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Definitions

• the invention relates to a method according to the preamble of claim 1 and to a packaging or pallet unit according to the preamble patent claim 10.
• pallet units consisting essentially of a transport and / or storage pallet usual training (hereinafter pallet simplified), arranged on a pallet pallet on this pallet and a product stack, which by using a suitable device, for example using a palletizing robot or a machine or workstation having such a robot is machined on top of a bottom plate of the pallet tray by stacking a plurality of product units.
• a suitable device for example using a palletizing robot or a machine or workstation having such a robot is machined on top of a bottom plate of the pallet tray by stacking a plurality of product units.
• Product units are for the purposes of the invention, for example, filled with a product larger packaging or containers with several each combined into a single unit packaging, for example. in the form of bottles, cans, containers, soft packs, bags etc.
• Parallel tray is therefore understood in the context of the invention generally an element which is made of a single or multi-layer flat material, in particular cardboard or cardboard, also corrugated cardboard, with a base plate for resting on the respective pallet and with a via the top of the bottom plate protruding edge.
• pallet trays are formed with an edge, which is made in one piece with the bottom plate and whose height is significantly smaller than the total height of the product stack, ie usually smaller than the height of the bottom layer this product stack.
• pallet units are desired in which, inter alia, to secure the product stack on the pallet, and also to ensure the cohesion of the product stack, the pallet tray as outer packaging with an edge in the form of a jacket enclosing the product stack over its entire height or substantially over its entire height (Peripheral wall) is formed, but with the usual procedures and using the usual and existing facilities, the mechanical creation of such pallet units is not readily possible.
• substantially in the sense of the invention generally means deviations from the respective exact value by +/- 10%.
• the object of the invention is to provide a method which enables a rational creation of pallet units with pallet trays designed as outer packaging. To solve this problem, a method according to the patent claim 1 is formed.
• a pallet unit is the subject of patent claim 10.
• the method according to the invention makes it possible to machine pallet units using equipment, for example by using high-performance palletizing robots, in particular also using equipment and installations such as are also used to create pallet units in which the edge the pallet trays has only one compared to the product stack much smaller height.
• Base plate and jacket are made of the single or multilayer flat material, in particular of cardboard or cardboard, also corrugated board.
• the jacket consists of at least one wall element, which is already formed or connected to the closed cover during placement on the product stack and on the bottom plate or is connected to the closed jacket after placement. Or else the jacket consists of at least two wall elements, which are connected to each other after placing on the product stack and on the bottom plate to the closed shell, for example by gluing, stapling or other suitable manner.
• the respective jacket or its wall elements are preferably kept ready during the mechanical formation of the product stack outside the working and / or movement space of the used palletizing device, for example palletizing robots, at a distance from the pallet and the product stack.
• the palletizing position that is, where the building of the product stack takes place, there is thus no additional space requirement for receiving and accommodating the shell or the wall elements forming it.
• FIG. 1 shows a simplified representation of a pallet together with a product stack arranged on this pallet within a pallet tray in the form of an outer packaging
• Fig. 4 - 8 respectively in a perspective view of the pallet together with the elements of the outer packaging in different embodiments of the invention.
• 1 is a substantially made of wood transport and / or storage pallet or conventional training, as they u.a. used for the transport, storage, consumption, sale etc. of products.
• a product stack 3 is arranged within an outer packaging 2, which consists of a plurality of product units 4.
• the outer package 2 which is produced at least essentially exclusively from the single-layer or multi-layer flat material, in particular from cardboard or corrugated cardboard, has a multipart design and consists of a base plate 5 which rests on the upper side of the pallet 1 and the shape of the upper side of the pallet 1 is formed in accordance with plan substantially rectangular in plan view.
• On the pallet 1 facing away from the top of the bottom plate 5 is the product stack 3.
• the outer package 2 further consists of a peripheral wall or of a jacket 6, which is an independent, ie manufactured independently of the bottom plate 5 element and is flush or substantially flush with the peripheral sides of the pallet 1 extending and accordingly four perpendicular contiguous wall sections has, which are each oriented with their surface sides perpendicular to the plane of the bottom plate 5.
• the height of the jacket 6 is equal to the height of the product stack 3, so that it is covered on the circumference over its entire height by the jacket 6 of the outer package 2.
• the outer package 2 is open.
• At least one wall portion of the shell 6 is formed so that the shell 6 is opened there along the line indicated in Figure 1 with 6.1 can be, for example, characterized in that the wall section in question is provided with a perforation following the line 6.1 and / or with at least one ripcord, which allows opening along the line 6.1 by pulling or tearing.
• FIG. 2 shows a blank 8 made of the flat material for the base plate 5.
