EP1186558A1 - Dispositif pour alimenter une ligne de transformation avec des produits imprimés - Google Patents

Dispositif pour alimenter une ligne de transformation avec des produits imprimés Download PDF

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EP1186558A1
EP1186558A1 EP00810816A EP00810816A EP1186558A1 EP 1186558 A1 EP1186558 A1 EP 1186558A1 EP 00810816 A EP00810816 A EP 00810816A EP 00810816 A EP00810816 A EP 00810816A EP 1186558 A1 EP1186558 A1 EP 1186558A1
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conveying
printed product
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separating means
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Hans Müller
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Grapha Holding AG
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Priority to US09/947,928 priority patent/US6758469B2/en
Priority to JP2001274330A priority patent/JP2002120949A/ja
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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
    • B65H3/00—Separating articles from piles
    • B65H3/08—Separating articles from piles using pneumatic force
    • B65H3/0808—Suction grippers
    • B65H3/085—Suction grippers separating from the bottom of pile
    • B65H3/0858—Suction grippers separating from the bottom of pile this action resulting merely in a curvature of each article being separated
    • B65H3/0875—Suction grippers separating from the bottom of pile this action resulting merely in a curvature of each article being separated the final separation being performed by mechanical 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
    • B65H2301/00—Handling processes for sheets or webs
    • B65H2301/40—Type of handling process
    • B65H2301/44—Moving, forwarding, guiding material
    • B65H2301/443—Moving, forwarding, guiding material by acting on surface of handled material
    • B65H2301/4431—Moving, forwarding, guiding material by acting on surface of handled material by means with operating surfaces contacting opposite faces of material
    • B65H2301/44316—Moving, forwarding, guiding material by acting on surface of handled material by means with operating surfaces contacting opposite faces of material between belts
    • 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
    • B65H2405/54—Rotary gripping arms, i.e. integrated in a rotary element as for instance a cylinder, a disk or a turntable
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2701/00—Handled material; Storage means
    • B65H2701/10—Handled articles or webs
    • B65H2701/19—Specific article or web
    • B65H2701/1932—Signatures, folded printed matter, newspapers or parts thereof and books

