Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
  • B65H45/00—Folding thin material
  • B65H45/12—Folding articles or webs with application of pressure to define or form crease lines
  • B65H45/16—Rotary folders
  • B65H45/162—Rotary folders with folding jaw cylinders
  • B65H45/168—Rotary folders with folding jaw cylinders having changeable mode of operation
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
  • B65H2220/00—Function indicators
  • B65H2220/09—Function indicators indicating that several of an entity are present
• • 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
  • B65H2404/40—Shafts, cylinders, drums, spindles
  • B65H2404/41—Details of cross section profile
  • B65H2404/412—Details of cross section profile made of circular segments
• • 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
  • B65H2404/40—Shafts, cylinders, drums, spindles
  • B65H2404/41—Details of cross section profile
  • B65H2404/412—Details of cross section profile made of circular segments
  • B65H2404/4121—Details of cross section profile made of circular segments moving relatively to each other during rotation
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
  • B65H2513/00—Dynamic entities; Timing aspects
  • B65H2513/10—Speed
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
  • B65H2513/00—Dynamic entities; Timing aspects
  • B65H2513/10—Speed
  • B65H2513/11—Speed angular
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
  • B65H2555/00—Actuating means
  • B65H2555/20—Actuating means angular
  • B65H2555/24—Servomotors

