JP2016078855A - Pre-heating device of shrink packaging apparatus and pre-heating method - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem with a conventional pre-heating device that temperature management for uniformly heating a part of a package RM is difficult because temperature in a tunnel-like conveyance path increases with passage of time in order to heat a matter M to be packaged moving within the tunnel-like conveyance path.SOLUTION: A pre-heating device 50 wraps in a matter M to be packaged with a packaging material R composed from shrink film using a packaging machine and, before entirely heating a package RM wrapped in the packaging material R, partly heats the package RM to ensure uniform shrinkage of the packaging material R. In the pre-heating device: a heating nozzle 65 blowing out hot air generated by a hot air generator 92 is disposed below an upper conveyance part 56 of a transportation conveyor 57 and this heating nozzle 65 reciprocally moves between a heating position (H) and a standby position (S); and when the transportation conveyor 57 is intermittently stopped, the heating nozzle 65 moves to the heating position (H) to blow out hot air, and along with intermittent movement of the transportation conveyor 57, the heating nozzle 65 moves to the standby position (S) to stop blowing out hot air.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

  TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a preheating device for a shrink wrapping apparatus for shrink wrapping an article to be packaged, and more specifically, after wrapping an article to be packaged with a packaging material made of a shrink film by a pillow packaging machine or the like. In order not to distort the display of the design or product name printed on the package, pre-heat a part of the package to fully wrap the package wrapped with the packaging material. The present invention relates to a preheating device for a shrink wrapping device that suppresses distortion due to heat shrinkage of a material.

  Recently, products and the like stored in a relatively shallow tray have been shrink-wrapped using a packaging material in which a design or a product name is printed on a container body or a lid member. However, when shrink wrapping is performed using a packaging material on which a design, a product name, or the like is printed, the design, the product name, etc. are distorted due to the heat shrinkage of the packaging material.

  Patent Document 1 discloses that the shrink-wrapping is neatly performed so that the printed portion covering the top surface of the packaged object having a circular planar shape is not distorted like a cup-shaped product having a circular container shape. A shrink wrapping device for application is disclosed. The outline | summary of a shrink wrapping apparatus is demonstrated referring this patent document 1. FIG.

  As shown in FIG. 11, the shrink wrapping apparatus 1 of Patent Document 1 includes a wrapping unit 10 that wraps an article M to be wrapped with a wrapping material R, and a package RM that is wrapped with the wrapping material R as shown in FIG. 12. A preheating unit 20 that locally heats the peripheral surface portion of the sheet, a main heating unit 30 that heats the entire package RM wrapped by the packaging material R, and the article to be packaged M along a predetermined conveyance path. The conveyors 41, 42, 43, and 44 are sequentially transported to the wrapping unit 10, the preheating unit 20, and the main heating unit 30.

  As shown in FIG. 11, the wrapping unit 10 includes a guide roller 11 that continuously feeds a packaging material R in which a pattern, a product name, etc. are printed in advance on a long strip-shaped shrink film from a packaging material roll RL. Packaging material feeding means 12 for feeding to the wrapping position via the former, a former 13 for shaping the wrapping material R fed to the wrapping position into a cylinder, and a package shaped into a cylinder by the former 13 The center sealer 14 that forms the packaging material R in a cylindrical shape by heat-sealing both side edges in the width direction of the material R, and the fusing sealer that sequentially melts and seals the packaging material R formed in the cylindrical shape at regular intervals. 15. The packaging material R shaped into a cylindrical shape by the former 13 is sequentially inserted into the packaging material M that has been transported to the packaging position by the transport conveyor 41, and the center sealer 14 provides a center seal to the packaging material R. Then, the packaging material RM in which the packaging material M is wrapped by the packaging material R is formed by sequentially fusing and sealing the packaging material R between the packaging materials M by the fusing sealer 15. Note that the package RM formed in this way is conveyed to the preheating unit 20 by the conveyance conveyor 42.

  As shown in FIGS. 12 and 13, the preheating unit 20 is provided in an open preheating zone Z <b> 1 through which a package RM transported by the transport conveyor 43 passes, and is wrapped by the packaging material R. Holding means 21 for pressing substantially the entire top surface of the object to be packaged M, and preliminary heating for locally heating the peripheral surface portion of the object to be packaged in the package RM whose top surface part is pressed by the holding means 21 And heating means 25.

