EP1751002B1 - Procede et dispositif pour emballer des objets plats - Google Patents

Procede et dispositif pour emballer des objets plats Download PDF

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EP1751002B1
EP1751002B1 EP05737457A EP05737457A EP1751002B1 EP 1751002 B1 EP1751002 B1 EP 1751002B1 EP 05737457 A EP05737457 A EP 05737457A EP 05737457 A EP05737457 A EP 05737457A EP 1751002 B1 EP1751002 B1 EP 1751002B1
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  • the invention is in the field of packaging technology and relates to a method and a device according to the preambles of the corresponding independent claims.
  • Methods and apparatus are used to package flat objects, such as individual printed products, stacked groups of printed products, or stacked groups of printed products and other flat objects such as CDs, flat swatch articles, or flat sample pouches.
  • the longitudinal and transverse seams are usually produced by welding, wherein the separation of the packaged objects can be carried out simultaneously with the creation of the transverse seams.
  • a heat-activatable adhesive may be applied to the packaging material immediately prior to feeding the packaging material web to the series of objects to be packaged at the locations of the longitudinal and transverse seams so that the seams are then made by similar means can be like the welded seams on plastic packaging. It is also possible to close the seams by embossing or by other known methods adapted to the packaging material used.
  • the objects in the form of a row which rests on a conveying surface (eg belt conveyor), are fed to said packaging.
  • the objects are arranged one behind the other and spaced apart, loosely, the distance between successive objects being adapted to the thickness of the objects and the methods used to create the transverse seams and to separate the packaging material.
  • Fördemocken be used in addition to the conveying surface through which the flat objects can be fed clocked more accurate than would be the case with the conveying surface as the only funding.
  • To the flat objects conveyed in the row is then supplied from below through a gap in the conveying surface or from above the quasi-endless packaging material web, wherein the packaging material web has the same speed as the row of objects.
  • the objects are usually removed from a stack and placed individually on the conveyor surface.
  • the mentioned packaging method including the creation and the delivery of the object series requires relatively long conveyor lines, which in many cases can be realized only with deflections for reasons of space.
  • acceleration forces act on the flat objects not only in a disorienting manner, but also destabilizing, in particular, objects in the form of a plurality of stacked flat objects.
  • high conveying speeds ie high air resistances, which act in the same way on the objects.
  • institutionally complex measures are necessary by which the necessary conveyor lines are usually further extended.
  • the invention now has for its object to provide a method and a device which serve the packaging of a series of flat objects by means of a quasi-endless packaging material web and with which the above-described disadvantages of known such methods and devices can be avoided.
  • process and device according to the invention should allow process and device according to the invention to limit the conveyor lines to a minimum and get along with the simplest funding and still be able to pack relatively unstable objects at very high flow rates.
  • the basic idea of the invention is not, as in known packaging methods of the same type, to create the row of objects to be packaged and to supply them lying on a conveying surface to the quasi endless packaging material web, but only to feed the row directly on or under the packaging material web create.
  • the package is not fed a series of objects arranged one behind the other in the conveying direction, but a feed stream in which the distances of the objects from each other are smaller than their length in the conveying direction when conveyed in the row become.
  • the feed stream is thus, for example, a scale flow, in which the objects are conveyed overlapping each other on a conveyor support, or it is a gripper stream, in which the objects are held individually in an edge region and conveyed with small distances from each other. From this feed stream, the objects are sequentially separated by acceleration and positioned directly on or under the packaging material web moving in a web direction by, for example, depositing or pushing.
  • the relationship between the web speed and the feed speed, and thus the necessary acceleration of the objects for singulation from the feed stream and positioning on the packaging material web are determined by the object distances in the feed stream and by the object length and object distances in the packaging material web creating series.
  • the web direction is substantially horizontal, such that flat objects resting on the web of packaging material, when pressed by gravity against the packaging material web, remain in the position on the web in which they are positioned during acceleration.
  • the flat objects are supplied in a scale flow, it is advantageous to have the feeding direction in the same to lay vertical plane as the web direction and also to align approximately horizontally and to redirect the packaging material web at the acceleration point from below or from above in the web direction.
  • the flat objects are fed in a rapier stream, it is advantageous to direct them from above or below against the web-traveling packaging material web and deflect it immediately above or below the packaging material web in the web direction.
