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EP0016502A1 - Apparat zum automatischen Verpacken zylindrischer Objekte in Schachteln - Google Patents

Apparat zum automatischen Verpacken zylindrischer Objekte in Schachteln Download PDF

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EP0016502A1
EP0016502A1 EP80200236A EP80200236A EP0016502A1 EP 0016502 A1 EP0016502 A1 EP 0016502A1 EP 80200236 A EP80200236 A EP 80200236A EP 80200236 A EP80200236 A EP 80200236A EP 0016502 A1 EP0016502 A1 EP 0016502A1
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Antonio Esteban Torrenteras
Angel Esteban Torrenteras
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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
    • B65B65/00—Details peculiar to packaging machines and not otherwise provided for; Arrangements of such details
    • B65B65/08—Devices for counting or registering the number of articles handled, or the number of packages produced by the machine
    • 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
    • B65B19/00—Packaging rod-shaped or tubular articles susceptible to damage by abrasion or pressure, e.g. cigarettes, cigars, macaroni, spaghetti, drinking straws or welding electrodes
    • B65B19/34—Packaging other rod-shaped articles, e.g. sausages, macaroni, spaghetti, drinking straws, welding electrodes
    • 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
    • B65B35/00—Supplying, feeding, arranging or orientating articles to be packaged
    • B65B35/10—Feeding, e.g. conveying, single articles
    • B65B35/12—Feeding, e.g. conveying, single articles by gravity
    • 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
    • B65B5/00—Packaging individual articles in containers or receptacles, e.g. bags, sacks, boxes, cartons, cans, jars
    • B65B5/10—Filling containers or receptacles progressively or in stages by introducing successive articles, or layers of articles
    • B65B5/101—Filling containers or receptacles progressively or in stages by introducing successive articles, or layers of articles by gravity
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D5/00—Rigid or semi-rigid containers of polygonal cross-section, e.g. boxes, cartons or trays, formed by folding or erecting one or more blanks made of paper
    • B65D5/36—Rigid or semi-rigid containers of polygonal cross-section, e.g. boxes, cartons or trays, formed by folding or erecting one or more blanks made of paper specially constructed to allow collapsing and re-erecting without disengagement of side or bottom connections
    • B65D5/3607—Rigid or semi-rigid containers of polygonal cross-section, e.g. boxes, cartons or trays, formed by folding or erecting one or more blanks made of paper specially constructed to allow collapsing and re-erecting without disengagement of side or bottom connections formed by folding or erecting a single blank
    • B65D5/3614—Rigid or semi-rigid containers of polygonal cross-section, e.g. boxes, cartons or trays, formed by folding or erecting one or more blanks made of paper specially constructed to allow collapsing and re-erecting without disengagement of side or bottom connections formed by folding or erecting a single blank to form a tubular body, at least one of the ends of the body remaining connected
    • B65D5/3621—Rigid or semi-rigid containers of polygonal cross-section, e.g. boxes, cartons or trays, formed by folding or erecting one or more blanks made of paper specially constructed to allow collapsing and re-erecting without disengagement of side or bottom connections formed by folding or erecting a single blank to form a tubular body, at least one of the ends of the body remaining connected collapsed along two fold lines of the tubular body
    • 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
    • B65B59/00—Arrangements to enable machines to handle articles of different sizes, to produce packages of different sizes, to vary the contents of packages, to handle different types of packaging material, or to give access for cleaning or maintenance purposes
    • B65B59/001—Arrangements to enable adjustments related to the product to be packaged
    • 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
    • B65B59/00—Arrangements to enable machines to handle articles of different sizes, to produce packages of different sizes, to vary the contents of packages, to handle different types of packaging material, or to give access for cleaning or maintenance purposes
    • B65B59/04—Machines constructed with readily-detachable units or assemblies, e.g. to facilitate maintenance

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  • the present invention relates to an apparatus for automatically boxing cylindrical objects, in particular coin cartridges, and intended to be fed by at least one machine producing these cylindrical objects, the dimensions of which are equal.
  • the object of the invention is to remedy this drawback and to provide a simple and inexpensive construction device making it possible to automate the canning of cylindrical objects, in particular coin cartridges.
