EP1309504A1 - Method and arrangement for the production of crossed stacks - Google Patents
Method and arrangement for the production of crossed stacksInfo
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- EP1309504A1 EP1309504A1 EP01957673A EP01957673A EP1309504A1 EP 1309504 A1 EP1309504 A1 EP 1309504A1 EP 01957673 A EP01957673 A EP 01957673A EP 01957673 A EP01957673 A EP 01957673A EP 1309504 A1 EP1309504 A1 EP 1309504A1
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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
- B65H33/00—Forming counted batches in delivery pile or stream of articles
- B65H33/12—Forming counted batches in delivery pile or stream of articles by creating gaps in the stream
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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
- B65H29/003—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles by grippers
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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
- 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
Definitions
- the invention is in the field of conveyor technology and relates to a method and a device according to the preambles of the corresponding independent claims.
- the method and device are used to manufacture cross stacks from serially supplied, flat objects, in particular from printed products, such as newspapers or magazines.
- the objects lie substantially parallel to one another, directly against one another and are aligned with one another (same edges of all objects parallel to one another) such that the stack has the same base area as everyone individual of the objects.
- the stability and manageability of such stacks is very dependent on how uniform the thickness of the objects is over their planar extent. Objects that have a regular thickness can be stacked more stably than objects that have thicker and thinner areas.
- Stack instabilities due to irregular object thicknesses can be avoided for certain shapes of flat objects by not aligning the objects in the stack in the narrowest sense of the word, but in such a way that edge areas of different thicknesses are positioned on top of each other so that the resulting stack is one on all sides receives the same height as possible and the objects are arranged as parallel to each other as possible.
- An example of flat objects that are not the same thickness everywhere and whose stacks can be stabilized by the above-mentioned method are folded printed products with a rectangular or square shape.
- Such products are usually stacked in so-called cross-stacks, that is, on a first stacked group of rectified products (superimposed same edges), a second group in which the products are in turn mutually aligned is positioned in such a way that the same edges of the first and the second Group face each other and that the thickest product corners in the first and in the second group face each other diagonally.
- a third group is stacked on the second group, in which the product orientation is the same as in the first group and so on.
- the products of neighboring groups are rotated 180 ° relative to each other around an axis perpendicular to the product surfaces (stacking axis).
- printed products are conveyed loosely on a conveyor belt, for example in a shed format in which leading product edges are on top, lying against a stacking shaft open at the top and pushed one after the other over the stacking shaft opening, depending on the design of the shaft directly onto a stacking table or one resulting stack are pushed or fall from the stack opening onto one. It is also known to guide the printed products for stacking individually by grippers at the leading edges, likewise in a kind of scale formation, against the stacking shaft, to pull them over the shaft opening and then to release them from the grippers.
- the stacking shaft or stacking table is usually rotated by 180 ° around a vertical axis of rotation (stacking axis) after the positioning of a group of products (stacking section or layer).
- the products that are fed in are usually stacked on an auxiliary table, which auxiliary table is lowered and laterally after the rotation is removed from the stack. Nevertheless, the supply of products must be interrupted briefly between the positioning of the individual groups (new positioning of the auxiliary table).
- many moving parts are necessary, which complicates the corresponding devices and requires maintenance. Examples of the stacking methods mentioned are described in publications CH-539569 (F57), DE-2752513 (or GB-1568752, F93) or EP-0586802 (or US-5370382, F339).
- the publication EP-0854105 also describes a method with which a first stream of individually held and rectified requested printed products is converted into a second stream of individually held printed products, the printed products alternating in groups in the second stream by 180 ° are rotated and held on opposite edges such that a cross stack is already formed in the second stream.
- the current conversion is realized by delivering the products of every second group to the grippers of an auxiliary conveyor system, by rotating the delivered products by requesting them along the winding conveying path of the auxiliary conveyor system, and by taking over the rotated products by the original conveyor system by the Products are gripped on an edge opposite the originally held edge.
- the products of the other groups are not transferred to the auxiliary conveyor system and are therefore not rotated.
- the object of the invention is also to create a method and a device with which flat objects, in particular printed products, that are held serially, individually and fed in the same direction, can be stacked to form cross-stacks.
- the method and the setup should be completely independent of whether the cross-stacked stack sections or stack layers (item groups) are large or small (possibly only one product), and also regardless of whether these stack sections have a constant or a varying size.
- the process should be simple and allow short cycle times.
- the device should also be simple and use as few moving parts as possible.
- a temporary takeover of objects by additional grippers of an auxiliary folder system should be superfluous, so that the alignment and synchronization difficulties mentioned above can be avoided.
- the flat objects which have a shape suitable for cross-stacking (for example folded, rectangular or square printed products) and which are kept individually in the stack, are conveyed serially and in the same direction, alternately before being positioned on an emerging stack in groups of a first Sequence of steps or subjected to a second sequence of steps, the two sequences of steps being different from one another in such a way that a cross-stack is formed when the alternating groups are positioned in a stacking device.
