EP1979256A1 - Dispositif de rassemblement d'objets plats et de transport des objets rassembles - Google Patents

Dispositif de rassemblement d'objets plats et de transport des objets rassembles

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EP1979256A1
EP1979256A1 EP07700124A EP07700124A EP1979256A1 EP 1979256 A1 EP1979256 A1 EP 1979256A1 EP 07700124 A EP07700124 A EP 07700124A EP 07700124 A EP07700124 A EP 07700124A EP 1979256 A1 EP1979256 A1 EP 1979256A1
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Werner Honegger
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Ferag AG
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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
    • B65H39/055—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
    • B65H2301/4353—Gathering; Associating; Assembling on collecting conveyor with compartments, e.g. the articles being substantially horizontal in each compartment
    • 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
    • B65H2301/437—Repairing a faulty collection due to, e.g. misfeed, multiplefeed
    • 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
    • B65H2301/447—Moving, forwarding, guiding material transferring material between transport devices
    • B65H2301/4471—Grippers, e.g. moved in paths enclosing an area
    • B65H2301/44712—Grippers, e.g. moved in paths enclosing an area carried by chains or bands

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  • the invention is in the field of general cargo processing and relates to a device according to the preamble of the independent claim.
  • the device is used to collate flat objects and to convey the articles further, the flat objects being in particular printed products.
  • the skilled person understands the stacking of different printed products into stacks, wherein the same printed products usually lie in the same order in all the stacks, but the stacks may also differ from each other, if individual printed products are missing from individual stacks.
  • the printed products are, for example, individual, unfolded or folded sheets or multiply folded signatures and the printed products compiled into a stack differ from each other in terms of their printed content, but may additionally differ in their shape.
  • Devices for collecting printed products have a plurality of feeding units and a collating means.
  • Each feeder unit is equipped to feed one type of printing product to the collator and the collator is equipped for the production of Stack from the supplied printed products.
  • the feed unit outputs directed against the collating means are arranged substantially one after the other in a row and the collator means comprises a number of compartments for receiving the printed products fed, the row of feeder outlets being parallel to the row of compartments.
  • one compartment each is aligned with one feed outlet each.
  • the collating means is equipped for conveying the supplied printed products in a collating direction directed parallel to the two said rows.
  • the feed units are, for example, feeders, winding stations or on-line connections with devices in which the printed products to be assembled are created or processed.
  • the compartments are stationary during the feeding steps and the printed products are pushed or thrown from the side into the compartments aligned with the feeder outlets. Between successive feed steps, the printed products with the compartments in the collation direction are shifted by the distance between successive feeders (or by an integer book portion of that distance) such that the compartments aligned with the feed outlets are replaced by successive compartments.
  • the compartments of such devices are usually arranged such that the printed products lie horizontally therein. In the publication US-2561070 such a device is described, whose compartments have a corner which is lower than the other three corners, such that the printed products deposited therein are aligned by gravity at this one corner.
  • Collapsing devices are also known whose compartments always remain stationary.
  • the printed products fed to the sections are pushed through the following compartments between feed steps by means of a slider in the gathering direction from the compartment to which they are fed until all the printed products fed in the previous feeding step are in a compartment which is in front of the compartment front feed exit is arranged.
  • the printed products pushed from compartment to compartment to be neatly stacked in such a device, it is necessary for the printed products in the gathering direction to be inclined, that is to say the trays of the compartments are arranged correspondingly obliquely.
  • Collapsing devices with the described completely stationary compartments with trays inclined in the collating direction are described, for example, in the publications US Pat. No. 1861406, GB-1444487 or EP-0292458.
  • Collapsing devices with compartments moving essentially continuously in the collating direction do not have the disadvantages mentioned.
  • the printed products For trouble-free feeding of the printed products to continuously moving compartments, however, the printed products must be substantially rectified with the gathering direction and precisely synchronized with the compartments pushed or thrown into the compartments, and their speed is adapted to the conveying speed of the compartments.
  • the gathering means known such devices for example, a conveyor belt with transversely and optionally - A -
  • each two adjacent transverse walls define a compartment.
  • the supplied printed products are stacked lying on the conveyor belt.
  • Other known collating devices with continuously conveyed compartments have V- or L-shaped compartments in which the supplied printed products stand on one edge and lean against a wall leading or trailing in the collating direction.
