EP3288876A1 - Verfahren und vorrichtung zur zuförderung, bereitstellung und zum austausch von rollen mit verpackungsmaterial in einer verpackungsmaschine - Google Patents
Verfahren und vorrichtung zur zuförderung, bereitstellung und zum austausch von rollen mit verpackungsmaterial in einer verpackungsmaschineInfo
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- EP3288876A1 EP3288876A1 EP16716554.7A EP16716554A EP3288876A1 EP 3288876 A1 EP3288876 A1 EP 3288876A1 EP 16716554 A EP16716554 A EP 16716554A EP 3288876 A1 EP3288876 A1 EP 3288876A1
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Definitions
- the present invention relates to a method of delivery, provision,
- the invention also relates to a device for conveying, providing and / or handling and / or replacement of rolls with flat and / or sheet material wound thereon and used as packaging material for packaging piece goods, containers or similar article compositions
- Characteristics of independent claim 8. In a grouping and compilation of articles to containers, eg. Beverage containers o. The like., These are often held together in practice by shrink film to prevent slipping or loosening of the compilation during further handling or to prevent during transport.
- containers comprising four, six or more containers are known from the prior art.
- Such containers form a very common variant of sales units for beverage containers or bottles made of PET plastic.
- the fastest possible compilation of such containers without interruption is individual
- Devices and methods which unwind the material from a roll or multiple roles to carry within a packaging machine and thus envelop the individual containers or the respective articles which are to form the respective container with the packaging material.
- the unwinding of the packaging material from the roll is usually carried out by machine and in a continuous process.
- Devices are known in which the packaging material is withdrawn via rollers from the rotating roll. Is a roll settled and stock up If the packaging material of the roll is exhausted, an exchange of the respective roll or a replacement by a new roll must take place.
- a roll settled and stock up If the packaging material of the roll is exhausted, an exchange of the respective roll or a replacement by a new roll must take place.
- a method and a device by means of which new rolls can be delivered and used rolls can be exchanged within a packaging machine are known, for example, from DE 40 40 545 A1.
- This known device has a plurality of supply rolls with strip material, which are arranged side by side. The core of the rollers is placed in each case on a common pin.
- Strip material is previously connected to a roller, which pulls the strip material from the respective roll and leads away from the device in the downward direction.
- the role In order to operate this known device and to unwind the material from the roll, the role must be placed with its core in conformity with the direction of rotation on the pin.
- Strip material must descend from above in the direction of the rolls. If the roller with opposite direction of rotation placed on the pin, so could
- Strip material is difficult or impossible to be removed from the roll, from which
- Packaging machines are also known in different embodiments, so for example. By devices for feeding and changing coils with
- the system comprises a magazine for the packaging material and a carriage equipped with an articulated arm for gripping the packaging material and feeding it to the processing machines located on the processing lines.
- the trolley with the articulated arm travels along routes that are determined by a computer connected to the processing machines.
- a device for supplying packaging machines with consumable or packaging material is also known from EP 1 273 541 B1.
- the wound as reels of material webs are delivered on pallets and distributed to several manufacturing and packaging machines, the pallets first by means of
- Pallet conveyors are brought into interim storage, while individual reels are removed by separate Bobinen intensiveer and transported to a machine to be supplied.
- DE 10 2006 017 379 A1 discloses a device for handling reels of packaging material.
- the device comprises a reel storage with a portal in which the reels are held on pallets.
- a gantry robot with articulated arm transfers bobbins as needed to au outside the portal arranged
- EP 0 551 854 B1 proposes a
- Gripping member is equipped for gripping objects.
- the gripping member is also equipped with a camera system that records images of the detected object, from which a control unit calculates coordinates of the pixels of these captured images.
- optical detection devices usually formed by cameras with downstream image analysis, while facilitating the precise positioning of a
- Robot gripper for example, when detecting roles to be exchanged in packaging machines with foil-like packaging material wound thereon. Nevertheless, further precise operating parameters are required for precise, fully automatic film roll loading required, which can not be made available with such camera systems so far, as they have, among other things, not the required image resolution and / or the required downstream data processing for processing the image data obtained. For this reason, an object of the present invention is seen therein, a
- Roller parameters work properly and with a pronounced degree of fault tolerance and ensure the smooth role replacement under all operating conditions.
- the invention relates to a method for conveying, providing and / or handling and / or exchanging rolls with flat and / or sheet material wound thereon and used as packaging material for packaging piece goods, containers or similar article compositions.
- at least approximately completely unwound and / or exhausted rolls are removed from at least one installation position of a packaging machine and then each used a new roll with flat and / or sheet material in the respective installation position.
- an outer layer of the respective new roll is pulled off near or in the region of its free end and joined, in particular welded or glued, to form a continuous material web with a section of a material web guided in the packaging machine ,
- the method provides that new rolls of the packaging machine in a defined feed, e.g. by means of pallets, shelving systems, FTS (i.e., driverless transport systems) or the like, and there by means of
- the invention provides that operational parameters at least each newly inserted or used in the packaging machine role are detected, this detection can be done in particular during the supply, provision and / or handling of roles. Possibly. can the
- Packaging machine can be provided as an electronic data set as soon as the role in question is used there. It is equally possible, all
- the packaging machine can be controlled as a function of the parameters recorded with regard to the handling of the roll newly inserted into the respective installation position, but possibly also further handling and / or control devices which are connected with the proper operation of the packaging machine are in immediate operative connection.
- the method may in particular provide that at least the dimensions and / or positions of the rollers in the region of the defined feed and / or
- the operationally relevant parameters may primarily be the roll dimensions that are relevant for the operation of the packaging machine, such as the material web width, the roll thickness, the regularity of the winding, possibly deviations from a regular material web winding, the material thickness, the approximately determined Material web length, from the
- Material web thickness and the number of windings can be determined, etc. Also more
- Roll parameters such as the weight of the rolls can be relevant, since they provide information about the stock of the material web wound on the roll and its length, provided that the exact material web thickness is known. This weight measurement can be used to determine the weight of the rolls.
- Handling device done, in particular by means of suitable measuring devices in an optionally usable handling robot.
- the roll width during handling by the gripping and / or handling device can be determined, for example.
- axial scanning when immersing the retaining pin in the roll core.
- a temperature monitoring and / or an axial position monitoring and possibly the monitoring or acquisition of further data can take place.
- the temperature monitoring is especially at
- Rolling behavior of the film has, as well as their resistance behavior when detecting the start of film after inserting the role in the packaging machine.
