EP0566531B1 - Einrichtung zum Sammeln und anschliessenden Heften gefalteter, bogenförmiger Druckprodukte - Google Patents

Einrichtung zum Sammeln und anschliessenden Heften gefalteter, bogenförmiger Druckprodukte Download PDF

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EP0566531B1
EP0566531B1 EP93810238A EP93810238A EP0566531B1 EP 0566531 B1 EP0566531 B1 EP 0566531B1 EP 93810238 A EP93810238 A EP 93810238A EP 93810238 A EP93810238 A EP 93810238A EP 0566531 B1 EP0566531 B1 EP 0566531B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B42—BOOKBINDING; ALBUMS; FILES; SPECIAL PRINTED MATTER
    • B42C—BOOKBINDING
    • B42C1/00—Collating or gathering sheets combined with processes for permanently attaching together sheets or signatures or for interposing inserts
    • B42C1/12—Machines for both collating or gathering and permanently attaching together the sheets or signatures
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B42—BOOKBINDING; ALBUMS; FILES; SPECIAL PRINTED MATTER
    • B42B—PERMANENTLY ATTACHING TOGETHER SHEETS, QUIRES OR SIGNATURES OR PERMANENTLY ATTACHING OBJECTS THERETO
    • B42B4/00—Permanently attaching together sheets, quires or signatures by discontinuous stitching with filamentary material, e.g. wire
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2405/00—Parts for holding the handled material
    • B65H2405/30—Other features of supports for sheets
    • B65H2405/35—Means for moving support
    • B65H2405/352—Means for moving support in closed loop

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  • the invention relates to a device for collecting and then stapling folded, sheet-shaped printed products according to the preamble of patent claim 1.
  • EP-A-0'399'317 discloses a device for collecting and stapling folded printed sheets.
  • this has a traction means 50 which is guided around two spaced-apart deflection wheels and on which, at certain intervals, supports are arranged one behind the other, parallel to one another and at right angles to the direction of rotation.
  • the stapling station has a stapling head arrangement arranged above the collecting conveyor or along the upper run of the traction means, with an elongated movement path for the stapling heads.
  • the stitching heads are attached to a traction element and run synchronously with the upper run of the traction device.
  • the collected printed sheets are stapled on the run, which is why the pads are designed with folders.
  • the object of the present invention is to provide a device of the type mentioned at the outset, which is easier to control with regard to use and maintenance.
  • a device defined according to the characterizing part of patent claim 1 is distinguished for achieving the object.
  • the traction means in the conveying direction after the loading end at least indirectly thereafter approximately spiral or.
  • This tangent to the circumference of the deflection wheel runs in such a way that the benders and supports are aligned in the direction of stapling movement, this device can be easily expanded or reduced with respect to the feeder.
  • the known devices are suitable as feeders, which are to be arranged along a loading area to be determined and extending in front of the bending device opposite to the conveying direction above a run of the traction means.
  • the diameter of the deflection wheel and the course of the traction device on the deflection wheel can be adapted to existing processing and space conditions, of course with uniform division of the benders on the circumference of the deflection wheel and the supports on the traction device.
  • the benders and supports can be precisely guided one above the other in a stable stapling position.
  • the traction means and the deflecting wheel form an increasingly narrowing inlet section, in which the printed products with their leading part reach the space between two benders, while the following part of the printed product passes in the opposite part from the bender in question Submerged space.
  • the direction of extension of the inlet section is determined by the course of the section of the traction means following the loading area in the conveying direction and the relative position of the peripheral area of the deflecting wheel affected by it, the size of the angle of the inlet section also being selected according to the width of the printed products.
  • the supports have at least one front contact leg, which, viewed in the conveying direction, slopes obliquely towards the front and which is conducive to the stability of the position of the corresponding part of the printed product.
  • the supply of the printed products to the deflection wheel can be favored if the supports are designed to be pivotable about an axis running transversely to the conveying direction between the conveyor chains of the traction means, so that they can be rotated in the inlet section.
