EP1454864A1 - Méthode et appareil pour transporter des éléments en feuille, en particulier dans une machine d'impression - Google Patents

Méthode et appareil pour transporter des éléments en feuille, en particulier dans une machine d'impression Download PDF

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EP1454864A1
EP1454864A1 EP03023088A EP03023088A EP1454864A1 EP 1454864 A1 EP1454864 A1 EP 1454864A1 EP 03023088 A EP03023088 A EP 03023088A EP 03023088 A EP03023088 A EP 03023088A EP 1454864 A1 EP1454864 A1 EP 1454864A1
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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
    • B65H29/70—Article bending or stiffening arrangements
    • 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
    • B65H29/38—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles by movable piling or advancing arms, frames, plates, or like members with which the articles are maintained in face contact
    • B65H29/40—Members rotated about an axis perpendicular to direction of article movement, e.g. star-wheels formed by S-shaped members
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2404/00—Parts for transporting or guiding the handled material
    • B65H2404/10—Rollers
    • B65H2404/14—Roller pairs
    • B65H2404/142—Roller pairs arranged on movable frame
    • B65H2404/1421—Roller pairs arranged on movable frame rotating, pivoting or oscillating around an axis, e.g. parallel to the roller axis
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2404/00—Parts for transporting or guiding the handled material
    • B65H2404/60—Other elements in face contact with handled material
    • B65H2404/65—Other elements in face contact with handled material rotating around an axis parallel to face of material and perpendicular to transport direction, e.g. star wheel
    • B65H2404/652—Other elements in face contact with handled material rotating around an axis parallel to face of material and perpendicular to transport direction, e.g. star wheel having two elements diametrically opposed
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2511/00—Dimensions; Position; Numbers; Identification; Occurrences
    • B65H2511/10—Size; Dimensions
    • B65H2511/11—Length
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2515/00—Physical entities not provided for in groups B65H2511/00 or B65H2513/00
    • B65H2515/81—Rigidity; Stiffness; Elasticity
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2601/00—Problem to be solved or advantage achieved
    • B65H2601/40—Increasing or maximizing
    • B65H2601/42—Increasing or maximizing entities relating to the handling machine
    • B65H2601/422—Versatility
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2601/00—Problem to be solved or advantage achieved
    • B65H2601/50—Diminishing, minimizing or reducing
    • B65H2601/52—Diminishing, minimizing or reducing entities relating to handling machine
    • B65H2601/523—Required space

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  • the invention relates to a method for transporting a substantially arcuate Element, in particular for transporting a printing material sheet in a printing press, preferably in an electrophotographic one Printing machine, in which the arcuate element by at least one rotating Transport organ at a detection point in its leading edge area recorded, taken to a delivery point and delivered there, whereby the arcuate element while taking a rotary or Radius of curvature is curved.
  • the invention relates essentially to a device for transporting a arcuate element, in particular for transporting a printing material sheet in a printing press, preferably in an electrophotographic working printing machine, comprising at least one the arcuate Transporting element from a collection point to a delivery point and there emitting, rotating transport organ, which for recording and entrainment of the arcuate element at least one mouth-like receptacle for insertion or insertion of the leading edge area of the arcuate Has element and comprises at least one at least fragmentary bending core for the curvature of the arcuate element while taking along a radius of rotation or curvature, preferably to carry out the aforementioned method.
  • a device of the aforementioned kind is for example from US-A-5 261 655 known.
  • the device there comprises in particular a rotating one Transport organ with two mouth-like receptacles, namely slots, in each the front edge of a sheet by means of feeding rollers in the area of one Registration point can be introduced.
  • Also in the area of the registration office separate corrugated rollers arranged that the bow and in particular also wave the tail end in the transverse direction and stiffen it up to a controlled transport movement of the bow into this tail area to ensure.
  • the corrugated rollers in the area of the detection point are like this arranged that they do not hinder the feeding by the feeding rollers, not even if, as provided in the publication, the radius of the Transport organ is changed.
  • the corrugated rollers have a radial distance to the axis of rotation of the transport member, which is larger than the minimum Radius and is smaller than the maximum radius of the transport member.
