EP1281651A1 - Méthode et dispositif pour empiler des objets plats - Google Patents

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EP1281651A1
EP1281651A1 EP02405557A EP02405557A EP1281651A1 EP 1281651 A1 EP1281651 A1 EP 1281651A1 EP 02405557 A EP02405557 A EP 02405557A EP 02405557 A EP02405557 A EP 02405557A EP 1281651 A1 EP1281651 A1 EP 1281651A1
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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
    • B65H29/66—Advancing articles in overlapping 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
    • B65H31/00—Pile receivers
    • B65H31/30—Arrangements for removing completed piles
    • B65H31/3081—Arrangements for removing completed piles by acting on edge of the pile for moving it along a surface, e.g. by pushing
    • 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
    • B65H2301/42—Piling, depiling, handling piles
    • B65H2301/422—Handling piles, sets or stacks of articles
    • B65H2301/4226—Delivering, advancing piles
    • B65H2301/42266—Delivering, advancing piles by acting on edge of the pile for moving it along a surface, e.g. pushing

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  • the invention relates to a method and an apparatus for stacking flat Objects, in particular for stacking printed products.
  • Printed products are known in the manufacture of printed product stacks in Stacking shafts or similar devices filed. These devices point usually a floor and vertical guides standing on the floor or Walls open and are open towards the top for feeding the printed products. Around to reduce the free fall of the printed products to a minimum when stacking, is often the position of the floor or the feeder at the height of the Tray existing stack adjusted so that each printed product essentially pushed horizontally onto the previously stored printed product or onto the shaft floor can be.
  • the bottom of the Stacking shaft for example, designed to be rotatable, and there is at least one out Removable intermediate floor provided for the shaft.
  • the floor with the groups already stacked on it is turned around Rotated 180 ° while the printed products for the following product group on the Intermediate floor can be stacked. If the bottom with piles after its rotation is positioned again, the intermediate floor is possibly in the stacking shaft lowered and then pulled out of the shaft and thus the stacked on it Printed products lowered onto the turned pile.
  • the feed stream is also divided into two stacking shafts, so that printed products are fed to one of the chutes while a finished stack is made the other stacking shaft is ejected.
  • the object of the invention is a method for stacking flat sheets To create objects in terms of the device with very simple means, the take up little space, is feasible and still high unit performance can provide. Furthermore, it is the object of the invention to provide a device for To carry out the inventive method.
  • the flat objects are the stacking shaft lying loosely on a feed pad or between two feed pads held clamped, for example in a scale formation with overhead, leading edges.
  • the feed sheet is, for example a conveyor belt and guides the objects obliquely from above against a feed side of the stacking shaft and advantageously up to the stacking shaft where the feed document ends.
  • the flat objects are through the feed pad driven beyond its end against that of the feed side opposite side of the stacking chute and fall off the feed pad in the stacking shaft, at the latest when its leading edge has reached this opposite side.
  • the finished stacks are directed in a direction opposite to the feed direction Ejection direction (ejection direction opposite to the projection of the feed direction to the level of the stacking shaft floor), that is, through the feed side through the stacking shaft, ejected.
  • Ejection direction ejection direction opposite to the projection of the feed direction to the level of the stacking shaft floor
  • a slide is used, the ejection movement begins on the side opposite the feed side of the stacking shaft and is directed against the feed side.
  • the slider in its starting position returning movement runs outside the stacking shaft, for example under the stacking shaft or to the side of the stacking shaft.
  • the feeding of objects is used for a first part of the ejection movement interrupted. However, it can already be resumed when the trailing one Side of the stack to be ejected passes that point in the stacking shaft where a further object hits the stack to be ejected, that would conflict with it. This means that for that Ejecting the stack necessary supply interruption not as in known The process must take at least as long as the entire ejection movement, but only a fraction of it. This results in the stacking after The inventive method a shorter cycle time or higher piece output and / or it means shorter supply interruptions or fewer pent-up objects and thereby easier to handle object jams than in known ones Batch process is the case.
  • the method according to the invention is therefore particularly suitable for stacking of folded printed products, these being fed parallel to their folded edges be and the stack in the opposite direction again parallel to the folded edges is expelled.
  • the printed products are used to create cross stacks advantageously already in a shingled stream with alternating groups of appropriately oriented products supplied, in this scale stream gaps already exist for feed interruptions or where the printed products be temporarily jammed to create feed interruptions.
