EP0576390A1 - Dispositif pour collecter des feuilles en tas - Google Patents

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EP0576390A1
EP0576390A1 EP93810321A EP93810321A EP0576390A1 EP 0576390 A1 EP0576390 A1 EP 0576390A1 EP 93810321 A EP93810321 A EP 93810321A EP 93810321 A EP93810321 A EP 93810321A EP 0576390 A1 EP0576390 A1 EP 0576390A1
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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
    • B65H29/12—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles by means of the nip between two, or between two sets of, moving tapes or bands or rollers
    • B65H29/14—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles by means of the nip between two, or between two sets of, moving tapes or bands or rollers and introducing into a pile
    • B65H29/145—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles by means of the nip between two, or between two sets of, moving tapes or bands or rollers and introducing into a pile the pile being formed between the two, or between the two sets of, tapes or bands or rollers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H31/00—Pile receivers
    • B65H31/30—Arrangements for removing completed piles
    • B65H31/3027—Arrangements for removing completed piles by the nip between moving belts or rollers
    • 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
    • B65H39/10—Associating articles from a single source, to form, e.g. a writing-pad
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2301/00—Handling processes for sheets or webs
    • B65H2301/40—Type of handling process
    • B65H2301/42—Piling, depiling, handling piles
    • B65H2301/421—Forming a pile
    • B65H2301/4213—Forming a pile of a limited number of articles, e.g. buffering, forming bundles
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2301/00—Handling processes for sheets or webs
    • B65H2301/40—Type of handling process
    • B65H2301/42—Piling, depiling, handling piles
    • B65H2301/422—Handling piles, sets or stacks of articles
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2408/00—Specific machines
    • B65H2408/10—Specific machines for handling sheet(s)
    • B65H2408/11—Sorters or machines for sorting articles
    • B65H2408/111—Sorters or machines for sorting articles with stationary location in space of the bins and a diverter per bin

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  • the sheets are printed by a printer connected to the computer, e.g. a laser printer, labeled. You must then, e.g. In the case of multi-page documents, they are put together in a bundle or stack according to their sequence and finally folded or further processed and / or inserted.
  • the present invention is based on the object of specifying a device with which the individual sheets can be collected efficiently and exactly aligned with one another and then transported away together, e.g. into a folding and inserting machine. This object is achieved by the combination of features of the claims.
  • the device consists of a feed element 1 for feeding single sheets 2 in the transport direction A, two transport roller pairs 3, a drive 4 for the roller pairs 3 and a control device 5 for controlling the drive 4.
  • the components of the device are accommodated in a housing 6, which is only indicated.
  • the feed member 1 comprises a plurality of endless lower and upper rubber cords 10, 11 which are guided over deflection rollers 12.
  • the rollers 12 are laterally displaceable and lockable on shafts 13.
  • the lower run of the upper cords 11 runs parallel to the upper run of the lower cords 10.
  • the upstream shafts 13 run in opposite directions via gear wheels 14 coupled to one another and driven by a constantly rotating motor 17 via a toothed belt 15 and further toothed wheels 16.
  • the cords 10, 11 extend in the transport direction beyond the pairs of rollers 3.
  • the sheets 2 are fed to the feed gap of the cords 10, 11 via a guide plate 18, for example from a cross cutting machine or directly from a printer.
  • rollers 20, 21 of the pairs of transport rollers 3 are rotatably connected to two shafts 22, 23 mounted vertically one above the other in the housing 6.
  • the shafts 22, 23 are coupled to one another in opposite directions via further gear wheels 24.
  • Each roller 20, 21 has on the cylindrical outer circumference 25 a wedge-shaped recess 26, 27 with a stop shoulder 28, 29, which lies in a plane containing the roller axis, and a perpendicular, axially parallel surface 30, 31.
  • the stop shoulders 28, 29 in a common vertical plane.
  • the distance between the bearings 32 of the shafts 22, 23 which are fixed to the housing is somewhat smaller than the diameter of the rollers 20, 21, so that these are slightly pressed against one another by the elastic deflection of the shafts 22, 23.
  • the upper shaft 23 can also be supported in a vertically resilient manner.
