Stretch wrapping machine
First Claim
1. A stretch wrapping machine comprising a carriage for mounting a film roll, a rotation mechanism for producing relative rotation between the carriage and an article to be wrapped, a feed mechanism for displacing the carriage relative to the article, and a controller for controlling a drive for each of the rotation mechanism and the feed mechanism, and arranged to feed a film to the article by providing relative rotation between the film roll-mounted carriage and the article and to wrap the film around the article by displacing the carriage relative to the article,wherein the stretch wrapping machine is equipped with a touch panel input device for setting film wrapping data into the controller and providing digital presentation of the set data and wherein the data set by the touch panel input device relate to the number of rotations of the rotation mechanism, any one of a film overlap amount and a feed rate of the feed mechanism, and a film wrapping tension.
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Abstract
The stretch wrapping machine employs a touch panel input device as input means for setting the film wrapping data into the controller, and the display of the touch panel input device provides digital presentation of the information on set values of the film wrapping data or a machine failure. Wrapping conditions (e.g. feed rate of the feed mechanism, control amount of the feed roller, rotation ratio of the feed roller to a stretch roller) can be automatically computed simply by entering film wrapping data on the number of wraps on the load, the film overlap amount, the film wrapping tension or the film stretch ratio, etc. The film wrapping operation is performed based on the computated conditions. The wrapping machine further comprises a load detection unit for detecting a load which is imposed on a film fed out from the feed roller onto an article. While constantly computing a difference between a measured value of the wrapping tension deriving from the detected value of the load and a set value of the wrapping tension as set by the input means, the number of feed roller rotations is feedback controlled in such a manner as to decrease the difference to zero.
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18 Claims
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1. A stretch wrapping machine comprising a carriage for mounting a film roll, a rotation mechanism for producing relative rotation between the carriage and an article to be wrapped, a feed mechanism for displacing the carriage relative to the article, and a controller for controlling a drive for each of the rotation mechanism and the feed mechanism, and arranged to feed a film to the article by providing relative rotation between the film roll-mounted carriage and the article and to wrap the film around the article by displacing the carriage relative to the article,
wherein the stretch wrapping machine is equipped with a touch panel input device for setting film wrapping data into the controller and providing digital presentation of the set data and wherein the data set by the touch panel input device relate to the number of rotations of the rotation mechanism, any one of a film overlap amount and a feed rate of the feed mechanism, and a film wrapping tension.
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5. A stretch wrapping machine comprising a carriage for mounting a film roll, a rotation mechanism for producing relative rotation between the carriage and an article to be wrapped, a feed mechanism for displacing the carriage relative to the article, and a controller for controlling a drive for each of the rotation mechanism and the feed mechanism, and arranged to feed a film to the article by providing relative rotation between the film roll-mounted carriage and the article and to wrap the film around the article by displacing the carriage relative to the article,
wherein the stretch wrapping machine is equipped with a touch panel input device for setting film wrapping data into the controller and providing digital presentation of the set data, and wherein the touch panel input device has a function of selectively displaying any one of a plurality of screens in response to a touch input, the screens including a setting screen for setting data on the number of rotations of the rotation mechanism, any one of a film overlap amount and a feed rate of the feed mechanism, and a film wrapping tension, an automatic operation screen for indicating a condition of an automatic operation and a manual operation screen for conducting a manual operation.
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6. A stretch wrapping machine comprising a carriage mounted with a feed roller for feeding a film from a film roll, a rotation mechanism for providing relative rotation between the carriage and an article to be wrapped, a feed mechanism for displacing the carriage relative to the article, and a controller for controlling a drive for each of the rotation mechanism, the feed roller and the feed mechanism, and arranged to feed a film to the article by providing relative rotation between the film roll-mounted carriage and the article and to wrap the film around the article by displacing the carriage relative to the article,
wherein the stretch wrapping machine is equipped with an input unit for setting film wrapping data into the controller, and wherein the controller is arranged to compute a feed rate of the feed mechanism by using a set value of the number of rotations of the rotation mechanism and a set value of the film overlap amount as set by the input unit, and to control a drive for the feed mechanism based on the computed feed rate.
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7. A stretch wrapping machine comprising a carriage mounted with a feed roller for feeding a film from a film roll, a rotation mechanism for providing relative rotation between the carriage and an article to be wrapped, a feed mechanism for displacing the carriage relative to the article, and a controller for controlling a drive for each of the rotation mechanism, the feed roller and the feed mechanism, and arranged to feed a film to the article by providing relative rotation between the film roll-mounted carriage and the article and to wrap the film around the article by displacing the carriage relative to the article,
wherein the stretch wrapping machine is equipped with an input unit for setting film wrapping data into the controller, and any one of a tension detection unit for detecting a film wrapping tension and a rotation number detection unit for detecting the number of rotations of the feed roller, and wherein the controller is arranged to compute a control amount of the feed roller by using any one of a value detected by the tension detection unit and a value detected by the rotation number detection unit and also using a set value of the wrapping tension as set by the input unit, and to control a drive for the feed roller based on the computed control amount.
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