EP1268332A2

EP1268332A2 - Method and device for managing a device for intermediately storing flat objects

Info

Publication number: EP1268332A2
Application number: EP00943510A
Authority: EP
Inventors: Hans Ulrich Stauber
Original assignee: Ferag AG
Current assignee: Ferag AG
Priority date: 1999-07-28
Filing date: 2000-07-20
Publication date: 2003-01-02
Anticipated expiration: 2020-07-20
Also published as: DE50013411D1; WO2001009024A3; AU779669B2; AU5800200A; DK1268332T3; CA2379689C; ATE337995T1; EP1268332B1; WO2001009024A2; CA2379689A1

Abstract

At least one positioning device (5) and at least one orienting device (6) are provided in order to manage a device for intermediately storing flat objects, especially printing products, that are intermediately stored in rolls, for example. The device comprises a plurality of roll stations (1), a plurality of mobile roll stands (2) and a plurality of storage areas (2.1, 2.2) for roll stands. The storage areas (2.1, 2.2) are arranged on a plurality of parallel, primary transport paths (3). The primary transport paths cross at least one secondary transport path (4.1, 4.2). The entries of the roll stations (1) are arranged along a secondary transport path (4) and aligned with primary transport paths (3). In order to remove the roll stands (2) by drawing and to position the same by pushing, the positioning device (5) can be actively displaced in storage areas (2.1, 2.2) and roll stations (1) along primary transport paths (3). The orienting device (6) serves to receive loaded or empty positioning devices (5), to reorientate them for successive transport measures on primary transport paths (3), for displacing them along secondary transport paths (4.1, 4.2) and, optionally, for raising or lowering them to additional levels having additional storage areas (2.1, 2.2) as well as primary and secondary transport paths (3, 4). The method and device can also be used, in an analogous manner, for managing devices for intermediately storing rolls of flat objects which, without roll stands, are handled on pallets, for example, or for managing other storage units of flat objects which are handled using other suitable supporting elements.

Description

METHOD AND DEVICE FOR

MANAGEMENT OF A FACILITY

INTERMEDIATE STORAGE OF FLAT ITEMS

The invention is in the field of storage technology and relates to a method and a device according to the preambles of the corresponding independent claims. The method and the device are used to manage a device for the intermediate storage of flat objects, in particular printed products, a large number of the objects being combined in a storage formation (for example wound into a roll) for the intermediate storage, with storage formations (for example a roll) being stored temporarily and after the intermediate storage the objects are released from the storage formations (eg unwound from the coils). Corresponding facilities include stations for forming bearing formations (e.g. winding stations for winding), stations for dissolving bearing formations (e.g. winding stations for unwinding), a plurality of supporting elements (e.g. winding stands with winding cores or only winding cores) for carrying or holding bearing formations together and a bearing Storage spaces for supporting elements with bearing formation or for supporting elements without bearing formation (loaded and empty supporting elements).

The management of such a facility includes the following steps in particular: positioning empty or loaded support elements (for example winding stands) in stations for forming storage formations (for example winding stations) or in stations for dissolving storage formations (for example unwinding stations), Removing loaded or empty load-bearing elements from the stations, depositing loaded and empty load-bearing elements on storage bins, removing loaded and empty load-bearing elements from storage bins and transporting empty and loaded load-bearing elements from storage bins to stations, from stations to storage bins and, if necessary, from one Storage location to another storage location.

The large number of the above-mentioned steps required for a given management process in a given time sequence is coordinated by a higher-level intelligence and is carried out with a more or less high degree of automation.

