CA1207576A - Device for attaching articles to packages, bottles and other objects - Google Patents
Device for attaching articles to packages, bottles and other objectsInfo
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- CA1207576A CA1207576A CA000420922A CA420922A CA1207576A CA 1207576 A CA1207576 A CA 1207576A CA 000420922 A CA000420922 A CA 000420922A CA 420922 A CA420922 A CA 420922A CA 1207576 A CA1207576 A CA 1207576A
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
- B65B61/00—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages
- B65B61/20—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for adding cards, coupons or other inserts to package contents
- B65B61/205—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for adding cards, coupons or other inserts to package contents for adding drinking straws to a container
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- Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
- Y10T156/00—Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
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Abstract
ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE
An apparatus is disclosed for applying articles to packages which are passed to the apparatus at irregular inter-vals. When this is done the articles (for example, drinking straws), are thrust against the package by means of a pivotal applicator arm. The applicator arm is tilted against the action of a bias spring by a burst of compressed air that acts on the arm for a brief period so that it moves back into its initial position immediately after pressing against the package.
The apparatus can be tilted about two orthogonal axes in order that the drinking straws can be secured in different directions and on variously inclined surfaces of the package.
An apparatus is disclosed for applying articles to packages which are passed to the apparatus at irregular inter-vals. When this is done the articles (for example, drinking straws), are thrust against the package by means of a pivotal applicator arm. The applicator arm is tilted against the action of a bias spring by a burst of compressed air that acts on the arm for a brief period so that it moves back into its initial position immediately after pressing against the package.
The apparatus can be tilted about two orthogonal axes in order that the drinking straws can be secured in different directions and on variously inclined surfaces of the package.
Description
12~;'5~6 This invention relates to an apparatus for applying articles such as labels, drinking straws or the like to pack-ages, bottles or other objects, which are moved at intervals past the apparatus. When labels are attached to industrial goods that are discharged from a machine or when drinking straws are attached to containers that are filled with a liquid the difficulty exists that the objects, to which the labels, drink-ing straws, or the like are to be applied often leave the manu-facturing or package machinery at irregular intervals on a conveyor belt and thus have to be placed in a regular order in the feed flow before they can be subjected to further process-ing steps.
It is known that objects placed at irregular inter-vals on a conveyor belt can first be allowed to run up against a blocking plate in order that several of the objects run into each other. These are then released transversely to the conveyor belt individually either at equal time periods onto another conveyor belt, which passes them along for further processing, or they are moved into the cells of a compartment-alized wheel that rotates past the processing station, compart-ment by compartment. The articles that are to be applied to the individual objects, such as labels, drinking straws, etc., are then fastened to each object when it is stationary or else secured to it in some other manner.
The compacting and the subsequent transportation of the articles that are once again moving individually requires additional expense for machinery and construction, making the overall cost of the system increase to a very great degree, and causes a drop in the rate of production.
It is an object of the invention to provide an appar-atus for applying articles, in particular drinking straws, labels, or the like, to objects such as packages, bottles, ~ lZ~7S76 bags, etc., when the latter are moved past the apparatus on a y conveyor belt at irregular intervals and/or at different speeds, and to do this always at the same location.
Accordingly, the present invention provides an appara-tus for applying accessory articles to objects moving past-an application station of the apparatus at intervals, comprising support means at said application station, applicator means on said support means and displaceable between retracted and ex-tended positions relative to an object at said application sta-tion, means for bringing an accessory article into a confronting position with the approaching object at said application station, said accessory article in said confronting position being bet-ween said object and said applicator means in said retracted position thereof and being spaced from said objec-t, a compressed air nozzle for directing a blast of compressed air directly against said applicator means to displace said applicator means from said retracted to said extended position, biasing means urging said applicator means from said extended to said retrac-ted position, said applicator means in moving from said retracted to said extended position thrusting said accessory article across the space between said article and object and onto said object at said application station as the object passes thereby, and means for sensing an object approaching said application station and actuating said compressed air nozzle when said sensed object is at said application station.
This arrangement has the advantage that the objec-ts ejected from a processing or packing machine and moved at irregu-lar intervals do not first have to be brought to equal distances from each other, but can be provided continuously with the articles that are to be applied to their exteriors as they move past. Thus it is neither necessary to maintain the objects at equal intervals from each other, nor to stop the progress of the 12~'~576 object during the application of the articles. This is made possible by the fact that the thrusting device only acts for a brief time on the applicator and then is withdrawn before the applicator and the article which is to be applied impacts on the object. The effect of the recoil and the action of the spring is that there is practically no relative shift between the object that is moving past and the article ,that is to be applied to it and the control that is activated by the object moving past itself means that the article is always placed in the same posi-tion on the object no matter a-t what speed and at what intervals these pass by the device. It is preferred that the thrusting device has an air jet that produces an air thrust against the applicator. Such an air thrust system operates with practically no inertia and - 2a -7S7~i the air thrust moves the applicator element only in the direc-tion in which it thrusts the article against the object. The very brief air pulse will vanish so that the recoil and the recoil spring of the applicator element move back very rapidly and precisely to their initial position, in which regard it is important that the thrust device only acts for a brief period on the applicator and then disappears once more.
