EP0160739A1 - Newspaper stream conveyor - Google Patents

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EP0160739A1
EP0160739A1 EP84113423A EP84113423A EP0160739A1 EP 0160739 A1 EP0160739 A1 EP 0160739A1 EP 84113423 A EP84113423 A EP 84113423A EP 84113423 A EP84113423 A EP 84113423A EP 0160739 A1 EP0160739 A1 EP 0160739A1
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support frame
signatures
conveyor system
frame means
belts
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Robert D. Eckerson
David C. Schwankert
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Boeing North American Inc
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Rockwell International Corp
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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
    • B65H5/00—Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines
    • B65H5/02—Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines by belts or chains, e.g. between belts or chains
    • B65H5/021—Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines by belts or chains, e.g. between belts or chains by belts
    • B65H5/023—Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines by belts or chains, e.g. between belts or chains by belts between a pair of belts forming a transport nip
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H15/00—Overturning articles
    • B65H15/008—Overturning articles employing belts
    • B65H15/012—Overturning articles employing belts twisted belts
    • 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
    • B65H29/12—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles by means of the nip between two, or between two sets of, moving tapes or bands or rollers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H5/00—Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines
    • B65H5/02—Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines by belts or chains, e.g. between belts or chains
    • B65H5/021—Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines by belts or chains, e.g. between belts or chains by belts
    • B65H5/025—Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines by belts or chains, e.g. between belts or chains by belts between belts and rotary means, e.g. rollers, drums, cylinders or balls, forming a transport nip
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H5/00—Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines
    • B65H5/36—Article guides or smoothers, e.g. movable in operation
    • B65H5/38—Article guides or smoothers, e.g. movable in operation immovable in operation
    • 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
    • B65H2301/30—Orientation, displacement, position of the handled material
    • B65H2301/33—Modifying, selecting, changing orientation
    • B65H2301/332—Turning, overturning
    • B65H2301/3321—Turning, overturning kinetic therefor
    • B65H2301/33212—Turning, overturning kinetic therefor about an axis parallel to the direction of displacement of material
    • 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
    • B65H2404/20—Belts
    • B65H2404/26—Particular arrangement of belt, or belts
    • B65H2404/261—Arrangement of belts, or belt(s) / roller(s) facing each other for forming a transport nip
    • 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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  • Another object of this invention is to provide a signature conveying apparatus having a pair of opposed belts positioned to between them grip the center area of the signature stream and convey the strea:n upwardly while simultaneously effecting reorientation thereof.
  • An additional object is to provide a belt transfer and reorienting systems which reduces the localized pressure on the signatures and thereby minimizes the local damage caused by wire conveyor systems.
  • a further object of this invention is to provide an improved signature conveying apparatus which utilized opposed endless belts to grip the signatures and which includes means to guide the lateral edges of the signatures as they are physically reoriented.
  • the apparatus of this invention is for use in a conveyor system that is used for transporting newspaper signatures from the press to some other location where operations such as stacking are performed.
  • the apparatus comprises basically a lower support frame means 10, and an upper support frame means 11.
  • Each of the support frame means 10 and 11 is comprised of a pair of vertically extending side rails 12, and a plurality of horizontally extending intermediate rails 13, which function to join the side rails 12 together.
  • the upper support frame means 11 is mounted on the upper end of the lower support frame means 10 and that it is turned at an angle of 90° with respect to the lower portion. For purposes of explanation only, while the present description is done using an angle of 90 between the two sections, it should be understood that any other angle of orientation could be selected if desired.
