EP0147528A1 - Procédé et dispositif pour former des enroulements à plusieurs couches à partir de produits flexibles, plans, se présentant en formation mibriquée, de préférence produits imprimés - Google Patents

Procédé et dispositif pour former des enroulements à plusieurs couches à partir de produits flexibles, plans, se présentant en formation mibriquée, de préférence produits imprimés Download PDF

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EP0147528A1
EP0147528A1 EP84110101A EP84110101A EP0147528A1 EP 0147528 A1 EP0147528 A1 EP 0147528A1 EP 84110101 A EP84110101 A EP 84110101A EP 84110101 A EP84110101 A EP 84110101A EP 0147528 A1 EP0147528 A1 EP 0147528A1
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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
    • B65H29/006—Winding articles into rolls
    • 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
    • B65H2301/41—Winding, unwinding
    • B65H2301/419—Winding, unwinding from or to storage, i.e. the storage integrating winding or unwinding means
    • B65H2301/4192—Winding, unwinding from or to storage, i.e. the storage integrating winding or unwinding means for handling articles of limited length in shingled formation
    • B65H2301/41922—Winding, unwinding from or to storage, i.e. the storage integrating winding or unwinding means for handling articles of limited length in shingled formation and wound together with single belt like 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
    • B65H2701/00—Handled material; Storage means
    • B65H2701/10—Handled articles or webs
    • B65H2701/19—Specific article or web
    • B65H2701/1932—Signatures, folded printed matter, newspapers or parts thereof and books

