EP0090706B1 - Machine de compostage automatisée et unité de compostage pour une telle machine - Google Patents

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EP0090706B1
EP0090706B1 EP83400551A EP83400551A EP0090706B1 EP 0090706 B1 EP0090706 B1 EP 0090706B1 EP 83400551 A EP83400551 A EP 83400551A EP 83400551 A EP83400551 A EP 83400551A EP 0090706 B1 EP0090706 B1 EP 0090706B1
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Henri Valentin Jean Jonca
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41F—PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES
    • B41F17/00—Printing apparatus or machines of special types or for particular purposes, not otherwise provided for
    • B41F17/008—Numbering devices for printing on articles other than sheets or webs
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41F—PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES
    • B41F33/00—Indicating, counting, warning, control or safety devices
    • B41F33/009—Devices for controlling numbering
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41K—STAMPS; STAMPING OR NUMBERING APPARATUS OR DEVICES
    • B41K3/00—Apparatus for stamping articles having integral means for supporting the articles to be stamped
    • B41K3/02—Apparatus for stamping articles having integral means for supporting the articles to be stamped with stamping surface located above article-supporting surface
    • B41K3/04—Apparatus for stamping articles having integral means for supporting the articles to be stamped with stamping surface located above article-supporting surface and movable at right angles to the surface to be stamped
    • B41K3/10—Apparatus for stamping articles having integral means for supporting the articles to be stamped with stamping surface located above article-supporting surface and movable at right angles to the surface to be stamped having automatic means for changing type-characters, e.g. numbering devices
    • B41K3/102—Numbering devices

