Modular Packing Machine Housing for Flexible Transport Elements
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing packaging machines are not adaptable to different product groups and require specific dimensions and transport elements, limiting their flexibility and increasing production costs for small series production.
Innovation Solution
A packaging machine with a modular design that can accommodate various transport elements, such as vertical and horizontal filling turbines, and air transport elements, allowing for easy conversion and flexible use without changing the machine's position, and enabling the use of customer-specific elements.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If packaging machines are designed with specific dimensions and transport elements for different product groups, then filling performance for specific products is optimized, but machine flexibility and adaptability to different product groups deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The housing is designed with universal dimensions and mounting positions that can accommodate different types of transport elements (vertical filling turbine, horizontal filling turbine, air transport element) without requiring machine repositioning. The filling spout position remains constant on the front surface regardless of which transport element is installed, enabling the same machine to handle multiple product groups effectively
2Productivity
If multiple specialized packaging machines are manufactured for different product groups, then filling performance for each product group is optimized, but production costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
A single housing design serves multiple product groups by accommodating different transport elements, eliminating the need to manufacture separate specialized machines for each product group. This reduces production costs while maintaining optimized filling performance through selective transport element installation
Solution Approach 2:
The packaging machine is segmented into a universal housing and interchangeable transport elements. This allows the core housing structure to be manufactured once and reused, while only the transport elements need to be produced in variations for different product groups, significantly reducing overall production costs
3Manufacturing precision
If the filling spout position changes when transport elements are exchanged, then optimal filling for each transport element is achieved, but machine repositioning and setup time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The filling spout is positioned at a fixed location on the front surface of the housing that serves as a universal mounting point for all transport element types. This eliminates the need to reposition the machine when changing transport elements, reducing setup time while maintaining filling precision through proper transport element selection and installation
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AI summary
The invention relates to a packing machine for filling sacks, particularly valve sacks, having a housing on which a filling port is provided on a front surface for filling the sacks. The housing of the packing machine according to the invention is structured to receive different transport organs and has dimensions such that it is suitable for receiving different transport organs. At least one vertical filling turbine, a horizontal filling turbine, and an air transport organ can be optionally used as a transport organ in the housing. In the packing machine according to the invention, the location of the filling port on the front surface of the housing is not changed when exchanging the transport organ, rather, it stays the same, so that despite exchanging the transport organ the position of the packing machine within a filling area does not have to be changed or adjusted.