Classifications

• • 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
  • B65H29/00—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles
  • B65H29/02—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles by mechanical grippers engaging the leading edge only of the 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
  • B65H2301/00—Handling processes for sheets or webs
  • B65H2301/30—Orientation, displacement, position of the handled material
  • B65H2301/32—Orientation of handled material
  • B65H2301/323—Hanging
• • 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
  • B65H2405/55—Rail guided gripping means running in closed loop, e.g. without permanent interconnecting means

Definitions

• the invention relates to a conveyor system according to the
• the preamble of claim 1 further relates to a method for conveying a conveyed good according to the preamble of claim 17.
• Scale formation as well as (with constant space requirement) find space in a stack and which, in addition, has such a low weight that it can - if necessary - be carried and held by the newspaper itself.
• a disadvantage of this known clamp is the fact that it is very difficult to convey along a rail, especially when the clamp is resting on the rail.
• This clamp also does not allow high conveying speeds, as is required in modern systems, for example processing printing products, which are capable of conveying 40,000 printing products per hour, for example.
• An object of the invention is to develop a conveyor system for a conveyed good, in particular for printed products, in such a way that the conveyed good can be conveyed quickly, flexibly and in particular with a high density.
• a conveyor system comprising a guide rail and a multiplicity of holders, each with a guide part which can be moved individually in the guide rail, a second guide rail being provided with a drive means guided thereon, and the drive means being coupled in such a releasable manner a coupling part of the guide part allows a load-bearing connection to exist in the coupled state between the drive means and the coupling part.
• a printed product for example a newspaper or a magazine
• Conveyor system is of course also suitable for manipulating and conveying objects other than printed products, for example empty or filled packaging, files, books, luggage, etc. It is not only flat or flat
• Objects are promoted, rather objects of all types and all forms.
• the conveyor system has to be adapted to the attacking forces and the holder has to be adapted to the shape of the object to be conveyed.
• the conveyor system according to the invention has a number of advantages.
• the guide part with coupling part is firmly connected to a holder.
• These parts can be very small, very short in the direction of conveyance, and can also be designed to be light and inexpensive. In particular for conveying printed products, a large number of such guide parts with holders are required, which can be mass-produced at low cost.
• the separation of the guide part and drive means allows the drive means guided on the second guide rail to be very strong, powerful and possibly also difficult to configure, whereas the guide part is very small and easy to configure.
• the guide part with holder can be designed in such a way that it takes up approximately the same width as a printed product.
• guide parts arranged one after the other on a guide rail each with a printed product held in the holder, these can be arranged in one "stacked" in a vertical position.
• This arrangement is particularly suitable as an intermediate store for printed products, in which the guide rail is arranged, for example, to run on the ceiling of a building and therefore this ceiling space is al
• Intermediate memory can be used for printed products.
• This guide rail can have a slight drop, so that the guide parts can be moved by the action of gravity and therefore no drive means are required.
• only one guide rail is required for an intermediate store, so that an intermediate store can be produced at very low cost.
• the two guide rails run one above the other along a conveyor path and form two separate conveyor flows. While the drive means is preferably continuously moved in one revolution, the guide part with holder can preferably be coupled to the drive means at any time and at any location.
• the conveying flow can, based on a maximum possible conveying density, convey any number of printed products.
• the guide rails can run arbitrarily, even three-way, in space.
• switches and transfer points can be provided in order to transfer a guide means from one guide rail to another.
• the conveyor system according to the invention permits "individual traffic of " Printer products", in which, for example, each printed product can be conveyed along a different, predefinable conveying path.
• each holder or each guide means can have an individual code for individually identifying the holder or to specify an individual conveying path.
• printed products can be conveyed by the Holders are gripped or released so that it is possible to put together an arbitrarily selectable stack of different printed products, for example putting together a stack of printed products individually tailored to the needs of a recipient, each of which is held by a single holder.
• the guide part is advantageously designed as a slider, which slides, in particular, with a large surface area, on a guide rail having flat rail parts.
• a V-shaped and wide-legged glider is stable against
• the slider can be made very short in the conveying direction.
• the V-shaped sliders can form a type of rod consisting of individual sliders, which gives the mutually touching sliders great positional stability.