- All recorded operationally relevant parameters can preferably be coded as data sets, in particular as geometric data records, and made available to the packaging machine and / or the gripping and / or handling device, wherein each individual roll can usefully be assigned its own data record in order to carry out the individual roll for each individual roll necessary settings in the
- Handling equipment is rather simple in practice so as not to cause further potential problems by too much data. This also applies to the image evaluation data in the acquisition of the roll parameters, since these data can take on a large scale with high resolution with high resolution, which need not be desirable for all operating conditions. All possibly occurring
- Error messages can preferably already be processed during handling by the gripping and / or handling device, since in this way it can reliably be prevented that faulty or non-compliant new rolls enter the packaging machine and can lead to operational errors, malfunctions or machine shutdowns there.
- Packaging machine or the at least one mounting position to be used roller is checked by means of an optical detection device for damage, with an existing or formed damage to the core, the respective role is not handed over to the packaging machine and wherein the gripping and / or handling device receives no role in any existing damage to the core and passes to the packaging machine to them in the respective
- Insert installation position it may be the case that the optical detection device for checking the core for damage is moved via the gripping and / or handling device in the direction of the core. Further, it may be that the gripping and / or handling device in an existing or formed damage to the core, the respective role, which has the damaged core, settles on a pallet and receives and settles by settling on a dedicated pallet.
- the complete acquisition of all operationally relevant and / or behaviorally relevant parameters of the film or material web rolls takes place by means of
- Detection devices which may be formed in particular by an optical sensor device such as a camera, which is in connection with a downstream image analysis, so that the parameters can be detected by optical means.
- the acquired optical information is processed, processed and made available as a record to the packaging machine, the control of which can be adjusted on the basis of this data as needed, in order to optimize it
- Packaging company to ensure based on an optimized management of the drawn from the roll of material or film webs.
- Further process-relevant parameters can be, for example, the exact roll width and / or position on the gripping and / or handling device, since this is the exact positioning of the rolls in the intended installation positions in the
- Process reliability in the processing of the unwound from the rolls in the packaging material webs as by a precise machine setting according to the specifications from the data obtained and transmitted by the room monitoring devices, the process reliability and the packaging quality that can be supplied by the packaging machine, can be increased.
- the positions of the rollers in the area of the defined feed and / or provision and / or the gripping and / or handling device and / or their movement space can be selected by means of suitable optical sensor devices and / or room monitoring devices are detected. Depending on these detected spatial, motion and / or sensor data, at least the movements of the gripping and / or handling device in the area of the defined supply and / or provision for the rollers or in their respective movement space can be controlled.
- the space monitoring devices can be formed by at least one optical detection device, in particular a camera, which not only has the rollers but optionally also the movement space of the gripping and / or
- Handling device detected and this movement space and in it
- the at least one optical detection device or the camera for example, the gripping and / or handling device assigned or mounted there, so that it is capable of operating-relevant
- Handling device as well as the direction of rotation conforming orientation of each new role before or at their onset to capture or verify.
- the camera can also cover the movement space and / or the feed area for the new rolls by being fixedly mounted in the room or on the packaging machine; Also additional or multiple cameras on the gripping and / or
- Handling device are possible.
- a plurality of cameras or optical detection devices can be used whose output signals are superimposed and can not be used for exact location determination of all moving parts, handling systems and / or rolls of packaging material, but also for parameter acquisition of all optically recognizable roll parameters and / or dimensions.
- the method allows not only the parameter acquisition by measuring the
- Positioning of the handling equipment can ensure the smooth replacement of used rolls, thereby improving the functionality of the
- Packaging machine is ideally ensured.
- the method has a high degree of automation in the handling of roll-wound flat and / or sheet material for packaging purposes, so that a simple
- the gripping and / or handling device In the method, the gripping and / or handling device
- the handling robot may optionally be associated with a separate camera which may, for example, be attached to its movable cantilever arm so that it can detect all movements in the room as well as the rollers to be positioned and positioned in the packaging machine and in particular their optically detectable parameters.
- the handling device or the multi-axis robot preferably has suitable gripping or holding elements in order to be able to receive the rollers.
- the handling device or the multi-axis robot for example, have a retaining mandrel, which dips into the front side designed as a hollow body new role, increases its maximum cross-sectional diameter and hereby fixed the respective new role by clamping the handling device or the multi-axis robot.
- a driverless and / or remote-controlled transport system FTS, at least one self-propelled shuttle
- This FTS or the shuttle of the AGV may, for example, a gripping arm o. The like.
- Transport support deposits, after which it moves together with the roller to the packaging machine and there uses the role.
- the shuttle can be assigned its own camera to control its movements in the room. It makes sense that the method further provides that a
- the gripping and / or handling device may, for example, be assigned a clipboard for a roll to be inserted into the packaging machine, which serves as a support for the roll, in particular for depositing,
- the Clipboard can be formed in particular by a bearing block o. The like., Which assumes a fixed or variable position within the movement space of the gripping and / or handling device.
- the bearing block itself may be formed as a shuttle of a FTS or leaderless transport system, whereby he may be able to perform in a turning role to an automatic rotation of 180 degrees about its vertical axis to the gripping and / or handling system to leave the roll stored there in the correct position.
- the clipboard or the bearing block is assigned a camera, whereby an additional optical monitoring on the bearing block can be ensured to detect the role positions, etc. and the bearing block or the gripping and / or handling device in to control the required way.
- the bearing block may be assigned a rotary drive for rotating a roller lying about it about its horizontal central axis in order to adjust its rotational position and / or an orientation of an edge of an outer material web layer.
- the bearing block can be assigned a suitable turning mechanism in order to perform a 180 ° rotation with the roller resting, in order to bring the role in the correct installation position can.
- the method may further provide that the packaging machine itself or their installation positions for the interchangeable roles with
- Packaging material to be visually monitored In this case, additional optical monitoring devices or cameras can be provided in the packaging machine, in particular in the area of the roles to be replaced or in the area of their installation positions. It may be advantageous in a further variant of the invention
- At least one optical marking is applied to a lot of a new role in the region of the free end of externa ßeren material web and the new roles are used by means of gripping and / or handling device so in their respective installation position or before removing the respective outer position are aligned in their respective installation position such that the optical markings point in the direction of a respective opposite mounting position.
- This at least one optical identification can, for example, be applied to the respective new roll prior to insertion into its respective installation position in such a way that the free end of the outer material web of the respective one is provided by means of the optical marking new roles at least largely immovable in each new role is set.
- the method may provide that the optical marking is applied, for example, to a new roll lying on the clipboard, possibly with the support of the camera monitoring the room or the camera arranged on the clipboard.
- the optical markings can also be placed elsewhere in the area of the infeed, possibly manually by a
- Packaging machine can be used.