In the printing industry, windings are often used as bearing formations. These windings consist of a winding core and a scale formation wound onto the core with the aid of a winding tape, which in turn consists of a large number of printed products which overlap in a scale-like manner. The windings are handled as such (the supporting element is only the winding core) or winding stands are used on which a winding core is rotatably mounted. Such coils usually have a diameter in the order of up to two meters and a weight in the order of one ton. The axial width of the winding essentially corresponds to the width of the wound products, which is, for example, 30 to 50 cm. Winding stands suitable for such windings (also called winding cassettes) and methods for handling such winding stands are described, for example, in the publications DE-3236866 (or US-4587790, F133), EP-149058 (or US-4676 96, F173) , EP-242607 (or US-4703901, F215), EP-333648 (or US-5161933, F253) or EP-243837 (or US-4768768, F224). The winding stands are as simple as possible, mobile (possibly passively movable) devices which are stable without any additional aids, on which a winding core is rotatably mounted about a horizontal winding axis and which in many cases also have a device for winding or unwinding the winding tape. An empty winding stand has an empty winding core without printed products wound thereon; in a loaded winding stand, the winding core carries a scale formation of printed products or other flat objects wound thereon. Such winding stands are positioned at appropriately equipped winding stations and are usually matched to the winding stations in such a way that a scale formation wound up in the winding stand is directly unwound in a winding station or that the scale formation is wound directly onto the winding core of a winding stand in a winding station.

It is not only common in the printing industry, however, to temporarily store printed products in coils which are held by winding stands, but it is also common to spirally arrange the printed products, for example in coils lying on pallets, in towers and carried by suitable supporting elements or in bars , wherein all these arrangements of printed products represent storage formations and are carried and / or held together by suitable supporting elements.

It is the object of the invention to provide a method and a device for the management of a device for the interim storage of storage formations of flat objects, in particular printed products, the device having at least one station for forming storage formations, at least one station for dissolving storage formations , has a plurality of mobile support elements and a warehouse with a plurality of storage spaces for bearing formations or support elements and wherein the management of the device consists of support elements with or without bearing formation in stations for formation or to position and dissolve storage formations and to remove them from such stations, to deposit and remove support elements with or without storage formation in storage spaces and to remove them from storage spaces and to transport support elements with or without storage formation between stations and storage spaces or between different storage spaces. The management according to the method according to the invention should be as simple and efficient as possible and should place as little spatial conditions as possible at positions of storage places and stations and thereby take up as little space as possible. The device for carrying out the method should be simple and efficient to operate in a wide variety of spatial conditions, should take up little space and should be easy to expand.

This object is achieved by the method and the device as defined in the independent patent claims.

The method according to the invention is based on the central idea of dividing the per se complex management function into sub-functions and of providing various, simple and highly independent sub-devices for performing these sub-functions. These sub-devices are simple and yet very efficient because they are only responsible for sub-functions.

The interaction required between sub-devices becomes simple and efficient in that support elements with or without bearing formation are not transferred from one sub-device to another. This is realized in that primary sub-devices handle support elements with or without bearing formation, in that secondary sub-devices handle load elements with or without bearing formation or empty primary sub-devices, in tertiary sub-devices handle loaded or empty primary sub-devices loaded or empty secondary sub-devices and so on in other words, when removing men of a support element (empty or loaded) from a storage bin or from a station for forming or dissolving storage formations, a pair is formed by any type of coupling of a support member and a primary sub-device, which pair only when the support member is deposited in a storage bin or a station for the formation or dissolution of camp formations is separated again. Between removal and positioning of the same support element, several, secondary, tertiary, etc. steps are possible in which the said pair is handled as a unit.

The positioning / removal of support elements (e.g. winding stands) in stations for the formation or dissolution of storage formations (e.g. winding stations) and the storage / retrieval of support elements at storage locations are among the functions of the primary sub-devices, which advantageously remove the support elements by pulling or carrying them behind and deposit in a pushing or carrying manner. The transport steps to be carried out between the above-mentioned steps can be divided into any number, for example three, of sub-steps and carried out with the aid of primary, secondary and tertiary sub-devices, but the pair of support element (loaded or empty) and primary sub-device is only dissolved again when the support element has reached its destination, i.e. is positioned in the station or storage area.

The device according to the invention has at least two types of sub-devices: a positioning device (primary sub-device), with the aid of which loaded and empty support elements (e.g. winding stands) are positioned in stations for the formation or dissolution of storage formations (e.g. winding stations) and storage locations and with which loaded or empty support elements are removed from stations or storage locations, and an orientation device (secondary sub-device) for creating an orientation of the positioning device necessary for positioning or removal. In addition, the positioning direction primary transport steps that immediately follow the positioning / removal or immediately precede this and the orientation device takes over secondary transport steps that have to be carried out between primary transport steps. Further (tertiary) sub-devices can be provided for further (tertiary) transport steps and, if appropriate, further orientation steps which are to be carried out between secondary transport steps.