  • this apparatus comprises means for aligning the objects along their axis and for moving them, in an aligned position, parallel to the latter, means for modifying the direction of movement of the objects and arranged for them align, by gravity, so that their axes are parallel and so that they move perpendicularly to the latter, means for disposing one by one of the prefabricated empty boxes on the path of the objects when they move by gravity, perpendicular to their axes, means for temporarily immobilizing a box during filling and means, controlled by a counting device actuated by the passage of objects, arranged to release, by gravity, a filled box and to actuate the aforementioned means to replace it with a empty box and means for evacuating the filled box.
  • the invention also relates to a box with a quadrangular bottom, in particular a box intended to be used in the above-mentioned device, dont.an blank is cut so that the box can be folded so that the elements constituting the bottom can fall back on the side walls, inside the latter when the side walls are brought together two by two with respect to a plane perpendicular to the bottom and passing through a diagonal of the latter.
  • the elements constituting the bottom are cut so that, when the box is in the folded position, two side walls joining along an edge contained in the plane passing through the aforementioned diagonal can be directly in contact in the vicinity of said edge.
  • the apparatus according to the invention and shown in FIGS. 1 to 3 makes it possible to automatically box cylindrical objects, in particular coin cartridges, the dimensions of which are equal.
  • this device to box cartridges of different length and diameter, it is necessary to provide assemblies arranged in parallel processing each of the cartridges whose dimensions are equal, each of these assemblies being fed by a machine delivering cartridges of dimensions corresponding to those that can be processed by the assembly.
  • each set of this device comprises means 2 for aligning the cartridges 3 along their axis 4 and for moving them, in an aligned position, parallel to this axis, means 5 for modify the direction of movement of the cartridges 3 and arranged to align them, by gravity, so that their axes 4 are parallel and so that the cartridges 3 move perpendicular to said axes, means 6 for placing one by one empty prefabricated boxes 7 on the path of the cartridges when they move, by gravity, perpendicular to their axes, means 8 for temporarily immobilizing a box 7 during filling and means 9 , controlled by a counting device, not shown, actuated by the passage of the cartridges through the means 5, to release, by gravity, a box filled with a predetermined number of cartridges 3 and replace it with an empty box and finally, means 10 for evacuating the filled box.
  • the means 2 for aligning the cartridges 3 along their axis 4 and for moving them, in an aligned position and parallel to it, consist of an endless belt 11, driven continuously by a motor 12, on the strand upper 13 from which the cartridges 3 are poured one by one through the outlet 1 of the aforementioned machine.
  • the longitudinal axis of the strand 13 is situated in a horizontal plane and the strand 13 is inclined relative to this plane, a guide 14 extending parallel to the said longitudinal axis and close to the edge 15 of the strand 13 being provided with on either side of the place of discharge 16 of the cartridges 3 so that the latter roll on the strand 13 to come to bear on the guide 14 and to be driven by the endless belt, according to arrow 17 and with their axes aligned parallel to the longitudinal axis of the strand 13, up to the means 5.
  • These means 5, which make it possible to modify the direction of movement of the cartridges 3 so that they move perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the strand 13, comprise a hopper 18 extending perpendicular to the endless belt 11, on the same side as the guide 14 and at proximity to the edge 15 of the strand 13.
  • the bottom 19 of the hopper, which serves as a rolling path for the cartridges 3, which move there by gravity, is situated substantially in the same plane as that which passes through the upper face of the strand 13.
  • the inlet 20 of the hopper is located at the end 21 of the guide 14 so that the cartridges driven by the belt 11 are introduced into the hopper, by gravity, as soon as they are no longer supported by said guide 14.
  • a guide 20 ' extending obliquely to the longitudinal axis of the strand 13 above and located on the path of the cartridges 3 driven by the endless belt 11, the inclination of this guide relative to said longitudinal axis being a function of the length of the cartridges so that they can bear simultaneously on the guide 20 'and on the end 21 of guide 14 to correctly enter the hopper.
  • the outlet of the hopper is constituted by an opening 22 made in the bottom 19, the dimensions of the inlet 20, the bottom 19 and the opening 22 of the hopper, taken parallel to the longitudinal axis of the strand 13, are substantially equal and slightly greater than the dimension of the cartridges taken parallel to their axis.
  • the dimension of the opening 22 taken perpendicular to said longitudinal axis is slightly greater than the diameter of the cartridges so that the latter descending the hopper can escape, by gravity, from the latter through the opening 22.