- New rollers can be moved, for example, via a horizontal conveyor into the area of the handling device and removed directly from the horizontal conveyor by means of the handling device. Also possible is a
- Movement of the gripping and / or handling device are brought to be picked up by this and used in the packaging machine, possibly including the clipboard, as described above as an option.
- Room monitoring device is coupled and in communication and under
- Recording new roles from the feed and / or a horizontal conveyor means a clocked operation of the horizontal conveyor pretending.
- the control unit can specify the repeated inclusion of new roles of the supplied pallets.
- the invention further proposes a device for conveying, providing, handling and / or exchanging rolls with flat and / or sheet material wound thereon and used as packaging material for packaging piece goods, containers or similar articles of the independent device claim.
- Embodiments of the device find use and therefore will not mentioned redundantly.
- the device provides that at least approximately completely
- unwound and / or used rolls can be removed from at least one installation position of a packaging machine and can be replaced by new roles with flat and / or foil material for the respective installation position, preferably after each insertion an external layer of the respective new role in the vicinity or deducted in the region of its free end and connected to form a continuous web of material with a portion of a guided in the packaging machine web of another role, in particular welded or glued.
- the device according to the invention comprises means for providing new rolls for the packaging machine in a defined feeder such as pallets, shelving systems, FTS or the like. and at least one gripping and / or
- Handling device for taking over the roles of the defined feed and for inserting the new roles in the respective installation position of the
- rollers can be picked up independently of the orderly feed, in particular by means of handling and gripping devices, and inserted into the packaging machine.
- the device according to the invention with
- Room monitoring devices for recording operational parameters of at least the new roles to be used in the packaging machine and for controlling at least the packaging machine in terms of handling the newly inserted into the respective mounting position role as a function of the detected
- the detection can be carried out in particular during the provision and / or handling of the rollers, but possibly also beforehand, so that the detected parameters can be made available, for example, from databases and used for optimized control of the packaging machine.
- the operationally relevant parameters may in particular be formed at least by the dimensions and / or positions of the rollers in the area of the defined feed and / or provision and / or during their handling by the gripping and / or handling device, so that based on these operating parameters an improved and more exact control of the roll handling of the packaging machine is possible.
- Movement space are detected in order to control the movements of the gripping and / or handling device in the field of defined supply and / or provision for the roles in dependence on the means of
- Room monitoring device detected room, motion and / or sensor data to optimize.
- Room monitoring devices for example, by at least one optical sensor
- Detection device in particular be formed by a camera, which are primarily relevant to the operation of the packaging machine relevant
- the room monitoring device can optionally detect the movement space of the gripping and / or handling device and deliver this movement space and the movements of the gripping and / or handling device taking place therein to image output signals and to a
- the at least one optical sensor Provide control system.
- the at least one optical sensor Provide control system.
- Detection device or the camera can, for example, be assigned directly to the gripping and / or handling device. So there may be a camera mounted there; this can then visually capture the roles and record their operational parameters, if they are visually recognizable. It can, however, also check the movements as well as the direction of rotation of each new roll before or during its insertion.
- the camera can be arranged in the room or even several cameras in the room and / or on the robot or the handling device.
- the gripping and / or handling device can in particular be formed by a multi-axis robot, which receives new rolls from the defined feed and places them in the packaging machine.
- the handling robot or the multi-axis robot can optionally be assigned a camera which, for example, can be arranged on a movable or articulated gripping or extension arm in order to grasp all detected objects and the respective environment in order to grasp it
- the handling device or the multi-axis robot has suitable gripping and / or holding means, which may be formed, for example, by a holding mandrel, which dips into the respective hollow body designed as a new role, its maximum cross-sectional diameter increases or increases its cross-sectional area and hereby the respective new role clamped on the
- the gripping and / or handling device by a
- FTS driverless and / or remote-controlled transport system
- This shuttle or FTS can optionally be assigned a camera.
- Handling means are preferably provided with suitable means to check a direction of rotation compliant position of each newly inserted into the packaging machine role during their handling by the gripping and / or handling device and if necessary, i. in a wrong-lying role, which is a loose one
- the gripping and / or handling device can be assigned, for example, a clipboard for a role to be used in the packaging machine, which can serve as a support for the role, in particular for storage, directionally compliant provision and re-recording by the gripping and / or handling device
- Moving space located clipboard can, for example, be formed by a bearing block, which can assume a fixed or variable position within the movement space of the gripping and / or handling device. It can also be provided that the bearing block itself can form a mobile and self-propelled shuttle of a FTS.
- the bearing block can optionally be assigned a camera, whereby an additional optical monitoring is possible on the bearing block.
- the bearing block For putting in the bearing block can be equipped with a rotary drive for rotation of a roll lying on it about a horizontal longitudinal axis to adjust the rotational position and / or alignment of an edge of an externa ßeren material web position.
- the bearing block may optionally have a turning mechanism in order to perform a 180 ° rotation in a resting role can. This function is already present in a design of the clipboard as a self-propelled shuttle.
- the device can furthermore provide additional optical monitoring devices or cameras in the packaging machine, in particular in the area of the rollers to be replaced or in the area of their installation positions.
- the device may have additional facilities to apply to a lot of new roles in the region of the free ends of their outer webs at least one optical marking, so that the new roles are used by the handling device so in their respective installation position or before removing the respective outer position can be aligned in their respective installation position such that the optical markings point in the direction of a respective opposite mounting position.
- the at least one optical identification is applied to the respective new role before insertion into their respective mounting position such that by means of the optical marking the free end of the externa ßeren web of the respective new roles at least largely immovable at the respective new Roll is fixed.
- Handling device is moved and removed directly by means of the gripping and / or handling device of the pallet or from the horizontal conveyor.
- control unit with the gripping and / or handling device and the room monitoring device in
- Connection is and taking into account a respective by means of the gripping and / or handling device taken up new roles from the feed and / or a pallet or the horizontal conveyor a clocked operation of
- the invention relates to a method and an apparatus for handling wound on rolls and as packaging material of
- Piece goods, containers or the like article compositions serving flat and / or sheet material.
- the flat and / or sheet material may be formed as a shrink film or as a conventional plastic film.
- the roles can be a core possess, whose geometric shape corresponds to a hollow cylinder and which may consist at least partially of cellulose-containing material.
- the respective new roll can thereby be placed on a pin corresponding to the core of the packaging machine and at removal or removal
- Packaging machine may be relevant relevant role parameters recorded in order to control the packaging machine better and to optimize their process reliability.
- at least partially unwound and / or spent rolls are removed from at least one installation position of a packaging machine and then each used a new role with flat and / or sheet material in the respective installation position.