The applicator element can be tipped in several di-rections in order that the article that has been made ready ~an be applied in various positions and on variously configur-ed objects as selected. In this regard it is particularly expedient if the thrust device, the applicator element and the drive system are installed together on a carrier that can be tilted about two perpendicular axes and which can be secured.
The parts required for the thrust and the applicator element will then always be in the same spatial position relative to each other in which regard the applicator element can be placed in any desired angular position against the objects to which the articles are to be secured.
The applicator element can be a swivelling applicatox lever that can be swivelled by the thrust device against the action of a spring. ~owever, it is also possible to configure the applicator element as an axially moveable applicator push rod, which can be thrust by the thrust device against the ob-ject against the action of a spring.
In order to control the forward thrust and switch on the applicator element at the very moment at which the object that is to be provided with the article is opposite the attachment device, sensors may be arranged in the path of move-ment of the object that is being moved past the device so that these sensors can recognize the object and then control the drive of the thrust device and/or the thrust advance system.
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It is particularly desirable if the forward thrust device has a compartmentalized wheel in the compartments of which, that are arranged around the circumference, are contain-ed the articles that are to be applied. These can be picked up by the applicator element which slides in at least one cir-cumferential groove that has an open edge, this being arranged in the area of the cells. The applicator element then always has the same initial position and needs to move only a short distance in order to apply the article against the object that is being moved past, these being held in the partially emptied compartments of the compartmentalized wheel.
The applicator element can also be configured as a tipping lever, one arm of which engages in the circumferential groove of the compartmentalized wheel and the other arm of which is acted on by the thrust device. In this regard it is desirable if one arm of the applicator lever is pressed con-stantly by a spring against the outlet opening of the air jet.
In order to ensure that the applicator lever holds the article on each occasion securely and moves rapidly to the appropriate object without it being tilted, the compartmental-ized wheel of the forward thrust device may have two spaced circumferential grooves, in which the two ends of the one fork-shaped arm of the applicator lever lie.
If the applicator element is configured as an appli-cator thrust rod at one end this will have the thrust element that picks up the article on each occasion and at the other end will have a blocking plate arranged in front of the outlet opening of the air jet.
The invention will now be described in more detail, by way of example only with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
Figure 1 shows schematically, in perspective view, an apparatus for applying drinking straws in a diagonal posi-tion to the outer surface of a package filled with a drink as the packages are moved past the apparatus on a conveyor belt;
Figure 2 shows the apparatus of Figure 1 in side elevation;
Figure 3 shows the apparatus of Figure 2 in partial front view in the direction of the arrow III;
Figure 4 shows the conveyor belt for moving the drink packages and the apparatus for attaching the drinking straws according to Figure 3 in front view in the direction of the arrow IV, on an enlarged scale;
Figure 5 shows the apparatus of Figure 3 in partial cross section along the line V-V, on an enlarged scale;
Figure 6 is a plan view of the apparatus shown in Figure 5;
Figures 7 and 8 show the apparatus in side elevation in two different tipped positions;
Figure 9 shows the apparatus in front view in another tipped position, in a schematic representation; and Figure 10 shows another embodiment of the apparatus, - working in conjunction with a compartmentalized wheel in an illustration corresponding to Figure 6.
In the drawings, reference numeral 10 designates an apparatus for applying articles 11, in this case a drinXing straw contained in a paper tube, to be cemented to objects 12 that pass by on a conveyor belt 13. In this case the objects 12 are containers filled with a drink. The pack-ages 12, that are rectangular, are filled in a packing machine (not illustrated here) with drink and then pass at irregular intervals on theconveyor belt 13 which moves them continuously and preferably at a constan~ speed past the apparatus 10 to a lZai757~
collection station (not illustrated here) where they are stack-ed and then aeli~ered to a store or to a point of use.
The apparatus 10 is arranged at the level of the con-veyor belt 13 and immediately adjacent to this. It consists of a carrier 14 for example a table plate, that can be tilted in the direction of the arrows 17 and 18 about two perpendicu-lar axes 15 and 16 in a carrier frame 29 and can be secured in each tilted position. On the surface 19 of the carrier 14 there is a compartmentalized wheel 20 mounted on an axis 21, perpendicular to the surface 19, in the vicinity of the edge 22 of the carrier that faces the conveyor 13. This is mounted so as to be capable of rotation and is driven by a stepping mechanism, and can be switched incrementally.
The drinking straws 11 are in the compartmentalized wheel 20 and are contained in paper sleeves 23 which initially form a strip 24, that is drawn by a feed roller 25 over the guide rollers 26 and 27 and guided to the compartmentalized wheel 20. The feed roller 25 and one guide roller 26 are mounted on a carrier 28 in such a manner as to permit rotation and this carrier 28 is secured to the surface 19 of the carrier device 14 (Figures 2 and 3), whereas the guide roller 27 is installed in such a manner as to permit rotation parallel to the compartmentalized wheel 20 on the surface 19 of the carrier 14. The compartmentalized wheel 20, the guide rollers 26 and 27, and the feed roller 25 together form the feed system 30.
