EP1072546B1 - Convoyeur pour assembler et traiter des produits imprimés - Google Patents

Convoyeur pour assembler et traiter des produits imprimés Download PDF

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EP1072546B1
EP1072546B1 EP99810669A EP99810669A EP1072546B1 EP 1072546 B1 EP1072546 B1 EP 1072546B1 EP 99810669 A EP99810669 A EP 99810669A EP 99810669 A EP99810669 A EP 99810669A EP 1072546 B1 EP1072546 B1 EP 1072546B1
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Beat Von Aesch
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Grapha Holding 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
    • B65H5/00—Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines
    • B65H5/32—Saddle-like members over which partially-unfolded sheets or signatures are fed to signature-gathering, stitching, or like machines
    • 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
    • B65H2301/44—Moving, forwarding, guiding material
    • B65H2301/447—Moving, forwarding, guiding material transferring material between transport devices
    • B65H2301/4474—Pair of cooperating moving elements as rollers, belts forming nip into which material is transported
    • 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
    • B65H2301/44—Moving, forwarding, guiding material
    • B65H2301/447—Moving, forwarding, guiding material transferring material between transport devices
    • B65H2301/4479—Saddle conveyor with saddle member extending in transport direction
    • 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
    • B65H2405/53—Rotary gripping arms

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  • the invention relates to a conveyor system for collating and processing printed sheets, which are transported astride a circumferential driver on a saddle-shaped support of a transport device and removed from the transport device by means of a sword and transferred to a lifting device.
  • a conveyor system for this has become known from the applicant's CH-A-358 100.
  • a lifting bar is provided, which is arranged under a longitudinal slot made in a riding rail.
  • this sword is lifted periodically with a vertical movement component and a movement component oriented in the feed direction obliquely to the feed direction through said longitudinal slot.
  • the lifting blade With this movement of the lifting blade, the printed sheets are lifted from the transport device.
  • the printed sheets are folded, single sheets of paper or combined into brochures.
  • the object is achieved in a generic conveyor system in that the transport device lowers in the area of the sword and the drivers push the printed products onto the sword, which is immobile in the conveying direction.
  • the sword does not have to be moved.
  • the previously required and comparatively complex movement system becomes obsolete and, on the other hand, the bows are treated more gently, since the sword does not strike the bow.
  • the sheets are pushed onto the stationary sword by the drivers and then the drivers are each brought into a position by lowering the transport device in which they no longer act on the sheets.
  • the system according to the invention enables a continuous and very gentle but also rapid transfer of the sheets from the transport device to the sword, where the sheets are each lifted off to get nabbed.
  • the lifting device is preferably a rotating device as disclosed in EP 0 771 675 A by the applicant.
  • the transfer of the sheets to the sword is particularly reliable and gentle if, according to a further development of the invention, the sword has an upper leading edge which is flush with a ridge line of the transport device.
  • the drivers each push the sheets onto this leading edge, whereby they are not raised or only slightly raised and are thus conveyed essentially horizontally and in a straight line.
  • the lifting of the bow from the sword is particularly safe if the sword has at least one recess, in the area of which the bow can be gripped, for example by a rotating lifting device on the fold, for example by clamping. If, according to a further development of the invention, two recesses are arranged at a distance from one another, the sheets can each be gripped at two locations which are arranged at a distance from one another. This enables the bows to be guided particularly securely when they are lifted off the sword.
  • the transport device has a double chain and the sword engages between the two strands of this double chain. This is possible because the sword can be made comparatively narrow.
  • a horizontally extending guide plate for the printed products is arranged laterally next to the transport device.
  • This guide plate preferably extends into the area of the sword and guides the bows in this area so that they are V-shaped are opened and the drivers in the lowering area of the transport device are very quickly brought into a position in which they are outside their effective range.
  • a guide plate is preferably arranged on each side of the transport device.
  • the conveyor system shown has a transport device 2 shown in sections in FIG. 1, which according to FIG. 2 has a frame 24 which is attached to a machine stand 25.
  • the transport device 2 has an endless double chain 5, which is folded around a chain drive wheel 3, deflection sprockets 4 and 9 and further sprockets, not shown here.
  • the double chain 5 has two chain strands 5a, which run parallel to one another and form an intermediate space 26.
  • the two chain strands 5a each have a link chain 7 indicated in FIG. 1, onto which support parts 6 are snapped on.
  • the two arc parts 1b are guided by means of fixed guide plates 11 fastened to a frame, such that the arches 1 are each opened in a V-shape in vertical section according to FIG.
  • the sheets 11 each form a plane and, according to FIG. 2, the sliding surface 11a inclined to the vertical.
  • the sheets 11 preferably extend essentially over the entire length of the conveyor path and in particular essentially up to the area of the chain drive wheel 3.
  • the sheets 11 are fixed and fastened by suitable means via the frame 24 and to a machine frame 25 ,
  • the double chain 5 is deflected by the chain wheel 9 at a distance from the chain drive wheel 3 such that a kink B is formed in a transfer area A, at which a ridge line 14 shown in dash-dotted lines in FIGS. 3a to 3c extends from a horizontal area 14a in passes an inclined and descending area 14b.
  • a fixedly arranged sword 13 engages in the gap 26 and thus between the two chain strands 5a.
  • the sword 13 is a comparatively narrow rail and has an upper edge 13b which runs essentially horizontally. At a front end 13a, this edge 13b dips slightly below the horizontal region 14a of the ridge line 14 according to FIG. 3a.
  • the horizontal course of the edge 13b is interrupted by two depressions 13d which are arranged at a distance from one another. Between the two recesses 13d there is an upwardly projecting guide projection 13c which, as shown, is designed to rise gently in the transport direction and then to decrease steeply.
  • a lifting device 30, also called a display which has a propeller-shaped carrier 21 which is driven to rotate in a clockwise direction about a fixed axis 20.
  • the drive takes place, for example, via a gear 17, which has a drive wheel 15 and a tensioning roller 18, around which a toothed belt 16 is placed, which meshes with a wheel 19.
  • a gripping member 22 is arranged on the carrier 21 in a symmetrical arrangement at a distance from the axis 20, with which a sheet 1 can be gripped in the region of its fold 1a.
  • the gripping members 22 each have, for example, two clamps 22a arranged at a distance from one another.
  • the carrier 21 rotates precisely to the transport device 2.
  • the endless double chain 5 is driven in the direction of arrow 12 according to FIG. 1 and transports the printed products 1 accordingly from right to left.
  • the print products 1 are guided through the support parts 6 and the guide plates 11. If a printed product 1 according to FIG. 3a now reaches the transfer area A, this is pushed with the leading edge 1c onto the front end 13a of the sword 13 by the adjacent driver 8 and the printed product 1 runs at the front end at the fold 14a at about the break point B. on the edge 13b.
  • the sword 13 engages with its front end 13a between the two parts 1b of the sheet 1.
  • the driver 8 now pushes the sheet 1 continuously onto the sword 13 until the leading edge 1c has approximately reached the position shown in FIG. 3b.
  • the pushing driver 8 now executes a vertical component of movement downwards due to the deflection of the double chain 5 and finally reaches a position according to FIG is submerged.
  • the printed sheet 1 is gripped by a gripping member 22 on the fold 14a and is rotated clockwise from the sword 13.
  • a subsequent further printed product 1 is pushed onto the sword 13 and the process described above is repeated in the same way.
  • the lifting device 30 feeds the gripped printed product 1 to a further transport device and generally further processing machines, for example a cutting machine.

