EP0417620A1 - Procédé et dispositif de traitement de produits imprimés se déplaçant en formation imbriquée - Google Patents

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EP0417620A1
EP0417620A1 EP90117044A EP90117044A EP0417620A1 EP 0417620 A1 EP0417620 A1 EP 0417620A1 EP 90117044 A EP90117044 A EP 90117044A EP 90117044 A EP90117044 A EP 90117044A EP 0417620 A1 EP0417620 A1 EP 0417620A1
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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
    • B65H29/66—Advancing articles in overlapping streams
    • 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
    • B65H29/58—Article switches or diverters
    • B65H29/62—Article switches or diverters diverting faulty articles from the main streams
    • 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
    • B65H5/24—Feeding articles in overlapping streams, i.e. by separation of articles from a pile

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  • the present invention relates to a method and a device for processing printed products, such as newspapers, magazines and the like, which occur in a scale formation, in particular multi-leaf and folded, according to the preamble of claims 1 and 5 or 9 and 12.
  • the printed products are conveyed to a processing station by means of a belt conveyor in a scale formation in which each printed product rests on the preceding one.
  • the processing station has a deflection arrangement arranged above the belt conveyor, on which a tongue-shaped switch element is provided, which can be lowered to remove individual or several successive printed products, in particular waste copies from the scale formation, in order to pierce the scale formation and to remove the printed products to be removed at right angles to it To reach under the leading edge of the conveying direction.
  • the printed products deflected towards the top by means of the switch element are then captured by acceleration belts and conveyed away.
  • the scale formation can be guided over a step of the belt conveyor.
  • the deflection arrangement is to be lifted towards the top in order to end the detachment of printed products, in order to detach the last deflected printed product, which engages under the subsequent one, and to remove the switch element from the area of action on the printed products.
  • the printed products which cannot be removed from the scale formation are conveyed past the processing station in their mutual position in an unchanged manner by means of the belt conveyor.
  • the speed of the acceleration belt and the lifting of the deflection arrangement must be precisely coordinated and synchronized with the conveying speed and size of the printed products and their overlap. Furthermore, these devices are not suitable for processing scale formations in which the leading edge of each printed product is covered by the respective leading printed product.
  • a further device for processing printed products resulting in scale formation is known from EP-A 0 096 228 or the corresponding US-A 4,538,161.
  • the printed products are individually held in the area of their leading edge running at right angles to the conveying direction by grippers of a conveyor and their trailing area is drawn over a support. They are labeled (addressed) in the area of the trailing edge.
  • Another method and a corresponding device for processing printed products are known from EP-A1 0 300 179.
  • the printed products are in a scale formation, in which, viewed in the conveying direction, each printed product rests on the leading one, the leading or trailing edges of the printed products run perpendicular to the conveying direction and the side edges are aligned with one another, conveyed to a processing station.
  • This has an acceleration device mechanically acting on the printed products for separating the printed products and a switching device for guiding the separated printed products optionally to one of two belt conveyors connected downstream of the processing station.
  • a scale formation that corresponds to the supplied scale formation is again formed from the individual printed products directed towards the belt conveyors.
  • the printed products maintain their position with respect to the conveying direction. In order to be able to redirect the printed products supplied in scale formation, they must first be exposed by separation, which entails considerable effort and in any case the destruction of the supplied scale formation for processing.
  • a device for attaching security stapling in a corner area of printed products is known from DE-PS 590 480.
  • the multi-sheet printed products are deposited in a shingled formation on a belt conveyor running 45 ° across the wheel axis by means of a star-shaped depositing wheel.
  • each printed product lies on top of the leading one and the edges of the printed products are inclined with respect to the conveying direction of the belt conveyor.
