Rotary Wrapping Platform With Separate Reel for Lightweight Packaging
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing packing equipment is bulky, heavy, unstable, and costly, requiring large actuators and energy sources, posing safety risks and inefficiencies in wrapping objects.
Innovation Solution
The packing equipment features a compact design with a support structure housing a reel, a guiding member, and deflection means that allow the tape to unwind directly towards the object, minimizing the need for bulky and heavy components, and uses synchronized actuation to wrap objects efficiently.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional packing equipment uses a heavy packing unit with large reel, then the equipment can handle the wrapping function, but the equipment becomes bulky, heavy, and unstable
Solution Approach 1:
The invention separates the reel from the packing unit, creating an independent reel support structure. This segmentation allows the packing unit to be lightweight and maneuverable while the reel remains stationary and supported separately, resolving the contradiction between functional reliability and equipment weight.
Solution Approach 2:
The reel is extracted from the packing unit and placed on a separate support structure. This extraction eliminates the need for the packing unit to carry the heavy reel, significantly reducing the weight and bulk of the moving packing unit while maintaining the wrapping function through the flexible film tape supply system.
2Ease of operation
If traditional equipment uses large actuators to move the heavy packing unit, then the wrapping operation can be performed, but the equipment complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The reel is extracted from the moving packing unit and placed on a stationary support structure. This eliminates the need for large actuators to move the reel and packing unit together, simplifying the actuator system to only need to move the lightweight packing unit and flexible film tape, thereby reducing equipment complexity and cost.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention introduces a flexible film tape that can dynamically supply wrapping material from the stationary reel to the moving packing unit. This dynamic flexible connection replaces the need for complex mechanical coupling and large actuators, simplifying the overall system while maintaining operational capability.
3Productivity
If traditional equipment moves the packing unit up and down the guiding member, then multiple layers can be wrapped, but the energy consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The flexible film tape provides a dynamic, lightweight connection between the stationary reel and the moving packing unit. This flexible connection significantly reduces the mass that needs to be accelerated and decelerated during vertical movement along the guiding member, thereby reducing energy consumption while maintaining multi-layer wrapping productivity.
Solution Approach 2:
By separating the reel from the packing unit, the invention allows the packing unit to be much lighter. This segmentation enables easier and more energy-efficient vertical movement along the guiding member while the stationary reel continuously supplies film tape for multiple wrapping layers, maintaining productivity with reduced energy input.
4Reliability
If traditional equipment uses a bulky packing unit design, then the reel can be supported, but the equipment becomes difficult to maneuver and poses safety risks
Solution Approach 1:
The invention segments the system into a stationary reel support structure and a separate moving packing unit. This segmentation allows the reel to be properly supported and stabilized in a fixed position while the packing unit becomes lightweight and easy to maneuver around the object being wrapped, eliminating safety risks associated with heavy moving equipment.
Solution Approach 2:
The reel is extracted from the moving packing unit and placed on a dedicated stationary support structure. This extraction makes the packing unit much lighter and more maneuverable, allowing operators to easily position it around objects of various sizes without the safety hazards of handling heavy bulky equipment.
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AI summary
A method for packing objects, comprising at least the operational steps: arrangement of one or more objects (100) on a platform (4) of packing equipment (10); arrangement of at least one reel (3) of tape (11) of packing material, with at least one free edge mechanically connected to said one or more objects (100) to be packed; wherein said tape (11) of packing material engages deflection means (6) configured to deflect the tape (11) of packing material from an unwinding direction (M) to an exit direction (N) so that said tape (11) faces said one or more objects (100) to be packed; rotation of said platform (4) around a substantially vertical axis of rotation Y, wherein said tape (11) deflected by said deflection means (6) is wrapped around said one or more objects (100).