Format Change Magazine Using One Feed Motor for Multiple Compartments
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing container handling systems, particularly container packing machines, face challenges with complex and costly format change magazines due to numerous drive units, complicated assembly, high maintenance needs, and time-consuming format part changes.
Innovation Solution
A container handling system with a format change magazine that uses fewer magazine feed motors than compartments, allowing for automated format set insertion and ejection, featuring a single magazine feed motor per format change magazine, and a format set carrier with a locking mechanism for easy format changes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Extent of automation
If each compartment of the format change magazine is equipped with its own drive unit with a drive motor, then the format parts can be automatically pulled into and pushed out of each compartment, but the manufacturing cost increases significantly and the system becomes complex to assemble, maintain, and control
Solution Approach 1:
A single magazine feed motor is designed to perform multiple functions by sequentially serving different compartments. The motor acts as a universal drive unit that can pull format parts into any compartment and push them out, replacing the need for dedicated drive units in each compartment. This multi-functional approach maintains full automation capability while significantly reducing the number of motors and control complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
Multiple drive functions that were previously distributed across separate drive units in each compartment are merged into a single magazine feed motor. The motor is positioned to access multiple compartments and perform all insertion and ejection operations, combining what were previously separate functions into one centralized drive mechanism.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple drive motors are used in the format change magazine, then each compartment can be independently controlled, but the manufacturing cost and maintenance requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The single magazine feed motor is designed with universal applicability to control all compartments. By positioning the motor to access multiple compartments and using a standardized interface, the same motor can independently control each compartment as needed, maintaining adaptability while reducing the total number of drive units from multiple to one.
3Productivity
If a format change magazine with multiple drive units is used, then format parts can be quickly exchanged, but the system requires intensive maintenance and is prone to failure
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple drive units are merged into a single magazine feed motor, reducing the number of moving parts, motors, and mechanical interfaces in the system. This consolidation inherently improves reliability by eliminating potential failure points associated with multiple independent drive units while maintaining the capability for quick format changes through the single motor's ability to serve all compartments.
4Manufacturing precision
If each compartment has its own drive motor, then the format parts can be precisely positioned, but the control system becomes complex
Solution Approach 1:
The single magazine feed motor is designed to provide precise positioning control for format parts in all compartments. The control system manages the motor's movements to achieve accurate positioning by controlling when and how the motor pulls parts into and pushes them out of each compartment, maintaining positioning precision while using a simpler single-motor control architecture rather than multiple independent motor controls.
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AI summary
The invention relates to a container treatment system (1) and in particular a container packaging machine with a format change magazine (3) and a method for automatically inserting a format set (2) into a format change magazine (3) at a container treatment system (1).In order to provide a container handling system (1) that is particularly inexpensive to manufacture, particularly easy to assemble, particularly easy to put into operation, and is also easy to maintain and particularly easy to control, it is provided that the container handling system (1), in particular the container packing machine, has a format set (2) adapted to the format of the containers to be treated and in particular to be gripped and packed for operating the container handling system (1), at least one format change magazine (3) with at least two compartments (4) each for receiving a format set (2), and at least one magazine feed motor (5) for automatically feeding in and/or moving out of a format set (2) from the format change magazine (3) during a format change of the containers to be treated, wherein the number of magazine feed motors (5) is less than the number of compartments (4) of the format change magazine (3).