- at least two mounting positions can be provided. Each of the at least two mounting positions may, as previously mentioned, have a pin on which the new roll is placed and on which the respective roll for
- Unwinding of their respective flat and / or sheet material rotates.
- the rollers can be fixed in a clamping manner on the journal of their respective installation position.
- the pin can be driven in rotation and transmit torque to the respective seated roller so that the roller is moved in rotation about its pin to unwind its flat and / or sheet material.
- Each pin can be assigned a drive over which the respective pin is rotated.
- the drives can be connected to a control unit described in more detail below or can be controlled via a control unit described in more detail below for rotating the pins.
- the clamping connection between the pin and the roller can be released, so that the roller is then no longer firmly connected to the pin and can be removed from the pin ,
- the rotating movement of the pin can be interrupted until a new roll placed on the pin or in the corresponding
- Installation position was used. After each insertion of a new role in their respective installation position is usually taken out an outsi position of the respective new role in the vicinity or in the region of its free end and to form a continuous web with a portion of the in the
- the outer layer of each new roll used can be withdrawn after insertion with a suitable gripping element, for example by means of a pneumatic suction, mechanically clamping and / or electrostatically adhering gripping and / or handling device, which is between the at least two mounting positions and moved here.
- a suitable gripping element for example by means of a pneumatic suction, mechanically clamping and / or electrostatically adhering gripping and / or handling device, which is between the at least two mounting positions and moved here.
- the gripping member can alternately deduct from the at least two mounting positions outsides lying layers of new roles.
- the gripping element temporarily fixes the respective outer layer of a new roll on vacuum.
- a welding rod may be provided, which is moved in the downward direction and in this case the outer layer of the respective new roll welded to the guided in the packaging machine material web.
- the respective outer layer can be moved into a working area of the welding rod.
- the temperature-controlled welding rod can thus the outer-lying position of each new role clamp
- Packaging company flat and / or film material can be unwound from at least one role of at least two mounting positions without interruption.
- the new roll can thus be used, while still flat and / or sheet material is unwound from the other role in the packaging machine.
- Flat and / or film material can also be unwound from another roll of the packaging machine when a roll from the packaging machine is removed from the packaging machine and at least approximately completely unwound and / or used.
- at least approximately unwound and / or used rolls are detected by sensors and replaced by new roles with flat and / or sheet material by means of the previously described gripping and / or handling device.
- a sensory recognition for example, with the aid of optical detectors or an optical
- Detection system take place, which in the range of at least one mounting position or can be arranged in the region of at least two installation positions.
- the optical detection system or the optical detector and the handling device can be in communication with the control unit, which also controls the movements of the gripping and / or handling device or of the multi-axis robot.
- the control unit which also controls the movements of the gripping and / or handling device or of the multi-axis robot.
- its direction of rotation and / or orientation in conformity with the direction of rotation can be detected and / or checked.
- the determination and / or checking the direction of rotation and / or direction of rotation conforming orientation by means of optical detection in particular embodiments have proven in which the determination and / or checking the direction of rotation and / or direction of rotation conforming orientation by means of optical detection.
- the invention is not limited to such embodiments, so that, for example, haptic and / or other mechanisms may be provided to check the direction of rotation and / or direction of rotation conforming orientation of the respective new role. Is the detected direction of rotation and / or direction of rotation compliant orientation suitable or
- the respective new roller can be inserted into its assigned installation position or remain in its respective assigned installation position. Will be wrong
- Determined direction of rotation and / or a wrong direction of rotation compliant positioning it can be an alignment correction of the respective new role made or selected another new role with appropriate direction of rotation and / or direction of rotation orientation for insertion and inserted into the respective mounting position. This can be done in particular using the above described
- Clipboard done which is located in the vicinity of the gripping and / or handling device or at least within their range of motion.
- the direction of rotation conforming orientation or the orientation with the appropriate direction of rotation and the insertion of the role in their respective mounting position can then be done before connecting or welding their outer layer with the remaining material in the packaging machine web.
- Direction of rotation compliant alignment of the new roll can flat and / or Packaging material are continuously unwound from another arranged in the packaging machine or in one of the at least two mounting positions role.
- Control unit with the gripping and / or handling device are in operative connection and control their exact movements for handling the role, wherein over the optical detector or the optical detection system beyond a respective direction of rotation and / or direction of rotation conforming orientation of new roles is verifiable and / or detectable and the new roles by means of gripping and / or
- Handling device with suitable for the respective installation position direction of rotation and / or direction of rotation orientation and / or by means of the gripping and / or handling device with the appropriate direction of rotation and / or
- Control unit display unit such as a display or the like
- the control unit display unit such as a display or the like
- control unit with the gripping and / or handling device is preferably coupled in such a way that the at least partially unwound and / or depleted roles independently from the respective installation position removable and new roles with matching direction and / or appropriate direction of rotation conforming orientation independently in the at least an installation position can be used.
- an algorithm can be stored on the control unit, wherein the algorithm takes into account the recorded roll positions - these can be, for example, on pallets - and the optical detector
- the gripping and / or handling device for clamping fixation of the new rolls designed as hollow bodies may comprise a preferably cylindrically shaped holding mandrel with an adjustable maximum cross-sectional diameter. The adjustment of the cross-sectional diameter can over the Control unit made or specified by the control unit.
- the gripping and / or handling device may have a movable gripper arm, wherein the retaining pin is arranged at the free end of the gripper arm.
- the gripping and / or handling device may be preceded by a horizontal conveying device designed for transporting new rolls, which extends into a working region of the gripping and / or handling device and which can be read by the control unit taking into account a removal of new rolls by the gripping and / or or handling device with clocked operation can be controlled.
- a horizontal conveying device designed for transporting new rolls, which extends into a working region of the gripping and / or handling device and which can be read by the control unit taking into account a removal of new rolls by the gripping and / or or handling device with clocked operation can be controlled.
- Handling device new roles on pallets or the like Be provided. It is also possible to place new rolls in a container or the like, which is located in the work area of the gripping and / or handling area and over which the gripping and / or handling device new roles are provided.
- the new roles can be random or with any orientation in the
- Container be placed, wherein by means of the optical detector, the direction of rotation and / or direction of rotation-compliant orientation is verifiable and / or detectable.
- Fig. 1 shows a schematic perspective view of a first embodiment of a device according to the invention.
- Fig. 1 illustrates a conceivable
- FIG. 2 shows a schematic perspective view of a second
- FIG. 3 shows a schematic perspective view of two installation positions for rollers within the packaging machine, which can cooperate with a device according to the embodiments of FIGS. 1 and 2.
- Fig. 4 shows the mounting positions of Fig. 3 with inserted new role for the second mounting position.