• the sliders can be conveyed by pushing from behind.
• the sliders can slide on the guide rail on gravity due to the attacking gravity.
• the guide part is coupled to the drive means by means of a magnetic circuit, which brings about an attractive force of the drive means on the guide part.
• This Touch-bearing connection can also be achieved with a large number of other means, for example with pneumatically acting means, or with a releasable adhesive or mechanically, for example with a Velcro fastener.
• the conveyor system according to the invention is ideal for conveying bulk goods, since it allows many goods such as printed products to be conveyed, moreover with high density and speed, and because of the high possible density of the conveyed printed products, a high conveying capacity can be achieved even at a low conveying speed. In a stack or intermediate store, a high packing density of printed products arranged one behind the other on a rail is possible.
• FIG. 1 symbolically shows a conveyor system with a pair of closed, circumferential guide rails
• FIG. 2 shows a plan view of a plurality of sliders arranged one behind the other on a second guide rail
• 5 shows a cross section through a first and a second guide rail with drive means, slider and holder
• 6 shows a cross section through a first and a second guide rail with drive means, slider and holder, the slider being detached from the drive means
• 7a, 7b, 7c a side view of a plurality of differently arranged drive means, sliders and holders;
• 7d shows a side view of a plurality of
• 9a, 9b, 9c a transfer point with a slider and holder in different positions
• Fig. 11 shows a cross section through another
• FIG. 1 symbolically shows a conveyor system 1 which comprises a symbolically illustrated first guide rail 6, on which guide parts 5 are individually movably mounted in the conveying direction F and are guided in a closed circuit.
• a second, symbolically illustrated guide rail 7 which determines the direction of travel of drive means 2 guided thereon.
• the drive means 2 consists of a plurality of pressure elements arranged one behind the other in the conveying direction F and touching one another on the end faces, which slide or roll in the guide rail 7 are stored. These pressure bodies come into active connection with the two deflection wheels 12a, 12b, so that the pressure bodies are deflected and driven in the conveying direction F.
• Deflection wheel 12a in which a toothed belt 12e comes into engagement with the respective pressure elements in this buffer section 12f and conveys the pressure elements contactlessly around the rail section 12c while relieving pressure, the pressure elements in the end part of the rail section 12c again coming into contact with one another and subjected to pressure loads along the conveyor section 12g can be pushed up.
• the thrust forces generated in this way are sufficient to push the pressure bodies lying against one another up to the deflection wheel 12b, where they are in turn conveyed around the rail section 12d in a pressure-relieved manner.
• the conveyor system 1 thus comprises two parallel, rail-guided subsystems, namely a multiplicity of individually movable guide parts 5, which are guided on and along the first guide rail 6, and an endless chain of individually movable, pressurizable bodies that can be driven against one another via end faces 2b, 2c 2, which are guided on and along the second guide rail 7 and through it
• the guide parts 5 are according to the invention can be coupled to the drive means 2 or detachable therefrom, so that the guide parts 5 can be controlled, individually or in a group formation, in the conveying direction F.
• Each guide part 5 comprises a coupling part 5b, via which each guide part 5 can be coupled or separated from the drive means 2 to form a load-bearing connection to the drive means 2.
• the guide parts 5 are not coupled to the drive means 2 and can be controlled by the
• the guide rail 6, 7, the guide part 5 and the drive means 2 are designed such that they are mutually adapted so that in the coupled state there is a load-bearing connection between the drive means 2 and the guide part 5, such that there is none during the conveying between the first guide rail 6 and the guide part 5 mutual touch results.
• the guide part 5 is guided and held only by the drive means 2 during the driven conveying.
• the guide rail 6 can also have one or more switches 6g in order to form a branching or merging rail section 6f.
• This rail section 6f is designed in accordance with the first guide rail 6, but has no drive means 2, so that the guide parts 5 slide on the guide rail 6 and are driven passively in the direction of travel of the rail section 6f due to the acting gravity.
• the conveyor system 1 allows a freely selectable, also three-dimensionally running lines of the guide parts 5 with the holder 8.
• FIG. 2 shows a plan view of a plurality of guide parts 5 which are arranged one behind the other on the first guide rail 6 and which are designed as rail-guided sliders 5.