With the hierarchical arrangement of sub-steps in the method according to the invention and the corresponding hierarchical arrangement of sub-devices of the device according to the invention, a bearing extending in all directions and an equally free arrangement of stations for forming or dissolving bearing formations can be managed without supporting elements with or without bearing formation must each be transferred from one sub-device to another sub-device and without transport devices having to be equipped to carry out complicated maneuvering. This results in a great simplicity of the partial devices and a very high efficiency of the process. Advantageously, a plurality of sub-devices are provided for each type of sub-device (primary, secondary, tertiary, etc.) in such a way that they can carry out equally important management steps simultaneously. Since the pair formation between support elements and primary sub-devices and between primary and secondary sub-devices is always only a temporary one, the method according to the invention also has a very high degree of flexibility.

The positioning devices are advantageously equipped in such a way that they can pull and push passively movable supporting elements (e.g. winding carriers with rollers) or that they can not lift themselves movable supporting elements (e.g. winding carriers without rollers or pallets) and can carry them in front of or behind them (pallet trucks ). The positioning devices move actively, for example by means of appropriate guide means (for example rails or electrically defined guidelines), in the warehouse, for example, parallel (primary) transport routes, in the area of which storage spaces are provided for support elements with or without bearing formations. The storage spaces advantageously have no stationary storage aids, so that they do not have to be permanently intended for predetermined support elements with or without storage formations, but can be used with a very high degree of flexibility.

The orienting devices are equipped to bring positioning devices from one of the parallel primary transport routes to another and to give the positioning device an orientation that is correct for the following primary transport step. The (secondary) transport path, for example defined by rails, on which the orientation device can be actively moved is arranged, for example, transversely to the direction of the primary transport paths.

Additional, tertiary sub-devices can be provided, for example, for the transport of orientation devices to a second or third level (tertiary transport routes).

The method according to the invention and some exemplary embodiments of the device for carrying out the method are described in detail with reference to the following figures. The figures and the corresponding descriptions relate to the use of the method and the device according to the invention in a device for the intermediate storage of printed products or other flat objects in windings, which windings are created and dissolved in winding stations and which windings are carried by winding stands become. The choice of this application does not in any way limit the invention to this application. The method according to the invention and the device according to the invention are essentially analogous. reversible for other bearing formations and corresponding supporting elements which are common in the printing industry, examples of which are mentioned at the beginning.

The figures show:

Figures 1 to 8 an exemplary sequence of management steps, as they are carried out in a device for the intermediate storage of coils of flat objects according to the inventive method with a positioning device and a single-place orientation device;

FIG. 9 shows the use of a two-place orienting device for changing winding stands at a winding station;

Figure 10 shows an example of a device managed by the method according to the invention for the intermediate storage of coils of flat objects, e.g. Printed products;

FIG. 11 shows an exemplary embodiment of a winding stand that can be used in the method according to the invention, as an example of a support element with a bearing formation;

FIG. 12 shows an exemplary embodiment of a positioning device that can be used in the method according to the invention;

FIGS. 13 and 14 show two exemplary embodiments of an orientation device that can be used in the method according to the invention.

FIGS. 1 to 8 show an exemplary sequence of steps which are carried out according to the method according to the invention in order to remove a loaded or empty winding stand (as an example of a carrying element) from a storage location. to a winding station (as an example of a station for forming or dissolving storage formations) and to position it in the winding station. The figures all represent a section of a device for the interim storage of flat objects wound up for the interim storage of coils (as an example of a storage formation), the section of the device being shown in the plan.

This section comprises four very schematically shown winding stations 1 (1.1 to 1.4), in which the winding stand 2 can be inserted through an entrance and can be removed again by pulling it out in the opposite direction. The section also includes a plurality of storage spaces for winding stands 2, some of which are occupied by a winding stand (shown in solid lines and designated 2.1) and partly empty (shown in dash-dotted lines and designated 2.2). The storage locations 2.1 and 2.2 are lined up on a plurality of primary transport routes 3 in such a way that the winding axes A are aligned perpendicular to these primary transport routes 3. The entrances of the winding stations are also aligned to primary transport routes 3 in the same way. All primary transport routes 3 cross a secondary transport route 4.

