EP1012050A2 - Procede et dispositif pour etiqueter des envois plats - Google Patents

Procede et dispositif pour etiqueter des envois plats

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EP1012050A2
EP1012050A2 EP97910243A EP97910243A EP1012050A2 EP 1012050 A2 EP1012050 A2 EP 1012050A2 EP 97910243 A EP97910243 A EP 97910243A EP 97910243 A EP97910243 A EP 97910243A EP 1012050 A2 EP1012050 A2 EP 1012050A2
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Prior art keywords
label
cutting
shipment
labels
length
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English (en)
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EP1012050B1 (fr
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Georg Kinnemann
Christel Gehl
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Siemens AG
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Siemens AG
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
    • B65C9/00—Details of labelling machines or apparatus
    • B65C9/02—Devices for moving articles, e.g. containers, past labelling station
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
    • B65C1/00—Labelling flat essentially-rigid surfaces
    • B65C1/02—Affixing labels to one flat surface of articles, e.g. of packages, of flat bands
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
    • B65C9/00—Details of labelling machines or apparatus
    • B65C9/08—Label feeding
    • B65C9/18—Label feeding from strips, e.g. from rolls
    • B65C9/1803—Label feeding from strips, e.g. from rolls the labels being cut from a strip
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
    • B65C9/00—Details of labelling machines or apparatus
    • B65C9/26—Devices for applying labels
    • B65C9/28—Air-blast devices
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
    • B65C9/00—Details of labelling machines or apparatus
    • B65C9/26—Devices for applying labels
    • B65C9/34—Flexible bands
    • 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
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T156/00—Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
    • Y10T156/10—Methods of surface bonding and/or assembly therefor
    • Y10T156/1052—Methods of surface bonding and/or assembly therefor with cutting, punching, tearing or severing
    • Y10T156/1062—Prior to assembly
    • 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
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T156/00—Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
    • Y10T156/12—Surface bonding means and/or assembly means with cutting, punching, piercing, severing or tearing
    • Y10T156/1317—Means feeding plural workpieces to be joined
    • Y10T156/1322—Severing before bonding or assembling of parts
    • Y10T156/1339—Delivering cut part in sequence to serially conveyed articles
    • 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
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T156/00—Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
    • Y10T156/17—Surface bonding means and/or assemblymeans with work feeding or handling means
    • Y10T156/1702—For plural parts or plural areas of single part
    • Y10T156/1744—Means bringing discrete articles into assembled relationship
    • Y10T156/1768—Means simultaneously conveying plural articles from a single source and serially presenting them to an assembly station
    • Y10T156/1771—Turret or rotary drum-type conveyor
    • Y10T156/1773—For flexible sheets