  • the lower support frame means is mounted on top of an infeed device 15 which receives the newspaper signatures from a horizontal conveyor, not shown, and directs them upwardly toward the lower support frame means 10 by means of a pair of opposed endless belts 16 and 17.
  • belt 16' is entrained about a plurality of rollers 18 which are journaled for rotation between the sides 19, only one of which is shown.
  • a plurality of rollers 20 are journaled in siaes 19 to provide guiding means for the belt 17.
  • the rollers 18 and 20 which are shown in Figure 1 as being furthest toward the right are placed a distance apart so that belts 16 and 17 converge toward the centermost roll 18 to define a throat 21 into which signatures are fed.
  • signatures fed into throat 21 will be carried from the horizontal to the vertical direction toward the lower support frane means 10.
  • Alos journaled between sides 19 of infeed device 15 is a rotating member that has a rollet 24 with a canning surface 25 that slopes outwardly with respect to the axis of rotation of roller 24-
  • This roller 24 and camming surface 25 provide a belt biasing means that functions to retain the belts generally midway between side rails 12.
  • Lower frame means 10 contains a plurality of horizontally extending belt guide rollers 31 and 32 which are journaled for rotation between side rails 12.
  • Uppermost roller 32 is journaled in socket members 33, see Figure 2, that are carried on a threaded rod 34 so that by turning handle 35 roller 32 can be moved toward or away from opposed belts 16 and 17.
  • Provision of this adjustable movement is important to successful operation of the present conveyor system because it enables the endless belts 16 and 17 to retain the signatures in the center of the support frame means 10 and 11 regardless of the thickness of the signatures that are being conveyed.
  • Guide roller 30 is identical in construction to roller 24 and it provides a camming surface 36. By referring to Figure 2 it can be seen that camming surface 25 and camming surface 36 are oriented facing each other so that they cooperate with each other in centering belts 16 and 17.
  • upper support frame means 11 is mounted on top of lower frame means at some preselected angle, here illustrated as being at 90°.
  • the lowermost guide roll 40 journaled between side rails 12 of upper frame support means 11 has its axis of rotation turned at a 90 angle with respect to the axes of rotation of the various rolls journaled in frame means 10 and infeed section 15.
  • Also carried by the upper frame means 11 are a pluralicy of guide, tensioning and drive rollers which coact with either one of the belts 16 and and 17 or both.
  • Belt 16 is guided, tensioned and driven in the same manner as belt 17. Specifically it passes by a guide roller 60 journaled in side rails 12 over drive roll 61 driven by motor 62 through gear box 63 and over tensioning rollers 64, 65 mounted on arm 66 that is pivotally carried on side rail 12. This arm is biased like arm 47 by a tensioning spring 67 that is connected between its outer end (right as viewed in Figure 2) and mounting rod and bracket 68, the bracket being joined to side rail 12. Finally, belt 16 passes around guide roller 75 that is journaled on arm 76 mounted on side rail 12. One final guide roller is identified by nuneral 80 and this roll serves as a guide for both belts 16 and 17 before they begin to separate for their respective return runs.
  • belt 17 moves downwardly from drive roll 55, around tensioning rollers 45, 46, guide rollers 41, 40, 32, camming guide roller 25, and finally around the lowermost guide rollers 20, prior to starting a return run upwardly.
  • Belt 16 is guided in like fashion. Starting with drive roll 61 it moves downwardly around rollers 64, 65, 75, 31, 30 and finally around rollers 18 before starting its return run upwardly. Both belt 16 and belt 17 on the downward runs are twisted 90 in the manner shown in Figure 3 which illustrates the twist in belt 16.
  • belts 16 and 17 After belts 16 and 17 have converged at throat 21 they come together so that signatures, such as that identified by numeral 85 will be trapped and held between them. As the belts travel upwardly together carrying the signatures, they are guided by the guide rolls 31 and 32 so that the signature assumes the position identified by numeral 86. As signatures continue on upwardly they are twisted with the belts so that they move from the orientation of station 86 to an intermediate position such as that shown at station 87. Continuing on, the signatures twist further until they have achieved the total preselected orientation and are positioned as shown at station 88.
  • Each guide means comprises an elongated plate like element having terminal edges 105, 106 which are parallel to the axes of rotation of the adjacent guide rolls 40 and 32 respectively.
  • edch guide element 90, 91 is formed with a twist that corresponds to the preselected angle that exists between the axes of rotation of the guide rollers in the lower and upper support frame means 10 and 11.