- Fig. 5 shows the installation positions of Figures 3 and 4 with deducted outer layer of the inserted into the second mounting position new role.
- Fig. 6 shows, in two perspective views, a handling device which picks up a new roll from a pallet for insertion into the packaging machine.
- FIG. 1 The schematic perspective view of Fig. 1 shows a first
- FIG. 1 also illustrates a conceivable implementation of an embodiment of the inventive method described above.
- the device 10 is used to handle flat packaging material such as shrink film or packaging films, which is wound on large, due to their weight usually not manually manageable rollers 12.
- Fig. 1 Schematically indicated in Fig. 1 is a part of a packaging machine 14, which has a
- gripping and / or handling device 16 new rollers 12 are supplied.
- the gripping and / or handling device 16 embodied as a stationary arranged multi-axis robot 18 in the exemplary embodiment shown uses the respective new rolls 12 to be supplied to the packaging machine 14 in two different installation positions EB1 and EB2, which are only partially recognizable in FIG. 1 and in the detailed view of Fig. 3 are exemplified.
- Handling robot 18 single new roles 12 used in one of the two installation positions EB1 and EB2, while in the other installation position EB2 or EB1 is still a spent or partially used role 20, of which still during the insertion of each new roll 12 continues a On it located web 22 is unwound, in the packaging machine 14 as
- Packaging material is processed. During the further Abwickeins the Material web 22 of the almost used up roll 20 takes place a connection or welding of the outer layer 24 (see Fig. 5) of the new roll 12 with the web 22, whereby the device 10 can run in a continuous operation, without the packaging process for Replacing a spent roll 20 with a new roll 12 would have to be interrupted.
- the new rolls 12 are each composed of the wound-up flat packaging material 22 or of the packaging or shrink film and a core 26 on which the packaging material 22 or the shrink film is wound up. To receive a new roll 12 from one in FIG. 1
- indicated horizontal conveyor 28 dives the handling device 16 and the handling robot 18 via a movable end of his movable arm 30 movably arranged holding mandrel 32 frontally into a core 26 of a new roll 12 a.
- An arm section 34 of the handling device 16 or of the handling robot 18 can for this purpose be rotated about an axis of rotation 36, as shown by way of example in FIG. 6A. After immersing the retaining mandrel 32 in the core 26 of the
- Outer circumference with an inner circumferential surface of the core 26 is in communication.
- Handling device 16 and the handling robot 18 new rolls 12 are provided in an uninterrupted sequence, so that when removing a new roll 12 from the horizontal conveyor 28 another new role 12 in the direction of the handling device 16 is moved or in the direction of gripping and / or handling device 16 moves.
- the horizontal conveyor 28 can be clocked as needed in the desired manner or continuously with constant
- control unit 38 which is only schematically indicated here and which not only controls the
- Horizontal conveyor 28 controls in its conveying speed and / or timing, but also the handling robot 18 in its movements.
- the control unit 38 processes the signals 40 of at least one room monitoring device 42, which may be formed in particular by an optical detection device or a camera 44, possibly also by a plurality of cameras 44, which detect at least the movement space 46 of the multi-axis robot 18 and its movements, including the exact ones Movements of the cantilever arm 30 with the pivoting mandrel 32 pivotally mounted thereto are meant with respect to each new roller 12 to be detected.
- the movement space 46 which can be detected optically by means of the space monitoring device 42 formed by the camera 44, is indicated in the representation of FIG. 1 for better illustration by a fan beam with the broken lines.
- a manipulator 48 positioned in the region of the horizontal conveyor 28, which is operated by a user 50 and via which new rollers 12 can be placed standing on the horizontal conveyor 28, can be seen.
- the new rolls 12 can, for example, be delivered standing on a pallet 52, from which they can be received by the user 50 by means of the manipulator 48 that can be controlled by him and placed on the horizontal conveyor 28 by means of a holding mandrel 54 located there.
- a working area of the manipulator 48 therefore extends over the pallet 52 as well as over one
- Handling robot 18 to be able to put the rollers 12 there, the retaining mandrel 32 to pull out of the core 26 and to detect the role 12 at its other end again to use them in the required direction of rotation for the mounting positions EB1 or EB2 in the packaging machine 14 ,
- Such a clipboard, its function and its interaction with the gripping and / or handling device 16 and with the room monitoring device 42 are exemplary based on
- Embodiment of Fig. 2 explained in more detail.
- it remains the task of the user 50 to ensure the correct positioning of the rollers 12 on the horizontal conveyor 28, in particular also with regard to their correct direction of rotation in the respective installation position EB1 or EB2 (cf. See figures 3 to 5).
- Fig. 1 also shows an open-topped container 56, located in the
- Work area 46 of the gripping and / or handling device 16 is located. Is the supply of packaging material or shrink film of a placed in the packaging machine 14 rolls 12 and 20 is exhausted, by means of the handling robot 18 of Cellulose, plastic, wood or cardboard existing core 26 of an empty roll 20 removed from the packaging machine 14 and stored in the container 56. Only after removal of the core 26, a new roll 12 can be used in the respective installation position EB1 or EB2 of the packaging machine 14, so that the gripping and / or handling device 16 and the handling robot 18 first removes the core 26 and temporally following a insert new roller 12 in the respective installation position EB1 or EB2.
- the horizontal conveying device 28, the gripping and / or handling device 16 or the multi-axis robot 18 and the packaging machine 14 are in communication with the control unit 38. This can in particular specify the cycled operation of the horizontal conveyor 28, insertion and removal of Rolls 12 and 20 by the handling device 16 of the two
- it can, as described in more detail below, a unwinding of packaging material or shrink film of the rollers 12 used in the packaging machine 14 control.
- the room monitoring device 42 in cooperation with the control unit 38, to be able to record operationally relevant roll parameters such as, in particular, their dimensions, their winding quality, the initial positions of the film webs, etc., by process detection, processing and processing of these data to increase the packaging machine.
- control unit 38 An operative connection between the control unit 38 and the packaging machine 14 is therefore absolutely necessary, but not shown in FIG. 1 for better clarity.
- Process controller 38 processed and provided the data obtained in processed form of the packaging machine 14 is provided so that they can ensure the most accurate positioning of the rollers 12 in the mounting positions EB1 and EB2 and for the most accurate unwinding of the material webs (see FIGS. 3 to 5).
- the control unit 38 also for a movement control of the horizontal conveyor 28 and in particular the gripping and / or
- Handling device 16 provide, thus allowing a fault-tolerant positioning and delivery of the new rollers 12 and their handling, since the exact detection of each new roll 12 can be effectively supported and controlled by the retaining mandrel 32 of the handling robot 18 by means of at least one camera 44 so that the exact positioning of the rollers 12 on the horizontal conveyor 28 loses significance and can be compensated for by the appropriately tracked motion control of the handling robot 18 within its movement space 46.
