Packaging Apparatus Partitioning Drive and Operating Means

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing packaging apparatuses for pasty food products face challenges in hygiene and accessibility due to difficult access to machine parts and hidden working areas, making sanitation and monitoring inefficient.

Innovation Solution

A packaging apparatus with a mounting frame that separates operating means from drive means using partition means, allowing easy access and sanitation, and featuring a rotatable feed system for wrapper parts with tear tape and label placement mechanisms for efficient packaging.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If operating means and drive means are integrated in prior art apparatus, then device complexity is reduced, but accessibility to machine parts deteriorates and sanitation becomes difficult

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaccessibility to operating partsVSAvoidmachine structure

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The apparatus is divided into two distinct sides by a partition wall: one side houses the operating means while the other side houses the drive means. This segmentation allows operators to easily access and monitor operating parts without interference from drive mechanisms, while maintaining complete functional integration through the partitioned structure.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

2Area of stationary object

If working areas are hidden or screened from each other in prior art machines, then compactness is improved, but monitoring capability deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemachine footprintVSAvoidmonitoring of machine parts

Core Design Contradiction:

Area of stationary objectVSDifficulty of detecting and measuring

Solution Approach 1:

Instead of arranging working areas in a way that hides them from each other, the partition wall creates distinct spatial zones that are both compact and fully visible. The partition extends vertically to separate operating and drive means while allowing operators to monitor all operating parts from their position, achieving both compactness and monitoring capability through three-dimensional spatial organization.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

3Ease of repair

If drive elements are accessible to personnel in prior art apparatus, then ease of maintenance is improved, but packaging hygiene deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaccessibility to drive partsVSAvoidhygiene of packaged product

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of repairVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The drive means are extracted and placed on the opposite side of the partition wall from the operating means and product handling areas. This extraction ensures that personnel responsible for product hygiene never need to access drive elements, eliminating the risk of contamination while maintaining ease of maintenance through separate access to drive parts.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentEP2086843B1Apparatus for packaging a product

Publication Date: 2013.02.06 CORAZZA

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AI summary

An apparatus (10) for packaging pasty food products such as processed choose, stock cubes, butter, margarine and the like, by wrapping in a suitable wrapper comprises a mounting frame (12), apparatus operating means, and means for driving said operating means. The mounting frame (12) comprises partition means (120) which extend lengthways along the apparatus in the direction in which the packages being formed are fed, and which separate the operating means from the respective drive means.