  • Figures 1 and 2 show an exemplary embodiment of the method and the device according to the invention. These serve, as already explained, for the packaging of flat objects 1 with the aid of a virtually endless packaging material web 2.
  • the objects are fed in a feed stream 3 (here a scale flow) and positioned one after the other on the packaging material web 2 such that they form a row 4 on the packaging material web.
  • the objects are conveyed at distances d from each other, where d is smaller than the object length 1 in the conveying direction.
  • d is smaller than the object length 1 in the conveying direction.
  • one distance q each has to be created for the creation of the transverse seams.
  • the device essentially comprises the following four cooperating devices: A first device 5 for generating the row 4, that is to say according to the invention for separating the objects 1 supplied in the supply stream 3 by acceleration and for their direct positioning on (or under, see FIG. 7 ) of the packaging material web 2, a second device 6 for feeding the packaging material web 2 and for conveying the packaging material web 2 together with the virgin 4, a third device 7 for transferring the Packing material web 2 around the row 4 (or for supplying a further packaging material web, see FIG. 6 ) and a fourth device 8 for seam formation and optionally for separating the packaged objects 1 'from each other.
  • the first device 5 for the preparation of the row 4 has an acceleration means 51, accelerated by the succession objects from the top of the feed stream 3 and thereby separated from this head end, so singled, and simultaneously positioned on the packaging material web.
  • the acceleration means 51 is, for example, a pair of upper and lower acceleration rollers 51.1 and 51.2, or a plurality of such pairs. Instead of the acceleration rollers 51.1 and 51.2, correspondingly arranged circumferential acceleration belts or cam wheels can also be used.
  • the second device 6 for feeding the packaging material web 2 and for conveying the packaging material web 2 together with the row 4 has a traction means 60 with the aid of which the packaging material web 2 is continuously withdrawn from a supply roll 61 and moved in the web direction, and a tensioning means 62, by means of which the packaging material web is kept under a constant tension.
  • the traction means 60 is advantageously arranged where the packaging material web 2 is already placed around the row 4, ie downstream of the third device 7.
  • the traction means 60 can develop its pulling effect without having to divert the packaging material web is it is formed, for example, as a cooperating pair of upper and lower drawstrings 60.1 and 60.2, the two drawstrings being pressed from above and below onto the row 3 wrapped by the packaging material web and at least one of the drawstrings being driven at web speed.
  • the tensioning means 62 is located upstream of the location where the objects to be packaged are positioned on or below the packaging material web be and consists for example of a pair of tension rollers.
  • the second device 6 for the embodiment according to Figures 1 and 2 a deflection means 64 (eg a deflection bar), by means of which the packaging material web is deflected in the area of action of the acceleration means 51 in the web direction.
  • the third device 7 for transferring the packaging material web 2 around the row 4, which may also be designed to supply a further packaging material web (see FIG. 6 ), acts upstream of the traction means 60, between this and the deflection means 64, wherein the deflection means itself can already have a converting effect on the packaging material web 2, that is, for example, designed as a curved deflection bar.
  • the third device 7 has, for example, in a conventional manner, a sequence of pairs of transfer rollers 70 arranged above the row 4, wherein the distance between the transfer rollers 70 of the pairs in the web direction becomes smaller, so that the two longitudinal edges of the packaging material web 2 over the row 4 are merged.
  • the fourth seam-forming device 8 has a longitudinal seam-forming means 80 and a seam-forming means 81.
  • the means 80 for creating the longitudinal seams is advantageously arranged upstream of the traction means 60, the means 81 for creating the transverse seams downstream thereof, as shown in FIGS Figures 1 and 2 is shown.
  • As means 80 and 81 of any known means are suitable which are suitable for connecting the packaging material used in seams.
  • a means 81 for the preparation of the transverse seams in particular a rotating arrangement 82 of welding heads 83, which cooperates with a counterpressure belt 84 is suitable. Such an arrangement is described in detail in a patent application having the same filing date as the present application.
  • the feed stream 3 which does not belong to the invention itself, a variety of methods known per se can be used, for example, depositing a scale flow on a feed belt 30 by a feeder 32 from the stack, by a winding station from winding or by a gripper transporter 33rd directly from rotary printing press.
