EP1155992B1 - Méthode et dispositif pour diviser un courant de transport d'articles - Google Patents

Méthode et dispositif pour diviser un courant de transport d'articles Download PDF

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EP1155992B1
EP1155992B1 EP01810449A EP01810449A EP1155992B1 EP 1155992 B1 EP1155992 B1 EP 1155992B1 EP 01810449 A EP01810449 A EP 01810449A EP 01810449 A EP01810449 A EP 01810449A EP 1155992 B1 EP1155992 B1 EP 1155992B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
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    • 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
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    • 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
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    • 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
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    • B65H2301/00—Handling processes for sheets or webs
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    • 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
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    • 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 promotion and relates to a method and an apparatus according to the preambles of the corresponding independent claims.
  • the method and the device are used to divide a flow in which a large number of the same or at least similar objects (cargo) are serially conveyed, in a plurality of different Wegncyströmen.
  • the conveying path of the delivery stream branches into a plurality of removal paths and the articles are optionally directed onto one of the removal paths and, in turn, conveyed away in series.
  • the printed products processing which represents an application example for general cargo
  • the printed products usually overlap each other (scale flows), or they can consist of printed products that individually or held in small groups by a gripper, for example, be suspended hanging one behind the other.
  • the grippers used are mounted on a conveying member (eg conveyor chain) or they are more or less independently movable along a rail track, independent grippers are driven by corresponding drives, for example, pushing each other.
  • Such devices are arranged at the splitting point and have a between the conveyor support of the feed and the plurality of conveyor supports the Weg Entryen arranged, pivotable or otherwise movable conveyor support that connects either the conveyor support the feed with one or the other conveyor support the Wegstructureen. Since the printed products overlap each other in the scale flow, means for separating the scale flow are to be provided in addition to the said pivotable conveyor support, by means of which means the overlap of the products for each changeover of the switch is canceled locally.
  • An example of a scale circuit is described, for example, in the publication EP-1063187.
  • the publication US-4678172 describes a system for dividing a scale flow of printed products into two shingled streams.
  • the printed products of the supplied scale flow are detected by grippers belonging to two gripper conveyors diverging after the detection.
  • the gripper conveyors are synchronized so that the printed products are detected alternately by a respective gripper of a gripper conveyor and each of a gripper of the other gripper conveyor and thereby alternately promoted apart. From the gripper conveyors, the products are then stored on other conveyors in turn as shingled stream.
  • a Zu actionsystems be printed products are optionally on other conveyor systems, for example, also mounted on conveyor organs gripper, passed and thus to a selected Wegnweg directed. Transfer points to several removal systems are usually arranged one behind the other along the Zuureux, so that such an arrangement is associated with a considerable amount of space.
  • points for flow distribution are usually designed as rail branches and there are control means provided for such locations, the grippers movable along the rails of the Feed feed rail to the desired removal conveyor.
  • appropriate means shall be provided for: that the grippers that are routed to the different pathways are returned to a common starting point on corresponding return routes, which in turn must have points or merge points.
  • the object of the invention is now to provide a method and a device with which a cargo flow in which articles are conveyed in series can be divided into a plurality of removal flow streams, in which the articles are in turn conveyed away serially.
  • the division should be controllable further downstream or upstream, for example, according to a predetermined division sequence or according to sensory conditions, or it should run according to a regular splitting cycle.
  • At least the Wegtent should be a held promotion in which the items are transported away individually or in small groups each held by a holding means.
  • the inventive device should be simple, as universally applicable and, in particular, very space-saving.
  • articles are conveyed serially to a distribution point and in the distribution point for takeover by each a holding means positioned.
  • the splitting station is also supplied with a holding means, which holding means belongs to the removal system of a plurality of removal systems defining a removal path on which the item or item group is to be conveyed away.
  • the holding means are selectively discharged from buffers for promotion by the splitting station, which buffers also belong to different removal systems, and each of the holding means occupies one of the positioned items (or group of items) in the splitting station to convey it away from the splitting station along the removal path of its removal system ,
  • the articles may be conveyed away from one another at regular intervals, with a feed stream at substantially uniform intervals also having gaps, or at irregular intervals from one another.