  • the drive 4 comprises a further gear wheel 40, which is driven by the toothed belt 15 and is coaxial to the shaft 22.
  • a one-speed clutch 41 connects the pinion 40 to the shaft 22.
  • the single-speed clutch 41 has a cylindrical housing 42 with a notch 43, in which a spring-loaded pawl 44 engages in the basic position and thus locks the housing 42.
  • the housing 42 is rotatably connected to the shaft 22.
  • a spring band coupling is arranged inside the housing 42, which is released when the notch 43 stops against the pawl 44 and, when the pawl 44 is lifted off, connects the housing 42 to the shaft 45 of the gearwheel 40 in a rotationally fixed manner.
  • Such single-speed clutches are commercially available.
  • the pawl 44 can be pressed out of the locking notch 43 by an electromagnet 46, so that the shafts 22, 23 are driven by the constantly rotating gearwheel 40 until the magnet 46 is switched off and the pawl 44 engages again in the locking notch 43 and thus the Rollers 20, 21 are again in the basic position shown in FIGS. 1 and 1a.
  • a sheet 2 conveyed into the draw-in gap of the cords 10, 11 is conveyed through it up to the stop of its front edge on the stop shoulders 28, 29.
  • a plurality of rear stops 51 are fastened laterally displaceably and lockably on a crossbar 50.
  • the rod 50 is clamped adjustable in the feed direction A on two rails 52 fixed to the housing.
  • the stops 51 protrude the lower runs of the upper cords 11 and have a vertical stop surface 53 facing the roller pairs 3 and a wedge-shaped, inclined ramp surface 54 facing away from the roller pairs 3.
  • the sheets 2 are guided between two side guide plates 56.
  • machine-readable characters for example bar codes
  • a reading device 60 which activates the control device 5 via a signal to transport the federal government away.
  • a sensor 61 for example a light barrier, immediately upstream of the stop surfaces 53, the control device 5 reports the passage of the rear edge of this last sheet.
  • the magnet 46 which unlocks the single-speed clutch 41, is switched on with a control pulse.
  • the rollers 20, 21 thus rotate and remove the collar 55.
  • the rollers 20, 21 can diverge elastically from one another by the bundle thickness.
  • a further light barrier 62 which keeps the magnet 4 switched on via the control device 5 until the rear edge of the collar 55 has passed the barrier 62.
  • the magnet 46 is switched off, so that the pawl 44 stops the clutch 41 in its basic position. The number of revolutions made by the clutch is automatically adjusted to the blade length.
  • the device described enables single sheets to be collected efficiently and with little effort to form an exactly aligned bundle and to be transported further as a bundle.
  • the step height of the stop shoulders 28, 29 is slightly larger than half of the maximum intended bundle thickness. If only a few sheets 2 need to be collected at a time, it may be expedient to form the recess 26 with the stop shoulder 28 on only one roller 20 of the pair of rollers 3. In tests, it has proven to be expedient to mount a flywheel 65 on the output side of the single-speed clutch 41. As a result, the angle of rotation at which the shafts 22, 23 are stopped in the basic position could be maintained more precisely.
  • the drive 4 for the roller pairs 3 can also be e.g. a servo motor with angular feedback can be used.
  • a servo motor with angular feedback can be used.
  • these can also have two or three recesses 26, 27 at the same angular spacing, the shafts 22, 23 each rotating by an integral multiple of 180 ° or 120 °.
  • the device is connected directly to a printer that writes single sheets, a signal from the printer or an upstream computer for activating the removal of the federal government 55 can also be used instead of the reader 60.
  • the first sheet delivered can already be removed by means of the roller pairs 3 in response to a corresponding signal.
  • FIG. 5 shows the device with an upstream valve or switch arrangement 70, by means of which single sheets 2 or series of sheets in three different ones Compartments 71, 72, 73 can be removed.
  • the three swiveling switch plates 75, 76, 77 required for this purpose, for example actuated by magnets 74, can also be controlled by the signals of the reading device 60. Sheets 2 or series of sheets that are not to be processed further in a folding or inserting machine downstream of the device can thus be discharged and collected separately.
  • the switch arrangement shown requires extremely little space in the direction of transport A.
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