Cigarette packet forming apparatus

Abstract

The present application relates to a cigarette packet forming device, in order to solve the existing technology in the market lacks a kind of new type of cigarette packet is pasted paper automatically, provide a kind of cigarette packet forming device, including box body feeding section, paper feeding section, work section, blanking section and receiving section, box body feeding section and paper feeding section simultaneously to work section with box body and face paper, work section is pasted on box body with face paper and sends finished product into blanking section and carries out pressure retaining transport, blanking section is connected with receiving section, receiving section separates finished product with the fixture inside finished product and separates finished product with fixture and is separately received, the present application can be suitable for the new type of cigarette packet in the market, and with the characteristics of high degree of automation, high yield, manpower and high efficiency.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD

[0001] The present application relates to a cigarette packet forming device, in particular to a cigarette packet forming device. BACKGROUND

[0002] The product is applied to the new cigarette packet on the market, and there is no automatic forming device for such new cigarette packet on the market. The new cigarette packet is manually pasted by hand, the control of the amount of glue, whether the four sides are properly attached, and the attachment of the inner surrounding strip to the side wall all rely on feeling, which has the following problems:

[0003] 1. Low production efficiency, low yield, irregular box type, and a large amount of waste products, which causes waste of materials.

[0004] 2. Irregular box type, which causes the following problems in the subsequent cigarette packing process, such as material jamming, stagnation, and the like, which affects the production efficiency of the subsequent process.

[0005] The existing automatic or semi-automatic device lacks a pressure maintaining mechanism for the new cigarette packet, and the pressure maintaining is insufficient or has no subsequent pressure maintaining, which causes the face paper to be detached from the glue and produces defective products.

[0006] In summary, there is a lack of a device for automatically pasting face paper on the new cigarette packet on the market. SUMMARY

[0007] The technical problem to be solved by the present application is to provide a cigarette packet forming device to solve the problem that there is a lack of a device for automatically pasting face paper on the new cigarette packet on the market.

[0008] The technical solution adopted by the present application to solve the technical problem is a cigarette packet forming device, which comprises a box body feeding section, a paper feeding section, a working section, a discharging section and a receiving section. The box body feeding section and the paper feeding section simultaneously feed the box body and the face paper to the working section. The working section attaches the face paper to the box body and sends the finished product to the discharging section for pressure maintaining and conveying. The discharging section is connected with the receiving section. The receiving section separates the finished product from the jig inside the finished product and separately receives the finished product and the jig.

[0009] Further, the box body feeding section comprises a box body conveying belt connected with the preceding device. The box body is wrapped on the jig and conveyed into the working section together with the jig through the box body conveying belt.

[0010] Further, the paper feeding section comprises a material taking and releasing station and a glue spraying station arranged in sequence. The face paper in stacks is separated into single pieces by the material taking and releasing station, sprayed with glue in the glue spraying station and then enters the working section.

[0011] Further, the working section comprises a surrounding strip folding station and a rotary disc forming station, the box body enters the surrounding strip folding station to perform surrounding strip bonding, and the box body after bonding the surrounding strip enters the rotary disc forming station to perform paper pasting operation with the face paper conveyed from the paper feeding section;

[0012] The rotary disc forming station comprises face paper positioning stations, pre-pressing stations, forming stations and discharge stations distributed in equal distances on the circumference, the forming stations are connected with the box body feeding section, the face paper positioning stations are connected with the paper feeding section, and the discharge stations are connected with the discharging section;

[0013] The face paper positioning stations, the pre-pressing stations, the forming stations and the discharge stations are provided below with a rotary disc capable of rotating to adjust the orientation, the rotary disc is provided with four cavities, and the rotary disc is rotated to drive the cavities to the corresponding stations.

[0014] Further, the glue spraying station comprises a plurality of glue spraying modules, each glue spraying module comprises a glue sprayer and a visual positioning assembly for positioning the glue application area through a camera.

[0015] Further, the glue spraying station and the working section are further provided with a drying station for accelerating the solidification of the glue.

[0016] Further, the discharge station and the discharging section are connected through a transfer conveying mechanism, the transfer conveying mechanism comprises a transfer flow channel, a pressing assembly moving along the horizontal direction of the transfer flow channel, and a downward pressing assembly arranged perpendicularly to the pressing assembly, the finished product transferred out of the discharge station is placed in the transfer flow channel, the pressing assembly and the downward pressing assembly are moved to press the finished product, and the finished product is pressed in a pressure maintaining state and enters the discharging section.