  • the correct descent of the cartridges in the hopper is obtained by guides 23 projecting perpendicular to the bottom 19, the drop of the cartridges one by one through the opening 22 being provided by a guide 24 extending transversely to the guides 23 and 23 '.
  • a movable stop 25 arranged to occupy two extreme positions, a first position, shown in Figures 1 to 3, in which it projection, relative to the bottom 19 of the hopper, to stop each cartridge entering the latter and arrange it so that its axis is parallel to the longitudinal axis of the strand 13 so that it can roll in good position, to escape through the opening 22, between the guides 23 and a second position in which it disappears under the bottom 19 to release the cartridge.
  • This stop 25 extends, parallel to the strand 13, on the one hand, at a distance from the inlet 20 of the hopper which is slightly greater than the diameter of the cartridges and, on the other hand, over a large part of the hopper from the latter's guide 23 '.
  • Means 26 are provided for moving, in a direction perpendicular to the bottom 19, this stop 25 between its two extreme positions. These means 26 are, as shown in FIG. 2, constituted by an electromagnet 27 fixed below the hopper and whose core 28 is fixed to the stop 25 and by a switch 29, the control 30 of which projects from the bottom 19. This switch 29 is arranged between the inlet 20 of the hopper and the stop 25, near the guide 23, at a distance which is substantially equal to half the distance separating said inlet 20 and stop 15.
  • the circuit of the switch 29 and of the electromagnet 27 is arranged so that the latter is tensioned to retract the stop 25 under the bottom 19 each time a cartridge introduced into the hopper, is in contact by one of its generatrices with the stop 25 and, in this position, relies on the control device 3 0 of the aforesaid switch.
  • the cartridge bearing on the latter descends, by gravity, along the bottom 19 towards the opening 22 and releases the above-mentioned control 30 which interrupts the supply of the electromagnet 27, the stop being then returned to its first position, by the springs 31, to intercept and correctly position the next cartridge.
  • the means 6 for disposing one by one the empty prefabricated boxes 7 on the path of the cartridges 3 escaping from the opening 22 of the hopper 18 comprise an enclosure 32, the dimensions of which correspond to those of the box in the open, delimited position by an inclined plane 33 parallel to the bottom 19 of the hopper 18, by two fixed guides 34 and 34 'perpendicular to the inclined plane 33 and parallel to the direction of movement of the cartridges in the hopper 18 and by a retractable stop 35 disposed between the guides 34 and 34 'to make, in one of its positions, protruding with respect to the inclined plane 33, perpendicularly to the latter and to the guides 34 and 34'.
  • the inclined plane 33 is situated at a level below that of the bottom of the hopper 18 and at a distance from the latter which is slightly greater than the height of the box 7, the guides 34 and the stop 35, in its projecting position. relative to the inclined plane, also having a height substantially equal to that of the box.
  • the stop 35 is located at a distance such from the opening 22 that a box 7 open in the enclosure, that is to say a box having its bottom resting on the inclined plane 33 and three of its side walls resting on the guides 34 and 34 'and the stop 35, at its opening disposed opposite the opening 22 of the hopper 18 so that the cartridges passing through the latter fall, by gravity, in the box and are automatically stored in the latter in superimposed rows.
  • a store 36 of prefabricated boxes is provided and arranged outside the enclosure 32 and communicates with it.
  • This magazine 36 is arranged near the guide 34 'and the boxes 7 are stored there in the folded position and perpendicular to the inclined plane 33 and includes means for passing the boxes one by one from the magazine into the enclosure while ensuring their opening. during this transfer, means being further provided for actuating the stop 35 in order to eclipse it under the inclined plane 33 to allow the evacuation, from the enclosure and by gravity, of a box filled with a predetermined number of cartridges 3.
  • the magazine 36 is constituted by a support 37 for the boxes extending in the extension of the inclined plane 33, by a fixed stop 38 extending perpendicular to said plane and by a movable guide 39, extending parallel to the stop 38, guided in the groove 40 formed in the support 37 and returned by a counterweight 41 towards the stop 38 so that the boxes 7 are compressed in the magazine between this stop 38 and the guide 39.
