EP1726550A2 - Procédé et dispositif pour l'accumulation de feuilles, et dispositif d'alimentation en feuilles - Google Patents

Procédé et dispositif pour l'accumulation de feuilles, et dispositif d'alimentation en feuilles Download PDF

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EP1726550A2
EP1726550A2 EP06010706A EP06010706A EP1726550A2 EP 1726550 A2 EP1726550 A2 EP 1726550A2 EP 06010706 A EP06010706 A EP 06010706A EP 06010706 A EP06010706 A EP 06010706A EP 1726550 A2 EP1726550 A2 EP 1726550A2
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Tomoyuki Fuji Photo Film Co. Ltd. Shinozuka
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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
    • B65H33/02—Forming counted batches in delivery pile or stream of articles by moving a blade or like member into 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
    • B65H31/00—Pile receivers
    • B65H31/34—Apparatus for squaring-up piled articles
    • B65H31/36—Auxiliary devices for contacting each article with a front stop as it is piled
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
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    • B65H2301/445—Moving, forwarding, guiding material stream of articles separated from each other
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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
    • B65H2403/00—Power transmission; Driving means
    • B65H2403/60—Damping means, shock absorbers
    • 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
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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
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    • 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
    • B65H2513/30—Kinetic energy
    • 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
    • B65H2515/10—Mass, e.g. mass flow rate; Weight; Inertia
    • 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
    • B65H2515/30—Forces; Stresses
    • 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
    • B65H2701/17—Nature of material
    • B65H2701/176—Cardboard
    • 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 present invention relates to a sheet accumulating device, a sheet accumulating method and a sheet feeding device, and particularly to a sheet accumulating device, a sheet accumulating method and a sheet feeding device, each of which causes no damage to product sheets even when the product sheets are fed at a high speed.
  • Planographic printing plates are stacked in an accumulating device in the direction of the thickness thereof, and a bundle of planographic printing plates is formed in such a manner that two sheets of protective cardboard are inserted between the planographic printing plates at each time when a predetermined number of planographic printing plates are stacked.
  • the accumulating device is equipped with a front stopper that catches planographic printing plates and protective cardboard fed into the device so as to avoid damage to the planographic printing plates and protective cardboard.
  • the planographic printing plate and protective cardboard are different from each other both in thickness and in mass. Therefore, it is preferred that the damping force of the front stopper is switched between the case of feeding planographic printing plates and the case of feeding protective cardboard.
  • a sheet accumulating device which includes: a stopper unit having plural front stoppers having different stopper conditions, for example, different damping coefficients, and also having a stopper switching section that locates one of the aforementioned front stoppers at a position in which it catches a front edge of sheets; and a stopper switching section controller that operates the stopper switching section in the aforementioned stopper unit so as to select an optimum one of the aforementioned plural front stoppers based on the speed of feeding sheets, or the mass of sheets (see Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open ( JP-A) No. 63(1988)-134465 ).
  • planographic printing plates and protective cardboard are used into the accumulating device.
  • both planographic printing plates and protective cardboard can be fed in the accumulating device by a single feeding device, which leads to no need to use two feeding devices.
  • a division sheet synchronously-feeding device which can feed planographic printing plates and protective cardboard at the same time.
  • Some of the division sheet synchronously-feeding device described above is specifically composed of: a product sheet conveying section; a division sheet conveying section provided below a product sheet feeding section and extending to the vicinity of a position at which product sheets are accumulated; a product sheet guide plate that leads product sheets onto the division sheet conveying section; a product-sheet-position detecting section that detects the position of product sheets on the product sheet conveying section; and a division sheet conveyance timing adjustment section which is connected to the aforementioned division sheet conveying section and which conveys the division sheets, based on an input from the aforementioned product-sheet-position detection section, at a timing when the division sheets are superposed on desired product sheets led to the aforementioned division sheet conveying section ( JP-A No. 59(1984)-203061 ).
