EP2017209B1 - Method and device for transferring printing products in shingled formation to an endless conveyor carrying grippers - Google Patents

Method and device for transferring printing products in shingled formation to an endless conveyor carrying grippers Download PDF

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EP2017209B1
EP2017209B1 EP07405209A EP07405209A EP2017209B1 EP 2017209 B1 EP2017209 B1 EP 2017209B1 EP 07405209 A EP07405209 A EP 07405209A EP 07405209 A EP07405209 A EP 07405209A EP 2017209 B1 EP2017209 B1 EP 2017209B1
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Rolf Meyerhans
Ueli Mattmann
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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
    • B65H29/00—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles
    • B65H29/66—Advancing articles in overlapping streams
    • B65H29/669—Advancing articles in overlapping streams ending 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
    • B65H29/00—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles
    • B65H29/003—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles by grippers
    • 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
    • B65H29/38—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles by movable piling or advancing arms, frames, plates, or like members with which the articles are maintained in face contact
    • B65H29/40—Members rotated about an axis perpendicular to direction of article movement, e.g. star-wheels formed by S-shaped members
    • 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
    • B65H5/08—Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines by grippers, e.g. suction grippers
    • B65H5/085—Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines by grippers, e.g. suction grippers by combinations of endless conveyors and grippers
    • 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
    • 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
    • B65H2404/60—Other elements in face contact with handled material
    • B65H2404/67—Other elements in face contact with handled material rotating around an axis parallel to face of material and parallel to transport direction
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2405/00—Parts for holding the handled material
    • B65H2405/50—Gripping means
    • B65H2405/58—Means for achieving gripping/releasing operation
    • B65H2405/583—Details of gripper orientation
    • B65H2405/5831—Gripping mouth orientated in direction of gripper displacement

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  • the invention relates to a method for transferring printed products that are skimmed in a flow stream to a conveyor of circulating clamps.
  • the object of the invention is to provide a method for the transfer of supplied printed products to a transporter, which is based on a simpler and more reliable principle.
  • this object is achieved in that the printed products projecting in the conveying direction each with a leading end of a trailing printing product in a transfer area of the conveying stream and the same in the same direction transporter along a side edge in the flow from below and lifted at the trailing end of a printed product be detected by a higher transport speed driven open clamp of the transporter, clamped and further promoted.
  • the EP 0 551 601 A discloses a method and a device for bringing preferably folded printed products to a further processing point, wherein the supplied printed products before being taken by a second conveyor successively inserted below in an intermediate stack and each detected the top printed product of the intermediate stack of a sucker and through this in the delivery area of the second conveyor is brought.
  • the EP 0 368 009 A describes a method and a device for conveying printed products, in which or with which supplied in different formations printed products isolated or in formations in which in each case only a single printed product rests on the other, can be further promoted.
  • the conveying speeds of the conveyors and removal conveyor and the operating speeds of the Aufwölbe coupled with respect to the frequency of the supplied printed products and the formation to be formed must be coordinated so that only a single abutting at the stop printed product and detected by the removal conveyor or fed to this.
  • An apparatus according to the invention for transferring printed products that are skimmed in a flow to a conveyor with peripheral clamps is characterized in that the printed products protruding in each case with a leading end of a trailing printing product, transported in grippers of a conveyor in a through the scaly flow and the transfer area formed above with a higher transport speed transporter disposed on both sides of the flow on the in the conveying direction the subsequent printed products each protruding printed products along the side edges from below acting lifting device.
  • Fig. 1 1 shows a device 1 for transferring printed products 3, which are skimmed in a delivery stream 2, to a conveyor 4 with circulating clamps 5.
  • the delivery flow 2 has an imbricated formation, in each of which the leading end of a printed product 3, the front end of a trailing printing product 3 protrudes in the conveying direction F, wherein the printed products 3 are clamped to the leading open or folded edge in grippers 6 of a conveyor 7.
  • the grippers 6 are attached, for example, to a dash-dotted line, circulating traction means 9 and pass in the transfer area 8, a stationary control member (not visible), which opens the gripper 6 and the printed products 3 of the latter triggers.
  • the lifting device 12 consists of a plurality of the flow 2 in the transfer area 8 on both sides of the side edges approximately perpendicular or in a direction slightly inclined in the conveying direction F the flow 2 of the printed products 3 passing through blades 13 which are driven circumferentially, so that they reach front side end of a printed product 3, which slides during lifting each over a blade 13.
  • the blades 13 are unilaterally connected, for example, with a longitudinal end with a rotating blade carrier 14, as a wheel or as in the Fig. 1 to 3 represented as a circumferential belt, chain or the like. May be formed.
  • the blades 14 may be plate or tabular formations, their connection to the blade carrier 14 may be formed as a hinge, whereby the blades 13 can be controlled in terms of their location.
  • the control of the blades 13 may preferably be effected by a stationary control cam, which by means of lever mechanism (not shown) with the blades 13 in operative connection can be brought (see Fig. 3 ).
  • the arrangement of the lifting devices 12 to the flow 2 is provided so that an orbital path 15 of the blades 13 has an upwardly directed to the flow 2 out section or lifting section 16.
  • the figures show that the blades 13 with respect to their location, especially in the transfer area 8 are controllable, so that the printed products 3 are treated gently, the blades 13 are approximately up to the brackets 5 of the transporter 4 resp. the grippers 6 of the conveyor 7 may extend so that the printed products 3 easily slide over during lifting.
  • the lifting device 12 can-like Fig. 2 shows- to optimize the conditions and due to the course of the conveyor 4 and the conveyor 7 occupy an inclined position in the transfer area, wherein the angle of the stapling device 12 to the flow 2, respectively. Feed flow to the scale formation, the format of the continuous printing products 3 or other conditions can be adjusted.
  • a print assembly 3 is arranged on the open staples 5 aligning guide assembly 17 in cooperation with the open staples 5 of the transporter 4, which is opposed to the grippers 6 Conveying direction F extending printing products 3 in a position that keeps them from those with higher Speed as the gripper 6 of the conveyor 7 led out, open brackets 5 of the transporter 4 can be taken from behind.
  • the guide assembly 17 consists, for example, as shown, of a rigid or elastic strip 18, which leads the sheet 3 to the rear edge 19 and is then released, so that the rear edge 19 device in the Klammerö Stamms Society 19, where the printed product 3 then from the Clamp 5 is detected.
  • the action of the lifting device 12 occurs after a printed sheet 3 has left the guide assembly 17.
  • these can each be adjusted with respect to their functional task resp. adjust, i. the speeds of feed dog 4 and conveyor 5, the position of the guide assembly 17 and the lifting device 12 can be changed by a motor or manually.