- a shape suitable for cross-stacking for example folded, rectangular or square printed products
- the objects fed in the same direction are alternately treated in groups in such a way that they form a cross-stack without further measures in which the alternating groups of objects represent the stacking sections in which the objects are grouped. are rotated relative to each other by 180 ° around the stack axis (perpendicular to the object surfaces).
- Both have a release step in which the objects are released from the held support, whereby for at least one of the step sequences this step involves transferring the objects from the held support to a support in the form of a scale formation (ie essentially support in Scale formation on a conveyor support or between two cooperating conveyor supports) and for the other sequence of steps can be a direct positioning of the objects in a stacking device;
- a scale formation ie essentially support in Scale formation on a conveyor support or between two cooperating conveyor supports
- the rotation steps leading to the desired difference in rotation which are to be carried out accordingly in the two step sequences, can be the following:
- a rotation difference of 180 ° around a perpendicular to the object surfaces can be realized as such entirely in one of the step sequences, while the other step sequence does not rotate. It can also be implemented as two partial rotations, which are carried out in opposite directions in each of the two sequence of steps. The difference in rotation can also be carried out as combined rotations of 180 ° around two mutually perpendicular axes parallel to the object surfaces, again each of the two rotations being executable as a complete rotation in a sequence of steps or as two partial rotations in both sequence of steps.
- the stacking device which is used in the method according to the invention is advantageously a stacking shaft, to which products can optionally be fed from two opposite sides and / or on two stacking levels one above the other.
- FIG. 1 shows an exemplary embodiment of the method according to the invention with rotations around two parallels to the object surfaces (partial rotations when the objects are released in both sequence of steps and complete rotation during the overlying conveyance in one sequence of steps);
- FIGS. 2a and 2b show another exemplary embodiment of the method according to the invention with rotations around two parallels to the object surfaces (full rotation during the conveyed hold in one step sequence and partial rotations during the overlay conveyance in both step sequences) as a side view (FIG. 2a) and as a top view (Fig. 2b);
- FIGS. 3a and 3b show a further, exemplary embodiment of the method according to the invention with a rotation around a perpendicular to the object surfaces (complete rotation during the stopped conveying in a sequence of steps by means of a conveying path loop) as a side view (FIG. 3a) and as a top view (FIG. 3b);
- FIGS. 4 and 5 show two further exemplary embodiments of the method according to the invention with a rotation about a perpendicular to the object surfaces (FIG. 4: complete rotation while the conveyance is being held by twisting the conveying path; FIG. 5: complete rotation while the conveyance is being held by rotating a rail section);
- FIG. 6 shows a further exemplary embodiment of the method according to the invention with rotations around two parallels to the object surfaces (complete rotation during the conveyed hold in one of the step sequences and complete rotation during the overlying conveyance in the same step sequence).
- FIG. 7 shows a further, exemplary embodiment of the method according to the invention with rotations by two parallels to the object surfaces (partial rotations during the stopped conveying in two sequence of steps and partial rotations when discharging, likewise in both sequence of steps);
- FIG. 1 shows a first exemplary embodiment of the method according to the invention using a very schematically illustrated device.
- This device has a feed system 1, a stacking device 2 and two conveying devices 10 and 10 'with conveying supports arranged between two discharge points E and E' of the feeding system 1 and the stacking device 2 (device 10 with a cooperating pair of conveying supports 10.1 and 10.2, device 10 ' with only one conveyor support 10'.1).
- There are tax credits at discharge points E and E ' (not shown) provided for the group-wise discharge of objects 7 from the subsidy held (discharge of every second group 11 at the first discharge point E and discharge of the other groups 11 'at the second discharge point E').
- the feed system 1 is, for example, a system as described in the publication WO-99/33731 (F475).
- This system has a rail track which defines a conveyor path 3 and holding elements 4 which can be moved individually on the rail track.
- the holding elements 4 each have a rolling or sliding body 5 rolling or sliding along the rail bar or conveyor path 3 and a gripper 6 for holding one object 7 each, wherein the grippers 6 can be closed with the aid of suitable control means (not shown) for gripping objects and opened for releasing objects.
- the holding elements 4 are driven along the conveying path 3 by gravity (conveying along a rail track falling in the conveying direction F) or they are magnetically coupled to a conveying member (not shown) running parallel to the conveying path 3 for conveying.
- braking or stop elements 8 are to be provided, in particular when operated with a gravity drive, behind which a group of holding elements 4 or objects 7 are stowed.
- the feed system 1 can also be realized with an endlessly rotating conveyor chain with grippers 6 arranged thereon at regular intervals. For the embodiment shown in FIG. 1, it is not necessary for there to be greater distances between groups 11 and 11 'than between the holding elements 4 within the groups.
