EP0005042A1 - Récepteur à casiers pour une machine de triage continu - Google Patents

Récepteur à casiers pour une machine de triage continu Download PDF

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EP0005042A1
EP0005042A1 EP79300626A EP79300626A EP0005042A1 EP 0005042 A1 EP0005042 A1 EP 0005042A1 EP 79300626 A EP79300626 A EP 79300626A EP 79300626 A EP79300626 A EP 79300626A EP 0005042 A1 EP0005042 A1 EP 0005042A1
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receiver
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Ronald W. Greene
Anthony C. Clarkson
David H. Holliday
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ORDIBEL Inc
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H39/00—Associating, collating, or gathering articles or webs
    • B65H39/10—Associating articles from a single source, to form, e.g. a writing-pad
    • B65H39/11—Associating articles from a single source, to form, e.g. a writing-pad in superposed carriers

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  • This invention relates to sheet distributing or sorting devices and more particularly to a receiver apparatus which can continuously receive and sort large numbers of multi-paged documents as copies of a page proceed from a reproducing device such as a printer or copy making machine.
  • a reproducing device such as a printer or copy making machine.
  • This application references copending European Patent Application No: 7 9 3 00624.3 filed on evendate herewith for "Continuous Paper Sorting Machine: and corresponding to U.S. Patent Application Serial No: 897 272 filed 17th April 1978.
  • a continuous paper sorting machine in which the receiver with the bin is designed generally in accordance with the teachings of U. S. Patent No. 3,938,801 which describes side-by-side stacks of inclined columns of paper receiving bins or shelves.
  • the receiver is moved laterally with respect to a generally upright feeding device, in which the feeder presents a generally vertical feed conveyor with deflectors and guides for intercepting sheets moving up or down the conveyor and directing them into bins in the receiver as the receiver moves a given bin in a column past a given deflector.
  • the receiver is constructed in two column modules and moves on casters along a track assembly,
  • a chain drive mechanism has means for being releasably engaged by a fork on the receiver base.
  • the chain is precisely controlled to present a particular bin address to a deflector at a given instant in time.
  • Several modular receivers may be detachably engaged to each other so that as many as 600 bin addresses may be utilized.
  • the bins are generally horizontal at their entrance end but tilt or slant to one side in order to aid the alignment of paper sheets into neat stacks as the sheets are fed into the bin.
  • a paper sorting machine feeder device which is continuous and uniquely designed and intended for maximizing the production of a commercial printing, reproducing, duplicating or copying center.
  • the invention is particularly intended to reduce and to minimize the amount of time that a reproduction, printing or copying device loses other than that time which must be sacrificed to replacing masters in the press, duplicator or copy machine. Because of the unique receiver concept in conjunction with its unique feeder there is no necessity to stop the sorting of paper copies from column to column.
  • the machine can continue to sort as the receiver moves in either direction on its track.
  • a filled receiver can be easily disengaged from the driving means and rolled off the track assembly and an empty receiver moved onto the track and engaged and the feeder mechanism restarted.
  • the receiver can be unloaded off line.
  • the invention is particularly suited for use in printing shops or reproduction centers for such things as multi-page brochures, catalogs, books and other items which must be produced in large numbers.
  • the machine is capable of receiving sheets at the high speeds of present day advanced copying, printing and duplicating machinery.
  • the apparatus is uniquely simple and inexpensive for continuously filling a large number of bins.
  • the receiver mechanism of this invention is in position to receive paper copies from a duplicator or press device generally designated by the number 12 by way of a feeder mechanism generally designated by the number 14.
  • the receiver 10 moves laterally on a track structure 16 in close proximity to the feeder.
  • Feeder 14 includes infeed conveyor section 18, a proof tray assembly 20 and a control panel 22.
  • the infeed conveyor directs paper copies either to an upwardly angled intermediate conveyor 24 or a downwardly angled intermediate conveyor 26.