The presser means 21 includes an endless presser belt 22 stretched around a drive pulley 23 and a driven pulley 24 that circulates along the transport path at the same speed as the transport speed of the package RM by the transport conveyor 43. The presser belt 22 can transport the package RM while pressing the top surface portion of the article M to be packaged.

  The preheating unit 20 includes a plurality of nozzles 26 arranged in two upper and lower sides on the side of the conveyer 43, and by blowing hot air of about 120 to 150 ° C. from the nozzles 26 in the package RM. The peripheral surface portion of the article to be packaged M is locally heated.

  The main heating unit 30 is provided in a main heating zone Z2 through which a package RM transported by the transport conveyor 44 passes. A tunnel 31 surrounding the main heating zone Z2 and the tunnel 31 are installed in the tunnel 31. A heater and a circulation fan (both not shown) are provided. Therefore, the air supplied into the air supply path by the circulation fan is heated to a predetermined temperature (150 to 170 ° C.) by the heater, and then the package RM passing through the tunnel 31 is heated as a whole. .

  As described above, when shrink wrapping is performed on the article to be packaged M by the shrink wrapping apparatus disclosed in Patent Document 1, the portion of the packaging material R covering the top surface of the article to be packaged M is hardly thermally contracted. Shrink wrapping can be applied in a beautiful state where the pattern printed on the portion is not distorted.

JP 2002-332016 A

In the preheating unit 20 of Patent Document 1, the packaging body RM moves in a tunnel-shaped conveyance path surrounded by the presser belt 22, the conveyance conveyor 43, and the preheating means 25. Since the temperature in the conveying path increases, there is a problem that it is difficult to manage the temperature of the preheating means 25 for heating a part of the package RM.
Furthermore, since the distance between the transport conveyor 43 that transports the package RM and the endless presser belt 22 is constant, the size of the packaged product M to be shrink-wrapped is limited, and the packaged products M of different sizes are used. There is a problem that it is difficult to deal with the shrink packaging.

  The present invention has been proposed in view of the above-described problems related to the conventional technology, and is proposed to solve this problem. The temperature management of the heating means for heating the package RM is easy, and the sizes are different. An object of the present invention is to provide a preheating device for a shrink wrapping apparatus capable of shrink wrapping an article to be packaged.

In order to overcome the above-mentioned problems and to achieve the intended purpose suitably, the preheating device of the shrink wrapping apparatus according to the present invention is a method for pre-heating the entire package wrapped with the wrapping material made of shrink film. In addition, in the preheating device of the shrink wrapping device that suppresses distortion due to shrinkage of the packaging material by partially heating the packaging material, a conveyance conveyor that intermittently conveys the packaging material wrapped with the packaging material, and an intermittent of the conveyance conveyor Hot air is blown out from the conveyor side at the time of stopping, and a heating nozzle part that heats the end part in the conveying direction of the package on the conveyor that is intermittently stopped, and a hot air generator that sends hot air to the heating nozzle part are provided. Features.

Moreover, the preheating method of the shrink wrapping apparatus according to the present invention wraps an article to be packaged with a wrapping material made of a shrink film, and heats both ends of the wrapping body wrapped with the wrapping material from below, The packaging material on the top surface side of the package is uniformly stretched by shrinking both ends of the package.

  With the above configuration, when the conveyance conveyor is intermittently stopped, hot air is blown out from the conveyance conveyor side at the heating nozzle portion, both ends in the conveyance direction of the packaging body on the conveyance conveyor that is intermittently stopped are heated, and the packaging material at both ends is first By shrinking and fixing, it is possible to prevent the unheated packaging material portion from contracting in a distorted manner and to uniformly stretch the packaging material. In addition, it is not necessary to press the package from the top during heating, and the top is open, so that the temperature at which the packaging material is heated is stable even if heating is continued.

