EP0997420A2 - Dispositif pour former et enlever des piles de feuilles - Google Patents

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EP0997420A2
EP0997420A2 EP99120599A EP99120599A EP0997420A2 EP 0997420 A2 EP0997420 A2 EP 0997420A2 EP 99120599 A EP99120599 A EP 99120599A EP 99120599 A EP99120599 A EP 99120599A EP 0997420 A2 EP0997420 A2 EP 0997420A2
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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
    • B65H31/00—Pile receivers
    • B65H31/20—Pile receivers adjustable for different article sizes
    • 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
    • B65H31/3036—Arrangements for removing completed piles by gripping the pile
    • B65H31/3045—Arrangements for removing completed piles by gripping the pile on the outermost articles of the pile for clamping the pile
    • 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
    • B65H31/32—Auxiliary devices for receiving articles during removal of a completed pile
    • 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
    • B65H2301/4224—Gripping piles, sets or stacks of articles
    • B65H2301/42242—Gripping piles, sets or stacks of articles by acting on the outermost articles of the pile for clamping the pile
    • 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
    • B65H2405/50—Gripping means
    • B65H2405/52—Gripping means reciprocating
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2511/00—Dimensions; Position; Numbers; Identification; Occurrences
    • B65H2511/10—Size; Dimensions
    • B65H2511/11—Length
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S414/00—Material or article handling
    • Y10S414/10—Associated with forming or dispersing groups of intersupporting articles, e.g. stacking patterns
    • Y10S414/114—Adjust to handle articles or groups of different sizes

