DE8108123U1 - Device for supplying and removing items of clothing for an automatic packaging machine - Google Patents

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DIpl.-ing.Dr.-lng. KE! NZ NiCKELS ■ Dipi.-Fhys. LORENZ HANEWINKEL PATENT LAWYERS

Detmolder Strasse 26 _p . 4-800 Bielefeld 1

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Wilfried Pavel, packaging machines and transport systems, Gewerbestrasse 4, 4802 Halle / Westf.

Apparatus for supplying and removing items of clothing for - a packaging machine

The innovation relates to a device with which in the case of a packaging machine for items of clothing, these are fed to the machine and removed from it again can be «

In the previously known packaging machines, the items of clothing in the waiting position on a feed member are individually hooked into the machine by an operator and after the r ! Implementation of the packaging removed by hand and passed on to a discharge organ, so that the introduction and removal of the items of clothing must be carried out manually in an inefficient manner.

The task of the innovation is therefore to provide a feed and discharge device to create, which in a rational manner automatically the introduction of the unpackaged and the removal of the packaged items of clothing and is simple and cost-saving in structure and has a safe function shows as well as the most diverse packaging machines can be assigned subsequently as an additional device.

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This task is renewed according to the characterizing Features of protection claim 1 solved, with the design features listed in the subclaims still advantageous Present further training for the solution of tasks.

The subject of the innovation extends not only to the features of the individual claim but also to their combination.

The feed and discharge device according to the invention enables an efficient loading and unloading of items of clothing, so that the automatic packaging machine has to be packed without an operator Items of clothing are fitted and the packaged items of clothing are also automatically removed again

Due to the structure and the advantageous mode of operation of the device a continuous movement of the garments is achieved without manual work and thereby the performance of the packaging machine optimally used.

The device is simple and cost-built, has a ^ 'safe function and is made durable. This device can be assigned as an additional device to a wide variety of packaging machines and can also be assigned subsequently, since the device can be adapted to the machines

An exemplary embodiment according to the innovation is explained in more detail below with the aid of the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of an automatic packaging machine for items of clothing with an associated device for supplying and removing the items of clothing, wherein this device has a reciprocating carriage and extendable, retractable and height-adjustable grippers having,

(J fig 2 perspective views of the carriage with grippers in

to 6 the sequence of movements from the starting position (Fig. 2) to the end position (Fig. 6) for picking up, moving and dispensing the clothing.

1 with a packaging machine is a known manner for hanging Packaging of items of clothing by means of a hose-like drawn over the item of clothing 2 and welded Plastic film called.

This automatic packaging machine 1 is for automatic feeding the unpacked items of clothing 2 and removing and removing

() lead the packaged items of clothing 2 according to the innovation

Device assigned, which is a transverse to the garment hanging plane has sliding carriage or carriage 3 that can be moved back and forth, which is equipped with two transversely to the carriage direction of movement. and retractable as well as height-adjustable grippers 4.5 are equipped, which in each case a car end position Pick up the item of clothing 2, then move together and in the other end position of the trolley, the item of clothing 2 again hand over. The items of clothing 2 are suspended on hangers 6 and these hangers 6 are gripped by the grippers 4, 5.

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The carriage 3 is slidably mounted on guides 7 and
these are guides 7 formed by profiles or waves
fixed with their ends on each stand 8 »whereby it
is advantageous, the guides 7 adjustable in height and thus
to store on the stands 8 so that they can be set up on different items of clothing 2 or packaging sizes; for this are
the guides 7 at their ends by a traverse
9 cross-connected and on these traverses 9 height adjustment means lo, such as threaded spindles o. The like «, which are in the

Supports 8 adjustable (rotatable) supports »the guides 7 _%

are therefore height-adjustable suspended on the stands 8

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The distance between the uprights 8 and thus the length of the |

Guides 7 corresponds to the largest travel distance of the carriage 3 /

and between the stands 8 is the automatic packaging machine 1, |

however, the guides 7 in front of the automatic packaging machine 1 |

(its loading and unloading side) running I

The carriage 3 is designed like a frame and is supported by ^

Rollers 11 on the guides 7. For moving |

of the carriage 3 is a double-acting pressure medium |

cylinder 12 is provided, which is in carriage — displacement direction j

extends and is stored in the carriage 3 and with its piston )

rod 12a emerges from an end face of the carriage 3 |

and is attached at the free end to a traverse 9, so that |

by extending and retracting the piston rod 12a the Wagenver- $

Shift takes place. Instead of the pressure medium cylinder 12, |

also a motor-driven threaded spindle or an f

motor-driven rack can be used. |

The two grippers U, 5 are available as single or double hooks, | i.e., as one hook or as two adjacent hooks,!;