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The method involves conveying a shingled flow (2) with circulating clamps (5) of a conveyor such that printed products (3) are projected with leading ends over a front end of a following printed product. The products are lifted up from below along a side of the shingled flow in a transfer region (8), and a transporter (4) is positioned to move at similar speed and in similar direction as the conveyor. A trailing end of the products is gripped by the opened clamp of the transporter, and the printed products are transported. An independent claim is also included for a device for transferring printed products conveyed in a shingled flow, where the printed products are projected with a leading end over a front end of a following printed product in a conveying direction.

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Die Erfindung betrifft ein Verfahren zur Ueberführung von in einem Förderstrom geschuppt geführten Druckprodukten an einen Transporteur umlaufender Klammern.The invention relates to a method for transferring printed products that are skimmed in a flow stream to a conveyor of circulating clamps.

Bei einem Verfahren nach der EP 0 481 914 A1 werden Druckprodukte von einer Schuppenformation in Klammern eines Transporteurs aufgenommen und in hängender Form weitergefördert, wo auf einem Abschnitt einer Förderstrecke Führungselemente in den Förderstrom der hängenden Druckprodukte eingeführt und in Förderrichtung mitbewegt werden, wobei die Führungselemente die Druckprodukte über mindestens einen Teil des Abschnittes derart führen, dass sie an mindestens einer Stelle eine definierte, stabile, von der Fördergeschwindigkeit unabhängige Lage haben.In a method according to the EP 0 481 914 A1 printed products are received by an imbricated formation in parentheses of a transporter and conveyed in a hanging form, where on a section of a conveyor guide elements are introduced into the flow of the hanging printed products and moved in the conveying direction, wherein the guide elements guide the printed products over at least a portion of the section such that they have at least one location a defined, stable, independent of the conveying speed position.