  • a tower section generally designated by the number 28 supports a vertically disposed reversible feeder conveyor, bin deflectors and guides described in detail in our copending European Patent Application No: 79300625.5 for "Feeding Mechanism for a Continuous Sorting Machine" which corresponds to U.S. Patent Application Serial No: 897,274 filed 17th April 1978.
  • the tower section 28 is supported on a base section 30 shown in generally outlined form in Figure 1.
  • the receiver 19 is comprised of a base section 40 having a bottom wall 41, and castors 4-2 and 46 with the castors 46 being located under the extension section 4-4 of the base 4-0.
  • Upwardly extending side frame members 48 and 50 are interconnected at their upper end by frame top section 52.
  • a centre frame piece 53 divides the receiver into two angled columnar spaces 54 and 56.
  • the columnar spaces 54 and 56 include individual shelves or bins 140 which will be described more in detail hereinafter.
  • the generally upstanding receiver structure has an entrance side 60 and an unloading or exit side 62.
  • the frame is generally vertical in the plane of its entrance and exit sides and inclines at a predetermined angle in the direction of its movement.
  • actuator rod 66 Extending across the depth of the machine from the entrance to the unloading side, as best seen in Figures 4 and 6, is an actuator rod 66 which is spaced just above bottom wall 41 and which rod 66 is supported by bearing 68 at one end and bearing 70 on the exit side of the machine.
  • R od 66 can be seen to extend through the base wall 40 Lo the exit side and on the outside is provided with a handle 72, which extends generally upwardly for easy access by the operator.
  • a spring latch member 80 is supported at its anchor end 82 by wall 41.
  • the spring latch member has a generally horizontal section 84 which extends under rod 66 and towards that end of the base away from extension platform 44.
  • An opening 86 is provided in base wall 41 to receive a coupler section 88 formed in the other end of the spring latch 80 with the latch 80 also having an angled end ramp 89.
  • spring latch 80 with the coupler section 88 is in its up position so that if a second modular unit 10 is being used the two units will be latched together.
  • By pushing the second unit against the first the platform 44 slides under the first unit and rides against ramp 89 to pull the latch down and engage the two receiver modules together.
  • An opening is located in extension section 44 of each module which will slide under the opposite end of the base and will register with the opening 86.
  • Rod 66 is provided with a flat which coincides with the latch when the modules are engaged.
  • the flat on rod 66 moves out of registry and acts as a cam to force the latch down thus disengaging the receiver modules from each other.
  • the handle 72 is moved according to the direction which it is desired to roll the receiver. If an empty receiver is being rolled onto the track section, the handle will be moved in one direction so as to present the forks 74 at an rppropriate angle. If it is desired to roll the receiver off after it is filled, then the handle 72 is moved in the opposite direction to permit forks 74 to release from the chain mechanism.
  • the track section 16 includes a floor wall 100 with upstanding side channel 100 on the entrance side and upstanding channel 102 on the exit side. Supported on the floor wall 100 of the track section 16 are caster guide walls 104 for casters 42 and 46 and track guide walls 106 near side rail 102 for receiver the other casters 42, 46.
  • the guide rails 104 and 106 can be Been in Figure 3 to be spread slightly at the incoming end of the track to facilitate rolling an empty unit onto the track.
  • a drive motor 110 which through drive chain 112 turns a reduction gear which in turn drives a main chain pulley 114.
  • An idler chain pulley 116 is located at the other end of the track section so that a continuous drive chain 118 extends around the chain pulleys 114 and 116.
  • a transverse arm member 120 Secured to the chain as can be seen in Figures 4, 5 and 6, is a transverse arm member 120 which is mounted on the chain such that it extends out on either side to be engaged by forks 74.
  • the bar is moved to the upright position to firmly secure the receiver to the chain.
  • the controls will then by appropriate energizing signals to motor 110 position the receiver with respect to the feeder 14 to present a particular bin address such as bin number 1 in proper position for beginning a sorting operation.
  • the bins have a generally upstanding entrance wall 142 which has an upper edge 144 which as can be seen is spaced a predetermined distance below the bin next above.
