EP1878680A2 - Dispositif et procédé de maniement de feuilles - Google Patents

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EP1878680A2
EP1878680A2 EP07100381A EP07100381A EP1878680A2 EP 1878680 A2 EP1878680 A2 EP 1878680A2 EP 07100381 A EP07100381 A EP 07100381A EP 07100381 A EP07100381 A EP 07100381A EP 1878680 A2 EP1878680 A2 EP 1878680A2
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Francesco Valentinis
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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
    • B65H35/00—Delivering articles from cutting or line-perforating machines; Article or web delivery apparatus incorporating cutting or line-perforating devices, e.g. adhesive tape dispensers
    • B65H35/02—Delivering articles from cutting or line-perforating machines; Article or web delivery apparatus incorporating cutting or line-perforating devices, e.g. adhesive tape dispensers from or with longitudinal slitters or perforators
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J11/00—Devices or arrangements  of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
    • B41J11/66—Applications of cutting devices
    • B41J11/70—Applications of cutting devices cutting perpendicular to the direction of paper feed
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J13/00—Devices or arrangements of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, specially adapted for supporting or handling copy material in short lengths, e.g. sheets
    • B41J13/10—Sheet holders, retainers, movable guides, or stationary guides
    • B41J13/106—Sheet holders, retainers, movable guides, or stationary guides for the sheet output section
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J3/00—Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed
    • B41J3/44—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms having dual functions or combined with, or coupled to, apparatus performing other functions
    • 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
    • B65H29/50—Piling apparatus of which the discharge point moves in accordance with the height to the pile
    • B65H29/51—Piling apparatus of which the discharge point moves in accordance with the height to the pile piling by collecting on the periphery of cylinders
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H35/00—Delivering articles from cutting or line-perforating machines; Article or web delivery apparatus incorporating cutting or line-perforating devices, e.g. adhesive tape dispensers
    • B65H35/04—Delivering articles from cutting or line-perforating machines; Article or web delivery apparatus incorporating cutting or line-perforating devices, e.g. adhesive tape dispensers from or with transverse cutters or perforators
    • 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
    • B65H39/10—Associating articles from a single source, to form, e.g. a writing-pad
    • 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
    • B65H5/06—Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines by rollers or balls, e.g. between rollers
    • B65H5/062—Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines by rollers or balls, e.g. between rollers between rollers or balls
    • 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
    • B65H2301/431—Features with regard to the collection, nature, sequence and/or the making thereof
    • B65H2301/4312—Gathering material delivered from a digital printing machine
    • 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
    • B65H2301/431—Features with regard to the collection, nature, sequence and/or the making thereof
    • B65H2301/4314—Making packets of bundles of banknotes or the like in correct sequence
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2404/00—Parts for transporting or guiding the handled material
    • B65H2404/10—Rollers
    • B65H2404/15—Roller assembly, particular roller arrangement
    • B65H2404/153—Arrangements of rollers facing a transport surface
    • B65H2404/1531—Arrangements of rollers facing a transport surface the transport surface being a cylinder
    • 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
    • B65H2701/1912—Banknotes, bills and cheques or the like

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  • This invention relates to a device and process for handling printed sheets leaving digital sheet printers, able to be directly connected in line with the printer to obtain an integrated system for printing sheets of various formats containing several single-page or multiple-page documents, and their conversion into documents by cutting them transversely to the sheet movement direction and by other operations subsequent to the transverse cut.
  • the sheets generated by the printers may have different formats and contain texts and images which constitute the pages of one or more documents, which are made of a fixed or variable number of pages.
  • the handling device and process are applicable both to digital sheet printers in which the paper moves from right to left in the printer and to digital sheet printers in which the paper moves from left to right in the printer.
  • printers having high printing speed (for example for printing the pay envelopes usually in A4 format) which print A4 format sheets for generating A4 format documents though they have printers and printing methods which allow two A4 format documents to be printed on A3 format sheets, because there are no devices integrated with the printers able to convert A3 format sheets into A4 format documents, while maintaining the integrity of the single document and the sequence in which the printed documents were printed.
  • the industrial printer producers charge the printer users a fixed amount (independently of the printed format) proportional to the number of printed sheets.
