EP2388133B1 - Faltmaschine und Verfahren - Google Patents

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EP2388133B1
EP2388133B1 EP11166322.5A EP11166322A EP2388133B1 EP 2388133 B1 EP2388133 B1 EP 2388133B1 EP 11166322 A EP11166322 A EP 11166322A EP 2388133 B1 EP2388133 B1 EP 2388133B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B31—MAKING ARTICLES OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER; WORKING PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31F—MECHANICAL WORKING OR DEFORMATION OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31F1/00—Mechanical deformation without removing material, e.g. in combination with laminating
    • B31F1/0003—Shaping by bending, folding, twisting, straightening, flattening or rim-rolling; Shaping by bending, folding or rim-rolling combined with joining; Apparatus therefor
    • B31F1/0006—Bending or folding; Folding edges combined with joining; Reinforcing edges during the folding thereof
    • B31F1/0009—Bending or folding; Folding edges combined with joining; Reinforcing edges during the folding thereof of plates, sheets or webs
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H45/00—Folding thin material
    • B65H45/12—Folding articles or webs with application of pressure to define or form crease lines

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  • the present invention relates to the technical field of folding machines, used for example in the typographic sector for the production of folders, covers and the like.
  • Folding machines are used in typography and in bookbinding for the processing of sheets of cardboard and card that need to be folded to form folders, covers and other objects made from suitably folded card.
  • folding takes place in various ways, using buckle folders, knife folders, "flying" knife folders, and helical folders.
  • Buckle folders are indicated for processing light cards.
  • the sheet not necessarily creased beforehand, is introduced into a pocket, closed at the end, where hitting the stop at high speed causes a fold that allows the following rollers to pull the sheet out of said pocket.
  • the sheet of card is pulled by a series of belts until a part of it meets a helical element which provides closing of a door while said sheet advances.
  • the main use is for cards of large thickness that cannot be folded with the other systems.
  • the sheet to be processed is wrapped, during the folding process, on suitable folding cylinders. Especially in the case of sheets of card of a certain thickness, this makes it impossible to process said sheet adequately or even causes it to be damaged. In fact, at the end of processing, the sheet will have a curvature imparted by the processing roller that actually makes it unusable. This is the reason for using helical folders, which succeed in folding the sheets without encountering the aforementioned problem.
  • helical folders have the drawback that they are unwieldy and require long set-up times.
  • the folding machine according to the present invention introduces a method of folding capable of overcoming the drawbacks enumerated above, connected with each folding machine of the prior art.
  • Machine for making folds in sheets of paper material and the like comprising two pairs of cylinders for handling the sheet being processed and for effecting folding of the sheet.
  • the folding machine according to the present invention introduces an additional control on sheet feed at the inlet, which can be of the creased type or not.
  • the folding machine according to the present invention comprises at least one pair of rollers at the inlet, controlled so as to stop the feed of the sheet at the inlet without having to insert it until it meets the stop in the pocket.
  • the machine comprises a first pair of tension cylinders 2, 10, and a carriage 11 comprising a second pair of pressure and feed cylinders 7, 8, preferably motorized synchronously with said first pair of cylinders 2, 10, said carriage 11 being able to execute a preferably substantially vertical movement between two limit positions, a lower position that is assumed when it is necessary to make a fold, in the sheet being processed, from bottom to top and an upper position that is assumed when it is necessary to make a fold, in the sheet being processed, in the opposite direction, i.e. from top to bottom.
  • the axial displacement of said carriage 11 means that the shafts of said second pair of cylinders 7, 8 are movable relative to the shafts of said first pair of cylinders 2, 10 and is such as to impress a partial fold in the sheet being processed corresponding to attainment of the middle position of said carriage 11 between said lower and upper limit positions.
  • the subsequent rotation of said first pair of cylinders 2, 10 will drive the sheet being processed until its point of folding is below said second pair of cylinders 7, 8, which, rotating in synchronism with the cylinders of said first pair of cylinders 2, 10, will complete the folding, finally pushing the folded sheet onto the output belt 13.
  • the folding of the sheet being processed therefore takes place without the use of knives or of folding pockets and without the sheet being processed having to be wrapped on the cylinders during the folding process.
  • processing and folding of the sheet as carried out by the machine according to the present invention take place as follows: at the moment when the machine according to the present invention is switched on, based on the programming provided, carriage 11 is arranged corresponding to its lower position, if the fold to be executed is an upward fold, or corresponding to its upper position if the fold to be executed is a fold in the opposite direction i.e. downward.
  • Said carriage 11, in its axial movement along the appropriate guides 19, 20, also provides displacement of all the parts that are integral with said carriage 11, i.e.: said second pair of cylinders 7, 8; the plates 9, 12, the purpose of which is to guide the sheet being processed - introduced via the inlet tray 1 - after exit from the guide wedges 3, 4, providing said sheet being processed with a supporting surface that is inclined in relation to the fold that will be executed; the connecting crosspieces 15, 16 and the upper 17 and lower 18 output plates that are intended to channel the sheet being processed, now already folded, towards the deflecting roller 14 positioned at the output of the machine according to the present invention.