They do not change their relative positions if the carrier 14 and the axes 15 and 16 are tilted.
The compartmentalized wheel 20 is shown in greater detail in Figures 5 and 6. This wheel consists of a cylindri-cal body 31 which has a number of compartments 33 on its out-side surface 32 these being arranged at intervals from each other along the circumference and which are semi-circular in 12~7576 cross section and match the cross section of the drinking straws 11. The spacing a of the compartments in the direction of the circumference corresponds to the spacing a of the drinking straws 11 that are contained in the paper strip 24/ this being drawn along by the feed roller 25 so that the drinking straws 11 that are surrounded by the paper strip 24 lie in the com-partments 33 of the compartmentalized wheel one after the other if the strip 24 passes between the outside surface 32 of the compartmentalized wheel and a pressure plate 34 that rests against this outside surface 32.
Each compartment 33 is connected by radial bores 35 and axial bores 36 to a low pressure chamber 37. This chamber is connected by means of a ~acuum line 38 to a vacuum pump that is not shown in the drawings~
In addition, the compartmentalized wheel 20 is pro-vided with two annular grooves 39 that are separated from each other by an axial interval, and these are deeper than the compartments 33. The two ends 40 of a fork-shaped arm 41a of an applicator arm 41 can slide in these annular grooves.
Between tne compartments 33 the compartmentalized wheel 20 has axially oriented slots 42 (Figure 6) on its outer surface 32 in which the cutter blade 43 of à swinging cut-off knife 44 can enter; this is installed next to the compartment-alized wheel 20 on the surface ]9 of the carrier 14 and is installed on a shaft 45 in such a manner as to be able to rotate. The cutter blade 43 operates in a slit 46 in the pressure plate 34. The cut-off knife 44 is used to cut the continuous paper strip 24 in which the drinking straws 11 are contained into individual paper strips 23 with which each drinking straw 11 is cemented to the package 12.
It can be seen from Figure 6 that the pressure plate 34 is also mounted on an arm 47 and that this is mounted in 1~$~7576 the carrier 14 in such a manner as to be able to rotate arounda shaft 48 and is pressed and sprung against the outer surface of the compartmentalized wheel 20.
The applicator arm 41 is a two-armed tilt lever that is installed so as to be able to rotate with a shaft 49 next to the compartmentalized wheel 20 on the surface 19 of the carrier~ One arm, 41a, extends approximately parallel to the conveyor belt 13; this is fork-shaped and engages with both its front ends 40 into the annular grooves 39 of the compartment-alized wheel 20 in such a manner that it lies between thedrinking straws 11 that are held in the compartments 33 by vacuum if the compartmentalized wheel 20 rotates in the direc-tion of the arrow 50. The other arm, 41b, of the applicator arm 41 is acted on by the spring 51 that attempts to rotate the applicator arm 41 in Figure 6 counter-clockwise and which presses the free end 52 of the arm 41b of the applicator lever 41 against the edge 53 of the outlet opening 54 of an air nozzle 55. The air nozzle 55 is connected to a compressed air supply (that i.5 not shown here) by means of a controllable shut-off valve through which compressed air can be ejected in short bursts from the air nozzle 55 against the end 52 of the lever 41b of the applicator lever 41. The shut-off valve is controlled by means of a sensor 56, for example, a photoelec-tric cell (Figures 1 and 4). This is arranged above the con-veyor belt 13 in the vicinity of the application apparatus 10 and senses the package 12 that passes it. The sensor 56 feeds a control pulse, if required with a present delay, to the air valve so that this valve opens for a brief period, and a burst of compressed air exits the nozzle 55; this swings the applicator arm 41 counter-clockwise against the force of the spring 51, whereupon the front fork-shaped ends 40 of the arm 41a of the applicator lever 41 move outwards drinking straw 11 12~'7S76 that is the furthest forward and then press this with its sleeve 23 against the package 12 that is moving directly in front of it.
An adhesive applicator is arranged adjacent to the conveyor belt 13 (this not being shown in the illustration) ahead of the applicator apparatus 10 in the direction of move-ment of the conveyor belt 13. This adhesive applicator places two spots of adhesive 59 through two nozzles 58 onto the side 60 of the edge 12 that faces the applicator device when the front edge of this packet passes the beam of light from the photoelectric cell 61 which then activates the cement appli-cator 57.
The apparatus operates as follows:
As has been described above, the packages 12 that are disposed at irregular intervals on the conveyor belt 13 are moved at a constant speed in the direction of the arrow 65 to the applicator apparatus 10. If a package 12 passes the cem-enting station 57 and activates the photoelectric cell 61 with its forward edge two spots of cement 59 are sprayed through the cementing nozzles 58 onto the side 60 of the package.
When this is done the spots of cement are so arranged that they are located in the front upper and rear lower corners of the surface 60 since the length of the drinking straw 11 is some-what greater than the height of the package. For this reason they must be attached to the side in a diagonal position if they are not to protrude beyond the edges of the package 12.
