Transport Wheel Thread Channel Pneumatic Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Handling threads within the transport wheel of a machine for producing bags filled with brewable material is challenging due to the high speed and numerous clamps, edges, and joints, which can cause thread entanglement and misalignment.
Innovation Solution
A device with a transport wheel featuring thread channels connected to vacuum and overpressure sources, allowing the thread to be temporarily accommodated and controlled within the thread channel, ensuring safe handling and connection to the bag and label.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If the transport wheel rotates at high speed to achieve high productivity, then productivity is improved, but thread entanglement and misalignment occur due to numerous clamps, edges, and joints
Solution Approach 1:
The thread is extracted from the general handling environment and placed into a dedicated thread channel. This channel is connected to vacuum and overpressure sources, creating a controlled micro-environment that isolates the thread from clamps, edges, and joints on the transport wheel, thereby preventing entanglement while maintaining high-speed operation
Solution Approach 2:
The thread channel acts as an intermediary between the thread and the external environment. By using vacuum and overpressure as mediating forces, the system can control thread position and movement without direct mechanical contact, eliminating the problem of thread catching on mechanical components during high-speed rotation
2Device complexity
If the thread is handled manually or with simple mechanisms, then device complexity is reduced, but thread entanglement and misalignment occur
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs pneumatic principles by connecting the thread channel to vacuum and overpressure sources. This allows for reliable thread control through air pressure differential, providing a sophisticated yet relatively simple mechanism that prevents entanglement without requiring complex mechanical guides or clamps
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The solution effectively prevents thread entanglement and misalignment by using controlled pressure to manage the thread within the thread channel, ensuring smooth operation and efficient packaging.
Implementation Method 1
thread channels (208) which can be connected to a vacuum source and an overpressure source
Implementation Method 2
thread channels (208) which can be connected to a vacuum source and an overpressure source
Data Source
AI summary
The present invention relates to a device for transporting ready-cut and filled hose pieces within a machine for producing bags filled with brewable material, having at least one transport wheel which includes, distributed over its circumference, a plurality of holders each holding the bag, wherein an insertion station in which one of said hose pieces is inserted into said holder in a radial direction to form a bag with at least one chamber between a head and a bottom of said bag, a label feeding station in which a label is fed to said head, a connecting station, in which a thread is connected to the label and/or the bag, and a removing station, in which the bag is removed from the transport wheel, are provided distributed in the circumferential direction around the transport wheel.