EP1757450A2 - Machine d'impression de feuilles - Google Patents

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EP1757450A2
EP1757450A2 EP06015116A EP06015116A EP1757450A2 EP 1757450 A2 EP1757450 A2 EP 1757450A2 EP 06015116 A EP06015116 A EP 06015116A EP 06015116 A EP06015116 A EP 06015116A EP 1757450 A2 EP1757450 A2 EP 1757450A2
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Ulrich Beteil
Andreas Ihme
Alexander Klitza
Hansjörg Richter
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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
    • B65H5/00—Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41F—PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES
    • B41F23/00—Devices for treating the surfaces of sheets, webs, or other articles in connection with printing
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H11/00—Feed tables
    • B65H11/002—Feed tables incorporating transport belts
    • B65H11/005—Suction belts
    • 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
    • B65H29/66—Advancing articles in overlapping streams
    • B65H29/6609—Advancing articles in overlapping streams forming an overlapping stream
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H5/00—Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines
    • B65H5/24—Feeding articles in overlapping streams, i.e. by separation of articles from a 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
    • B65H2301/00—Handling processes for sheets or webs
    • B65H2301/40—Type of handling process
    • B65H2301/44—Moving, forwarding, guiding material
    • B65H2301/445—Moving, forwarding, guiding material stream of articles separated from each other
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2301/00—Handling processes for sheets or webs
    • B65H2301/50—Auxiliary process performed during handling process
    • B65H2301/51—Modifying a characteristic of handled material
    • B65H2301/513—Modifying electric properties
    • B65H2301/5132—Bringing electrostatic charge
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2406/00—Means using fluid
    • B65H2406/30—Suction means
    • B65H2406/32—Suction belts
    • B65H2406/323—Overhead suction belt, i.e. holding material against gravity
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2801/00—Application field
    • B65H2801/03—Image reproduction devices
    • B65H2801/21—Industrial-size printers, e.g. rotary printing press

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  • the invention relates to a sheet-fed printing machine according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • Sheet-fed presses are used for printing sheet-like printing materials, so-called printed sheets, whereby printed sheets to be printed are introduced into the printing process in the area of an investor and discharged from the printing process in the area of a delivery arm.
  • a delivery arm Between the feeder and the boom of the printing press several printing units and possibly coating units are positioned, wherein in each printing unit or coating unit a partial image in a special printing ink or in paint is applied to the substrate.
  • the printed sheets to be printed can be made of a variety of different materials. If print sheets designed as plastic films are to be printed, then it should be noted that in particular UV-curing printing inks or water-based printing inks adhere only very poorly to the printed sheet. This is especially the case when printing sheets from difficult to print substrates such as polypropylene (PP, HDPP, LDPP) or polyethylene (PE, HDPE, LDPE) to be printed.
  • PP, HDPP, LDPP polypropylene
  • PE polyethylene
  • HDPE high density polyethylene
  • LDPE polyethylene
  • these plastics are materials which, due to their production, have a low surface tension and / or a low polarity, which results in poor wetting of the printed sheets and / or adhesion of the printing ink when printing with UV-curable printing inks or water-based printing inks or varnishes.
  • corona treatment it is already known from the prior art to subject the printing materials to a so-called corona treatment.
  • the DE 102 32 255 A1 a device for treating the surfaces of printing substrates in printing machines, wherein the printing material is bombarded in the region of a corona electrode with electrons.
  • a printing cylinder on which the printing material is guided while moving past the corona electrode, serves as a counterelectrode, so that an electrical discharge, which is carried out between the corona electrode and the printing cylinder serving as the counterelectrode, takes place through the printing material.
  • the disclosed DE 20 2004 008 285 U1 a device for corona treatment of substrates, in which electrical discharges between electrodes and counter electrodes formed as nozzles takes place.
  • the electrodes and the counter electrodes formed as a nozzle are positioned on one side of a printing sheet to be treated.