Bei einer Vorrichtung nach der EP 0 380 921 A2 werden die in Klammern eines Transporteurs im Falzbereich aufgehängten Druckprodukte Aufnahmefächern eines im Uebernahmebereich gleichsinnig rotierenden Fächerrades übergeben, durch welches die Druckprodukte gewendet und anschliessend falzvoran einer Verarbeitungseinrichtung zugeführt werden.In a device according to the EP 0 380 921 A2 are suspended in the brackets of a transporter in the rebate Print products receiving compartments handed over in the takeover area in the same direction rotating fan wheel through which the printed products are turned and then fed falzvoran a processing device.

Aufgabe der Erfindung ist es, ein Verfahren zur Ueberführung von zugeführten Druckprodukten an einen Transporteur zu schaffen, das auf einem einfacheren und zuverlässigen Prinzip beruht.The object of the invention is to provide a method for the transfer of supplied printed products to a transporter, which is based on a simpler and more reliable principle.

Erfindungsgemäss wird diese Aufgabe dadurch gelöst, dass die jeweils mit einem vorauslaufenden Ende ein vorderes Ende eines nachlaufenden Druckproduktes in Förderrichtung überstehenden Druckprodukte in einem Ueberführungsbereich des Förderstroms und des darüber gleichsinnig verlaufenden Transporteurs entlang einer Seitenkante im Förderstrom von unten angehoben und an dem nachlaufenden Ende eines Druckproduktes von einer mit höherer Transportgeschwindigkeit angetriebenen geöffneten Klammer des Transporteurs erfasst, festgeklemmt und weitergefördert werden.According to the invention, this object is achieved in that the printed products projecting in the conveying direction each with a leading end of a trailing printing product in a transfer area of the conveying stream and the same in the same direction transporter along a side edge in the flow from below and lifted at the trailing end of a printed product be detected by a higher transport speed driven open clamp of the transporter, clamped and further promoted.

Dadurch kann gegenüber den die Druckprodukte aufnehmenden/übernehmenden offenen Klammern des dafür vorgesehenen Transporteurs trotz Einwirkung des Luftwiderstandes und anderer Einflüsse eine exakte Position der Druckprodukte erzielt werden. Das vorgeschlagene Verfahren erweist sich zudem als schonend.As a result, an exact position of the printed products can be achieved in spite of the effect of air resistance and other influences in relation to the open products receiving / accepting open clips of the transporter provided for this purpose. The proposed method also proves to be gentle.

Vorteilhaft ist im Ueberführungsbereich, das ist derjenige Förderabschnitt, auf dem die Druckprodukte zur Ueberführung von dem Förderstrom in den Transporteur vorgenommen wird, eine auf die angehobenen Druckprodukte entgegengesetzt wirkende, letztere an der Oberfläche führende Kraft vorgesehen.It is advantageous in the transfer area, which is that conveying section on which the printed products is made to transfer from the flow into the feed dog, provided on the raised printed products acting opposite, the latter leading to the surface force.

Die EP 0 551 601 A offenbart ein Verfahren bzw. eine Vorrichtung zum zubringen von vorzugsweise gefalteten Druckereierzeugnissen zu einer Weiterverarbeitungsstelle, wobei die zugeführten Druckereierzeugnisse vor der Uebernahme durch eine zweite Fördereinrichtung nacheinander unten in einen Zwischenstapel eingeschoben werden und jeweils das oberste Druckereierzeugnis des Zwischenstapels von einer Saugeranordnung erfasst und durch diese in den Förderbereich der zweiten Fördereinrichtung gebracht wird. Hier werden die jeweils mit einem voraus laufenden Ende ein vorderes Ende eines nachlaufenden Druckproduktes in Förderrichtung überstehenden Druckprodukte in einem Ueberführungsbereich des Förderstroms und des darüber etwa gleichsinnig verlaufenden Transporteurs gestoppt, von oben durch eine Hebevorrichtung angehoben und je an ihrem nachlaufenden Ende von einer geöffneten Klammer des Transporteurs erfasst, festgeklemmt und weitergefördert.The EP 0 551 601 A discloses a method and a device for bringing preferably folded printed products to a further processing point, wherein the supplied printed products before being taken by a second conveyor successively inserted below in an intermediate stack and each detected the top printed product of the intermediate stack of a sucker and through this in the delivery area of the second conveyor is brought. Here, each with a leading end of a front end of a trailing printing product in the conveying direction protruding printed products in a transfer area of the flow and about it in the same direction running transporter stopped, raised from above by a lifting device and depending on its trailing end of an open bracket of Transporters recorded, clamped and further promoted.