[0017] Further, the discharging section comprises a plurality of pressure maintaining conveying structures distributed in multiple layers, each pressure maintaining conveying structure comprises a conveying track, a carrier and a pressure maintaining cavity arranged on the carrier for pressing the face paper and the box body, the number of the carriers is multiple, each carrier is provided with a pressure maintaining cavity, and the two ends of the conveying track are respectively provided with elevators for lifting the carriers to enter the upper or lower conveying track.

[0018] Further, the receiving section comprises a finished product receiving station and a jig receiving station, the jig receiving station is arranged at the front end of the finished product receiving station, the jig receiving station receives the jig after the jig is taken out of the finished product through a jig receiving assembly, and the finished product receiving station receives the finished product after the finished product is taken out of the pressure maintaining cavity of the discharging section and the cover is closed.

[0019] Further, the finished product receiving station comprises a cover closing assembly arranged in front and a hopper assembly arranged behind, the cover closing assembly and the hopper assembly are connected in front of and behind through a finished product receiving conveying belt;

[0020] The cover closing assembly comprises a horizontal pushing mechanism, a downward pressing mechanism, a cover closing rubber roller and a pressure maintaining groove. The horizontal pushing mechanism horizontally sets the finished product on the forward feeding and material taking section, and transfers the finished product to the downward pressing mechanism. The downward pressing mechanism is vertically arranged with the horizontal pushing mechanism. The downward pressing mechanism presses the finished product to the downward cover closing conveying belt. The finished product sequentially passes through the cover closing rubber roller to complete the cover closing on the cover closing conveying belt, enters the pressure maintaining groove for pressure maintaining, and is transferred to the finished product collecting conveying belt.

[0021] The material bin assembly comprises a material guiding flow channel, a material pushing cylinder assembly and a material bin. The material guiding flow channel is connected with the finished product collecting conveying belt, and passes the incoming material finished product through the arc-shaped material guiding plate to turn the finished product from the horizontal lying state to the vertical lying state by 90 degrees. The finished product after changing the posture enters the material bin. The material pushing cylinder assembly is arranged on the side of the material bin. The material pushing cylinder assembly reciprocatingly extends and retracts to sequentially push the finished product entering the material bin forward.

[0022] The beneficial effects of the present application are that the cigarette packet forming device of the present application,

[0023] 1. The visual imaging technology is used to draw the glue spraying area on the face paper, so that the glue spraying amount is not too much or too little;

[0024] 2. The glue spraying is used to replace the existing glue rolling. The glue rolling can make the face paper curl and be pasted on the box body, so that the good product rate is extremely low and the new box body is not suitable;

[0025] 3. The formed cigarette packet is placed into the pressure maintaining conveying line after being taken out, so that the formed cigarette packet is prevented from being broken again. After being maintained for 3-5 minutes, the jig is taken out to enter the cover closing process. The finished product is finally completed by the collecting machine to stack, so as to facilitate manual boxing;

[0026] 4. The automatic cigarette packet forming device is used to replace the manual box pasting, so that the production line personnel is greatly reduced and the labor cost is saved;

[0027] 5. The device can be used to regularize the box type, reduce the poor conditions such as material clamping and stagnation in the subsequent cigarette loading process;

[0028] 6. The automatic cigarette packet forming device can improve the good product rate, reduce the generation of poor products and waste resources, and greatly improve the production efficiency.

[0029] In summary, the present application can be applied to the new cigarette packet on the market, and has the characteristics of high automation degree, high good product rate, labor saving and high efficiency. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

[0030] The present application will be further described below in combination with the drawings and examples.

[0031] Figure 1 It is a structural schematic diagram of the present application.

[0032] Figure 2It is the structure schematic view of paper feeding section of the present application.

[0033] Figure 3 It is the structure schematic view of rotary table forming station of the present application.

[0034] Figure 4 It is the structure schematic view of transfer conveying mechanism of the present application.

[0035] Figure 5 It is the structure schematic view of paper feeding section of the present application.

[0036] Figure 6 It is the structure schematic view of lid closing assembly of the present application.

[0037] Figure 7 It is the structure schematic view of hopper assembly of the present application.

[0038] Figure 8 It is Figure 7 The enlarged view of A in the middle.

[0039] Figure 9 It is the structure schematic view of rotary table forming station of the present application Figure 7 The structure schematic view of paper feeding guide plate.

