EP0330067B1 - Adressiervorrichtung für Produkte, insbesondere für Falzprodukte - Google Patents

Adressiervorrichtung für Produkte, insbesondere für Falzprodukte Download PDF

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EP0330067B1
EP0330067B1 EP89102621A EP89102621A EP0330067B1 EP 0330067 B1 EP0330067 B1 EP 0330067B1 EP 89102621 A EP89102621 A EP 89102621A EP 89102621 A EP89102621 A EP 89102621A EP 0330067 B1 EP0330067 B1 EP 0330067B1
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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
    • B65H43/00—Use of control, checking, or safety devices, e.g. automatic devices comprising an element for sensing a variable
    • 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
    • B65H39/02—Associating,collating or gathering articles from several sources

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  • the invention relates to a device for addressing products, in particular sheet-shaped folded products.
  • Folded products for example newspapers produced in rotary printing machines and optionally provided with inserts, are fed in a conventional manner to a clock-shaped addressing device and, for example, with selective printers, e.g. Addressed by dot matrix printers.
  • a lot of time is required for this and, on the other hand, problems have arisen if errors occur in the delivered product stream, for example in the order of reversed products, damaged or missing products.
  • the address is faulty or if errors occur when printed. This may make a larger quantity of products unusable and result in considerable delays in production.
  • GB-B 1 333 357 already discloses the grouping together of magazines from magazine parts stored in pockets, which are then addressed.
  • the object of the invention is to provide a freely selectable product quantity, in particular folded or printed products, with individual addresses assigned to the individual products in the shortest possible time, without a reading and / or printing process having to take place in the addressing device.
  • This object is achieved by applying the features of the characterizing part of claim 1. Further developments of the invention result from the subclaims and from the description in conjunction with the drawings.
  • the device according to the invention it is possible, for example with the help of a computer, to produce address carriers independently and at any time, it being possible for the addresses and the address sequence to be checked and corrected without any problems, since the address production is independent of the production of the products to be addressed is feasible.
  • the addressing device according to the invention also enables storage of print products to be addressed, to which various inserts can previously be fed in a selectable order. By assigning or selecting a specific quantity of product to a specific address carrier, according to the invention, individual addresses can be applied to specific locations of the printed products, such as newspapers, in the shortest possible time. The production of an "individual newspaper" is thus advantageously possible.
  • the roller 10 is rotatably mounted on a pin 12 fixedly connected to a support disk 11.
  • a receiving tongue 13 is provided on the circumference of the roller 10.
  • FIGS. 2 and 3 show the receiving position of the roller 10, FIG. 3 showing a view in the direction of the arrow B in FIG. 2.
  • the still empty roller 10 is locked by a leaf spring 15 which engages in a groove 16, as shown in the receiving position shown in FIG.
  • the resilient tongue 13 resting against the roller 10 is raised by an electromagnet 17 for inserting a beginning of the address strip 6, with guide tongues 18 which can be swiveled in laterally taking over the guidance of the address strip 6. If the beginning of the address strip 6 is under the tongue 13, the Feed of the address strip 6 stopped and the electromagnet 17 drops off, so that the tongue 13 clamps the beginning of the address strip.
  • the leaf spring 15 is then brought into position 15 'by activating a magnet 19, as a result of which the groove 16 is released.
  • a drive motor 21 arranged on a rocker arm 20 with a drive wheel 22 arranged on a stub shaft 14 can now drive the roller body 10, since the drive wheel 22 can be pressed against the roller 10 by means of a spring 23. If the drive motor 21 rotates in the direction of the arrow 24 and at the same time the address web 1 and the address strip 6 are advanced, address strips 6 can be wound on the reel 10 when the ribbon cable 8 is driven.
  • a certain marking present on the address strip 6 is detected by a scanning head 25, the winding-up process is terminated, and glue can preferably be sprayed on from below from a nozzle 26 on the last piece of the address strip 6.
  • a gripper not shown, a coding carrier 27 is removed from a memory, also not shown, and brought from the side under the address strip 6, as can be seen from FIG.
  • the address strip 6 is separated on a cutting bar 29 and with slow feed in the direction of arrow 7, by means of the motor 21, the coding strip 27 is placed under the end of the strip and the end of the strip with the aid of a spring-loaded soft rubber roller 30 to the address roller 31, which is now fully wound glued on.
  • FIG. 6 shows the fully wound and secured address roll with a coding carrier 27, which can be identified in a known manner via a coding head 33.