  • Pre means seen to pass the boxes 7 one by one from the magazine 36 into the enclosure 32 include a space 42 defined, in the vicinity of the angle 43 of the enclosure, by the end 44 of the guide 34 'and by the lateral surface a straight cylindrical body 45, partially housed under the bottom 19 - of the hopper, arranged to rotate around a shaft 46 with an axis perpendicular to the inclined plane 33, the distance separating this end 44 from the surface of the body 45 being substantially equal to the thickness of a box 7 in the folded position.
  • the face 46 of the stop 38 extends tangentially to the lateral surface of the body 45 while the perimeter of the latter is slightly greater than the length of a box in the folded position so that, during a rotation of said body around its axis, the latter passes a box from the magazine 36 into the enclosure 32 and ensures its automatic opening during the transfer, this opening being effected by the movement given to the box by the body 45, in guiding the box in the space 42 as well as at the position of the latter, at the angle of about 130 degrees formed by the stop 38 and the guides 34 and 34 'and thanks to the support that the box takes on these guides and on the stop 35 during its transfer.
  • the cylindrical body is driven by a motor 47, fixed to the inclined plane 33, the circuit of which is arranged so that its power is cut off when the body 45 has completed one complete rotation, the powering up of the motor 47 being controlled from the device. of the above counting, actuated by the switch 29, set to trigger this power-up when the predetermined number of cartridges contained in a box is reached, a time delay being provided in the circuit and adjusted to allow the last cartridge actuating the control 30 switch 29 to go through the hopper and fall into the box through the opening 22.
  • the aforementioned means provided to eclipse the stop 35 below the level of the inclined plane 33, to allow the evacuation of a box filled with cartridges; are constituted by an electromagnet 48, fixed under the inclined plane 33, the core of which is associated with the stop.
  • the circuit of the electromagnet 48 is arranged so that the latter is energized, like the motor 47, from the counting device controlled by the switch 29, to eclipse the stop 35, the aforementioned time delay, provided in the circuit of the motor 47, being such that the motor will not be supplied until the stop 35 has eclipsed under the inclined plane and that the box which has just been filled with cartridges has already started its downward movement , by gravity, on the inclined plane 33.
  • the cylindrical body 45 has, on a part of its periphery, a layer of non-slip material 49 projecting and whose development is substantially equal to the length of a box 7 in the folded position.
  • this layer of material is arranged on the body 45 so that, during a complete rotation of the latter, a box in the folded position is disposed in the enclosure 32 and the next box is already partially extracted from the magazine 37 so that its end 50 is introduced into the gap 42 remaining between the end 44 of the guide 34 'and the part 51 of the cylindrical body 45 devoid of non-slip material, this next box thus remaining pending until a new rotation of the body 45 to introduce the box into the enclosure 32.
  • the means 10 for evacuating the filled boxes one by one are constituted by an extension 52 of the inclined plane 33 and the guides 34 and 34 'and by a second endless belt 53, continuously controlled by a motor 53', the upper strand of which 54 is horizontal and arranged at the base of the inclined plane 52.
  • the apparatus may comprise, arranged in parallel, several sets of hopper 18, enclosure 32, magazine 36 with the means associated therewith, each of these assemblies treating cartridges of equal dimensions or different, said assemblies being located between the endless belts 11 and 53 and as many machines delivering cartridges as there are assemblies being provided for delivering the cartridges on the carpet 11 upstream of the hopper 18 of the corresponding assembly .
  • Such an apparatus will then include means provided, on the inclined plane 52, in each of the assemblies located downstream of the first assembly, considering the direction of movement of the belt 53 defined by the arrow 68, to retain a full box on the inclined plane at case where its progression towards the carpet 53 would hinder the running of another box circulating on the carpet 53.
  • This electromagnet is controlled, so that the stop 69 protrudes relative to the inclined plane 52, either by photoelectric cells not shown, arranged near the carpet 53 to detect the presence of a full box in the portion of the belt 53 corresponding to the transfer zone of the boxes of the inclined plane 52 on the belt 53, either by arranging the circuits of the apparatus so that the electromagnet 70 of an assembly is energized so that the stop 69 makes protrusion from the inclined plane 52 when, within a period predetermined, the electromagnets 48 of the assemblies located upstream of the element considered, taking into account the direction of movement of the endless belt 53, have been energized to retract the stops 35.
  • the invention also aims to provide an apparatus for automatically putting the cartridges in boxes, comprising a single assembly, the position of some elements can easily and simply be modified to be adapted to the type of cartridge produced by the machine.