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whereby the hook or hooks can grasp from the bottom up, formed and each gripper 4, S is by a cross piece at the free length end of a piston rod 13a one in each case double-acting pressure medium cylinder 13 attached »The two pressure medium cylinders 13 are in the two front ends of the carriage 3 arranged on the same, extend with their longitudinal direction transversely to the carriage displacement direction and are with their length end facing away from the piston rod 13a in a pivot bearing 14 up and down on the carriage stored.

The vertical pivoting of the two gripper pressure cylinder 13 takes place by means of a double-acting hydraulic cylinder 15, which on the gripper-side longitudinal side of the carriage 3 by a fastening part 16 on the carriage 3 is mounted below the piston rod 13a, with its longitudinal direction in the vertical direction and with its piston rod 15a under a piston rod 13a passing through

Guide part 17 engages · The free end of the piston rod 15a | of the height adjustment pressure medium cylinder 15 is connected to the guide j part 17 connected so that when retracting or extending the piston I

rod 15a, the guide part 17 is moved in height and thus also ( the piston rod 13a passing through the guide part 17, wherein

the pressure cylinder 13 is pivoted in height about its rear pivot bearing IM and thereby the up and down Movement of the piston rod 13a with gripper 4, 5 allows.

The extendable and retractable piston rod 13a can each have one attached to the gripper 4, 5 (crosspiece 21) and the guide assign part 17 slidable continuous support guide 18 in the form of a rod, so that the weight of the garment 2 is not to be carried by the piston rod 13a alone, but rather both parts 18 take up this weight. Even these pressure medium cylinders 13, 15 can be formed by motor-driven threaded spindles or racks.

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The packaging machine 1 is on both sides a supply and discharge element 19, 2o in the form of a worm shaft, through which the item of clothing to be packed 2 from the rear (opposite to the direction of extension of the piston rods 13a) to the gripper 4 and the packaged items of clothing 2 are again conveyed backwards away from the gripper 5; each organ 19, 2o is a delivery or gripper side. Receiving surface 19a, 2oa assigned, from or onto which an item of clothing 2 is removed or released.

The operation of the innovation according to an additional device The feed and discharge device is as follows:

The carriage 3 has been moved into the starting position shown in Fig. 2 by its piston rod 12a and is located in addition to the automatic packaging machine 1 in the garment receiving position opposite the feed member 19, wherein the gripper 4 lies opposite the organ 19 and the gripper 5 lies opposite the automatic packaging machine receptacle la.

The grippers 4 »5 are retracted and are in the lower receiving position, i.e. the pressure cylinder 13 is not swiveled up. This gripper and carriage position is identified in Fig. 2 by point "a".

Now both piston rods 13a extend, namely according to FIG. From point "a" to point "b" - this extension is shown in FIG. 1 also evident. By extending the piston rods 13a, the gripper M- comes under the delivery surface 19a, in which an item of clothing 2 hangs, and the gripper 5 underneath which also holds an item of clothing 2 and is thus packaged or but not yet having an item of clothing 2 (at the beginning of a new packaging series) having a recording la. so the cylinders 15 are effective and extend their piston rods 15a, so that thereby the pressure medium cylinder 13 upwards

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be pivoted and the grippers 4, 5 from point "b" to Swivel up point "c" as shown in FIG. During this movement, the gripper 4 grasps the hook of the bracket 6 and takes it Garment 2 from the delivery surface 19a upwards. The gripper 5 does the same if it is an item of clothing 2 already hangs in the receptacle la and is packed - otherwise this gripper 5 remains for the time being ineffective.

After the garment (s) 2 have been picked up, the grippers 4, 5 move in again, from point "c" to Point "d" according to FIG. 4, the grippers however remaining in the swiveled up position.

Then the carriage 3 is moved by its pressure cylinder from point "d" to "e" according to FIG the gripper 4 with the item of clothing 2 arrives in front of the receptacle la and the gripper 5 faces the receiving surface 2oa.

