EP0059873B1 - Dispositif de prélèvement d'imprimés des disques de réception d'un appareil de pliage - Google Patents

Dispositif de prélèvement d'imprimés des disques de réception d'un appareil de pliage Download PDF

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EP0059873B1
EP0059873B1 EP82101350A EP82101350A EP0059873B1 EP 0059873 B1 EP0059873 B1 EP 0059873B1 EP 82101350 A EP82101350 A EP 82101350A EP 82101350 A EP82101350 A EP 82101350A EP 0059873 B1 EP0059873 B1 EP 0059873B1
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Ingo Köbler
Hans-Jürgen Mische
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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
    • B65H29/00—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles
    • B65H29/66—Advancing articles in overlapping streams
    • B65H29/6609—Advancing articles in overlapping streams forming an overlapping stream
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H29/00—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles
    • B65H29/38—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles by movable piling or advancing arms, frames, plates, or like members with which the articles are maintained in face contact
    • B65H29/40—Members rotated about an axis perpendicular to direction of article movement, e.g. star-wheels formed by S-shaped members
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H29/00—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles
    • B65H29/68—Reducing the speed of articles as they advance
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2301/00—Handling processes for sheets or webs
    • B65H2301/40—Type of handling process
    • B65H2301/44—Moving, forwarding, guiding material
    • B65H2301/447—Moving, forwarding, guiding material transferring material between transport devices
    • B65H2301/4473—Belts, endless moving elements on which the material is in surface contact
    • B65H2301/44732—Belts, endless moving elements on which the material is in surface contact transporting articles in overlapping stream
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2301/00—Handling processes for sheets or webs
    • B65H2301/40—Type of handling process
    • B65H2301/44—Moving, forwarding, guiding material
    • B65H2301/447—Moving, forwarding, guiding material transferring material between transport devices
    • B65H2301/44765—Rotary transport devices with compartments
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2404/00—Parts for transporting or guiding the handled material
    • B65H2404/60—Other elements in face contact with handled material
    • B65H2404/65—Other elements in face contact with handled material rotating around an axis parallel to face of material and perpendicular to transport direction, e.g. star wheel
    • B65H2404/657—Means for varying the space between the elements

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  • the invention relates to a device for removing printed copies from the rotating paddle wheels of a folding apparatus which are arranged on an axis and spaced apart from one another, at least one stop wheel being arranged eccentrically with respect to the axis, having a number of stops corresponding to the number of blades on its circumference and in the same Direction of how the paddlewheels can be driven, so that the pressure specimen entering a paddlewheel, due to the lower speed of the stops in comparison to that of the blades, first hits a stop and can then be pushed out of the paddlewheels by a predetermined distance.
  • a device for forming a shingled stream of folded printed products has also become known from German Offenlegungsschrift 28 11 467.
  • This device essentially comprises a chain equipped with grippers, which is guided between two disks of a paddle wheel of a folder. With this device, the printed copies can be forcibly guided out of the paddle wheel and transferred to a conveyor belt arranged below this with a predetermined scale spacing.
  • gentle transfer with a constant scale spacing is difficult since the grippers have to remove the printed copies from the rotating blades.
  • the exact adherence to the desired shingled spacing due to the uncontrolled slipping out of the paddle wheels is practically impossible.
  • the object of the invention is to design a device of the type specified at the outset with a simple device by means of which printed copies can be gently pushed out of the impeller with a precisely definable scale spacing.
  • Figures 1 and 2 show an arrangement consisting of several paddle wheels 1, 1 '.
  • the paddle wheels 1, 1 ' are arranged spaced apart from one another on an axis 2.
  • a stationary disc 3, 3' with respect to the axis 2 is provided.
  • This carries stop wheels 4, 4 ', which have an internal toothing and can be driven with a predetermined transmission ratio by means of external toothed drive gears 5 located on the axis 2.
  • the stop wheels 4, 4 'carry stops 6 in the form of teeth, the distance x of which corresponds to the desired scale spacing.
  • a conveyor belt 7 is shown, on which the printed copies 8 pushed out of the paddle wheels 1, 1' are to be placed with the predetermined scale spacing x.
  • the printed copies entering the blades 9 from a folding device are aligned by the stops 6 due to the eccentric arrangement of the stop wheels 4, 4 'and the lower peripheral speed of the stops 6 in relation to the peripheral speed of the blades 9. Due to the rotation of the paddle wheels 1, 1 'and the stop wheels 4, 4', the printed copies 8 are pushed out of the blades 9 through the stops 6 in the lower region and reach the conveyor belt 7 with a predetermined scale distance x. Since the speed of the conveyor belt 7 is the same the circumferential speed of the stops 6, the scale spacing x predetermined by the stop wheels 4, 4 'is maintained even when the printed copies 8 are transported away by the conveyor belt 7.
  • the direction of rotation of the paddle wheels 1, 1 ', the stop wheels 4, 4' and the conveyor belt 7 is indicated by an arrow.
  • Fig. 1 shows that due to the eccentric arrangement of the stop wheels 4, 4 'based on the paddle wheels 1, 1' and the lower peripheral speed of the stop wheels 4, 4 'compared to the peripheral speed of the blades 9 of the paddle wheels 1, 1' initially one entering a blade 9 Print copy 8 will run onto a stop 6, whereby the print copy 8 is aligned. This alignment is gentle, since there is a comparatively small circumferential speed difference between stop wheels 4, 4 'and paddle wheels 1, 1'.
  • the printed copy aligned with the scale spacing x is pushed out of the paddle wheels 1, 1 'by a stop 6 and placed on the conveyor belt 7 arranged underneath.
  • This transfer of the printed copies 8 to the conveyor belt 7 also takes place without any problems, since, as already mentioned, the speed of the conveyor belt 7 is equal to the peripheral speed of the stop wheels 4, 4 '.
  • FIG. 1 For a better understanding of the mode of operation of the device according to the invention, three printed copies with 8, 8 ', 8 "in different positions are shown by way of example in FIG. 1, the printed copy 8 initially running into the blade 9 and the printed copy 8' in the blade 9 ', is then aligned with a stop 6, after which it is shown how a printed copy 8 "is pulled upward by pulling the blade 9" upward through an assigned stop 6 from the blade wheels 1, 1 'and passed to the conveyor belt 7 located thereunder.
  • FIGS. 1 and 2 show a second embodiment in which the basic structure and the principle of operation of the embodiment according to FIGS. 1 and 2 can be found again.
  • grippers 10 are provided here at the stops. These are controlled by roller levers 11, the rollers 12 of which run on a fixed control cam 13. As can be seen in FIG. 4, the control curve can be generated by appropriate formation of the fixed disk 3.
  • the grippers 14 of the transport device 15 no longer need, as in the case of known devices, to intervene in the paddle wheels 1 'in order to get the printed copy 8 out. Since the printed copies 8 are held by the grippers 10, a lateral arrangement of the transport device 15 is easily possible.