  • ITM12004A001540 of the same applicant discloses a device and a process allowing the wished documents to be simultaneously printed on one single sheet and then to cut the sheet in two portions to get documents made of one single sheet or more than one sheet which are stacked maintaining the sequence in which they were printed.
  • This device and process disclose to collect and stack the documents (i.e. the cut sheets) in vertical (i.e. laid at one of their bottom or upper border but, in every case, not at one of its faces).
  • the technical aim of the present invention is therefore to provide a device and process which overcome the aforesaid drawbacks of the prior art.
  • an object of the invention is to provide a device connectable directly to digital sheet printers upstream and to other devices and/or machines downstream of the device itself, to allow post-print operations and processes which are very flexible while at the same time enabling the digital sheet printers to totally utilize their printing versatility towards a plurality of applications in the most varied sectors in which digital sheet printing is used.
  • the sheets being handled can be cut in various ways for their conversion into documents (of A4 or other than A4 format) or the cutting step can be bypassed and the documents (i.e. the cut sheets) be collected differently according to specific requirements.
  • the documents are collected in piles, the flow of these document piles being adaptable to the characteristics of the printer (which for example may not be able to accommodate frequent successive stoppages and starts) and/or to the specific needs of the downstream machines or processes which, for example, may require the sheets to be fed in a specific direction or in a predetermined manner.
  • the device 1 comprises a printer connection module for transporting sheets 3 with registration 2, which receives said sheets 3 from an industrial digital sheet printer 4 and feeds them to a cutter 5 (for example of rectilinear blade and counter-blade type with electronically controlled reciprocating movement) which transversely cuts (at 90° to the direction in which the sheets originating from the printer move) the sheets 3 and generates two or more documents 3a, 3b (in this description the term "document” means any sheet part which is cut, such documents 3a, 3b being able to be combined to generate complex documents comprising a plurality of pages).
  • a printer connection module for transporting sheets 3 with registration 2, which receives said sheets 3 from an industrial digital sheet printer 4 and feeds them to a cutter 5 (for example of rectilinear blade and counter-blade type with electronically controlled reciprocating movement) which transversely cuts (at 90° to the direction in which the sheets originating from the printer move) the sheets 3 and generates two or more documents 3a, 3b (in this description the term "document” means any sheet part
  • the documents 3a, 3b are fed to a receiver 7 which receives them, stacks them while maintaining their print sequence and transfers them to a discharge device 8; the receiver is directly connectable in line to the printer, such that documents are printed by the printer and are subsequently handled while maintaining the sequence in which they were printed.
  • the receiver 7 stacks the documents 3a, 3b horizontally face to face and maintained in the sequence in which they were printed; this is shown in Figure 5 which shows three piles 9 of documents.
  • the cutter 5 cuts the sheets 3 into two or more parts to form documents 3a, 3b of equal or different dimensions; in particular, Figure 1 shows an embodiment in which each sheet 3 is cut to form two equal documents 3a, 3b.
  • the documents can be stacked into a single pile 9 ( Figure 1), however in other examples the receiver 7 is arranged to stack the documents into two or more piles 9.
  • the documents 3a are all stacked into a first pile and the documents 3b are all stacked into a second pile or, alternatively, the documents 3a and 3b are all superposed into a single pile then, when this has reached the set limit, all the parts 3a, 3b are stacked into another pile.
  • the discharge device 8 is arranged to feed the document piles in a direction aligned to the direction in which the documents 3 advance during processing or, alternatively, in a direction inclined, preferably by 90°, to the direction in which they advance during processing; this is shown by the arrow F of Figure 6.
  • the device 1 comprises control means 11 interfaced with the printer 4 positioned upstream of the printer connection module for transport with registration 2; these control means 11 implement the offset function in the receiver 7 as shown in Figure 2, in addition to controlling devices of the printer and of the device 1 to facilitate restoration of the automatic cycle after possible errors in both machines and to ensure integrity of the converted documents.
  • the piles of superposed documents 3a, 3b can also be fed automatically to a finishing machine 10 to implement an automatic document forming system which starting with blank or pre-printed documents enables printed documents possibly composed of several bound pages to be obtained.