  • the gripper stream is advantageously guided in such a looped manner that two or more parallel imbricated streams can be deposited.
  • Objects deposited in such parallel shingled streams can optionally be singulated and positioned on the same packaging material web according to the method according to the invention and subsequently packaged as parallel rows. For this purpose, only a sufficiently wide packaging material web is to be used and are to provide means for creating additional longitudinal seams between the parallel rows.
  • FIG. 3 shows on a slightly larger scale than Figures 1 and 2 again the separation of the supplied in the feed stream objects 1 by acceleration and their direct positioning on the packaging material web 2.
  • the same elements are designated by the same reference numerals as in the Figures 1 and 2 ,
  • the feed stream 3 consists in the case shown of three shingled streams which are positioned on each other and in which each one type of object (by various Hatching indicated) is supplied.
  • the three scale flows are coordinated and synchronized with one another such that the objects in all scale flows are conveyed away from one another at the same distances d and that the leading edges of the objects of the scale flows are aligned with one another.
  • flat objects 1 are preformed in the superimposed scale flows, which consist of three objects, the leading edges are aligned and one of which belongs to one of the scale flows.
  • the objects 1 are left in the FIG. 3 represented on the Verpakkungsmaterial web 2 lying in the row 4. Without influence on the method according to the invention or on the device, the flat objects 1 in the feed stream 3 could also be arranged simply overlapping one another.
  • the feed stream 3 is fed by means of a feed belt 30 at a feed speed v.1.
  • the feed belt 30 may be supported by a support surface 31.
  • the acceleration means 51 adjoins, which has an upper and a lower acceleration roller 51.1 and 51.2.
  • the lower driven at a peripheral speed v.2 while the upper freely rotating, for example, on a pivotable (double arrow A) lever 51.3 is arranged such that it by their weight or by the force of a spring arranged accordingly against the lower acceleration roller 51.2 is pressed. It is also possible to drive both acceleration rollers with the peripheral speed v.2.
  • the deflection means 64 adjoins, by means of which the packaging material web is deflected in the web direction which follows the feed direction in a substantially rectilinear manner.
  • the packaging material web 2 moves through the traction means (in FIG. 3 not shown) at a speed v.3 (web speed) away from the accelerator 51, wherein it is supported by a support conveyor 65 and / or by a support pad 66.
  • the speed ratio v.3: v.1 (web speed to feed speed) behaves like d: (1 + q).
  • the speed v.2 (peripheral speed of the acceleration rollers) is at least as large as v.3. This ensures that a foremost object in the supply stream is completely separated therefrom before a subsequent object enters the area of action of the accelerator 51, and also ensures that the accelerated object can be safely positioned on the web of packaging material. Positioning in the illustrated case is assisted by the force of gravity pushing the objects against the web of packaging material. It may additionally be assisted by a positioning tool 55 acting on each repositioned object 1 by pressing it against the web of packaging material.
  • the positioning aid 55 is, for example, an auxiliary roller 55.1, which is arranged on a pivotable (double arrow B) lever 55.2 freely rotating so that it rolls on the packaging material web or on the objects positioned thereon and thereby at least by their weight or by the force of a correspondingly arranged spring is pressed against the bottom.
  • the auxiliary roller 55.1 can also be driven at the web speed v.3.
  • the distance r between the acceleration means 51 and the positioning aid 55 is approximately the same size as the length 1 of the objects.
  • the distance r for adjusting the device to different object lengths 1 is adjustable, for example by shifting the pivot lever 55.2 (double arrow C).
  • Both the acceleration rollers 51.1. and 51.2 as well as the auxiliary roller 55.1 may each be formed as a roll, wherein they have axial lengths which are about as large as the width of the objects to be packaged 1.
  • they are each as a plurality of coaxial, transversely displaceable to the web direction Partial roles designed such that they can be positioned adapted to different formats and shapes of objects to be packaged. This can be prevented, for example, that the rollers act on folding edges of such objects and damage them.
  • Such an embodiment of the acceleration and auxiliary rollers is from the FIG. 2 can be seen, in each of which two acceleration sub-rollers and three auxiliary sub-rollers are shown.