[0040] In the figure: 1. Box body feeding section, 11. Box body conveying belt, 12. Surrounding strip flanging station;

[0041] 2. Paper feeding section, 21. Material taking and issuing station, 22. Glue spraying station, 23. Paper feeding conveying belt, 24. Drying station, 211. Surface paper hopper, 212. Single pendulum arm paper issuing machine, 221. Glue spraying module, 2211. Glue spraying machine, 2212. Visual positioning assembly;

[0042] 3. Working section, 31. Rotary table forming station, 311. Forming station, 312. Surface paper positioning station, 313. Pre-pressing station, 314. Discharging station, 315. Rotary table, 316. Cavity;

[0043] 4. Discharging section, 41. Conveying track, 42. Pressure maintaining cavity, 43. Carrier, 44. Elevator;

[0044] 5. Receiving section, 51. Receiving station, 511. Lid closing assembly, 512. Hopper assembly, 513. Finished product receiving conveying belt, 5111. Flat pushing mechanism, 5112. Lowering mechanism, 5113. Lid closing rubber roller, 5114. Pressure maintaining groove, 5115. Lid closing conveying belt, 5116. Scraper, 5121. Material guiding flow channel, 5122. Pushing cylinder assembly, 5123. Hopper 5123, 5124. Discharging guide plate, 52. Jig receiving station;

[0045] 6. Transfer conveying mechanism, 61. Transfer flow channel, 62. Pressing assembly, 63. Lowering assembly. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0046] The application will now be described in further detail with reference to the drawings and preferred embodiments. These drawings are simplified schematic illustrations of the basic structure of the application and therefore only show the components relevant to the application.

[0047] As Figures 1 to 9 shown in a cigarette packet forming device, comprising a box body feeding section 1, a paper feeding section 2, a working section 3, a discharging section 4 and a material collecting section 5;

[0048] Application No. 2022102437652, Application Date: 20220314, Patent Name: Six-Sided Box Inner Box Forming Device; and Application No. 202210243739X, Application Date: 20220314, Patent Name: Six-Sided Box Inner Box Paper Cover Forming Device; the contents disclosed in the above two applications are the existing devices mentioned in the background technology, and the structure and working principle in the box body feeding section 1 and the working section 3 are not much changed from the existing modification; the paper feeding section 2 changes the existing glue roller gluing method to point gluing or glue spraying, and the discharging section 4 selects a pressure maintaining conveying structure for pressure maintaining conveying.

[0049] Specifically

[0050] The box body feeding section 1 comprises a box body conveying belt 11 connected to the previous device, the box body is wrapped on a jig and conveyed into the working section 3 together with the jig through the box body conveying belt 11 to the surrounding strip edge folding station 12 for gluing the surrounding strip, and the surrounding strip edge folding station 12 is connected to the forming station 311 in the rotary disc forming station 31.

[0051] The paper feeding section 2 comprises a material taking and carding station 21 and a glue spraying station 22 installed in sequence, the material taking and carding station 21 is composed of an inclinedly installed paper cover 211 and a single pendulum arm paper feeder 212, the top end of the paper cover 211 is open for putting the stacked paper cover, the bottom end of the paper cover 211 faces the paper conveying belt 23, the single pendulum arm paper feeder 212 is installed at the top end of the paper conveying belt 23, after the single pendulum arm paper feeder 212 rotates upward to adsorb a paper cover in the paper cover 211, it rotates back to the paper conveying belt 23 to put the adsorbed paper cover on the paper conveying belt 23, in order to ensure the posture of the paper cover on the paper conveying belt 23, an air suction conveying belt is adopted, the book belt in the figure has a plurality of through holes, and the air suction conveying belt has a fan installed below the belt;

[0052] The glue spraying station 22 comprises four glue spraying modules 221 arranged in sequence, each of which comprises a glue spraying machine 2211 and a visual positioning assembly 2212 for positioning the glue application area by a camera; in order to accelerate the glue solidification, an oven station 24 is installed on the paper conveying belt 23 where the glue spraying modules 221 are located, the finished face paper is baked by the oven station 24, and the baked face paper with glue is fed into the face paper positioning station 312 in the rotary disc forming station 31.

[0053] The rotary disc forming station 31 comprises face paper positioning stations 312, pre-pressing stations 313, forming stations 311 and discharge stations 314 arranged in sequence at equal intervals on the circumference, and the discharge stations 314 are connected with the discharging section 4 through the transfer conveying mechanism 6; a rotary disc 315 capable of adjusting the orientation is installed below the face paper positioning stations 312, the pre-pressing stations 313, the forming stations 311 and the discharge stations 314, and four cavities 316 are arranged on the rotary disc.