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  • the invention relates to a device for loading a Processing line with printed products, such as folded or unfolded, printed sheet consisting of a stacked Printing products individually from a neighboring magazine Funding body of an investor who is in orbit to the that is driven by a clock-linked, on the in the conveying direction front side edge of a printed product
  • Release agent from the stack of partially lifted printed product is a controllable in open or closed position, the gripper arrangement taking over the printed product from the release agent has the printed product on the in the conveying direction front edge captured.
  • a device of this type also known as a sheet feeder, among other things disclosed by EP - A1 - 0 824 084 and can, for example, as mediated by CH - A - 646 924, in a gathering machine intended for perfect binding be used.
  • the invention proposes to remedy the disadvantages that the gripper arrangement fastened to the conveying member having an essentially the same direction of conveyance in the loading area of the processing line is formed by a controlled gripping device which acts directly next to the separating means acting on the laterally closed fold or edge of a conveyed printed product is arranged.
  • This can be a partially or completely open edge of the printed product, which forms the front edge in the conveying direction.
  • a simplified gripper arrangement can thereby be achieved and on the need for an additional, transverse to the conveying direction acting auxiliary separator, such as on gathering machines (Sheridan Rotary Gatherer) of the US company Sheridan practiced, to be dispensed with.
  • gathering machines Sheridan Rotary Gatherer
  • a device 1 for separating stacked printed products 2 and for loading a processing section 3 with the printed products 2 is illustrated.
  • the printed products 2 are folded printed sheets or, in exceptional cases, unfolded or flat, printed sheets, which are transferred from a stack to a processing line 3 for the production of books, brochures, magazines or similar printed products, in particular folded printed products from the invention affected, but the unfolded are not excluded from processing with the device 1 according to the invention.
  • the separation of the printed products 2 on the underside of a stack requires the special arrangement of the printed products 2 with regard to the separating means 4 used, which in each case capture the bottom printed product 2 of a stack laterally at the front end or in the area of a corner and towards one F Hand over rotating conveyor 5.
  • the gripping device 6 of a gripper arrangement 8 provided on the conveying member 5 of an investor 7 for stack removal. Due to the closed fold 9, which spreads a stability on the printed product 2, the gripping device 6 can grip the printed product 2 without additional help and clamp it only on one side of the drum-shaped conveying element 5.
  • the gripper arrangement 8 can consist of one or more gripping devices 6 distributed on the circumference 1 of the conveying element 5.
  • the gripping devices 6 each have one or two gripping arms 10 which are fastened to a gripper shaft 11 and can be pivoted thereby into an open or closed position according to FIG. 1.
  • a control track 12 arranged fixed to the frame is provided, on which rollers 13 of a control lever 14 connected to a control shaft 15 rotate.
  • the opening and closing movement of the gripper arms 10 takes place by means of a toothed segment 17 fastened on the control shaft 15 and meshing with a toothed wheel 16 fixed on the gripper shaft 11.
  • the separating means 4 is formed by a suction device connected to a vacuum source, which has one or two (known) suction heads 19 on a swivel arm 18, which can be switched on individually or together.
  • the present invention also shows the position of the separating means 4 at the time of detection of a printed product 2 on the underside of the stack, from which the lowermost printed product 2 can be reached through an opening in the base plate 21 of the magazine 20.
  • the coordinated interaction of the separating means 4, the conveying element 5 with the gripper arrangement 8 and the processing section 3 is known and can then also be controlled in the present device 1.
  • the printed products 2 are located in a magazine 20 arranged above the conveying member 5, in which the printed products 2 are stacked one on top of the other and the closed folds 9 according to FIG. are assigned to the gripping device 6.
  • the present invention allows the folds 9 as well as the separating means 4 and the gripping device 6 to be arranged on the opposite side of the magazine 20.
  • a retaining device 22 known per se is provided, which acts in a supporting manner on the stack protruding from the magazine bottom 21 in the vicinity of the separating means 4 and the gripping device 6.
  • This retaining device 22 is connected by a clamp 27 to a shaft 25 which is pivotably mounted on the frame 24 of the feeder 7 parallel to the axis of rotation 23 of the conveying member 5 and has a support surface 26 which, in the operating position, runs approximately flush with the magazine bottom 21 (see FIG. 1 ).
  • the retaining device 22 For the detection of a lowermost printed product 2 by the separating means 4, the retaining device 22 leaves its support position by a pivoting movement, as indicated by dash-dotted lines in FIG. 1, and pivots back as soon as the printed product 2 captured by the separating means 4 is brought out of the pivoting range of the retaining device 22.
  • the retaining device 22 has a protruding shape which is raised against the orbit of the printed products 2 on the conveying element 5 and which, when the lowermost printed product 2 is pulled out, proves to be a sliding guide 26 directed towards it.
  • the conveying member 5 transports the printed product 2 after it has been taken over by the separating means 4 through the gripper arrangement 8, consisting of one or more gripping devices 6 or double gripping devices distributed over the circumference of the conveying member 5, via a conveyor arrangement 36 formed from circulating conveyor belts 29, 30 into the collecting channel 28
  • the conveyor belts 29, 30 lie against one another at about 90 ° on the circumference of the conveyor 5, forming a conveying gap for transporting the printed products 2, with an obliquely downward direction, approximately in the same direction as the conveying direction S of the collecting duct 28 is aligned with the conveying end section 31 and opens into the collecting duct 28.
  • the collecting duct 28 has a laterally rising bearing surface 41, so that the printed products 2 supplied with their closed fold 19 each slide against a side duct wall 42.
  • the printed products 2 are each taken over at the rear edge by drivers 33 fastened to a rotating traction element 32 and transported onward. Since the printed products 2 are only frictionally guided in one side area between two conveyor belts 29, 30, two stationary guide members 34 are provided across the width of the conveying member 5, each forming a guide gap 35 with the conveying member 5, so that the printed products 2 over the whole Conveying width are guided.
  • the conveying belt 29 rotates on the one hand the conveying element 5 and a stationary roller 37 at the end of the conveying arrangement 36, and this on the conveying belt 5 carried by the conveying element 5 29 adjacent conveyor belt 30 revolves around a roller 38 adjacent to the roller 37 at the end of the conveyor and a further stationary deflection roller 39 upstream of the conveyor element 5.
  • the conveyor belts 29, 30 are each tensioned on the strand opposite the conveyor-effective strand by a lever-like tensioning device 40 ,

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Feeding Of Articles By Means Other Than Belts Or Rollers (AREA)
  • Delivering By Means Of Belts And Rollers (AREA)
  • Sheets, Magazines, And Separation Thereof (AREA)
  • Collation Of Sheets And Webs (AREA)
EP00810816A 2000-09-11 2000-09-11 Dispositif pour alimenter une ligne de transformation avec des produits imprimés Withdrawn EP1186558A1 (fr)

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EP00810816A EP1186558A1 (fr) 2000-09-11 2000-09-11 Dispositif pour alimenter une ligne de transformation avec des produits imprimés
US09/947,928 US6758469B2 (en) 2000-09-11 2001-09-07 Gripping conveyor with pneumatic separator
JP2001274330A JP2002120949A (ja) 2000-09-11 2001-09-10 印刷物を加工路に搬入するための装置

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