EP1621501B1 - Vorrichtung zur Ablenkung von Signaturen - Google Patents

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EP1621501B1
EP1621501B1 EP04425584A EP04425584A EP1621501B1 EP 1621501 B1 EP1621501 B1 EP 1621501B1 EP 04425584 A EP04425584 A EP 04425584A EP 04425584 A EP04425584 A EP 04425584A EP 1621501 B1 EP1621501 B1 EP 1621501B1
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Mario Pane
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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
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  • the present invention refers to a sheering device for folded fascicles, to be used particularly downstream and in cooperation with paper-folding machines, in turn employed in rotary printing lines, for example for newspapers, magazines, books, etc.
  • the currently known sheering devices allow routing the paper fascicles folded as output from the folding machine towards collecting devices, commonly called “spiders", that are equipped with a plurality of wings spirally arranged on the surface of a cylinder, the fascicles being each housed between two following wings. Since such collecting devices can be found in a line in a number usually varying from one to three, according to the applications, it is necessary to route the folded fascicles one on each of the collecting devices, or two on a first device and one on a second device, etc., as will be better shown herein below.
  • US-B-6 176 485 discloses a device according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • the sheering device 1 is equipped with comb-shaped sheering means 3 that can assume: 1) a lifted position with respect to the advancement path of the fascicles 2, in which case the first folded fascicle 2 that reaches the sheering device 1 passes below the comb-shaped sheering means 3 and is routed towards the collecting device 20 immediately downstream of the affected sheering device 1; or 2) a lowered position that is substantially parallel to the advancement path of the fascicles 2, in which case the first folded fascicle 2 that reaches the sheering device 1 passes above the comb-shaped sheering means 3 and advances towards a following sheering device 1 in which it can be either routed towards its respective collecting device 20, or still to a following sheering device 1, and so on.
  • the comb-shaped sheering means 3 in a known way, assume their two operating positions due to the drive of a small roller 12 that cooperates with a cam 5 in order to push the comb-shaped sheering means 3 downwards, while the cam 5 itself, when it does not cooperate with the small roller 12, pushes the comb-shaped sheering means 3 upwards.
  • Figures 5 to 12 schematically show a possible series of combinations in which different types of fascicles 2, starting from a cylinder 6 downstream of the folding machine 8, must be routed towards the different collecting devices 20: in order to obtain these combinations, the currently known sheering devices must be equipped with three different types of cams, a first type being a cam that works every 180° of its rotation, a second type being a cam that works every 120° of its rotation and a third type being a cam that works every 90° of its rotation, since it is a cam of the first type that rotates at a speed that is half of the speed of the first type of cam.
  • Fig. 5 to 8 shown four possible cases in which the first type of cam is used: in particular, Fig. 5 shows the case in which fascicles 2 of type A are routed towards a collecting device 20 and fascicles 2 of type B are routed towards another collecting device 20.
  • Fig. 6 shows a similar case, with fascicles 2 of types a, b, c, d and their collection combination a, c on a collecting device 20, and b, d on another collecting device 20.
  • Fig. 7 shows a similar case, with fascicles 2 of types A, B, C and their collection combination A, C, B on a collecting device 20, and always A, C, B on another collecting device 20.
  • Fig. 8 shows a similar case, with fascicles 2 of types A, B, C one inside the other and their collection combination A, B, C on a collecting device 20, and always A, B, C on another collecting device 20.
  • Fig. 9 instead shows the case in which the second type of cam is used, to route fascicles 2 of three types A, B, C respectively towards three different collecting devices 20.
  • Fig. 10 instead shows the case in which the second type of cam is always used, to route fascicles 2 of three types A, B, C, in which type A goes to a collecting device 20 and types B and C go to another collecting device 20.
  • FIG. 11 shows the case in which the third type of cam is used, to route fascicles 2 of two types A and B inserted one inside the other respectively in two collecting devices 20.
  • Fig. 12 instead shows the case in which the third type of cam is used to route fascicles 2 of types a, b, c, d respectively towards two collecting devices 20 with a and b inserted one inside the other in a device, and c and d inserted one inside the other in the other device.