  • a conveyor is preferably provided downstream of the device 1 (after cutting by the cutter 5) to feed an automatic booklet former of type CEM series CSG ( Figure 7).
  • the device 1 can also comprise a trimming device 13 with one or more pairs of circular blades, to longitudinally trim the documents 3a, 3b already cut by the cutter 5; this trimming device 13 is interposed between the cutter 5 and the receiver 7.
  • the device 1 comprises a longitudinal cutting device 15 for example of circular blade type, to cut the documents 3a, 3b along a longitudinal direction (in the direction in which the sheets move through the printer); the longitudinal cutting device 15 is also positioned between the cutter 5 and the receiver 7.
  • a longitudinal cutting device 15 for example of circular blade type, to cut the documents 3a, 3b along a longitudinal direction (in the direction in which the sheets move through the printer); the longitudinal cutting device 15 is also positioned between the cutter 5 and the receiver 7.
  • This embodiment is particularly suitable for satisfying book-on-demand requirements.
  • a member for intercepting and discarding defective sheets is also suitably provided (not shown), to ensure the quality of the documents produced; this device is of a type known to the expert of the art.
  • the member is integrated into the device 1 and is positioned between the exit of the cutter 5 and the receiver 7 and comprises an intermediate collection station enabling the converted documents to be accumulated during pile discharge and offset in order not to have to temporarily halt the printer, hence allowing uninterrupted operation.
  • the control means 11 control the device operation and are arranged to implement bypassing of the cutter 5 (to enable the sheets 3 to pass through the cutter without being cut into parts of smaller dimensions) and to implement bypassing of stacking by an additional conveyor device. Alternatively these uncut sheets can be fed to the stacking system by the already described methods.
  • the control means 11 enable the device to receive commands from the printer 4 and to feed the printer 4 with data enabling the device and printer to operate in a coherent manner, including the error situations which can arise in both machines.
  • the control means 11 can also be provided with systems for sensing control codes printed on the sheets by the printer to enable control and/or mechanical operations on the documents to be carried out.
  • the printer 4 prints the desired information on the sheets 3.
  • the sheets are of A3 dimensions, the information being printed (by the digital sheet printer) on each half of the A3 sheet.
  • the sheets 3 are then fed, by the printer connection module for transport with registration 2, to the cutter 5 which transversely cuts the A3 sheets into two A4 sheets which are stacked by the receiver 7.
  • Stacking can take place by one of the previously indicated methods.
  • the longitudinal cutting device 15 is also operated and the documents 3a, 3b are further cut longitudinally to obtain documents of the desired format.
  • the present invention also relates to a sheet handling process consisting of cutting the sheets 3 to separate documents 3a, 3b, collecting the cut documents 3a, 3b and making them available for subsequent processing by directly feeding the papers from a printer to an device in line to said printer, such that documents are printed by the printer and are subsequently handled while maintaining the sequence in which they were printed.
  • the documents 3a, 3b are collected by stacking them horizontally face to face while maintaining the print sequence, with continuous production of complex documents.
  • the sheets are divided into two or more documents of equal or different dimensions and are stacked into a number of piles.
  • each of the documents 3a, 3b is stacked on a different pile.
  • This enables reduced dimension documents to be printed, such as cheques or other documents, on sheets which can contain two columns of them, each column containing multiple names.
  • two document piles are created, one for each of the two print columns, the documents of each pile being grouped on the basis of identical multiple names by the offset function, ready to pass to the subsequent post-print operations.
  • a typical example is the processing of cheques or other documents to be formed into booklets by finishing machines not integrated with printers.
  • the documents 3a, 3b are stacked by implementing the offset function. This can also be done by adjusting the spread set for the documents (i.e. the dimension d) in accordance with preset parameters and in relation to the printer commands related to the sheets being printed.
  • the cutting step can be bypassed, to obtain at discharge not only documents with smaller dimensions than those of the initial sheets because they have been converted into documents of the required dimensions, but also documents with the initial dimensions.
  • the stacking operation can also be bypassed, both for sheets on which the conversion cut is not made and also for documents resulting from conversion by single or multiple cutting of the printed sheets.
