EP1042205B1 - Procede et dispositif pour stocker des elements de transport - Google Patents

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EP1042205B1
EP1042205B1 EP98956762A EP98956762A EP1042205B1 EP 1042205 B1 EP1042205 B1 EP 1042205B1 EP 98956762 A EP98956762 A EP 98956762A EP 98956762 A EP98956762 A EP 98956762A EP 1042205 B1 EP1042205 B1 EP 1042205B1
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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
    • B65H29/003—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
    • 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

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  • the present invention relates to a method as well a device for storing means of transport according to The preamble of claim 1 and claim 10.
  • Conveyors with conveyor lines along which certain Products can be conveyed with the help of grippers come in various industries, for example in the printing industry. With the Grippers each coupled means of transport must be in such conveyor systems for certain applications be cached. In particular, there is a requirement this means of transport coupled with grippers store it even if the grippers do not Hold products.
  • a buffer route is known from CH-A-382 768, at because of the space that the grippers have coupled means of transport need only one relatively small number of means of transport in a buffer route predetermined length can be saved.
  • Grippers and means of transport require less storage space according to CH-A-569 197, this advantage here however, adversely due to the need for one Swiveling grippers and means of transport by 90 ° must be bought when a product from a gripper should be taken.
  • US-A-5,261,520 discloses a transport device the books at a first distance from one first sponsor and a second sponsor which transports the books at a second distance takes over from the transport device.
  • the transport device shows wagons with normally closed Grabs on along a closed Orbit to be moved by four adjoining Conveyor systems is formed. During the Orbiting the wagon is the mutual distance between changed the car, the distance between the Carriage and thus between the grippers by the individual conveyor systems is determined.
  • closed grippers are during transport of the Carriage to take over the books on the one hand and open for the delivery of the books on the other hand.
  • EP-A-0 767 125 includes a transport device Clamps releasably coupled to a pulling element for holding on of printed products shown and described.
  • the closed brackets holding printed products are brought to a buffer station and under decoupling pushed together by the tension member so that they bump into each other. For buffering the brackets captured print products in the Buffer station thus takes up little space.
  • the present invention is based on the object a way to create the means of transportation, whose grippers do not perform a holding function without the simultaneous creation of significant disadvantages like this to store that in the area of a buffer section need as little space as possible.
  • this object is achieved by a method according to claim 1 or by a device according to claim 10 solved.
  • the method according to the invention provides that the open, no holding function on which Buffer section to conveyed grabs in or in front of the area to close the buffer section at least partially and then save the means of transport that the storage space of a means of transport through the degree of opening of its gripper or - if sufficiently strong closed gripper - by the dimensions of the means of transport is determined. That way, at same number of stored means of transport a shorter one Buffer route claimed by the means of transport than with known principles, where open, relative taking up a lot of space, touching each other Grippers with transport means spaced apart from one another in get a buffer route.
  • a comparatively large number of means of transport can be stored in a buffer section, they can be opened advantageous way within the buffer path - if this part of a conveyor line is - relatively slow be moved, or at low speed in the buffer section can be inserted or retrieved from it.
  • the transport means along the Buffer section are promoted and / or the gripper in such a mass that its dimensions in the conveying direction equal to or less than that Dimensions of the means of transport are in the conveying direction.
  • Closing the grippers can, for example, thereby caused that the means of transport in the entrance area the buffer section on a locking device, for example, a closing backdrop, conveyed past which, e.g. in cooperation with one Closing element of the gripper, close it.
  • a locking device for example, a closing backdrop
  • the means of transport can be customized in the conveyor line and independently, continuously or be promoted intermittently. That can either be active happen by each means of transport via a holding part, with which it is in a guide element of the Conveyor line is held and guided with a drive means is coupled, or also because only individual means of transport are driven, which then Push other, non-powered means of transport in front of you.
  • the Means of transport e.g. in one decoupled from drive means Condition, due to each or only individual means of transport conveyed impulse or due to its own gravity along the conveyor line to move.
  • a closing device along the conveyor line movable.
  • the means of transport when leaving the Buffer section on an opening device for example designed in the form of an opening backdrop can be passed by, so that seen in the conveying direction behind the buffer section only ready for recording Means of transport, i.e. Means of transport with open Grippers are available.
  • the opening movement of the The gripper leg is preferably in the conveying direction.