  • one holding means must be released from the buffer of one of the various removal systems per delivery cycle, or alternatively a holding means or no holding means (gap) or the holding means must be released from the buffers as required.
  • the device according to the invention has means for the serial conveyance of objects to a splitting station and at the splitting station means for positioning the objects or groups of objects for transfer by a respective holding means. Furthermore, the device has a plurality of removal systems, wherein each of the removal systems has an advantageously self-contained rail track and a plurality of movable in a conveying direction along the rail track holding means.
  • the rail tracks of all conveying means advantageously converge towards the distribution point or run parallel, run parallel to each other and as close as possible to each other through the Division office and diverge after the division office.
  • each removal system has means for buffering holding means and means for the controlled release of holding means from the buffer.
  • each removal system has means for the controlled conveyance of retaining means through the splitting station and means for activating retaining means in the splitting station for the detection of an object.
  • the retaining means are independent of each other along the rail track of the shuttle Moving away or they are interconnected by flexible means, such that the distances between adjacent holding means are variable.
  • the apparatus according to the invention further comprises control means for coordinating the retrieval of the holding means from the buffers such that the serial holding agent stream conveyed by the splitting station comprises a sequence of holding means of the various conveyance systems corresponding to a desired distribution sequence of the items to be conveyed.
  • the holding means conveyed by the splitting station form a serial stream in which the holding means can be conveyed easily on conveying paths which are partially overlapping one another.
  • the rail tracks of the Wegjansysteme can run with minimal distances from each other through the distribution point, with the serial release of the holding means from the various buffers in the promotion by the division unwanted collisions of holding means and unwanted simultaneous interactions of multiple holding means with a Subject to be prevented.
  • the holding means In the serial flow of holding medium through the splitting station, the holding means have distances from one another, which are matched to the distances between the objects to be conveyed, which can therefore be regular or irregular (even with gaps).
  • the rail tracks of the removal systems run as close as possible next to each other through the distribution point, such that when taking over the objects, the positions of the holding means of different removal systems relative to the position of the objects to be acquired are as little as possible different from each other.
  • the place of distribution may be determined by which of the removal systems an object is to be taken Rail track, a retaining means relative to its rail track, the object to be transferred, the delivery system or parts of the Zu jobers be moved transversely to the general conveying direction, or the holding means of the various Wegjansysteme may be designed differently according to 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. Shown is an exemplary division point 1 with a view transverse to the conveying direction F. At the division point 1, a stream 2 of supplied objects 3, for example, a scale flow of printed products on three Wegellewege 4.1, 4.2 or 4.3 divided.
  • the three Wegncywege 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 with variable distances from each other are movable.
  • the objects are conveyed by the holding means, for example, hanging.
  • the rail tracks 5.1 to 5.3 extend through the division point, for example, in the plane of the paper of Figure 1, while the conveyed objects 3 are located behind or below this level and coming from the left approaching this level until it by the holding means 6.1 to 6.3, the extend from the plane of the rail tracks 5.1 to 5.3 against the edge portions, can be taken.
  • the rail tracks 5.1 to 5.3 converge depending on the design of the gripper against the division 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 diverging to the division point 1.
  • the illustrated rail strands 5.1 to 5.3 are advantageously parts of three self-contained rail tracks, each of which one of three removal systems assigned.
  • the holding means 6.1, 6.2 and 6.3 are buffered on each of the rail tracks 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3. From the buffering they are discharged according to the splitting sequence and form by the splitting point 1 a serial holding agent flow in which successive holding means 6.1, 6.2 or 6.3 may belong to different removal systems and thereby be conveyed along different rail tracks 5.1, 5.2 or 5.3.
  • the promotion of the holding means 6.1, 6.2 or 6.3 by the division point 1 leads them into the area of conveyed objects 3 such that objects 3 can be grasped and held away by activation of holding means.
  • the objects 3 are detected in different holding areas of holding means of different removal systems.
  • the holding region lies in the middle of the illustrated edge region 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 adjacent 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 passing through the splitting point 1, which are indicated by dot-dashed lines.
  • the three rail tracks 5.1 to 5.3 are shown cut transversely to the conveying direction F with corresponding retaining means 6.1 (extended), 6.2 (dash-dot) and 6.3 (dotted).
