EP1594000B1 - Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur Übergabe von Kassetten für Druckplatten - Google Patents

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EP1594000B1
EP1594000B1 EP05102577A EP05102577A EP1594000B1 EP 1594000 B1 EP1594000 B1 EP 1594000B1 EP 05102577 A EP05102577 A EP 05102577A EP 05102577 A EP05102577 A EP 05102577A EP 1594000 B1 EP1594000 B1 EP 1594000B1
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Axel Trilk
Lars Paulsen
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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
    • B65H1/00—Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated
    • B65H1/26—Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated with auxiliary supports to facilitate introduction or renewal of the pile
    • 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
    • B65H2405/30—Other features of supports for sheets
    • B65H2405/33—Compartmented support
    • B65H2405/332—Superposed compartments
    • 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
    • B65H2405/30—Other features of supports for sheets
    • B65H2405/35—Means for moving support
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2701/00—Handled material; Storage means
    • B65H2701/10—Handled articles or webs
    • B65H2701/19—Specific article or web
    • B65H2701/1928—Printing plate

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  • the invention relates to the field of electronic reproduction technology and relates to a device for providing and transferring cassettes for printing plates, preferably in a loading device with which the printing plates are automatically removed from a cassette and fed to a printing platesetter, which then a master on a printing plate records (see eg the document EP-A-0 822 454 ).
  • print templates are created for printed pages containing all the elements to be printed, such as text, graphics and images.
  • a separate print template is created for each ink, containing all the elements printed in each color.
  • these are the inks cyan, magenta, yellow and black (CMYK).
  • the artwork is usually recorded in a platesetter plates on printing plates, which are then printed in a printing machine, the printed pages with high circulation. Alternatively, the artwork can be transferred directly as digital data to a digital press. There, the print data are then exposed to printing plates, for example, with an integrated into the printing unit exposure unit before immediately after the pad printing begins.
  • a laser beam is generated by a laser diode, formed by optical means and focused on the printing plate and deflected by a deflection system point and line over the printing plate.
  • a bundle of laser beams may also be generated, and with each sweep of the printing plate, a plurality of image lines are simultaneously exposed.
  • the printing plate may be on an exposure drum (external drum imagesetter), in a cylindrical trough (internal drum imagesetter) or on a flat surface Surface (flatbed platesetter).
  • the printing plate to be exposed is mounted on a rotatably mounted exposure drum.
  • an exposure head is moved axially along the drum at a relatively short distance.
  • the exposure head focuses one or more laser beams onto the drum surface which sweep the drum surface in the form of a narrow helical line. In this way one or more image lines are exposed each time the drum rotates.
  • a printing plate to be exposed can be manually fed to the platesetter. It is then drawn in by the platesetter and automatically clamped on the exposure drum, where it is fixed by means of clamping devices and optionally with a vacuum device during the exposure.
  • charging devices are used, which remove the printing plates to be exposed individually from a cassette, for example, with a suction device, and the printing plate setters out.
  • a charging device is in the DE 101 34 151 A1 described. It is referred to below as a single-cassette loader, since it contains only one cassette and takes out the printing plates.
  • the cassette contains a supply of unexposed printing plates, the printing plates usually all the same format, ie have the same dimensions. In the cassette, the printing plates are protected from dust and light, so that unintentional exposure of the printing plates is prevented.
  • the EP 1 273 964 A1 discloses a printing plate loading device in which a plurality of cassettes are stacked. Above it is a plate removal and transport unit with suction cups. After a desired cassette has been selected, the cassettes above are moved horizontally into an evasive chamber, so that the disc removal unit can be lowered onto the selected cassette and a printing plate can be removed. The removed printing plate is sucked in at one end, lifted and exfoliated like a book page during transport to the printing platesetter, where it is rotated by 180 °. The selected cartridge is not moved vertically or horizontally for the removal operation.
  • This loading device requires a high mechanical effort for the selective horizontal movement of the individual cassettes and for the vertical positioning of the plate removal unit.
  • a printing plate imagesetter having an integrated disk loading unit is proposed.
  • Several cassettes filled with printing plates are slanted at an angle of almost 90 °, with a space between the cassettes sufficient to drive a suction device of a disk removal unit between the cassettes.
  • the disc removal unit which is positioned over a selected cartridge, releases a pressure plate from the supply stack with the suction device in the selected cartridge and pulls it up between the mounted cassettes.
  • a deflector which is also positioned over the selected cassette, the removed printing plate is then deflected downwards and placed on a transport path, which feeds them to the exposure drum of the printing platesetter.
  • the known charging devices for printing plates which can remove the printing plates from several cassettes are constructed relatively expensive and thus expensive to manufacture.
  • they are not compatible with a single-cassette loader of the type described above, in the sense that either only the single-cassette loader is used for automated loading of printing plates in the platesetter, or a device for providing multiple cassettes in Connection with the single-cassette loader is used to further increase the degree of automation of the production process.
  • a single-cassette loader the device according to the invention for receiving a plurality of cassettes is referred to below as a multi-cassette loader.
  • a multi-cassette loader which has a magazine with a plurality of compartments arranged one above the other for receiving one cassette each.
  • the magazine can be vertically positioned within the multi-cassette loader as a whole until a selected cassette is at the level of a transfer opening to which the loading opening of a single-cassette loader immediately adjoins.