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  • the invention relates to a device for forming and conveying sheet stacks in or out of a stacking tray, with a collection box, the front and rear Stacking stops is limited, their mutual distance on the format length the sheet stack is adjustable, as well as with a sheet feeding conveyor, which corresponds to a height-adjustable platform, which is in shape a separating rake in synchronism with the withdrawal movement of a stack removal device can be advanced into the stacking tray in the sheet transport direction.
  • the invention has for its object measures to optimize all To meet the individual requirements of the work result.
  • the rear stack stops are arranged adjustable along the sheet transport direction.
  • the vertically defined platform and transport path can be moved up and down together. In this way, the same discharge height of the sheets fed in the shingled formation is ensured both when forming a new stack and when changing a stack.
  • a further development that greatly facilitates a format change is that the rear stack tees, the platform and the transport path designed as a belt path are arranged on a common carriage that can be adjusted along the sheet transport direction. In this way, all components involved can be tracked with a single adjustment movement of the slide.
  • a compact structural unit that facilitates both the perfect stack formation and the format adaptation is obtained in that the slide is arranged in a longitudinally displaceable manner on a slide carrier that can be moved vertically relative to the collecting box.
  • the platform can be displaced relative to the slide with a shortened or lengthened longitudinal stroke adapted to the distance between the rear and front stacking stops.
  • An additional simplification and simplification of the landscape format setting is achieved according to a further development in that the collection box has an exchangeable bottom bar equipped with support rakes, which is provided with lateral stack stops which are adjustable and lockable in transverse guides.
  • the advantage achieved by the invention is that the format setting of the rear stacking stops means that the stack removal device, which is arranged downstream on the opposite side between the stacking tray and at the shortest possible distance, can always carry out the shortest possible longitudinal stroke, which ensures optimal conveying capacity.
  • the economy is further improved by the format-dependent presettable side stacking stops on completely ready, quickly exchangeable floor platforms of the collection box. The time required for a changeover is minimized by means of all the sheet guide and stacking components that can be adjusted depending on the format with a single slide movement.
  • the device has a stacking tray 1 for collecting paper sheets 2 to form sheet stacks 3, which is divided into numerous collecting boxes 4, one behind the other perpendicular to the plane of the drawing, and which - based on the sheet or stack transport direction (arrow 6) - upstream one Transport conveyor 7 designed as a belt conveyor for paper sheets 2 fed in a shingled formation and downstream are associated with a stack removal device 8 designed as a gripper 5 with subsequent transverse transport means 9, which have lifting and lowering transport belts 11 with integrated air table segments 12.
  • the stacking tray 1 is delimited by front stacking stops 13 and rear stacking stops 14, of which the former can be pivoted from a stop position according to FIG. 1b into an inoperative position according to FIG. 1a.
  • the rear stacking stops 14 are fastened to a slide 16 which can be displaced in the direction of the double arrow 15 and on which the transport track 7 and a platform 17 designed as a separating rake are also displaceably displaceable in the longitudinal direction relative to the slide 16 with a variable stroke.
  • the discharge end 18 of the transport path 7 is at a defined distance from the platform 17.
  • the carriage 16 is in turn slidably arranged on a carriage support 21 which can be moved vertically in the direction of the double arrow 19.
  • the collecting box 4 is equipped with a floor platform 22, which according to FIGS. 3 and 4 is equipped with numerous parallel support rakes 23, which are fastened to a floor rail 24, which also carries lateral stacking stops 27, which can be set and fixed depending on the format, with corresponding spacers 28 are inserted.
  • the floor platforms 22 are kept ready as a complete exchange group with format-dependent preset side stacking stops 27.
  • FIGS. 1a to 1d The operation of the device according to FIGS. 1a to 1d is as follows: According to FIG. 1a, a sheet stack 3 formed from a defined number of accumulated paper sheets 2 is gripped by the gripper 5 of the stack removal device 8 after the front stack stop 13 has been swung away and in the conveying direction 6 from the Stacking tray 1 is transferred to the transverse transport means 9, which optionally transport the sheet stack according to FIG. 1d in the directions perpendicular to the plane of the drawing, identified by the arrow symbols 29 and 31.
  • the platform 17 consisting of rows of bars follows the back of the sheet stack 3 up to the stop against the stack stop 13 moved back into the stop position, the permanently scaled paper sheets 2 being simultaneously transferred to the platform 17 without interruption.
  • the slide carrier 21 By moving the slide carrier 21 in the direction of the double arrow 19 according to FIG. 1c, the platform 17 is lowered to the base platform 22 of the stacking tray 1 or possibly below its level and, according to FIG. 1d, is withdrawn from the stacking tray 1 into the starting position, so that the new sheet stack 3 is taken over by the floor platform 22. Due to the subsequent upward movement of the carriage carrier 21 in the direction of the double arrow 19, the discharge end 18 of the transport path 7 is raised to the extent that the stack height of the sheet stack 3 increases, so that a constant discharge height for the paper sheets 2 is always guaranteed.
  • the rear stack stop 14 and the shedding end 18 of the transport path 7 and the platform 17 are moved towards the front stack stop 13 in a distance-reducing manner by inward displacement of the slide 16 in the direction of the double arrow 15.
  • the landscape format is adjusted perpendicular to the plane of the drawing by replacing the floor platform 22 with a replacement floor platform which is provided and is equipped with correspondingly preset lateral stacking stops 27.
  • the longitudinal stroke of the platform 17 is in accordance with the longitudinal shortening of the stacking tray 1 adapted during the longitudinal stroke of the stack removal device 8 due to the always constant stroke limitation on the front stack stop 13 in remains essentially unchanged, due to the format adjustment described the smaller sheet format is even shortened.

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Pile Receivers (AREA)
  • Battery Mounting, Suspending (AREA)
  • Separation, Sorting, Adjustment, Or Bending Of Sheets To Be Conveyed (AREA)
  • Forming Counted Batches (AREA)
  • Electrical Discharge Machining, Electrochemical Machining, And Combined Machining (AREA)
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DE19849859A DE19849859A1 (de) 1998-10-29 1998-10-29 Vorrichtung zum Bilden und Abfördern von Bogenstapeln
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EP0997420B1 (fr) 2004-04-14
DE59909156D1 (de) 2004-05-19
ATE264262T1 (de) 2004-04-15
ES2216404T3 (es) 2004-10-16
PT997420E (pt) 2004-08-31
DE19849859A1 (de) 2000-05-04

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