FIGS. 1 to 8 also show a positioning device 5, which can be actively moved in two directions on primary transport paths 3, and an orienting device 6, which can be actively moved in two directions on the secondary transport path 4, and of which at least parts about a vertical axis B is rotatable. The orientation device 6 has one place, that is to say it can handle a positioning device 5. With the two sub-devices 5 and 6, the device shown is managed according to the inventive method. For the sake of a better overview, all reference symbols are entered only in FIG. 1, while FIGS. 2 to 8 only show the relevant reference symbols. The figures represent situations according to management steps, the following step being indicated with arrows.

The individual steps of the sequence of steps illustrated by FIGS. 1 to 8 are the following:

• Detect winding stand 2 in storage location 2.1 with positioning device 5, that is, create a pair of winding stand and positioning device (FIG. 1);

• Loaded positioning device 5/2 on primary transport path 3, if necessary through further, empty storage spaces 2.2, to the orientation device 6 appropriately positioned on the secondary transport path 4 and position it in the area of the orientation device 6 or in the orientation device 6 (FIG. 2);

• Detect the loaded positioning device 5/2 with the orientation device 6, for example by reaching under and lifting it up (FIG. 3);

• Drive the loaded orienting device 6/5/2 on the secondary transport path 4 into the area of the winding station 1.1 and reorient it by rotating it about the axis B (FIGS. 4 and 5);

• release the loaded positioning device 5/2, for example, by placing and removing the grip from the orientation device 6 (FIG. 6);

• Move the loaded positioning device 5/2 on the primary transport path 3 to the entrance of the winding station 1.1 and position the winding stand 2 in the winding station. sition, that is to say dissolve the pair of winding stand and positioning device (FIG. 7);

Return the empty positioning device 5 on the primary transport path 3 into the area of the orientation device 6 (FIG. 8).

In an analogous manner, loaded or empty winding stands are removed from winding stations, transported to any storage location and deposited there. Likewise in an analogous manner, winding stands may be shifted from one location to another location. In these cases, too, the pair of winding stand and positioning device formed during removal remains until it is positioned.

The following, all of the step sequences which can be carried out in the manner shown in FIGS. 1 to 8 are necessary for changing a winding stand at a winding station: bring the empty positioning device into the winding station; grasp the first winding stand; Bring the loaded positioning device into the first position; deposit the first winding stand; Bring the empty positioning device into the second position; grasp the second winding stand; Bring the loaded positioning device to the winding station, position the second winding stand, move away the empty positioning device.

Before and after each positioning and removal of a winding stand in a location or at a winding station by means of a positioning device, a primary transport step is necessary. Depending on the position of the winding station and the two locations, a reorientation and / or a secondary transport step is necessary between two primary transport steps, both of which are carried out, optionally simultaneously, with the aid of the orientation device. Two immediately Successive, primary transport steps, that is, a direct crossing of the secondary transport path through the positioning device without reorientation is not possible in the device according to FIGS. 1 to 8.

The device, of which a section is shown in FIGS. 1 to 8, has primary transport routes 3 and a secondary transport route 4, which are oriented perpendicular to one another and which run in a straight line, the primary transport routes 3, on which the locations 2.1 and 2.2 are arranged are parallel to each other. This is an advantageous embodiment, but is not a condition for the method according to the invention. Both the primary transport routes 3 and the secondary transport route 4 can have curves and / or can intersect at an oblique angle and also irregularly.

It can be seen from FIGS. 1 to 8 that with the method according to the invention it is readily possible to provide locations 2.1 and 2.2 for winding stands 2 at several depths (with different distances from the secondary transport path 4) and on both sides of the secondary transport path 4, whereby Of course, the positioning device 5 can only access winding stands or layers that are directly accessible from the secondary transport path 4, that is, are not separated from them by an occupied layer.