• Preferred designs of such sliders and guide rails adapted to them are described in the same patent application No. 1997 2962/97
• the first guide rail 6 comprises two rail parts 6b which are spaced apart with the formation of a gap 6d.
• This gap 6d forms a first guide for the slider 5 and defines its conveying direction F.
• the slider forms a guide part 5 which is V-shaped in the conveying direction F and is H-shaped in a normal plane to the conveying direction F, as can be seen in FIG 5c connected, V-shaped sliding bodies 5a, 5b.
• the sliding bodies 5a, 5b are configured and arranged congruently.
• the two sliding bodies 5a, 5b differ from one another only in that the upper sliding body 5a has on both sides a notch 5g which is arranged in the end region and is intended for the engagement of a retaining finger 10a of a stop and release device 10.
• the two sliding bodies 5a, 5b could also be configured differently on the other side and could have a different length in the conveying direction F, for example.
• the sliding bodies 5a, 5b are spaced apart from one another in such a way that the rail part 6b finds space between them with play.
• the V-shaped design of the sliding bodies 5a, 5b enables their surfaces facing the first guide rail 6 to be designed in a relatively large area, so that the sliding bodies 5a, 5b can rest and slide on the rail 6, supported on a large area, which results in sliding on the rail 6 with little friction allowed.
• the web 5c of the guide part 5 has two in
• Conveying direction F running, lateral sliding surfaces, which are guided in the gap 6d of the first guide rail 6.
• Each sliding body 5a, 5b has two side arms, which together form the V-shaped shape, each of the side arms having an edge leading with respect to the conveying direction F and a trailing edge.
• the two edges are designed to run parallel or approximately parallel to one another.
• An embodiment has the advantage that touching sliders 5, as represented by the buffer area 11b, support one another in such a way that they form a kind of rod and the sliders 5 are relatively firmly held to one another, so that relative movement in this position is difficult to achieve occurs.
• the side arms of the sliders 5 form a side surface in the end region, which is approximately parallel to a sliding surface 6c of the first guide rail 6.
• This side surface 5f serves to support the slider 5 on the sliding surface 6c of the rail 6.
• the guide parts 6a which in this case provide a second guide, are part of the first guide rail 6, as can be seen in FIG. 5
• the slider 5 is guided in the conveying direction F by the slider 5 and the first guide rail 6, and forms a three-point bearing such that the slider 5 is always mounted on the guide rail 6 at least at three points without tilting, and in addition there is a certain play with respect to the guide rail 6 has, so that the slider 5 in the state coupled to the drive means 2 can be conveyed in a contactless manner with respect to the guide rail 6.
• the sliders 5 are made very short in the conveying direction F, so that a dense flow of sliders 5 is possible.
• FIG. 2 shows a plurality of sliders 5 arranged one behind the other on the rail 6. For the sake of clarity, only the sliders 5 are shown in full, whereas the supporting parts 3 or holder 8 firmly connected to the sliders 5 are shown only partially and then in dashed lines.
• FIG. 2 also shows a stop and release device 10 which comprises two retaining fingers 10a, 10b which can be displaced in the direction of movement 10c and which engage in the notch 5g of the slider 5 in order to hold and release a slider 5 in a controllable manner.
• the guide parts 5 can be retained by this stop and release device 10, so that the guide parts 5 touch each other in the guide direction F and form a buffer area 11b over the length section of the rail 6.
• inlet area 11a In front of the buffer area 11b there is an inlet area 11a, within which a guide part 5 freely moves towards the buffer area 11b. Downstream of the buffer area 11 is another area 11c, within which the guide part 5, preferably spaced apart, moves again in the conveying direction F.
• a holding means 8 can be fastened to each guide part 5, which means, for example consists of a bracket 8d, a joint 8a and two expandable tongues 8b, 8c, which are preferably designed such that the conveyed product, for example a printed product 13, is held perpendicular or approximately perpendicular to the conveying direction F.
• FIG 3 shows a plan view of a plurality of pressure-resilient, cuboid-shaped base bodies 2 lying against one another in the conveying direction F on the respective end faces 2b, 2c, each base body having four protruding pins 2a, which serve as guide means around the base body 2 in the FIG to guide second guide rail 7.
• These mutually driven base body 2 form the drive means 2, which serves to drive the guide parts 5.
