Bale Marking Device Window and Shutter Mechanism
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Solution Overview
Problem
Channel balers produce bales with varying dimensions and weights, making it difficult to calculate logistics and transport loads accurately, and existing marking technologies lack precision and safety for applying identifying information.
Innovation Solution
A marking device with a window in the belt guide ensures precise positioning of a labeling carrier, using a locking element to maintain smooth tape guidance and incorporating a shutter element and aperture to prevent laser radiation escape, allowing for precise and safe application of labels with a high-power laser.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If a window is opened in the belt guide for labeling, then labeling precision is improved, but the risk of laser radiation escape increases
Solution Approach 1:
An aperture is introduced as an intermediary element between the laser source and the environment. The aperture allows the laser beam to pass through while being controlled by a shutter mechanism, preventing direct radiation escape while maintaining labeling functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The mechanical shutter element is used to control the aperture opening. By replacing continuous mechanical control with a controlled opening/closing mechanism, the system maintains laser safety while enabling precise labeling when needed.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If the window is closed to prevent laser radiation escape, then safety is improved, but labeling precision deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The window is designed to be dynamic rather than static - it can be opened during labeling operations to enable precise marking, and closed during transport to prevent laser radiation escape. This dynamic control resolves the contradiction between safety and precision.
Solution Approach 2:
The window operates in periodic cycles - opened for labeling, closed for transport. This periodic action allows the system to alternate between requiring precision (labeling phase) and requiring safety (transport phase), resolving the contradiction through time-based separation.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If a locking element is added to close the window, then laser radiation containment is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The locking element is merged with the existing belt guide structure and carrier assembly. By integrating the locking mechanism into the existing components rather than adding separate independent systems, the patent minimizes the increase in device complexity while achieving radiation containment.
Solution Approach 2:
The locking element serves multiple functions: it closes the window to contain laser radiation, maintains the structural integrity of the belt guide, and ensures proper positioning of the labeling carrier. This multi-functionality reduces the need for additional separate components.
4Measurement precision
If the window is opened for labeling, then labeling precision is improved, but tape guidance smoothness deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The window opening is localized to a specific area in the belt guide, and the locking element is positioned to close only this local area. This localized approach minimizes the impact on overall tape guidance smoothness while enabling precise labeling in the window region when needed.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Ensures precise and legible labeling with visually or machine-readable information on bales, enhancing logistics management by providing consistent bale dimensions and weights, while ensuring safety during the labeling process.
Implementation Method 1
a marking device (1) for marking a bale (2) with visually or machine-readable information on properties of the bale
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AI summary
The invention relates to a labeling device for bales (2) produced in a baling press, comprising a belt guide and a labeling carrier that can be guided in the belt guide, as well as a labeling unit, wherein the belt guide has a window (22) for labeling the labeling carrier located in the belt guide.