  • This device is particularly interesting for users having a single machine forming cartridges of different dimensions.
  • the device For setting automatic box of money cartridges of the same dimensions, the device comprises means 2 for aligning the cartridges 3 along their axis 4 and for moving them, in an aligned position, parallel to this axis, means 5 for modifying the direction of movement of the cartridges 3 and arranged to align them, by gravity, so that their axes 4 are parallel and so that the cartridges 3 move perpendicularly o to said axes, means 6 for placing one by one of the empty boxes 7 prefabricated on the path of the cartridges when they move, by gravity, perpendicular to their axes, means 8 for temporarily immobilizing a box 7 during filling and means 9, controlled by a counting device, not shown, actuated by the passage of the cartridges 3 through the means 5, to release, by gravity, a box filled with a predetermined number of cartridges 3 and replace it with an empty
  • the means 2 for aligning the cartridges 3 along their axes 4 and for moving them, in an aligned position and parallel to said axes 4, consist of an endless belt 11 driven by a continuous movement by a motor 12, on the upper strand 13 from which the cartridges 3 are poured one by one through the outlet 1 of the aforementioned machine.
  • the longitudinal axis of the strand 13 is located in a horizontal plane and the strand 13 is located in a horizontal plane and the strand 13 is inclined relative to this plane, a guide 14, furnished with a needle roller track decreasing the friction of the cartridges 3, extending parallel to the said longitudinal axis and close to the edge 15 of the strand 13 and being provided on either side of the place of discharge 16 of the cartridges 3 so that they roll on the strand 13 to come to bear on the raceway of the guide 14 and to be driven by the endless belt, along arrow 17 and with their axes aligned parallel to the longitudinal axis of the strand 13, up to the means 5
  • These means 5, which make it possible to modify the direction of movement of the cartridges 3 so that they move perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the strand 13, comprise a hopper 18 extending perpendicular to the endless belt 11, on the same side as the guide 14 and near the edge 15 of the strand 13.
  • the bottom 19 of the hopper which serves raceway to the cartridges 3 which move there by gravity, is situated substantially in the same plane as that which passes through the upper face of the strand 13.
  • the inlet 20 of the hopper is located at the end 21 of the guide 14 so that the cartridges driven by the belt 11 are introduced into the hopper, by gravity, when they are no longer supported by the guide 14.
  • the outlet of the hopper is constituted by an opening 22 made in the bottom 19 , at a level lower than that of the inlet 20, so that its longitudinal axis is parallel to the direction of movement of the strand 13.
  • the hopper is bordered, along the sides of its bottom 19 extending perpendicular to the strand 13 and along the edge of the opening 22 parallel e to the strand 13 and located at the lowest level, by three guides 101, 102 and 103 extending perpendicular to the bottom 19 above the level thereof.
  • the guide 101, perpendicular to the strand 13, is fixed and extends from the end 21 of the guide 14 to the edge of the opening 22 located at the lowest level.
  • the guide 102, parallel to the guide 101 is movable and can be moved parallel to itself to adapt the distance separating the guides 101 and 102 according to the dimension d of the cartridges taken parallel to their axis 4.
  • This distance is greater than the dimension d of the cartridges and less than a diagonal of the projection of a cartridge on a plane parallel to its axis 4 so that the axis of the cartridges moving on the bottom of the hopper remains substantially parallel to the strand 13 in order to avoid any jamming of the cartridges in said hopper.
  • the end 104 of the guide 102 is, as defined below, located at a distance from the edge 15 of the strand 13 and extends to the edge of the opening 22 located at the lowest level.
  • the guide 103 is movable parallel to the strand 13 to delimit the aforementioned edge of the opening 22 located at the lowest level as a function of the diameter of the cartridges 3, the distance separating the face of the guide 103 turned towards the inside of the hopper of the edge of the opening 22 which is parallel thereto being greater than the diameter of the cartridges so that the latter descending the hopper can escape, by gravity, from the latter through the opening 22.
  • the correct descent of the cartridges in the hopper is ensured thanks to the distance separating the guides 101 and 102 and the correct positioning of the cartridges in the hopper, from the inlet 20 thereof, is obtained thanks to a movable stop 25 arranged to occupy two extreme positions, a first position, shown in Figure 5, in which it projects, relative to the bottom 19 of the hopper, to stop each cartridge entering the latter and arrange it so that its axis is parallel to the axis lon gitudinal of the strand 13 so that it can roll in good position between the guides 101 and 102 and a second position in which it disappears under the bottom 19 to release the cartridge.
