EP0343001B1 - Mehrfachausgabegerät für Karten - Google Patents

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EP0343001B1
EP0343001B1 EP89305087A EP89305087A EP0343001B1 EP 0343001 B1 EP0343001 B1 EP 0343001B1 EP 89305087 A EP89305087 A EP 89305087A EP 89305087 A EP89305087 A EP 89305087A EP 0343001 B1 EP0343001 B1 EP 0343001B1
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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
    • B65H3/00—Separating articles from piles
    • B65H3/02—Separating articles from piles using friction forces between articles and separator
    • B65H3/04—Endless-belt separators
    • B65H3/042—Endless-belt separators separating from the bottom of the pile
    • 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
    • B65H7/00—Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles
    • B65H7/02—Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors
    • B65H7/14—Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors by photoelectric feelers or detectors
    • 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
    • B65H2511/00—Dimensions; Position; Numbers; Identification; Occurrences
    • B65H2511/50—Occurence
    • B65H2511/51—Presence
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2511/00—Dimensions; Position; Numbers; Identification; Occurrences
    • B65H2511/50—Occurence
    • B65H2511/515—Absence
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2513/00—Dynamic entities; Timing aspects
    • B65H2513/50—Timing
    • B65H2513/512—Starting; Stopping
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2515/00—Physical entities not provided for in groups B65H2511/00 or B65H2513/00
    • B65H2515/60—Optical characteristics, e.g. colour, light
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2553/00—Sensing or detecting means
    • B65H2553/40—Sensing or detecting means using optical, e.g. photographic, elements
    • B65H2553/41—Photoelectric detectors

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  • This invention relates to the high speed feeding of cards or like paper material from a stack of such cards to a dispensing station.
  • DE-A-2309756 discloses a top stack feeder operable to deliver sheets to a dispensing position.
  • the stack feeder is disposed upstream of two independently actuatable conveyors, which are operable to stop at regular intervals, even under continuous demand conditions.
  • Each conveyor is designed to accommodate one sheet per belt and hence a gap appears between two sequentially fed sheets.
  • the invention which is defined in the appended claims, consists of a method and apparatus for delivering cards or like paper stock fed singly from a stack feeder of the cards to a demand location for dispensing in sequence, in which each card fed from the stack is advanced through a plurality of stages of a conveyor, each stage being independently operable, each stage and all preceding stages and the stack feeder being actuable when no card is present at that stage, the leading stage being also operable to deliver a card on demand, the cards being fed through the stages at a higher rate than the dispensing rate.
  • the example embodiment shown in the drawings consists of a dispenser 10 which comprises a feeder 12 and a movable platform or conveyor 14, both mounted on a fixed frame 16.
  • Conveyor 14 consists of three stages 18A, 18B and 18C; stage 18A serving as a demand location for dispensing cards to a subsequent system not shown.
  • stage 18 consists of an upper endless belt unit 20 carried by a pair of rollers 22 and a lower endless belt unit 24 carried by a pair of rollers 26, the belts being spaced one from the other to form a gap 28.
  • belt unit 24 has a plurality of parallel bands 29 but other means much as a vacuum belt could be used.
  • rollers 22 and 26 are mounted on shafts 30 and 32 respectively which are rotatable on frame 16 and are interconnected by axle proximity adjustment screws 32, shaft 30 being movable radially at each end in slots 34 in frame 16 to adjust the width of gap 28.
  • Belts 20 and 24 of stage 18A are chain driven by a drive motor 36A and belts 20 and 24 of stage 18B are chain driven in the same manner by a drive motor 36B.
  • Belts 20 and 24 of stage 18C are driven through a gear train 38 from a chain drive 36C which operates an endless movable feeder platform 40 of feeder 12.
  • Each stage 18 has a photoelectric unit 42 bridging gap 28 between belts 20 and 24 adjacent the forward end of the stage and each photocell unit is electrically connected independently to its associated drive motor 36 of the same stage as seen in Figure 4 of the drawings.
  • Drive motors 36A, 36B and 36C are electrically interconnected whereby drive motors 36B and 36C are slaves to drive motor 36A and drive motor 36C is also slave to drive motor 36B.
  • Feeder 12 consists of movable feeder platform 40 and a rotatable friction wheel 44 mounted on frame 16 above the platform with a gap 46 therebetween.
  • a guide bar 48 mounted on a forwardly projecting plate 50, is located above platform 40 and tangential to friction wheel 44 and an adjustable retainer bracket 52, spaced behind guide bar 48, is also mounted on frame 16.
  • a stack 60 of cards is placed between guide bar 48 and retainer bracket 52 to rest on platform 40.
  • the bottom or first card 62 in stack 60 advances through gap 46 and into gap 28 of stage 18C of conveyor 14, followed at a uniformly predetermined distance by the second and subsequent cards in the stack, as seen in Figure 3 of the drawings.
  • an additional card 62 is shown between photocell units 42A and 42B and also between units 42B and 42C but this has no effect on the operation of the device, merely providing additional cards for the demand location.
  • card used herein includes any flat paper stock or like products.