  • V- or L-shaped compartments can be conveyed much closer one behind the other, so that significantly less conveying speeds are necessary for the same unit performance.
  • the printed products in these compartments stand on one edge and automatically remain aligned relative to this edge by the action of gravity.
  • the openings of the compartments are significantly narrower and a relevant higher accuracy in feeding necessary, not only so that the most unguided leading edge of a supplied printed product meets the department opening at all, but in particular so that this leading edge securely at upper edges of already stacked in the compartment products can be passed over.
  • high feed accuracy limits the conveying speed and thus the piece performance of the appropriately equipped collating devices.
  • the compartments are also equipped with retaining means, are pressed by the already stacked products against one wall and thus can not come into conflict with a further supplied printed product. Such measures make the compartments complex and complex in terms of equipment and control.
  • the object of the invention is now to provide a continuously operable device for collating flat objects, in particular printed products, and for conveying the collated objects or printed products, the device being able to be realized with the simplest means. Nevertheless, the device should be suitable for high unit performance and enable a further promotion of the collected printed products without significant restrictions and a simple transfer to a subsequent funding.
  • the device according to the invention like known collating devices, has a plurality of compartments which are essentially continuously and circulatingly driven, part of the circulating track being designed as a feed region, that is to say running parallel to a row of feed outlets.
  • the compartments of the device according to the invention combine the advantages of the compartments of known continuously operating collating devices, in which the flat ones Objects are stacked lying down, with the advantages of such compartments in which the flat objects are stacked standing on an edge, and they are by an appropriate design and control for further promotion with gradients, gradients and / or directional changes and for easy removal of the therein assembled, flat objects equipped.
  • the circumferentially driven compartments of the device according to the invention have a bottom on which the supplied printed products are stacked lying, and at least one wall (transverse wall). Further, they are so coupled to a conveyor (eg conveyor chain) that they are pivotable about at least one pivot axis transverse to the conveying direction and they advantageously have control means by means of which they can be brought into different pivotal positions during their rotation relative to the conveyor or relative to the orbit are. At least in the feed area, the compartments are aligned such that the at least one. Transverse wall is aligned transversely to the conveying direction and that the compartment floors are inclined in the conveying direction against this transverse wall. Transverse to the conveying direction, the compartment floors, for example, aligned substantially horizontally.
  • compartments are conveyed in the said spatial position substantially one behind the other (optionally with a small overlap of less than 10%) through the feed area, so that their openings for feeding without great effort to be stacked in the compartments objects are large enough and fed Objects are aligned by gravity on the transverse wall.
  • the compartments are pivotable, for example, about a substantially horizontal pivot axis relative to the conveyor or relative to the orbit, wherein the pivot axis is for example in the region of the intersection of compartment floor and transverse wall.
  • the compartments can be pivotable about a substantially vertical pivot axis relative to the conveyor or to the orbit, so that the transverse wall is aligned transversely to the conveying direction and advancing or trailing in the promotion by the supply area and that, for example, in a further promotion of the spatial orientation the transverse wall remains the same, even if the floor plan of the orbit has changes in direction, or the spatial orientation of the transverse wall can be changed, even if the floor plan of the orbit has no direction changes.
  • the control of said pivotability of the compartments of the device according to the invention is realized, for example, with control rollers which are arranged on the compartments and which roll on stationary scenes.
  • control rollers which are arranged on the compartments and which roll on stationary scenes.
  • the compartments are advantageously narrower than the flat objects to be handled and / or have gaps extending in the conveying direction, so that means for removing the stacked printed products from the compartments laterally from the compartments and / or through the gaps from below onto the objects act and these can stand out from the compartment floors.
  • the angle of inclination of the compartment floors in the feed area is as small as possible so that the opening of the compartments remains large.
  • the angle of inclination is so great too Select that gravity at least supports the orientation of the supplied printed products.
  • the angle of inclination of the compartments in the feed region is between 10 ° and 45 °, advantageously between 10 ° and 20 °.
  • the inclination angle of the compartment floors can be adjusted in the feed area by a corresponding adjustment also to the friction coefficient and the weight of the flat objects to be handled.
  • the device according to the invention is particularly suitable for the collation of very different, flat objects, of which at least a part are printed products, for example for the production of groups of such objects as shipping units.