  • the device for carrying out the method according to the invention has one Stacking shaft and one from diagonally above against the feed side of the shaft leading and over the opening of the stacking shaft (directly on the feed side or between the feeding side and the opposite side) on. Furthermore, one is in a direction opposite to the feed direction Ejection direction provided by the ejection means movable through the stacking shaft, its return movement to its starting position on the opposite side of the feed side Side of the stacking shaft is not passed through the stacking shaft. Possibly the device also has a means for interrupting the supply flow of objects on.
  • FIGS 1 to 3 show successive phases of creating a stack 1 from flat objects 2 according to the inventive method.
  • the figures each show a stacking chute 10 with an ejection means 11, a feed support 12 (conveyor belt) which leads obliquely from above against the supply side of the stacking chute 10, and a means 13 for interrupting the supply flow during a first part of the ejection of a finished stack from the stacking shaft.
  • FIG. 1 shows the formation of the stack 1.
  • the leading edges of the objects meet directly above the stack surface on the side of the stacking shaft opposite the feed side, while the trailing edge leaves the end of the feed base 12 at the latest at this time.
  • the leading edge is no longer shifted.
  • the free fall of the object is led through the already positioned leading edge.
  • the free fall is longer and also affects the leading edge.
  • FIG. 2 shows the placement of the last object 2 on the stack 1. It can be seen from this figure that the end of the feed support 12 must have a position at least at this point in time that also allows the trailing edge of this object to move away from the feed support 12 to separate and fall on stack 1.
  • the feeder While the last item is being positioned on the stack, the feeder will interrupted by objects, for example by introducing a stowage agent 13 in the feed stream of the objects 2.
  • This accumulation means 13 is immediate here positioned above the stacking shaft 10. Of course, it can continue act upstream.
  • FIG. 3 shows the ejection of the finished stack 1, which is shown in the position after the passage of which the feeding of objects 2 can be started again. Obviously, the rest of the ejection movement can be carried out without further objects 2 coming into conflict with the stack 1 to be ejected.
  • FIGS. 4 and 5 illustrate the relationship between the orientation and position of the feed pad 12, the stacking process and the stack ejection.
  • the same parts are identified by the same reference numerals as in FIGS. 1 to 3.
  • the feed pad 12 of Figure 4 forms with the bottom of the stacking shaft a feed angle ⁇ and is positioned such that the leading edge of a first item to be stacked (not shown) immediately above the floor of the stacking shaft 10 on the side of the feed side opposite the Stacking shaft meets.
  • the free fall is concerned the leading edge is not, which is an advantage for controlled stacking.
  • the position of the end E of the feed pad 12 is by the length L and Stiffness of the objects to be stacked given such that the trailing Edge of the last item in a stack can still fall from this end.
  • the distance between the trailing, upper edge of the stack to the end E of the feed pad 12 must therefore be at least the same size for rigid objects like the length of the items in the feed direction. For flexible objects this distance can be smaller.
  • the end can the feed pad 12, if necessary, during stacking from an initial position E 'moved closer to the stacking shaft 10 into the end position E defined above become.
  • FIG. 5 shows that the position P is also shifted further towards the side of the stacking shaft 10 opposite the feed side, that is to say the feed interruption necessary for the ejection can be further shortened if the feed direction is not directed against the stacking shaft bottom, as shown in FIG is, but the side of the stacking shaft 10 opposite the feed side meets at a height H above the stacking floor.
  • FIG. 6 shows a three-dimensional representation of an exemplary embodiment of the device according to the invention.
  • the figure shows two stacking shafts 10 and 10 'arranged one above the other, each with a feed support 12 and 12', on which feed streams of objects 2 to be stacked are fed.
  • the objects 2 are folded printed products with folded edges F.
  • the printed products are rotated in groups in the illustrated feed streams by 180 °.
  • the stream also has gaps L, which are sufficient as supply interruptions for the ejection and, if appropriate, are used for the stack ejection. Between two gaps, several product groups can follow one another without gaps, such that a finished stack is ejected at each gap.
  • the resulting stacks 1 and 1 ' are cross stacks.
  • FIG. 6 illustrates the particularly advantageous use of methods and Device according to the invention for the stacking of folded printed products in a feed stream parallel to their folded edges F and already for formation from cross stacks, and shows how simple and space-saving is the device according to the invention.
  • the skilled worker knows applicable methods.
  • a preferred one The procedure is the subject of a parallel application to the present application.
  • FIG. 7 shows very schematically another exemplary embodiment of the device according to the invention.
  • the feed stream of the objects 2 to be stacked is first fed parallel to the ejection direction, and the objects 2 fall in an area above the stacking shaft 10 onto the feeding support 12, from which they are conveyed in the opposite direction and are fed to the stacking shaft.
  • the great simplicity of the device and the space-saving arrangement also catch the eye here.

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