Definitions

• Folding apparatus with a first and a second partial cylinder and a method for operating such a folding apparatus
• the invention relates to a folder with a first and a second partial cylinder and a method for operating such a folder according to the preamble of claim 1 or 32.
• Such a folder generally has a folding or transport cylinder, each of which has a group of functional elements such as puncture strips or sheet grippers for holding paper to be processed to the cylinder and, as a second group of functional elements, a folding knife which cooperates with folding rollers or with a Folding flap of another cylinder creates a fold on the paper conveyed on the folding cylinder.
• a folding or transport cylinder each of which has a group of functional elements such as puncture strips or sheet grippers for holding paper to be processed to the cylinder and, as a second group of functional elements, a folding knife which cooperates with folding rollers or with a Folding flap of another cylinder creates a fold on the paper conveyed on the folding cylinder.
• the functional elements on such a folding cylinder which serve to hold the paper to be processed, on the one hand, and the folding knives, on the other hand, are mounted on different partial cylinders, which have a certain freedom of rotation in relation to each other have on the axis of the folding cylinder.
• EP 1 264 689 A2 and EP 1 260474 A1 describe folders with cylinder segments driven by different electric motors.
• the invention has for its object a folder with a first and to create a second partial cylinder and a method for operating such a folder.
• Figure 1 shows a section II - II through a cylinder and adjacent parts of a material processing machine according to the invention.
• Fig. 2 is a front view of the cylinder of Fig. 1;
• Fig. 3 shows an embodiment of a folder
• Fig. 4 shows another embodiment of a folder
• FIG. 5 shows a further embodiment of a folding apparatus
• Fig. 6 shows another embodiment of a folder
• Fig. 7 a folder for a cross fold
• FIG. 8 shows a cross section of a folder according to FIG. 7;
• FIG. 9 shows a folder for a transverse fold with a belt system
• FIG. 10 shows a cross section of a folder according to FIG. 9;
• FIG. 11 shows a folder for a transverse fold with a longitudinal fold
• FIG. 12 shows a cross section of a folder according to FIG. 11;
• FIG. 13 shows a folder for a second transverse fold and a longitudinal fold
• FIG. 14 shows a cross section of a folder according to FIG. 13.
• Fig. 1 shows an axial section through the cylinder and parts of the side plates of a frame of a machine in which the cylinder is used. The section runs along the dash-dotted line designated II - II in FIG. 2.
• the two partial cylinders 01; 02, from which the body of the cylinder shown in FIG. 1 is composed, are each shown in FIG. 1 by different hatching, ascending for the partial cylinder 01 and descending for the partial cylinder 02.
• To the partial cylinder 01 includes a central shaft 13, which on one side, the left in Fig. 1, via a bearing 14, for. B. a roller bearing 14 is supported in a side frame plate 16 of a folder.
• the central shaft 13 can be driven by a first drive motor 17, the housing of which is firmly connected to the side frame plate 16 via a flange 18.
• Two arms 19 fastened to the central shaft 13 carry a cylinder segment 21 which forms part of the circumferential surface of the cylinder and a functional element of a first group, e.g. B. carries a holding element, in particular a bar, not shown, with puncture needles or at least one gripper.
• the partial cylinder 01 has two pairs of arms 19 and two cylinder segments 21 which are diametrically opposite one another.
• a larger number of cylinder segments 21 could also be uniform in the circumferential direction be distributed.
• the opposite end of the central shaft 13 is by means of bearings 22, for. B. bearings 22, rotatably mounted in a cup 23, the part of the second Teiizylinder 02 is in turn via a bearing 24, for. B. rolling bearing 24, rotatably held on a second side frame plate 16.
• a drive shaft of a second drive motor 26 engages, the housing of which, like that of the first drive motor 17, is fastened to the side frame plate 16 via a flange 18.
• Cylinder segments 27 of the second partial cylinder 02 are each made up of two radial arms 28; 29 worn, of which one arm 28 from the open edge of the cup 23 and the other arm 29 via a bearing 31, for. B. a roller bearing 31 is rotatably held on the central shaft 13.
• Each cylinder segment 27 carries a functional element, not shown, such as a folding knife.
• the two drive motors 17; 26 are connected to a common control circuit which, for. B. with the help of the drive motors 17; 26 arranged speed or angle sensors both drive motors 17; 26 adjusted to exactly the same rotational speeds and thus to a constant distance between the functional elements on the cylinder segments 21 and 27.
• the control circuit is connected to two rotation angle sensors which are arranged on the drive motor 17 or 26 and which deliver a pulse to the control circuit for each rotation angle unit of the drive motor 17 or 26 concerned, and the control circuit is designed to adjust the phase difference between to detect the pulse trains supplied by the two sensors and to keep them constant at a predetermined value which can be set on the control circuit and which corresponds to a desired distance between the functional elements on the two partial cylinders 01; 02 corresponds.
• the sensors each deliver binary coded data words in a defined, cyclical order. This enables the control circuit to detect and keep a phase shift between identical data words from the two sensors, even if this time difference is greater than the period with which the data words are delivered.
• the functional elements can on both partial cylinders 01; 02 of a different type or of the same type, it may be pin needles or pin needles, bow grippers, folding knives, jaws, ejectors, regrinders, cutting blades, etc.
• the cylinder can be embodied in a folder as a folding knife cylinder, folding jaw cylinder or collecting cylinder.
• the folder has at least one cutting cylinder 35, a collecting cylinder 36 and a folding jaw cylinder 37.
• the collecting cylinder 36 has two partial cylinders 39; 40, which are adjustable relative to each other in the circumferential direction.
• the first part cylinder 39 is provided with at least one folding knife and the second part cylinder 40 with punctures or grippers. This collecting cylinder 36 transfers signatures to a folding jaw cylinder 37 (FIG. 3).
• the jaw cylinder 37 is mechanically independently driven by its own electric motor 05 from other cylinders.
• the partial cylinder 39 of the collecting cylinder 36 carrying the folding blades is driven by another electric motor 04.
• the other partial cylinder 40 carrying the punctures or grippers is another Electric motor 03 driven by which the cutting cylinder 35 is also driven.
• a gear having gears is provided.
• a gearwheel is connected to the partial cylinder 40 having punctures or grippers, a second to the cutting cylinder 35 and a third to the rotor of the electric motor 03.
• the electric motor 03, cutting cylinder 35 and a partial cylinder 40 of the collecting cylinder 36 are coupled for driving by means of gearwheels, whereby the drive from the cutting cylinder 35 to the collecting cylinder 36.
• the electric motor 03 assigned to the cutting cylinder 35 is arranged on one side of the folding apparatus, whereas the partial cylinders 39 of the collecting cylinder 36 which carry the folding blade and the folding jaw cylinder 37 are arranged on the opposite side of the folding apparatus.
• a separate electric motor 06 (FIG. 4) is also provided for this partial cylinder 40.
• a transmission gear can be arranged between the cutting cylinder 35 and the electric motor 03, wherein the electric motor 03 can be arranged offset to the axis of the cutting cylinder 35.
• the electric motor 03 of the cutting cylinder 35 coaxially with the cutting cylinder 35 (FIG. 5).
• the rotor can be connected to the axis of the cutting cylinder 35 without a gear, or an auxiliary gear, in particular a planetary gear, can be arranged.
• a further folding cylinder 38 having two partial cylinders 51, 52 is arranged between the collecting cylinder 36 and the folding jaw cylinder 37. Its first part cylinder 51 has at least one folding knife and its second part cylinder 52 has at least one folding flap.
• Each of the partial cylinders 51; 52 by its own electric motor 07; 08 driven.
• the rotor of the electric motor can be connected directly to the axis of the cylinder or the motor can have an auxiliary gear, for example a planetary gear.
• the folder has at least one paddle wheel 41, the paddle wheel 41 being driven by its own electric motor 42.
• a belt system 44 is provided for the delivery of the products from the paddle wheel 41, as shown in FIGS. 9 and 10, which also has its own electric motor 46.
• a longitudinal folding device 47 optionally assigned to the folder is also driven by its own electric motor 53, which is independent of other cylinders, as can be seen from FIGS. 11 and 12.
• This longitudinal folding device 47 is used for the longitudinal fold (called the third fold or delta fold), which takes place after the transverse fold.
• the first fold is made through a longitudinal fold former (not shown).
• the second fold is made by a folding jaw cylinder 37 or 38 or the third fold is made by a further, optional folding jaw cylinder 37 or 38.
• the third fold or the fourth fold is made by a longitudinal folding knife.
• Each cylinder of the folder is driven by its own electric motor (03; 04; 05; 06; 07), which is technically independent of other cylinders.
• At least one electric motor of the folder is controlled as a function of a virtual master axis of the printing press, at least one other electric motor being controlled as a function of this electric motor.
• the electric motor 03 of the cutting cylinder 35 is controlled by the virtual master axis of the printing press and an electric motor 04, 06 of the collecting cylinder 36 is controlled as a function of the electric motor 03 of the cutting cylinder 35.
• a fixing device is provided, likewise for each cylinder.
• the cylinders can be fixed in a maintenance position relatively fixed to the frame.
• the two partial cylinders 01, 02; 39, 40; 51, 52 mechanically fixed to each other.
• At least one electric motor 03; 04; 05; 06; 07; 08; 17; 26; 42; 46; 53 has a rotation angle sensor.

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• Folding Of Thin Sheet-Like Materials, Special Discharging Devices, And Others (AREA)
• Auxiliary Devices For And Details Of Packaging Control (AREA)
• Processing Of Meat And Fish (AREA)
• Measuring Pulse, Heart Rate, Blood Pressure Or Blood Flow (AREA)
• Packaging For Recording Disks (AREA)
• Measurement Of The Respiration, Hearing Ability, Form, And Blood Characteristics Of Living Organisms (AREA)
• Closing Of Containers (AREA)

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