US 9,376,269 B2Granted

Device for transferring stacks of blister packs

AssigneeUhlmann Pac-Systeme GmbH & Co. KG

InventorsWolfgang Rodi, Fritz Fochler

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Abstract

The device for transferring stacks of blister packs comprises at least one transfer cassette for holding a stack of blister packs, the transfer cassette comprising a bottom element and at least two opposing side boundary elements. A transfer cassette motion unit serves to move the transfer cassette in the conveying direction and in a direction transverse to the conveying direction and is configured in such a way that the transfer cassette is movable from a loading position, in which it is loaded with the stack of blister packs, to an unloading position, in which the stack of blister packs is transferred to a compartment of a conveying device. During unloading, the transfer cassette is moved laterally out of the compartment and thus out of the unloading position in a direction transverse to the conveying direction, whereas the stack of blister packs remains on the conveying device.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A device for transferring and conveying stacks of blister packs, the device having a transfer device and a conveying device, the transfer device serving to transfer the stacks of blister packs to the conveying device, and the conveying device serving to convey the stacks of blister packs in a conveying direction;

wherein the conveying device has several compartments or carts for holding the stacks of blister packs, the compartments or carts traveling around a circuit,
wherein the transfer device comprises at least one transfer cassette for holding one of the stacks of blister packs, the transfer cassette comprising a bottom element and at least two opposing side boundary elements, and further comprises at least one transfer cassette motion unit, actuated by a control unit, for moving the at least one transfer cassette in a direction transverse to the conveying direction;
wherein the at least one transfer cassette motion unit is actuated in such a way that the at least one transfer cassette is moved from a loading position, in which the at least one transfer cassette is loaded with a stack of blister packs, to an unloading position, in which the one of the stacks of blister packs is transferred to one of the compartments or carts of the conveying device,
wherein the at least one transfer cassette motion unit is actuated in such a way that the at least one transfer cassette is moved in the conveying direction when moved from the loading position to the unloading position;
wherein, during unloading, the at least one the transfer cassette is moved laterally out of the one of the compartments or carts of the conveying device and thus out of the unloading position in the direction transverse to the conveying direction, whereas the one of the stacks of blister packs remains on the conveying device;
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wherein a movement of the at least one transfer cassette from the loading position to the unloading position and back to the loading position again is an endlessly repeated movement around a circuit.

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wherein the conveying device has several compartments or carts for holding the stacks of blister packs, the compartments or carts traveling around a circuit,
wherein the transfer device comprises at least one transfer cassette for holding one of the stacks of blister packs, the transfer cassette comprising a bottom element and at least two opposing side boundary elements, and further comprises at least one transfer cassette motion unit, actuated by a control unit, for moving the at least one transfer cassette in a direction transverse to the conveying direction;
wherein the at least one transfer cassette motion unit is actuated in such a way that the at least one transfer cassette is moved from a loading position, in which the at least one transfer cassette is loaded with a stack of blister packs, to an unloading position, in which the one of the stacks of blister packs is transferred to one of the compartments or carts of the conveying device,
wherein the at least one transfer cassette motion unit is actuated in such a way that the at least one transfer cassette is moved in the conveying direction when moved from the loading position to the unloading position;
wherein, during unloading, the at least one the transfer cassette is moved laterally out of the one of the compartments or carts of the conveying device and thus out of the unloading position in the direction transverse to the conveying direction, whereas the one of the stacks of blister packs remains on the conveying device;
and
wherein the at least one transfer cassettes comprises first and second transfer cassettes, and further comprising first and second transfer cassette motion units, which are arranged on opposite sides of the conveying device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/520,773Filed 22 Oct 2014
Priority: EP 1319053728 Oct 2013
Published: US 2015/0118000 A130 Apr 2015
Granted: 28 Jun 2016
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification17 codes

B65G 47/34
Article or material-handling devices associated with conveyors; Methods employing such devices: devices for discharging articles or materials from…
B65B 43/52
Feeding or positioning bags, boxes, or cartons in the distended, opened, or set-up state; Feeding preformed rigid containers, e.g. tins,…
B65G 47/082
Spacing or grouping the articles during feeding: grouping articles in rows
B65H 3/32
Separating articles from piles: by elements, e.g. fingers, plates, rollers, inserted or traversed between articles to be separated and remainder…