The package that has then been provided with adhe-sive spots 59 then passes into the area of the applicator apparatus 10. Here the drinking straws 11 that are in their paper sleeves 23 and are to be attached to the package are read~ in the compartmentalized wheel. The strip 24 that comes from the feed roller 25 is cut into inidividual paper strips _ g _ 12~75~f~
with the help of the cut-off blad~ 44 and each of these strips then contains a drinking straw 11 and is held in a cell 33 arranged on the circumference 32 by means of a vacuum.
As soon as the froni edge of a package 12 reaches the photoelectric cell 61 a pulse is sent to a compressed air valve (not shown) which permits a burst of compressed air to emerge from the nozzle 55 and this swings the applicator arm 41 against the force of the spring 51. When this happens the two front ends 40 of the fork-shaped arm 41a of the applicator lever 41 move forward against the drinking straw 11 that is opposite the package and thrusts this against the side 60 of the package 12 which is opposite the compartmentalized wheel 20. The package is supported on its opposite side 66 by means of a guide rail 67 that is secured to the conveyor belt 13.
As soon as the burst of compressed air has passed the air nozzle 55 the spring 51 draws the applicator arm 91 back into its initial position in which the free end 52 of its arm 41b once again abuts on the edge 53 of the outlet opening 54 of the air nozzle 55. The compartmentalized wheel 20 is then moved forward in its direction of rotation by one compartment by its drive system so that the subsequent drinking straw 11 is moved into a position parallel to the conveyor belt 13 and the next drinking straw sleeve 23 can be cut off by the cut-off knife 44 from the strip 24 that comes from the feed roller 25.
From Figures 2, 7 and 8 it can be seen that the appli-cation apparatus 10 can be tilted about the axis 15 in such a manner that the compartmentalized wheel 20 with the applicator arm 41 can be inclined at various angles ~ to the horizontal, these corresponding to different diagonal directions on pack-ages of different heights.
Figure 9 shows that it is also possible to attach i2~7S~
articles to packages that have sides 60 that are inclined to the base surface. In this case the area 14 must be swivelled about its axis 16 in such a manner that the upper side 19 of the carrier 14 forms the angle ~ with the horizontal plane.
In the other version of the applicator apparatus shown in Figure 10 the applicator element consists of an appli-cator push rod 68, the shaft 69 of which is installed in a bracket 70 on the carrier 14 in such a manner as to permit axial movement which on its front end 69a that faces the conveyor 10 belt 13 has a feed element 71 and at its rear end 69b has a blocking plate 72 which closes off the outlet opening 54 of the air nozzle 55. The feed element 71 is configured in the version shown here as a fork arm one fork-shaped end 71a of which slides in the two annular grooves 39 of the compartment-alized wheel 20 and which at the other end 71b is connected to a spring 51 which attempts to draw back the applicator push rod 68 against its direction of advance 73 and thereby push the blocking plate 72 against the outlet opening 54 of the air valve 55~ In order that the applicator push rod 68 is loaded symmetrically two springs 51 can also be provided these being attached to both sides of the push rod shaft 69 and being attached at equal intervals from this to the advance element 71.
If a package 12 passes the compartmentalized wheel 20 and the photoelectric cell 56 opens the air nozzle 55 for a brief period the blocking plate 72 is acted on by a burst of compressed air that displaces the applicator push rod 68 in the direction of the arrow 73 against the action of the spring 51. The front end 71a of the advance element 71 then slips behind the waiting straw and thrust it against the package 12 where it and its paper sleeve 23 are cemented to the spots of cement 55 previously applied to the package 12~
The invention is not confined to the embodiment des-12~75'~6 cribed. Several modifications and changes are possible that still remain within the context of this invention. For example, using the device that is shown it is possible to cement not only drinking straws, but also other articles such as labels, advertising articles, or the like to packages, bottles or other objects. When this is done the external configuration of the object plays no part since it is possible to tilt the ap-plicator device around perpendicular axes in order that the article that is to be applied can be brought into a position that is parallel to the surface of the object to which the article is to be applied. Neither is it absolutely essential that the cement spots are applied to the object since the ar-ticles that are to be applied can be provided with a self-adhesive layer so that they are cemented directly to the objects if they are thrust against them by the applicator arm. Further-more, it is possible to use another device for preparing the articles that are to be applied and to use mechanical, elec-trical or pneumatically operated push rods as thrust devices.
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It is known that objects placed at irregular inter-vals on a conveyor belt can first be allowed to run up against a blocking plate in order that several of the objects run into each other. These are then released transversely to the conveyor belt individually either at equal time periods onto another conveyor belt, which passes them along for further processing, or they are moved into the cells of a compartment-alized wheel that rotates past the processing station, compart-ment by compartment. The articles that are to be applied to the individual objects, such as labels, drinking straws, etc., are then fastened to each object when it is stationary or else secured to it in some other manner.