  • the sheet received for example from a creasing machine arranged upstream of the machine according to the present invention, is supported on the input tray 1, next it is picked up by the first pair of cylinders 2, 10 and is then fed into the guide wedges 3 and 4.
  • carriage 11 In the case when the fold to be executed faces upwards, carriage 11, already arranged in the lower position, allows the sheet to advance freely and come to rest gently on said plate 9 until it brings the preexisting crease, or the point of folding, in line with the fine adjustment plate 5. At this point carriage 11 moves to the middle position bringing back said second pair of cylinders 7, 8 to the same height as said first pair of cylinders 2, 10. In doing so, said second pair of cylinders 7, 8 has already, through its displacement, given the sheet a fold of approx. 90°.
  • the sheet will be made to advance further in order to allow it to be taken up by the said second pair of cylinders 7, 8 which will squeeze it.
  • Said second pair of cylinders 7 and 8 has a motion synchronous with said first pair of cylinders 2, 10 and can moreover be synchronized, for example, with the cylinders of the optional creasing machine arranged upstream of the folding machine according to the present invention.
  • carriage 11 moves to the upper position and then performs the same manoeuvres as described previously, but in the opposite direction.
  • the sheet After folding, the sheet is pushed onto an output belt 13 which, by means of a roller 14, provides transport thereof and a new squeezing.
  • the machine according to the present invention can be provided with additional folding stages - comprising at least one further carriage similar to said carriage 11 and a further pair of cylinders similar to said second pair of cylinders 7, 8 - arranged in cascade so that they can make two or more folds on the same sheet.
  • the machine according to the present invention is able to work in conjunction with a creasing machine arranged upstream.
  • the machine according to the present invention can comprise a bridge connecting to a register table, so that folding of a sheet can be carried out while the creasing machine is already processing the next sheet, or can comprise a feeder or its own sheet feeder.
  • control module capable of accurately determining the beginning of the sheet to be processed.
  • Said control module could, for example, comprise a photocell arranged in order to sight the beginning of the sheet as it advances to the input of the machine according to the present invention.
  • the machine according to the present invention can be independent with regard to the layouts and the folds to be made, so that it can, instead, receive the layouts from the machine with which it is associated, for example the creasing machine arranged upstream of the machine according to the present invention of the preceding example.
  • the fold obtained in the sheet through the operation of the machine according to the present invention is executed without said sheet having to wrap around the rollers and without the need to use knives that characterize the similarly named folders, solving the technical problems described above, relative to the folding machines of the prior art.

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  1. Faltmaschine für Bögen aus Papier und dergl., welche ein erstes Paar von Eingangszylindern (2, 10) und ein zweites Paar von Ausgangszylindern (7, 8) umfasst, welche dergestalt ausgelegt sind, dass sie den zu faltenden Bogen bewegen, wobei die Wellen des genannten zweiten Paares von Ausgangszylindern (7, 8) in Bezug auf die Wellen des genannten ersten Paares von Eingangszylindern (2, 10) zwischen einer oberen Grenzstellung und einer unteren Grenzstellung beweglich sind;
    Führungsmittel, welche dergestalt ausgelegt sind, dass sie den Bogen führen, der aus dem genannten ersten Paar von Eingangszylindern (2, 10) austritt;
    wobei das genannte zweite Paar von Ausgangszylindern (7, 8) dergestalt ausgelegt ist, dass es sich von einer unteren Grenzstellung oder von einer oberen Grenzstellung in eine Mittelstellung bewegt, wo die Eingangsseite des genannten zweiten Paares von Ausgangszylindern (7, 8) der Ausgangsseite zur genannten Führungsmittel gerichtet ist, und den genannten Bogen in Richtung auf die Ausgangsseite der genannten Führungsmittel schiebt, um dem Bogen einen ersten teilweisen Knick zu geben und den geknickten Bogen zu bewegen und zu pressen, um die Faltung zu vollenden.
  2. Faltmaschine nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das zweite Paar von Zylindern (7, 8) innerhalb eines Schlittens (11) montiert sind, wobei der genannte Schlitten (11) in der Lage ist, eine im Wesentlichen vertikale Bewegung zwischen einer oberen Grenzstellung und einer unteren Grenzstellung durch Gleiten auf einem Paar von Führungen (19, 20) auszuführen.
  3. Faltmaschine nach einem oder mehreren der Ansprüche 1 bis 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das genannte erste Paar von Zylindern (2, 10) und das genannte zweite Paar von Zylindern (7, 8) synchron zueinander durch Motor angetrieben werden.