  • the exposed and laterally protruding corner areas of the printed products are removed by means of a Sewing machine sewn (security stitching) and the thread between the sewn successive printed products is cut through below.
  • Sewing machine sewn security stitching
  • a device for contactless counting of signature sheets fed in a scale formation by means of a light barrier has a first belt conveyor on which the signature sheets are arranged in a scale formation, in which each signature sheet rests on the leading ones and the side edges of the signature sheets are aligned with one another parallel to the conveyor direction of this belt conveyor.
  • the signature sheets are dropped onto a second belt conveyor, the conveying direction of which, viewed in a horizontal plane, is offset by 45 ° to the conveying direction of the first belt conveyor and the conveying speed is greater than the conveying speed of the first belt conveyor.
  • a scale formation is thus formed on the second belt conveyor, in which the edges of the signature sheets are rotated by 45 ° with respect to the conveying direction of this second belt conveyor and in which the distance between corresponding edges of successive signature sheets is increased.
  • the light barrier is arranged in the region of the edge of this scale formation that runs in a sawtooth shape, the light beam of which is interrupted by a corner region of each signature sheet forming a tooth of this edge.
  • the signature sheets are dropped onto another belt conveyor, the conveying direction of which runs parallel to the conveying direction of the first belt conveyor and the conveying speed is the same as the conveying speed of the first belt conveyor, in order to form a scale formation that exactly matches the scale formation fed from the first Belt conveyor corresponds.
  • an edge area is uncovered which comprises all four edges and on each flat side of the printed products a strip-shaped surface area along two adjacent edges.
  • the printed products can easily be gripped individually by hand in the scale formation at exposed corner areas seen in the conveying direction by means of grippers and released from the scale formation, which is the case with a scale formation in which the printed products are aligned with their leading edges at right angles to the conveying direction and with their side edges are made possible only by complex separation or exposure of peripheral areas of the printed products, for which purpose it may be necessary to destroy the scale formation.
  • the printed products can be mechanically influenced, for example addressed, along two edges without having to be removed from the scale formation, which is the case with a conventional scale format tion with aligned side edges is only possible along the leading or trailing edges. Edges or sections thereof are also freely accessible for mechanical influencing.
  • Figures 1 and 2 show a side view and plan view of a portion of the conveyor effective strand of an endless conveyor belt 10 driven in the direction of conveyance F of a well-known belt conveyor 12.
  • On the conveyor belt 10 are multi-leaf folded printed products 14, such as newspapers, magazines and the like or parts thereof, in a scale formation S, in which each printed product 14 on the preceding printed product 14 viewed in the conveying direction F lies on.
  • the fold edges of the printed products 14 are denoted by 16, the two side edges adjoining them by 18 and 20 and the open edge, the so-called flower, opposite the fold edge 16, by 22.
  • the edges 16 to 22 run obliquely to the conveying direction F, the folded edge 16 including an angle n of approximately 45 ° in the present example with the conveying direction F.
  • This angle ⁇ can of course also be smaller or larger, preferably it is between 10 ° and 80 °.
  • From each edge 16 to 22 is therefore a correspondingly designated 16 'to 22' section exposed, which is not covered by any of the neighboring printed products 14 or is aligned with an edge 16 to 22 thereof (see in particular Fig. 2).
  • a surface area 26 is exposed, which extends in a strip shape along the folded edge 16 and the side edge 18.
  • a corresponding surface area 26 'running along the edges 20 and 22 is exposed on the lower flat side 24' of the printed products 14, which is freely accessible at least in the area outside the conveyor belt 10.
  • printed products 14 are provided with a schematically indicated marking 28 or 28 ', for example a lettering, which runs along the folded edge 16 or the side edge 18.
  • the designated 14 'printed product is in the fixed by the belt conveyor 12 conveyor level 29 in an arrow A shown direction transverse to the conveying direction F with respect to the other printed products 14 of the scale formation 5 shown offset.
  • the conveyor belt 10 leads past a processing station 30 provided at the arrow A.