  • groups often comprise a newspaper or magazine (main product) as well as a wide variety of supplements, such as folded or unfolded sheets, cards, booklets, brochures, CDs, flat samples or small pieces of paper affixed to one of the other items (Mesomick®) or Cards.
  • Figure 1 is a very schematic representation of an exemplary embodiment of the inventive device in which the compartments are pivotable about a substantially horizontal pivot axis bar;
  • Figure 2 shows the compartments of the device according to Figure 1 in a larger
  • FIG. 3 shows a very schematic illustration of an exemplary control of the compartments of the device according to FIGS. 1 and 2 for the purposes of the invention. maintaining their spatial position in case of further promotion with a changing gradient;
  • Figures 4 and 5 are examples of means for removing the stacked printed products from the compartments of the apparatus according to Figures 1 and 2;
  • FIG. 6 shows a plan view of the feed region and a further conveying region of a device according to the invention with compartments which are pivotable about a substantially vertical pivot axis;
  • FIGS. 7 and 8 show an advantageous embodiment of the compartments for the device according to the invention.
  • FIGS. 7 and 8 show a deflection of the compartments according to FIGS. 7 and 8.
  • Figure 10 shows an exemplary application of the inventive device.
  • FIG. 1 shows, in a very schematic manner, an exemplary embodiment of the device according to the invention, seen from the side.
  • the device comprises on an orbit 1 (dash-dotted line) substantially continuously circulating compartments 2, which have at least in a feed region 5 (in the upper part of the orbit) in the direction of rotation inclined towards the front bottom 3 and a leading transverse wall 4.
  • the orbit 1 runs in the feed region 5 parallel to a row of outlets 6 of feed units 7 (only partially shown), with the aid of which rectified and synchronized printed products 10 are fed to the compartments 2 from above and with the circulation direction of the compartments 2 (collating direction) become.
  • the feed is advantageously controlled such that the leading edge of the supplied Printed products on a leading portion of the compartment or the already stacked in the compartment printed products or on the transverse wall 4 and that the speed of the impinging printed product is slightly greater than the speed of the compartments 2, such that the supplied printed product against the transverse wall 4 of the compartment 2, thereby aligning with previously or subsequently fed printed products and remaining aligned by gravity.
  • the compartments 2 are coupled to a conveyor (e.g., conveyor chain or pair of conveyor chains) so as to be pivotable about a substantially horizontal pivot axis relative to the conveyor or relative to the orbit 1.
  • a conveyor e.g., conveyor chain or pair of conveyor chains
  • the compartments 2 are held with the printed products 10 stacked therein in the same spatial position, characterized in that they relative to the conveyor or to Orbit be swiveled accordingly.
  • the angle of inclination of the compartments always remains the same.
  • the spatial position or the angle of inclination of the compartments is not relevant, unless individual stacks, for example due to imperfection in the removal area 15, are not removed from their compartment and must be returned. In such a case, it is advantageous if the spatial position of the compartments 2 is maintained in the return region 25 or in parts thereof, as shown in FIG. Obviously, the compartment 3 floors after the deflection in the return area 25 inclined backwards and the transverse wall 4 is trailing.
  • the compartments 2 of the device according to the invention are arranged, for example, on a conveyor chain circulating on the circulating track 1 (not shown) or on a pair of such conveyor chains, wherein they have regular intervals from one another.
  • the compartments may also be coupled to loosely interconnected or independent conveyor elements which are movable along rails, such that the compartments may have different distances from each other in different areas of their orbit.
  • Compartments 2 which are conveyed at least to a limited extent independently can be conveyed, for example, through the feed area 5 with a maximum distance from one another (no or little overlapping of successive compartments with small angles of inclination), in the removal area 15 also at a great distance from one another and in the further conveying area 12 and in the Repatriation area 25, in particular if the orbit in these areas is increasing, with a significantly smaller distance from each other (highest possible overlap).
  • a rising or falling area of the orbit 1 is also suitable for buffering the compartments or for unladen compartments (return area) a horizontal area in which the compartments have a large angle of inclination and are thus conveyed at very small distances can.
  • the compartments 2 shown in Figure 1 have in the feed region 5 in the conveying direction against the front sloping compartment floors 3 and a leading transverse wall 4.
