EP1935643A1 - Verfahren zur Steuerung einer Rotationsdruckmaschine und Rotationsdruckmaschine - Google Patents

Verfahren zur Steuerung einer Rotationsdruckmaschine und Rotationsdruckmaschine Download PDF

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EP1935643A1
EP1935643A1 EP07291530A EP07291530A EP1935643A1 EP 1935643 A1 EP1935643 A1 EP 1935643A1 EP 07291530 A EP07291530 A EP 07291530A EP 07291530 A EP07291530 A EP 07291530A EP 1935643 A1 EP1935643 A1 EP 1935643A1
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Pascal Ollivier
Jean-Valère Holvët
François Vidaillac
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41F—PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES
    • B41F13/00—Common details of rotary presses or machines
    • B41F13/004—Electric or hydraulic features of drives
    • B41F13/0045—Electric driving devices
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41F—PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES
    • B41F33/00—Indicating, counting, warning, control or safety devices
    • B41F33/18—Web break detection
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41P—INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO PRINTING, LINING MACHINES, TYPEWRITERS, AND TO STAMPS
    • B41P2213/00—Arrangements for actuating or driving printing presses; Auxiliary devices or processes
    • B41P2213/70—Driving devices associated with particular installations or situations
    • B41P2213/73—Driving devices for multicolour presses
    • B41P2213/734—Driving devices for multicolour presses each printing unit being driven by its own electric motor, i.e. electric shaft
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41P—INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO PRINTING, LINING MACHINES, TYPEWRITERS, AND TO STAMPS
    • B41P2233/00—Arrangements for the operation of printing presses
    • B41P2233/20—Safety devices preventing damage
    • B41P2233/23—Safety devices preventing damage by preventing the web winding up around cylinders

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  • the present invention relates to a method for controlling a rotary press for printing a web of material, the press being of the type comprising printing units each having at least one impression and drive roll of the web , the press comprising at least one tape drive cylinder disposed downstream of the printing units in the running direction of the web.
  • a print tape travels in tension and at high speed on the printing and driving rolls and on the or each downstream driving roll.
  • the printing and driving rolls and the downstream driving rollers are in contact with the web and rotated so that they contribute to driving the web.
  • the printing and driving cylinders also print the tape by depositing ink thereon.
  • the tape In case of breaking of the web downstream of a printing unit, the tape loses its tension and tends to adhere to the printing cylinders of the printing unit, because of the ink which covers them.
  • the tape may wrap around one of the printing cylinders, which can very quickly cause damage to the printing unit due to tape layers accumulating in the print unit. 'impression.
  • An object of the invention is to limit the risk of damage to printing units in case of breakage of the band.
  • the subject of the invention is a method for controlling a rotary press of the aforementioned type, in which, in normal operation, said printing and driving rolls are driven and the or each downstream driving roll in a synchronized manner, and in case of breakage of the band, a differential braking step is performed for said printing and driving rolls and the or each downstream driving roll.
  • the invention also relates to a rotary press of the type comprising a plurality of printing units each having at least one printing unit comprising a printing cylinder and driving a tape to print, and a counter-cylinder -pressure for clamping a printing tape between the backpressure cylinder and the printing and driving cylinder, the press further comprising at least one tape drive cylinder disposed downstream of the printing units in the direction of travel of the web, characterized in that it comprises drive means for printing and driving cylinders and downstream drive cylinders, and control means adapted and programmed for implementation a control method as defined above.
  • the figure 1 illustrates a rotary press 2 for printing a strip 4 of material, for example a strip of paper.
  • the band 4 passes through the press 2, in tension and at high speed, following a path of movement, from left to right on the figure 1 , as illustrated by the arrow S.
  • upstream and downstream refer to the direction of travel of the web 4 in the press 2 along its path of travel.
  • the press 2 comprises a plurality of functional units, including, successively from upstream to downstream, a reeling unit 6, printing units U1, U2, U3 and U4, a drying unit 8, a unit 10 and a folding and / or receiving unit 12.
  • Units 8, 10 and 12 are optional.
  • the unwinding unit 6 makes it possible to unroll the strip 4 from a reel.
  • Each printing unit U1, U2, U3, U4 makes it possible to print the double-sided tape 4.
  • the drying unit 8 makes it possible to dry the strip 4 after it has been printed.
  • the cooling unit 10 is used to cool the strip 4 after drying.