The front view of the preheating apparatus of the shrink wrapping apparatus of this invention The top view inside the preheating apparatus of the shrink wrapping apparatus of this invention The rear view of the preheating apparatus of the shrink wrapping apparatus of this invention The partial side view of the preheating apparatus of the shrink wrapping apparatus of this invention The top view of the preheating apparatus of the shrink wrapping apparatus of this invention Use state diagram of the preheating device of the shrink wrapping device of the present invention Use state diagram of the preheating device of the shrink wrapping device of the present invention Explanatory drawing of the preheating apparatus of the shrink wrapping apparatus of this invention Partial enlarged view of FIG. The partial side view of other embodiment of the preheating apparatus of the shrink wrapping apparatus of this invention Partial front view of a conventional shrink wrapping device Partial front view of a conventional shrink wrapping device Partial side view of conventional shrink wrapping equipment

  Next, examples of the preheating device for the shrink wrapping apparatus according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. In addition, the main heating part 30 which heats the packaging body RM wrapped by the packaging material R and the packaging body RM wrapped by the packaging material R as cited in the shrink wrapping apparatus 1 of Patent Document 1. The conveyors 41, 42, and 44 for sequentially transporting the article to be packaged M and the package RM along a predetermined transport path may use the same apparatus as described in the background art, but the apparatus having such a configuration It is not limited to.

  FIG. 1 is a front view of a preheating device of a shrink wrapping apparatus according to the present invention. As shown in this figure, main rollers 51 and 52 are provided on both sides of the upper portion of the main body of the preheating device 50, respectively, on the downstream side (see FIG. 1 is provided with a snap roller 53 at an inner lower portion of the roller 52 on the upstream side and the downstream side on the right side. Further, a pair of sub-rollers 54 and 55 having a narrower interval than the main rollers 51 and 52 are provided at the lower part of the main body, and a mesh belt (as shown in FIGS. 6 and 7) is interposed between the five rollers 51 to 55. A belt made of a wire mesh belt, a rod-shaped belt, or the like, and any material that can pass hot air from a heating nozzle portion 65, which will be described later, is used. The conveyor 57 made of the mesh belt conveys the package RM wrapped with the packaging material R in the wrapping unit 10 to the main heating unit 30 side while intermittently conveying the package RM.

  The transport conveyor 57 is driven by the same drive motor 59 that drives the carry-in conveyor 58. That is, the drive chain 60 is bridged between the rotation shaft of the drive motor 59 and the rotation shaft of the downstream main roller 52, and a snap sprocket 62 and a tension sprocket 61 are provided at an intermediate position of the drive chain 60. ing.

  As shown in FIG. 5, a support plate 63 made of punching metal is attached between the front frame 66 and the back frame 67 in the lower layer of the upper transfer unit 56 of the transfer conveyor 57. The support plate 63 supports the upper conveyance unit 56 of the conveyance conveyor 57 so as not to bend. As described later, the support plate 63 is large and small so that hot air from the heating nozzle unit 65 of the preheating unit 64 can pass through. A square-shaped through-hole is formed. In particular, a large “<”-shaped through-hole is formed in the central portion so that hot air from the heating nozzle portion 65 can easily pass therethrough.

  Further, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 3, the preliminary heating unit 64 is disposed below the support plate 63. The preliminary heating unit 64 includes a heating reciprocating mechanism 69 composed of the heating nozzle portion 65 and an exhaust portion 68 and a hot air induction mechanism 71 for sending hot air to the heating reciprocating mechanism 69. As shown in FIGS. 2 and 4, the former heating reciprocating mechanism 69 has two support rails 70 attached horizontally to the upper portions of the inner wall surfaces of the front frame 66 and the back frame 67. A slide plate 72 is slidably installed via four wheels 73.

  On the slide plate 72, the hot nozzle 65 that selectively communicates with the hot air guiding cylinder 74 of the hot air guiding mechanism 71 and blows the hot air upward, and also selectively communicates with the hot air guiding cylinder 74 and hot air. The exhaust part 68 for exhausting the air downward is disposed. As shown in FIG. 4, a cylindrical portion 75 is provided at the center lower portion of the former heating nozzle portion 65, and a trapezoidal columnar nozzle 76 is provided in parallel with the slide plate 72 at the upper portion of the cylindrical portion 75. Selectively communicates with the hot air guide tube 74 to blow hot air from the nozzle 76. The nozzle 76 is disposed in a direction crossing the transport direction of the package RM, and as shown in FIGS. 1 and 3, the hot air spreads upward so as to diffuse upward, and the hot air is distributed to the left and right. A V-shaped partition plate 78 is arranged in the longitudinal direction of the nozzle 76. A triangular guide piece 79 that distributes the hot air to the left and right is attached to the partition plate 78 where the hot air guided from the cylindrical portion 75 abuts.

