EP0709326A1 - Méthode et dispositif pour marquer des produits imprimés et pliés sur une page intérieure - Google Patents

Méthode et dispositif pour marquer des produits imprimés et pliés sur une page intérieure Download PDF

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EP0709326A1
EP0709326A1 EP95114945A EP95114945A EP0709326A1 EP 0709326 A1 EP0709326 A1 EP 0709326A1 EP 95114945 A EP95114945 A EP 95114945A EP 95114945 A EP95114945 A EP 95114945A EP 0709326 A1 EP0709326 A1 EP 0709326A1
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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
    • B65H5/00—Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines
    • B65H5/30—Opening devices for folded sheets or signatures
    • B65H5/308—Opening devices for folded sheets or signatures the folded sheets or signatures travelling in hanging position
    • 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
    • B65H29/003—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles by grippers
    • 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
    • B65H2301/44—Moving, forwarding, guiding material
    • B65H2301/447—Moving, forwarding, guiding material transferring material between transport devices
    • B65H2301/4471—Grippers, e.g. moved in paths enclosing an area
    • B65H2301/44712—Grippers, e.g. moved in paths enclosing an area carried by chains or bands
    • 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
    • B65H2301/44—Moving, forwarding, guiding material
    • B65H2301/447—Moving, forwarding, guiding material transferring material between transport devices
    • B65H2301/44795—Saddle conveyor with saddle member extending transversally to transport direction
    • 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
    • B65H2301/50—Auxiliary process performed during handling process
    • B65H2301/51—Modifying a characteristic of handled material
    • B65H2301/511—Processing surface of handled material upon transport or guiding thereof, e.g. cleaning
    • B65H2301/5111—Printing; Marking

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  • the present invention relates to a method for labeling folded printed products, such as folded single sheets or folded booklets, on an inner side, in particular, but not exclusively, in an edge region thereof, in which the respective folded printed products are conveyed by a conveyor, at least partially opened and on a printhead, in particular an ink jet recorder, and in which the labeling of at least one half of the respective printed product takes place in an at least substantially flat area thereof, and devices for carrying out this method.
  • folded printed products such as folded single sheets or folded booklets
  • a method of the type mentioned is known from the international patent application with the publication number WO 93/07081.
  • the method described there serves to affix a label or signature on the inner pages of books carried by a conveyor.
  • the books With this conveying device, the books are carried in the folded state, the fold lying parallel to the conveying direction and the two halves of the respective printed products being arranged to the left and right of the conveying device and hanging down from it.
  • a guide cord is located below the conveyor and serves to keep the two halves of the printed products at a short distance from one another.
  • a plow-like part which serves to increasingly move half of the folded printed product out of the vertical position into a horizontal position turn, the inscription in the edge area of the side of the horizontally guided half of the books by a printhead attached in the area of the outlet end of the plow.
  • the aim of this known method or device is to keep the acceleration of the half of the printed products moved from the vertical position into the horizontal position as constant as possible, since this promises a higher working speed.
  • the state of the art also includes the integrated inkjet system from Ferag AG, Hinwil / Switzerland, which enables the labeling of marginal areas of individual pages of a printed product, but is not yet designed to enable folded printed products to be opened for labeling purposes.
  • the object of the present invention is to provide a method and a device for labeling the inside of a printed product, in such a way that this labeling can be done reliably and with relatively little effort at a high conveying speed of the printed products, the side to be labeled in the area the print head is properly guided and a flutter the pages of the print products are not to be feared.
  • the method according to the invention provides that the respective folded printed products are transported with their folds transversely to the conveying device, and that an opening device ensures the opening of the products in or opposite to the direction of conveyance, while the grippers of the conveying device still hold the two halves of the Hold the respective print products in the fold area and press them against each other there.
  • the folded printed products are opened in such a way that arcing or loops are formed in at least the half of the respective folded printed products to be labeled, while the edge region of this half is guided over an at least substantially flat guide.
  • the inherent elasticity of the printed products ensures that the edge region of the half is pressed against the guide, thereby doing anything Flutter can be switched off and an exact positioning of the area to be labeled in relation to the print head can be achieved.
  • the method can also be carried out in such a way that in the area of the print head after the partial opening of the printed products, the two halves of the respective printed products are moved towards one another below the grippers of the conveying device, but above the edge area to be labeled, in order to curvature the sheet or Increase loop. In this way, an increase in the contact pressure between the guide and the edge region of the printed product can be achieved, so that the printed products are optimally positioned and guided in the region of the print head.
  • the reference number 10 shows a conveying device for conveying folded printed products 12 in the form of a fanned-out scale formation.
  • the direction of conveyance is indicated at 14, i.e. the individual grippers 16 of the conveying device, which carry the respective folded printed products 12, are arranged at equal distances from one another and are moved in the conveying direction 14.