  • the accumulating device when plural front stoppers having different attenuation coefficients are provided in the accumulating device and these front stoppers are used in a switchable manner in accordance with a mass of planographic printing plates or protective cardboard to be fed in, or a sheet feeding speed, the accumulating device is made larger and a mechanism thereof becomes complicated. As a result, the accumulating device becomes expensive.
  • the present invention has been achieved in order to solve the aforementioned problems, and is directed to a sheet accumulating device in which plural types of sheets having the different masses, such as planographic printing plates and protective cardboard can be accumulated without being damaged while the structure thereof is made simpler, a sheet accumulating method, and a sheet feeding device which allows division sheets such as protective cardboard to be fed into a sheet accumulating device in a state in which the division sheets protrude further toward the front side in a feeding direction than products sheets such as planographic printing plates.
  • the first aspect of the present invention is a sheet accumulating device including: a sheet feeding section that feeds a sheet; a front stopper that catches a front end of the sheet fed by the sheet feeding section; an attenuation section that attenuates backward and forward movement of the front stopper with a predetermined damping force; an accumulating section that accumulates the sheet whose front end is caught by the front stopper; and a damping force controlling section that controls the damping force in the attenuation section based on at least one of a mass of the sheet, a speed of feeding the sheet, and/or a product of the mass of the sheet and the speed of feeding the sheet.
  • the damping force in the attenuation section is increased by the damping force controlling section.
  • the damping force in the attenuation section is decreased.
  • the front stopper can catch (receive to stop) the front ends of sheets with damping force corresponding to the mass of each type of sheet.
  • the damping force may be increased and decreased not only based on the mass of sheet, but also based on the speed of feeding sheet, and/or the product of the mass of sheet and the speed of feeding.
  • the product sheet fed together with the division sheet is made to reduce its speed due to a friction generated between the division sheet and the product sheet.
  • the division sheet detecting section detects the leading end portion of the division sheet so as to increase the damping force in the attenuation section.
  • the front stopper does not make a large stroke.
  • the aforementioned sheet accumulating device has a feature that the division sheet can be detected in a non-contact manner.
  • the sheet accumulating device is suitably used when the optical characteristics such as brightness, color tint and the like are greatly different between the division sheet and the production sheet.
  • the division sheet detecting section is a mechanical detecting section that mechanically detects the division sheet.
  • the twelfth aspect of the present invention is a sheet accumulating method in which sheets are accumulated in an accumulating section in such a manner that a front end of the sheet which is fed is caught by a front stopper having an attenuation section that attenuates backward and forward movement of the front stopper with a predetermined damping force, the method including: when at least one of a mass of the sheet, a speed of feeding the sheet, and a product of the mass of the sheet and the speed of feeding the sheet is large, increasing the damping force in the attenuation section, and when at least one of the mass of the sheet, the speed of feeding the sheet, and the product of the mass of the sheet and the speed of feeding the sheet is small, decreasing the damping force in the attenuation section.
  • a planographic printing plate accumulation line 100 is equipped with an accumulating device 2 in which planographic printing plates P are accumulated, a feeding device 4 for feeding planographic printing plates P and protective cardboard Q into the accumulating device 2, a feeding-timing controller 6 that controls the timing of feeding in the feeding device 4, and a damping force switching controller 8 that controls switching of damping force in the accumulating device 2.
  • the accumulating device 2 and the feeding device 4 correspond to a sheet accumulating device and a sheet feeding device, respectively, of the present invention.
  • the planographic printing plate P and protective cardboard Q are respective examples of a product sheet and a division sheet.
  • the damping force controller 222 is a hydraulic damper that allows switching of damping force between the two power levels, i.e., high power and low power.
  • the damping force controller 222 includes a cylinder 222A fixed to the fixed wall 23 with an arm-like member 222C, and a piston 222B that slides inside the cylinder 222A.
  • the cross section of the damping force controller 222 along the axis line thereof is shown in Figs. 4A and 4B
  • the cross section of the piston 222B along a plane orthogonal to the axis line thereof is shown in Figs. 4C and 4D.
  • planographic printing plate accumulation line 100 allows the planographic printing plates P to be accumulated without being damaged even if the feeding speed of the planographic printing plates increases.

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JPH10167550A (ja) * 1996-12-04 1998-06-23 Fuji Photo Film Co Ltd シート材の集積方法および装置

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