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  • the present invention relates to a method and a device for forming multi-layer windings from flat, flexible products, preferably printed products, resulting in scale formation, according to the preamble of claim 1 and claim 5.
  • the remaining length of winding tape can be wrapped around the finished winding. However, this delays the completion of the winding by a time period which is dependent on the length of the winding tape remainder. In addition, the winding diameter increases by the amount of the additional winding tape layers.
  • the present invention is based on the object to create a method or a device which allows the formation of coils of a given diameter from products of different thicknesses without a great effort being required to provide a sufficiently large length of wrapping tape.
  • each winding layer essentially has the same radial dimension. This means that with the same length of winding tape, products of different thicknesses can be formed with a given, always the same diameter. The problem of providing the winding tape length matched to the thickness of the resulting products or the use of any winding tape remainder thus no longer occurs.
  • the winding tape length required for the desired winding diameter can be determined and provided once and for all.
  • the formation of scale formations of the same thickness before winding up is preferably carried out by increasing or decreasing the speed of the products running towards the roll or the roll core relative to the latter original conveying speed.
  • FIGS. 1-3 correspond fundamentally to the devices described in DE-OS 31 23 888 and the corresponding GB-OS 2 081 230 in terms of their structure and mode of operation.
  • a cylindrical winding core 1 there is a cylindrical winding core 1, the shaft 2 of which is driven by a drive motor in the direction of arrow A via a winding gear 3.
  • This winder gear 3 is of a known type and is preferably a winder gear as it is sold by PIV Antrieb Werner Reimers KG.
  • a conveyor device 5 which is designed as a belt conveyor and is pivotally mounted about an axis 5a.
  • the conveyor 5 has a drive roller 8 which is in drive connection with the motor 4 and via which the conveyor 5 is driven by the motor 4 in the direction of arrow B at the speed v.
  • a winding tape 9 is guided, which is connected at one end to the winding core 1 and is drawn off from a supply roll 10 which is freely rotatable about its axis 10a.
  • a first conveyor device 12 which is designed as a rocker, is preceded by a second conveyor device 12, which is also designed as a belt conveyor.
  • the second conveying device 12 has a conveying direction C which corresponds to the conveying direction B of the first conveyor 5 and is driven at a speed v 2 in a manner not shown.
  • a deflection roller 13 of the second conveyor 12 is connected to a tachometer generator 14, which in turn is connected to a manually operated control device 15 for the drive motor 4.
  • the second conveyor 12 is used to feed printed products 16 occurring in a scale formation S and ejected, for example, from a rotary printing press, at the speed v 2 .
  • the leading edges 16a which are usually the folded edges, on the top of the scale formation S.
  • the scale distance ie the distance between the printed products 16 within the supplied scale formation S, is denoted by a.
  • the thickness of the scale formation S or S 2 to be wound should always have the value d, regardless of the thickness d 1 or d 2 of the scale formation S fed by the second conveyor 12.
  • this is now the case of a shingled stream S consisting of thin printed products 16, whose thickness d is less than the required thickness d.
  • the resulting printed products 16 must be pushed together, which means that the original scale distance a is reduced to the scale distance a 1 .
  • the conveyor device 5 is driven at a speed v which is lower than the feed speed v 2 of the upstream conveyor 12.
  • the ratio of the conveyor speeds v and v 2 corresponds to the ratio of the thicknesses d and d l .
  • FIG. 2 describes the other case in which the shingled stream S supplied is formed by thick printed products 16, so that the thickness d 2 of the shingled formation S fed is greater than the thickness d required for the winding.
  • the printed products 16 must be pulled apart within their scale structure before winding, which brings about an increase in the scale distance from a to a 2 .
  • the conveying device 5 is driven at a speed v 1 which is greater than the conveying speed v 2 of the upstream conveyor 12. Also in this case the ratios of the conveying speed v 1 and v 2 and that correspond Thicknesses d and d 2 of the scale formations S and S 2 .
  • the conveying speed v 1 of the conveying device must correspond to the feeding speed v 2 of the scale formation S, if the thickness of the supplied scales formation S already corresponds to the nominal thickness d.
  • the described adaptation of the conveying speed v of the conveying device 5 to the thickness d or d 2 of the resulting scale formation S is carried out by a corresponding change in the drive speed of the drive motor 4 by means of the control device 15.
  • the drive speed of the drive roller 8 and via the winder gear 3 also that of the winding core 1 changed.
  • Any changes in the feed speed v 2 of the conveyor 12, which require a corresponding adjustment of the drive speed of the motor 4 are determined by the tachometer generator 14 and entered into the control device 15. It goes without saying that the setting of the required conveying speed v 1 of the conveying device 5 can also take place automatically instead of by hand.
  • the scale formations S 1 and S 2 having a given thickness d as described are fed with the leading edges 16a of the printed products 16 to the winding core 1 or the winding 7, fed to this winding core 1 or the winding 7 and together with the winding tape 9 onto the through the drive motor 4 driven winding core 1 wound, as described in the aforementioned DE-OS 31 23 888 or the corresponding GB-OS 2 081 230.
  • the winding tape 9, which is connected on the one hand to the winding core 1 and on the other hand is pulled off from the supply roll 10 by the drive roller 8, is placed under tension. The braking of this supply roll 10 ensures that the winding tape 9 fits snugly against the drive roller 8.
  • each winding layer 7a always has the same radial dimension b regardless of the thickness of the printed products 16 in the manner described, the same length of winding tape is always required for a winding 7 of a given diameter. In other words, it is possible to always form coils of a certain diameter from scale formations of different thicknesses with a given length of winding tape.
  • the required length of winding tape and also the diameter of the winding is determined in advance in each case, so that the problem of insufficient winding tape length or a remaining winding tape does not arise.
  • FIG. 3 shows a device for unwinding the printed products 16 from the winding 7 formed in the manner described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2.
  • This unwinding device has a take-up roll 17 for the winding tape 9, which is rotatably mounted about its axis 17a and is connected to a drive motor 19 via a winder gear 18.
  • the winder gear 18 corresponds to the winder gear 3 of the device according to FIGS. 1 and 2.
  • the drive motor 19 further drives a drive roller 20 of a conveyor device 21 designed as a belt conveyor, which is below the winding core 1 is arranged and is pivotable about an axis 21a.
  • the spring-loaded push rod 22a of a pressing mechanism 22 acts on this conveying device 21 and presses the conveying device 21 against the winding 7.
  • the winding belt 9 is guided over the drive roller 20, which drives a deflection roller 24 of a second conveyor 25, which is likewise designed as a belt conveyor, via a drive element 23, for example a chain.
  • the conveying direction E of this second belt conveyor 25 corresponds to the conveying direction D of the upstream conveying device 21.
  • a schematically illustrated braking device 26 acts on the shaft 2 of the winding core 1, which is designed in the present case as a shoe brake of a known type.
  • the driving of the drive roller 20 results in a rotation of the winding core 1 in the direction of arrow F and an unwinding of the printed products 16, which are carried away by the conveyor devices 21 and 25 in scale formation S.
  • the winding tape 9, which is also unwound, is wound onto the driven winding roll 17.
  • the drive motor 19 drives the take-up roller 17 and the drive roller 20 via the winder gear 18 in such a way that a tensile stress is generated in the winding tape 9 together with the braking of the shaft 2 of the winding core 1. Otherwise, the unwinding is carried out in the manner already described in DE-OS 31 23 888 or the corresponding GB-OS 2 081 230.

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EP84110101A 1983-09-19 1984-08-24 Procédé et dispositif pour former des enroulements à plusieurs couches à partir de produits flexibles, plans, se présentant en formation mibriquée, de préférence produits imprimés Expired EP0147528B1 (fr)

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AT84110101T ATE23842T1 (de) 1983-09-19 1984-08-24 Verfahren und vorrichtung zum bilden von mehrlagigen wickeln aus in schuppenformation anfallenden flaechigen, biegsamen erzeugnissen, vorzugsweise druckprodukten.

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CH5067/83A CH657833A5 (de) 1983-09-19 1983-09-19 Verfahren und vorrichtung zum bilden von mehrlagigen wickeln aus in schuppenformation anfallenden flaechigen, biegsamen erzeugnissen, vorzugsweise druckprodukten.
CH5067/83 1983-09-19

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CA1225107A (fr) 1987-08-04
FI75322B (fi) 1988-02-29
JPH0217459B2 (fr) 1990-04-20
US4923136A (en) 1990-05-08
JPS6087159A (ja) 1985-05-16
EP0147528B1 (fr) 1986-11-26
US4793566A (en) 1988-12-27
ATE23842T1 (de) 1986-12-15

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