  • the conveyor distance is the mutual distance between the centers preferably two consecutive means of transport always equal to or slightly less than the maximum distance between two gripper legs of an open one Gripper. This ensures that the Gripper legs of adjacent means of transport Always touch and open when open mutually in their orientation towards the conveyor line fix.
  • a device can be used to implement the method according to claim 10 with a locking device just before the buffer section or in the entrance area of the same become.
  • the locking device be arranged so that the gripper closes immediately after a product delivery, so that the Gripper immediately after this product delivery for a Caching is ready.
  • the locking device can be designed in the form of a closing backdrop, the is preferably displaceable along the conveyor line, so that the length of the buffer section is variable, the respective If necessary, can be adjusted.
  • an opening device e.g. be provided in the form of an opening backdrop ensures that only means of transport with open Grippers leave the buffer section.
  • the closing and opening device can be activated optionally and can be deactivated, entire buffer sections can be used can be switched on or off as required.
  • Conveyor route 10 includes means of transport 20 Grippers 22 which have a closing opening element 24.
  • the grippers 22 are connected via a bearing element 26 a holding part 28 shown only hinted connected.
  • the holding part 28 holds the transport means 20 in a schematically illustrated guide element 30 Conveyor route 10.
  • To a likewise only shown schematically Drive means 32 of the conveyor line 10 can the means of transport 20 for the purpose of funding through their Holding parts 28 are coupled.
  • the bearing elements have each seen in the conveying direction A. 26 of the means of transport 20 an extension a only insignificant about the dimension of a width b closed gripper 22 goes out.
  • the holding parts 28 are shaped so that they touch each other successive bearing elements 26 in the Pufferstrekke 14 do not prevent.
  • Fig. 1 so the distance of the stored in the buffer section 14 Means of transport 20 to each other essentially by the Dimensions of the bearing elements 26 determines the component the means of transport 20. If the bearing elements should be made even smaller than shown in Fig. 1, would be the distance given by the dimensions the closed gripper 22 specified.
  • FIG. 1 shows how a means of transport 20 whose gripper 22 is open in the conveying direction A of the transport route 12 to the entrance area 16 of the Buffer section 14 is fed.
  • the roughly Axially symmetrical transport means 20 are in the area of the transport route 12 with its axes of symmetry 38 approximately at an ideal distance d from one another spaced slightly equal to the leg distance d 'from two gripping legs 40, 40 ′ in which form the gripper 22 open state. This ensures that the gripping legs 40, 40 'of two adjacent means of transport 20 especially under mechanical tension touch.
  • FIG. 2 shows how the in the buffer section 14 with closed, no holding function exercising grippers 22 stored transport 20 on the opening backdrop 34 in the exit area 36 of the Buffer section 14 are conveyed past. It works Opening gate 34 on the closing opening element 24 the gripper 22 and moves it in the direction C, so that the grippers 22 are opened. At least the beginning this movement of the closing opening element 24 is favored by the fact that the bearing elements 26 touch and support each other, creating a good one Power transmission to the closing opening element 24 possible becomes.
  • the transport means 20 are during the opening movement the gripper 22 - if necessary by suitable Accelerators - accelerated in this way or with theirs Holding parts 28 coupled to the drive means 32, that they follow the direction of conveyance A. Transport route 12 conveyed further apart can be that the open gripper 22 with their gripping legs 40, 40 'in the described Touch wise.
  • the transport means 20 leave the buffer line 14 So in a state ready for recording, i.e. With open grippers 22.
  • the means of transport 20 can by suitable means, e.g. by mechanical release means individually or in Groups can be retrieved from the buffer section 14
  • the buffer sections 14 shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 are each an integral part of each Conveyed route 10 shown. But it is also conceivable these buffer sections 14 are not an integral part of the Conveying route 10, but so that it out the conveyor line 10 removed and by other buffer or conveyor lines can be replaced. This is for example, advantageous if you have transport elements 20 cache for a long time and therefore want to remove from the conveyor line 10.