  • the holding means 6.1, 6.2 and 6.3 are shown in front in interaction with a single object 3, which of course is not possible in the serial holding medium flow conveyed by the dividing point.
  • FIGS. 1 and 2 In order that the objects of holding devices movable along different rail tracks are not grasped and held in different holding areas, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, various measures can be taken. Examples of such measures are illustrated by FIGS. 3 to 7. In these figures, distribution points 1 are shown with a plurality of rail tracks with holding means with a viewing angle parallel to the conveying direction. In these figures, the same parts are designated by the same reference numerals as in FIGS. 1 and 2.
  • Figure 3 shows a distribution point 1 with two parallel rail tracks 5.1 and 5.2, along which holding means 6.1 (extended) and 6.2 (dotted) movable are.
  • the holding means To be able to detect positioned objects 3 both with the holding means 6.1 and with the holding means 6.2 in a predetermined, for example, central holding area, is always that of the rail tracks 5.1 or 5.2, the holding means to detect one of the objects, transverse to the conveying direction in a position. 5 '(dash-dotted lines) shifted (arrows A.1 and A.2), from which a movable on the displaced rail track holding means 6' can detect the object 3 in the predetermined holding area.
  • FIG. 4 shows a distribution part 1 with a pair of parallel and juxtaposed 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 (FIGS. 9a to 9c) are.
  • the rails of the two rail tracks converge and the grippers are guided to an equal central position (shown in solid lines) (arrow A.3), irrespective of which rail track they are assigned, and grip the objects 3 in the center.
  • the rail tracks diverge (positions 6.1 'and 6.2' of the holding means).
  • FIG. 5 shows a distribution point 1 with again two mutually parallel rail tracks 5.1 and 5.2.
  • movable holding means (only 6.1 shown) relative to the rail track transversely to the conveying direction displaced (arrow A.4 to position 6.1 ', which is shown in phantom), such that the holding means of both rail tracks in the shifted position a positioned object 3 in the same, predetermined holding area (for example, centrally) can capture.
  • the holding means for a promotion of the object can be moved back (position 6.1), whereby the detected object is moved to its dash-dotted line position 3 '.
  • FIG. 6 shows a division point 1 with again two mutually parallel rail tracks 5.1 and 5.2.
  • the holding means (only one holding means 6.1 shown) are designed such that they are conveyed on a conveying path, which is offset relative to the rail track transversely to the conveying direction. With reversely offset such retaining means for the two rail tracks 5.1 and 5.2, it is possible to promote the holding means of both rail tracks on a same conveying path and to take the objects 3 without active displacement of any parts in a same holding area, regardless of along which rail track they conveyed away should be.
  • Figure 7 shows a division point 1 with three mutually parallel rail tracks 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3 and corresponding retaining means 6.1 (dotted), 6.2 (solid) and 6.3 (dash-dotted lines).
  • the objects are moved by 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 displaced transversely to the conveying direction.
  • FIG. 8 shows an exemplary embodiment of the device according to the invention for dividing a printed product delivery flow into a plurality of removal flow streams, wherein only one of the removal systems is visible.
  • the feed means which serves for the serial feeding of the articles into the splitting station 1 and for the positioning of the objects in the splitting station, comprises in the apparatus shown in a known manner a stacking shaft 10, a separating wheel 11 and a conveying means 12 for conveying a Schuppenstromes or from scale flow sections on.
  • the stacking shaft 10 serves to receive stacked printed products which are filled, for example, by hand (arrow B.1) into the stacking shaft 10.
  • the separating wheel 11 With the help of the separating wheel 11, the printed products are separated from the stacking shaft 10 and stored in a shingled formation on the conveyor 12 (arrow B.2).
  • the scaly formation of the distribution point 1 is conveyed (arrows B.3, B.4 and B.5).
  • the printed products can be supplied from other storage formations, for example from winding means unwinding station, wherein the package unwound from printed products and the division point 1 is fed.
  • the holding means 6 are conveyed by a Mit Meetingrad 21, wherein all Wegchane 20 have a same Mit Draftrad 21 and the plurality of Mit resumern 21 with axes transverse to the conveying direction F and as close together coaxially.