  • the deflector guides 146 are part of the feeder and are in approximately the position shown in Figure 9, when the sorter is in operation.
  • the entrance wall 142 is angled as at 148 and 150 to facilitate the entrance of sheets of paper which will be entering a bin either from above or from below depending upon whether the feeder is sending sheets over the top or around the bottom.
  • the bins 140 have main support wall or shelf portion 152 which also can best be seen in Figure 7 to have a center cut-away portion 154 which extends from the exit or unloading end 156 generally centrally thereof to an inner end 158 which as can be seen is a slightly more than half-way toward the entrance end of the bin.
  • the bins 140 are formed such that the shelf portion 152 is generally horizontal across the front.
  • a line 160 Extending diagonally from one side of the front to the opposite side at the unloading end is a line 160 which places the approximate other half of the shelf portion 152 at a slight downward angle to assist in moving paper into lined stacks in the bin.
  • a side wall 162 is formed along the high side of the bin and on the opposite side is wall 164 along that side of the bin having the angled down section.
  • At the top and bottom of the sorter frame structure are two support rods 170, only one of which is shown in Figure 7, which support releasable slide pieces 172.
  • a belt member 174 attaches to the pieces 172 and extends through the cut-out portion of the stack of bins to arrest the motion of the sheets of paper after they enter the bins.
  • the belt 174 is not a jogging device since the slanting of the bin shelves is the primary factor in the alignment of the sheets of paper into neat stacks.
  • Figure 10 indicates diagrammatically more detail about the arrangement of the bins.
  • the bins are arranged so that the bin next below the bin next above is spaced laterally a specified amount as for instance .3 0 or .242 inches depending upon the width of the bins in the particular receiver being used.
  • the increment of distance by which the bins are laterally offset from each other is consistent down the entire length of the column from B1 to B50.
  • the top bin B51 in the second column is spaced the same amount of distance laterally from B50 as the rest of the bins are from each other.
  • the controls are set to index the motor or movement of the chain to present a particular bin dress from Bl through B100 to a delivery position adjacent the feeder 14.
  • a first or page "1" master is inserted in the press or duplicator.
  • Several copies are first directed to the proof tray 20 and then the sorting job begins. Odd numbered pages coming out of the press are directed to lower intermediate conveyor 26 and up the feeder conveyor to the top bin. Sheets will be fed up the conveyor and deflected to the desired bin address by a deflector and the lower surface of a Y-shaped deflector.
  • the receiver moves a discrete distance from left to right and presents the next bin address until all 50 bins in a column have been filled. If the sorting job extends to the next column copies continue to be fed to the feeder conveyor via lower intermediate conveyor 26 and up the feeder conveyor to the topmost bin in the second column.
  • the topmost bin of the second column is offset from the lowermost bin of the first column by the same increment of distance as the bins are offset from each other in each column. Assuming that two complete columns of bins are being used for a sorting job, the feeder continue to feed around the lower intermediate conveyor until all fifty bins in the second column are filled. By the time the bottom-most bin in the second column has received its copy of page 1 from the press, copies of the page 2 master are already proceeding up the upper intermediate conveyor 24. The feeder conveyor belts are reversed to bring the first sheet from the top to the bottom of the feeder conveyor and filling of the bins with copies of page 2 begins with the lowest bin in column 2 where the first page sorting job ended. Thus the feeding of bins is continuous not only from bin to bin but from column to column.
  • odd numbered pages from the duplicator are fed from the bottom up while the receiver indexes from left to right and even numbered pages are fed from the top down while the receiver moves from right to left.
  • two adjacent deflectors are needed for a single bin address. When coming down the conveyor sheets are deflected by the top one of two adjacent deflectors and directed against the top surface of a deflector guide and into the bin opening. When.coming from the bottom the sheet is deflected by the lower one of two adjacent deflectors and off the lower surface of a deflector into the same bin address. Thus the need for one more deflector than there are bins or guides.

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