DEVICE FOR RECEIVING AND HOLDING A SURFACE ELEMENT ROLL, IN PARTICULAR A DEEP-DRAWING FILM ROLL AND PACKAGING MACHINE FOR PACKING PACKAGING GOODS IN SURFACE ELEMENT PACKAGES

Abstract

A packaging machine for packaging goods in film packages, equipped with a device for receiving and holding a surface element roll, so as to process it in a packaging machine by unrolling the surface element and introducing the surface element into the packaging machine, comprising an axle to be incorporated into the surface element roll on its rotational axis of symmetry, wherein the axle is received in a swivel receiver, and the axle for unrolling the surface element is held with the swivel receiver in a roughly vertical alignment.

Claims

1. A device for receiving and holding a surface element roll, so as to process it in a packaging machine by unrolling the surface element and introducing the surface element into the packaging machine, comprising an axle to be incorporated into the surface element roll on its rotational axis of symmetry, wherein the axle is incorporated in a swivel receiver, and the axle for unrolling the surface element is held with the swivel receiver in roughly a vertical alignment.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein it has deflection units for the surface element for introducing the surface element into the packaging machine.

3. The device according to claim 1, wherein the axle with the swivel receiver can be transferred into a roughly horizontal alignment of the axle.

4. The device according to claim 1, wherein the swivel receiver holds a slip-on mandrel that forms the axle to be incorporated into the surface element roll.

5. The device according to claim 4, wherein a rotary drive is allocated to the slip-on mandrel.

6. The device according to claim 1, wherein the swivel receiver is height-adjustably received in a carrying structure.

7. The device according to claim 4, wherein the swivel receiver has a floor plate, into which the slip-on mandrel is recessed, and which is hinged into rotatable joints by straps arranged on their mutually opposing ends.

8. The device according to claim 1, wherein the swivel receiver has allocated to it fixing points for defined swivel positions of the swivel receiver.

9. A packaging machine for packaging goods in film packages, wherein it is equipped with at least one device according to claim 1.

10. The packaging machine according to claim 9, wherein the device is laterally arranged in relation to its longitudinal extension.

11. The packaging machine according to claim 9, wherein it is a deep-drawing packaging machine, and that a deep-drawable surface element is provided with the device.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0020] Exemplary embodiments of the packaging machine according to the invention as well as the device according to the invention for receiving and holding a surface element roll are shown in the drawings. Shown on:

[0021] FIG. 1 is a schematic top view of a packaging machine according to the invention; and

[0022] FIGS. 2 to 5 are perspective views of a device according to the invention for receiving and holding a surface element roll in different handling situations of the surface element roll.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0023] The packaging machine 1 shown on FIG. 1 is elongated, and has different processing stations. A deep-drawing station 2 is provided for deep drawing, as is a supply device arranged at about the same location for objects to be packaged. In addition, there is a welding station 3 for a lid film, as well as a separating station 4 for separating the individual packages from each other. The basis for the packages to be produced is a surface element 5, a deep-drawable film 5. Depressions 6 are incorporated into the latter by deep drawing. The depressions 6 form receiving spaces for foodstuffs, inorganic products, or other packaging items.

[0024] The surface element 5 is removed from a surface element roll 7, wherein the surface element 5 is here unrolled from the surface element roll 7, as denoted by the arrow 8. Deflection units are then used to supply the surface element 5 into the packaging machine 1 along the arrows 8 and 8. The device 9 for receiving and holding the surface element roll 7 is depicted in the following figures.

[0025] FIG. 2 shows that the device has a carrying structure 20, which abuts against the packaging machine 1, and stands on feet 10 on the floor. A swivel receiver 11 is arranged in the carrying structure 20. This swivel receiver 11 carries a slip-on mandrel 12. The swivel receiver 11 further has a floor plate 13, which is swivelably received in rotatable joints 15 via two straps 14. The right rotatable joint on the figure has allocated to it a hand lever 16 for swiveling the swivel receiver 11.

[0026] The surface element roll 7 is also arranged on a pallet 19. It is moved in the direction of the device 9 along arrow 8, and slipped onto the slip-on mandrel with its cavity 17.

[0027] This slipped on state is shown on FIG. 3. The swivel receiver 11 is height-adjustably received in the carrying structure 20, so that once the surface element roll 7 has been slipped on, the swivel receiver 11 us guided upwardly, as denoted by arrow 18. The pallet 19 can now be removed, arrow 18.

[0028] The position of the surface element roll 7 has changed on FIG. 4. Its axis has been moved out of the horizontal position into a vertical alignment, to which end the swiveling device 11 was swiveled with the hand lever 16 after a locking pin 20 had been pulled outwardly, arrow 18. The swiveling motion is illustrated by the curved arrow 18.

[0029] Finally, FIG. 5 again shows the situation in which the surface element 5 is unrolled from the surface element roll 7, as depicted on FIG. 1. The slip-on mandrel 12 (not visible on FIG. 5) can have allocated to it a rotary drive to support the rotation of the surface element roll 7 along arrow 8, in particular in the case of thin surface elements 5. FIG. 5 once again shows the depressions 6 in the deep-drawable surface element 5 incorporated into the deep-drawing device 2.