The compacting and the subsequent transportation of the articles that are once again moving individually requires additional expense for machinery and construction, making the overall cost of the system increase to a very great degree, and causes a drop in the rate of production.
It is an object of the invention to provide an appar-atus for applying articles, in particular drinking straws, labels, or the like, to objects such as packages, bottles, ~ lZ~7S76 bags, etc., when the latter are moved past the apparatus on a y conveyor belt at irregular intervals and/or at different speeds, and to do this always at the same location.
Accordingly, the present invention provides an appara-tus for applying accessory articles to objects moving past-an application station of the apparatus at intervals, comprising support means at said application station, applicator means on said support means and displaceable between retracted and ex-tended positions relative to an object at said application sta-tion, means for bringing an accessory article into a confronting position with the approaching object at said application station, said accessory article in said confronting position being bet-ween said object and said applicator means in said retracted position thereof and being spaced from said objec-t, a compressed air nozzle for directing a blast of compressed air directly against said applicator means to displace said applicator means from said retracted to said extended position, biasing means urging said applicator means from said extended to said retrac-ted position, said applicator means in moving from said retracted to said extended position thrusting said accessory article across the space between said article and object and onto said object at said application station as the object passes thereby, and means for sensing an object approaching said application station and actuating said compressed air nozzle when said sensed object is at said application station.
This arrangement has the advantage that the objec-ts ejected from a processing or packing machine and moved at irregu-lar intervals do not first have to be brought to equal distances from each other, but can be provided continuously with the articles that are to be applied to their exteriors as they move past. Thus it is neither necessary to maintain the objects at equal intervals from each other, nor to stop the progress of the 12~'~576 object during the application of the articles. This is made possible by the fact that the thrusting device only acts for a brief time on the applicator and then is withdrawn before the applicator and the article which is to be applied impacts on the object. The effect of the recoil and the action of the spring is that there is practically no relative shift between the object that is moving past and the article ,that is to be applied to it and the control that is activated by the object moving past itself means that the article is always placed in the same posi-tion on the object no matter a-t what speed and at what intervals these pass by the device. It is preferred that the thrusting device has an air jet that produces an air thrust against the applicator. Such an air thrust system operates with practically no inertia and - 2a -7S7~i the air thrust moves the applicator element only in the direc-tion in which it thrusts the article against the object. The very brief air pulse will vanish so that the recoil and the recoil spring of the applicator element move back very rapidly and precisely to their initial position, in which regard it is important that the thrust device only acts for a brief period on the applicator and then disappears once more.
The applicator element can be tipped in several di-rections in order that the article that has been made ready ~an be applied in various positions and on variously configur-ed objects as selected. In this regard it is particularly expedient if the thrust device, the applicator element and the drive system are installed together on a carrier that can be tilted about two perpendicular axes and which can be secured.
The parts required for the thrust and the applicator element will then always be in the same spatial position relative to each other in which regard the applicator element can be placed in any desired angular position against the objects to which the articles are to be secured.
The applicator element can be a swivelling applicatox lever that can be swivelled by the thrust device against the action of a spring. ~owever, it is also possible to configure the applicator element as an axially moveable applicator push rod, which can be thrust by the thrust device against the ob-ject against the action of a spring.
In order to control the forward thrust and switch on the applicator element at the very moment at which the object that is to be provided with the article is opposite the attachment device, sensors may be arranged in the path of move-ment of the object that is being moved past the device so that these sensors can recognize the object and then control the drive of the thrust device and/or the thrust advance system.
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It is particularly desirable if the forward thrust device has a compartmentalized wheel in the compartments of which, that are arranged around the circumference, are contain-ed the articles that are to be applied. These can be picked up by the applicator element which slides in at least one cir-cumferential groove that has an open edge, this being arranged in the area of the cells. The applicator element then always has the same initial position and needs to move only a short distance in order to apply the article against the object that is being moved past, these being held in the partially emptied compartments of the compartmentalized wheel.
The applicator element can also be configured as a tipping lever, one arm of which engages in the circumferential groove of the compartmentalized wheel and the other arm of which is acted on by the thrust device. In this regard it is desirable if one arm of the applicator lever is pressed con-stantly by a spring against the outlet opening of the air jet.
In order to ensure that the applicator lever holds the article on each occasion securely and moves rapidly to the appropriate object without it being tilted, the compartmental-ized wheel of the forward thrust device may have two spaced circumferential grooves, in which the two ends of the one fork-shaped arm of the applicator lever lie.
If the applicator element is configured as an appli-cator thrust rod at one end this will have the thrust element that picks up the article on each occasion and at the other end will have a blocking plate arranged in front of the outlet opening of the air jet.