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  1. Verfahren zur Übergabe von Karten (62) oder ähnlichem Papiermaterial an eine Abgabestation (18A) zur zeitlich gesteuerten Abfolge der Abgabe von dieser aus, mit den Verfahrensschritten
       des Zuführens von Karten einzeln von einer Schacht-Speiseeinrichtung (12) ausgehend über eine Vielzahl von Transportband-Stationen (18B, 18C) zu einer End-Station (18A), die die Abgabestation bildet,
       bei allen Stationen (18A, 18B, 18C) des Transportbandes, des Einschaltens jeder Station wenn keine Karte (62) an einer vorbestimmten Stelle der jeweiligen besagten Station vorhanden ist, und für die End-Station (18A) des Transportbandes, des Einschaltens der End-Station (18A), um von dieser Karten (62) in einer zeitlich gesteuerten Abfolge abzugeben,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet,
       daß das Verfahren mit einer Vorrichtung durchführbar ist, die eine Unterzug-Speiseeinrichtung (12) aufweist, die mit der ersten Station (18C) des Transportbandes zusammenwirkt, und daß die Zuführrate der Karten aus der Schacht-Speiseeinrichtung (12) größer als die Abgaberate der Karten aus der End-Station (18A) ist, und
       daß das Verfahren den weiteren Verfahrensschritt umfaßt
       daß, wenn keine Karte (62) an der besagten vorbestimmten Stelle in einer vorgegebenen Station (18A, 18B, 18C) vorhanden ist gleichzeitig jede vorangehende Station eingeschaltet wird.
  2. Verfahren nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der Verfahrensschritt, daß für jede Station (18B, 18C) des Transportbandes, wenn keine Karte (62) an einer vorbestimmten Stelle vorhanden ist, diese Station eingeschaltet wird, das Einschalten dieser Station umfaßt, wenn ein photo-elektrischer Sensor (42A, 42B, 42C) kein Vorhandensein einer Karte an der Station erfaßt.
  3. Vorrichtung zur Übergabe von Karten (62) oder ähnlichem Papiermaterial an eine Abgabestation (18A) zur zeitlich gesteuerten Abfolge der Abgabe von dieser aus:
       mit einer Schacht-Speiseeinrichtung (12),
       mit Transportband-Mitteln (14) mit einem Eingabeende zur Aufnahme von Karten (62), die von der Schacht-Speiseeinrichtung (12) angeliefert werden, und mit einem Ausgabeende, welches eine Abgabestation (18A) bildet, wobei die Transportbandmittel eine Vielzahl von sequentiell angeordneten Stationen (18A, 18B, 18C) umfassen, die jeweils getrennt steuerbare Antriebe (36A, 36B, 36C) aufweisen, und
       mit Mitteln (42A, 42B, 42C), um das Vorhandensein einer Karte an einer vorbestimmten Stelle in jeder Station (18A, 18B, 18C) festzustellen, dadurch gekennzeichnet,
       daß die Schacht-Speiseeinrichtung eine Unterzug-Speiseeinrichtung (12) ist, die zusammen mit der ersten Station (18C) des Transportbandes betätigbar ist, um Karten in eine schnelleren Abfolge einzuspeisen, als die Abgabe der Karten von der End-Station (18A) aus erfolgt, und
       daß die Vorrichtung weiterhin Mittel umfaßt, die, wenn eine Karte nicht an der besagten vorbestimmten Stelle vorhanden ist, gleichzeitig die Antriebsmittel (36A, 36B, 36C) alle vorangehenden Stationen zusammen mit der Schacht-Speiseeinrichtung (12) einschaltet.
  4. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 3, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Mittel zur Erfassung des Vorhandenseins einer Karte (62) an jeder Station (18A, 18B, 18C) photo-elektrische Mittel (42A, 42B, 42C) umfaßt.
  5. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 4, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Antriebsmittel einen unabhängigen elektrisch angetriebenen Motor (36A, 36B, 36C) umfassen, der jeder Station (18A, 18B, 18C) und der Schacht-Speiseeinrichtung (12) zugeordnet ist, und daß die photo-elektrischen Mittel (42A, 42B, 42C) an jeder Station elektrisch mit dem Antriebsmotor an dieser Station, mit den Antriebsmotoren an allen vorangehenden Stationen und mit der Schacht-Speiseeinrichtung (12) verbunden sind.
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