Die EP 0 368 009 A beschreibt ein Verfahren und eine Vorrichtung zum Fördern von Druckereiprodukten, bei welchem bzw. mit welcher in verschiedenen Formationen zugeführte Druckereiprodukte vereinzelt oder in Formationen, in welcher jeweils nur ein einziges Druckereiprodukt auf dem andern aufliegt, weitergefördert werden können. Hier müssen die Fördergeschwindigkeiten der Fördereinrichtungen und Wegförderer sowie die Arbeitsgeschwindigkeiten der Aufwölbeeinrichtung bezüglich der Frequenz der zugeführten Druckereiprodukte und der zu bildenden Formation so aufeinander abgestimmt werden, dass immer nur ein einziges am Anschlag anstehendes Druckereiprodukt aufgewölbt und vom Wegförderer erfasst bzw. zu diesem zugeführt wird.The EP 0 368 009 A describes a method and a device for conveying printed products, in which or with which supplied in different formations printed products isolated or in formations in which in each case only a single printed product rests on the other, can be further promoted. Here, the conveying speeds of the conveyors and removal conveyor and the operating speeds of the Aufwölbeeinrichtung with respect to the frequency of the supplied printed products and the formation to be formed must be coordinated so that only a single abutting at the stop printed product and detected by the removal conveyor or fed to this.

Eine erfindungsgemässe Vorrichtung zur Ueberführung von in einem Förderstrom geschuppt geführten Druckprodukten an einen Transporteur mit umlaufenden Klammern zeichnet sich dadurch aus, dass die jeweils mit einem vorauslaufenden Ende ein vorderes Ende eines nachlaufenden Druckproduktes überstehenden, in Greifern eines Förderers transportierten Druckprodukte in einem durch den geschuppten Förderstrom und den darüber mit höherer Transportgeschwindigkeit umlaufenden Transporteur gebildeten Ueberführungsbereich eine beidseits des Förderstromes auf die in Förderrichtung die nachfolgenden Druckprodukte jeweils überstehenden Druckprodukte entlang der Seitenkanten von unten einwirkende Hebevorrichtung angeordnet ist.An apparatus according to the invention for transferring printed products that are skimmed in a flow to a conveyor with peripheral clamps is characterized in that the printed products protruding in each case with a leading end of a trailing printing product, transported in grippers of a conveyor in a through the scaly flow and the transfer area formed above with a higher transport speed transporter disposed on both sides of the flow on the in the conveying direction the subsequent printed products each protruding printed products along the side edges from below acting lifting device.

Anschliessend wird die Erfindung unter Bezugnahme auf die Zeichnung, auf die bezüglich aller in der Beschreibung nicht erwähnten Einzelheiten verwiesen wird, anhand eines Ausführungsbeispiels erläutert. In der Zeichnung zeigen:

