EP0931747A1 - Plieuse pour machine rotative à imprimer - Google Patents

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EP0931747A1
EP0931747A1 EP98123500A EP98123500A EP0931747A1 EP 0931747 A1 EP0931747 A1 EP 0931747A1 EP 98123500 A EP98123500 A EP 98123500A EP 98123500 A EP98123500 A EP 98123500A EP 0931747 A1 EP0931747 A1 EP 0931747A1
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Serge Lanvin
Eddie Smelten
Thierry Vauchelle
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Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
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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
    • B65H45/00—Folding thin material
    • B65H45/12—Folding articles or webs with application of pressure to define or form crease lines
    • B65H45/16—Rotary folders
    • B65H45/162—Rotary folders with folding jaw cylinders
    • B65H45/165—Details of sheet gripping means therefor

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  • the invention relates to a folder for rotary printing presses, especially a folder that works without a point.
  • DE 44 46 753 A1 is a folding device for a Printing machine became known.
  • the folder comprises a first one Folding cylinder, which is equipped with controllable grippers, and a second Folding cylinder, which is also equipped with controllable grippers.
  • the second folding cylinder is equipped with additional, controllable grippers that in addition to the controllable grippers already available on its circumference are provided to the rear end of the signatures against the scope of the second folding cylinder.
  • the additional controllable gripper exists from a spring steel blade, which is received by a bearing that with a transverse pipe is connected.
  • the additional controllable gripper works with a bracket that is a strip of elastic material records.
  • DE 43 42 037 C1 describes a method and a device for transverse folding of Signatures become known.
  • the signatures are in one Rotary press subordinate folder with one on one Collecting cylinder in the starting area of a holding device, half of the first or leading half of signatures. This happens by the penetration of a folding knife into folding jaws Folding jaw cylinders, with the half-folded copies in the folding jaws being held. Then a second or trailing half the signatures in an area of the intersection of one of the axes of rotation the imaginary plane connecting the cylinder with a tangent to the circumference of the collecting cylinder from a controllable holding device in your Gripped and held end area.
  • the present invention is therefore based on the object Product transition of a signature from one to the other leading the copy Optimize cylinders and the acceleration processes that occur to make it manageable.
  • the advantages that can be achieved are diverse.
  • the holding devices allow a fixation of the open material web ends to a particular critical point in time during the transition between the moving surfaces the cylinder.
  • the holding and copy guidance devices according to the invention enable a much more precise guidance of the leading material web end in the cutting gap wake and thus allow higher production speeds for Folders too.
  • the holding and Copy guidance devices arranged on sliding supports that allow more precise guidance of the same.
  • the supports can be easy to manufacture as slide guides.
  • Will the Copy guide devices like a backdrop essentially parallel to Normals guided on the axes of rotation of the cylinders can be exactly Determine measurable entry and exit movements that also apply different are each adaptable to the material web thickness to be processed.
  • the Support of the copy guidance device can be done via a lever connection the rotation of an actuating shaft on which the lever connection is arranged be moved.
  • the control shaft in turn can be a control roller or be actuated by means of an energy store.
  • the item guidance devices can be placed side by side, like the Tines of a rake can be arranged so that they with the im Cutting gap overrun emerging from the opposite cylinder Do not collide holding devices.
  • the specimen guide devices dive also in the retracted state in recesses of the cutting knife storage and therefore do not affect the geometry of the cutting gap.
  • the support on which the holding devices are included is included Provide openings that are penetrated by fasteners. To this The position of the shift path of the support is precisely defined, upper and bottom dead center are fixed. Support is moved by a on a control cam rolling control roller, which is connected to the Support are connected.
  • the control curve can be both a act closed as well as an open control curve.
  • an additional spring element is provided to the Contact between the surfaces of the cam and the control roller Ensure maintenance of a preload.
  • Fig. 1 shows the side view of a cylinder configuration according to the invention in Folder with a cylinder assigned to the specimen leading cylinder Cutting cylinder.