  • Fig. 7 shows an overview of the rewinder.
  • the address web 1 is preferably unwound from a winding roll 34, the address fields 2 having to be on the underside of the web marked A, so that they are also on the inside when being wound onto the roll 10.
  • the support disk 11 receives a large number of address rollers 31 on its circumference. After each winding process, it continues to move in the direction of arrow 35.
  • a multiple arrangement of support disks 11 can, as shown in FIG. 7, simultaneously wind up a larger number of address strips 6 cut in parallel. The completely filled support disks 11 can now be brought into the addressing system if required.
  • FIGS. 8-12 The unwinding process in the addressing system is shown in FIGS. 8-12.
  • FIG. 8 by turning the support disks 11 back and forth in the direction of arrow 36, the coding carriers 27 are guided past the coding reader 37. After selecting the appropriate address rollers 31, the support plate 11 is locked.
  • a pick-up gripper 38 which is fastened to a piston rod of a pneumatic piston 39, moves into position 38 ′ for picking up the coding carrier 27.
  • the coding carrier 27 is wider for this purpose than the address strip 6, as can be seen from FIG. 12.
  • FIGS. 9 and 10 show the pick-up gripper 38 in an enlarged view, with FIG. 10 showing a side view in the direction of arrow D in FIG. 9.
  • the glued end of the address strip 6 is cut off directly on the coding carrier 27 by a rapid upward movement of the knife 41.
  • a transport gripper 42 which is fastened to a transport chain 43, is moved into the position shown in FIG. 8.
  • the electromagnet 44 opens the transport gripper 42, as shown in FIG. 9 in detail, by pressing a pin 45 upwards against a spring 46.
  • the transport chain 43 is supported in a chain guide 47.
  • An electromagnet 48 now unlocks the roller 10 by pulling the leaf spring 15 out of the groove 16 into the position 15 '.
  • the pneumatic piston 39 moves the gripper 38 attached to it into the position 38 ′′ shown in FIG. 8, taking the coding carrier 27 and thus the address strip 6 glued to it.
  • the pick-up gripper 38 moves through the opened transport gripper 42, as can be seen in FIG. 9.
  • the address strip 6 is kept taut by a brake tongue 50, which is mounted on a holder 49 in a stationary manner, pressing against a roller 10.
  • the transport gripper 42 closes and thereby clamps the address strip 6.
  • a knife 51 cuts off the protruding strip on a base 52 on the coding carrier side, the pneumatic cylinder 39 and thus the receiving gripper 38 pivot into the position 38 'or 38''' shown in FIG. 8.
  • the chain can now pull the address strip 6 into the actual addressing device in a rapid feed movement.
  • FIGS. 13 and 14 enable the further operation of the addressing device, with FIG. 14 representing a view in the direction of arrow E in FIG. 13.
  • the multiple addressing process is most sensibly carried out subsequently in a plug-in process, as described in the prior art mentioned at the beginning.
  • support structures 54, 55 are described which can be pulled out of storage cassettes 56, 57 and contain sheet-shaped products 58, 59, in particular folded products, lying one above the other.
  • the upper products of the upper support structures 54 are removed in a plug-in operation and inserted into the products 59 which are open in the lower support structure 55.
  • These products 59 which are located at a uniform distance from one another in the lower carrier structure 55, are all addressed simultaneously in the manner described below.
  • a brake tongue 50 keeps the address strip 6 taut, while glue is preferably wound from a glue nozzle 67 onto the adhesive side of the address strip 6. After unwinding, the entire length of the address strip 6 lies taut under the support structures 55, as indicated in FIGS. 13 and 15.
  • a vacuum is generated in ducts 62 of the toothed belt carrier 63 via pipes 60 and hoses 61. 16, a toothed belt 64 contains small bores 65 in partial areas, via which the vacuum sucks the address strip 6 and pulls it onto a cutting plate 66.
  • FIG. 15 shows the addressing device in an enlarged detail of FIG. 14.
  • the cutting knives 68 fastened on a spindle 40 pivot downward from the position 68 ′ and use the cutting plate 66 to split the address strip 6 into individual address stickers 69.
  • FIG. 19 shows a top view of the embodiment according to FIG. 15, according to which the attachment of the knives 68 to levers 70 on the spindle 40 and the attachment of the cutting plates 66 to supports 71 is shown.