- the indicated in Fig. 1 positioning of the camera 44 is merely exemplary understood.
- a camera 44 or several cameras 44 may be positioned at other locations, for example also in the area of the packaging machine 14, in the area of the handling robot 18 or possibly even on its pivot arm 30, provided that the movement space 46 is covered in the required manner and can be detected.
- the control unit 38 can also have a display device 58 or a display via which information about the acquired operationally relevant roll parameters and possibly also on the direction of rotation or rotational direction-compliant orientation of new rolls 12 and / or further control or movement parameters of the multi-axis robot 18 and / or the horizontal conveyor 28 can be visualized for the user 50.
- the direction of rotation or rotational direction-conforming orientation of the new rollers 12 is preferably, as described below by way of example with reference to FIGS. 3 to 5, detected and / or checked by the camera 44 or possibly also by another camera connected to the control unit 38 in FIG Connection is or stand. Since the gripping and / or handling device 16 can remove the respective core 26 of an empty roll 20 from the packaging machine 14 and with the help of the camera 44 and the other cameras new roles 12 with matching direction of rotation or with direction of rotation in the orientation
- Packing machine 14 uses independently, the device 10 can be operated fully automated at least from the beginning of receiving new rolls 12 of the horizontal conveyor 28.
- FIG. 2 illustrates a second embodiment of the device 10 according to the invention and a meaningful implementation of an embodiment of the inventive method.
- Packaging machine 14 does not differ significantly from the previous one
- the device 10 in turn serves the handling of flat packaging material such as. Shrink film or
- Packaging films the packaging machine 14 according to the
- the second variant of the device 10 shown in FIG. 2 dispenses with a horizontal conveyor, but gets the new rollers 12 respectively on pallets 52, wherein on each pallet 52 four vertically arranged rollers 12 are each received individually by the handling robot 18 and in the
- Packaging machine 14 are used. To accommodate a new roll 12 from one of the in-range, i. Within the movement space 46 of the gripping and / or handling device 16 or the multi-axis robot 18 standing pallets 52 dives the handling device 16 and the handling robot 18 on the end of his movable arm 30 movably arranged holding mandrel 32 frontally into a core 26 of a new roll 12th a, as has already been explained with reference to FIG. 1. An arm portion 34 of the handling device 16 and the
- Handling robot 18 can for this purpose be rotated about a rotation axis 36. After immersing the retaining mandrel 32 in the core 26, the cross-sectional diameter of the retaining mandrel 32 is increased, so that the new roller 12 is fixed to the retaining mandrel 32 by clamping.
- the core 26 is formed as a hollow cylinder, the shape of the retaining mandrel 32 corresponding thereto, so that the retaining mandrel 32 for clamping fixation of the new roller 12 via its Au texsion with an inner circumferential surface of the core 26 is in communication.
- Handling device is to place. This delivery can take place by means of suitable industrial trucks, for example by means of so-called FTS (driverless transport systems), which are formed by self-propelled, remotely controlled and / or own sensor systems for steering transport vehicles, for example.
- FTS driverless transport systems
- Each a pallet 52 with rollers 12 placed in it can move the movement space 46.
- Transport systems or FTS can be clocked as required in the desired manner operate. Their operation is preferably predetermined by the schematically indicated control unit 38, which not only controls the FTS (not shown here) in its conveying speed and / or timing, but also controls the handling robot 18 in its movements to replace the rollers 12 in the packaging machine 14.
- the control unit 38 also processes the signals 40 of at least one room monitoring device 42, which may also be formed in the variant of FIG. 2, in particular by an optical detection device or a camera 44, possibly also by a plurality of cameras 44, at least the area of the roll feed that is, cover the movement space 46 to detect the roll parameters that may be relevant to the smooth operation of the packaging machine 14 in any way. These parameters can be the roll dimensions, the winding quality, the
- the camera 44 can usefully also detect the movement space 46 of the multi-axis robot 18 and its movements, which also means the exact movements of the extension arm 30 with the retaining mandrel 32 pivotally mounted thereon with respect to each new roller 12 to be detected.
- the movement space 46 which can be detected optically by means of the space monitoring device 42 formed by the camera 44, is indicated in the representation of FIG. 2 by an ellipse with interrupted ruling.
- Device 10 is provided in the movement space 46 of the gripping and handling device 16 and in the immediate vicinity of a clipboard 60 for the new rollers 12, which serves, in the direction of rotation of the rollers 12 normally not defined on the pallets 52 the indispensable direction of rotation compliant positioning of each roller 12th to ensure when inserting into the packaging machine 14.
- the retaining mandrel 32 of the handling robot 18 detects each individual roller 12, which stands on the pallet 52, without the direction of rotation already being checked.
- roller 12 can be stored on the clipboard 60 by means of a corresponding movement control of the handling robot 18, after which the holding mandrel 32 is pulled out of the core 26 of the stored roll 12 in order to recapture the roll 12 on its other end side in order then to be able to use them in the respectively required direction of rotation for the installation positions EB1 or EB2 in the packaging machine 14.
- Room monitoring device 42 are explained in more detail by way of example with reference to the embodiment of FIG. 2.
- the standing in Fig. 2 within the movement space 46 user 50 usually holds there only for maintenance purposes, but not during operation of the gripping and / or handling device, which possibly also by the
- Room monitoring device 42 can be controlled.
- Work area 46 of the gripping and / or handling device 16 is located. If the supply of packaging material or shrink film of a roller 12 or 20 placed in the packaging machine 14 is exhausted, by means of the handling robot 18 the core 26 of cellulose, plastic, wood or cardboard is taken out of the packaging machine 14 and empty Container 56 stored. Only after removal of the core 26, a new roll 12 can be used in the respective installation position EB1 or EB2 of the packaging machine 14, so that the gripping and / or handling device 16 and the handling robot 18 first removes the core 26 and temporally following a insert new roller 12 in the respective installation position EB1 or EB2.
- the gripping and / or handling device 16 or the multi-axis robot 18, the controllable clipboard 60 for the rollers 12 and the packaging machine 14 are in communication with the control unit 38, which optionally also the FTS, not shown here, for delivering the pallets 52 can control.
- the control unit 38 can thus specify in particular the timed operation of the FTS, insertion and removal of rollers 12 and 20 by the
- Handling device 16 from the two installation positions EB1 and EB2 initiate, and possibly the clipboard 60 to ensure the correct direction of rotation to be used new role to use 12.
- the control device 38 is responsible for the acquisition of the operationally relevant data of the rollers 12, which it transmits to the packaging machine 14, so that it can ensure the most optimized operation when unrolling the rollers 12.