  • a control curve is expediently provided for this purpose, by means of which the support can be forcibly pivoted.
  • a further improvement in the inlet situation can be achieved if the benders in the region of the inlet section on the circumference of the deflection wheel are controlled such that they can be reset, for example in the radial direction.
  • the stapler between the inlet section and a subsequent outlet section of the stapled printed products is drive-connected to the deflection wheel.
  • the stapling heads of the stapler can be controlled alternately or at the same time stapling, for which purpose, for example, a forcibly mechanical, a mechanical-hydraulic / -pneumatic or electrically controlled drive device can be used.
  • the stapler can be formed from at least two parts, each having a stapling head, a pair of stapling heads or a plurality of stapling heads, which can be driven with the deflection wheel and in opposite directions.
  • the device according to the invention to drive several stitching heads combined as a one-piece stitching device during the stitching process in synchronism with the deflection wheel and back in counter-rotation on a parallel circular arc or, as disclosed in CH-A-667 621, by means of several rotation stitching heads known per se to stick the printed products on the parallel circular arc.
  • the stitching heads can staple at the same time or in succession.
  • the stapler is divided into two parts, each with a stapling head or pair of stapling heads, the parts each carrying out opposite movements during the stapling process, that is to say while one part is carrying out a movement which is the same as that for stapling, the other part runs in the opposite direction to accommodate a wire section back.
  • the traction means viewed in the conveying direction, advantageously moves away from the circumference of the deflection wheel in a spiral or tangential manner and thus forms an outlet section in which the supports move out of the space between the deflectors.
  • the device according to the invention is advantageously further developed such that, in the case of a bending device formed from two laterally adjacent deflection wheels which are arranged between conveyor chains of the rotating traction means, the lateral distance between the deflection wheels is designed to be adjustable and lockable.
  • the conveying path 2 is formed by a plurality of saddle-like supports 5 which extend on a traction means 4 and extend transversely to the conveying direction and are used for astride placement of the printed products. These supports 5 are assigned feeders (not shown) in the loading area 6, each with differently printed printed products of the same format.
  • a stapler 7, which is passed by the endless traction means 4, is arranged in front of or at the end of the conveyor section 2, directly or indirectly after the loading area 6.
  • the latter runs around two parallel axes 8, 9, of which one 9 is provided for mounting a bending device designed as a deflection wheel, the deflection wheel 10 having spacers of the supports 5 distributed around the circumference of drivable or actuable benders 11, the former 10 form 7 stapling stations 10 in the range of movement of the stapler.
  • the bending device 3 could also consist of two chain wheels forming the traction means 4, which are connected by transverse traverses, which are attached to the circumference of the chain wheels at intervals of the supports 5 and are provided with benders.
  • the bending device 3 could also consist of two rigidly connected deflecting wheels 10 forming a stapling drum and could be referred to as the only deflecting wheel.
  • the bending device could alternatively have three deflecting wheels 10 and designed according to the features described above be.
  • the traction means 4 viewed in the conveying direction, runs after the end of the loading area 6 in an ascending section approximately spirally to the circumference of a bending device designed as a deflection wheel 10, the device 1 shown as an example each consisting of two laterally adjacent supports 5, which form the traction means 4 Conveyor chains (not visible), two bending devices on axis 9 and two further deflection wheels on axis 8.
  • the upper runs of the traction means 4 could also pass to the deflection wheels 10 in a less steep, tangential or inclined manner from above (spiral).
  • the embodiment shown shows a space-saving design of the device 1, which makes it possible to provide the docking stations with a minimal overall height in the loading area 6 above the traction means 4.
  • the benders 11 on the deflection wheels 10 and the supports 5 are aligned on the bending device 3 in the direction of stapling movement or they form stapling stations 12.