Claims (10)

  1. Convoyeur pour regrouper et traiter des feuillets imprimés (1) qui sont transportés à califourchon sur un support en forme de sellette (6) d'un dispositif de transport (2) par des tocs d'entraînement (8) circulant en boucle fermée et retirés du dispositif de transport (2) par une lame (13) pour être transférés sur un dispositif élévateur (30), caractérisé en ce que le dispositif de transport (2) s'abaisse dans la zone de la lame (13) et en ce que les tocs d'entraînement (8) font glisser les produits imprimés (1) sur la lame (13) qui est immobile perpendiculairement à la direction de transport.
  2. Convoyeur selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que la lame (13) présente une arête d'attaque supérieure (13b) qui est approximativement en alignement avec une ligne de crête (14) du dispositif de transport (2).
  3. Convoyeur selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisé en ce que la lame (13) est un rail s'étendant horizontalement.
  4. Convoyeur selon l'une des revendications 1 à 3, caractérisé en ce que la lame (13) présente au moins un renfoncement (13d) et les produits imprimés (1) sont saisis au niveau de ce renfoncement (13d) par le dispositif élévateur (30).
  5. Convoyeur selon la revendication 4, caractérisé en ce que la lame (13) comporte deux renfoncements (13d) disposés l'un derrière l'autre et le dispositif élévateur (30) présente deux organes de serrage (22a) coïncidant avec ces renfoncements (13d), lesquels organes de serrage s'emparent chaque fois des produits imprimés (1) dans la zone de l'un de ces renfoncements (13d) et les soulèvent de la lame (13) en tournant.
  6. Convoyeur selon l'une des revendications 1 à 5, caractérisé en ce que le dispositif de transport (2) présente une chaîne double (5) et la lame (13) s'enfonce avec une extrémité avant (13a) entre les deux brins (5a) de la chaîne double (5).
  7. Convoyeur selon l'une des revendications 1 à 6, caractérisé en ce que le dispositif de transport (2) présente des tôles de guidage (11) pour les produits imprimés (1), qui sont disposées latéralement.
  8. Convoyeur selon la revendication 7, caractérisé en ce que les tôles de guidage (11) présentent chacune une arête supérieure (11b) s'étendant essentiellement horizontalement et en ce que le support en forme de sellette (6) s'étend au-dessus de cette arête (11b) en amont de la lame (13) et est abaissé sous cette arête (11b) dans la zone de la lame (13).
  9. Convoyeur selon la revendication 7 ou 8, caractérisé en ce que les tôles de guidage (11) sont disposées inclinées par rapport à la verticale.
  10. Convoyeur selon l'une des revendications 1 à 9, caractérisé en ce que dans la zone de la lame (13), le dispositif de transport (2) s'étend tout d'abord essentiellement horizontalement, puis, après une déviation (B), de façon rectiligne en étant incliné vers le bas, sachant que la partie horizontale (14a) est sensiblement plus courte que la partie inclinée (14b).
EP99810669A 1999-07-26 1999-07-26 Convoyeur pour assembler et traiter des produits imprimés Expired - Lifetime EP1072546B1 (fr)

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EP99810669A EP1072546B1 (fr) 1999-07-26 1999-07-26 Convoyeur pour assembler et traiter des produits imprimés
DE59906959T DE59906959D1 (de) 1999-07-26 1999-07-26 Förderanlage zum Zusammentragen und Bearbeiten von Druckbogen
JP2000172138A JP4756725B2 (ja) 1999-07-26 2000-06-08 印刷用紙を収集加工する搬送装置
US09/626,482 US6540066B1 (en) 1999-07-26 2000-07-26 Conveyor for gathering and processing printed sheets

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