  • the grippers 16 each hold a folded printed product 12 in the area immediately below the respective fold 18. Such grippers are well known in practice, and the gripper fingers 20 and 22 of the individual grippers can be opened for receiving or dispensing a folded printed product and be closed. The grippers are all shown in Fig. 1 in the closed state.
  • the printed products 12 can be individual folded sheets which are then put together with other sheets to form a complete booklet, for example a magazine or a part thereof. However, it can also be a few folded sheets which are then combined with further folded sheets to form a complete product, such as a magazine or a book, or it can be a completed magazine, booklet or similar product. In any case, and this also applies to all further exemplary embodiments, it is desirable to carry out labeling by means of a printhead 24 in an edge region of the inside of the printed product, the labeling being able to be carried out, for example, quite individually.
  • the name of a customer relating to the printed product can be printed in the marginal area on the inside.
  • the edge area can be a lateral edge area of the printed product, i.e. the edge area which is parallel to the fold 18 but distant therefrom, or it can be the upper or lower edge of the page in question.
  • a possible application of the device relates to catalogs, in the interior of which an order card is inserted in the middle, on the inside of which the address of the customer, ie the recipient of this catalog, is already printed. If, for example, the customer wishes to obtain the item or several of them, he only needs to provide the order card with the order information, but not with his address.
  • the folded order card When manufacturing the order card, the folded order card must therefore be opened before collecting and printed with the desired address.
  • the catalog consists of several folded parts, it is possible to provide such an order card for each inside of a folded part.
  • the labeling device of FIG. 1 (as well as the other labeling devices described below) are primarily intended for making labels on the middle inside of the respective folded printed product, when putting together several folded printed products, each of which has labels on the middle inside , Labels can be achieved that are not only on the middle inside of the finished product.
  • the preferred device is concerned with opening the folded printed products which are conveyed in the folded state to such an extent that the edge region to be labeled comes to lie freely. This edge area must be at least essentially flat for a clean typeface when labeling.
  • the printing products in the embodiment according to FIG. 1 are opened using an opening device 26 which is designed as disclosed in the European patent application by the same applicant with publication number EP-A-0 564 812, the opening device there being different Serves purpose.
  • This opening device 26 essentially consists of two rotating conveyor chains or belts 28, 30 arranged next to one another, which carry respective grippers 32 and 34, respectively.
  • the arrangement is made so that the respective upper strands of the two conveyors 28, 30 lie next to each other and also move in the direction of arrow 14, however, the conveyer 30 runs somewhat faster than the conveyer 28 and this moves at essentially the speed of the conveyer 10.
  • the grippers 34 are increasingly spaced apart from the grippers 32 in the course of the movement parallel to the conveying device 10.
  • the grippers 34 are designed such that they clamp the lower end 40 of the front half of the folded printed product facing away from the fold 18, while the gripper 32 subsequently used is for the same folded printed product 12 receives the end 42 of the rear half of the folded printed product facing away from the fold 18.
  • the grippers 32 are also provided with a clamping tongue 36.
  • the folded printed products When the folded printed products enter the opening device 26, they are already guided on a guide surface 38 so that they have the curved shape of the printed product 12 shown on the left and the end 40 of the front half of the folded printed product facing away from the fold 18 12 viewed in the conveying direction 14 has a small but defined distance 46 from the end 42 of the rear half of the folded printed product 12 facing away from the fold 18.
  • the gripper 34 can thus be reliably brought into contact with the lower end 40 of the front half of the folded printed product 12, for example when it comes up around a deflection roller (not shown) coming from below upwards in the region of the distance 46, ie similarly to that in FIG Representation on the left side of FIG. 1 for the gripper 32.
  • the print head 24 is arranged in the region of the deflection roller on the exit side in the opening device 26 and is designed to label the rear half of the folded but open product in the edge region.
  • the printhead 24 is essentially irrelevant to the present invention.
  • this print head is preferably designed as an inkjet printer, as described in the European patent application of the present applicant with the publication number EP-A-0 096 228. Please refer to this earlier registration for further details.
  • all the advantages made for the ink jet printer 18 according to EP-A-0 096 228 apply, for example also that the signal which triggers the writing process can be carried out remotely according to the clock of the conveyor.
  • a monitor (not shown) can be provided in order to prevent the labeling process in the case of unoccupied grippers and to prevent contamination of the system with ink.
  • FIG. 2 is very similar to the embodiment of FIG. 1, and like all the others it will be Embodiments, the same reference numerals are used for the same parts, so that a detailed description of the individual parts in connection with the other embodiments is unnecessary.
  • the individual folded printed products 12 are guided in such a way that the lower ends of the two halves of the respective printed products lead to the respective gripper 16 of the conveying device 10.
  • the labeling is carried out by means of the print head 24 in the edge area of the half of the folded printed product 12 that is running.
  • the grippers 32 with the conveyor arrangement 28 move at approximately the same speed as the conveyor device 10, while the grippers 34 run faster on the conveyor device 30.
  • This embodiment of the opening device 26 corresponds in detail to the embodiment of FIG. 30 of the aforementioned European patent application EP-A-0 564 812 by the present applicant.