  • This stop 25 extends, parallel to the strand 13, on the one hand, at a distance from the inlet 20 of the hopper which is slightly greater than the maximum diameter of the cartridges 3 which can be packed by the device and, on the other hand share, on a significant part of the hopper from movable guide 102.
  • Means 26 are provided for moving, in a direction perpendicular to the bottom 19 , this stop 25 between its two extreme positions. These means 26 are, as shown in FIG. 5, constituted by an electromagnet 27 fixed below the hopper and whose core 28 is fixed to the stop 25 and by a switch 29, the control 30 of which projects from the bottom 19.
  • This control 30 is arranged between the inlet 20 of the hopper and the stop 25, near the fixed guide 101 and at a distance from the stop such as a cartridge, the diameter of which is between the minimum diameters and maximum cartridges can be crated by the appliance, pressing the stopper 25 based on the control 3 0.
  • the circuit of the switch 29 and of the electromagnet 27 is arranged so that the latter is energized to eclipse the stop 25 under the bottom 19 each time a cartridge, introduced into the hopper, is in contact by one of its generators with the stop 25 and, in this position, rests on the control 30 of the switch 29.
  • the cartridge bearing on the latter descends into the hopper, by gravity , and releases the control 30 of the switch 29 which cuts the power supply to the electromagnet 27, the stop 25 then being returned to its first extreme position, by the spring 31, to correctly intercept and position the next cartridge.
  • the end 104 of the guide 102 is located at a distance from the stop 25 lower than the smallest radius of the cartridges that can be boxed by the device so that the base of the cartridge can bear on the end 104 of the guide and pivot around the latter to come to bear on the stop 25.
  • a second movable stop 105 similar to the stop 25 is arranged in the hopper parallel to this stop 25 and at a level lower than that of the latter.
  • the distance between the stop 25 and the stop 105 corresponds to a multiple of the maximum diameter of the cartridges that can be boxed by the device, this multiple being less than or equal to the number of cartridges to be crated per box.
  • This stop 105 is, like the stop 25, controlled by an electromagnet 106 whose circuit is arranged so that the electromagnet is energized, to eclipse the stop 105 under the bottom of the hopper, via a counting device, not shown, for a predetermined number of objects, receiving its pulses from the aforementioned switch 29.
  • the stop 105 extends from the guide 102 over a large part of the hopper, openings 107 and 108 being provided in said guide 102 to allow passage to the stops 25 and 105 so that they can extend on either side of the movable guide 102 so that, when the latter is separated as far as possible from the fixed guide 101, the stops 25 and 105 close the openings 107 and 108.
  • the purpose of the stop 105 is twofold.
  • the means 6 for placing, one by one, the prefabricated empty boxes on the path of the cartridges 3 escaping from the opening 22 of the hopper 18 comprise an enclosure 32, the dimensions of which correspond to those of the open box intended to receive at least a row of cartridges arranged parallel to the longitudinal axis of the above-mentioned strand 13, delimited by an inclined plane 33 parallel to the bottom 19 of the hopper 18 and situated at a level lower than that of this bottom 19 and at a distance from the latter at less slightly higher than the height of the box, by a fixed guide 34 perpendicular to the inclined plane 33 and parallel to the direction of movement of the objects in the hopper, by a movable guide 109, of position adjustable as a function of the dimension d of the cartridges and of the corresponding dimension of the boxes, parallel to the fixed guide 34 and by a retractable stop 35 arranged between the guides 34 and 109 and projecting with respect to the inclined plane 33, perpendicular to this s latest and guides.
  • the position of the stop 35 is adjustable, said stop being arranged so that it can be moved parallel to itself as a function of the size of the boxes taken parallel to the direction of movement of the cartridges 3 in the hopper 18 and so that this stop comes into contact with the movable guide 109, whatever the position of the latter, to cooperate with the means ensuring the automatic opening of the boxes 7.