  • the very thin knives 68 are made of hardened steel strip and are warped and pressed under axial pressure against the cutting plates 66 in order to obtain a perfect scissor-shaped cut for severing the address strips 6.
  • the remaining strip, from the unwound roll 10 to the first cut, is fed to the waste by a gripper mechanism, not shown here, after the receiving tongue 13 on the roll 10 has released the strip by lifting it with the aid of the electromagnet 102.
  • the leaf spring 15 engages the roller 10 again in the starting position (FIG. 12).
  • the vacuum now pulls the front ends of the address labels 69 at the interfaces onto the toothed belt 64 and holds them there.
  • the copies 59 to be addressed are in the position shown in FIG. 16 and are held by grippers 72 and 73 on a gripper bar 74, which in turn is fastened on arms 75.
  • FIG. 17 shows how the address labels 69, which are held by the vacuum on the toothed belt surfaces, are pulled into the starting position shown for the gluing.
  • the toothed belt 64 is driven by a toothed belt wheel 76 which is vertically movably mounted on a guide 77 which is guided in a housing 78.
  • the compression springs 79 which are supported on the plate 80 which is also mounted in the housing 78, keep the toothed belts 64 under tension.
  • the pressure rollers 81 are each pivotally mounted on a drive shaft 83 of the toothed belt wheel 76 via a lever 82. They are held together by a stop bar 84 (FIGS. 16 and 17) in the positions shown.
  • the toothed belt wheel 76 is driven via a drive shaft 83, elastic couplings 85 and 86 and an adjusting coupling 87 as well as shaft pieces 88 and 89 from a chain wheel 90 (FIG. 15), which in turn is driven centrally by a chain 91 for all labeling stations.
  • Figure 20 shows schematically the drive for sprockets 90, the chain 91 being guided by guides 92 around sprockets 90. The returning run of the chain 91 is received by a guide 93 (FIG. 15).
  • the grippers 72 and 73 with the aid of a drive 94, each pull the copies 59 past the pressure rollers 81, which are kept at a distance by means of the stop bar 84, into the position 59 ', while the address stickers 69 initially in the position shown in Figure 17 remain.
  • the address label 69 and the copies 59 Through the independent, individually Controllable movements of the address label 69 and the copies 59, it is possible to exactly adhere to the adhesive location on the copies 59 or to choose freely.
  • FIG. 18 it is here the end of the copy 59 on which an address label 69 is to be applied.
  • the stop bar 84 releases the pressure rollers 81, which thus presses the specimen 59 onto the toothed belt surface under the toothed belt tension generated by the spring 79.
  • the pressure rollers 81 thus act as counter bearings.
  • the grippers 72 and 73 now release the copy 59 and move to the positions 72 ′′ and 73 ′′ with the aid of the drive 96.
  • the rails 97, 98 take over the support of the specimens 14. While these rails 97 and 99 now guide the specimens 59 by means of a uniform downward movement with the aid of the chains 99 and 100, the toothed belt, which is driven at the same speed, uses the pressure rollers 81 to glue the Address label 69 by, as shown in Fig. 18.
  • the parallel operation of the adhesive mechanisms means that any number of copies can be provided with addresses at the same time in one operation, which can save a great deal of time in connection with a previous insertion operation and with a subsequent packaging operation.
  • toothed belts or vacuum belts were described as holding devices. It goes without saying that other holding or clamping mechanisms can also be used in the context of the invention, for example mechanically or magnetically operating devices.
  • a magnetic address carrier can be used instead of the address strip 6 on which the addresses are printed.
  • the address strips are preferably only subdivided when they are held in sections by the individual holding and detection devices. In the context of the invention, however, it is also possible to detect selected, thus divided address carriers, for example by means of suction devices, and to position them on the products to be addressed, so that the predetermined order of the products to be addressed matches the order of addresses.
  • FIG. 21 shows schematically how a control device 103 selects an address strip 6, on which 2 addresses are present in a predetermined order in address fields, in accordance with the products 59 to be addressed that are present in a specific memory cassette 57 and which are in the same order in FIG of the memory cassette 57 are positioned, like the addresses on the address strip 6.
  • the address strip 6 is fed in via the transport chain 43.
  • the address fields 2 are applied according to the previous division the products 59 to be addressed, after which the products 59 are guided into a take-off point 104 by means of tongues 101.
  • the control unit 103 therefore creates an association between certain address carriers 6 and certain groups of products 59 to be addressed.

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