Package making – Depositing articles and arranging material in preformed... – Successive deposits of articles
Patent
1996-04-03
1998-02-24
Moon, Daniel
Package making
Depositing articles and arranging material in preformed...
Successive deposits of articles
53148, 53236, 53246, 53251, B65B 510
Patent
active
057201498
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to an apparatus for the packaging of articles, in particular of sausages or of raw sausage meat formed into sausages, which arrive at a packaging station via a feed device.
From German Unexamined Application for Patent 42 18 783, there is known, for instance, an apparatus for the separating of sausages from a sausage strand. After the separation, these sausages arrive unsorted at a packaging station and must be expensively inserted there by hand into corresponding packing means and packaged.
An improvement in this device is offered by Patent 43 18 301, in which the sausages are sorted by size after the separation and filled into corresponding containers.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a further improvement in the last-mentioned invention. In particular, the sausages are to be introduced individually and automatically into a packing means.
This objective is achieved in the manner that in the packaging station and above a packing means, there is arranged at least one trough wheel associated with the feed device, the trough wheel and packing means being movable relative to each other.
Only one trough wheel is provided in a first embodiment. Said trough wheel effects a separating of the individual articles, the present invention relating in particular to sausages. In this way, sausages can be packaged both in synthetic and natural casing. The apparatus can, however, also be used for salami or, for instance, for so-called "beer balls". All that is required in each case is to correspondingly develop the trough wheel and the packing means.
For the sake of simplicity, the trough wheel is located between two side plates, a corresponding rotating shaft for the trough wheel being rotatably mounted in the side plates. A corresponding drive can, in that case, also be associated from the start with said shaft.
In order to make it possible to fill the packing means continuously, the trough wheel is moved over the packing means or, in the case of another embodiment of the invention, the packing means is pulled away below the trough wheel upon its rotation. Both embodiments must be considered equivalent.
When the trough wheel is moved, the side plates are preferably arranged slidably on linear guides. They form, together with the trough wheel, a kind of carriage which can be moved back and forth on the linear guides.
This last-mentioned movement is effected by another drive which is connected, for instance, to a ball screw drive. Said ball screw drive passes through a corresponding tapped hole in a driving block which in turn is connected to a side plate.
As mentioned above, the apparatus of the present invention is to make it possible to package all kinds and shapes of sausages. It is advisable, in this case, for the trough wheel to be connected in readily replaceable manner to the side plates, since different sausages also require different troughs. The packing means should also be developed accordingly. If the packing means consist, for instance, of a deep-drawn sheet, the corresponding mold for said sheet can already be integrated in the packaging station. In that case, it also forms the trough for receiving the sausages and is arranged below the trough wheel. The mold has in that case a development which corresponds to the development of the trough wheel, i.e. the apex width between two troughs of the trough wheel corresponds approximately to the width of a web between two troughs of the mold.
Inasmuch as the entire apparatus is to operate continuously, it is advisable to provide in addition to the one packing means also at least one second packing means which, after the filling of the first packing means, is transferred to below the trough wheel. In this case, the packing means itself or the corresponding mold can be pushed below the trough wheel or else the trough wheel can be moved above the second packing means via corresponding guide rails.
In the event that the trough wheel is movable relative to the packing means, it also a
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Moon Daniel
Stimpfl & Gieseler GmbH
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