  • a printing press in particular an electrophotographic printing press, should be able to print on different substrates, especially paper of different sheet lengths and different To print paper weight. If a particularly high paper weight due to the stiffness of the paper, it is necessary to use it at most over a large radius of curvature to avoid permanent damage to avoid the paper. At the same time, heavy paper can be removed but also difficult to bend over a large radius. By the bigger one Radius, however, the extent or path of curvature automatically increases, thus also the way between the registration point and the delivery point. Especially Short and heavy papers are difficult to handle. For example, it would be a paper weight of 300 grams per square meter necessary to provide a minimum radius of curvature of 90 mm.
  • the invention is therefore based on the object of a method or a device to show the genus mentioned at the beginning, that for the most different Arches or arcuate elements is suitable.
  • the arcuate element by at least one blocking at least in the centrifugal direction Guide element between the collection point and the delivery point for retention the radius of curvature is forced, i.e. by an intermediate guide element, preferably the length or shortness of the arcuate Element by variation of the arcuate preferably over the path of curvature Elementes measured distance between the guide element and the delivery point can be taken into account by the preferred distance measured via the path of curvature of the arcuate element between the guide element and the delivery point to take into account the Length or brevity of the arcuate element is variably adjustable.
  • the transport member preferably essentially comprises a body circular circumference.
  • the body could also be S-shaped or be formed in a spoke-like manner and fragmentary in Arcs run out.
  • the jaw-like receptacle could be essentially slit-shaped or be formed in the form of a gap, or, for example, also in a specialist manner. Preferably, several such recordings are provided evenly distributed, preferably two or four shots.
  • the intermediate guide element preferably comprises a rolling element, which has a rolling guide track assigned.
  • the arcuate element is preferred forcibly given the necessary curvature without the element in the transverse direction to bend or wave.
  • the roller guideway can be a surface of the body of the transport member be yourself or a coaxially rotatable body that has the advantage an additional support and support for the arcuate element.
  • this additional body is slightly larger than the body of the transport organ, and the radius of the roller guideway is preferably somewhat smaller than the radial one Distance of the radially outer inner surface of the mouth-like receptacle, on the one hand prevents the leading edge of the arcuate element from reaching too far penetrates into the reception area and is damaged there and that on the other hand the arched element is wound too much by the intermediate guide.
  • a preferred embodiment of the invention provides that a distance variation of the guide element by means of an essentially vertical and a thus articulated, essentially horizontal lever arm is.
  • an adjustment of the guide element can also be possible during operation.
  • the guide element is preferably adjustable by motor.
  • a radial flexibility by lifting the guide element can advantageously be made to eliminate any irregularities to compensate for the effective diameter of the transport member.
  • Pushing the arcuate element out of the receptacle on the Delivery point is easily and automatically possible that there is a opposite the transport organ fixed stop for the inserted in the recording Front edge of the arcuate element is arranged.
  • Another development of the device according to the invention provides that in Area of delivery a cover protection of a stack of deposited arcuate elements is provided opposite the transport member. This enables in particular that the transport member can circulate continuously, without damaging the dropped stack.
  • a particularly well controlled handling of the arcuate across the transverse width Element is possible in that preferably several coaxial to each other spaced transport members are provided, preferably two Transport elements in mirror image with respect to a perpendicular to the axis of rotation Mirror plane are arranged.
  • FIG. 1 shows a perspective view of a device according to the invention largely from above.
  • the device according to the invention comprises two deflection disks 1 Transport elements for the transport of sheets, namely for the detection and deflection the sheets and for storing the sheets on a stack 6 of sheets a stacking tray 7.
  • the operating principle of the device can be easiest first of all based on 3, one of the deflection disks 1 in side view with their surroundings.
  • the device can be designed as along the path shown in FIG. 1 with III, dash-dotted line can be viewed cut.
  • Sheets to be transported are the deflection plate 1, preferably from the Printing area of a printing press, one after the other by means of paper path guide plates 13 fed.
  • One sheet to be redirected each with a pair of transport rollers 10 with its front edge deep into a mouth-shaped mouth 20 Receiving the deflection plate 1 inserted.
