JPH06144403A - Horizontal type bagging packer - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To obtain a horizontal bagging packer which does not require a much space and has a high working efficiency, by driving it synchronously with a charging table and installing the table in combination with a tray feeder to deliver a plurality of trays in turn arranged to be transferable above the upper face. CONSTITUTION:A tray 1 is fed and arranged by a means and the charging contents are arranged at the upperface thereof, against a tray base 2 arranged at the upper face of a feed table T3 intermittently rotating in synchronization with a charging table T1. Bags 5 on the bag base 3 are arranged by a feeder 4 to be laid down in the charging table T1 and held by a chuck and transferred in an opened condition by a sucker 7. The tray 1 on the feed table T3 holding the charging contents is inserted into the bag 5 with a insertion guide 9 by an insertion device 8 at the same time when the bag 5 is transferred in the charging process IV. After the charging contents are simultaneously pressed to prohibit the motion, the insertion device 8 is reversely actuated to pull out the tray to the outside of the bag. The bags are transferred to dischrging process VIII through deaeration process VI and sealing process VII.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a horizontal bagging and packaging machine used for filling and packaging foods and the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as shown in FIG. 6, in the filling and packaging of food, the filling hopper 1 is placed from above the opening edge of the packaging bag 5 '.
9'is inserted and the filling material 12 'is inserted through the same hopper 19'.
Is made to fall naturally into the packaging bag 5 '. However, in this method, the filling material tends to be lumped at the bottom of the bag, and the appearance is not good, and the filling material (product) may be deformed when dropped.

As a method of solving this drawback, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No.
A method has been proposed in which a bag that is horizontally held, such as 3-281903, is filled and packaged while intermittently rotating together with a table. However, this method is configured so that the tray feeding, the arrangement of the packing into the tray, the feeding of the tray into the bag, and the feeding of the packing are all performed on one table. There are problems that the arrangement of devices and equipment is complicated, workability is poor, and the reliability of each work operation is poor, and malfunctions are likely to occur.

FIG. 5 is a proposal (Jpn. Pat. Appln. KOKAI Hei 3-50003) as a method for compensating for the drawbacks of the table method. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a tray having a packing 12 placed on the upper surface thereof and movably installed in a horizontal direction. The rear end of the tray is connected to a cylinder rod 22a of a cylinder 22. Further, 5 is a packaging bag which is gripped by both side edges and chucks 6a and 6b, and is fed horizontally by a conveyor 11 in a horizontal state, and both sides of the bag mouth are sucked and opened by suction cups. Above the transport conveyor 11 along the track, a pushing means 8 including a lever 8b swinging by a cylinder 8a and a pushing rod 8c provided at the tip of the lever 8b, and a cylinder 10a and a cylinder 10a.
A pressing means 10 'composed of a pressing plate 10c provided at the tip of the piston rod 10b is provided.

In this apparatus, the packaging bag 5 is provided with a transport conveyor 11
It is placed horizontally on the top at a predetermined pitch interval, and is intermittently moved and sent. Then, at a predetermined position, the packaging bag 5 is opened by the suction cups 7a and 7b, and the tray 1 on which the filling material 12 is placed moves toward the bag mouth by the operation of the cylinder 22 and the packing material together with the tray 1 is filled. 12 is inserted into the bag, and when the insertion is completed, the pushing rod 8c completely pushes the filling material 12 on the tray into the bag.

After that, the cylinder 10a is operated, the upper surface of the bag 5 is pressurized with a predetermined pressure by the pressure plate 10c, and the bag filling material 12
The cylinders 22 are reversely operated while restraining the positional deviation of the above, and only the tray 1 is pulled out of the bag, so that the fillings 12 are stored in the bag 5 in a predetermined arrangement state.

[0007]

In the conventional method shown in FIG. 5, the trays on which the fillings are placed are fed and the packaging bags are fed by means of different systems. Although it is expensive, since the bag conveying path is formed in a straight line, the mechanical device becomes large and a large installation space is required.

[0008]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems, and the first aspect of the present invention is to provide a plurality of gripping means for laterally gripping a bag, while repeating starting and stopping. In a bagging and packaging machine that delivers a bag to a rotating filling table, discharges the bag by opening, supplying the filling material, degassing, and sealing the mouth, driven synchronously with the filling table,
A second aspect of the invention is characterized in that a tray supply means configured to sequentially deliver a plurality of trays movably arranged on the upper surface to the filling table is provided side by side with the filling table. Equipped with multiple gripping means, rotating while repeating start and stop, opening for received bags,
In a vacuum packaging machine comprising a filling table for supplying a filling material and a vacuum table which rotates in synchronization with the filling table and vacuum-packes the bag received from the table, the filling table or It is characterized in that the filling table is provided with a tray supply means which is driven in synchronization with the vacuum table and is configured to sequentially deliver a plurality of trays movably arranged on the upper surface thereof to the filling table.