  • Means 126 are provided for moving the stop 35 so to adjust its position so that it is located at a distance such from the opening 22 of the hopper that a formed box, disposed in the enclosure 32, the bottom of which rests on the inclined plane 33 and three side walls of which take support on the guides 34 and 109 and on the stop 35, at its opening, in the zone of the box located at the highest level, disposed opposite the opening 22 of the hopper so that the cartridges passing through the latter fall into the box and fall into it by gravity.
  • the means 6 also include a store 36 of prefabricated boxes 7 arranged outside the enclosure 32 and communicating with the latter.
  • This magazine 36 is arranged near the fixed guide 34 and made so that the boxes 7 are stored in the folded position and so that the parts constituting the side walls of the boxes are arranged perpendicular to the inclined plane 33, means 110 being provided for passing the boxes one by one from the magazine 36 into the enclosure 32 while ensuring their opening during their transfer as well as means 111 for actuating the retractable stop 35 in order to eclipse it under the inclined plane 33 to authorize a filled box to leave enclosure 32 by gravity.
  • the magazine 36 is constituted by a support 37 for the boxes extending in the extension of the inclined plane 33, by a fixed stop 38 extending perpendicular to this plane and against which the boxes 7 are supported, by a fixed guide 112 extending perpendicular to the stop 38 and against which the boxes 7 are aligned and by a movable guide 39 extending parallel to the stop 38, the latter and the guides 39 and 112 being located above the support 37.
  • the mobile guide 39 is guided in parallel grooves 40 formed in the support 37 and returned to the stop 38 by a counterweight so that the boxes 7 are compressed in the magazine between this stop 38 and the guide 39.
  • the means 110 provided for passing the boxes 7 one by one from the magazine 36 into the enclosure 32 comprises a space 42 defined, in the vicinity of the angle 43 of the enclosure, by the end 113 of the fixed guide 112 of the magazine and by the lateral surface of a straight cylindrical body 45, partially housed under the bottom 19 of the hopper, arranged to rotate around a shaft 46 of axis perpendicular to the inclined plane 33, the distance separating the ends 44 and 113 of the guides 34 and 112 of said lateral surface being slightly greater than the thickness of a box 7 in the folded position.
  • the face 46 of the fixed stop 38 extends substantially tangentially to the lateral surface of the body 45 and the plane passing through this face 46 intersects the movable guide 109 of the enclosure 32 at a level slightly higher than the intersection of this guide movable 109 and the retractable stop 35 when the latter occupies its position closest to the opening 22 of the hopper.
  • the cylindrical body 45 is rotated by a motor 47, fixed to the inclined plane 33, the circuit of which is arranged so that its energization and de-energization is controlled by a switch 114 whose control 114 'is located inside of the enclosure 32 and fixed on the movable guide 109 below the opening 22 of the hopper so that it is actuated by the corresponding side wall of the box introduced into the enclosure when this box is formed, the presence of a box cutting the power supply to the motor while the absence of box authorized the power up of the latter.
  • the fixed guide 112 of the magazine is advantageously made in two pieces, a fixed piece 112 'and a piece 112 "whose position is' adjustable relative to the piece 112', so as to be able to precisely adjust the distance between the end of the part 112 "closest to the cylindrical body 45 of the lateral surface of the latter as a function of the thickness of the boxes 7 in the folded position, so that a single box can engage in the space between said end of the part 112 "and the lateral surface of the cylindrical body.
  • the means 111 for eclipsing the stop 35 under the inclined plane 33, for authorizing the evacuation of a box filled with the enclosure consist of an electromagnet 48, fixed to a device 115 which will be described below, whose core is associated with the stop.
  • the electromagnet circuit is arranged so that the latter is energized from the aforementioned counting device to eclipse the stop.
  • a time delay is provided in the circuit of the electromagnet controlling the stop 35 and adjusted to allow the last cartridge actuating the control 30 of the switch 29 to run through the hopper and fall into the box.
  • these guides which are located in the extension of one another, are advantageously made in one piece.
  • This part has, opposite the enclosure 32, a wing 116 bearing on an extension of the inclined plane 33, said wing having two parallel rows of opening 117, 118 and 119 and 11 7 ', 118' and 119 'aligned parallel to the longitudinal axis of the strand 13. Each of these rows of openings cooperates with a lug 120 or 120' fixed to the inclined plane 33.
  • the distances which separate the corresponding openings from the rows of the part forming the guides 102 and 109 being equal and being a function of three specific dimensions of the cartridges to be canned.