• the substantially rectangular blank 8 is designed such that it extends through notches 9 in the corner areas and between these notches parallel to the peripheral sides of the blank 8 Folds 10 on the circumference four narrow blank sections 8.1 - 8.4 forms, which form a fold over the respective fold 10 a over the top of the bottom plate 5 projecting flat bottom plate edge 5.1.
• the blank 8 is provided with a plurality of separating cuts 11, each extending from the fold 10 into a blank section 8.1 - 8.4 and then ending again in the fold 10. Due to these separating cuts 11, when the blank sections 8.1 - 8.4 are raised on the circumference of the base plate 5 over the outer surface of the bottom plate edge 5.1, protruding lugs or attachment lugs 12 are obtained.
• the jacket 6 can be realized in many different ways.
• it consists of two angular wall elements 13 which supplement each other with the jacket 6, each of which has a longitudinal side with a wall element section 13.1 and a wall section element 13.2 with a wall section element 13.2 Narrow side of the shell 6 forms.
• About angled tabs or wall element sections 13.3, the wall elements 13 in a suitable manner, for example by gluing, stapling, etc. to the jacket 6 connected to each other, which is arranged with its open bottom on the bottom plate 5 such that it surrounds the bottom plate edge 5.1 with its lower edge and gets up on the local support tabs 12.
• the jacket formed by the wall elements 13, for example, by gluing or otherwise connected to the bottom plate edge 5.1.
• the jacket 6 consists of a single wall element 14, which forms the four mutually perpendicular wall element sections 14.1 - 14.4.
• the two wall element sections 14.1 and 14.4 are then connected to one another in a suitable manner, for example via a tab 14.5 by gluing or in another suitable manner to the closed jacket 6.
• FIG. 6 shows an embodiment in which the jacket 6 is formed by two wall elements 15 and 16, of which the wall element 15 has three wall element sections 15.1 - 15.3, which are produced by folding and in each case form one side of the jacket 6.
• the wall element 16 connected in a suitable manner, for example by using the tabs 16.1 by gluing and / or stapling with the wall element sections 15.1 and 15.3, forms the fourth side of the shell 6.
• FIG. 7 shows an embodiment in which the jacket 6 is formed by a single wall element 17 with four wall element sections forming one another and forming one side of the shell.
• FIG. 8 shows an embodiment in which the shell 6 is formed by a single wall element 17 with four wall element sections forming one side of the shell, wherein the shell 6 additionally rejects another section forming a cover (18) , which allows a complete wrapping of the product stack.
• the preparation of the pallet unit 7 takes place despite the different embodiments of the outer package 2 and the shell 6 generally in the form that after placing the bottom plate 5 on a pallet 1 on the bottom plate 5, the product stack 3 is completely formed, namely under machine Use of a corresponding device or plant, for example, using a high-performance palletizing robot.
• the shaping of the product stack 3 can take place with a small space requirement, since an additional space around the respective pallet 1 for receiving wall elements of the outer packaging 2, in particular also of flat or obliquely arranged wall elements until the final completion of the product stack 3 is not required, Rather, the wall elements are kept ready at a distance from the pallet 1 and the product stack 3, and in particular also outside the working and / or moving space of the device for machine stacking or palletizing.
• the machine formation itself is the bottom layer of the product stack 3 even with the bottom plate edge 5.1 already raised not significantly impeded.
• the wall elements 13 - 16 can be applied laterally to the peripheral region of the product stack 3 and then joined together to form the jacket 6. Furthermore, the wall elements 13 - 17 can also be connected to the bottom plate edge 5.1. In the embodiment of Figure 7, the wall element 17 is pushed from above onto the product stack.
• Figures 3-6 make it possible to withdraw the material for the wall elements 13-16 each as a continuous material from a supply or a roll and to shape only immediately before mounting in the required manner.
• all embodiments have the advantage that the product stack 3 can be formed by machine without obstruction by the outer packaging 2, namely using such facilities or facilities that already provided in an operation for the production of product stacks on pallets conventional form without the outer packaging 2 are.
• the possibility of using already existing facilities or systems results in considerable savings in investment costs.
• Another essential advantage of the invention is the basic decoupling of palletizing, ie of the formation of the product stack 3 and the bi-fertil the outer packaging 2.
• pallet units without outer packaging 2 and without bottom plate 5 or pallet units with Pallet trays with low edge for example, with the bottom plates used as pallet trays 5 or the pallet units 7 are formed with the reaching to the top of the product stack 3 outer package 2.
• the jacket 6 or the wall elements forming this shell on site ie in the creation of the outer package 2 or immediately before to print, for example by inkjet printers, etc.

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