[0009]

Since the packaging machine of the present invention is configured as described above, the plurality of trays arranged on the tray supply means are successively delivered to the filling table, and only the filling material placed on the upper surface thereof is delivered. Is supplied and filled into a bag horizontally arranged on the filling table, and the bag containing the filling material is packaged while rotating around the filling table.

Alternatively, the plurality of trays arranged on the tray supply means are sequentially transferred to the filling table, and only the filling material placed on the upper surface of the tray is horizontally arranged on the filling table. The bag is supplied and filled into the bag, and the bag in which the filling material is stored in this manner is then sequentially transferred to the vacuum table and subjected to vacuum packaging processing while rotating.

[0011]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a view showing a first embodiment of the present invention relating to a horizontal bagging and packaging machine, and this apparatus has a configuration in which a supply table T ₂ is installed adjacent to a filling table T ₁ .

That is, a tray base ₂ which is radially arranged on the supply table T ₂ and movably supports the tray 1, an insertion device 8 for pushing the tray 1 into the bag 5 on the filling table T ₁ side, and an insertion guide. 9 etc. is installed, the bag 5 from Fukurodai 3 to fill the table T ₁ is supplied onto the filling table T _1, horizontal supply device 4 disposed radially in a state, the chuck 6 for gripping the bag 5, the bag A suction cup 7 for opening the mouth up and down, a sealing device 13 for sealing the bag mouth, a delivery device 14 for delivering the packaged bag 5 to the carry-out conveyor 15, and the like are installed. Further, the supply table T ₂ is intermittently rotated in synchronization with the filling table T ₁ . The insertion device 8 is a pressing plate 1 for pressing the filling material inserted in the bag from above with a predetermined pressure.
It has 0. Reference numeral 7a is a suction cup support device.

The operation of the apparatus of this embodiment will be described below. In FIG. 1, the tray 1 is supplied and arranged by a separate means to the tray base 2 arranged on the upper surface of the supply table T ₂ which rotates intermittently in synchronization with the filling table T _1. The packing 12 is arranged on the 1 by a separate means.

On the other hand, in the filling table T ₁ , the bag 5 on the bag table 3 is arranged in a state of being laterally supplied on the table T ₁ by the supply device 4, gripped by the chuck 6, and the bag mouth is opened by the suction cup 7. It is fed open. Then, at the same time when the bag 5 reaches the filling step (IV), the tray 1 on the supply table T ₂ on which the filling 12 is placed is inserted into the bag 1 by the insertion device 8 through the insertion guide 9.

When the filling material 12 on the tray is completely inserted into the bag 1 in this manner, the filling material 12 is pressed from the upper surface of the bag by the pressing plate 10 to restrain the movement, and the inserting device 8 is reversely operated to reverse the tray. 1 is pulled out of the bag, the filling 1
2 are stored in a predetermined arrangement.

After that, the bag 5 is deaerated in the deaeration step (VI), the bag mouth is sealed by the sealing device 13 in the mouth sealing step (VII), and then the delivery device in the discharge step (VIII). It is discharged onto the carry-out conveyor 15 by 14.

[0017] Figure 2 is a diagram showing a second embodiment of the present invention, as a tray feeding means which houses the filling table T ₁ in this example, the vertical plane synchronously with the filling table T ₁ about the axis X-X It uses a supply drum T ₃ that rotates in parallel,
A plurality of tray bases 2, an insertion device 8, an insertion guide 9, a pressing plate 10 and the like are installed on the outer peripheral surface of the drum T ₃ , and the configuration on the filling table T ₁ side is the first embodiment shown in FIG. 1. Is the same as. In addition, the operation and effect of this device is the same as the first
The description is omitted because it is similar to the embodiment.

[0018] Figure 3 is also a diagram showing a third embodiment of the present invention, the supply conveyor T in this example parallel to rotate synchronized with the horizontal plane and the filling table T ₁ as a tray feeding means which houses the filling table T _{1 4} using the same conveyor T ₄
The tray base 2, the insertion device 8, the insertion guide 9, the pressing plate 10 and the like are installed on the upper surface of the above, and the configuration on the filling table T ₁ side is the same as that of the first embodiment shown in FIG. The operation and effect of this device are also the same as those of the first embodiment.