- the conveying path 3 of the feed system 1 leads in a conveying direction F over the stacking device 2 or past the stacking device 2.
- the first discharge point E is arranged in front of the stacking device 2, the second discharge point E ′ after the stacking device 2.
- the conveying device 10 has an essentially the same, the conveying device 10 'an essentially opposite conveying direction to the conveying direction F of the feed system 1.
- the two cooperating conveying supports 10.1 and 10.2 of the conveying device 10 are twisted into one another.
- the conveying paths and conveying speeds of the groups 11 and 11 ' are to be matched to one another and to the feed rate such that the groups can be fed to the stacking device 2 as continuously as possible.
- the stacking device 2 has two stacking cooperating stacking units: a lower stacking unit with an advantageously lowerable stacking table 21.1 and a lower, side stacking opening 22.1 and an upper stacking unit with an advantageously lowerable stacking table 21.2 and an upper stack opening 22.2.
- a cross stack 12 is formed on the lower stacking table 21.1 by pushing objects from groups 11 through the lower stack opening 22.1 directly onto the cross stack 12 and by lowering objects from groups 11 'which are stacked on the upper stacking table 21.2 and removing the upper stacking table 21.2 between the feeding of two successive groups 11 are placed on the resulting cross stack 12.
- At least two interchangeable stacking tables 21.1 and 21.2 are provided for the upper and for the lower stacking unit, so that during the lowering of a group 11 'which has already been stacked, the stacking of a further group 11' can begin and that during the lowering of a finished cross stack 12 and during its removal from the stacking shaft 20 the formation of a further cross stack 12 can already begin.
- FIGS. 2a and 2b show a further exemplary embodiment of the method according to the invention on the basis of a device which is again shown very schematically. This has essentially the same components as the device shown in FIG. 1, which components are also designated with the same reference numbers.
- the device is shown in FIG. 2a as a side view and in FIG. 2b as a top view.
- the conveying path 3 of the feed system 1 leads before and after a conveying path loop 30 through 180 ° (rotating step B with full rotation while the conveyance is being held for groups 11 ') over the stacking device 2 or past the stacking device 2, the objects 7 each second group (groups 11) before the loop 30 (first discharge point E) and the remaining objects (groups 11 ') after the loop 30 (second discharge point E') are released and transferred to conveying devices 10 and 10 '.
- These conveying devices both have two conveying supports (10.1, 10.2 and 10'.1, 10'.2) and a bend 33 (rotation steps A and A 'with partial rotations during the overlying conveyance for groups 11 and 11') of one in essentially vertical to essentially horizontal conveyance.
- the conveying devices 10 and 10 ' are both essentially directed against the conveying direction F of the feed system and lead to the stacking device 2 from opposite sides.
- FIGS. 3a and 3b show a further, exemplary embodiment of the method according to the invention, again using a very schematically illustrated device, which is shown as a side view in FIG. 3a and in a bird's eye view in FIG. 3b.
- the device has only one conveyor device 10 'with conveyor support 10'.1 for the groups 11', while the groups 11 are positioned in the stacking device 2 directly from the conveyor being held by the feed system 1.
- the feed system 1 shown has an endlessly rotating transport chain 32 (only partially shown) which defines the conveyor path 3 and on which grippers 6 are mounted at equal distances from one another.
- the conveying path 3 leads first over the stacking device 2, where the first discharge point E is arranged, and after a conveying path loop 30 over the conveying device 10 'leading against the stacking device 2, where the second discharge point E' is provided.
- the objects of the groups 11 are released from the held conveyor and stacked without rotation and without transfer to a conveyor device with a conveyor support directly above the stacking shaft 20.
- the sequence of steps assigned to these groups 11 therefore only includes the discharge step.
- the objects of the groups 11 ' are rotated through the conveyance around the conveyor path loop 30 by 180 ° about an axis perpendicular to the object surfaces and placed without further rotation on the conveyor support 10'.1, by means of which they are positioned in the stacking device 2.
- FIG. 4 shows a further exemplary embodiment of the method according to the invention using a further, schematically illustrated device.
- This in turn has a feed system 1, a stacking device 2 and in this case a first and a second conveyor device 10 and 10 ', each with a conveyor support 10.1 and 10'.1.
- the feed system 1 is advantageously in turn equipped with a rail track defining the conveying path 3 and holding elements 4 which can be moved individually along the rail track.
- This rail track has a twist point 31, the first discharge point E being arranged in the conveying direction F before the twist point 31, the second discharge point E 'after the twist point 31.
- the groups 11 ' are rotated by twisting the conveying path through 180 ° about a perpendicular to the object surfaces (rotating step C while the conveying is stopped).
- the rotations when the objects are released are directed in the same way for groups 11 and 11 'and do not contribute to the difference in rotation to be created.