• FIG. 4 shows a plan view of a further embodiment of a drive means 2.
• This drive means 2 which in turn is provided with a cuboid-shaped base body, has guide means 2a designed as wheels, so that the drive means 2 consists of a chain of individual carriages lying against one another over end faces 2b, 2c. which, as shown in FIG. 5, are guided in the rail body 7a of the second guide rail 7.
• the base body has an engagement side 2d, in which a toothed belt 9 engages, and a load side 2e, to which the guide part 5 can be coupled.
• the base body also has certain recesses for receiving the wheels 2a.
• the wheels 2a protrude beyond the guide side 2k and also protrude beyond the end faces 2b, 2c on the guide side 2k in which two wheels are arranged at a distance in the conveying direction F.
• 5 shows the end face 2c of a single car 2, in the main body to the right of the wheel 2a, a recess is provided which is intended to receive the wheel 2a projecting from a transport means 2 arranged adjacent to the front side 2b, 2c.
• two adjacent means of transport 2 are rotated mutually 180 ° around the axis formed by the direction of conveyance F, so that each one over the end face 2b, 2c de ⁇ one Transport 2a projecting wheel 2a in the
• a chain of transport means 2 is thus possible, which are conveyed by the compressive forces acting on the mutually contacting end faces 2b, 2c.
• the transport means 2 shown, with three guide means 2a designed as wheels, has very good running behavior in the guide rail 4. Torques acting on the load side 2e can also be transmitted to the second guide rail 7 safely and without causing the transport means 2 to tilt due to the relatively large distance between the individual wheels 2a.
• the convex end faces 2b, 2c not only allow the conveying means 2 to be conveyed in a straight line in the conveying direction F, but also slightly curved cam tracks, the curvature of this cam track extending around an axis perpendicular to the viewing direction.
• the chain of transport means 2 in turn forms the drive means 2, the transport means 2 forming a kind of rod consisting of individual links.
• the transport means 2 are deflected in the conveyor system 1 according to FIG. 1 about an axis running perpendicular to the conveying direction F and perpendicular to the viewing plane, in particular on the deflection wheels 12a, 12b.
• the length of the carriages in the conveying direction F should be made correspondingly short. With a relatively short overall length in the conveying direction F, the transport means 2 has a relatively large mutual wheel distance.
• Each means of transport 2 has a flat, flat-shaped loading side 2e for coupling the sliding body 5b, which at the same time forms a coupling part 5b, wherein, as shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, a plurality of means of transport 2, with mutual contact, run in the conveying direction F, form a load surface consisting of a plurality of load sides 2e, this load surface having no intermediate space in the middle between the transport means 2 and each having a very narrow gap towards the edge.
• This configuration of the individual load sides 2e permits the formation of a continuous, flat, preferably flat load surface, which is formed from a plurality of transport means 2, which gives the essential advantage that the guide part 5 can be coupled to this, regardless of the respective position of a means of transport 2 the time of the intervention can also be freely determined.
• the two conveyor flows formed by the guide parts 5 and the drive means 2 can be regarded as mutually independent, because the guide part 5 can be coupled to the drive means 2 at any location and at any time.
• the U-shaped second guide rail 7 has a rail body 7a with V-shaped grooves on the opposite side surfaces, which are used to guide the wheels 2a or pins 2a of the drive means 2.
• the second guide rail 7 defines a conveying direction F, in which the drive means 2 in the cross section shown is conveyed in a driven manner via a toothed belt 9 which engages in a form-fitting manner.
• a flux guide element 7b and a permanent magnet 7d are arranged on both sides of the second guide rail 7.
• the two flow guide elements 7b are L-shaped and firmly connected to the second guide rail 7.
• the drive means 2 designed as a carriage has a base body made of a non-ferromagnetic material, for example made of aluminum or a plastic.
• Two L-shaped, mutually spaced, ferromagnetic fluid guide parts 2g are arranged on this base body, one end of which opens to the load side 2e and the other end is arranged opposite the flux guide elements 7b with the formation of an air gap 7c.
• the two ferromagnetic parts 2g are covered with a cover part made of a non-ferromagnetic material, so that the two ferromagnetic parts 2g open on the load side 2e without projecting beyond the surface.