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  • the present invention relates to an automated composting machine allowing the printing of an identification code on any medium, and in particular on mechanical parts or electric cables.
  • patent US Pat. No. 3,572,239 describes a composting machine provided with a printing head comprising a plurality of coaxial rotary rollers, arranged side by side and provided with printing characters, and a control wheel.
  • said knurls having its axis parallel to that of the latter and being able, on the one hand, to move parallel to the axis of said knurls to come into contact or engagement with any one of said knurls chosen from among the others and, on the other hand, rotate around its axis in order to be able to drive said selected wheel in rotation and bring the desired character of the latter to the printing position.
  • Composting machines are also known which allow automated composting.
  • US Pat. No. 3,868,638 describes a machine, managed by a computer and comprising, on the one hand, a rotary printing drum carrying a plurality of characters arranged according to the generatrices and the parallels of said drum and, on the other hand, a plurality of juxtaposed printing hammers defining a printing line.
  • a machine managed by a computer and comprising, on the one hand, a rotary printing drum carrying a plurality of characters arranged according to the generatrices and the parallels of said drum and, on the other hand, a plurality of juxtaposed printing hammers defining a printing line.
  • Such a machine has the disadvantage of being mechanically complicated and heavy.
  • it requires the use of comparators to determine the characters to be printed.
  • each wheel is associated with a stepping motor in order to drive it to the desired printing position.
  • Another document FR-A-2 355 659 describes an automated composting machine comprising printing rows which can be adjusted in different positions by means of a set of gears comprising a number of laterally spaced pinions, independently mounted at rotation and driven by two stepper motors.
  • the present invention relates to a very simplified mechanically automated composting machine which can be used in any desired working position, for example door-to-door false at the end of a support arm, and controlled very simply, while having a very fast and optimized adjustment.
  • the composting machine provided with a printing head comprising a plurality of coaxial rotary rollers, arranged side by side and provided with printing characters, and a control wheel of said rollers having its axis parallel to that of the latter and able, on the one hand, to move parallel to the axis of said knobs to come into contact or engagement with any one of said knobs chosen from among the others and, on the other hand, to rotate around its axis in order to be able to drive said selected wheel in rotation and bring a desired character of the latter in the printing position, is remarkable in that said control wheel is integral in translation with a movable slide parallel to the axis of said wheels and carrying two stepping motors, the first of which allows the sliding of said slide and the second drives said control wheel in rotation and in what is provided a device for controlling said motes step by step urs comprising memory means storing for each wheel the number of steps of the second motor, measured with respect to an origin of rotation of the wheel, corresponding to the character of the wheel currently
  • calculation means making it possible to make for each wheel the difference between the number of steps stored and the number of steps displayed, supply means controlled from the first motor to successively bring the control wheel opposite each wheel and supply means controlled from the second motor to rotate each wheel by a number of steps equal to the corresponding difference, when the drive wheel is located next to this wheel.
  • the mechanical part of the machine according to the invention is particularly simple, since it requires neither comparators nor position encoders. It can form a compact assembly in which the rollers and the slide, provided with the two stepping motors and the control wheel, are mounted on a common chassis. In this mechanical assembly, the sliding movement of the slide can take place regardless of the position of the chassis, so that said assembly can occupy any suitable working position.
  • said memory means, said data input or display means, and said calculation means are grouped in a computer, or form a peripheral device of such a computer, while the means controlled supply of the two stepping motors are associated with an interface device and are mounted therewith, integral with said mechanical assembly, a cable connection, for example of the type with serial transmission, being provided between said computer and said interface device.
  • the mechanical assembly and the interface device form a light and space-saving composting unit which can be placed in any desired and appropriate location of a complex manufacturing machine, since the serial link makes it possible to physically separate (but not electrically) said unit of the computer.
  • a composting unit behaves like a simple peripheral (or terminal) device.
  • said second motor is of the type that can rotate in both directions of rotation
  • said means of calculation are associated with means for comparing the difference in the number of steps delivered by said calculation means to the number of motor steps corresponding to a 180 ° rotation of the wheels, the result of said comparison being used to bring the printing position the character now desired by the smallest angular amplitude rotation.
  • the supply means controlled by the stepping motors are part of two asynchronous current loops, one of said loops relating to the operating modes of the machine and the other the control of the various actuators of said machine. .
  • the composting unit 1 of the composting machine according to the invention comprises a chassis composed of a base plate 2 on which three flanges 3, 4 and 5 are fixed, mutually parallel and orthogonal to the base plate 2.
  • knobs 6 Between the flanges 3 and 4 is mounted a plurality of knobs 6 provided with characters 6a at their periphery and which can rotate independently. ment of each other around a common axis 7, bearing at its ends on said flanges 3 and 4.
  • a printing anvil 8 Next to the knobs 6 is provided a printing anvil 8 supported by jacks 9, allowing it to come into contact with said wheels and move away from them.
  • the jacks 9 are controlled for a solenoid valve 10 and are supported by the base plate 2.
  • On the anvil 8 rests a printing support 11, which runs continuously. In FIG. 1, it has been assumed that the printing medium 11 was seen in cross section and that it was running orthogonally to the plane of the drawing.
  • this printing medium 11 which is not necessarily a band but may be a cable, wire, etc. could just as easily be in the plane of the figure and scroll on the anvil of printing 8 from left to right or from right to left, possibly providing adequate passages in the flanges 3, 4 and 5.
  • a solenoid 12, integral with the chassis 2, 3, 4, 5, is likely to actuate a blocking bar 13, to immobilize the rollers 6 during the printing operations.
  • the carriage 15 Between the flanges 4 and 5 are provided guide rails 14 on which a carriage 15 can slide in both directions.
  • the rails 14 are parallel to each other and to the axis 7 of the knurls 6.
  • the carriage 15 carries two motors step by step 16 and 17 mounted in line, parallel to the rails 14 and to the axis 7.
  • the axis 18 of the motor 16 is extended by a threaded part 19 engaged in the corresponding threading of a threaded hole 20 in the flange 5, which thus forms a nut.
  • the axis 21 of the motor 17 freely crosses the flange 4 and is provided at its free end with a control wheel 22 which is integral in rotation.
  • the plane of the control wheel 22 is parallel to those of the wheels 6 and said control wheel 22 can be brought into contact with each of said wheels.
  • the solenoid valve 10 for controlling the cylinders 9, the solenoid 12 for controlling the locking bar 13 and the motors 16 and 17 are supplied by a device 23, which forms an interface for a computer 24 (see also FIG. 2 in which the 'compacting unit 1 is shown in the form of a box through which the support 11) to which it is connected by a link 25.
  • the device 23 may have other links 26 for the input and output of different information.
  • the marking code being thus composed and the printing medium 11 scrolling on the printing anvil 8, at each instant when it is desired to mark the support 11, it suffices to send an order to the device 23, either directly by the connections 26, either via the computer 24 and the connection 25, so that the said device 23 actuates the jacks 9 through the solenoid valve 10 so that the printing anvil 8 presses the support 11 against the characters 6a of the dials 6 in the printing position.
  • the computer 24 receives from a tachometer generator 27 information on the running speed of the printing medium 11 and deduces therefrom time intervals for controlling the solenoid valve 10, suitable for obtaining on the medium 11 remote code markings of any desired length. It will also be noted that between successive prints or markings on the print medium 11, the composting unit 1 may possibly totally or partially modify the printed code.
  • the computer 24 is programmed so that the adjustment of each dial 6 by the stepping motor 17 and the control wheel 22 s 'performs as illustrated schematically in Figures 3 and 4. It is assumed that the characters 6a grow, from an origin O, in the direction F of clockwise rotation and that the number of steps of the motor 17 to rotate a dial 6 by half a turn is equal to N.
  • N the number of steps of the motor 17 to rotate a dial 6 by half a turn is equal to N.
  • FIG. 2 shows the composting unit 1 carried at the end of an elongated support arm 28, which can be very long, the connection 25 to the computer 24 can also be very long. Also, the link 25 is preferably of the type with series transmission of the logic levels 0 and 1, so that provision is made for parallel-series and series-parallel transformation devices in the device 23 and the computer 24.
  • the device 23 comprises, in addition to interface 29 itself comprising the devices corresponding parallel-serial conversion and parallel-serial two loop control current asyn- - chrons 30 and 31, each of the serial type, arranged in parallel with each other.
  • the loop 30, which corresponds to the operating modes of the entire composting machine, works only on reception and is associated with a decoder 32 to decode the information received by the links 26 to external information generators and by the link 25 to the computer 24.
  • the functions of the loop 30 can be, among other things, the validation of the parameters of the composting machine such as support fault 11, end of cycle etc ... validation of the length of the support 11 to be printed, the validation of the number of supports 11 to be printed, the validation of the commands of the motors 16 and 17, the validation of the initialization and of the movements to the right or to the left of the motors 16 and 17, the validation of the starting and stopping the composting machine, etc ...
  • the loop 30 plays the role of the control device for the control device 23.
  • the loop 31 operates in transmission and reception and makes it possible to transmit to the computer 24 all the parameters relating to the composting machine, previously addressed by the loop 30 (generation of the functions) or to receive from the computer 24 the various data necessary for operation. of the composting machine (length and number of the support (s) 11 to be printed, etc.) and the control of the two stepper motors 16 and 17.
  • the information received by the loop 31 is routed, for example in the device 33, by the functions generated by the loop 30. They become, depending on their destination, a length of print medium 11, a number of medium 11, numbers of steps for motors 16 and 17, initialization signals from said motors, machine starts or stops, etc.
  • the information sent by loop 31 relates for example to the end of a printing cycle, the lack of support , etc ...

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