  As shown in FIGS. 2 and 4, the exhaust portion 68 is provided with a trapezoidal conical guide path 80 adjacent to the heating nozzle section 65 on the slide plate 72, and communicates with one end of the guide path 80. An exhaust cylinder 81 is attached so as to hang downward from the slide plate 72. The other end of the guide path 80 and the hot air guide tube 74 are selectively communicated to guide hot air to the exhaust tube 81 side, and hot air from the hot air guide tube 74 blows out from the heating nozzle portion 65 to heat the package RM. Do not let the hot air escape downward.

  In the heating reciprocating mechanism 69, a slide plate 72 installed between the support rails 70 is reciprocated by an air cylinder (reciprocating means) 82. Accordingly, in the heating reciprocating mechanism 69, the heating nozzle unit 65 reciprocates between the heating position (H) and the standby position (S) as shown in FIG. To do. In the drawing, the air cylinder 82 is used as the reciprocating means. However, the reciprocating means is not limited to the air cylinder 82, and may be a crank mechanism using a motor or a drive mechanism using a rack and a pinion.

  The hot air guiding mechanism 71 is a mechanism for guiding the hot air to the heating reciprocating mechanism 69 as described above, and is disposed below the heating reciprocating mechanism 69. A heater (not shown) is provided in the hot air guide tube 74 of the hot air guide mechanism 71, and the air sent into the hot air guide tube 74 from a blower to be described later is heated by the heater to And hot air is blown out from the heating nozzle portion 65. As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the hot-air guide cylinder 74 is supported and fixed to two slide bars 84 provided in a vertically parallel manner via a bracket 83 at the inner lower part of the front frame 66. That is, as shown in FIG. 4, the hot air guide cylinder 74 is supported by two slide bars 84 so that a block-like slider 85 is slidable, and a mounting plate 86 is attached to the inside of the slider 85 in the vertical direction. The lower part of the hot air guide tube 74 is attached to the inside of the mounting plate 86 via a spacer piece 87. The air cylinder 82 of the above-described reciprocating means is attached to the upper outer side of the mounting plate 86.

The hot air guide cylinder 74 is fixed to the slide bar 84 during the preheating operation, and when the other packaged article M is packaged, the hot air guide cylinder 74 is changed according to the size of the other packaged article M. When the position needs to be changed, the slider 85 can be slid to change the position as shown in FIG. The scale 88 in FIG. 1 is used as a guideline for the size of sliding the hot air guide tube 74 in accordance with the size of the article to be packaged M.

  In order to fix the hot-air guide cylinder 74, the lever 89 shown in FIG. 1 is turned so that the slider 85 does not move. As shown in FIG. 7, when the hot air guide cylinder 74 is fixed so as to be positioned between the package RM intermittently stopped as shown in FIG. When the mechanism 69 moves and the hot air guide cylinder 74 and the heating nozzle portion 65 are aligned in a straight line at the heating position (H), hot air blows out from the nozzle 76 and the packaging body RM and the packaging body RM that are stopped intermittently face each other. The ends can be heated simultaneously.

  An L-shaped connecting pipe 90 is connected to the bottom of the hot air guiding cylinder 74, and one end of a hose 91 for sending air is connected to the connecting pipe 90, and the other end of the hose 91 is an air blower shown in FIG. It is connected to the device 92. For this reason, the air sent from the blower 92 passes through the hose 91 and is heated by the hot air induction cylinder 74 provided with a heater, and from the tip of the hot air induction cylinder 74 to the heating nozzle portion 65 of the heating reciprocating mechanism 69. It selectively flows into any of the exhaust parts 68.