  • the folding unit 12 makes it possible to fold the band 4, for example to form notebooks.
  • each printing unit U1, U2, U3 and U4 is double and comprises two printing groups 14 and 16 disposed on either side of the strip 4 for a double-sided printing thereof.
  • Each of the printing units 14 and 16 comprises a blanket printing cylinder 18, a plate cylinder 20, and an inking cylinder 22 of parallel axes.
  • each printing unit U1, U2, U3, U4 comprises a mechanism (not shown) for supporting and moving the cylinders 18, 20, 22 of the printing units 14 and 16 between a pressure configuration ( figure 2 ) and a pressure-free configuration ( figure 3 ).
  • the groups 14 and 16 are in pressure configuration.
  • the cylinder 22 deposits ink on one or more plate (s) carried (s) by the cylinder 20 and imposed according to the pattern to be printed, and the or each plate deposits the ink in the pattern determined on a blanket carried by the cylinder 18, which deposits the ink on one side of the strip 4.
  • the rolls 18 are spaced from each other by a gap e sufficient to allow the band 4 to pass, that is to say a gap e greater than the thickness of the band 4.
  • the pressure-free configuration makes it possible to intervene on the printing unit U1, U2, U3, U4 for maintenance operations, for example to change the plates, blankets or cylinders.
  • the cylinder 20 is spaced from the cylinder 18, and the cylinder 22 is spaced from the cylinder 20.
  • the cylinders 18 of the groups 14 and 16 are spaced apart but the cylinders 18, 20 and 22 of the same group 14, 16 are kept applied to each other.
  • the unwinding unit 6 has roll deflection cylinders 24 which are free to rotate.
  • the drying unit 8 comprises means for heating the strip 4 to dry the ink deposited on the strip 4.
  • the cooling unit 10 comprises rolls 26 for deflecting the band 4.
  • the folding unit 12 comprises, in the example illustrated, in a manner known per se a cone 28 for folding the band 4 for example along a longitudinal fold line.
  • the folding unit 12 comprises several pairs of cylinders 30, arranged upstream and downstream of the folding cone 28. The two cylinders 30 of each pair pinch the band 4 between them.
  • the units U1, U2, U3, U4, 10 and 12 have devices 32 for driving their cylinders 18, 26 and 30, each of these units having its own device 32.
  • Each device 32 comprises one or more motors.
  • the device 32 of each of the printing units U1, U2, U3 and U4 comprises a motor common to the two printing units 14 and 16, a motor for each printing unit 14 and 16, or a motor for each of the cylinders 18 and 20, and possibly 22.
  • the press 2 has a detection device 34 associated with each of the units U1, U2, U3, U4, 10, 12, and a central control system 36 for all of these units.
  • Each detection device 34 is able to emit a measurement signal representative of the angular position or the angular velocity of the cylinders 18, 26, 30 of the corresponding unit.
  • the control system 36 is connected to the detection devices 34 to receive the measurement signals emitted by them, and is connected to the drive devices 32 to send them control signals after processing of the measurement signals.
  • the rolls 18, 26 and 30 are in contact with the band 4 and rotated each by the device 32 of their unit U1, U2, U3, U4, 10, 12. These cylinders 18, 26 and 30 cause the strip 4 to move in the press 2.
  • the rotation of the rolls 18, 26 and 30 must be synchronized, on the one hand, to ensure the running of the strip 4 in tension between the different units of the press 2, and, on the other hand, to ensure the correct impression of the band 4, without offset between the images printed by the different printing units U1, U2, U3, U4.
  • control system 36 slaves the cylinders 18, 26 and 30 in angular position and / or in angular velocity and ensures their synchronized rotation.
  • the press 2 has detectors 38 breaking tape along the path of the strip 4.
  • the press 2 comprises for example a detector 38 between each pair of adjacent units.
  • the detectors 38 are detectors of a known type, and for example optical detectors capable of detecting a break in the band 4 by the modification of a light beam reflected by the band 4 or crossing the band 4 because of the loss. of tension of the band 4.
  • the band 4 tends to adhere to the cylinders 18 of this printing unit because of the ink which covers these cylinders 18.
  • the band 4 tends to curl on one of two.
  • press 2 In order to protect the printing units U1, U2, U3 and U4, in case of breakage of the belt 4, an emergency stop of the press 2 during which the drive rolls of the machine are braked is applied. press 2, for example by applying them a braking resisting torque using the motors of the driving devices 32.