  • a holding means buffer 7 (for empty holding means) is arranged, that is a Craigstoffstopp 22, behind which the holding means 6 driven by a slip drive or by gravity accumulate and which Halteffenstopp 22 for controlled release of one holding means 6 to the Mit supportiverad 21 is controlled.
  • the displacement of the holding means 6 after the division point 1, that is, after grasping a printed product, for example, can be taken over by the same slip drive as the buffering in front of the Mit supportiverad 21st
  • a plurality of feed means is provided in a device for dividing a piece goods flow. These supply means are then optionally connected by means of a corresponding switch to the distribution point and thus to the plurality of removal systems.
  • FIG. 9 shows a rail track 5 with a magnetic slip drive in cross-section and a holding means 6 movable along the rail track 5.
  • the rail track 5 and the holding means 6 shown can be used in a removal system of a device according to the invention according to FIG.
  • the holding means 6 has a slide shoe 31, which consists at least in the region of a coupling surface 32 partially of a ferromagnetic material.
  • the slide shoe 31 has two lateral notches, in which the rail track 5 engages.
  • the slip drive comprises drive elements 30 consisting of a ferromagnetic material, which are moved along the rail track 5 by means of a drive, the drive elements 30 also having two lateral notches into which the rail track 5 engages.
  • permanent magnets 33 are arranged in the regions of the rail track and flux guide elements which form a magnetic circuit together with the ferromagnetic parts of the drive elements 30 and the ferromagnetic parts of the sliding shoes 31 of the holding means 6 , by which the sliding shoe 31 is pulled by magnetic forces to the drive elements 30, adheres to these and is moved with these in the conveying direction.
  • the moving driving members 30 slip against the sliding shoes 31 of the stopped holding means 6, which is suitable for buffering holding means 6 on non-sloping portions of the bus bar 5.
  • gravity can be used to buffer the holding means 6 in the same way.
  • FIGS. 10 and 11 show a view (FIG. 10) and bird's eye view (FIG. 11) of an exemplary application of a device according to the invention, as 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 serves to supply partial products to a collating device 40, in which similar or identical products are produced on two or more than two substantially parallel collation paths 41.1 and 41.2 by collating partial products. At feed points at which identical partial products are fed to both collation sections, the device according to the invention is advantageously used, as shown in FIGS. 10 and 11.
  • the removal systems of the device according to the invention advantageously also have a delivery-side holding agent buffer 42 immediately before the point at which the partial products are delivered to the collection path.
  • the operation of the device according to the invention consists in this case essentially of an alternating filling of the two delivery-side holding agent buffer 42 of the two removal systems.
  • the device according to the invention can also be used for feeding products to other processing stations operated essentially in parallel.

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  1. Procédé de division d'un écoulement (2) de transport d'éléments individuels en une pluralité d'écoulements d'enlèvement, un grand nombre d'objets (3) étant amenés successivement à un emplacement de division (1) et étant placés un à un dans l'emplacement de division en vue d'un transfert d'objets (3) individuels ou de groupes d'objets à un moyen de maintien (6), les objets ou les groupes d'objets étant ensuite enlevés successivement de l'emplacement de division (1) sur différents parcours d'enlèvement (4.1 à 4.3) tous maintenus par un moyen de maintien (6), les objets (3) apportés étant conduits sur les différents parcours d'enlèvement (4.1 à 4.3) après une séquence de division, les moyens de maintien (6.1, 6.2, 6.3) pour le transfert des objets (3) ou des groupes d'objets étant transportés à travers l'emplacement de division (1) en un écoulement de moyens de maintien successifs, chaque moyen de maintien (6.1, 6.2, 6.3) étant associé de manière fixe à l'un des différents parcours d'enlèvement, caractérisé en ce que les moyens de maintien (6.1, 6.2, 6.3) associés aux différents parcours d'enlèvement et pouvant être transportés à des intervalles variables et tamponnés en amont de l'emplacement de division étant libérés de différents tampons (7.1, 7.2, 7.3) de moyens de maintien différents et également associés aux différents parcours de transport, la succession des moyens de maintien (6.1, 6.2, 6.3) associés aux différents parcours d'enlèvement correspondant dans l'écoulement successif de moyens de maintien à la séquence de division des objets (3) ou groupes d'objets.