  • the opening device 26 is designed differently.
  • the opening device is designed approximately in accordance with the opening device of the European patent application of the present applicant with the publication number EP-A-0 600 216.
  • the opening device accordingly consists of a spirally wound rod 50, the central longitudinal axis 52, which also represents the axis of rotation of the opening device, is arranged at least substantially parallel to the conveying direction 14. It can be seen that the slope between the individual turns of the helical rod 50 essentially is identical to the mutual distance between the adjacent grippers 16 of the conveyor device 10.
  • the helical opening device 26 is driven at a rotational speed, which leads to the fact that the respective upper parts of the individual turns move in the axial direction 52 at the same speed as the grippers move the conveyor 10 in the conveying direction 14.
  • the turns of the spiral rod 50 thus hold the folded printed products 12 in a slightly open state.
  • a guide 54 which belongs to the opening device, is arranged in front of the spiral rod 50.
  • This guide 54 has a rear section 56 with respect to the conveying direction 14, which extends inside the helical rod 50.
  • the rear section 56 of the guide 54 merges via a central section 58 of the guide 54, which is increasingly approaching the conveyor device 10, into the front section 60 of the guide 54, which runs parallel to the conveyor device 10 and is arranged at a distance below the conveyor device which is smaller than the width of the front and rear halves of the folded printed products 12.
  • the slightly opened halves of the respective printed products 12 are opened further in the sense that the ends 40, 42 of the front and rear halves facing away from the fold 18 increasingly move away from one another and lie flat against the guide 54.
  • the print head 24 is then arranged below the guide in the front area 61 thereof.
  • the device as described so far, can also function in this form without further components.
  • a clamping device 62 is provided, which is also designed as a rotating device which runs in the area of the print head 24 parallel to the conveying direction 14 of the conveying device.
  • the clamping device 62 here consists of a conveying device which carries pairs of clamping fingers 64, 66 which can be moved away from or towards one another in the region of the guide 54.
  • the pair of clamping fingers 70 In the area of the rear section 56 of the guide 54 there is the pair of clamping fingers 70, the clamping fingers 64 and 66 of which are arranged close to one another.
  • the pair of clamping fingers 72 which lies in front of the pair of clamping fingers 70, has already reached a state where the clamping fingers 64 and 66 have moved apart.
  • FIG. 4 and 5 show a fourth embodiment of a device according to the invention, which operates similarly to FIG. 3 with a guide 54, but which here consists of a static part and a moving part and is referred to as a guide unit.
  • the rear end 56 of the guide unit 54 is at a distance from the grippers 16 of the conveying device 10 which essentially corresponds to the width of the folded printed products which are transported by the grippers 16.
  • the guide unit 54 consists of two statically arranged guide rods 53, 55, each of which has the shape of the guide 54 of the embodiment according to FIG. 3 in a side view, and a conveyor belt 63 on the front section 60 of the guide rods, that rotates at the same speed as the conveyor 10.
  • the folded printed products are forced to assume an increasingly curved shape, so that, for example, the curved shape of the individual printed products 12 changes from the gently curved shape 12A to the more curved shape 12B and then goes into an even more curved shape 12C.
  • the opening device 26 for each gripper comprises one or more pressure fingers 80 which extend substantially vertically downwards in the rear and middle sections 56 and 58 of the guide unit 54 and are shorter than the respective one Distance between the respective gripper 16 and the guide unit 54.
  • the middle gripper 16C of the conveyor 10 is pivoted counterclockwise at the beginning of the front section 60 of the guideway 60 into an inclined position, as a result of which the pressure finger 80 comes into contact with the rear half of the respective printed product 12C and the curvature of this printed product increases.
  • the pressure finger 80 is pivoted backward via a pivot mechanism (not shown) and reaches the position shown, in which the rear half of the printed product 12D is pressed against the conveyor belt 63 running along with the conveyor device 10 becomes.
  • the grippers 16 can be pivoted back into the position shown for the grippers 16A and 16B.
  • the pivoting of the grippers and the pressure fingers 80 can be done by respective Guideways are controlled, which are not shown for the sake of simplicity.
  • the rear deflection axis 84 is a common axis for the rear deflection rollers of all three belts 63, 82, 83 and is freely rotatable.
  • a common axis 86 is again provided, which is designed as a driven axis.
  • a separate drive axle 90 is provided for the front deflecting roller 88 of the rotating guide belt 63. Because of this arrangement, the drive axle 90 can be driven to the drive axle 86 at the required different speed in order to generate the different linear surface speeds of the respective conveyor belts 63 and 82, 83, respectively.
  • the position of the print head 24 can be freely selected depending on the position of the area to be labeled, the conveyor belts 63, 82, 83 having to be arranged differently accordingly.
  • a curved movement path of the grippers 16 is also possible.
  • the course of the opening device 26 must be adapted accordingly (curved instead of a straight course).

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