  • the outer wall of the slot 20 is formed by a guide plate 3, which is folded on the deflection plate 1 is attached.
  • the detected sheet is with its leading edge in the Slot 20 held sufficiently while the pulley 1 around its shaft driven rotates.
  • the deflection plate 1 After half a turn of the deflection plate 1, that is after a 180 ° turn, the front edge of the sheet reaches one Stacking edge 5 strikes there and thereby comes out of the slot 20 rotating deflection disc 1 free and falls on the stack 6, where it is placed remains.
  • the deflection disc 1 rotates through the correspondingly interrupted stack edge 5 through.
  • To the sheet placed on top of the stack 6 with The working area is not to damage the rotating deflection disk 1 the deflection plate 1 with a protective or baffle 4, which on the stack edge 5 is protected.
  • the deflection disk 1 preferably rotates continuously and not clocked, but not necessarily even. For example, it can run slower than when picking up and delivering a sheet during the actual transport of the sheet.
  • the deflection plate 1 two each other has diametrically opposed slots 20 and so far point symmetrical is formed to their shaft, can be at the top in the area of Transport rollers 10 take over a next sheet while a transported sheet is delivered in the area of the stack edge 5.
  • the device includes the Deflection plate 1 a coaxial to this and rotating with it Guide disc 2, on which a pressure roller 11, which is essentially on a static scaffold of the device or the like is arranged, rolls and which as an intermediate guide element between the transport rollers 10 and the stack edge 5 leads the arc detected in the slot 20 and on the curvature of the Deflection pulley 1 or the guide pulley 2 forces.
  • a pressure roller 11 which is essentially on a static scaffold of the device or the like is arranged, rolls and which as an intermediate guide element between the transport rollers 10 and the stack edge 5 leads the arc detected in the slot 20 and on the curvature of the Deflection pulley 1 or the guide pulley 2 forces.
  • This guide disc 2 also results an additional system for the bow.
  • the deflection disc 1, as well as the guide disc 2 do not even have to be designed as complete disks his.
  • the guide disc 2 also a slightly larger radius than the inside of the slot 20, but a little smaller radius than the outside formed by the guide plate 3.
  • deflection disks 1 and guide disks 2, pressure rollers 11 and also other elements of the device are duplicated by the device being essentially mirror-symmetrical is trained.
  • the articulated, adjustable arrangement of the pressure rollers 11 is also shown in FIG. 1 good to see.
  • the position of the pressure rollers 11 is on the circumference of the guide disks 2 changeable.
  • the pressure roller pair 11 is more or less far in the direction lowered onto the stack edge 5, preferably so far that the distance along the curve between the pressure rollers 11 and Stack edge 5 is slightly smaller than the length of the arcuate element.
  • the pinch roller pair 11 is rotatably arranged. This makes them Pinch rollers also from the guide disks during conveyor operation 2 lifted.
  • horizontal lever arms 9 are provided, which are on an axis attack for the pressure rollers 11 and from a drive 15 via a toothed belt drive 14 are driven.
  • To adjust the pressure rollers 11 along vertical lever arms 8 are also provided around the circumference of the guide disks, which are articulated to the horizontal lever arms 9 and are driven by a drive 12.
  • the drive 15 is advantageously on the vertical lever arm 9, which ensures that at Adjustment movement with the drive 12 no lifting movement of the pressure rollers 11 is initiated.
  • a lifting movement of the pressure rollers 11 is required thus changing effective outer diameter of the deflection plates 1, which by the course and formation of the slot 20 can occur, the arcuate Do not claim element.
  • the pivot axes of the vertical lever arms 8 are coaxial to the shaft for the deflection disks 1 and Guide washers 2.
  • FIG. 2 shows a bottom view of the device according to FIG. 1.
  • the same components are denoted by the same reference numerals as in FIGS. 1 and Third

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DE10309096A DE10309096B3 (de) 2003-03-03 2003-03-03 Vorrichtung zum Transport eines im wesentlichen bogenförmigen Elementes in einer Druckmaschine
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