comprises at least one transport belt which, viewed in the a transport direction of the packaging line, is disposed upstream of the infeed conveyor belt of the at least one packaging machine and in series with the infeed conveyor belt of the at least one packaging machine, or which is disposed between the outfeed conveyor belt of a upstream packaging machine and the infeed conveyor belt of a downstream packaging machine in series with the packaging machines, wherein the packaging line further comprises a belt control system which is in particular constructed according to the principle of a pull system and is configured to communicate output requests and/or information from the infeed conveyor belt of the downstream packaging machine to the at least one transport belt and optionally from the at least one transport belt to the outfeed conveyor belt of the upstream packaging machine, via a bus system, in particular a Profibus system, counter to the transport direction of the packaging line as needed.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 18/014,454Filed 8 Jul 2021
Priority: EP 20184794.48 Jul 2020
Published: 10 Aug 2023
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification16 codes

B65G 43/10
Control devices, e.g. for safety, warning or fault-correcting: sequence control of conveyors operating in combination
G05B 19/41815
Total factory control, i.e. centrally controlling a plurality of machines, e.g. direct or distributed numerical control [DNC], flexible…:…
B65B 57/06
Responsive to absence, presence, abnormal feed, or misplacement of binding or wrapping material, containers, or packages: and operating to…
B65B 57/08
Responsive to absence, presence, abnormal feed, or misplacement of binding or wrapping material, containers, or packages: and operating to stop,…