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Registering, Tensioning, Guiding Webs, And Rollers Therefor (AREA)
  • Structure Of Belt Conveyors (AREA)
  • Delivering By Means Of Belts And Rollers (AREA)
  • Registering Or Overturning Sheets (AREA)
  • Advancing Webs (AREA)
  • Separation, Sorting, Adjustment, Or Bending Of Sheets To Be Conveyed (AREA)
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EP0281887A2 (de) * 1987-03-09 1988-09-14 Hagen Gämmerler Fördervorrichtung für Papierprodukte, insbesondere in Schuppenform
DE3731151A1 (de) * 1987-03-09 1988-09-22 Hagen Gaemmerler Foerdervorrichtung fuer papierprodukte, insbesondere in schuppenform
EP1170238A2 (de) * 2000-05-18 2002-01-09 NexPress Solutions LLC Wendeeinrichtung
CN106219209A (zh) * 2016-08-29 2016-12-14 宁波永信精密管业有限公司 套筒件外观检测设备的上料装置
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US4373712A (en) * 1979-06-07 1983-02-15 Gao Gesellschaft Fur Automation Und Organisation Mbh Apparatus for transporting sheet material

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US3671035A (en) * 1967-07-21 1972-06-20 Ferag Ag Conveyor apparatus
US4373712A (en) * 1979-06-07 1983-02-15 Gao Gesellschaft Fur Automation Und Organisation Mbh Apparatus for transporting sheet material

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EP0281887A2 (de) * 1987-03-09 1988-09-14 Hagen Gämmerler Fördervorrichtung für Papierprodukte, insbesondere in Schuppenform
DE3731151A1 (de) * 1987-03-09 1988-09-22 Hagen Gaemmerler Foerdervorrichtung fuer papierprodukte, insbesondere in schuppenform
DE3744721A1 (de) * 1987-03-09 1989-04-13 Hagen Gaemmerler Wendevorrichtung fuer einen produktstrom von papierprodukten, insbesondere in schuppenformation
US4889333A (en) * 1987-03-09 1989-12-26 Gaemmerler Hagen Conveying apparatus for paper products, in particular in stream form
EP0281887A3 (en) * 1987-03-09 1990-07-25 Hagen Gammerler Transporting device for paper products, in particular overlapped products
EP0467417A2 (de) * 1987-03-09 1992-01-22 Hagen Gämmerler Umlenkvorrichtung für einen Produktstrom von Papierprodukten, insbesondere in Schuppenformation
EP0469636A2 (de) * 1987-03-09 1992-02-05 Hagen Gämmerler Vorrichtung zum Wenden eines Produktstroms
EP0467417A3 (en) * 1987-03-09 1992-08-05 Hagen Gaemmerler Deviating device for a paper product stream, in particular in overlapped formation
EP0469636A3 (en) * 1987-03-09 1992-08-05 Hagen Gaemmerler Device for turning a product stream
EP1170238A2 (de) * 2000-05-18 2002-01-09 NexPress Solutions LLC Wendeeinrichtung
EP1170238A3 (de) * 2000-05-18 2003-01-15 NexPress Solutions LLC Wendeeinrichtung
US6626103B2 (en) 2000-05-18 2003-09-30 Nexpress Solutions Llc Inverter
CN106219209A (zh) * 2016-08-29 2016-12-14 宁波永信精密管业有限公司 套筒件外观检测设备的上料装置
CN106219209B (zh) * 2016-08-29 2018-10-19 宁波永信精密管业有限公司 套筒件外观检测设备的上料装置
CN111377184A (zh) * 2020-04-27 2020-07-07 上海原能细胞生物低温设备有限公司 一种样本转运操作舱

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