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Subsequently, the invention will be explained with reference to the drawing, to which reference is made with respect to all details not mentioned in the description, using an exemplary embodiment. In the drawing show:
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Fig. 1 zeigt eine Vorrichtung 1 zur Ueberführung von in einem Förderstrom 2 geschuppt geführten Druckprodukten 3 an einen Transporteur 4 mit umlaufenden Klammern 5. Der Förderstrom 2 weist eine Schuppenformation auf, in welcher jeweils das vorauslaufende Ende eines Druckproduktes 3 das vordere Ende eines nachlaufenden Druckproduktes 3 in Förderrichtung F übersteht, wobei die Druckprodukte 3 an der vorauslaufenden offenen oder Falzkante in Greifern 6 eines Förderers 7 eingespannt sind. Die Greifer 6 sind beispielsweise an einem strichpunktiert angedeuteten, umlaufenden Zugmittel 9 befestigt und passieren im Ueberführungsbereich 8 ein stationäres Steuerorgan (nicht ersichtlich), das die Greifer 6 öffnet und die Druckprodukte 3 von letzteren löst. Oberhalb des Förderstroms 2 verläuft etwa gleichsinnig ein endlos umlaufender Transporteur 4 mit in regelmässigen Abständen an einem Zugmittel 11 befestigten Klammern 5. Der unterhalb des Transporteurs 4 resp. dessen Arbeitstrum angetriebene Förderer 7 zieht die geschuppt übereinander liegenden Druckprodukte 3 in den Ueberführungsbereich 8 in einer Formation, aus der sie durch eine Hebevorrichtung 12 im vorderen Seitenbereich unterfahren resp. erfasst und wenigstens annähernd über ihre in Förderrichtung F bestehende Erstreckungslänge geführt werden. Zu diesem Zweck besteht die Hebevorrichtung 12 aus einer Vielzahl den Förderstrom 2 im Ueberführungsbereich 8 beidseits an den Seitenrändern etwa senkrecht oder in einer in Förderrichtung F leicht geneigten Lage den Förderstrom 2 der Druckprodukte 3 durchsetzenden Schaufeln 13, die umlaufend angetrieben sind, so dass sie das vordere seitliche Ende eines Druckproduktes 3 erreichen, welches während dem Anheben jeweils über eine Schaufel 13 gleitet. Die Schaufeln 13 sind einseitig, beispielsweise mit einem längsseitigen Ende mit einem umlaufenden Schaufelträger 14 verbunden, der als Rad oder wie in den Fig. 1 bis 3 dargestellt, als umlaufender Riemen, Kette oder dgl. ausgebildet sein kann. Die Schaufeln 14 können platten- oder tafelförmige Gebilde sein, ihre Verbindung mit dem Schaufelträger 14 kann als Gelenk ausgebildet sein, wodurch die Schaufeln 13 hinsichtlich ihrer Lage gesteuert werden können. Die Steuerung der Schaufeln 13 kann vorzugsweise durch eine stationäre Steuerkurve erfolgen, die mittels Hebelgetriebe (nicht ersichtlich) mit den Schaufeln 13 in Wirkverbindung bringbar ist (siehe Fig. 3). Die Anordnung der Hebevorrichtungen 12 zum Förderstrom 2 ist so vorgesehen, dass eine Umlaufbahn 15 der Schaufeln 13 einen zum Förderstrom 2 hin schräg nach oben gerichteten Abschnitt bzw. Hebeabschnitt 16 aufweist. Fig. 1 1 shows a device 1 for transferring printed products 3, which are skimmed in a delivery stream 2, to a conveyor 4 with circulating clamps 5. The delivery flow 2 has an imbricated formation, in each of which the leading end of a printed product 3, the front end of a trailing printing product 3 protrudes in the conveying direction F, wherein the printed products 3 are clamped to the leading open or folded edge in grippers 6 of a conveyor 7. The grippers 6 are attached, for example, to a dash-dotted line, circulating traction means 9 and pass in the transfer area 8, a stationary control member (not visible), which opens the gripper 6 and the printed products 3 of the latter triggers. Above the flow rate 2 runs approximately in the same direction an endlessly circulating conveyor 4 with fixed at regular intervals on a traction device 11 brackets 5. The below the transporter 4 respectively. its working strand driven conveyor 7 pulls the scaled superimposed printed products 3 in the transfer area 8 in a formation from which they undercut by a lifting device 12 in the front side area resp. detected and performed at least approximately over their existing in the conveying direction F extension length. For this purpose, the lifting device 12 consists of a plurality of the flow 2 in the transfer area 8 on both sides of the side edges approximately perpendicular or in a direction slightly inclined in the conveying direction F the flow 2 of the printed products 3 passing through blades 13 which are driven circumferentially, so that they reach front side end of a printed product 3, which slides during lifting each over a blade 13. The blades 13 are unilaterally connected, for example, with a longitudinal end with a rotating blade carrier 14, as a wheel or as in the Fig. 1 to 3 represented as a circumferential belt, chain or the like. May be formed. The blades 14 may be plate or tabular formations, their connection to the blade carrier 14 may be formed as a hinge, whereby the blades 13 can be controlled in terms of their location. The control of the blades 13 may preferably be effected by a stationary control cam, which by means of lever mechanism (not shown) with the blades 13 in operative connection can be brought (see Fig. 3 ). The arrangement of the lifting devices 12 to the flow 2 is provided so that an orbital path 15 of the blades 13 has an upwardly directed to the flow 2 out section or lifting section 16.