Now the grippers 4, 5 are extended again, namely from point "e" to "f" according to FIG. 5 and then to lowered from point "f" to "g" below, so that from the not yet packaged item of clothing 2 is hung into the receptacle 1 a of the automatic packaging machine 1 by the gripper 4 and if the gripper 5 had taken a packaged item of clothing 5 with it, he used it to the receiving surface 2oa Removal through the worm shaft 2o abgiXbt.

Then the grippers 4, 5 move in again, remaining in the lowered position, which is achieved by the movement of point "g" is shown after "h" in FIG. Once this has happened the carriage 3 is moved back from point "h" to point "a" into the starting position (see FIGS. 6 and 2).

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A new transport of items of clothing 2
take place, the gripper 4 always an unpacked dem
Machine 1 passes and the gripper 5 is a packed
Garment 2 is removed from the machine 1 and to | transport to the worm shaft 2o. On the worm shaft 19 there are always items of clothing 2 in the control room position, which are then individually fed to the> ,, delivery surface 19a by the wave movement. I.

In one end position of the carriage 3, the picking up takes place |

L of the items of clothing 2 and in the other the dispensing of the 1

same, at the same time. |,

It is within the scope of the innovation, this device also I

for other packaging machines than for packaging

of clothing. i.

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is the vertical movement of the grippers 4, 5 by curve disc; '

ben made, which are mounted on a shaft in the carriage |.

are and via a lever by means of a double-sided f

impactable Druckmittelzylindeis are moved, so that the j f are moved up and down by the gripper 4, 5.

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Claims (9)

1. Device for supplying and removing items of clothing for a packaging machine, characterized by a carriage or carriage (3) which can be moved back and forth transversely to the item of clothing hanging plane and has two extendable and retractable and vertically movable in the one end of the car _f -, position each receiving an item of clothing (2) and in the other end position of the trolley, grippers (4, 5) releasing the item of clothing (2). 2 «Device according to claim 1, characterized ge ke η η draws that the slide or carriage (3) on guides (7), such as profiles or shafts, by means of sliding or Rolling guide (11) is displaceably mounted and these guides (7) are mounted at the ends on uprights (8), preferably are kept adjustable in height " 3, device according to claims 1 and 2, characterized in that the guides (7) their length ends are each cross-connected by a traverse (9) and by means of the traverse (9) and the frame-like Stands (8) attacking height adjustment means, preferably threaded spindles (lo), adjustable in height on the stands (8) are hung. 4 · «Device according to claims 1 to 3, dadurc h characterized in that the carriage (3) is designed like a frame and causes its displacement in itself, double-sided pressurized pressure cylinder (12) receives which with its on a carriage end face protruding piston rod (12a) engages on a cross member (9). • 9 β t t S 11 lit 1 111 I. ι 11 1 1 1 1 11 > I 1 1 J 11 1 > Il -Ιο 5, device according to claims 1 to H, dadurc h geken η shows that on the carriage (3) in each of its two end regions one double-sided acting pressure cylinder (13) is mounted, the longitudinal direction of which is transverse to the carriage displacement direction runs and the one designed as a single or double hook at the free end of its piston rod (13a) Gripper (4, 5) carries. 6 »Device according to claims 1 to 5, d adurc h gekenn zeic h net that each gripper pressure cylinder (13) with its piston rod (13a) averted length end by a pivot bearing (14) ¥ is mounted on the carriage (3) so that it can be swiveled in height. f 7, device according to claims 1 to 6, dadurc h marked that for each gripper piston rod (13a) on one long side of the carriage (3). acting in height direction, can be acted upon from both sides ';. and the pressure swiveling that determines the height of the gripper • central cylinder (15) is arranged, which with its piston 'Rod (15a) guided under the piston rod (13a) (^) permeable guide part (17) engages and on this is attached. ; 8. Device according to claims 1 to 7, characterized marked that next to each piston rod (13a) one attached to the gripper (4, 5) and guided through the guide part (17) in a displaceable manner Support guide (18), like guide rod, runs * 9. Device according to claims 1 to 6, dad urch geken nzeich that the grippers (k ¹ , 5) are provided movable in height by cam discs mounted on a shaft via a lever and a pressure cylinder, ■ * · .ΓΙ · ¹ -: «• I Bt * U * * «Ittlt I · ■» · ItItIt tit t (· · · *) - ii - Io. Device according to claims 1 to 3, characterized marked net that the carriage or carriage (3), and the gripper (4, 5) by motor-driven Threaded spindles or racks or chain drives can be displaced or displaced and pivoted in height are provided.