EP1762525A1 - Dispositif pour pour collationner ou assembler des imprimés - Google Patents

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EP1762525A1
EP1762525A1 EP05405536A EP05405536A EP1762525A1 EP 1762525 A1 EP1762525 A1 EP 1762525A1 EP 05405536 A EP05405536 A EP 05405536A EP 05405536 A EP05405536 A EP 05405536A EP 1762525 A1 EP1762525 A1 EP 1762525A1
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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
    • B65H39/00—Associating, collating, or gathering articles or webs
    • B65H39/02—Associating,collating or gathering articles from several sources
    • B65H39/04—Associating,collating or gathering articles from several sources from piles
    • B65H39/043—Associating,collating or gathering articles from several sources from piles the piles being disposed in juxtaposed carriers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H39/00—Associating, collating, or gathering articles or webs
    • B65H39/02—Associating,collating or gathering articles from several sources
    • B65H39/04—Associating,collating or gathering articles from several sources from piles
    • B65H39/055—Associating,collating or gathering articles from several sources from piles by collecting in juxtaposed carriers
    • 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
    • B65H2301/43—Gathering; Associating; Assembling
    • B65H2301/435—Gathering; Associating; Assembling on collecting conveyor
    • B65H2301/4351—Gathering; Associating; Assembling on collecting conveyor receiving articles astride thereon
    • 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
    • B65H2301/43—Gathering; Associating; Assembling
    • B65H2301/435—Gathering; Associating; Assembling on collecting conveyor
    • B65H2301/4352—Gathering; Associating; Assembling on collecting conveyor with pushers, e.g. the articles being substantially horizontal