- the control unit 38 as described in more detail below, a unwinding of packaging material or shrink film in the
- Control packaging machine 14 inserted rollers 12.
- the room monitoring device 42 in cooperation with the control unit 38, a movement control of the gripping and / or handling device 16 under need of inclusion
- Clipboard 60 allows creating a fault-tolerant positioning
- a camera 44 or several cameras 44 may be positioned at further locations, for example also in the area of the packaging machine 14, in the area of the handling robot 18 or optionally also on its pivot arm 30, provided that the movement space 46 is covered in the required manner and can be detected in order to record in this way, the role parameters, for example.
- Room monitoring device 42 can then fulfill its purpose in an optimal manner, if it can cover the movement space 46 largely completely and if they are the rollers 12 therein and possibly the movements of the gripping and / or
- Handling device 16 its retaining mandrel 32 and the various target positions of the retaining mandrel 32 during recording and positioning of the rollers 12 can accurately detect and track. To ensure this reliably, it may be useful if the rollers 12, but at least the retaining mandrel 32, optionally also the pivot arm 30 of the handling robot 18 are provided with suitable reference marks that can be formed, for example, by visually uniquely recognizable in space marks, so that they are the Camera system 44 can serve as a unique recognizable and spatially assignable markings.
- the control unit 38 can also have a display device 58 or a display via which / information about the operationally relevant
- Multi-axis robot 18 and / or the FTS for the user 50 can be visualized.
- the direction of rotation or rotational direction-conforming orientation of the new rollers 12 is preferably as described below by way of example with reference to FIGS. 3 to 5
- the gripping and / or handling device 16 can remove the respective core 26 of an empty roll 20 from the packaging machine 14 and, with the aid of the camera 44 or the other cameras, new rolls 12 with a suitable direction of rotation or with orientation in the packaging machine 14 independently the device 10 can be operated largely automated from the respective pallet 52 at least from the beginning of receiving new rolls 12.
- Handling robot 18 could optionally be present in double or triple version, provided that the movement spaces 46 of the two or more
- Handling robot 18 are matched to one another in a way that there can be no collisions. Since, however, a longer uninterrupted operation is normally ensured due to the web lengths on the rollers 12, the rollers 12 do not have to be replaced so frequently that the use of two or more handling robots 18 would be necessary for this purpose.
- a useful embodiment variant can provide that a gripping and / or handling device 16 or a single handling robot 18 can supply two packaging lines or two packaging machines 14, wherein the movement space 46 is expediently located between the two packaging machines 14 arranged approximately parallel to one another that also the feed area for new rolls 12 with the horizontal conveyor 28 (see Fig. 1) and the
- Pallet delivery (see Fig. 2) between the two packaging machines 14 and in the vicinity of the handling robot 18 and within its movement space 46th located.
- the handling robot 18 can alternately supply the two normally operating packaging machines 14 with new rolls 12 and, if necessary, transfer the used rolls 20 into a common container 56 for subsequent or cyclical disposal. If the movement space 46 can not be monitored with a single camera 44 because it is partially shaded, for example, several cameras 44 may be present for monitoring the space.
- FIG. 3 The schematic perspective view of Fig. 3 illustrates the previously mentioned mounting positions EB1 and EB2 for the rollers 12, which in the
- Packaging machine 14 according to the variants according to FIG. 1 and / or Fig. 2 are defined.
- Each of the mounting positions EB1 and EB2 is defined by its own rotatable mandrel 70. On each of these two horizontally oriented
- the mandrels 70 are each a new role 12 attached by means of the gripping and / or handling device (see Figures 1 and 2) and by means of magnification of the
- Welding bar 72 which for connecting an outer layer 24 (see Fig. 4, Fig. 5) of the inserted into the respective mounting position EB1 and EB2 new roller 12 (see Fig. 4) with the remaining material in the packaging machine 14 material web 22 is provided and this is lowered vertically. After connecting the outer layer 24 (see Fig. 4) with the material web 22 remaining in the packaging machine 14, the tempered welding bar 72 is raised vertically and brought into the position shown in FIG.
- a virtually worn-out roll 20 rests on the receiving mandrel 70 of the first installation position EB1 and is moved in rotation by the mandrel 70 or by pulling off the material web 22.
- the packaging material or the shrink film of the seated on the mandrel 70 of the first installation position EB1 roller 20 is unwound.
- Installation position EB2 ready for receiving a new roll 12 with packaging material.
- Each of the mounting positions EB1 and EB2 may be associated with a separate sensor system or camera 74, by means of which at least approximately fully developed and / or used-up rollers 20 can be optically detected. If a roll 20 is at least approximately completely processed and / or used up, the respective camera 74 sends information about the respective at least approximately completely processed and / or used roll 20 to the control unit 38.
- the previously mentioned control unit 38 controls on the basis of numerous data so also the cameras 74 within the
- Packaging machine 14 the gripping and / or handling device 18 or the handling robot 18 (see Figures 1 and 2) for removing the respective at least approximately completely unwound and / or depleted role 20 or for removing the core 26 of the respective at least approximately complete
- Installation position EB1 or EB2 can be removed, a previously formed between the respective roller 20 and the mandrel 70 clamping connection is solved. This is typically done by reducing the
- Reduction of the cross-sectional diameter of the receiving mandrels 70 is further specified by the control unit 38.
- the gripping and / or handling device 16 emerges via its retaining mandrel 32 into the core 26 of the at least approximately completely unwound and / or used-up roll 20 .
- the respective at least approximately completely unwound and / or spent roll 20 is then fixed to the retaining mandrel 32 of the handling device 16.
- Enlargement of the cross-sectional diameter of the retaining mandrel 32 for clamping the roller 20 and the roller core 26 is also specified via the control unit 38.
- Handling device 16 and under specification by the control unit 38 in Direction of the container 56 moves and stored there by reducing the cross-sectional diameter of the retaining mandrel 32.
- Room monitoring device 42 detected transmitted operational role parameters, in particular by means of the control device 38, so that the
- Packaging machine 14 the rollers 12 can handle as trouble-free as possible.
- Handling device 16 are caused. This can then remove the respective new roller 12 from its respective installation position EB1 or EB2, to which
- Fig. 3 was in the illustration of the 4, by means of the gripping and / or handling device 16 (cf., FIGS. 1 and 2), a new roller 12 is pushed onto the receiving mandrel 70 of the second installation position EB2.