Next, FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a fourth embodiment of the present invention. In this example, the present invention is applied to a vacuum packaging machine, which includes a supply table T ₂ , a filling table T ₁ and a vacuum table T ₅ . The supply table T ₂ has the same structure as that shown in the first embodiment, and a plurality of tray bases 2 for supporting the tray 1 on the upper surface thereof and the tray 1 are pushed into the bag 5 on the filling table T ₁ side. Insertion device 8, insertion guide 9,
The pressing plate 10 and the like are provided.

Similarly to the first embodiment, the filling table T ₁ has a supply device 4 for radially arranging the bags 5 on the bag base 3 horizontally on the table T ₁ and a chuck for holding the bags 5. 6, and a bag delivery device 16 for delivering the bag 5 containing the filling material to the vacuum table T ₅ and the like.

Further, the vacuum table T ₅ accommodates the delivered bag 5 and is provided with a plurality of vacuum chambers 17 configured to perform vacuum processing and sealing of the mouth, a bag discharging device 19, and the like. Further, the tables are adapted to rotate intermittently in synchronization with each other.

The operation of this apparatus will be described below. The trays 1 are sequentially supplied to and arranged on the tray base ₂ on the supply table T ₂ by a separate means, and the packing materials are arranged on the tray 1 by a separate means. On the other hand, the bag 5 on the filling table T ₁ in Fukurodai 3 is arranged in a state every supply and horizontal on _one same table T by supply device 4, is gripped by the chuck 6,
Further, it is fed with the suction cup 7 having the bag mouth opened.

At the same time when the bag 5 reaches the filling step (IV), the tray 1 on the supply table T ₂ on which the filling 12 is placed is inserted into the bag 1 by the insertion device 8 through the insertion guide 9. After that, the packing 12 is accommodated in the bag 5 in a predetermined array state through a procedure similar to the procedure described in the first embodiment.

After that, the bag 5 is rotated to the bag delivering step (VII), sequentially delivered to the vacuum table T ₅ side by the bag delivering device (16), housed in the vacuum chamber 17 and rotated to vacuum. After processing, sealing, etc.,
The bag is rotated to the discharging step (VIII ′) and is discharged to the outside by the bag discharging device 18 via the discharging conveyor 19.

Although the supply table T ₂ is used as the tray supply means here, the supply drum T ₃ shown in the second embodiment (FIG. 2) and the supply conveyor shown in the third embodiment (FIG. 3). It is needless to say that T ₄ can be used and each has the same action and effect.

[0026]

As described above, according to the horizontal bagging and packaging machine of the present invention, the tray feeding means is installed adjacent to the filling table and the vacuum table to feed and package the tray on which the packing is placed. Since the bag feeding can be performed by a separate system, operations such as tray feeding and delivery of packing from tray to bag can be performed reliably and neatly, and tray feeding Since an infinite rotation mechanism such as a table system, a drum system, and a conveyor system is adopted as the means, there is an excellent effect that the working efficiency is improved and the installation space is small.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a horizontal bagging and packaging machine according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a horizontal bagging and packaging machine according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a horizontal bagging and packaging machine according to a third embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a view showing a horizontal bagging and packaging machine according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a view showing a conventional horizontal bagging and packaging machine.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a conventional general bagging and packaging method.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Tray 2 Tray Stand 3 Bag Stand 4 Feeder 5 Bag 6 Chuck 7 Sucker 8 Insertion Device 9 Insertion Guide 10 Pressing Plate 12 Filling Material 13 Sealing Device 14 Feeding Device 15 Carrying Out Conveyor 16 Bag Handing Device 17 Vacuum Chamber 18 Bag Discharging Device 19 Discharge conveyor T ₁ Filling table T ₂ Supply table T ₃ Supply drum T ₄ Supply conveyor T ₅ Vacuum table

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A bag is provided with a plurality of gripping means for horizontally holding the bag, and the bag is delivered to a filling table that rotates while repeating start and stop, and opening, supply of the filling material, deaeration, and sealing of the mouth are performed. In a bag filling and packaging machine that discharges bags, a tray supply means that is driven in synchronization with the filling table and sequentially delivers a plurality of trays movably arranged on the upper surface to the filling table. A horizontal bagging and packaging machine, which is provided adjacent to the filling table. 2. A filling table comprising a plurality of holding means for holding the bag in a horizontal position, rotating while repeating start and stop, and supplying an opening and a filling to the received bag, and the same filling table. In a vacuum packaging machine consisting of a vacuum table that rotates synchronously and performs vacuum packaging processing on the bag received from the table, it is driven in synchronization with the filling table or the vacuum table and can be moved to the upper surface thereof. 1. A horizontal bag-filling packaging machine, characterized in that a tray supply means configured to sequentially deliver a plurality of trays arranged on the filling table is provided side by side with the filling table.