  • FIGS. 4 and 5 show two further embodiments of the separation of the objects 1 from the top of the feed stream 3 and their positioning on the packaging material web 2 to create the series 4 on this path. These embodiments differ from the embodiment according to FIGS. 1 to 3 in particular by differently configured positioning aids 55.
  • FIG. 4 shows a positioning means 55 in the form of an advantageously at the speed v.3 (web speed) driven auxiliary belt 55.3, which like the auxiliary roller 55.1 of FIG. 3 , Can also be configured as a plurality of transversely movable to the web direction subbands.
  • FIG. 5 shows as a positioning aid 55 acting from above on the positioned objects 1 cam conveyor 55.4 with cam 55.5.
  • the cams are spaced from each other on a conveying member, wherein the distance of the cams from each other is the same size as 1 + q. They are driven at web speed v.3 and are synchronized with the feed stream 3 so as to act in an aligning manner on the leading edge of the objects 1 positioned on the web of packaging material.
  • the cams 55.5 are advantageously in the same way as the Auxiliary roller according to FIG. 3 and the hip band according to FIG. 4 designed as parallel-acting part cam.
  • FIGS. 4 and 5 illustrated embodiments of the inventive method Another difference between those in the FIGS. 4 and 5 illustrated embodiments of the inventive method consists in the feed stream 3.
  • the feed stream 3 according to FIG. 4 is a simple scale flow of individual, flat objects, there is the supply current according FIG. 5 again from superimposed partial streams.
  • These are not like in FIG. 3 all scale flows but consist partly of successively promoted, flat objects, which obviously have a length in the conveying direction, which is not as large as the distances of the objects (groups of one object from each partial flow) from each other.
  • FIG. 6 shows very schematically a further exemplary embodiment of the singulation of the objects 1 to be packaged, supplied in the feed stream 3 by acceleration and their positioning on the packaging material web 2.
  • the feed stream 3 in this embodiment is a gripper stream, which from the top against the in the web direction moving packaging material web 2 is guided and deflected over this.
  • each object 1 is conveyed by a gripper 90 and the distances between the grippers 90 are smaller than the object lengths in the case of a straight conveying path.
  • the grippers 90 are arranged on a conveying member, for example on a gripper chain (dash-dotted line 91) such that they are accelerated in the provided as acceleration 51 deflection such that they reach the web speed v.3, and their distance to 1 + q enlarged. That is, the grippers 90 and those of them held objects 1 in the deflection successively accelerated from v.1 to v.3 and thereby isolated, in which state they are stored by controlled, serial opening of the gripper 90 on the passing under the deflection packaging material web 2.
  • the grippers 90 may be arranged instead of on a conveying member also to corresponding, independently conveyable conveying elements, in which case the dotted line 91 of FIG. 6 be understood as a rail for the conveying elements and the deflection, for example, as a clock wheel. In this case, the grippers 90 are arranged in the same way by the conveying elements, as is the case for a corresponding conveying member.
  • the projection of the gripper and / or the deflection geometry (deflection radius, deflection angle) is set up adjustable.
  • FIG. 6 shows that it is possible with the shown feeding, singulation and positioning to make the device even more compact than according to FIGS. 1 to 5 , Especially when instead of the distribution of the packaging material web 2 from above another such web 2 'from a further supply roll 61' is supplied.
  • a deflecting roller deflecting the additional packaging material web in the web direction can simultaneously function as a positioning aid 55.
  • FIG. 7 shows a further embodiment of the separation of flat objects to be packaged 1 and their positioning, in which case the packaging material web 2 in the area of action of the acceleration means 51 from above deflected in the web direction and the objects 1 under the packaging material web 2, that is, between the packaging material web 2 and the support conveyor 65 are positioned. Also in this case, a positioning tool 55 can be used.
  • the transfer of the packaging material web 2 arranged above the row 4 about the row 4 is known from the prior art and will therefore not be further described here.