- Installation position EB1 unwound, so that the packaging machine 14 (see Figures 1 and 2) can be operated even when replacing the roller 20 from the first mounting position by switching to the new roll 12 of the second mounting position EB2. If a new roll 12 is then subsequently inserted into the first installation position EB1, then packaging material 22 or shrink film can be unwound from the roll 12 of the second installation position EB2, whereby the required continuous and uninterrupted operation of the packaging machine 14 can be ensured.
- the new roller 12 of the second mounting position EB2 of FIG. 4 may preferably have an optically detectable adhesive mark 76, which may be formed in particular by a reflective or inductive or otherwise detectable adhesive mark 76, which on the outer layer 24 of the new roll 12 in the area free end is applied.
- the second mounting position EB2 associated camera 74 is now able to check by means of the adhesive mark 76, whether the new roll 12 with the appropriate direction of rotation or with direction of rotation conforming orientation on the
- FIG. 4 A synopsis of Figures 4 and 5 can illustrate that with a new roll 12 of the second mounting position EB2 the externa ßere layer 24 is guided from above the roller 12 and dives in the downward direction. If the roller 12 with the wrong direction of rotation or incorrect direction of rotation conforming orientation placed on the arbor 70 of the second mounting position EB2, the externa ßere layer 24 would point away in the downward direction of the roller 12 and would not or only difficult to grab for this reason. In addition, this might possibly disrupt the rolling behavior within the packaging machine 14 or the course of the material web. An alignment below the welding bar 72 would thus not be possible.
- Positioning new rollers 12 in conformity with the direction of rotation or inserting new rollers 12 into the respective installation position EB1 or EB2 with a suitable direction of rotation is therefore essential in order to ensure trouble-free operation of the device 10 or the packaging machine 14 in the subsequent material conveyance of the material webs 22 can.
- the adhesive marker 76 could be detected by means of the respective camera 74, then the receiving mandrel 70 is moved in rotation until the adhesive marker 76 points in the direction of the opposite installation position EB1 or EB2. Only after this orientation the adhesive marking 76 can be shown in Fig. 5 schematically illustrated gripping bar 78 a in the packaging machine 14 between the mounting positions EB1 and EB2 and the welding bar 72 movable gripping and / or handling device (not shown), the outer layer 24 of the new roll 12 and below the
- This gripping bar 78 can, for example, by means of vacuum suction and grip the externa ßere layer 24 of the roller 12.
- the new rollers 12 have no such reflective adhesive mark 76 (corresponding to FIG. 4) and in which the cameras 74 have an outer layer 24 of new rollers 12 or the free end regions of FIG recognize new roles 12 without additional visual markings of the new roles 12.
- the optically detectable adhesive markings 76 have a coding, which is not explained here in further detail, which can be recognized by the cameras 74. This coding can preferably also identify the direction of rotation of the roller 12 in addition to the localization of the end portion of the externa ßeren layer 24, so that the
- Adhesive marking 76 already in the handling of the new roll 12 to be used with the handling robot 18 to determine the direction of rotation and the right one
- Positioning of the end region of the outer layer 24 can be used, if necessary with the additional inclusion of the clipboard 60.
- the adhesive marking 76 can preferably be detected by the room monitoring devices 42 or the camera 44 and the information content evaluated and made available to the control unit 38. to control the handling robot 18 and / or the clipboard 60 in the required manner.
- FIGS. 3 and 4 show the schematic perspective view of FIG. 5. It can again be seen very clearly that the outer layer 24 of FIG In the second installation position EB2 positioned roller 12 coming from above descends in the downward direction, while the outer layer or material web 22 of the roll used in the first installation position EB1 20 is coming from below. Both rollers 12 and 20 rotate on their respective associated mandrels 70 with the same direction of rotation, here counterclockwise. A direction of rotation compliant insertion of the new rollers 12 is necessary to a trouble-free and functioning operation of the device 10 and
- Packaging machine 14 (see Figures 1 and 2) to be able to guarantee. Thus, it is possible both to detect a direction of rotation or directionally correct orientation within the packaging machine 14 via the cameras 74, and to recognize rollers 20 which are at least approximately completely unwound and / or used up via the cameras 74. Information about
- Information about at least approximately completely processed and / or used up rollers 20 are passed from the cameras 74 to the control unit 38, which can specify an alignment correction of new rollers 12 and a replacement of at least approximately unwound and / or used up rollers 20 by new rollers 12. This can be done in particular in a way that has already been explained with reference to FIG. 2 with the optional inclusion of the clipboard 60, which can be used for correcting the direction of rotation. In order to determine the correct direction of rotation, it makes sense, however, priority to use the camera 44 and only subordinated to the cameras 74, and then after insertion of the roller 12 in the
- FIGS. 6A and 6B show a part of the handling robot 18 which forms the gripping and / or handling device 16 for handling the rollers 12 in the device 10.
- Arm portion 34 of the handling robot 18 is pivotable about the horizontally oriented axis 36, so that the retaining mandrel 32 of the handling robot 18 can be aligned for immersion in the core 26 of the respective new roll 12 with vertical orientation of its longitudinal axis.
- the new roller 12 can be rotated by a renewed pivoting movement of the gripping arm 34 about the axis 36 and temporally thereto in their respective assigned mounting position EB1 or EB2 (see Figures 3 to 5) ,
- Figures 6A and 6B show an optional further camera 80.
- This optional camera 80 is fixedly coupled to the gripping arm 34 mechanically so that it is guided along with the gripper arm 34 as it moves. If the gripper arm 34 is pivoted about the axis 36, so by means of the camera 80 a
- Direction of rotation or direction of rotation compliant orientation of one or more new roles 12 are determined.
- For putting in the camera 80 is placed particularly favorable to detect while handling a new roll 12 whose operational parameters, as they are for the optimized operation of the packaging machine 14 at
- the camera 80 is connected to the control unit 38, which receives a new roll 12, which has a suitable direction of rotation or rotational direction-conforming orientation, by means of the handling device 16 controls from the pallet 52.
- FIG. 6B shows the gripping and / or handling device 16 after receiving a new roll 12 with direction of rotation conforming orientation of a pallet 52 (see Fig. 6A).
- the gripper arm 34 has been moved, starting from the position of FIG. 6A, about the axis 36, which in FIG
- Image plane runs, pivoted.
- the new roller 12 now has an at least approximately horizontal orientation and can be assigned to their respective
- Installation position EB1 and EB2 are used in the packaging machine 14.
- a removal of the at least approximately completely unwound and / or used up roller 20 from the respective installation position EB1 or EB2 also takes place with a horizontal orientation.
- To remove the at least approximately completely unwound and / or depleted roll 20 from their respective installation position EB1 or EB2 dives the holding mandrel 32 of the handling robot 32 in the core 26 of at least approximately completely unwound and / or depleted role 20, resulting in different tools can be supported.
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