EP1155992A2 - Méthode et dispositif pour diviser un courant de transport d'articles - Google Patents

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EP1155992A2
EP1155992A2 EP01810449A EP01810449A EP1155992A2 EP 1155992 A2 EP1155992 A2 EP 1155992A2 EP 01810449 A EP01810449 A EP 01810449A EP 01810449 A EP01810449 A EP 01810449A EP 1155992 A2 EP1155992 A2 EP 1155992A2
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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
    • B65H29/58—Article switches or diverters
    • B65H29/60—Article switches or diverters diverting the stream into alternative paths
    • 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
    • B65H29/00—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles
    • B65H29/66—Advancing articles in overlapping streams
    • B65H29/6672—Advancing articles in overlapping streams dividing an overlapping stream into two or more 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
    • B65H2301/00—Handling processes for sheets or webs
    • B65H2301/40—Type of handling process
    • B65H2301/44—Moving, forwarding, guiding material
    • B65H2301/445—Moving, forwarding, guiding material stream of articles separated from each other
    • B65H2301/4455—Diverting a main stream into part 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
    • 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
    • B65H2301/4471—Grippers, e.g. moved in paths enclosing an area
    • 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
    • B65H2301/4473—Belts, endless moving elements on which the material is in surface contact
    • B65H2301/44732—Belts, endless moving elements on which the material is in surface contact transporting articles in overlapping stream
    • 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
    • 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
    • B65H2405/551—Rail guided gripping means running in closed loop, e.g. without permanent interconnecting means with permanent interconnection allowing variable spacing between the grippers

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  • the invention is in the field of general cargo conveyance and relates to a method and a device according to the preambles of the corresponding independent Claims.
  • the method and the device serve to divide one Flow in which a large number of the same or at least similar objects (General cargo) are conveyed serially, in a variety of different ways Flow away.
  • the conveying path of the flow stream branches at the distribution point into a plurality of pathways and the objects optionally directed to one of the conveying paths and in turn on this in turn promoted away.
  • print product processing which is an application example for general cargo conveyance represents, for example, flows from loose on a conveyor support (e.g. conveyor belt) there are conveyed printed products, whereby the printed products usually overlap each other (scale flows), or they can consist of printed products, individually or in small groups held by a gripper, for example, can be conveyed hanging one behind the other.
  • the grippers used are on a conveyor (e.g. conveyor chain) mounted or they are more or less independent of each other along one Rail track movable, with independent grippers by appropriate Drives are driven, for example, in an abutting manner.
  • switch-like devices For the distribution of printed product flows in the form of scale flows usually used switch-like devices. Such devices are arranged at the distribution point and have one between the conveyor support the feed and the plurality of conveying supports of the routings pivotable or otherwise movable conveyor support, which optionally the Funding requirement of the supply with one or the other funding requirement of the away funding connects. Because the printed products in the stream of shingles are mutually exclusive overlap, are in addition to the mentioned, pivotable conveyor support To provide means for separating the stream of shingles, with which means the Overlap of the products is lifted locally for each change of the switch.
  • An example of a scale switch is described, for example, in Swiss patent application 1999 1161/99 (F511).
  • Conveyor systems for example grippers also mounted on conveyors exhibit, hand over and thus directed to a selected route. Transfer points to several conveyor systems are usually one behind the other arranged along the feed line, so that such an arrangement with is associated with a considerable amount of space.
  • the object of the invention is now a method and a device create with which a general cargo flow in which objects are fed serially can be divided into a plurality of discharge flows, in from which the objects are in turn conveyed away serially.
  • the division should in this case, for example, according to a predetermined division sequence or according to sensory States can be controlled further downstream or upstream or it should expire after a regular division cycle.
  • Promotion away should be a held promotion, in which the items individually or transported in small groups, each held by a holding device.
  • the device according to the invention should be simple and as universally applicable as possible and in particular be very space-saving.
  • objects become a serial division point promoted and in the distribution center for a takeover by each a holding means positioned.
  • a holding means for the distribution point conveyed which holding means to that one conveying system
  • a plurality of conveying systems that define a conveying path belongs to from which the item or group of items is to be carried away.
  • the holding means are for release the funding from the distribution center either from buffers, which Buffers also belong to different conveyor systems, and each of the holding means grabs one of the positioned objects (or Item group) to it along the path of its path to convey away from the distribution point.