Definitions

  • a device for contactless application of labels by means of suction and compressed air is also already known.
  • the labels are unwound from a roll by means of a conveying device and brought into the suction and compressed air area.
  • a stroke is carried out by a pneumatically driven cutting knife and a label by Ribbon cut off
  • An air nozzle blows the label floating in the air against the vacuum chamber, where it remains stuck in a waiting position
  • An incoming letter is recognized by a light barrier, whereupon the vacuum chamber is switched to compressed air with the aid of a compressed air valve.
  • the label is then blown onto the letter As soon as the label touches the surface of the letter, it is entrained.
  • the air pressure surge is chosen so strongly that the label is firmly printed on the surface of the letter.
  • the object of the present invention is to provide a method and an apparatus for applying labels to flat mail items, which enable precise positioning on the mail item, low susceptibility to malfunction at high throughput and great flexibility in the length of labels processed
  • a particularly advantageous feature of the invention is a high degree of accuracy in the positioning of the labels on the mail items and their simple and reliable feeding in the case of different mail item thicknesses.
  • carrierless labels it is particularly advantageous that there is no waste
  • FIG. 1 shows a schematic illustration of a device according to the invention in plan view
  • Figure 2 is a perspective side view of the transport route in a device according to the invention
  • Figure 1 shows schematically in plan view a device in which flat mail items 1 are transported in a transport path 2.
  • the mail items are preferably transported by endless belts 2, these belts being guided by a system of rollers 3 and the mail items being clamped between the belts are applied to the mailpieces by a label roll 4a by means of a cutting and application station 5.
  • This station has a cutting device 4c which cuts off the labels which are unrolled from a roll 4a so that they have the desired length in an area immediately in front
  • the label tape is moved and positioned by the knife feed device 4b.
  • the station 5 also has suction and compressed air chambers in order to place the labels in a waiting position and then on the surface of the bring flat broadcast.
  • the adhesive side of the labels faces the mail items and the non-adhesive side faces the openings of the suction and pressure chambers.
  • the mail items are positioned in the labeling area by means of suction air.
  • the mail items standing on a longitudinal edge are guided past a suction pan 8 against a moving backdrop, which is designed as a perforated transport belt 7.
  • the consignment run is stabilized by holding straps 6, 6a, which grip the consignments in their upper part in a force-fitting manner, so that the labeling zone of the consignments remains free.
  • the perforated transport belts 7 allow the vacuum generated by the suction pan 8 to reach through the mail items, so that they are pressed together with the belts against the surface of the suction pan 8.
  • the mailpieces in the labeling area are preferably guided in their upper area by narrow holding belts 6, 6a, which are guided over (double) rollers 12.
  • a length sensor 10 and a thickness sensor 11 are arranged upstream of the mailing area in front of the labeling area.
  • a light barrier is preferably provided as the length sensor.
  • the length sensor 10 measures the length of each mail item passing through and communicates this measurement result to the control unit 13.
  • the control unit 13 uses this information to determine the necessary label length and accordingly controls the labeling feed 4b and the cutting device 4c.
  • the thickness sensor 11 determines the thickness of each shipment and also forwards the information to the control unit 13. The control unit 13 therefore calculates the point in time at which the label is blown onto the letter that is being passed.
  • the evaluation of the length and thickness measurement of the letter enables the label to be advanced depending on the measured length and the thickness of the mail item.
  • the control of the device determines the point in time at which the front edge has reached a predetermined point in the labeling area. This is an essential parameter for blowing off the cut label from the waiting position at the front of station 5 onto the mail item that is passing by.
  • Another parameter that determines the time of the blowing is the measured thickness of the consignment, since the thickness of the consignment affects the flight path and the flight time of the label 9 blown off by the station 5 on the surface of the consignment 1.
  • the invention makes it possible to select the length of the label variably depending on the length of the item and to choose a high one Achieve positional accuracy.
  • This makes it possible to label mail items of different thicknesses and formats at a defined distance from the front edge of the item.
  • the labels can be strapless and variable in length.

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Labeling Devices (AREA)
  • Making Paper Articles (AREA)

Abstract

L'invention concerne un procédé et un dispositif pour étiqueter des envois (1) plats. Les étiquettes (9) sont appliquées sur les envois, dans la zone d'étiquetage d'une section de transport (2) par un poste de découpe et d'application (3). Il est prévu que les envois soient guidés par liaison de friction dans la zone d'étiquetage, de manière que la zone d'étiquetage des envois reste libre et que les envois puissent être positionnés par de l'air aspiré par rapport à une coulisse mobile.
EP97910243A 1996-10-12 1997-09-30 Procede et dispositif pour etiqueter des envois plats Expired - Lifetime EP1012050B1 (fr)

Applications Claiming Priority (3)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
DE19642110 1996-10-12
DE19642110A DE19642110C2 (de) 1996-10-12 1996-10-12 Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Etikettieren von flachen Sendungen
PCT/DE1997/002252 WO1998016904A2 (fr) 1996-10-12 1997-09-30 Procede et dispositif pour etiqueter des envois plats

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EP1012050A2 true EP1012050A2 (fr) 2000-06-28
EP1012050B1 EP1012050B1 (fr) 2002-01-09

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EP (1) EP1012050B1 (fr)
DE (2) DE19642110C2 (fr)
WO (1) WO1998016904A2 (fr)

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DE19642110A1 (de) 1998-04-23
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WO1998016904A3 (fr) 1998-06-11
DE59706146D1 (de) 2002-02-28
DE19642110C2 (de) 1998-11-26

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