Den Figuren ist zu entnehmen, dass die Schaufeln 13 bezüglich ihrer Lage, insbesonders im Ueberführungsbereich 8 steuerbar sind, sodass die Druckprodukte 3 schonend behandelt werden, wobei die Schaufeln 13 sich annähernd bis an die Klammern 5 des Transporteurs 4 resp. die Greifer 6 des Förderers 7 erstrecken können, so dass die Druckprodukte 3 während dem Anheben leicht darüber hinweggleiten. Die Hebevorrichtung 12 kann -wie Fig. 2 zeigt- zur Optimierung der Bedingungen und aufgrund des Verlaufs des Transporteurs 4 und des Förderers 7 im Ueberführungsbereich eine geneigte Lage einnehmen, wobei der Winkel der Heftvorrichtung 12 zum Förderstrom 2 resp. Förderfluss zur Schuppenformation, dem Format der durchlaufenden Druckprodukte 3 oder anderen Bedingungen verstellt werden kann.The figures show that the blades 13 with respect to their location, especially in the transfer area 8 are controllable, so that the printed products 3 are treated gently, the blades 13 are approximately up to the brackets 5 of the transporter 4 resp. the grippers 6 of the conveyor 7 may extend so that the printed products 3 easily slide over during lifting. The lifting device 12 can-like Fig. 2 shows- to optimize the conditions and due to the course of the conveyor 4 and the conveyor 7 occupy an inclined position in the transfer area, wherein the angle of the stapling device 12 to the flow 2, respectively. Feed flow to the scale formation, the format of the continuous printing products 3 or other conditions can be adjusted.

Zur Stabilisierung des Förderstroms 2 und zur Bestimmung der Position eines Druckproduktes 3 im Ueberführungsbereich 8 ist in Zusammenwirkung mit den geöffneten Klammern 5 des Transporteurs 4 eine die Druckprodukte 3 auf die geöffneten Klammern 5 ausrichtende Führungsanordnung 17 vorgesehen, welche die sich von den Greifern 6 entgegen der Förderrichtung F erstreckenden Druckprodukte 3 in einer Lage hält, dass sie von den mit höherer Geschwindigkeit als die Greifer 6 des Förderers 7 herausgeführten, geöffneten Klammern 5 des Transporteurs 4 von hinten übernommen werden können.In order to stabilize the delivery flow 2 and to determine the position of a printed product 3 in the transfer area 8, a print assembly 3 is arranged on the open staples 5 aligning guide assembly 17 in cooperation with the open staples 5 of the transporter 4, which is opposed to the grippers 6 Conveying direction F extending printing products 3 in a position that keeps them from those with higher Speed as the gripper 6 of the conveyor 7 led out, open brackets 5 of the transporter 4 can be taken from behind.

Die Führungsanordnung 17 besteht beispielsweise -wie dargestellt- aus einer starren oder elastischen Leiste 18, die die Druckbogen 3 bis zur hinteren Kante 19 führt und danach losgelöst ist, damit die hintere Kante 19 in den Klammeröffnungsbereich 19 gerät, wo das Druckprodukt 3 anschliessend von der Klammer 5 erfasst wird. Die Wirkung der Hebevorrichtung 12 tritt ein, nachdem ein Druckbogen 3 die Führungsanordnung 17 verlassen hat. Es findet somit ein getaktetes Zusammenwirken des Förderers 7, des Transporteurs 4, der Führungsanordnung 17 und der Hebevorrichtung 12 statt. Zur Anpassung des taktgebundenen Zusammenwirkens der erwähnten Komponenten lassen sich diese jeweils hinsichtlich ihrer funktionellen Aufgabe einstellen resp. verstellen, d.h. die Geschwindigkeiten von Transporteur 4 und Förderer 5, die Lage der Führungsanordnung 17 und die Hebevorrichtung 12 lassen sich motorisch oder manuell verändern. Es ist noch nachzuholen, dass die Führungsanordnung 17 der Hebevorrichtung 12 in Förderrichtung 7 betrachtet vorgeschaltet ist. Nach Verlassen des Ueberführungsbereichs 8 nehmen Transporteur 4 und Förderer 7 einen divergierenden Verlauf, sodass auf diesem Förderabschnitt die Druckprodukte 3 von den Greifern 6 des Förderers 7 losgelöst werden, d.h. die einem Druckprodukt 3 zugeordnete Klammer 5 schliesst, bevor der Greifer 6 dieses Druckproduktes 3 öffnet resp. Greifer 6 öffnet bevor Klammer 5 schliesst.The guide assembly 17 consists, for example, as shown, of a rigid or elastic strip 18, which leads the sheet 3 to the rear edge 19 and is then released, so that the rear edge 19 device in the Klammeröffnungsbereich 19, where the printed product 3 then from the Clamp 5 is detected. The action of the lifting device 12 occurs after a printed sheet 3 has left the guide assembly 17. There is thus a clocked interaction of the conveyor 7, the conveyor 4, the guide assembly 17 and the lifting device 12 instead. To adjust the clock-bound interaction of the mentioned components, these can each be adjusted with respect to their functional task resp. adjust, i. the speeds of feed dog 4 and conveyor 5, the position of the guide assembly 17 and the lifting device 12 can be changed by a motor or manually. It is still catching up that the guide assembly 17 of the lifting device 12 is considered upstream in the conveying direction 7. After leaving the transfer area 8 take transporter 4 and conveyor 7 a diverging course, so that on this conveyor section, the printed products 3 are released from the grippers 6 of the conveyor 7, i. the one printed product 3 associated clip 5 closes before the gripper 6 of this printed product 3 opens resp. Gripper 6 opens before clip 5 closes.