The invention will now be described in more detail, by way of example only with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
Figure 1 shows schematically, in perspective view, an apparatus for applying drinking straws in a diagonal posi-tion to the outer surface of a package filled with a drink as the packages are moved past the apparatus on a conveyor belt;
Figure 2 shows the apparatus of Figure 1 in side elevation;
Figure 3 shows the apparatus of Figure 2 in partial front view in the direction of the arrow III;
Figure 4 shows the conveyor belt for moving the drink packages and the apparatus for attaching the drinking straws according to Figure 3 in front view in the direction of the arrow IV, on an enlarged scale;
Figure 5 shows the apparatus of Figure 3 in partial cross section along the line V-V, on an enlarged scale;
Figure 6 is a plan view of the apparatus shown in Figure 5;
Figures 7 and 8 show the apparatus in side elevation in two different tipped positions;
Figure 9 shows the apparatus in front view in another tipped position, in a schematic representation; and Figure 10 shows another embodiment of the apparatus, - working in conjunction with a compartmentalized wheel in an illustration corresponding to Figure 6.
In the drawings, reference numeral 10 designates an apparatus for applying articles 11, in this case a drinXing straw contained in a paper tube, to be cemented to objects 12 that pass by on a conveyor belt 13. In this case the objects 12 are containers filled with a drink. The pack-ages 12, that are rectangular, are filled in a packing machine (not illustrated here) with drink and then pass at irregular intervals on theconveyor belt 13 which moves them continuously and preferably at a constan~ speed past the apparatus 10 to a lZai757~
collection station (not illustrated here) where they are stack-ed and then aeli~ered to a store or to a point of use.
The apparatus 10 is arranged at the level of the con-veyor belt 13 and immediately adjacent to this. It consists of a carrier 14 for example a table plate, that can be tilted in the direction of the arrows 17 and 18 about two perpendicu-lar axes 15 and 16 in a carrier frame 29 and can be secured in each tilted position. On the surface 19 of the carrier 14 there is a compartmentalized wheel 20 mounted on an axis 21, perpendicular to the surface 19, in the vicinity of the edge 22 of the carrier that faces the conveyor 13. This is mounted so as to be capable of rotation and is driven by a stepping mechanism, and can be switched incrementally.
The drinking straws 11 are in the compartmentalized wheel 20 and are contained in paper sleeves 23 which initially form a strip 24, that is drawn by a feed roller 25 over the guide rollers 26 and 27 and guided to the compartmentalized wheel 20. The feed roller 25 and one guide roller 26 are mounted on a carrier 28 in such a manner as to permit rotation and this carrier 28 is secured to the surface 19 of the carrier device 14 (Figures 2 and 3), whereas the guide roller 27 is installed in such a manner as to permit rotation parallel to the compartmentalized wheel 20 on the surface 19 of the carrier 14. The compartmentalized wheel 20, the guide rollers 26 and 27, and the feed roller 25 together form the feed system 30.
They do not change their relative positions if the carrier 14 and the axes 15 and 16 are tilted.
The compartmentalized wheel 20 is shown in greater detail in Figures 5 and 6. This wheel consists of a cylindri-cal body 31 which has a number of compartments 33 on its out-side surface 32 these being arranged at intervals from each other along the circumference and which are semi-circular in 12~7576 cross section and match the cross section of the drinking straws 11. The spacing a of the compartments in the direction of the circumference corresponds to the spacing a of the drinking straws 11 that are contained in the paper strip 24/ this being drawn along by the feed roller 25 so that the drinking straws 11 that are surrounded by the paper strip 24 lie in the com-partments 33 of the compartmentalized wheel one after the other if the strip 24 passes between the outside surface 32 of the compartmentalized wheel and a pressure plate 34 that rests against this outside surface 32.
Each compartment 33 is connected by radial bores 35 and axial bores 36 to a low pressure chamber 37. This chamber is connected by means of a ~acuum line 38 to a vacuum pump that is not shown in the drawings~
In addition, the compartmentalized wheel 20 is pro-vided with two annular grooves 39 that are separated from each other by an axial interval, and these are deeper than the compartments 33. The two ends 40 of a fork-shaped arm 41a of an applicator arm 41 can slide in these annular grooves.
Between tne compartments 33 the compartmentalized wheel 20 has axially oriented slots 42 (Figure 6) on its outer surface 32 in which the cutter blade 43 of à swinging cut-off knife 44 can enter; this is installed next to the compartment-alized wheel 20 on the surface ]9 of the carrier 14 and is installed on a shaft 45 in such a manner as to be able to rotate. The cutter blade 43 operates in a slit 46 in the pressure plate 34. The cut-off knife 44 is used to cut the continuous paper strip 24 in which the drinking straws 11 are contained into individual paper strips 23 with which each drinking straw 11 is cemented to the package 12.
It can be seen from Figure 6 that the pressure plate 34 is also mounted on an arm 47 and that this is mounted in 1~$~7576 the carrier 14 in such a manner as to be able to rotate arounda shaft 48 and is pressed and sprung against the outer surface of the compartmentalized wheel 20.