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  1. Procède pour l'emballage d'objets plats (1), dans lequel les objets plats (1) sont transportés en file (4) les uns derrière les autres et à distance les uns des autres sur ou une bande quasi sans fin de matériau d'emballage (2) dans un sens de la bande, dans lequel la bande de matériau d'emballage (2) est posée autour de la file (4) ou une autre bande de matériau d'emballage (2') est posée sur ou sous la file (4) et dans lequel doivent être créées sur la file (4) transportée ainsi recouverte des deux côtés de matériau d'emballage au moins une soudure longitudinale et des soudures transversales entre deux objets (1) se suivant dans la file (4), de telle sorte que les objets plats (1) soient renfermé de toutes parts par le matériau d'emballage, caractérisé en ce que les objets (1) sont amenés dans un flux d'alimentation (3) dans lequel les distances entre les objets (d) sont plus petites que la longueur (1) dans le sens de la bande des objets (1) transportés dan la file (4), et en ce que les objets (1) sont séparés l'un après l'autre à partir d'une extrémité avant du flux d'alimentation (3) par une accélération et positionnés l'un après l'autre directement sur ou sous la bande de matériau d'emballage (2), de telle sorte que la file (4) soit créée directement sur ou sous la bande de matériau d'emballage (2).
  2. Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que le flux d'alimentation (3) reçoit un flux en écailles amené sensiblement dans le sens de la bande, dans lequel les objets sont amenés posés et se chevauchant sur une surface de transport (30), en ce que les objets (1) sont accélérés dans le sens de la bande pour être séparés, en ce que la bande de matériau d'emballage (2) est amenée par dessous dans la zone de séparation et déviée dans le sens de la bande, et en ce que les objets (1) sont poussés sur la bande de matériau d'emballage (2) déviée.
  3. Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que le flux d'alimentation (3) est un flux en écailles amené sensiblement dans le sens de la bande, dans lequel les objets sont amenés posés et se chevauchant sur une surface de transport (30), en ce que les objets (1) sont accélérés dans le sens de la bande pour être séparés, en ce que la bande de matériau d'emballage (2) est amenée par dessus dans la zone de séparation et déviée dans le sens de la bande, et en ce que les objets (1) sont poussés entre la bande de matériau d'emballage (2) et un convoyeur de soutien (65).
  4. Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que le flux d'alimentation (3) est un flux de pinces dans lequel les objets (1) sont retenus chacun par une pince (90) et amenés en se chevauchant et par dessus vers la bande de matériau d'emballage (2), en ce que le flux de pinces est dévié au-dessus de la bande de matériau d'emballage (2) se déplaçant dans le sens de la bande de sorte que les objets (1) sont accélérés, et en ce que les objets (1) sont déposés dans la déviation, par l'ouverture des pinces (90), sur la bande de matériau d'emballage (2).
  5. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 1 à 4, caractérisé en ce que chaque objet plat (1) est un produit imprimé ou une disposition en forme de pile d'une pluralité d'objets plats dont une partie au moins sont des produits imprimés.
  6. Procédé selon la revendication 5, caractérisé en ce que les dispositions en forme de piles sont disposées en se chevauchant dans le flux d'alimentation (3) ou en ce que le flux d'alimentation (3) se compose d'une pluralité de flux en écailles superposés.
  7. Installation pour l'emballage d'objets plats (1) à l'aide d'une bande de matériau d'emballage (2) quasi sans fin, laquelle installation comprend un premier dispositif (5) pour créer un alignement (4) d'objets (1), alignement dans lequel les objets sont disposés les uns derrière les autres et à distance les uns des autres, ainsi qu'un deuxième dispositif (6) destiné à amener la bande de matériau d'emballage (2) et à transporter la bande de matériau d'emballage (2) en même temps que la file (4) dans une direction de la bande, un troisième dispositif (7) pour faire passer la bande de matériau d'emballage (2) autour de la file (4) ou pour amener une autre bande de matériau d'emballage (2') et un quatrième dispositif (8) pour le soudage et éventuellement la séparation des objets emballés (1') les uns des autres, caractérisée en ce que le premier dispositif (5) est précédé d'un moyen d'alimentation avec lequel un flux d'alimentation (3) peut être amené, dans lequel les distances entre les objets (d) sont plus petites que la longueur (1) des objets dans le sens de la bande, en ce que le premier dispositif (5) présente un moyen d'accélération (51), lequel moyen d'accélération (51) est conçu et disposé pour accélérer l'objet se trouvant le plus en avant dans le flux d'alimentation (3) et en ce que le moyen d'accélération (51) est en outre conçu et disposé pour positionner directement chaque objet (1) accéléré sur ou sous la bande de matériau d'emballage (2).
