EP0344698B1 - Compensation loop device for a web and operation - Google Patents

Compensation loop device for a web and operation Download PDF

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EP0344698B1
EP0344698B1 EP89109693A EP89109693A EP0344698B1 EP 0344698 B1 EP0344698 B1 EP 0344698B1 EP 89109693 A EP89109693 A EP 89109693A EP 89109693 A EP89109693 A EP 89109693A EP 0344698 B1 EP0344698 B1 EP 0344698B1
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Luciano Meschi
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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
    • B65H23/00—Registering, tensioning, smoothing or guiding webs
    • B65H23/04—Registering, tensioning, smoothing or guiding webs longitudinally
    • B65H23/042—Sensing the length of a web loop
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H20/00—Advancing webs
    • B65H20/24—Advancing webs by looping or like devices

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  • the present invention is referred to a device generating a compensation loop on a web that is sent to graphic machines, such as printers.
  • an object of the present invention is that of providing a device generating a loop in a web feeding a graphic machine, for compensating the intermittent operating of said graphic machine, meaning that sometimes said web is not required and sometimes there is a strong necessity thereof.
  • Another object is that of providing signal means capable of detecting the formation of a loop in a web at the input of said graphic machine.
  • Another object is to stop the web letting in to said graphic machine when a loop formed in said device exceeds a first prefixed length and to start it again when said loop is shorter than a second prefixed length (that is its length is too short).
  • a further object is to cause said stopping or said starting of the movement of said web to take place in a gradual way to prevent the paper from being spoiled.
  • a known method to signal an excessive shortening or lengthening of said loop is to employ very sensible microswitches respectively connected both to a tray whereon the loop bottom can lay and to a short rod that can be lifted from the loop when the loop is shortening too much, said microswitches operating a motor controlling the entrance of the web to said graphic machine.
  • Another method uses proximity detectors such as capacity detectors by which the capacity variation of an electrode as caused by the presence of an insulating material such as a web is sensed.
  • proximity detectors such as capacity detectors by which the capacity variation of an electrode as caused by the presence of an insulating material such as a web is sensed.
  • Another device for transporting a continuous recording web such as paper from a paper storage to a printing machine is known from DE-A-2.500.396.
  • a compensation loop of web is formed between said paper storage and said printing machine the lenght of which is controlled by a presence detector means which controls in turn driving means of the paper web.
  • Said detector means essentially consist of a photoelectric cell comprising a light source and a light receiving element disposed opposite one to the other.
  • the receiving element can receive the light from the light source only when the lower end of the compensation loop is above a prefixed position corresponding to the path of the ray of light from said source and the receiving element.
  • the device forming the object of the above mentioned patent has the remarkable disadvantage consisting in the fact that it operates on the principle of a beam which can be interrupted or not by the lower end of the compensation loop.
  • the interruption on the restoration of said beam take place suddenly causing accordingly the immediate stopping or restarting of the driving means.
  • This type of operation is extremely dangerous for the paper web which frequently is irremediably damaged.
  • a further disadvantage derive from the necessity to immediately stop the feeding of the printing machine for the restoration of the regular initial conditions whith evident idle times and increasing costs.
  • DE-A-2.912.656 discloses and depicts in the enclosed figure a device feeding either a continuous paper web (14) or discrete paper sheets (24) to a printer provided with opto-electronic detectors (7 and 8) to detect either the presence of whatever kind of paper at a location arranged downstream a moving roller (1) (Transportrolle 1) by means of the detector (7) or a discrete paper sheet (24) by means of the detector (8) arranged upstream the the moving roller (1), both detectors (7 and 8) being of reflective kind essentially consisting of a lamp and a photodetector, side-by-side contained in a housing, the photodetector receiving the light generated by the lamp and reflected by either the paper web (14) or the paper sheet (24).
  • the opto-electronic detectors (7 and 8) can detect by reflexion either the presence or the absence of the paper in their useful ranges, through the simple "on-off" principle, but cannot evaluate and do not have any means to evaluate the intensity of the reflected light and, as a consequence, the reciprocal distances between paper and detectors , a matter of main importance in the present invention, because that evaluation of the reciprocal distance between paper and detector is indispensable in determining the features of the compensation loop provided by the device.
  • a web compensation loop device for a paper web supplied from a paper supply means, including a storage and supply unit for the paper, to a laser printing machine having a variable printing speed for compensation for intermittent operation of the laser printing machine as a result of the variable printing speed thereof, comprises: web means for supporting and moving said web positioned between said paper storage and supply unit and said printing machine for supporting one end of said web, and said printing machine including means supporting the other end of said web, said web means including means to mave the paper in a direction from said paper supply means to said laser printing machine and for supporting said web therebetween, and said web forming a compensation loop as it leaves said web means and enters into said printing machine, said printing machine having an intermittent rate of feed thereto, said moving means including roller means for driving the web to enter said printing machine with said compensation loop, and is characterized by: variable speed operative motor means carried by said means for driving said roller means in response to the intermittent operation of said printing machine; a single detector means proximate to said web for transmitting rays there