  2. Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que la séquence de division est prédéterminée de l'extérieur ou est adaptée à des situations détectées par des sondes en aval ou en amont de l'emplacement de division (1).
  3. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 1 ou 2, caractérisé en ce que les moyens de maintien (6.1, 6.2, 6.3) associés aux différents parcours d'enlèvement sont transportés à travers l'emplacement de division (1) sur différents parcours de transport parallèles les uns aux autres.
  4. Procédé selon la revendication 3, caractérisé en ce que les objets placés dans l'emplacement de division (1) pour être transférés à un moyen de maintien (6.1, 6.2, 6.3) sont saisis dans différentes zones de maintien par des moyens de maintien (6.1, 6.2, 6.3) associés aux différents parcours d'enlèvement.
  5. Procédé selon la revendication 3, caractérisé en ce que les moyens de maintien (6.1, 6.2, 6.3) associés aux différents parcours d'enlèvement pour le transfert d'objets (3) placés dans l'emplacement de division (1) sont déplacés dans l'emplacement de division (1) de telle sorte que les objets (3) sont saisis par tous les moyens de maintien (6.1, 6.2, 6.3) dans la même zone de maintien.
  6. Procédé selon la revendication 3, caractérisé en ce que pour le transfert des objets (3) placés dans l'emplacement de division (1), les moyens de maintien (6.1, 6.2, 6.3) associés aux différents parcours d'enlèvement sont déplacés transversalement par rapport à leur parcours de transport de telle sorte que les objets (3) soient saisis par tous les moyens de maintien (6.1, 6.2, 6.3) dans la même zone de maintien.
  7. Procédé selon la revendication 3, caractérisé en ce que les moyens de maintien (6.1, 6.2, 6.3) associés aux différents parcours d'enlèvement ont des configurations différentes, de telle sorte que les objets (3) placés dans l'emplacement de division (1) sont saisis dans la même zone de maintien par des moyens de maintien (6.1, 6.2, 6.3) associés aux différents écoulements d'enlèvement.
  8. Procédé selon la revendication 3, caractérisé en ce que les objets (3) sont placés différemment dans l'emplacement de division (1), de manière à être saisis dans la même zone de maintien par des moyens de maintien (6.1, 6.2, 6.3) associés à différents parcours d'enlèvement.
  9. Dispositif de division d'un écoulement (2) de transport d'éléments individuels entre une pluralité de parcours d'enlèvement, un grand nombre d'objets (3) étant pour cette division amenés successivement à un emplacement de division (1) et placés dans l'emplacement de division (1) de telle sorte que les objets individuels (3) ou des groupes d'objets soient transférés à des moyens de maintien (6) respectifs, les objets (3) ou les groupes d'objets étant maintenus un à un par un moyen de maintien (6) pour être divisés et étant enlevés successivement de l'emplacement de division sur différents parcours d'enlèvement, le dispositif présentant un moyen d'amenée (10, 11, 12) qui amène successivement et place les objets (3) dans l'emplacement de division (1), et un système d'enlèvement associé à chaque parcours d'enlèvement, qui enlève les objets (3) ou les groupes d'objets de l'emplacement de division (1) en les maintenant, chacun des systèmes d'enlèvement présentant un tronçon de rail (5.1, 5.2, 5.3) et des moyens de maintien (6.1, 6.2, 6.3) qui peuvent être déplacés dans une direction de transport (F) le long du tronçon de rail (5.1, 5.2, 5.3), les tronçons de rail (5.1, 5.2, 5.3) de tous les systèmes d'enlèvement traversant l'emplacement de division (1) parallèlement les uns aux autres dans une direction de transport (F) et divergeant après l'emplacement de division (1), caractérisé en ce que les moyens de maintien peuvent être déplacés à des intervalles variables, en ce que chacun des systèmes d'enlèvement présente en amont de l'emplacement de division (1) dans la direction de transport (F) des moyens de tamponnage des moyens de maintien (6.1, 6.2, 6.3) et de libération contrôlée des moyens de maintien (6.1, 6.2, 6.3) hors des tampons (7.1, 7.2, 7.3) et des moyens de transport contrôlé des moyens de maintien (6.1, 6.2, 6.3) à travers l'emplacement de division (1) et en ce que le dispositif présente en outre des moyens de coordination de la libération des moyens de maintien hors des tampons (7.1, 7.2, 7.3) conformément à une séquence de division.