Figures 1 to 8 also show that the distance between adjacent, primary transport routes 3 must be at least so wide that the positioning device 5 winding stand 2 can pass unhindered on adjacent primary transport routes 3, and when using several positioning devices 5 such that two Positioning devices on adjacent, primary transport routes 3 can cross freely. For the method illustrated in FIGS. 1 to 8, it is assumed that at least in the plan, support elements (for example a winding stand) which carry a bearing formation (for example a winding) and empty support elements take up essentially the same amount of space and that all of the equipment available in the facility Supporting elements are essentially the same. This is in no way a condition for the method according to the invention. Since the locations do not require stationary storage aids, they can be changed in any way during the implementation of the method and used for objects of different sizes.

FIG. 9 shows a further embodiment of an orienting device 6 'in the same schematic representation as FIGS. 1 to 8. This has two places, that is, it has two places for one positioning device 5.1 and 5.2 each and the axis of rotation B runs between these places. The positioning devices 5.1 and 5.2 are arranged parallel to one another but in opposite directions in the orientation device 6 '.

The two-place orientation device 6 'allows a change of winding stands at a winding station 1 in a significantly simpler manner than is the case with the single-place orientation device 6 according to FIGS. 1 to 8 if it has an empty positioning device 5.1 and a loaded positioning device for this change 5.2 carries. A winding change with a two-place orientation device 6 'loaded in this way has the following sequence of steps: position the orientation device 6' on the primary transport path 3 such that the first, empty positioning device 5.1 is aligned for the primary transport step to the winding station 1; Drive the first positioning device 5.1 to the winding station 1 and remove the winding stand; move back the first, now loaded positioning device 5.1; Turn the orientation device by 180 ° so that the second, loaded positioning device 5.2 is aligned for the primary transport step to the winding station 1; second positioning device 5.2 to Drive winding station and position winding stand; move back the second, now empty positioning device.

FIG. 10 shows, in the very schematic representation type already used for FIGS. 1 to 9, an exemplary device which is managed according to the method according to the invention with positioning devices 5 and orienting devices 6 (optionally also two-place orienting devices 6 '). The device has a chessboard-like arrangement of locations 2.1 / 2.2 for winding stands 2, a series of winding stations 1, a plurality of primary transport routes 3 and 2 aligned parallel to an x-axis and two secondary transport routes 4.1 and 4.2 on. The locations 2.1 / 2.2 are arranged on the primary transport routes 3, the entrances of the winding stations 1 are aligned with primary transport routes 3.

Furthermore, the device has tertiary sub-devices 10 which are arranged at the ends of the secondary transport routes 4. Each tertiary sub-device 10 has the shape of a lift and is equipped in such a way that it transports a loaded or an empty orientation device 6 on a tertiary transport path in the direction of the z-axis to a further level above or below the level shown in FIG. 9 and there can position on another secondary transport route. It is not a condition that the secondary and primary transport routes are aligned parallel to those on the level shown on this further level if the tertiary sub-device is equipped for a reorientation of the orientation device 6. The tertiary sub-device 10 (lift) can be actively moved on the tertiary transport path, namely empty or loaded with an orientation device 6, which orientation device 6 is empty or is loaded with one (or two) empty or loaded positioning device 5. Obviously and differently than in the interior detail according to FIGS. 1 to 8, it is possible in the interior according to FIG. 9 to take a winding stand, to transport it between the storage and the winding station and to deposit it without the help of the orientation device 6. This is the case between a location, which is the only one to be occupied or to be occupied on one of the primary transport routes 3 and a winding station 1 oriented on the same primary transport route 3. The positioning device 5 loaded with the winding stand crosses the secondary transport route 4.1 running between the bearing and winding stations 1 without interaction with an orientation device 6 ,

Advantageously, but not in any way forced, in the device as shown in FIG. 10, the secondary transport path 4.1 running below in the figure, on which the winding stations 1 are located, is used primarily for the operation of the winding stations 1 during the Secondary transport route 4.2 running above, on which there are no winding stations, is reserved for relocating winding stands in the warehouse. If, as is shown in FIG. 10, locations are provided only on one side of the upper, secondary transport path 4.2, it is not necessary to equip orienting devices 6 running on this transport path with a rotary function.