  • the known sheering devices provide that the small roller 12 driving the comb-shaped sheering means 3 is manually moved, through an horizontal translation, next to the operating cam: this implies that an operator must access the machine interior in an uncomfortable and dangerous position, must unscrew an holding lever (not shown), move the small roller 12 and screw the holding lever again, all this with obvious practical problems, regarding machine stops and operating accuracy, since such operation is often a source of mistakes.
  • Object of the present invention is solving the prior art problems, by providing a sheering device that is controlled in order to always remain perfectly synchronised with the upstream folding machine, though being able to assume varying operating conditions, and be able to perform all its operations in a wholly automated way.
  • Another object of the present invention is providing a sheering device of the above mentioned type that is equipped with pneumatic means for selecting the operating modes of the driving small roller, allowing to automate with low costs also this type of operation.
  • the sheering device 1 of the present invention will be described, applied to the routing of folded fascicles of newspapers, but obviously the present invention can be used in all machines, and in particular in rotary printing machines, in which it is necessary to route objects that move in a row along a pre-established path.
  • a first innovative characteristic of the sheering device 1 of the invention is that it is equipped with at least one motor 7 of the type with alternate current and digital vector control, that is therefore able to keep a rotating movement that is perfectly synchronous with the other parts of the machine and to assume predetermined starting positioned with absolute accuracy: such motor 7 is adapted to automatically select the cams 5 and to drive the selected cam 5 according to the upstream advancement speed of the system 9 for folding the fascicles 2. In this way, a synchronism is realised between sheering device 1 and folding system 9 and the desired and in-phase routing of fascicles 2 on downstream collecting devices 20 is allowed.
  • the motor 7 operates in a known way, being controlled by a computer connected to an encoder that provide at any time information related to the position of fascicles 2, in order to put the components of the system as a whole in phase one with the other.
  • the second characteristic of the sheering device 1 of the invention is providing, for performing the above described operations shown in Fig. 5 to 12, two cams 5', 5" only instead of the three cams used conventionally: the first cam 5' is adapted to realise two operating ratios while the second cam 5" is adapted to realise one operating ratio.
  • the first cam 5' in the practical case being examined, turns at a pitch of 180° with two different speeds, one speed being twice the other speed, in order to perform one driving stroke every 180° of each of its turns and one driving stroke every 90° of each of its turns depending on the application and according to the selected one of its two speeds.
  • the second cam 5" instead normally turns at a pitch of 120° in order to perform one driving stroke every 120° of each of its turns.
  • cams 5 that is greater than two, but in this case, due to the arrangement of the inventive system, it will be possible to realise a number of application combinations that is much greater than the one that can be realised, for example, with the conventional arrangement with three cams.
  • the inventive sheering device 1 is further equipped with a device 11 for pneumatically driving the small roller 12 that actuates the comb-shaped sheering means 3 in order to lift and lower the small roller 12 making it go away from and approach the cams 5.
  • the sheering device 1 is further equipped with a device 14 for pneumatically driving the group of cams 5 in order to move, through an horizontal translation, the cam to be activated next to the lifted small roller 12.
  • a device 14 for pneumatically driving the group of cams 5 in order to move, through an horizontal translation, the cam to be activated next to the lifted small roller 12.
  • the above-described sheering device 1 in its most efficient use, is adapted to be placed in a global system for folding and collecting fascicles 2 like the one schematically shown in Fig. 1.
  • Such system comprises at least one system 9 for folding the fascicles 2, at least one sheering device 1 connected downstream of the folding system 9, and at least two collecting devices 20 of the fascicles 2 connected downstream of the sheering device 1.
  • Fig. 1 instead shows the case in which there are two sheering devices 1 with three collecting devices ("spiders") 20 downstream.
  • the inventive device thereby allows doing without the mechanical members composing the kinematic chain for driving the cams and doing without at least one cam (using two cams instead of the three necessary cams in the prior art), or using a number of cams that is greater than two, that allow realising a much greater number of final application arrangements.