  • the cutting cylinder 5 comprises two Cutting knife 8 and has two copies on its outer surface to record one after the other, one also speaks in this context of double diameter, while the first exemplary cylinder 6, the Folding knife cylinder, in this configuration four copies on his Circumferential surface 11 can accommodate one behind the other.
  • the Copy holding devices on the folding knife cylinder 6 are in the following figures described in more detail.
  • the folding knife cylinder 6 works with the one that also holds four copies in this configuration Folding jaw cylinder 7 together, which is equipped with folding jaws 15.
  • Grippers 20 on the two transport cylinders 16 and 17 take the cross-folded copies from the circumference of the jaw cylinder 7 and direct they to an upper or a lower delivery 18 or 19.
  • Fig. 2 shows the representation of a cutting cylinder with a backdrop Movable copy guide device, which is in the cutting cylinder retracted state.
  • the cutting cylinder 5 partially shown here rotates about its axis 21 and is provided on its outer surface 23 with at least one cutting knife 8, which with groove bar on the opposite first specimen leading Cylinder 6, in this example the folding knife cylinder, works together Separate copies from material web 3.
  • the cutting knife 8 is in one Cutting knife storage 35 added, which on one side with Recesses 35.1 is provided.
  • the cutting knife bearing 35 further comprises two clamping strips made of elastic, resilient material 35.2 and 35.3, with which the cutting knife 8 is held.
  • the guide 28 can include a sliding guide 28.1 similar to which a Support 27 - in the vertical direction - is movable.
  • On the support 27 is one Copy guide device 24 fixed by means of a fastening 25.
  • the top - towards the cutting knife 8 - curved end of the Copy guide device 24 is in the retracted state on the Recess 35.1 of the cutting knife bearing 35.
  • the essentially parallel to the normal 29 extending and retracting the Copy guide device 24 is provided by a vertical one Sliding movement of the support 27 on the sliding guide 28.1 - for example one Backdrop guidance - generated.
  • a lever 30 On a shaft 31, a lever 30 is clamped, the extended lever arm connected to the support 27 by means of a bolt 34 is. Via a control roller 32 on a control cam 36, not shown here rolls (see FIG. 4), a rotation of the Adjustment shaft 31 brought about, which by means of the extended lever arm of the Lever 30 is transmitted as a vertical sliding movement on the support 27.
  • the essentially vertical entry and exit movement of the Copy guide device 24 is indicated by the double arrow 26 next to the Copy guide device 24 indicated.
  • FIG. 3 the copy guide device 24 explained in FIG. 2 is shown in FIG Cutting cylinder shown extended state.
  • Fig. 4 gives a top view of the item guide devices on Cutting cylinder again.
  • the control roller 32 can be seen, which rolls on a control cam 36, whereby the movement of the actuating shaft 31 is initiated.
  • these are in the End regions attached to the lever 30 with their extended lever arms, which via the bolts 34, the support 27, the inward and outward movement 26, as in 2 and 3 shown, emboss.
  • At Support 27 are across the width of the Cutting cylinder 5 seen, several copy guide devices 24th arranged; whose bent ends (see Fig. 3) dip into the already mentioned recesses 35.1 of the cutting knife bearing 35 on Cutting cylinder 5 a.
  • the actuating shaft 31 is in bearings in the end faces 5.1 and 5.2 of the cutting cylinder 5 rotatably mounted, which in turn about his Rotation axis 21 rotates.
  • Fig. 5 shows an additional on the first exemplary cylinder Holding device 10 in an extended position.
  • first copy-leading cylinder 6 On the first copy-leading cylinder 6, which rotates about its axis of rotation 37, grooved bars 39 are added. These are in the peripheral surface 11 of the first copy-leading cylinder 6 inserted and cooperate with cutting blades 8 on cutting cylinder 5 are cut off of copies of the material web 3 in the cutting gap 12.