  • the figure 4 is a graph representing the running speed (y-axis) of the drive rolls of the press 2, as a function of time (x-axis).
  • the speed of travel of a driving cylinder is the running speed applied by this drive cylinder to the belt 4, which is substantially equal to the product of the angular velocity of this cylinder by its radius.
  • an emergency stop step of the press 2 is implemented by braking the drive rolls of the press 2 by applying a braking torque using the motors of the devices 32.
  • the printing units 14, 16 of the printing units U1, U2, U3 and U4 are moved in an unpressurized configuration to disengage the cylinders 18 of the band 4.
  • a differential braking step of the drive rolls of the press 2 is implemented.
  • the rolls of the printing units U1, U2, U3 and U4 are slowed down, and in particular their rolls 18, faster than the drive rolls 26, 30 of the units 10, 12 arranged downstream of the printing units U1, U2, U3 and U4.
  • the cylinders 18 of the printing units U1, U2, U3 and U4 are stopped at the instant T2, before the driving rollers 26, 30 of the units 10, 12, which are stopped at a time T3.
  • the drive rolls of the printing units U1, U2, U3 and U4 are stopped in 3 seconds, while the drive rolls 26, 30 of the units 10, 12 are stopped in 10 seconds.
  • the faster braking of the rolls 18 makes it possible to limit a winding thickness of the strip 4 around these rolls 18, and consequently limits the risk of damage to these rolls 18 and the printing units U1, U2, U3 and U4.
  • the drive motors of the rolls 18 are generally dimensioned more strongly than the motors of the other drive rolls of the press 2, because of the greater resistant torques encountered by the rolls 18. The faster braking of the rolls 18 is therefore possible. without structural modifications of the press 2, and only by a modification of the programming of the emergency stop of the control system 36.
  • the cylinders 18 of the printing units U1, U2, U3 and U4 are slowed synchronously with each other, and stop at the same time T2.
  • the drive cylinders of the units 10 and 12 are also stopped in synchronism with each other, and stop at the same time T3.
  • a prior synchronized braking step is implemented, in which the rolls 18 of the printing units U1, U2, U3 and U4 and the rolls 26 are slowed down. , Units 10, 12 in a synchronized manner, while moving the printing units 14 and 16 of the printing units U1, U2, U3 and U4 in an off-press configuration.
  • the differential braking step is implemented as before, braking the rollers 18 more rapidly than the rolls 26 and 30.
  • the cylinders 18 stop at a time T5, before the cylinders 26, 30 which stop at time T3.
  • the prior step of synchronized braking avoids causing new breaks in the band 4 due to different slowdowns of the band 4 increasing the voltage in the band 4.
  • the differential braking stage begins as soon as the spacing between the cylinders 18 of each printing unit U1, U2, U3, U4 is greater than the thickness of the strip 4, without waiting to have reached the configuration off pressure.
  • the printing units 14 and 16 of the printing units U1, U2, U3 and U4 are maintained in pressure configuration, and the cylinders 18 of the units of the printing units are slowed down. printing U1, U2, U3 and U4 differentially.
  • the slowing speed of the printing units U1, U2, U3 and U4 is decreasing from upstream to downstream.
  • the tension of the web 4 is increased between each pair of adjacent printing units between which the web 4 is still stretched, which is the case if the breaking point of the web 4 is not between the two printing units of said pair.
  • a sufficient increase in the voltage makes it possible to break the band 4 again between the two adjacent printing units, which limits the length of band 4 that can be wound on the cylinders 18 of these printing units.
  • the band 4 will be broken due to the differential braking at three secondary breaking points between the units U1 and U2. units U2 and U3, and units U3 and U4.
  • the rolls of printing units U1, U2, U3 and U4 located upstream of the breaking point are braked faster than the rolls of printing units U1, U2, U3 and U4 located downstream of the point a break.
  • the cylinders of printing units U1, U2, U3 and U4 located upstream of the breaking point are slowed synchronously with each other, or differentially between them, according to the first variant.
  • the rolls of the printing units U1, U2, U3 and U4 located downstream of the breaking point are slowed down at the same speed or faster than the rolls of the press units 2 situated downstream of the printing units U1, U2 , U3 and U4.
  • a differential braking step according to the invention is implemented when a break in the band 4 is detected in the zone A, and the transmission is not implemented. differential braking step when a break is detected in zone B.
  • a differential braking step is implemented according to any one of the embodiments and any one of the variants described above.

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