Device and method for composing packages for a packaging machine
OwnerWolfgang Huber, Manuel Kollmuss +2inventors
InventorsWolfgang Huber, Manuel Kollmuss, Richard Eschlbeck, Christoph Klenk
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Abstract
The invention provides a device (1) having at least one inlet conveyor belt (3) for loose, un-grouped articles (5), and at least one grouping device (7) for the loose, un-grouped articles (5) for the orderly composing of articles. An outlet conveyor belt (9) is associated with the grouping device (7), said outlet conveyor belt (9) feeding the articles thereon grouped without containers to a packaging device (10). The invention also provides a method for composing packages for a packaging machine.
Claims19
A device for the ordered composition of articles comprising:
- at least one infeed conveyor for loose, un-grouped articles;
- a discharge conveyor for feeding the articles grouped without containers on the discharge conveyor to a packaging unit;
- at least one grouping unit for seizing the loose, un-grouped articles from the infeed conveyor and for placing and feeding the articles on the discharge conveyor;
- a handling unit or at least one robot with an operating area respectively;
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- at least one magazine for support pads which is arranged in the operating area of the at least one grouping unit or robot respectively, such that at least one support pad is removable from the at least one magazine and placeable on the discharge conveyor and the articles can be grouped on the support pad by the handling unit or the at least one robot.
A method for the ordered composition of articles, comprising the following steps:
- feeding loose, un-grouped articles to at least one grouping unit by at least one infeed conveyor;
- removing at least one support pad from at least one magazine for support pads by a handling unit or at least one robot;
- placing the at least one support pad on a discharge conveyor by the handling unit or at least one robot;
- grouping the un-grouped articles on the at least one support pad on the discharge conveyor by the at least one grouping unit;
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- feeding articles in containerless groups on at least one support pad, respectively to a packaging unit by the discharge conveyor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.