  • said voltage comparator is followed by a ramp generator circuit by which the speed of said motor is adjusted varying it from a zero to a maximum value and back from the maximum value to zero in prefixed times permitting accelerations and decelerations of the motor such as not to spoil said web.
  • a compensation loop device 10 as including a frame 12 formed by two first vertical struts 14 and 16, two longitudainl members 18 and 20 attached to the base of said struts 14 and 16, two shorter vertical struts 22 and 24 and a cross member 26 connecting said struts at their top.
  • the two first vertical struts 14 and 16 support, in the lower part, a first idle roller 28 and in the upper part, a second roller 30 driven by an electric motor 32 by suitable means such as a belt 34.
  • Supporting counter-rollers 36a, 36b, 36c keep pressed, by means of a device 37, a web 38 against a second roller 30 after it has passed around the idle roller 28, said web 28 coming from a paper storage, such a a reel or a box (not shown).
  • the web 38 after coming down from the roller 30 forms a loop 40 which during the operation can take positions 40a and 40b and then comes up to another roller 42 fixed by brackets, such as a bracket 44 to the body (48) of a graphic machine.
  • the right shape of the loop 40 is detected by a proximity detector consisting of a lamp or light emitting means 50 and of a photodector 52, sensing a light ray emitted by the lamp 50 and reflected or diffused by the loop 40 of the web 38 that is running in the direction of the arrows 54 and 56.
  • the upper ends of the struts 14 and 16 are joined by a bridge 57, supporting the motor 38 and the device 37 by which the counterrollers 36a, 36b, 36c are placed against the roller 30 and one of the struts has a housing 58 for controlling circuits for the web 38 provided with knobs and displays 59a, 59b and 59c.
  • An electronic circuit for detecting the loop 40 includes a phototransistor 62 connected by a load resistor 64 to a continuous input voltage +V R and by a coupling resistor 66 to a not inverting input of a voltage comparator circuit 68 that throguh a feedback resistor 70, whose value can be determined by a person skilled in the art, has a narrow hysteresis loop to promote a clear cut and definite change of its input state.
  • the inverting input of the voltage comparator 68 is connected through a coupling resistor 72 to a potentiometer 74 whose adjustment influences the sensibility of the circuit 60 and therefore the distance between the loop and the proximity detector 48 causing the state change at the output of the comparator 68.
  • the output of the comparator 68 is connected to an input of a ramp generator 76 that upon receiving at said input a stepped signal both upwardly and downwarndly transforms the said signal at the output in a ramp signal extending the duration of said variation.
  • the ramp signal is taken to a second input by a feedback connection 78 to give linearity thereto and it is applied to an input of a driving amplifier 80 the purpose of which is to drive an electric motor, such as the motor 32, having a speed proportional to an applied voltage.
  • the operation of the present invention is as follows: a web 38 to be printed, drawn from a supply is passed around the rollers 28 and 30 of the frame 12 and then, after having formed a loop 40, comes to a roller 42 of the graphic machine.
  • the motor 32 rotates at its maximum speed driving the roller 30 and thus the web 38, the loop of which takes the positions 40, 40a, 40b. While the loop goes from the position 40 to the position 40b, the light reflected from the emitter 50 to the photo detector 52 changes from an intensity almost zero to an increasing intensity, making the phototransistor of figure 3 more and more conductive until its collector voltage gets down to a value at which it commutates the output of the voltage comparator 68 from its high value to the low one. At that point the ramp detector 76 initiaties a descending ramp at its output causing the motor 32 to gradually decelerate until it stops.
  • the roller 42 keep on drawing the web 48 in such a way that its loop goes from the position 40b to the position 40 where the lacking of light impinging onto the photodetector 52 restores a high voltage at the output of the voltage generator 68 and a gradual return of high voltage according to a rising ramp at the output of the ramp generator 76.
  • This causes the motor to gradually accelerate again which in turn causes the web 38 to form again the loop passing from the position 40 to the position 40b and the operating cycle of the motor 32 is repeated.
  • the ramp circuit 36 could be substituted for by stepping function generator or by a microprocessor providing a series of numerical data that is able to provide gradual acceleration and deceleration controls for the motor 32.

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  • Controlling Rewinding, Feeding, Winding, Or Abnormalities Of Webs (AREA)
  • Error Detection And Correction (AREA)
  • Picture Signal Circuits (AREA)
  • Networks Using Active Elements (AREA)
  • Registering, Tensioning, Guiding Webs, And Rollers Therefor (AREA)
  • Advancing Webs (AREA)
  • Supplying Of Containers To The Packaging Station (AREA)
EP89109693A 1988-06-02 1989-05-30 Compensation loop device for a web and operation Expired - Lifetime EP0344698B1 (en)

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IT2083588 1988-06-02
IT8820835A IT1234195B (it) 1988-06-02 1988-06-02 Dispositivo per ansa di compensazione di nastro di carta di una stampante ad alta velocita'

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IT1234195B (it) 1992-05-06
JPH0233044A (ja) 1990-02-02
DE68922021D1 (de) 1995-05-11
IT8820835A0 (it) 1988-06-02
ATE120694T1 (de) 1995-04-15

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