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  1. Method of transferring printed products (3) presented shingled in an infed stream (2) to a transporting means (4) transporting circulating graspers, characterised the printed products (3) each project, at a leading end, beyond a leading end of a trailing product (3) in the direction of feed (F) and, in a transfer region of the infed stream (2) and of the transporting means which extends above it in approximately the same direction, they are lifted from below in the infed stream (2) along a lateral edge and are each taken hold of, solidly clamped and fed onwards, by their trailing end, by an open grasper (5) on the transporting means (4), which open grasper (5) is driven at a higher speed of transport.
  2. Method according to claim 1, characterised in that the printed products (3) which are lifted in the transfer region (8) are guided by a force acting in the opposite direction.
  3. Method according to claim 1 or 2, characterised in that the printed products (3) are fed onwards suspended.
  4. Arrangement for transferring printed products (3) presented shingled in an infed stream (2) to a transporting means (4) having circulating graspers (5), characterised in that the printed products, which each project, at a leading end, beyond a leading end of a trailing product (3) and which are transported in grippers (6) belonging to a conveyor (7), in a transfer region (8) formed by the shingled infed stream and by the transporting means which circulates above it at a higher speed of transport there is arranged a lifting arrangement (12) which acts from below, on both sides of the infed stream, on the printed products along their lateral edges, which printed products project beyond the succeeding printed products in the direction of feed (F).
  5. Arrangement according to claim 4, characterised in that the lifting arrangement (12) has flaps (13) which circulate at least approximately transversely to the direction of feed (F) of the printed products (3) and which lift at least the front ends of the printed products (3) in the transfer region (8).
  6. Arrangement according to claim 4 or 5, characterised in that the path (15) along which the flaps (13) for lifting the printed products (3) circulate has a portion (16) which is directed into the infed stream (2) obliquely from below.
  7. Arrangement according to claim 6, characterised in that the flaps (13) can be controlled to assume a lifting position in which they are aligned to approximately suit the position of the printed products (3) in the infed stream (2).
  8. Arrangement according to claim 7, characterised in that the flaps (13) are fastened by one end to a circulating flap support (14).
  9. Arrangement according to claim 8, characterised in that the flaps (13) have a jointed connection to the flap support (14).
  10. Arrangement according to one of claims 4 to 9, characterised in that the lifting arrangement (12) is arranged in a position which is inclined in the direction of feed (F).
  11. Arrangement according to one of claims 4 to 10, characterised in that there is provided in the transfer region (8) a guiding arrangement (17) which, ahead of the trailing end in the direction of feed (F), aligns the printed products (3) to be lifted with the open graspers (5) belonging to the transporting means (4).
  12. Arrangement according to claim 11, characterised in that, looking in the direction of feed (F), the guiding arrangement (17) is positioned upstream of the lifting arrangement (12).
  13. Arrangement according to one of claims 4 to 12, characterised in that, looking in the direction of feed (F), the paths of feed of the conveyor (7) and the transporting means (4) follow diverging courses downstream of the lifting arrangement (12).
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