- the conveying support 10'.1 of the second conveying device 10 ' is shown pivotable in such a way that it can be lowered onto the conveying support 10.1 of the first conveying device 10 and can be lifted off the latter.
- objects of the groups 11 ' are conveyed from the conveyor support 10'.1 to the conveyor support 10.1 and from there to stacking.
- the conveyor support 10.1 of the first conveyor system 10 is free to convey a group 11 to the stacking device 2.
- the conveyor support 10'.1 can be dispensed with and groups 11 and 11 'can be stacked simultaneously or at least partially simultaneously.
- FIG. 5 shows a further exemplary embodiment of the method according to the invention using a further, schematically illustrated device.
- the method corresponds to the method according to FIG. 4 except for the turning step C by a perpendicular to the object surfaces, which is realized here by a circular movement transverse to the conveying direction F of a piece 3 'of the rail track (axis of rotation D.l, parallel to the conveying direction F) , as is made clear by detail 40.
- Objects 7 or holding elements 4, which belong to groups 11, are blocked on the displaceable rail piece 3 ', then the rail piece 3' is rotated into the lower position and the objects are released (first discharge point E).
- Objects 7 or holding elements 4, which belong to groups 11 ' pass the displaceable rail piece 3' without blocking and circular movement. and are then released (discharge point E ').
- discharge point E ' discharge point
- FIG. 6 shows a further exemplary embodiment of the method according to the invention on the basis of a device which is again shown very schematically.
- a movable rail piece 3 ' is also used here, but is rotated about an axis of rotation D.2 perpendicular to the conveying direction F, whereby groups 11 are rotated parallel to the held edges of the objects 7 (rotation step A).
- the groups 11 rotated in this way are then released between two conveying supports 10.1 and 10.2 of a first conveying device 10 (discharge point E) and rotated again during the conveyance, which is in the form of a shingled stream and has a bend 33 (rotating step B with complete rotation, that is to say 180 °, a further parallel to the object surfaces).
- Figure 7 shows a further exemplary embodiment of the inventive
- the device has a feed system 1 (rail track with individually movable holding elements or pulling element with grippers 6 arranged thereon), a conveyor dersystem 10 with conveyor support 10.1 and a stack device, not shown.
- a feed system 1 rail track with individually movable holding elements or pulling element with grippers 6 arranged thereon
- a conveyor dersystem 10 with conveyor support 10.1 and a stack device, not shown.
- the objects 7 of all groups 11 and 11 'at discharge points E and E' which can possibly coincide, are released from the held support by placing them on the same conveying support 10.1.
- the objects 7 still being held are rotated by essentially 90 ° relative to the conveying path 3 by rotating the grippers 6 holding the objects (rotation steps A and A 'with partial rotations for groups 11 and 11' in the opposite direction).
- the groups 11 When released from the held subsidy, the groups 11 are deposited in a direction opposite to the depositing direction of the groups 11 '(rotation steps B and B' with partial rotations). After placement, the groups must be aligned on the conveyor support (arrows P) so that they form an aligned group flow, which as such can be fed directly to a stacking device (not shown).
- Grippers 6, which are arranged in parts of holding elements or on a traction element and which can be rotated in a controlled manner relative to the conveying path 3 in the manner shown in FIG. 7, control means for controlling such gripper rotations (rotation steps A and A '), means for depositing objects 7 in Different directions of the conveyor support 10.1 (rotary steps B and B ') and means for aligning groups 11 and 11' of objects 7 deposited as a shingled formation on the conveyor support 10.1 are known to the person skilled in the art, so that the latter is only the one shown in FIG very schematically represented device with knowledge of the inventive teaching can realize without problems.
- FIGS. 1 to 7 and the associated parts of the description illustrate exemplary method variants or exemplary embodiments of the device according to the invention, each of which has two associated step sequences for creating the object groups 11 and 11 ′ rotated relative to one another or means for Have implementation of the step sequences.
- the steps contained in the individual step sequences in particular the rotary steps A, B and / or C, can also be combined differently to form other step sequences, which results in further embodiments of the method according to the invention, which also belong to the inventive concept of the present application, as specifically in the figures illustrated embodiments.
- All embodiments of the device according to the invention can also have a plurality of stacking devices 2.
- the conveying path 3 of the feed system 1 is to be led, for example, one after the other into the area of each stacking device, for each stacking device 2 there are corresponding discharge points E and E 'with control means for the group-wise discharge of objects 7 from the conveyance and conveying devices 10 and optionally 10' held. to be provided for on-site funding.
- the control means are to be controlled at discharge points in such a way that, for example, in a first stacking device every first (11 discharged in E) and third (11 'discharged in E'), in a second stacking device every second (11 discharged in E) and fourth ( 11 'dismissed in E') of the groups supplied.
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