Obviously, a device as shown in FIG. 10 can be expanded very easily. Further locations can be provided at several depths, for example on the still unoccupied side of the secondary transport route 4.2, which runs at the top of the figure. Furthermore, both secondary transport routes 4.1 and 4.2 can be extended in a straight line or in a curved manner, and further primary transport routes 3 with location locations and / or winding stations can be provided transversely thereto. FIG. 11 shows a side view of an exemplary embodiment of a winding stand 2, as can be used as an example of a support element for a bearing formation in the method according to the invention. The illustrated winding stand 2 carries a winding 12 (bearing formation) wound on the winding core 11, for example consisting of a scale formation of printed products. The winding stand 2 has a simple, not passively movable support 13 which can be driven under with a correspondingly equipped positioning device (for example a lifting truck with a lifting fork). The winding core 11 is arranged in an articulated and rotatable manner on this carrier 13.

Winding stands of the type shown in FIG. 11 are known, as already mentioned at the beginning, and can easily be adapted by a person skilled in the art for the method according to the invention.

FIG. 12 shows an exemplary embodiment of a positioning device 5 which can be used as the primary sub-device in the method according to the invention and which is shown loaded with a full winding stand 2. It is a lifting truck 20 with a lifting fork 21, which may have supporting rollers at the distal end. A primary transport path 3, on which the positioning device 5 can be moved and which is defined, for example, by rails for the positioning device, runs in FIG. 11, as shown by the double arrow.

Pallet trucks, as shown in Figure 11, are available on the market and can be easily adapted by a person skilled in the art, if necessary, for the method according to the invention. Another device which can be used as a positioning device in the method according to the invention is described, for example, in the publication EP-333648 (or US Pat. No. 5161933, F253) mentioned at the beginning.

FIG. 13 shows an exemplary embodiment of an orientation device 6, which can be used as a secondary sub-device in the method according to the invention and which is shown loaded with a loaded positioning device 5. A secondary transport path, on which the illustrated orientation device for secondary transport steps can be actively moved, runs perpendicular to the paper plane in FIG.

The orientation device 6 has a support beam 30 which can be moved on a pair of rails 31. A support frame 32, which is adapted to a positioning device 5, as is shown for example in FIG. 12, is actively rotatably arranged on the support beam 30. In the lower area of the support frame 32, for example, a driving pad 33 (e.g. corresponding rail pieces) is provided, onto which the positioning device 5 actively drives up via a swing-open ramp 34. It is also possible, as is indicated for the orientation device in FIGS. 1 to 8, to provide swivel parts 33 instead of the driving base, which can be swiveled under the positioning device 5 and by means of which the positioning device can be raised.

The rotation function of the support frame 32 is advantageously implemented in such a way that the vertical axis of rotation B runs through the areas of the welding point of a positioning device 5 positioned and loaded in the orientation device 6. In order to grasp and reorient an empty or loaded positioning device 5 with the aid of the orientation device 6 shown in FIG. 13, the drive-on ramp 34 is pivoted away so that the driving pad 33 connects to a primary transport path, the positioning device 5 is moved via the drive-on ramp 34 onto the driving pad 33 , the ramp 34 is swung open and the support frame 32 is then rotated. The orienting device 6 is advantageously equipped in such a way that the support frame 32 can be rotated during a displacement on the secondary transport path or along the rails 31.

FIG. 14 shows a further exemplary embodiment of an orientation device 6 which can be used in the method according to the invention. The orientation device 6 is shown empty. Like the embodiment according to FIG. 13, it has a support beam 30 and a support frame 32 rotatably mounted thereon with a driving pad 33 and can be actively moved on a pair of rails 31. The support frame 32 can be raised (or lowered), for example, by synchronously driven chain hoists 40, which engage the support beam 30, in the sense of expanding the orientation function to at least one further level 41, where a charged positioning device can be released for further primary transport routes. An analog lifting mechanism can be used to easily lift a positioning device loaded on the orientation device 6 and, for example, held by pivoting parts pivoted beneath it, for the reorientation and / or the transport on the secondary transport path.

FIG. 14 shows the support frame 32 extended on the basic level and dash-dotted on the further, upper level 41.