  • the wing 116 is immobilized in the chosen position by nuts 121 'cooperating with screws fixed to the inclined plane.
  • the guide 103 arranged in the hopper consists of a removable bracket 121 mounted on two blocks 122 fixed to the guides 101 and 102, the dimension of the bracket used, taken parallel to these guides, is a function of the diameter of the cartridges and is such that the distance which separates its face 123 from the edge 124 of the opening 22 is slightly greater than the diameter of the cartridges.
  • the bracket is fixed to blo- - waste 122 by screws 125.
  • the bottom of the latter advantageously overlooks the enclosure 32 over a distance, taken parallel to said direction, which is less the maximum radius of the cartridges to be boxed.
  • the means 126 provided for moving the retractable stop 35 parallel to itself consist, as shown in particular in FIG. 6, of two fixed shafts 127 and 128, parallel to each other and to the stop 35 and parallel to the inclined plane 33, arranged below this plane on either side of the stop 35, by two parallel shafts 129 and 130, perpendicular to the shafts 127 and 128, located on either side of the stop 35 and each carrying, at their two ends, bearings provided with rectilinear bearings 129, 130 and 129 ', 130' which can slide on the shafts 127 and 128 following a direction_parallel to these.
  • the aforementioned device 115 comprises a support plate 131 of the electromagnet 48 which extends between the two shafts 127 and 128 and has, at its ends, bearings 132 and 133 provided with rectilinear bearings cooperating with these shafts 129 and 130 so that the plate 131 can slide in a direction parallel to said shafts.
  • a control lever 134 is mounted on the bearing 133, the bottom 33 of the enclosure 32 having parallel openings 135, shown in broken lines in FIG.
  • Notches 136 are made in the inclined plane to place the lever 134 in predetermined positions and the number of which corresponds to the number of openings 135, each position corresponding to a determined length and diameter of the cartridges, a switch not shown being provided for energize and maintain the electromagnet controlling the stop 35 in order to eclipse the stop under the inclined plane 33 while the position of this stop 35 is modified.
  • the box according to the invention and shown in Figures 7 to 9 is a rectangular bottom box whose blank 55 is cut so that the box can be folded so that the elements 56, 56 ', 56 "and 56"' constituting the bottom can be folded over the side walls 57, 57 ', 57 "and 57”' inside the latter when the side walls are brought together in pairs, that is to say the walls 57 - 57 'and 57 "- 57”', with respect to a plane perpendicular to the bottom and passing through a diagonal 58 of the latter.
  • the elements constituting the bottom are cut so that, when the box is in the folded position, the two side walls 57 "and 57" 'joining along an edge 59 contained in the plane passing through the aforementioned diagonal can be directly in contact in their zones 59 ′ and 59 ′′ in the vicinity of said edge 59.
  • the blank 55 which constitutes the box comprises a rectangular strip 60, of constant width, intended to form the side walls of the box and composed by five quadrilaterals 57 to 57 "'and 60' delimited by the ends 61 and 62 of the strip and by four fold lines 63 to 63 "', parallel to these ends 61 and 62, successively delimiting the four side walls of the box, the quadrilateral 60', located at the end 61 of the strip, being intended to be folded down and glued to the quadrilateral 57 located at the other end 62 of the strip.
  • the blank also includes the four elements 56 to 56 "', intended to constitute the bottom of the box and cut in a manner known per se, which are distributed along the edge 64 of the strip, with fold lines 65 along this edge, so as to be arranged each opposite one of the four quadrilaterals intended to form the side walls of the box, the elements 56 "and 56" contiguous, located on either side from the fold line 63 "which will form the edge 59, having a delimited cutout 66, in each of these elements 56" and 56 “'and from the fold line 63", by the edge 64 of the strip and by a segment 67 of oblique line extending, away from the strip, towards the extension of the fold line 63 "and stopping at a distance from the latter as the bottom elements 56" and 56 "'are not pinched between the side walls 57 "and 57”' folded in the vicinity of the fold line 63 "corresponding to the edge 59 above.
  • This cutout 66 is intended to make the bottom of the box free to deploy during the introduction of the box into the enclosure 32 of the device according to the invention while the box is still pinched, near its edge 59 , between either the end 44 of the guide 34 ', or the end 113 of the guide 112, and the cylindrical body 45.

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