Next, the usage state of the said structure is demonstrated.
6 and 7 are plan views showing the usage state of the preheating device of the present invention, and FIG. 6 shows that the package RM is placed on the transport conveyor 57 and is being intermittently moved. FIG. 8A shows the state of the heating reciprocating mechanism 69 and the hot air guiding cylinder 74 at this time, and the heating reciprocating mechanism 69 is in the standby position (S). Hot air is exhausted downward from the exhaust cylinder 81 through the guide path 80. Since the hot air from the hot air guide tube 74 is exhausted from the exhaust tube 81 and does not blow out from the nozzle 76, the package RM is not heated. That is, in FIG. 8A, the package RM is not heated with hot air.

  FIG. 7 shows a state in which the transport conveyor 57 on which the package RM is placed is intermittently stopped. When the conveyor 57 is intermittently stopped, the air cylinder 82 is activated, and the heating reciprocating mechanism 69 moves horizontally from the standby position (S) in FIG. 8A to the heating position (H) in FIG. Then, the heating reciprocating mechanism 69 stops at the heating position (H).

  When the heating reciprocating mechanism 69 stops at the heating position (H), the cylinder part 75 of the heating nozzle part 65 communicates with the hot air induction cylinder 74, and the hot air from the hot air induction cylinder 74 passes from the heating nozzle part 65 to the support plate 63. Blows out through the mesh belt of the through hole and the conveyor 57. Thus, when the hot air from the conveyance conveyor 57 side blows off, the edge part which the packaging body RM and the packaging body RM which stopped intermittently will be heated, and the shrink film of an edge part will shrink | contract.

  FIG. 9 is a partially enlarged view of FIG. As shown in this figure, when hot air blows out from the conveying conveyor 57 side, the shrink film at the lower end of the packaging body RM on which the hot air hits contracts, and the packaging material R on the upper side from the portion on which the hot air hits is indicated by an arrow. Pulled downward as shown. For this reason, the packaging material R on the top surface is pulled outward, and the packaging material R on the top surface is stretched cleanly. Further, when the end of the package RM that is not heated in the next step is also heated with hot air from the transport conveyor 57 side, the shrink film at the lower end shrinks in the same manner, and the package on the upper side from the portion that has been hit by the hot air. The material R is pulled downward, and the top packaging material R is tightly stretched. Thus, the packaging material R is pulled from both lower ends, and the packaging material R on the top surface on which the design, the product name, and the like are printed can be neatly stretched.

In addition, the space | interval of the package RM and the package RM is controlled so that the heating nozzle part 65 may become the space | interval which can heat the edge part which both the package RM adjoins simultaneously. For example, when the package M shown in FIG. 11 is used to feed the article to be packaged M by the transport conveyor 41, the speed of the transport conveyor 41 is controlled, and the speed of the carry-in conveyor 58 of FIGS. The front-rear distance between the body RM and the package RM is adjusted.

When a predetermined heating time elapses at the heating position (H), the conveyor 57 starts to move intermittently, and at the same time, the air cylinder 82 is actuated so that the heating reciprocating mechanism 69 moves to the heating position (H) in FIG. ) To the standby position (S) in FIG. 8A and the hot air from the hot air guide tube 74 is exhausted from the exhaust tube 81 through the guide path 80 until the conveyor 57 is intermittently stopped. The above operation is repeated, and the packaging material RM is heated by the main heating unit 30 shown in FIG. Shrink packaging is complete.

  As in the present invention, by heating both ends of the package RM in the conveying direction and fixing the shrink film at both ends first, the unheated packaging material portion is prevented from shrinking into a distorted shape, and uniform Can be prevented from being distorted such as symbols printed on the packaging material and product names. In particular, since the packaging material is contracted by heating the end of the packaging body RM from the lower side, the top surface of the packaging material of the packaging body RM can be neatly stretched, and the design or product name printed on the top surface Distortion can be suppressed.

  When the size of the article to be packaged M is changed, the handle 89 shown in FIG. 1 is loosened and the scale 88 is scaled to slide the slider 85 so that the position of the hot air guiding mechanism 71 is changed. Fit to the dimensions. Since the air cylinder 82 is attached to the mounting plate 86, the heating reciprocating mechanism 69 also moves by the same dimension as the moving dimension of the hot air guiding cylinder 74.