For the extended orientation function (raise or lower to further levels), the driving pad 33 is pivoted at one end with a swiveling equip ramp 34. This ramp 34 is in the pivoted-up position during the raising or lowering from one level to another level and is pivoted down as soon as the support frame 32 is in a position in which a positioning device can move onto or away from it.

The following partial steps are necessary for a reorientation of a positioning device loaded on the orientation device 6 according to FIG. drive to ground level 33 on the correspondingly positioned support frame 32; Swing up ramp 34; Raise the support frame 32 to a further level 41 and advantageously turn it at the same time and, if necessary, move it on the secondary transport route; Swing down ramp 34; Extend positioning device.

With the orienting device 6 according to FIG. 14, locations and possibly also winding stations can be arranged on different levels without the device requiring tertiary sub-devices 10 (in FIG. 9) and managed together with the same positioning devices as the locations and winding stations of a basic level. Since a shift on the secondary transport path, a shift from one level to another and a reorientation by rotation can be carried out simultaneously, the method according to the invention becomes particularly efficient when this embodiment of the orienting device is used. Knowing the function of the orienting device 6, it is easily possible for a person skilled in the art to implement embodiments according to FIGS. 13 and 14 or further embodiments derived therefrom with one or two places for positioning devices. For this reason, a more detailed description is not given here.

Claims

PATENT CLAIMS

1. Method for the management of a facility for the interim storage of flat objects, in particular printed products, which facility stations (1) for forming bearing formations from a plurality of the objects and for dissolving bearing formations, mobile carrying elements (2) for bearing formations and locations (2.1 , 2.2) for supporting elements (2) with or without bearing formation, and wherein in the method supporting elements (2) with or without bearing formation are positioned in stations (1) and location locations (2.1, 2.2), from stations (1) and location locations (2.1, 2.2) removed and transported between stations (1) and location locations (2.1, 2.2) and between different location locations (2.1, 2.2), characterized in that support elements (2) with or without bearing formation are removed by at least one actively movable positioning device (5) and positioned and immediately before and after positioning and removal in primary transport steps on a multi number of primary transport routes (3) and that the at least one

Positioning device (5) between primary transport steps oriented by at least one actively movable orientation device (6, 6 ') for primary transport steps and / or transported on at least one secondary transport path (4) from one primary transport path (3) to another primary transport path (3) The at least one positioning device (5) and a specific support element (2) with or without bearing formation form an unchanged pair from the removal of the support element (2) to the positioning of the same support element (2).

2. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that Lageφlätze (2.1, 2.2) on primary transport routes (3) and inputs of stations (1) for image Extension or dissolution of storage formations at the end of primary transport routes (3) are arranged and that support elements (2) with or without storage formation are positioned by pushing along primary transport routes (3) and removed by pulling along primary transport routes (3).

3. The method according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the primary transport routes (3) run parallel to one another and transversely to the at least one secondary transport route (4) and that at least part of the primary transport routes (3) the at least one secondary transport route ( 4) cross.

4. The method according to any one of claims 2 or 3, characterized in that support elements (2) with or without bearing formation for removal and then pulled and pushed for positioning and then lowered.

5. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that the at least one positioning device (5) for an orientation step and / or a secondary transport step in the orientation device (6, 6 ') is moved.

6. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that the positioning devices (5) by rotating the at least one orienting device (6, 6 ') or by rotating parts of the at least one orienting device (6, 6') a vertical axis (B) can be reoriented.

7. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 6, characterized in that the at least one positioning device (5) by lifting the at least one Orientation device (6, 6 ') or parts thereof can be raised or lowered to further levels (41).

8. The method according to claim 7, characterized in that at least one tertiary sub-device (10) is provided for raising or lowering the at least one orientation device (6, 6 ') to further levels (41).

9. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 8, characterized in that on an orientation device (6 ') a first positioning device (5.1) without a support element (2) and a second positioning device (5.2) with a support element (2) parallel to each other and in opposite directions Directions are loaded and that for removing a support element (2) at a station (1) to form or dissolve bearing formations, the first positioning device (5.1) is oriented against the station (1) and the support element (2) with the first positioning device ( 5.1) is removed from the station (1), that the orienting device (6 ') is then rotated through 180 ° about a vertical axis (B), so that the second positioning device (5.2) is directed towards the station (1) and that the support element (2) carried by the second positioning device (5.2) is then positioned in the station (1).