  • In front of these stapling stations 12 there is an increasing section of the traction means 4 and the deflection wheels 10, viewed in the conveying direction, increasingly narrowing inlet section 14, in that the contact legs 15 with a bearing leg 15 sloping forward in the conveying direction run in between the benders 11 attached to the deflection wheels 10 and arrange themselves over the latter.
  • the supports 5 are advantageously designed to be pivotable and to be controlled by appropriate means (not shown).
  • the benders 11 could also be controlled in a resettable manner in the region of the inlet section 14 be designed so as to provide more space for the movement of the contact legs 15.
  • a stitching device 7 Adjacent to the inlet section 14, a stitching device 7 is preferably arranged above the bending device 3 or the deflection wheels 10, which has two stitching heads 16 or pairs of stitching heads facing the stitching stations 12 made of deflection wheels 10 and supports 5.
  • the stapler 7 is drive-connected on a section on the circumference of the deflecting wheels 10 or a section of the stapling stations 12 intended for stapling with the bending device 3 or the deflecting wheels 10 in the same direction and in the opposite direction to the work cycle, ie the stapling stations 12 intended for stapling pass through with the printed products a stapling section, within which the stapling of the printed products is carried out, at the same angular speed as the stapling heads 16 of the stapler 7. After stapling has been completed, the stapler 7 pivots back after lifting from the supports 5 into the starting position against the conveying direction.
  • the wire section required for the staple can be taken over by a stitching head or cut and transported.
  • the stapler 7 Before the stapler 7 reaches the same angular velocity, it is accelerated from the starting position and the heads are lowered onto the supports 5 immediately upon reaching the stapling section. During this process, the wire section is preformed into a drivable shape. Subsequently, these wire sections are driven with their side parts through the collected printed products and bent at the benders 11 moved in the opposite direction. Then the stitching heads 16 lift off and begin their return to the starting position.
  • the stapling process can be carried out simultaneously by all stapling heads 16 or all supports 5 that the stapling operations of the individual stapling heads are carried out immediately following one another (corresponds to the stapler drawn with a solid line in FIG. 1).
  • the stapler 7 can be separated into an alternating leading and a returning part.
  • the stapling heads 16 are thus attached to two rockers each, which are driven in opposite directions, but which, however, perform at least approximately the same movements as the stapling heads 16 of the stapler 7 which are driven together as a unit (corresponds to the stapler indicated in dashed lines in FIG. 1).
  • the stapling heads 16 can be loaded by a device which cuts the wire sections or by the stapling head concerned in each case. Both possibilities are known to the person skilled in the art from the prior art, with each stitching head being assigned a wire dispensing device or a device advancing the wire.
  • the stapled printed products - see arrows in FIG. 1 - are removed directly or indirectly from the stapling area, for example by means of clamps gripping the printed products or by ejectors or by their own weight or by gravity and centrifugal force in the area below the axis 9 of the deflection wheels 10 .
  • the outlet section 17 is also formed, ie the lower run or the runs of the traction means 4 leave the chain wheels which are connected to the bending device 3 in a spiral or tangential manner, so that the contact legs 15 of the supports 5 can emerge from the space between the benders 11 without interference. If necessary, a forced control of the contact legs 15 or the supports 5 around their longitudinal axis of extension is also to be provided for the outlet section 17.
  • the distance between the two deflection wheels 10 forming the bending device 3 can be adjusted or adjusted.
  • the bending device 3 is arranged between an endlessly driven conveyor chain running on the outer sides of the deflection wheels 10.
  • a stapling station 12 is shown enlarged in detail in FIG. 2. This shows the bender block 18 with the benders (not visible) and a carrier 20 of the bender block connected to the hub 19 of the deflection wheel 10 and a support 5 arranged above it. 21 mediates the drive axis of the bender.
EP93810238A 1992-04-14 1993-04-05 Einrichtung zum Sammeln und anschliessenden Heften gefalteter, bogenförmiger Druckprodukte Expired - Lifetime EP0566531B1 (de)

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