[0054] The face paper with glue is placed in the cavity 316 below in the face paper positioning station 312; the rotary disc is rotated by 90°, the cavity 316 is transferred to the pre-pressing station 313, the pre-pressing station 313 presses the face paper with glue in the cavity 316 to prevent the face paper from tearing during the final forming; the rotary disc is rotated by 90° again, the cavity 316 is transferred to below the forming station 311, the box body with the surrounding strip is kept in standby in the forming station 311, the forming station 311 presses the box body with the surrounding strip into the cavity 316 to complete the glue application of the face paper of the box body; the rotary disc is rotated by 90° again, the box body (finished product) with the face paper pasted in the cavity 316 is transferred to the discharge station 314 to wait for discharging.

[0055] The finished product in the discharge station 314 is transferred to the transfer flow channel 61 of the transfer conveying mechanism 6 by a grabbing mechanism such as a mechanical hand, the downward pressing assembly 63 vertically installed above the transfer flow channel 61 and the pressing assembly 62 horizontally installed above the transfer flow channel 61 move downward and forward at the same time to press the upper end and the front end of the box body to realize one-time pressure retention, and the transfer flow channel 61 has side edges on both sides and at the rear end, so that the upper, lower, left, right, front and rear six surfaces of the finished product are all pressed in place.

[0056] The discharging section 4 is a long-time (3-5 min) pressure retention conveying line, and the discharging section 4 comprises two layers of pressure retention conveying structures arranged in sequence, each layer of pressure retention conveying structure comprises a conveying track 41 (a shape-changing track), a carrier 43 and a pressure retention cavity 42 arranged on the carrier for pressing the face paper and the box body, the number of carriers 43 is multiple, and each carrier 41 has a pressure retention cavity 42 at the middle position, and the two ends of the conveying track 41 are respectively provided with elevators for lifting the carriers 41 into the upper or lower conveying track 41; the movement is realized through the cooperation of the speed-up chain and the shape-changing track.

[0057] The finished product after the first pressure holding is transferred to the pressure holding cavity 42 by a mechanical hand or other grabbing mechanism for secondary pressure holding.

[0058] The material receiving section 5 includes a finished product receiving station 51 and a jig receiving station 52, the jig receiving station 52 is arranged at the front end of the finished product receiving station 51, the jig receiving station 52 receives the jig from the finished product through the jig receiving assembly, and the finished product receiving station 51 receives the finished product from the pressure holding cavity 42 of the unloading section 4 and receives the finished product after capping.

[0059] The finished product receiving station 51 includes a capping assembly 511 arranged in front and a bin assembly 512 arranged behind, and the capping assembly 511 and the bin assembly 512 are connected front and back by a finished product receiving conveyor belt 513; the capping assembly 511 includes a horizontal pushing mechanism 5111, a downward pressing mechanism 5112, a capping rubber roller 5113 and a pressure holding groove 5114, the horizontal pushing mechanism 5111 is arranged horizontally on the rack, advances to obtain the finished product on the unloading section, and retreats to transfer the finished product to the downward pressing mechanism 5112, the downward pressing mechanism 5112 is installed perpendicular to the horizontal pushing mechanism 5111, the downward pressing mechanism presses the finished product to the lower capping conveyor belt 5115, the capping of the finished product will automatically tilt upward during the pressing process, or the capping is forced to tilt upward by installing a scraper 5116 on the pressing path, the capping of the finished product with an inclined angle is completed after passing through the capping rubber roller 5113, and the finished product after capping is transferred to the finished product receiving conveyor belt 513 after the third pressure holding in the pressure holding groove 5114;

[0060] The bin assembly 512 includes a material guiding flow channel 5121, a material pushing cylinder assembly 5122 and a bin 5123, the material guiding flow channel 5121 is butt jointed with the finished product receiving conveyor belt 513, and the incoming finished product passes through the arc-shaped unloading guide plate 5124, the finished product is turned over by 90° from the horizontal lying state to the vertical lying state, the finished product after changing the posture enters the bin 5123, the material pushing cylinder assembly 5122 is horizontally installed on the side of the bin 5123, and the material pushing cylinder assembly 5122 reciprocatingly extends and retracts to sequentially push the finished product entering the bin 5123 forward to stack, and then the finished product is conveniently manually packed.

[0061] Pressure holding: the means for preventing the face paper from rolling up and separating from the box body by pressing, extruding, limiting and other positioning methods all belong to the means protected by the application.

[0062] The above description is only a specific embodiment of the application, and various examples do not limit the essential content of the application, and those skilled in the art can modify or deform the previously described specific embodiments without departing from the essence and scope of the application after reading the specification.