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1. Dispositif pour prélever des exemplaires imprimés (8) sur des roues à palettes (1, 1') rotatives, disposées sur un axe (2), espacées l'une de l'autre, appartenant à un appareil de pliage, au moins une roue à butées (4) étant disposée excentriquement par rapport à l'axe (2), présentant sur sa périphérie un nombre de butées (6) qui correspond au nombre des palettes, et pouvant être entraînée dans le même sens que les roues à palettes (1, 1') de sorte que, en raison de la vitesse des butées (6) plus faible comparativement à celle des palettes (9, 9'), l'exemplaire imprimé (8) pénétrant dans une roue à palettes (1, 1') bute tout d'abord contre une butée (6) et, ensuite, peut être éjectée des roues à palettes (1, 1') par cette butée, avec un espacement (x) prédéterminé, caractérisé en ce qu'il est prévu au moins un disque fixe (3) qui est disposé excentriquement par rapport à l'axe (2) des roues à palettes (1, 1') et entoure cet axe (2), lequel disque (3) porte une roue à butées (4) qui présente les butées (6) à sa périphérie, dont la vitesse circonférentielle est inférieure à celle des roues à palettes (1, 1').
2. Dispositif selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que, à peu près au-dessous des roues à palettes (1), est disposé un dispositif transporteur (7) qui est en mouvement continu, dont la vitesse correspond à la vitesse de transport des butées (6), de sorte que les exemplaires imprimés (8) peuvent être poussés sur le dispositif transporteur (7) par les butées (6) avec formation d'un flux en écailles avec un espacement (x).
3. Dispositif selon les revendications 1 et 2, caractérisé en ce que la roue à butées (4) peut être entraînée avec un rapport de transmission prédéterminé par une roue dentée d'entraînement (5) qui est montée sur l'axe (2) des roues à palettes (1, 1').
4. Dispositif selon la revendication 3, caractérisé en ce que la roue à butées (4) présente une denture intérieure et la roue d'entraînement (5) une denture extérieure.
5. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que le dispositif transporteur (7) est une chaîne transporteuse.
6. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce qu'à chaque roue à palettes (1, 1') est associée une roue à butées (4, 4').
7. Dispositif selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que, sur les butées (6), sont agencées des pinces commandées (10) qui, lorsque les exemplaires imprimés (8) sont venus buter contre les butées (6), bloquent le bord avant de ces exemplaires.
8. Dispositif selon la revendication 7, caractérisé en ce que les pinces (10) doivent être commandées par des leviers à galet (11) qui peuvent pivoter sous l'action de galets (12) qui roulent sur une came de commande fixe (13).
9. Dispositif selon la revendication 7 ou 8, caractérisé en ce que les exemplaires imprimés (8) retenus par les pinces (10) peuvent être transférés aux pinces (14) d'un dispositif transporteur (15).
EP82101350A 1981-03-07 1982-02-23 Dispositif de prélèvement d'imprimés des disques de réception d'un appareil de pliage Expired EP0059873B1 (fr)

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DE19813108681 DE3108681A1 (de) 1981-03-07 1981-03-07 "einrichtung zur entnahme von druckexemplaren aus den schaufelraedern eines falzapparates"
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