  • An operator is provided on this, who detaches each printed product 14 with a specific identification 28 in the direction of arrow A from the scale formation S and places it in a designated location.
  • the inclination of the printed products 14 enables the problem-free identification of markings 28, 28 'along two edges 16, 18 of the printed products 14. It is thus possible to sort the most diverse printed products 14 arranged in a scale formation S, in which the markings 28, 28', For example, the title of the printed product 14 runs at right angles or parallel to the folded edge 16.
  • the printed products 14 also lie in a scale formation S on the conveyor-effective strand of the conveyor belt 10 of the belt conveyor 12, which is only partially shown.
  • the conveyor belt 10 is driven revolving in the direction of arrow F.
  • Each print product 14 is in funding Direction F seen in each case on the trailing printed product 14.
  • the leading fold edge 16 and side edge 18 seen in the conveying direction F is only partially covered by the leading printed product 14, since the edges 16 to 22 also run obliquely to the conveying direction F.
  • the exposed portions of the edges 16 to 22 are also designated 16 'to 22'.
  • the processing station 30 has a reading device 32, indicated only schematically, above the conveyor belt 10. This reads the markings 28, 28 'from the printed products 14 and forwards corresponding signals to a gripper arrangement 34 of the processing station 30, which is only indicated schematically (FIG. 4). This has a controllable gripper 34 'which, depending on the signals emitted by the reading device 32, detects a printed product 14' in the corner region 27 and in the arrow direction A, approximately parallel to the conveying plane 29 and at right angles to the conveying direction F, releases it from the scale formation S or leaves the print product in question in the scale formation S.
  • the printed products 14 which have not been released from the scale formation S by the operator or by the gripper arrangement 34 maintain their position with respect to the conveying direction F and are conveyed further by the belt conveyor 12 to a further processing station, for example.
  • the printed products 14 are arranged in a scale formation S corresponding to FIGS. 1 and 2 or 3 and 4 on a conveyor belt 10.
  • the two scale formations S are therefore only described to the extent that this is necessary for an understanding of FIGS. 5 to 8.
  • the endless conveyor belt 10, which is only partially shown, is driven in the direction of rotation F.
  • each printed product 14 rests on the preceding printed product 14.
  • the surface area 26 is exposed along the two leading edges, the folded edge 16 and the side edge 18.
  • a schematically indicated adhesive device 38 which sticks a label 40 onto each printed product 14, for example with the address of the recipient of the printed product, in a known manner.
  • the label 40 can be applied anywhere within the surface area 26. This also along the side edge 18, which would be covered by the subsequent printed product 14 in a scale formation with side edges aligned with one another.
  • the printed products 14 are guided past the gluing device 38 of the processing station 30 without changing their position within the scale formation S.
  • each printed product 14 lies on the trailing printed product 14.
  • the upper exposed surface area 26 thus extends along the two trailing edges 20 and 22 which extend from the leading print product 14 are not covered.
  • leading edges, the folded edge 16 and the side edge 18, the sections 16 ', 18' are thus exposed.
  • a printer 42 indicated only schematically, which inserts a label 44, for example the address of the recipient of the printed products, onto the printed products 14 in the area 26 along the side edge 20.
  • the label 44 can optionally be applied in the entire surface area 26, this also along the side edge 20, which is covered by the leading printed product 14 in the case of a scale formation in which the folded edge 16 is arranged at right angles to the conveying direction F.
  • the printed products 14 are conveyed past the processing station 30 in the scale formation S and fed to a further processing station.

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Separation, Sorting, Adjustment, Or Bending Of Sheets To Be Conveyed (AREA)
  • Feeding Of Articles By Means Other Than Belts Or Rollers (AREA)
  • Folding Of Thin Sheet-Like Materials, Special Discharging Devices, And Others (AREA)
EP90117044A 1989-09-13 1990-09-05 Procédé et dispositif de traitement de produits imprimés se déplaçant en formation imbriquée Expired - Lifetime EP0417620B1 (fr)

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CA2025146A1 (fr) 1991-03-14
FI904503A0 (fi) 1990-09-12
FI96595B (fi) 1996-04-15
FI96595C (fi) 1996-07-25
JPH03120150A (ja) 1991-05-22

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