  • the plasma generated during the electrical discharge is conducted by means of a gas, namely with the aid of compressed air, onto the surface of the printed sheet to be treated.
  • the devices known from the prior art for corona treatment of printed sheets have in common that can be subjected to the same sheet only on one side of a corona treatment. A two-sided and full-surface corona treatment of printing sheet to be printed is not possible with the arrangements known from the prior art.
  • the present invention is based on the problem to provide a novel sheet-fed printing machine.
  • This problem is solved by a sheet-fed printing machine according to claim 1.
  • the sheet-fed printing press which is preferably designed for perfecting, is characterized by the following features: a) the feeder is designed as a single-sheet feeder which separates the signature lifted from the feeder stack in such a way that it is downstream in the area of a feeder sheet the single sheet feeder arranged conveyor table can be conveyed without overlap; b) the conveyor table comprises at least two conveying systems arranged one behind the other in the conveying direction of the printed sheets, wherein a plurality of corona treatment devices are arranged in the region of the conveyor table are by means of which the sheets are subjected to top and bottom of a full-surface corona treatment; c) seen in the conveying direction of the sheet is downstream of the conveyor table a Unterschupp liked positioned, which generates a soup stream of partially overlapping sheet from the conveyance in the region of the conveyor table convey
  • printed sheets outside the area of the printing units or coating units of the sheet-fed printing machine downstream of the feeder and upstream of the first printing unit or coating unit can be subjected to corona treatment on both sides and over the entire surface.
  • the investor is designed as a single-sheet feeder, so that the raised from the Anlegstapel sheet can be transported in the region of the single sheet feeder downstream conveyor table overlapping.
  • several corona treatment devices are arranged, by means of which the separated printed sheets are subjected to corona treatment on both sides and over the entire surface.
  • a Unterschupp wisdom is provided, which combines the corona-treated sheet to a scale flow, which is fed via the arranged downstream of the undershoot feed table to a first printing unit or coating unit of the sheet-fed press.
  • the fact that the corona treatment takes place outside the printing units or coating units no structural changes to the printing units or coating units are required.
  • a particularly effective corona treatment of printing sheet to be printed immediately before the actual printing of the same is possible, namely inline in the sheet-fed press or inline to the printing process.
  • Fig. 1 shows a section of a trained for perfecting sheetfed printing machine according to the invention according to a first embodiment of the invention in the region of an investor 10, in which to be printed sheets in the form of a Anlegstapels 11 are kept ready.
  • the printed sheets are removed from the feed stack 11 and lifted and moved to print them in the direction of a printing unit 12 of the sheet-fed press, wherein the printing unit 12 may comprise a plurality of printing units 13 and optionally coating units.
  • the print sheets to be printed are printed sheets of a material which has a low surface tension and / or a low polarity as a result of the production, then the printing ink or the paint adheres and / or adheres insufficiently to the printed sheet during printing of the printed sheet.
  • the sheets are subjected before printing a corona treatment.
  • the feeder 10 is designed as a single-sheet feeder.
  • the single-sheet feeder 10 lifts from the feed stack 11 to be printed sheets 14 and separated the sheet 14 such that the sheet 14 in the region of a in the conveying direction (see directional arrow 15) same seen downstream of the sheet feeder 10 arranged conveyor table 16 can be transported without overlap.
  • the conveyor table 16 has at least two in the conveying direction (direction arrow 15) of the printed sheet arranged successively and transversely to the conveying direction of the printing sheet offset conveyor systems 17 and 18, wherein the conveyor systems 17 and 18 of the conveyor table 16 in the illustrated embodiment of two mutually parallel suction belts 19th or 20 are formed.
  • the suction belts 19 and 20 touch the printed sheets 14 during transport of the same along the conveyor table 16 in the region of an underside thereof, but not in the region of an upper side of the printed sheets 14.
  • the printed sheets 14 which are transported without overlap in the region of the conveyor table 16 are subjected to corona treatment on both sides as well as on the entire surface by means of corona treatment devices 21, 22 and 23 arranged in the region of the conveyor table 16.