The applicator arm 41 is a two-armed tilt lever that is installed so as to be able to rotate with a shaft 49 next to the compartmentalized wheel 20 on the surface 19 of the carrier~ One arm, 41a, extends approximately parallel to the conveyor belt 13; this is fork-shaped and engages with both its front ends 40 into the annular grooves 39 of the compartment-alized wheel 20 in such a manner that it lies between thedrinking straws 11 that are held in the compartments 33 by vacuum if the compartmentalized wheel 20 rotates in the direc-tion of the arrow 50. The other arm, 41b, of the applicator arm 41 is acted on by the spring 51 that attempts to rotate the applicator arm 41 in Figure 6 counter-clockwise and which presses the free end 52 of the arm 41b of the applicator lever 41 against the edge 53 of the outlet opening 54 of an air nozzle 55. The air nozzle 55 is connected to a compressed air supply (that i.5 not shown here) by means of a controllable shut-off valve through which compressed air can be ejected in short bursts from the air nozzle 55 against the end 52 of the lever 41b of the applicator lever 41. The shut-off valve is controlled by means of a sensor 56, for example, a photoelec-tric cell (Figures 1 and 4). This is arranged above the con-veyor belt 13 in the vicinity of the application apparatus 10 and senses the package 12 that passes it. The sensor 56 feeds a control pulse, if required with a present delay, to the air valve so that this valve opens for a brief period, and a burst of compressed air exits the nozzle 55; this swings the applicator arm 41 counter-clockwise against the force of the spring 51, whereupon the front fork-shaped ends 40 of the arm 41a of the applicator lever 41 move outwards drinking straw 11 12~'7S76 that is the furthest forward and then press this with its sleeve 23 against the package 12 that is moving directly in front of it.
An adhesive applicator is arranged adjacent to the conveyor belt 13 (this not being shown in the illustration) ahead of the applicator apparatus 10 in the direction of move-ment of the conveyor belt 13. This adhesive applicator places two spots of adhesive 59 through two nozzles 58 onto the side 60 of the edge 12 that faces the applicator device when the front edge of this packet passes the beam of light from the photoelectric cell 61 which then activates the cement appli-cator 57.
The apparatus operates as follows:
As has been described above, the packages 12 that are disposed at irregular intervals on the conveyor belt 13 are moved at a constant speed in the direction of the arrow 65 to the applicator apparatus 10. If a package 12 passes the cem-enting station 57 and activates the photoelectric cell 61 with its forward edge two spots of cement 59 are sprayed through the cementing nozzles 58 onto the side 60 of the package.
When this is done the spots of cement are so arranged that they are located in the front upper and rear lower corners of the surface 60 since the length of the drinking straw 11 is some-what greater than the height of the package. For this reason they must be attached to the side in a diagonal position if they are not to protrude beyond the edges of the package 12.
The package that has then been provided with adhe-sive spots 59 then passes into the area of the applicator apparatus 10. Here the drinking straws 11 that are in their paper sleeves 23 and are to be attached to the package are read~ in the compartmentalized wheel. The strip 24 that comes from the feed roller 25 is cut into inidividual paper strips _ g _ 12~75~f~
with the help of the cut-off blad~ 44 and each of these strips then contains a drinking straw 11 and is held in a cell 33 arranged on the circumference 32 by means of a vacuum.
As soon as the froni edge of a package 12 reaches the photoelectric cell 61 a pulse is sent to a compressed air valve (not shown) which permits a burst of compressed air to emerge from the nozzle 55 and this swings the applicator arm 41 against the force of the spring 51. When this happens the two front ends 40 of the fork-shaped arm 41a of the applicator lever 41 move forward against the drinking straw 11 that is opposite the package and thrusts this against the side 60 of the package 12 which is opposite the compartmentalized wheel 20. The package is supported on its opposite side 66 by means of a guide rail 67 that is secured to the conveyor belt 13.
As soon as the burst of compressed air has passed the air nozzle 55 the spring 51 draws the applicator arm 91 back into its initial position in which the free end 52 of its arm 41b once again abuts on the edge 53 of the outlet opening 54 of the air nozzle 55. The compartmentalized wheel 20 is then moved forward in its direction of rotation by one compartment by its drive system so that the subsequent drinking straw 11 is moved into a position parallel to the conveyor belt 13 and the next drinking straw sleeve 23 can be cut off by the cut-off knife 44 from the strip 24 that comes from the feed roller 25.
From Figures 2, 7 and 8 it can be seen that the appli-cation apparatus 10 can be tilted about the axis 15 in such a manner that the compartmentalized wheel 20 with the applicator arm 41 can be inclined at various angles ~ to the horizontal, these corresponding to different diagonal directions on pack-ages of different heights.
Figure 9 shows that it is also possible to attach i2~7S~
articles to packages that have sides 60 that are inclined to the base surface. In this case the area 14 must be swivelled about its axis 16 in such a manner that the upper side 19 of the carrier 14 forms the angle ~ with the horizontal plane.