  • a holding device from the buffer is one of the different for each funding cycle To discharge conveyor systems or either a holding device or no holding device (Gap) or the holding means are to be released from the buffers as required.
  • the device according to the invention has means for the serial feeding of objects to a distribution point on and at the distribution point means for Position the items or item groups for takeover by one holding device each. Furthermore, the device has a plurality of conveying systems on, each of the conveyor systems advantageously a self-contained Rail track and a plurality of in a conveying direction along of the rail track has movable holding means.
  • the rail tracks of all means of transport advantageously converge or run to the splitting point parallel, run parallel to each other and as close as possible through the Distribution point and diverge after the distribution point.
  • each removal system has means for buffering Holding means on and means for the controlled release of holding means from the Buffer.
  • each removal system has means for the controlled promotion of Holding means by the distribution point and means for activating holding means in the distribution point for the detection of an object. So that the holding means each conveying system can be buffered and controlled from the buffer the holding means independently of one another along the rail track of the conveying system movable or they are connected to each other by flexible means, such that the distances between adjacent holding means can be varied.
  • the device according to the invention also has control means which are used to coordinate the retrieval of the holding means from the buffers in such a way that the through the distribution site-sponsored serial stream of retention means a sequence of retention means of the various conveying systems that a desired Distribution sequence of the objects supplied corresponds.
  • the holding means conveyed by the distribution point a serial stream in which the Retaining means easily overlapping or identical to each other Funding channels can be funded.
  • the rail tracks The conveyor systems can be kept at minimal distances from each other run through the distribution point, with the serial release of the holding means from the various buffers in funding from the distribution center unwanted collisions of holding means and unwanted simultaneous interactions can be prevented by several holding devices with one object.
  • the holding means are spaced apart in the serial holding means flow through the distribution point from each other, based on the distances between the supplied objects are coordinated, i.e. regularly or irregularly (also regularly with Gaps).
  • the rail tracks of the conveyor systems advantageously run as close as possible side by side through the distribution point, such that when the takeover of the objects, the positions of the holding means of different conveying systems relative to the position of the objects to be picked up as little as possible from each other are different.
  • a rail track, a holding means relative to its rail track, which too receiving object, the conveyor system or parts of the conveyor system across to the general direction of conveyance, or the holding means of the different Conveyor systems can be designed differently, such that their relative position to their rail track is different.
  • Figure 1 illustrates the principle of operation of the inventive method and the inventive device.
  • An exemplary distribution point 1 is shown with a viewing direction transverse to the conveying direction F.
  • a stream 2 of supplied objects 3 for example a shingled stream of printed products, is divided into three conveying paths 4.1, 4.2 or 4.3.
  • the three conveying paths 4.1 to 4.3 are defined by rail tracks 5.1 to 5.3, on which rail tracks holding means 6.1, 6.2 and 6.3 can be moved at variable distances from one another.
  • the objects are conveyed hanging from the holding means, for example.
  • the rail tracks 5.1 to 5.3 extend through the division point, for example in the paper plane of Figure 1 while the objects being fed 3 are behind or below this level and come from the left Approach until they are held by the holding means 6.1 to 6.3, which differ from the level of the Rail sections 5.1 to 5.3 extend against the edge areas, are gripped can.
  • the rail tracks 5.1 to 5.3 each converge after configuration of the grippers against the distribution point 1 or run in this Area parallel (as shown in Figure 1), run side by side and parallel to each other through the division point 1 and diverge after the division point 1.
  • the rail tracks 5.1 to 5.3 shown are advantageous Parts of three self-contained tracks, each one of is assigned to three conveying systems.
  • the holding means 6.1, 6.2 and 6.3 on each of the Rail lines 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3 buffered. From the buffering they become according to Dismiss division sequence and form a serial through the division point 1 Holding agent flow in which successive holding means 6.1, 6.2 or 6.3 to different Conveyor systems can belong and therefore along different Rail tracks 5.1, 5.2 or 5.3 are funded.
  • the promotion of the holding means 6.1, 6.2 or 6.3 through the distribution point 1 leads this into the area of the supplied objects 3 that objects 3 by activating Holding means can be gripped and held away.
  • the retaining means have the same configuration 6.1, 6.2 and 6.3 of all removal systems the objects 3 in different holding areas of holding means of different transport systems.