  • corona treatment devices 21, 22 and 23 arranged in the region of the conveyor table 16.
  • the printed sheets 14 transported without overlap do not come into contact with the conveying systems in the area of the upper side, only one corona treatment device 21 is required, which is arranged above the conveyor table 16.
  • two corona treatment devices 22 and 23 are required, with a corona treatment device 22 being arranged in the region of the conveyor system 17 and the other corona treatment device 23 in the region of the conveyor system 18.
  • a Unterschupp driven 24 is arranged downstream of the conveyor table 16.
  • an imbricated stream 25 of printed sheets 14 is produced from the printed sheets 14 transported without overlap in the region of the conveyor table 16, this shingled stream 25 being fed to the printing unit 12 of the sheet-fed printing press according to the invention by means of a feed table 26.
  • the undershoot device 24 generates a shingle stream 25 of overlapped printed sheets 14 from the printed sheets 14 transported without overlap in the region of the conveyor table 16, the undershoot device 24 comprising a sheet lifting device which lifts the printed sheets in the region of the underside means 24 at the trailing edge thereof.
  • a subsequent signature transported at a higher speed relative to the trailing edge raised signature in the area of the undersize means 24 can be slid with a leading edge under the raised trailing edge of the preceding signature.
  • the scale flow 25 is generated from the overlapless transported sheet 14.
  • Fig. 3 shows a second embodiment of a sheet-fed press according to the invention, wherein the same reference numerals are used to avoid unnecessary repetition for the same components and will be discussed below only on the details by which the embodiment of Fig. 3 differs from the embodiment of FIG.
  • the conveyor table 16 in the region of which the printed sheets 14 are conveyed without overlapping, again comprises two conveyor systems 17 and 18.
  • the conveyor systems 17 and 18 of the embodiment of FIG. 3 are formed by preferably format-wide suction belts 27 and 28, wherein the printed sheets 14 in the region of the suction belt 27 of the conveyor system 18 at an underside thereof and in the region of the suction belt 28 of the conveyor system 17 at an upper side thereof during transport along the conveyor table 16 are taken.
  • two corona treatment devices 29 and 30 are then present for double-sided as well as full-surface corona treatment of the printed sheet 14, namely a corona treatment device 29 in the region of the conveyor system 18 and a corona treatment device 30 in the region of the conveyor system 17 of the conveyor table 16.
  • the corona treatment device 29, which in the region of Conveyor system 18 is arranged, the full-surface corona treatment is an upper surface of the sheet 14 and is therefore arranged above the conveyor table 16.
  • the corona treatment device 30, which is arranged in the region of the conveyor system 17 and serves for the full surface corona treatment of the underside of the printed sheets 14, is positioned below the conveyor table 16.
  • the suction belts 27 and 28 have a format width and are therefore adapted to the format of the printed sheets 14, whereby in particular on the conveyor system 17, in the region of which the printed sheets are recorded on the upper side, the sheets are applied flatly 14 is ensured on the suction belt 28 of the conveyor system 17. As a result, a uniform distance to the corona treatment device 30 is maintained over the entire format width of the printed sheet.
  • the embodiment of FIG. 3 has over the embodiment of FIG. 1 has the advantage that in the corona treatment of the underside of the sheet 14, the distance between the sheet 14 and the corona treatment device is lower, so that the corona treatment device are then operated at a lower power can.
  • the two-sided and full-surface corona treatment of printing sheet to be printed outside the printing units or coating units of a sheet-fed press do not have to be in a spatially narrow area in a printing unit the printing press are integrated. In this respect, there are no spatial restrictions for corona treatment.
  • the corona treatment takes place inline to the printing process.
  • the single sheet feeder, the conveyor table and the Unterschupp coupled is mounted on a rail system, so that the entire unit of sheet feeder, conveyor table and Unterschupp coupled, if no corona treatment of the sheet is required, can be removed from the investor area of the sheet-fed press.

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