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  • the invention relates to a device for collating or collecting printed products and / or inserts, with a forming a conveyor line working strand of a rotating, with it at regular intervals fastened drivers formed traction means of a conveyor and arranged along the conveyor line isochronously driven feeders, at least differ by supplying different printed products and are connected by a respective drive device to the conveyor.
  • Collecting devices of the type mentioned are used in print finishing for collecting printed products, such as printed sheets, cards, CD / DVD-ROM or other sheet products to loose material compositions.
  • Collection means are collating machines, saddle stitchers and inserting machines.
  • feeding devices which are each fed with a variety of printed products to be collected.
  • the transport of the material compositions within the conveyor line is carried out by means of attached to a circumferentially driven traction means drivers.
  • the conveying direction of the collecting device can be longitudinal or transverse to the direction of the back.
  • the design of the support means along the conveyor line depends on the particular application.
  • the support means is L-shaped and consists of an approximately vertical guide wall, against which the printed products abut with their backs and an inclined towards the guide wall bottom part.
  • drivers or stops are provided, according to which the printed products are aligned.
  • the sheet compositions are aligned on the back and in the back longitudinal direction.
  • a device according to the prior art is for example in the CH 446 269 disclosed.
  • driver At a circumferentially driven traction means fixed at equal intervals driver together form a conveyor which pushes the material compositions through the conveyor channel. The material combinations are aligned in the conveying direction exactly after the driver pushing them.
  • Print products for saddle stitching are collected on a roof-shaped support astride resting and must be opened individually centrally before depositing on the conveyor. Its position transversely to the conveying device is defined by the tip of the roof-shaped support and a stop or catch in the back longitudinal direction.
  • the drive of the conveyor takes place isochronous to the subsequent processing machine in the conveying direction, for example, an adhesive binder or saddle stitcher. This can be done by a synchronized with the subsequent processing machine running, controlled electric motor or mechanically by coupling to the central drive of the subsequent processing machine.
  • the feeders are driven individually, in groups or centrally. In order for the supplied printed products to be deposited on the material compilations at the correct location, the drives of the feed devices to the conveyor device must run synchronized. Depending on the drive type of the feeders, this is done by a mechanical coupling or motor drive by a drive control.
  • a disadvantage of devices according to the prior art is that the drives of the feeders and the conveyor are rigidly coupled together.
  • the invention has for its object to promote the last supplied printed product in the conveying direction precisely aligned with the uppermost printed product of the underlying material composition.
  • the object is achieved according to the invention in that the conveying device and at least one feeding device are driven separately, that a first measuring device is provided for detecting the position of a printed product transported on a conveying section of the conveying path, and a second measuring device is provided for determining the position of a further printed product located on the feeding conveyor. which are connected to a computable control device.
  • the collecting devices 1 shown in FIGS. 1 and 4 essentially consist of a conveying path 27 and feed devices 26, which are arranged along the conveying path 27.
  • the conveyor line 27 has support means 39 (not shown in FIG. 1) on which material assemblies 23 of printed products 3 and supplements 33 are formed and displaced in the conveying direction F, and a working belt 37 of a conveying device 6 circulating traction means 4, at which at regular intervals driver 5 are attached, the receiving points 25 for the material compositions 23 form.
  • printing products 3 or inserts 33 are supplied by feeding devices 26, wherein each conveying section 35 is assigned at least one feeding device 26.
  • the collecting device 1 of FIG. 4 could be used, for example, for collecting material compositions 23 are used for a perfect binder and the collecting device 1 of FIG. 4 for a saddle stitcher.
  • the various printed products 3 are stacked on one another in a channel by the feed devices 26 arranged along the conveying path 27, so that complete material combinations 23 are available at the end of the conveying path 27.
  • the printed products 3 in the opened state are collected astride on a roof-shaped support formed by support means 39.
  • the traction means 4 is driven by means of a drive device 7, for example a motor.
  • the feed devices 26 are formed by feeders 2, which singulate the printed products 3 from stacks and deliver them to feed conveyors 28, by means of which the printed products 3 are placed with exact position on the forming material assemblies 23.
  • Feeder 2 are known in the art in various embodiments. In the figures, the investors 2 are shown as a drum feeder. The lowest printed product 3 resp. The bottom shim 33 of a stack are thereby partially separated from the stack by means of suction means and subsequently detected by grippers arranged on the drums 32, transported away from the stack and delivered to a feed line 43 designed as a feed conveyor 28.
  • a circulating upper belt 30 and a lower belt 31 cooperating therewith, between which the printed products 3 are conveyed in a force-fit manner, are suitable as feed conveyors 28.
  • a glue application head 18 which applies glue to each adherend 33 to be glued.
  • the glue could also be applied to the uppermost printed product 3 of the material combination 23 with which the insert 33 is to be glued prior to merging.
  • a gluing can be positioned against each other inserts 33 and
  • Each feeder 26 has its own variable speed drive 29, which drives at least the feed conveyor 28 and in a preferred embodiment also the feeder 2.
  • the variable speed drive 29 is formed by a motor 8 with position sensor 10 and a servo control 9, which are connected to each other via a return 11 and a power supply 12.
  • the variable speed drive 29 could also be formed by a stepper motor and a stepper motor controller, in which case the position sensor 10 and the feedback 11 could be dispensed with.
  • Drive systems are also known in which the position of the rotor can be determined directly by the servo control 9, with which the Position sensor 10 may also be omitted. Another conceivable solution is to use a linear motor as motor 8.
  • the servo control 9 is connected to a control device 13, from which it continuously receives at least the desired values 14 of the position of the drive and returns the actual values 15 to the control device 13.
  • the control device 13 is connected via the signal line Feintakt 19 at least one Feintakt sensor 17 of a position measuring system 16.
  • the functions of the control device 13 and the servo control 9 can be combined in a single device. However, this does not change the previously described procedures and functions.
  • position sensors 22 for the measurement of the position, at least of the uppermost printed product 3 of a material composition 23 and position sensors 24 for the measurement of the position of the supplied printed product 3 or Supplement 33 provided.
  • the control device 13 calculates the expected relative position (actual position value a) of the printed product 3 or insert 33 to the uppermost printed product 3 of the material combination 23.
  • the position sensor 21 the position of the driver 5, to which the uppermost printed product 3 of a material composition 23 is applied.
  • control drives 29 thus run as a slave position-controlled according to the drive device 7 of the conveying device 6, which forms the master.
  • Such systems are known by the term "electrical wave".
  • reference clocks can be generated at the feed devices 26 and the conveyor device 6 and transmitted by the signal line 20 of the reference clock of the conveying device 6 and the signal line 42 of the reference clock of the feeder 26 to the control device 13.
  • the reference clocks are each once per machine cycle by the reference clock sensor 40 of the conveyor 6 and reference clock sensors 41 of the feeders 26 generates. The timing within a machine cycle is defined by mechanical settings.
  • an alternative collecting device 1 is shown, as used for example for feeding a stapler 38 of a saddle stitcher.
  • the functioning The drives are identical to those in a gathering machine for an adhesive binder.
  • the main difference is that the printed products 3 in the saddle stitching in the open state on a roof-shaped conveying path 27 are placed astride and collected in this way.

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EP05405536A EP1762525B2 (fr) 2005-09-12 2005-09-12 Dispositif pour collationner ou assembler des imprimés
DE502005007197T DE502005007197D1 (de) 2005-09-12 2005-09-12 Einrichtung für das Zusammentragen bzw. Sammeln von Druckprodukten
JP2006247362A JP5265861B2 (ja) 2005-09-12 2006-09-12 印刷物を丁合あるいは集積するための装置
US11/519,218 US7891648B2 (en) 2005-09-12 2006-09-12 Apparatus for gathering and/or assembling print products

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