  • the cassette By means of a friction drive, the cassette can then be pushed horizontally out of the transfer opening and into the single-cassette loader, whereby it is transferred to the single-cassette loader.
  • Fig. 1 shows a side view of a disk loading system consisting of the multi-cassette loader 1 and a single-cassette loader 2, which are placed directly against each other.
  • the multi-cassette loader 1 includes a magazine 3 with a plurality of stacked compartments 4, each lying a cassette 5 can accommodate printing plates.
  • Cassette 5 can be pushed into the compartments 4 via a loading opening 6 of the multi-cassette loader 1 or be taken from them.
  • the magazine 3 is previously moved vertically until the desired tray is in the height of the loading opening 6.
  • a transport carriage 7 is used, with which a cassette is moved up to the loading opening 6.
  • the trolley 7 has a transport table 8, on which the cassette 5 is located.
  • the loading opening 6 is located in the multi-cassette loader 1, a transfer opening 9, which borders directly on a loading opening 10 of the single-cassette loader 2.
  • a cassette 5 can be transferred from the multi-cassette loader 1 to the single-cassette loader 2, where it is received by a receiving table 11.
  • the magazine 3 is previously positioned so that the desired cassette 5 is in the height of the transfer opening 9.
  • a cassette 5 can also be taken from the single-cassette loader 2 through the transfer opening 9 again in a compartment 4 of the multi-cassette loader 1.
  • the transport table 8, the loading opening 6 of the multi-cassette loader 1, the transfer opening 9 and the loading opening 10 of the single-cassette loader 2 are all at the same height. This makes it possible to operate the single-cassette loader 2 without an upstream multi-cassette loader 1, since the transport carriage 7 can be used in the case for manually loading a cassette 5 directly into the single-cassette loader 2 ,
  • Fig. 1 no further details of the single cassette loader.
  • Fig. 2 shows in a simplified representation of a view from the front, ie in the direction of arrow A in Fig. 1 , on the magazine 3 of the multi-cassette loader 1.
  • the magazine is divided into four subjects 4 in this example. In two subjects 4 cassettes 5 are located, the other two compartments 4 are empty.
  • the cassettes 5 have rollers 20 with which they run on the shelves and thus are easily movable.
  • 3 guide rollers 21 are provided in the side walls of the magazine, which guide the side walls of the cassettes 5, so that the cassettes 5 can not tilt in the horizontal movement in the subjects 4.
  • the entire magazine 3 can be lifted or lowered with the lifting spindles 22 in order to position a specific compartment 4 in the height of the loading opening 6 or the transfer opening 9.
  • the lifting spindles 22 can be used as recirculating ball drives be formed, which engage approximately in the center of gravity of the magazine 3 on both sides.
  • the recirculating ball drives can be connected via a common toothed belt with a drive (in Fig. 2 not shown).
  • FIG. 3a and Fig. 3b Two different phases of loading a free tray 4, here the top tray, the multi-cassette loader 1 with a new cassette 5 are shown.
  • Fig. 3a shows the state that the operator has pushed the cassette 5 from the trolley 7 so far through the loading opening 6 in the multi-cassette loader 1 that it comes with its rear end in the engagement region of a friction drive 30.
  • the friction drive 30 in this case has two driven friction wheels, which are folded with a defined force against the side wall of the cassette 5.
  • corresponding recesses are provided through which the friction drive 30 can be folded against the side walls of the cassette 5.
  • a friction drive 30 is provided on both sides of the cassette 5, and the cassette 5 is simultaneously moved with both friction drives 30.
  • the sensors are mounted at a distance from each other which is slightly smaller than the cassette 5 is long. Only when both sensors "see” the cassette 5, it is in the correct horizontal position, that is fully charged.
  • Photoelectric sensors are preferably used as sensors, but other sensor concepts can also be used, for example, capacitive or inductive proximity sensors.
  • Each compartment 4 of the magazine 3 is assigned on each side of the cassette 5 each have a spring-applied brake 31, which by spring force a brake pad against the Side wall of the cassette 5 presses when the cassette 5 is not in engagement with the friction drives 30. This prevents the cassette 5 from rolling away. This is necessary because not each compartment 4 separate friction drives 30 are assigned.
  • the spring brakes 31 also have no own drive, with which they are operated.
  • the spring-applied brakes 31 are mechanically coupled to the folding movement of the respective friction drive 30.
  • the magazine 3 advantageously requires no electrical connections and is therefore particularly simple and inexpensive.
  • Fig. 4 shows a phase in the transfer of a cassette 5 from a tray 4, here from the bottom tray of the multi-cassette loader 1 in the single-cassette loader 2.
  • Fig. 5 shows in a view from above a preferred embodiment of the friction drive 30.
  • the friction drive 30 has two friction wheels 50, which are connected by connecting straps so that they form a rocker. Since the cassettes 5 for loading the single-cassette loader 2 must be transported a further distance than the cassettes 5 themselves are long, two friction wheels 50 are required on each side of the cassette, which are mounted at a certain horizontal distance from each other. Both friction wheels 50 each have their own drive motor in the preferred embodiment.
  • a pneumatically acting actuator 51 which acts on the connecting link between the friction wheels 50, presses the friction wheels 50 against the side wall of the cassette 5.
  • the freedom of movement of the friction wheels 50 is limited by the connecting straps of the rocker so far that when a friction wheel 50 is no longer the Cassette 5 touches the other friction wheel 50 is still pressed with a sufficiently large force against the cassette 5.
  • the other friction wheel 50 would be driven by a toothed belt or by means of gears of the first friction wheel 50 with.
  • a friction belt could be used which runs over at least two wheels and is pressed against the cassette 5.
  • Fig. 6a and Fig. 6b show the operation of the spring-applied brake 31 by the actuator 51, which flaps the friction drive 30 to the cassette 5.
  • Fig. 6a shows the state that the spring 60 of the spring-applied brake 31 presses the brake pad 61 to the cassette 5 via the lever 62 and thereby blocks it.
  • FIG. 12 shows the state that a control edge 63 of the actuator 51 presses against the lever 62 when the friction drive 30 is folded against the cartridge 5, thereby releasing the brake pad 61 from the cartridge 5.

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