  • the bottom slope can also be directed towards the rear, in which case the compartments have a trailing transverse wall and the feed rate should be smaller than the conveying speed of the compartments 2, so that the compartments Obtain the product and push it against the trailing bulkhead and align it with it.
  • FIG. 2 shows in more detail the transition between the feed region 5 and the further conveying region 12 of the circulation path 1 of the compartments 2 of the device according to FIG. 1.
  • the compartments 2 are narrower than the printed products 10 which are supplied to the compartments 2, so that the printed products are bilateral can protrude above the compartment floor 3 and in this area by a removal means (not shown) can be raised.
  • gaps in the compartments 2 are also conceivable for the same purpose, that is, the compartments 2 consist of a plurality of spaced-apart in the conveying direction and thus forming a gap parts through which a removal means can act on the printed products 10 ,
  • FIG. 3 shows, in a very schematic manner, again the transition from the feed region 5 to the further conveying region 12 of the compartments 2 of the device according to FIG. 1, whereby in particular an exemplary control is illustrated with which the compartments 2 are independent of the course of the orbit 1 in the same spatial position be kept, they have in the feeding area 5.
  • the compartments 2 are mounted on a conveyor (not shown) such that they are pivotable relative to the leading edge of the compartment floor 3 (substantially horizontal pivot axis). Under the trailing portion of the bottom 3 control rollers 30 are arranged, which roll on a stationary backdrop (dash-dotted line 31) when the compartments 2 move along the orbit 1.
  • the distance between the link 31 and the conveying member or the orbit 1 is adapted to the incline of the orbit 1, that the inclination of the compartment floors 3, regardless of the inclination of the orbit remains constant.
  • the link 31 can be adjustable.
  • Figures 4 and 5 show two exemplary embodiments of removal areas 15 of the device according to Figures 1 and 2. In these removal areas 15 removal means 20 are arranged, with which the stacked in the compartments 2 printed products 10 are removed from the compartments 2. In both cases shown, the orbit 1 of the compartments 2 extends through the removal area 15 at a constant angle of inclination of the compartment floors down and the printed products are lifted by the removal means 20 from the compartment floors.
  • Figure 4 shows a removal means 20, which is formed as a plurality of parallel to each other circulating conveyor belt 21 (only one visible).
  • the beneficiaertrum the belt is substantially horizontal and intersects the downwardly leading orbit 1 of the compartments 2.
  • the conveyor belt 21 act laterally from the compartments 2 and / or gaps in the compartments 2.
  • the conveyed in the compartments 2 stack of printed products 10th are lifted one by one by the conveyor belt 21 from the compartment floor and transported on the conveyor belt successively.
  • the removal means 20 is a very schematically illustrated gripper conveyor 22 or a plurality of gripper conveyors.
  • the orbit 23 of the gripper conveyor 22 intersects the orbit 1 of the compartments 2 and the grippers 24 move laterally and / or in gaps of the compartments 2.
  • control means (not shown) are provided, with the help of which the gripper 24 where they are the orbit 1 of the compartments 2 cross, be closed.
  • the speeds of the compartments 2 and the gripper 24 are coordinated so that the stacks of printed products are pushed into the open grippers 24 before the grippers close and before the stack is lifted off the compartment floor.
  • FIG. 6 shows a further, exemplary embodiment of the device according to the invention as a plan view of a transition from the feed region 5 to a further conveying region 12.
  • the feed region 5 is also shown as a side view, from which it can be seen that the compartments 2 are conveyed through the feed region 5 in the same way , as shown in the preceding figures, ie with in the conveying direction against the front sloping compartment floors 3 and leading transverse wall. 4
  • the compartments are pivotable about a substantially vertical axis of rotation relative to the conveyor or to the orbit 1, so that they can maintain their spatial orientation when the direction changes in a horizontal plane, as shown in FIG. 6 for the continuation area 12. in which the conveying direction is rotated relative to the feed region 5 by 90 °.
  • the control of the compartments is also realized in this case in a conventional manner, for example with the help of mounted on the compartments tax rolls and corresponding stationary or adjustable scenes.
  • FIGS. 7 and 8 show an exemplary embodiment of the compartment 2 for the device according to the invention, as shown for example in FIGS. 1 and 2. - 5 -
  • the compartment 2 is shown in side view.