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  1. Procédé de stockage, dans la zone d'une section-tampon (14), de moyens de transport (20) mobiles le long d'une voie de transport (10) dans un sens de transport (A) et munis de préhenseurs (22) servant à maintenir des produits plats notamment, caractérisé en ce que les moyens de transport (20) sont acheminés vers la section-tampon (14) avec leurs préhenseurs ouverts (22) n'exerçant aucune fonction de maintien, en ce que les préhenseurs ouverts (22) sont fermés au moins partiellement avant ou dans la section-tampon (14) et en ce que ensuite, les moyens de transport (20) avec leurs préhenseurs au moins partiellement fermés (22) sont stockés dans 1a zone de la section-tampon (14) de telle sorte que la distance séparant des moyens de transport (20) consécutifs dans la section-tampon (14) soit sensiblement déterminée par le degré d'ouverture des préhenseurs (22) ou par les dimensions des moyens de transport (20) dans la direction de transport (A).
  2. Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que les préhenseurs (22) sont fermés au moins à un degré tel que leurs dimensions dans la direction de transport (A) soient inférieures ou égales aux dimensions, dans la direction de transport (A), des autres parties (26) des moyens de transport (20).
  3. Procédé selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisé en ce que les moyens de transport (20) sont acheminés le long de la section-tampon (14) de manière continue ou discontinue.
  4. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 1 à 3, caractérisé en ce que les moyens de transport (20) passent devant un dispositif de fermeture approprié (18) qui est placé dans une zone d'entrée (16) de la section-tampon (14) et qui peut coulisser le long de la voie de transport (10) notamment.
  5. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 1 à 4, caractérisé en ce que les moyens de transport (20) se suivent de si près dans la section-tampon (14) que des moyens de transport voisins (20) sont en contact mutuel.
  6. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 1 à 5, caractérisé en ce que les préhenseurs (22) des moyens de transport (20) sont rouverts dans la zone de sortie (36) de la section-tampon (14) ou, dans le sens de transport (A), après la section-tampon (14), notamment en les faisant passer devant un dispositif d'ouverture (34).
  7. Procédé selon la revendication 6, caractérisé en ce que la distance entre les moyens de transport (20) est augmentée à leur sortie de la section-tampon (14), de préférence de sorte que des préhenseurs ouverts voisins (22) soient en contact mutuel par leurs branches de préhension (40 / 40').
  8. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 1 à 7, caractérisé en ce que les moyens de transport (20) sont stockés dans une section-tampon (14) qui se situe en dehors de la voie de transport (10) ou qui est une partie interchangeable de la voie de transport (10).
  9. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 1 à 8, caractérisé en ce que les moyens de transport (20) sont prélevés hors de la section-tampon (14), séparément ou en groupe, par des moyens appropriés.
  10. Dispositif de stockage, dans la zone d'une section-tampon (14), de moyens de transport (20) mobiles le long d'une voie de transport (10) dans un sens de transport (A) et munis de préhenseurs (22) servant à maintenir des produits plats notamment, caractérisé en ce que des moyens d'entraínement (32) servant à acheminer vers la section-tampon (14) les moyens de transport (20) avec leurs préhenseurs ouverts (22) n'exerçant aucune fonction de maintien doivent être prévus, en ce qu'un dispositif de fermeture (18) servant à fermer au moins partiellement les préhenseurs ouverts (22) est disposé avant la section-tampon (14) ou dans sa zone d'entrée, et en ce que les moyens de transport (20) avec leurs préhenseurs au moins partiellement fermés (22) sont stockés dans la zone de la section-tampon (14) de telle sorte que la distance séparant des moyens de transport (20) consécutifs dans la section-tampon (14) soit sensiblement déterminée par le degré d'ouverture des préhenseurs (22) ou par les dimensions des moyens de transport (20) dans la direction de transport (A).
  11. Dispositif selon la revendication 10, caractérisé en ce que le dispositif de fermeture (18), qui est de préférence réalisé sous forme de coulisse de fermeture, est mobile le long de la voie de transport (10).
  12. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications 10 ou 11, caractérisé en ce qu'il est prévu, après la section-tampon (14) dans le sens de transport (A) ou dans la zone de sortie (36) de cette dernière, un dispositif d'ouverture (34), de préférence une coulisse d'ouverture, qui est mobile le long de la voie de transport (10) notamment.
  13. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications 10 à 12, caractérisé en ce que le dispositif de fermeture (18) et/ou le dispositif d'ouverture (34) peuvent, au choix, être activés et désactivés.
  14. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications 10 à 13, caractérisé en ce que les dimensions des préhenseurs partiellement ou complètement fermés (22) sont, dans la direction de transport (A), inférieures ou égales aux dimensions, dans la direction de transport (A), des autres parties (26) des moyens de transport (20).
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