  • the According to FIG. 1, the holding area lies in the middle of the edge area shown for the holding means 6.2, which can be moved on the middle rail track 5.2.
  • the objects 3 are detected in a holding area next to the center.
  • FIG. 2 shows the arrangement according to FIG. 1 in a schematic 3D representation with a viewing direction essentially parallel to the conveying paths 4.1 to 4.3 running through the division point 1, which are indicated as dash-dotted lines.
  • the three rail tracks 5.1 to 5.3 are cut transversely to the conveying direction F. shown with corresponding holding means 6.1 (extended), 6.2 (dash-dotted) and 6.3 (dotted).
  • holding means 6.1, 6.2 and 6.3 shown in front interacting with a single object 3, which, of course, in the serial holding agent flow promoted by the distribution point not possible.
  • a further three objects 3 are shown further downstream in the conveying direction, the first of which is provided by a holding means which can be moved along the rail track 5.2 6.2, the second of a movable along the rail track 5.3 Holding means 5.3 and the third of a movable along the rail track 5.1 Holding means 6.1 is promoted.
  • a holding means which can be moved along the rail track 5.2 6.2
  • the second of a movable along the rail track 5.3 Holding means 5.3 Holding means 5.3
  • the third of a movable along the rail track 5.1 Holding means 6.1 is promoted.
  • Such an arrangement of holding means and objects is really possible. It represents the serial holding agent flow in which each of the holding means 6.1, 6.2 or 6.3 conveyed in succession along another rail track 5.1, 5.2 or 5.3 can be moved.
  • distribution points 1 with a plurality of rail tracks shown with holding means with an angle parallel to the conveying direction.
  • the same parts are designated with the same reference numerals as in Figures 1 and 2.
  • FIG. 3 shows a division point 1 with two parallel rail tracks 5.1 and 5.2, along which holding means 6.1 (extended) and 6.2 (dotted) can be moved.
  • holding means 6.1 extended
  • 6.2 dotted
  • FIG. 3 shows a division point 1 with two parallel rail tracks 5.1 and 5.2, along which holding means 6.1 (extended) and 6.2 (dotted) can be moved.
  • the holding means 6.1 extended
  • 6.2 dotted
  • the holding means of which is intended to grip one of the objects is always positioned 5 in a direction transverse to the conveying direction '(dash-dotted) shifted (arrows A.1 and A.2), from which a holding means 6' movable on the shifted rail track can grasp the object 3 in the predetermined holding area.
  • Figure 4 shows a distribution point 1 with a pair of parallel and adjacent rail tracks 5.1 and 5.2 with holding means 6.1 and 6.2, which can be coupled to two magnetic slip drives, as described in the publication WO-99/33731 ( Figures 9a to 9c) are.
  • the rails of the two rail strands converge and the grippers are guided into the same middle position (shown in solid lines) (arrow A.3), regardless of which rail strand they are assigned to, and grip the objects 3 in the middle.
  • the rail tracks diverge (positions 6.1 'and 6.2' of the holding means).
  • FIG. 5 shows a division point 1 with two rail tracks 5.1 and 5.2 running parallel to one another.
  • Holding means which can be moved on the rail tracks (only 6.1 shown) can be displaced transversely to the conveying direction relative to the rail track (arrow A.4 to position 6.1 ', which is shown in dash-dot lines) in such a way that the holding means of both rail tracks in the shifted position a positioned object 3 in can capture the same predetermined holding area (for example in the middle).
  • the holding means for conveying the object can be moved back again (position 6.1), as a result of which the detected object is shifted into its position 3 'shown in broken lines.
  • FIG. 6 shows a division point 1 with two rail tracks 5.1 and 5.2 running parallel to one another.
  • the holding means (only one holding means 6.1 shown) are designed such that they are conveyed on a conveying path which is offset transversely to the conveying direction with respect to the rail track.
  • offset holding means of this type for the two rail tracks 5.1 and 5.2 make it possible to convey the holding means of both rail tracks on the same conveying path and to grasp the objects 3 in an identical holding area without actively moving any parts, irrespective of the rail string along which they conveyed away should be.
  • Figure 7 shows a division point 1 with three mutually parallel rail lines 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3 and corresponding holding means 6.1 (dotted), 6.2 (drawn) and 6.3 (dash-dotted).