  4. Faltmaschine nach einem oder mehreren der Ansprüche 1 bis 3, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die genannten Führungsmittel, welche dergestalt ausgelegt sind, dass sie den aus dem genannten ersten Paar von Zylindern (2, 10) austretenden Bogen führen, ein Paar von Führungskeilen (3, 4) und ein Paar von Feinjustierplatten (5, 6) umfassen.
  5. Faltmaschine nach einem oder mehreren der Ansprüche 1 bis 4, welche außerdem umfasst:
    einen Eingangsbereich, welcher eine Eingangsschale (1) umfasst, welche dergestalt ausgelegt ist, dass der genannte zu faltende Bogen dem Eingang des genannten ersten Paares von Zylindern (2, 10) zugeführt wird, und
    einen Ausgangsbereich, welcher ein Paar von Führungsplatten (9, 12) umfasst, welche dergestalt ausgelegt sind, dass sie den Bogen, der von dem genannten, sich bewegenden zweiten Paar von Zylindern (7, 8) geschoben wird, nach dem Austritt aus den genannten Führungsmitteln führen; ein Paar verbindender Querstücke (15, 16)
    und ein Paar Ausgangsplatten (17, 18), welche dergestalt ausgelegt sind, dass sie den in Bearbeitung befindlichen und bereits geknickten Bogen in Richtung auf ein abführendes Förderband (13) und eine Quetschwalze (14) lenken.
  6. Faltmaschine nach einem oder mehreren der Ansprüche 1 bis 5, welche mit einer davor angeordneten Falzmaschine verknüpft ist, welche dergestalt ausgelegt ist, dass sie den zu faltenden Boden der genannten Faltmaschine zuführt.
  7. Faltmaschine nach Anspruch 6, bei welcher das genannte erste Paar von Zylindern (2, 10) und das genannte zweite Paar von Zylindern (7, 8) synchron zu den Zylindern der genannten Falzmaschine mit Motor angetrieben werden.
  8. Faltmaschine nach einem oder mehreren der Ansprüche 1 bis 7, welche eine Verbindungsbrücke zu einem Montagetisch umfasst.
  9. Faltmaschine nach einem oder mehreren der Ansprüche 1 bis 8, welche eine Zuführeinheit oder eine Bogenzuführvorrichtung umfasst.
  10. Faltmaschine nach einem oder mehreren der Ansprüche 1 bis 9, welche einen Steuerungsmodul umfasst, der imstande ist, den Anfang des zu bearbeitenden Bogens genau zu bestimmen.
  11. Faltmaschine nach Anspruch 10, bei welcher der genannte Steuerungsmodul eine Fotozelle umfasst, welche dergestalt angeordnet ist, dass sie den Anfang des Bogens erkennt, wie er sich zum Eingang in die genannte Faltmaschine bewegt.
  12. Faltmaschine nach einem oder mehreren der Ansprüche 1 bis 11, welche zusätzliche Faltstufen umfasst - darunter der Reihe nach mindestens einen weiteren Schlitten ähnlich dem genannten Schlitten (11) und ein weiteres Paar von Zylindern ähnlich dem genannten zweiten Paar von Zylindern (7, 8) - welche dergestalt in Kaskade angeordnet sind, dass sie ermöglichen, zwei oder mehrere Faltungen an ein und demselben Bogen durchzuführen.
  13. Verfahren zum Falten von Bögen aus Papier und dergl., welches die folgenden Schritte umfasst:
    a) Bereitstellung eines ersten Paares von Eingangszylindern (2, 10), eines zweiten Paares von Ausgangszylindern (7, 8) und von Führungsmitteln, welche dergestalt ausgelegt sind, dass sie den aus dem genannten ersten Paar von Zylindern (2, 10) austretenden Bogen führen;
    b) die Zylinder des ersten Paares von Eingangszylindern (2, 10) greifen den in Bearbeitung befindlichen Bogen und bewegen den genannten Bogen zu den genannten Führungsmitteln;
    c) die Zylinder des genannten zweiten Paares von Ausgangszylindern (7, 8) geben dem genannten Bogen einen ersten teilweisen Knick, indem sie sich von einer unteren Grenzstellung oder von einer oberen Grenzstellung in eine Mittelstellung bewegen, wo der Eingang des genannten zweiten Paares von Ausgangszylindern (7, 8) zum Ausgang der genannten Führungsmittel gerichtet ist, und indem sie den genannten Bogen in Richtung auf den Ausgang der genannten Führungsmittel schieben.
    d) die Zylinder des genannten zweiten Paares von Ausgangszylindern (7, 8) bewegen und pressen den geknickten Bogen, um die Faltung zu vollenden.
  14. Verfahren nach Anspruch 13, welches durch die Faltmaschine nach den Ansprüchen 1 - 12 ausgeführt wird.
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