  • the compartment floor 3 consists of a plurality of bottom elements 3.1, which are connected by means of hinges 3.2 such that the bottom surface can be brought into a convex (upwardly bent) shape, but not in a concave (bent down) shape.
  • the transverse wall 4 is hingedly arranged on the bottom 3 and is held in its operative position by means of a return spring, not shown.
  • FIG. 9 shows a removal region 15 which is arranged in a deflection 32 of the circulation path 1 of the compartments 2.
  • the removal means 20 is a conveyor belt 33 which does not have to engage laterally or in gaps of the compartments 2 but simply adjoins the upper run of the compartment circulating track 1. Since the compartment floors 3 are bendable thanks to their hinges, the distance between compartment deflection 32 and removal means 20 can be very small, so that even stacks with little intrinsic rigidity can be safely removed.
  • FIG. 9 also shows how the hinges 3.2 can cooperate with corresponding recesses 3.5 of the deflecting wheel 35 for driving the compartments 2. ⁇
  • compartments shown in FIGS. 7 to 9 whose bottom surfaces can be brought into a convex shape, can also be used in very simple devices in which the compartments 2 are neither essentially horizontal nor substantially vertical pivot axis relative to the conveyor or the conveyor . Are pivotable to the orbit.
  • FIG. 10 shows an exemplary application of the device according to the invention.
  • the groups are, for example, ready to ship units, for example, each a newspaper or magazine optionally with inserts inserted therein as the main product and four other optional supplements such as printed Sheets, brochures, booklets, CDs, flat samples of goods or on such affixed labels (Me- mosick ®) or cards in the form of a stack.
  • Similar devices are used in a known manner as for the feeding of the other articles.
  • a device known per se with which an adhesive is applied or activated and with which the printed product to be stuck is pressed against the underlying object in the stack.
  • the device according to the invention has four feeders 40 as feed units and an on-line feed 41, which for example feeds the main product from a processing device 43 (eg insertion drum, collection drum, cutting machine) and represents the last feed unit in the collating direction ,
  • the illustrated investors 40 are arranged directly above the orbit of the compartments. However, the investors can also be arranged laterally from the orbit, wherein an example of a looped intermediate conveyor leads the isolated by the investor printed products on the compartments and emits in this.
  • a rising conveying area 12 is arranged between the feed units 40 and the on-line feeder 41.
  • the removal area 15 the collected objects in the manner shown in FIG. 4 are taken over by a plurality of conveyor belts.
  • the stacks are then held, for example, in a device 44 between two belts and positioned on a film web.
  • the film web is then hit around the successive stacks (impact area 45).
  • a vision white device 46 With the help of a vision white device 46, the wrapped around the stack sheet is welded longitudinally and transversely and divided across.
  • the individual packages resulting from the separation are then ordered into a scale flow (device 47), which is then taken over by a gripper conveyor 48.
  • the main product which optionally carries the address of the recipient of the finished package is, as shown in Figure 10, advantageously fed last and with the title page against the top so that it is clearly visible in the finished package. But it is also possible to supply the main product first and with the title page against the bottom, that is, to arrange the on-line feed in the conveying direction as the first feed unit.

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Abstract

L'invention concerne un dispositif dans lequel différents produits imprimés (10) sont apportés par des unités d'amenée (7) et sont rassemblés dans des compartiments (2), les compartiments (2) étant transportés essentiellement en continu devant les sorties d'amenée (6) disposées les unes derrière les autres en une rangée, un produit imprimé (10) étant délivré par chaque sortie d'amenée (6). Les compartiments (2) présentent un fond (3) et une paroi transversale (4), le fond (3) étant incliné dans la direction de transport au moins dans une zone d'amenée (5) du parcours périphérique (1) des compartiments (2) et la paroi transversale (4) étant située en avant ou en arrière en fonction de la direction d'inclinaison. Les compartiments (2) sont accouplés à un moyen de transport de telle sorte qu'ils peuvent pivoter autour d'un axe essentiellement horizontal et/ou d'un axe essentiellement vertical. Cela permet de conserver dans une zone de transport ultérieur (12), une zone de prélèvement (15) et/ou une zone de renvoi (25) avec des montées, des pentes et/ou un périmètre avec changements de direction l'angle d'inclinaison et/ou l'orientation dans l'espace que les compartiments ont dans la zone d'amenée.
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