(Other embodiments)
In the above embodiment, the heating nozzle portion 65 of the heating reciprocating mechanism 69 reciprocates between the standby position (S) and the heating position (H) while following the intermittent movement of the transport conveyor 57. 65 does not necessarily reciprocate, the hot air guide cylinder 74 and the heating nozzle portion 65 are integrated, and the heating nozzle portion 65 is fixed so as to come between the packaging body RM and the packaging body RM that are intermittently stopped, Only when the package RM is stopped, the hot air may be blown out through the hot air guide tube 74 using switching means for switching the flow of hot air.

In this case, as shown in FIG. 10, the exhaust tube 81 is provided on the side of the hot air guide tube 74, and the flow of hot air is switched to either the heating nozzle 65 or the exhaust tube 81 on the outlet side of the hot air guide tube 74. A switching mechanism 93 may be provided, and the switching mechanism 93 may distribute the flow of hot air by a driving mechanism such as an air cylinder 94 in accordance with the intermittent movement of the transport conveyor 57. The switching mechanism 93 is shaped like a passage with the box turned down. When the piston rod of the air cylinder 94 in FIG. 10 is extended, the switching mechanism 93 is exhausted from the hot air guide tube 74 through the switching mechanism 93. Hot air flows to the cylinder 81 side. On the contrary, in a state where the piston rod is contracted, the hot air flows upward from the hot air guide tube 74 to the heating nozzle portion 65 side without being blocked by the switching mechanism 93. In addition, it is necessary to allow the hot air guide cylinder 74 and the heating nozzle portion 65 to slide the slide bar 84 in accordance with the size of the article to be packaged M.

In the said embodiment, although the edge part of adjacent package body RM and package body RM was heated simultaneously with the heating nozzle part 65, the preheating apparatus 50 of this invention is not limited to this heating method. Alternatively, both ends of one package may be individually heated.
Moreover, in the said embodiment, although the single heating nozzle part 65 is arrange | positioned, multiple can arrange | position and can raise the efficiency of a heating. In that case, you may lengthen the length of the conveyance conveyor 57. FIG.
In the first embodiment, hot air is discarded from the exhaust pipe 81 at the standby position (S). However, this heat may be stored and used for heating at the heating position (H).

  The present invention shrinks a packaged article so that the display of a design or a product name printed on the packaging material is not distorted after the packaged article is wrapped with a packaging film made of a shrink film by a pillow packaging machine or the like. This is useful for a shrink wrapping apparatus.

50 Shrink wrapping device preheating device 51 Roller 52 Roller 56 Upper transport unit 57 Transport conveyor 58 Carrying conveyor 59 Drive motor 60 Drive chain 63 Support plate 64 Preheating unit 65 Heating nozzle unit
68 exhaust part 69 heating reciprocating mechanism 71 hot air induction mechanism 72 slide plate 74 hot air induction cylinder 75 cylinder part 76 nozzle 78 partition plate 79 guide piece 80 guide path 81 exhaust cylinder 84 slide bar 85 slider 86 mounting plate 88 scale 90 connecting pipe 92 Air blower 93 Switching mechanism 94 Air cylinder

Claims (3)

In the preheating device of the shrink wrapping apparatus, the wrapping material that wraps the package with the wrapping material made of shrink film is partially heated to suppress distortion due to shrinkage of the wrapping material before the whole package body is heated. A conveying conveyor that intermittently conveys the package wrapped in the packaging material, and a heating nozzle that blows hot air from the conveying conveyor side when the conveying conveyor is intermittently stopped and heats the end of the conveying body on the conveying conveyor that has been intermittently stopped And a hot air generator for sending hot air to the heating nozzle part.   A heating nozzle is provided in the lower part of the upper conveying part of the conveyor, and this heating nozzle moves back and forth between the heating position and the standby position, and when the conveyor stops intermittently, the heating nozzle moves to the heating position. The preheating device of the shrink wrapping apparatus according to claim 1, wherein hot air is blown out and the heating nozzle part is moved to a standby position to stop hot air blowing along with intermittent movement of the conveyor. Wrap the packaged material with a shrink film wrapping material, heat both ends of the package wrapped with this wrapping material from below, shrink both ends of the package, and A preheating method for a shrink wrapping apparatus, wherein the packaging material is uniformly stretched.