In the other version of the applicator apparatus shown in Figure 10 the applicator element consists of an appli-cator push rod 68, the shaft 69 of which is installed in a bracket 70 on the carrier 14 in such a manner as to permit axial movement which on its front end 69a that faces the conveyor 10 belt 13 has a feed element 71 and at its rear end 69b has a blocking plate 72 which closes off the outlet opening 54 of the air nozzle 55. The feed element 71 is configured in the version shown here as a fork arm one fork-shaped end 71a of which slides in the two annular grooves 39 of the compartment-alized wheel 20 and which at the other end 71b is connected to a spring 51 which attempts to draw back the applicator push rod 68 against its direction of advance 73 and thereby push the blocking plate 72 against the outlet opening 54 of the air valve 55~ In order that the applicator push rod 68 is loaded symmetrically two springs 51 can also be provided these being attached to both sides of the push rod shaft 69 and being attached at equal intervals from this to the advance element 71.
If a package 12 passes the compartmentalized wheel 20 and the photoelectric cell 56 opens the air nozzle 55 for a brief period the blocking plate 72 is acted on by a burst of compressed air that displaces the applicator push rod 68 in the direction of the arrow 73 against the action of the spring 51. The front end 71a of the advance element 71 then slips behind the waiting straw and thrust it against the package 12 where it and its paper sleeve 23 are cemented to the spots of cement 55 previously applied to the package 12~
The invention is not confined to the embodiment des-12~75'~6 cribed. Several modifications and changes are possible that still remain within the context of this invention. For example, using the device that is shown it is possible to cement not only drinking straws, but also other articles such as labels, advertising articles, or the like to packages, bottles or other objects. When this is done the external configuration of the object plays no part since it is possible to tilt the ap-plicator device around perpendicular axes in order that the article that is to be applied can be brought into a position that is parallel to the surface of the object to which the article is to be applied. Neither is it absolutely essential that the cement spots are applied to the object since the ar-ticles that are to be applied can be provided with a self-adhesive layer so that they are cemented directly to the objects if they are thrust against them by the applicator arm. Further-more, it is possible to use another device for preparing the articles that are to be applied and to use mechanical, elec-trical or pneumatically operated push rods as thrust devices.
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Claims (8)
PROPERTY OR PRIVILEGE IS CLAIMED ARE DEFINED AS FOLLOWS:
1. Apparatus for applying accessory articles to ob-jects moving past an application station of the apparatus at intervals, comprising support means at said application station, applicator means on said support means and displaceable between retracted and extended positions relative to an object at said application station, means for bringing an accessory article into a confronting position with the approaching object at said app-lication station, said accessory article in said confronting position being between said object and said applicator means in said retracted position thereof and being spaced from said ob-ject, a compressed air nozzle for directing a blast of compressed air directly against said applicator means to displace said applicator means from said retracted to said extended position, biasing means urging said applicator means from said extended to said retracted position, said applicator means in moving from said retracted to said extended position thrusting said accessory article across the space between said article and object and onto said object at said application station as the object passes thereby, and means for sensing an object approaching said applica-tion station and actuating said compressed air nozzle when said sensed object is at said application station.
2. Apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said means for bringing an article into a confronting position with an approaching object and said applicator means are mounted on said support means, said support means being mounted at said application station for selective tilting adjustment about ortho-gonal axes.
3. Apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said bias-ing means is provided by a spring.
4. Apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said means for sensing an approaching object and actuating said compressed air nozzle comprises sensors arranged in the path of the objects, and means responsive to said sensors for controlling air flow to said compressed air nozzle.
5. Apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said means for bringing an article into a confronting position with an approaching object comprises a compartmentalized wheel rotatably mounted on said support means and having compartments arranged around its outer surface for receiving articles and at least one annular groove behind articles in said compartments, and said applicator means comprises at least one arm accommodated in said annular grove in said retracted position of said applicator means, whereby said arm, in moving from said retracted to said extended position, displaces an article out of its respective compartment and thrusts said displaced article across said space and onto said object.
6. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said applicator means comprises a pivoted lever having a first arm portion for engaging and thrusting said accessory article across said space and onto said article and a second arm portion which is acted on by said air nozzle and closes the outlet opening of said air nozzle when said applicator means is in said retrac-ted position.
7. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said applicator means includes a push rod having opposite ends, an arm on one of said ends of said push rod for engaging and thrust-ing said accessory article across said space and onto said ar-ticle, the other of said ends having a blocking plate, said com-pressed air nozzle directing a burst of air against said block-ing plate to displace said applicator means from said retracted to said extended position, and said blocking plate closing the outlet opening of said air nozzle when said applicator means is in said retracted position.
8. Apparatus for applying accessory articles to ob-jects moving linearly past an application station of the appara-tus at intervals, comprising tiltable support means mounted at said application station for selective tilting adjustment about orthogonal axes, applicator means on said supporting means and displaceable between retracted and extended positions at said application station, means for sensing an object approaching said application station, means on said support means for bring-ing an accessory article into a confronting position with the approaching object at said application station, said accessory article in said confronting position being between said object and said applicator means in said retracted position thereof and spaced from said object, means on said support means to displace said applicator means between said retracted and ex-tended positions, said applicator means in moving from said re-tracted to said extended position thrusting said accessory article across the space between said article and object and onto said object at said application station as the object passes thereby, and said tiltable support means being secured in a selected position at said application station for said article thrust onto said object to be inclined relative to horizontal.
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