  • the inventive device allows automating both the small roller movement, and the cam driving in order to synchronise the sheering device movements with the upstream folding machine movements, thereby realising a safe and reliable system with reduced costs.

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  1. Umführungsvorrichtung (1) für gefaltete Bündel (2) mit Kammschaltern (3), die eine angehobene und herabgesetzte Position gegenüber dem Vorlauf der Bündel (2) einnehmen müssen, um die Bündel (2) auf zwei entsprechenden darunter liegenden Wegen umzuführen, die genannten Kammschalter (3) werden durch Nocken (5) in ihren zwei Betriebsstellungen gesteuert, die genannte Vorrichtung (1) ist außerdem mit mindestens einem Motor (7) vom Typ mit Wechselstrom mit vektorieller digitaler Kontrolle ausgestattet, der genannte Motor (7) dient dazu, automatisch einen der genannten Nocken (5) auszuwählen und den genannten Nocken (5) zu steuern, der je nach der Vorlaufgeschwindigkeit oberhalb eines Faltsystems (9) der genannten Bündel (2) ausgewählt wird und dadurch gekennzeichnet ist, dass die genannten Nocken (5) zwei sind (5', 5"), ein Nocken (5') dient dazu, zwei Arbeitsgänge zu realisieren, und der andere Nocken (5") dient dazu, einen Arbeitsgang zu realisieren.
  2. Umführungsvorrichtung (1) gemäß Patentanspruch 1, die dadurch gekennzeichnet ist, dass sich der genannte Nocken (5') mit einem Schritt von 180° mit zwei verschiedenen Geschwindigkeiten dreht, eine ist doppelt so schnell wie die andere, um einen Steuerungslauf alle 180° von jeder seiner Drehungen oder einen Steuerungslauf alle 90° von jeder seiner Drehungen je nach der gewählten Geschwindigkeit zu realisieren.
  3. Umführungsvorrichtung (1) gemäß Patentanspruch 1 oder 2, die dadurch gekennzeichnet ist, dass sich der genannte Nocken (5") mit einem Schritt von 120° dreht, um einen Steuerungslauf alle 120° von jeder seiner Drehungen zu realisieren.
  4. Umführungsvorrichtung (1) gemäß Patentanspruch 1, die dadurch gekennzeichnet ist, dass die genannten Nocken (5) mehr als zwei sind, jeder Nocken dient dazu, mindestens einen Arbeitsgang zu realisieren.
  5. Umführungsvorrichtung (1) gemäß Patentanspruch 1, die dadurch gekennzeichnet ist, dass sie außerdem mit einer Vorrichtung (11) für die pneumatische Steuerung einer Antriebsrolle (12) der genannten Kammschalter (3) ausgestattet ist, um die genannte Rolle (12), wenn sie sich entfernt und mit den genannten Nocken (5) in Arbeitskontakt kommt, anzuheben und abzusenken.
  6. Umführungsvorrichtung (1) gemäß Patentanspruch 1 oder 5, die dadurch gekennzeichnet ist, dass sie außerdem mit einer Vorrichtung (14) für die pneumatische Steuerung der genannten Nockengruppe (5) ausgestattet ist, um durch horizontale Translation den Nocken zu verschieben, der entsprechend der genannten angehobenen Rolle (12) aktiviert werden muss.
  7. Falt- und Sammelsystem der Bündel (2), das mindestens ein Faltsystem (9) der Bündel (2), mindestens eine Umführungsvorrichtung (1) gemäß einem beliebigen der Patentansprüche von 1 bis 6 enthält und unter dem genannten Faltsystem (9) angeschlossen ist, sowie mindestens zwei Sammelvorrichtungen (20) der Bündel (2), die unter der genannten Umführungsvorrichtung (1) angeschlossen sind.
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AT04425584T ATE363449T1 (de) 2004-07-29 2004-07-29 Vorrichtung zur ablenkung von signaturen
ES04425584T ES2288248T3 (es) 2004-07-29 2004-07-29 Dispositivo de desviacion para fasciculos plegados.
EP04425584A EP1621501B1 (de) 2004-07-29 2004-07-29 Vorrichtung zur Ablenkung von Signaturen
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