  • the holding devices 10 consist of the respective copy end Above the grooved beam 39, the curved end 10.2 and one Guide part 10.1, with which the holding devices 10 lie side by side are recorded at a support 40.
  • the holding devices 10 receiving support leads an input and indicated by the double arrow 50 Extending movement from the inside of the first cylinder 6 holding the exemplar or an entry movement into this.
  • This extending and retracting movement of the Holding devices 10 on the first copy-carrying cylinder take place in the substantially parallel to the normal 38 on the axis of rotation 37 of the first copy-leading cylinder 6.
  • the support 40 moves on one Guide surface 49 of the guide body 48 along, which as a sliding or Backdrop tour can be performed.
  • the support 40 is with several Provide openings 41 which are designed as elongated holes or the like can.
  • the length of the openings 41 in the support 40 define the upper and the bottom dead center of the displacement of the support 50 along the Guide surface 49 fixed.
  • the support 40 is attached by means of a fastening 42 holding devices 10 received thereon and the guide bodies 48 in such a way connected that a vertical up and down movement of the Supportes 40 along the guide surface 49 is guaranteed.
  • the at the Retracting movement of the holding devices 10 in the first leading example Cylinder 6 required rotating and lowering movements are brought about as follows:
  • the holding devices 10 are on one Control shaft 31 - which are identical in construction to the control shaft 31 in FIGS. 2 and 3 can be - rotatable. This is done by a control roller 32 on a Control curve contour 51.1 of a control curve 51 runs.
  • the control roller 32 is over a lever 33 - analogous to the version in the Item guidance devices 24 - connected to the actuating shaft 31 and effected their rotation depending on the course of the control curve. Since the guide body 48 is clamped on the actuating shaft 31, it follows their twisting movements in or counterclockwise. In addition to the twisting movement of the Holding devices 10 require their entry into the interior of the first copy-leading cylinder 6 also a lowering movement of the Holding devices 10.
  • control roller 43 connected, which in turn with only one in Fig. 5 schematically indicated control curve 46 cooperates.
  • FIG. 5 shows an open control cam 46, which is connected to the control roller 43 works together.
  • a spring element 45 is provided, which for Maintaining a constant bias between the control roller 43 and the Contour of the control curve 46 ensures.
  • a closed curve 47 used, the installation of a spring element 45 can be omitted because the Control roller 43 is positively guided on both sides in this embodiment, so that it there can be no loss of contact between the treads.
  • a comparison of the relative positions of the control roller 32 to Control cam contour 51.1 and the control roller 43 relative to the control cam 46 shows that both a rotation of the holding devices 10 and one Extending movement of the holding devices 10 from the first leading example Cylinders have taken place.
  • the control roller 43 has a certain distance the cam contour 51.1 of the cam 41 moves, which leads to a Rotation of the actuating shaft 31 in a clockwise direction - can be read on gap formed between the guide part 10.1 and the grooved bar 39.
  • Fig. 7 finally shows the holding devices 10, after which they again completely behind the circumferential surface 11 of the first cylinder 6 holding the exemplar have returned.
  • a comparison to the previous Fig. 6 shows that the Relative positions of the control roller 32 to the cam 41 and of the control roller 43 to the control curve 46 compared to FIG. 6 have changed again.
  • the one on the Control cam contour 51.1 running control roller 32 causes another Twist control shaft 31, whereby the bent end 10.2 of Holding device 10 next to the grooved bar 39 is rotated so that immediately thereafter an immersion movement of the holding devices 10 in the Can connect cylinder interior.
  • Fig. 8 shows the top view of a backdrop-like guidance of the additional Holding elements on the first specimen-leading cylinder.
  • This state is shown in Fig. 5.
  • the curved ends 10.2 overlap Holding devices 10 the end of the newly to be separated from the material web 3 Copy and fix this above the grooved beam 39 on the Circumferential surface 11 of the first cylinder 6 holding the exemplar.
  • active item guidance devices 24 with which the end of the To avoid specimen-taking holding devices 10
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US6251053B1 (en) 2001-06-26
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