  8. Dispositif selon la revendication 7, caractérisée en ce que pour soutenir la bande de matériau d'emballage (2) et les objets (1) positionnés sur ou sous celle-ci, il est prévu un convoyeur de soutien (65) et/ou un support de soutien (66).
  9. Installation selon la revendication 7 ou 8, caractérisée en ce que le moyen d'alimentation est une surface de transport (30) orientée sensiblement dans le sens de la bande pour amener un flux en écailles, en ce que le moyen d'accélération (51) est conçu pour accélérer les objets dans le sens de la bande et en ce que le deuxième dispositif (6) présente un moyen de déviation (64) conçu pour dévier la bande de matériau d'emballage (2) par dessus ou par dessous dans le sens de la bande et disposé en aval immédiatement après le moyen d'accélération (51).
  10. Installation selon la revendication 9, caractérisée en ce que le moyen d'accélération (51) comprend une paire de rouleaux d'accélération supérieur et inférieur (51,1, 51.2) ou de bandes d'accélération supérieure et inférieure ou de pignons à cames supérieur et inférieur, les rouleaux ou bandes d'accélération ou les pignons à cames pouvant être pressés les uns contre les autres et au moins un des rouleaux ou bandes d'accélération ou un des pignons à cames pouvant être entraîné.
  11. Installation selon la revendication 10, caractérisée en ce que les rouleaux d'accélération (51.1, 51.2) ou bandes d'accélération ou pignons à cames se composent d'une pluralité de parties de rouleau ou parties de bande ou parties de pignon à cames disposés de façon coaxiale et perpendiculairement au sens de la bande.
  12. Installation selon la revendication 7 ou 8, caractérisée en ce que le moyen d'alimentation est un convoyeur à pinces avec des pinces (90) disposées sur un organe de transport (91) ou sur des éléments de transport pouvant être transportés indépendamment les uns des autres, et en ce que le moyen d'accélération (51) est une déviation du convoyeur à pinces, chaque pince étant conçue pour transporter en le retenant un objet (1) à la fois et le convoyeur à pinces étant disposé de façon à mener par dessus vers la bande de matériau d'emballage (2) se déplaçant dans le sens de la bande et la déviation étant disposée au-dessus de la bande de matériau d'emballage (2), et en ce qu'est prévu au niveau de la déviation un moyen de commande qui est conçu pour l'ouverture successive des pinces (90).
  13. Installation selon l'une des revendications 7 à 12, caractérisée en ce que le premier dispositif (5) présente en outre un moyen d'aide au positionnement (55) qui est disposé et conçu de façon à presser chaque objet (1) situé sur ou sous la bande de matériau d'emballage (2) contre celle-ci.
  14. Installation selon la revendication 13, caractérisée en ce que l'aide au positionnement (55) est un rouleau auxiliaire (55.1) disposé sur un levier pivotant (55.2), qui est disposé pour rouler sur la bande de matériau d'emballage (2) ou sur les objets (1) disposés sur celle-ci et les presser au moins par son poids contre celle-ci, le rouleau auxiliaire (55.1) pouvant tourner librement ou étant entraîné à la même vitesse que la bande de matériau d'emballage (2).
  15. Installation selon la revendication 13, caractérisée en ce que l'aide au positionnement (55) est une bande auxiliaire (55.3) qui est entrainée à la même vitesse que la bande de matériau d'emballage (2) et qui est disposée de façon à agir par dessus sur la bande de matériau d'emballage (2) ou sur les objets positionnés sur celle-ci.
  16. Installation selon la revendication 13, caractérisée en ce que l'aide au positionnement (55) est un convoyeur à cames (55.4) avec des cames (55.5), lequel convoyeur à cames (55.4) est disposé de telle manière que les cames (55.5) soient disposées en vue d'agir par dessus sur le bord avant des objets (1) positionnés sur la bande de matériau d'emballage (2).
  17. Installation selon l'une des revendications 14 à 16, caractérisée en ce que le rouleau auxiliaire (55.1), la bande auxiliaire (55.3) ou les cames (55.5) sont conçus comme une pluralité de parties de rouleau, de parties de bande ou de parties de came déplaçables perpendiculairement au sens de la bande.
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