10. The method according to any one of claims 2 to 9, characterized in that the stations (1) for forming or dissolving bearing formations are arranged in the area of a first secondary transport path (4.1) and that at least one further secondary transport path (4.2) At least one orienting device (6, 6 ') movable on the first secondary transport path (4.1) is involved in step sequences for removing and positioning support elements (2) in stations (1) and step sequences for relocating support elements (2) involve at least one orienting device (6) which can be moved on each of the further, secondary transport paths (4.2).

11. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 10, characterized in that the bearing formations on scale cores (11) wound scale formations of flat objects.

12. The method according to claim 11, characterized in that the support elements (2) are winding stands with rotatably mounted winding cores (11).

13. Device for carrying out the method according to one of claims 1 to 12, characterized in that the device has at least one actively movable and for removing and positioning at least one support element (2) with or without bearing formation in a location (2.1, 2.2) or a station (1) for forming or dissolving bearing formations and for the transport of support elements (2) with or without a bearing formation positioning device (5) and at least one actively movable orientation device equipped for the transport and reorientation of at least one positioning device (5) (6, 6 ').

14. The apparatus according to claim 13, characterized in that the at least one positioning device (5) is a lifting truck (20) with a lifting fork (21).

15. The apparatus of claim 13 or 14, characterized in that the at least one positioning device (5) can be moved along guide means.

16. The apparatus according to claim 15, characterized in that the guide means are rails or electrical guidelines.

17. Device according to one of claims 13 to 16, characterized in that the at least one orientation device (6, 6 ') means for holding at least one positioning device (5) and means for rotating at least one

Positioning device (5) around a vertical axis of rotation (B).

18. The apparatus according to claim 17, characterized in that the at least one orientation device (6, 6 ') additionally has means for raising or lowering at least one positioning device (5).

19. Device according to one of claims 17 or 18, characterized in that the at least one orientation device (6, 6 ') for reorienting and transporting a positioning device (5) or two positioning devices (5.1, 5.2) is designed.

20. Device according to one of claims 17 to 19, characterized in that the means for rotating about a vertical axis (B) on a support beam (30) hanging, rotatable support frame (32).

21. Device according to claim 20, characterized in that the vertical axis (B) through the center of gravity of a positioning device (5) held by a single-place orientation device (6) and a support element (2) with bearing formation or between two of a two-place positioning device

Orientation device (6 ') held positioning devices (5.1, 5.2).

2. Device according to one of claims 17 to 21, characterized in that the means for holding a support frame (32) and in the lower region of the support frame (32) arranged driving pad (33), wherein the

Driving pad (33) is designed such that the at least one positioning device (5) can be moved thereon

3 Device according to one of claims 18 to 22, characterized in that the means for raising or lowering a plurality of synchronously drivable, with the support beam 30) operatively connected chain hoists (40)

4 Device according to one of claims 13 to 23, characterized in that the orientation device (6, 6 ') on a pair of rails (31) is movable

5 Device according to one of claims 13 to 24, characterized in that the device additionally has at least one tertiary sub-device (10) for the transport of orientation devices (6, 6 ') on tertiary transport routes

6 Device according to claim 25, characterized in that the at least one tertiary sub-device (10) is a lift

7 Application of the device according to one of claims 13 to 26 in a device for the intermediate storage of printed products in roll form, which device comprises a plurality of winding stations (1), a plurality of mobile winding stands (2) and a plurality of layer pads (2 1, 2.2) for winding stands (2), wherein the location layers (2.1, 2.2) are arranged on a plurality of primary transport routes (3), the primary transport routes ge (3) cross at least one of a plurality of secondary transport routes (4) at right angles, and at least one of the secondary transport routes (4) leads along a series of winding stations, the entrances of which are aligned with primary transport routes (4).

28. Application according to claim 27, characterized in that at least two levels with location locations (2.1, 2.2) and primary and secondary transport routes (3, 4) are provided.