Claims

1. A carton forming apparatus for cartons of cigarettes, characterised in that: The box body feeding section and the paper feeding section simultaneously feed the box body and the paper to the working section, the working section pastes the paper on the box body and sends the finished product to the discharging section for pressure maintaining delivery, the discharging section is connected with the collecting section, and the collecting section separates the finished product from the jig inside the finished product and collects the finished product and the jig separately; The discharging section comprises a plurality of pressure maintaining delivery structures arranged in multiple layers, each layer of the pressure maintaining delivery structure comprises a delivery track, a carrier and a pressure maintaining cavity arranged on the carrier for compacting the paper and the box body, the number of the carriers is multiple, each carrier is provided with the pressure maintaining cavity, and the two ends of the delivery track are respectively provided with elevators for lifting the carriers into the upper or lower delivery track.

2. The carton forming apparatus of claim 1 wherein: The box body feeding section comprises a box body conveying belt connected with the preceding device, the box body is wrapped on the jig and is conveyed into the working section together with the jig through the box body conveying belt.

3. The carton forming apparatus of claim 1 wherein: The paper feeding section comprises a material taking and issuing station and a glue spraying station arranged in sequence, the stacked paper is separated into single pieces through the material taking and issuing station, is sprayed with glue through the glue spraying station and then enters the working section.

4. A pack forming apparatus as claimed in claim 1, 2 or 3, characterised in that: The working section comprises a surrounding strip edge folding station and a rotary disc forming station, the box body enters the surrounding strip edge folding station for surrounding strip adhesion, the box body with the adhered surrounding strip enters the rotary disc forming station to be pasted with the paper conveyed from the paper feeding section; The rotary disc forming station comprises paper positioning stations, pre-pressing stations, forming stations and discharge stations arranged in the equidistant circumferences, the forming stations are connected with the box body feeding section, the paper positioning stations are connected with the paper feeding section, and the discharge stations are connected with the discharging section; The rotary disc forming station comprises a rotary disc which is rotatable and adjustable in orientation and is arranged below the paper positioning stations, the pre-pressing stations, the forming stations and the discharge stations, the rotary disc is provided with four cavities, and the rotary disc is rotated to drive the cavities to the corresponding stations.

5. The pack forming apparatus of claim 3 wherein: The glue spraying station comprises a plurality of glue spraying modules, each glue spraying module comprises a glue sprayer and a visual positioning assembly for positioning a glue application area through a camera.

6. The packer according to claim 3 or 5, wherein: A drying station for accelerating the solidification of glue is arranged between the glue spraying station and the working section.

7. The pack forming apparatus of claim 4 wherein: The discharge station is connected with the discharging section through a transfer conveying mechanism, the transfer conveying mechanism comprises a transfer flow channel, a compacting assembly moving in the horizontal direction of the transfer flow channel and a downward pressing assembly arranged perpendicularly to the compacting assembly, the finished product transferred out of the discharge station is placed in the transfer flow channel, the compacting assembly and the downward pressing assembly are moved to compact the finished product, and the compacted finished product enters the discharging section in a pressure maintaining state.

8. The pack forming apparatus of claim 1 wherein: The collecting section comprises a finished product collecting station and a jig collecting station, the jig collecting station is arranged at the front end of the finished product collecting station, the jig collecting station collects the jig after the jig is taken out of the finished product through a jig collecting assembly, and the finished product collecting station collects the finished product after the finished product is taken out of the pressure maintaining cavity of the discharging section and is capped.

9. The pack forming apparatus of claim 8 wherein: The finished product collecting station comprises a capping assembly arranged in front and a stock bin assembly arranged behind, the capping assembly and the stock bin assembly are connected in front of and behind through a finished product collecting conveying belt. The cover closing assembly comprises a horizontal pushing mechanism, a downward pressing mechanism, a cover closing rubber roller and a pressure maintaining groove. The horizontal pushing mechanism horizontally sets the finished product on the forward feeding and taking section, and retreats to transfer the finished product to the downward pressing mechanism. The downward pressing mechanism is vertically arranged with the horizontal pushing mechanism. The downward pressing mechanism presses the finished product to the lower cover closing conveying belt. The finished product sequentially passes through the cover closing rubber roller to complete the cover closing on the cover closing conveying belt, enters the pressure maintaining groove for pressure maintaining, and is then transferred to the finished product collecting conveying belt. The stock bin assembly comprises a material guiding flow channel, a material pushing cylinder assembly and a stock bin. The material guiding flow channel is butt-jointed with the finished product collecting conveying belt, and passes the incoming finished product through an arc-shaped downward material guiding plate to turn the finished product from a horizontal lying state to a vertical lying state by 90°. The finished product after changing the posture enters the stock bin. The material pushing cylinder assembly is arranged on the side of the stock bin. The material pushing cylinder assembly reciprocatingly extends and retracts to sequentially push the finished product entering the stock bin forward.

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