  10. Dispositif selon la revendication 9, caractérisé en ce que les moyens de maintien (6.1, 6.2, 6.3) peuvent être déplacés indépendamment les uns des autres sur les tronçons de rail (5.1, 5.2, 5.3) ou en ce qu'ils sont reliés les uns aux autres par des liaisons flexibles, de telle sorte que les intervalles entre les moyens de maintien (6.1, 6.2, 6.3) peuvent être modifiés.
  11. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications 9 ou 10, caractérisé en ce que le moyen de transport contrôlé des moyens de maintien (6.1, 6.2, 6.3) à travers l'emplacement de division (1) est une roue d'entraînement (21).
  12. Dispositif selon la revendication 11, caractérisé en ce que les roues d'entraînement (21) des systèmes d'enlèvement sont disposées coaxialement.
  13. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications 9 à 12, caractérisé en ce que les tronçons de rail (5.1, 5.2, 5.3) des systèmes d'enlèvement qui traversent l'emplacement de division (1) peuvent être déplacés transversalement par rapport à la direction de transport (F) de telle sorte que les moyens de maintien (6.1, 6.2, 6.3) de chaque système d'enlèvement peuvent être amenés dans l'emplacement de division (1) dans une même position prédéterminée par rapport aux objets (3) placés dans l'emplacement de division (1).
  14. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications 9 à 12, caractérisé en ce qu'au moins à l'emplacement de division (1), les moyens de maintien (6.1, 6.2, 6.3) peuvent être déplacés transversalement par rapport à la direction de transport (F) par rapport des tronçons de rail (5.1, 5.2, 5.3) sur lesquels ils peuvent être déplacés, de telle sorte que les moyens de maintien (6.1, 6.2, 6.3) de chaque système d'enlèvement peuvent être amenés dans l'emplacement de division (1) dans une même position prédéterminée par rapport aux objets (3) placés dans l'emplacement de division (1).
  15. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications 9 à 12, caractérisé en ce que les moyens de maintien (6.1, 6.2, 6.3) des différents systèmes d'enlèvement ont des configurations différentes, de telle sorte que les moyens de maintien (6.1, 6.2, 6.3) de chaque système d'enlèvement peuvent être amenés à l'emplacement de division (1) dans une même position prédéterminée par rapport aux objets (3) placés dans l'emplacement de division (1).
  16. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications 9 à 12, caractérisé en ce que le moyen d'amenée (10, 11, 12) qui amène et positionne successivement les objets (3) dans l'emplacement de division (3) ou en ce que des parties de ce moyen (10, 11, 12) peuvent être déplacées transversalement par rapport à la direction de transport (F), de telle sorte que les moyens de maintien (6.1, 6.2, 6.3) de chaque système d'enlèvement peut être amené à l'emplacement de division (1) dans une même position prédéterminée par rapport aux objets (3) placés dans l'emplacement de division (1).
  17. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications 9 à 16, caractérisé en ce que le moyen d'amenée (10, 11, 12) qui amène et positionne successivement les objets (3) dans l'emplacement de division (1) présente un puits d'empilement (10), une roue (11) qui sépare les objets un à un et un moyen de transport (12) qui transporte un écoulement d'objets (3) décalés les uns par rapport aux autres.
  18. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications 9 à 16, caractérisé en ce que le moyen d'amenée (10, 11, 12) qui amène et positionne successivement les objets (3) dans l'emplacement de division (1) présente un poste de déroulement qui déroule un rouleau de produits imprimés.
  19. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications 9 à 18, caractérisé en ce que plusieurs moyens d'amenée (10, 11, 12) sont prévus et peuvent être raccordés sélectivement à l'emplacement de division (1).
  20. Utilisation d'un dispositif selon l'une des revendications 9 à 19 pour amener des produits imprimés à plusieurs postes de traitement qui travaillent en parallèle.
  21. Utilisation d'un dispositif selon l'une des revendications 9 à 19 pour amener des produits imprimés à plusieurs dispositifs (41.1, 41.2) dans lesquels des parties de produits imprimés parallèles les unes aux autres sont rassemblées.
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