  • the objects are shifted with suitable means transversely to the conveying direction into a corresponding position 3.1 (dotted), 3.2 (extended) or 3.3 (dash-dotted) (arrows A.5).
  • the entire feed means or parts of the feed means are moved transversely to the direction of conveyance.
  • FIG. 8 shows an exemplary embodiment of the device according to the invention for dividing a printed product flow into a plurality of discharge flows, only one of the discharge systems being visible.
  • the conveying means for the serial feeding of the objects into the distribution point 1 and serves to position the objects in the division point has a stacking shaft in a known manner in the device shown 10, a separating wheel 11 and a funding 12 for promoting a Scale flow or scale flow sections.
  • the stacking shaft 10 serves to hold stacked printed products, for example by hand (arrow B.1) are filled in the stacking shaft 10.
  • the separating wheel 11 With the help of the separating wheel 11 the printed products from the stacking shaft 10 are separated and in shingled Formation deposited on the funding 12 (arrow B.2).
  • the scaled formation is conveyed to the distribution point 1 (arrows B.3, B.4 and B.5).
  • the printed products can also be from other storage formations are supplied, for example by means of winding Unwinding station, a stream of printed products being unwound from the reel and the distribution point 1 is promoted.
  • a driving wheel 21 Through the distribution point 1 Holding means 6 conveyed by a driving wheel 21, all of the conveying systems 20 have the same driver wheel 21 and the plurality of driver wheels 21 with axes transverse to the direction of conveyance F and arranged as close to one another as possible coaxially are.
  • a holding means buffer 7 for empty holding means arranged, that is, a holding means stop 22, behind which the holding means 6 stow by a slip drive or driven by gravity and which holding means stop 22 for the controlled release of one holding means each 6 is driven to the driving wheel 21.
  • a pre-buffer 7 ' can be arranged upstream of the holding means buffer 7 his.
  • the removal of the holding means 6 after the distribution point 1, that is after grasping a printed product can for example be from the same slip drive are taken over like the buffering in front of the driving wheel 21.
  • FIG. 9 shows a cross section of a rail track 5 with a magnetic slip drive and a holding means 6 that can be moved along the rail track 5.
  • the illustrated rail track 5 and the holding means 6 can be used in a conveying system of a device according to the invention according to FIG. 8.
  • the holding means 6 has a sliding shoe 31, which at least in the area of a coupling surface 32 partially consists of a ferromagnetic material.
  • the slide shoe 31 has two lateral notches in which the rail track 5 engages.
  • the slip drive has drive elements 30 made of a ferromagnetic material, which are moved with the aid of a drive along the rail track 5, the drive elements 30 also having two lateral notches in which the rail track 5 engages.
  • permanent magnets 33 are arranged in the areas of the rail track and flux guide elements which, together with the ferromagnetic parts of the drive elements 30 and the ferromagnetic parts of the sliding shoes 31 of the holding means 6, form a magnetic circuit , through which the slide shoe 31 is pulled by magnetic forces to the drive elements 30, adheres to them and is moved with them in the conveying direction.
  • the holding means 6 are stopped by a suitable stop, they slide moving drive elements 30 with respect to the shoes 31 of the stopped Holding means 6, which is for buffering holding means 6 on non-falling Areas of the rail track 5 is suitable. On sloping areas the same can How gravity to buffer the holding means 6 are used.
  • FIGS. 10 and 11 show, as a view (FIG. 10) and from a bird's eye view (FIG. 11), an exemplary application of a device according to the invention, as is shown, for example, in FIG.
  • the device has at least two removal systems, each with a self-contained rail track 5.1 and 5.2. It is used to feed partial products to a collating device 40, in which similar or identical products are created on two or more than two collating sections 41.1 and 41.2 which run essentially in parallel by collating partial products.
  • the device according to the invention is advantageously used at feed points at which the same partial products are fed to both collating sections, as is shown in FIGS. 10 and 11.
  • the conveying systems of the device according to the invention advantageously also have a holding means buffer 42 on the delivery side directly in front of the point at which the partial products are delivered to the collating section.
  • the operation of the device according to the invention essentially consists of alternately filling the two delivery-side holding means buffers 42 of the two conveying systems.
  • inventive Device also for essentially feeding products to others processing stations operated in parallel can be used.

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