• the flux guide element 7b, the magnet 7d and the flux guide parts 2g and the air gap 7c form a magnetic circle 7e.
• the coupling part 5b is designed as a ferromagnetic armature part, which closes the magnetic flux circuit 7e, so that one generated magnetically by the drive means 2 OJ to t P> H o in o in O in
• ⁇ T p- d in P 1 D. fT rr ro cn ⁇ in (Q h- 1 3 o 2 rr tr o ⁇ ⁇ PJ rr ⁇ ⁇ T PJ ro ⁇ P- -0 ⁇ PJ ⁇ PJ cn ti TJ rr er ro d
• the first guide rail 6 is designed in such a way that in the illustrated state, in which the guide part 5 is firmly coupled to the drive means 2 by the magnetic forces, there is no mutual contact of the guide part 5 with the first guide rail 6 , so that the first guide rail 6 would not be required.
• a sufficiently large clearance must be provided between the guide part 5 and the first guide rail 6.
• the guide part 5 is arranged suspended from the drive means 2 and connected to a holding means 8, which comprises a bracket 8d, a joint 8a and two tongues 8b, 8c.
• the magnetic force Fm generated by the drive means 2 via the magnetic circuit 7e on the guide part 5 is sufficient to couple the holding means 8 firmly to the drive means 2.
• This embodiment is particularly suitable for conveying light, flat printed products.
• the cross section according to FIG. 6 shows the increased distance between the first guide rail 6 and the second guide rail 7 compared to FIG. 5.
• the guide part 5 is no longer held by the drive means 2 but rests movably supported in the conveying direction F with the sliding body 5b on the first guide rail 6.
• FIG. 7a shows a side view of two guide rails 6, 7 arranged one above the other and running parallel in the conveying direction F.
• Two individual carriages 2 spaced apart in the conveying direction F each have four coupled guide parts 5, on each of which a holder 8 is arranged.
• the guide parts 5 are firmly coupled to the individual carriages and are held in a contactless manner with respect to the first guide rail 6.
• the guide parts 5 with the holder 8 are very fast and without J OJ to to P »H in ⁇ in o in O in
• the guide parts 5 are also guided in the curved rail section 12c on the first guide rail 6.
• the deflection wheel 12a having teeth is designed in such a way that each tooth is able to convey a single guide part 5 around the rail section 12c.
• the guide parts 5 are not coupled to the drive means 2 within the rail section 12c.
• the coupling to the drive means 2 takes place at the end of the rail section 12c, where the guide parts 5 are again coupled to the drive means 2 and are conveyed upwards by the drive means 2 in the conveying section 12g.
• a motor 12i drives a deflection roller 12k and synchronizes the toothed belts 12e, 12h on the opposite side.
• FIGS. 9a, 9b, 9c show a transfer point 15 at which two second guide rails 7 running parallel to one another are arranged.
• the direction of conveyance F of the guide part 5 is perpendicular to the viewing plane.
• the first guide rail 6 runs in FIG. 9a below the second guide rail 7 arranged on the right, the first guide rails 6 having an S-shaped course in the conveying direction F.
• 9b shows the position of the first guide rail 6 in the middle of the S-shaped course
• FIG. 9c shows the position of the first guide rail at the end of the S-shaped course below the second guide rail 7 arranged on the left.
• the guide part 5 rests on the first guide rail 6 and is moved by the drive means 2 in the conveying direction F by the magnetic forces, so that a lane change from the right to the left guide rail 7 takes place.
• the guide part 5 is coupled to the drive means 2 again in a load-bearing manner.
• the lane change could also be carried out with two second ones arranged parallel to one another OJ to HP 1 o in ⁇ in o in
• the cross section according to FIG. 11 shows an exemplary embodiment with a guide part 5 and a drive means 2 which are guided on a common guide rail 6/7.
• Both the guide part 5 and the drive means 2 are U-shaped on both sides, so that a rail part 6b with sliding surfaces is sufficient for the guidance.
• the drive means 2 comprises two ferromagnetic flux guide parts 2g, via which the magnetic field generated by the permanent magnet 7d is guided to the guide part 5 via the flux guide elements 7b.
• the common guide rail 6/7 can open into two separate guide rails 6, 7.

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