  • This enables sheets or documents to be fed to other post-print handling systems integrated with the printer while maintaining the device of the invention interposed and operating, ready at any moment to easily pass to other applications for which its main functions are required.
  • the conversion cutting bypass and the stacking bypass functions if associated with a configuration of the conveying device by which the document piles are conveyed in a direction at 90° to the paper flow, give an exceptional degree of flexibility and versatility to an automatic post-print finishing system completely integrated with the printers.
  • Figures 8A-8F show a further example of implementation of the process of the invention particularly suitable for satisfying the book-on-demand market, in which runs of even a single title (i.e. a single volume) are printed in digital format.
  • piles can be formed consisting of a single complex document (book or volume), to satisfy the book-on-demand sector for one-off books.
  • runs subsequent to the first can be produced, each consisting of a single complex document (evidently, this is also true for the first run); in other words, those runs subsequent to the first (and also the first run) can comprise even a single volume or book.
  • printing is carried out such that the document J (i.e. page J) is superposed on the other documents to form the Jth document (i.e. the Jth page) of the complex document (i.e. the book or volume).
  • the document J i.e. page J
  • the Jth document i.e. the Jth page
  • the complex document i.e. the book or volume
  • the device is provided with a storage element arranged to store the documents cut and to make them allowable when required by the complex document to be realised.
  • the storage element is particularly useful when a number of documents (such as checks) are printed by a digital sheet printer on one and the same page; in these cases, the documents (checks) are printed usually in two columns and afterwards each document is separated from the others by cutting and is stacked.
  • Digital sheet printers are able to print documents in a fast fashion only if the documents which are printed have similar features, for example each page should contain only checks.
  • a checks booklet may be provided with a front page, nine checks, a document for requesting a new check booklet and a further last check; finally the check booklet may be provided with a rear page.
  • the device of the invention is provided with the storage element 50.
  • the storage element 50 has a closed circular path 51 and is arranged to receive and store documents and to release them on request on a conveyor 63.
  • the circular path 51 is defined by couples of rollers 52, 53 placed in circle (in order to define the circular path 51) and by curvilinear guides 55, 56 (shaped like sectors of circles) that are placed between laterally adjacent rollers.
  • figures 11 and 12 show that between the adjacent rollers 52A-52B and 53A-53B there is respectively provided a guide 55 and 56.
  • the rollers are rotatable and are activated by a motor 57 through a belt 58 and idle rollers 59.
  • the guides 55, 56 have dimension such that a document inserted in the storage element 50 is always gripped at least between a couple of rollers 52, 53.
  • the storage element 50 comprises means for catching in or discharge documents from it.
  • the catching/discharging means comprise (in the embodiment shown) one pivotable guide 61 (hinged in 60) arranged to be brought into a catching position (shown in figures 9, 9A) in which a document 62 is caught by the storage element 50, a discharge position (shown in figures 10, 10A) in which a document 62 is discharged by the storage element 50.
  • rollers 52, 53 are preferably activated at the same velocity of the conveyor 63, i.e. the periphery of each roller 52, 53 has the same velocity of the conveyor 63.
  • pivotable guide 61 is arranged to be brought into a by-pass position (shown in figures 11, 11A).
  • the guide 61 allows the documents stored in the storage element 50 to circulate within it and, during such movement, the documents are not caught or discharged.
  • This allows the documents within the storage element 50 to change their position within it so as to bring a particular document in a particular position; for example (see figure 11) a document 62A a may be brought in the position occupied by the document 62B in order to make it ready to be discharged or may be moved to free a portion of the storage element 50 to receive a further document.
  • the rollers 52, 53 may rotate at a velocity independent of the velocity of the conveyor 63 (i.e. the rollers 52, 53 may be faster than the conveyor 63).
  • the by-pass position allows a document 62 moving on the conveyor 63 to overcome the storage element 50 without being caught by it.
  • the device and process of the invention are particularly advantageous because they enable documents to be formed in a vary flexible and economically convenient manner, even for very small print runs.
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GB2022060A (en) * 1978-05-30 1979-12-12 Bell & Howell Co Document sequencer
FR2537113A1 (fr) * 1982-12-06 1984-06-08 Lefevre Jean Marie Sequenceur feuille a feuille
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