EP2388219A2 - Method and device for applying RFID chips to a roll of material - Google Patents

Abstract

The method involves loading a Radio frequency identification (RFID)chip (5,6) during the winding of a material web. The loading operation is performed at the beginning or at the end of the winding operation. The RFID-chip is embedded in an adhesive track. The material web is defined on the outer periphery of material web rolls. An independent claim is also included for an apparatus for loading a material web roll with radio frequency identification chip.

Description

The invention relates to a method for equipping web rolls with RFID chips.

Furthermore, the invention relates to a device for carrying out the method.

The invention will be described below with reference to a paper web which is wound during its production, finishing and / or processing. In concrete terms, reference is made to an example from the refinement which is familiar to the person skilled in the art as slitting.

Paper webs - this term is also to include cardboard webs in the following - are produced virtually endlessly in widths of up to 11,000 mm and become so-called parent rolls - besides, there is also the term "machine roll" - wound up with diameters of up to 4,000 mm. For this purpose, the beginning of the web is first on a roll core or core - here are Tamboure or cores used - set. Once this is done, the actual winding process begins. It ends as soon as the roll has reached its nominal diameter. Thereafter, the web is cut off and set on the outer circumference of the resulting role. The setting is usually done by providing the web across its width with an adhesive. Because the plants on which the paper is subsequently processed - for example, a rotary printing press - are almost always narrower than the machines on which the paper web has been produced, rolls must be made from the master rolls in the further course Paper processors are manageable. For this purpose one uses slitter machines. They persist essentially from a unwinding station for master rolls, a longitudinal cutting section in which the web drawn from the mother roll is cut longitudinally into individual webs with widths between 300 mm and 4,200 mm, and a reeling station in which the individual webs formed on sleeves with outside diameters of 70 and 150, respectively mm to so-called finished rolls - these are often referred to as "customer or mailing rolls" - wound with final diameters up to 2,500 mm. It follows from the above-mentioned ratio of mother roll to finished roll diameter that from one and the same mother roll usually several finished roll sets are wound.

Since these finished rolls - on the labeling of which the present invention with particular advantage refers - are the marketable end products of paper mills, it is clear that they must be individualized - role by role. Another difference is the subsequent secure handling of these roles - the term "handling" does not include processes such as packaging, sending, calculating, etc. So far, this individualization is done by adding a self-adhesive, usually DIN A5 format owning label on each roll on which the core data of the respective finished roll - including roll diameter, roll width, type of wound paper, shipper, addressee, etc - are printed, with a more or less large part of this data is also designed as a barcode, ie as a machine-readable barcode. This type of labeling has proven itself in principle. Nevertheless, it is not free from vulnerabilities. One disadvantage, for example, is that the labels, which are regularly attached to the outer circumference of the (packed) finished rolls, sometimes become damaged during transport and thus become illegible. In addition, unpacking the rolls at the end user removes the labels from the rolls, which means that information about the rolls is lost. Finally, the labels and the devices required for labeling also represent a not inconsiderable cost factor.

In addition, there is still a very significant flaw in this type of labeling. The material web rolls, in particular finished rolls are ettikettiert outside the reel winder, so they must be ejected and separated and have to overcome a certain distance. Thus, it can not be excluded that there may be discrepancies between the series of printed labels and the location of the roles to be identified. To make matters worse, these labels are usually applied manually by the operating staff and it can come here in addition to confusion.

A novel means for marking objects are RFID chips. RFID stands for "Radio Frequency Identification". Despite their small size, RFID chips can store a sufficient amount of data. This data - in particular, information on the manufacturer of web rolls, the customer of these roles, paper-specific data such as roll numbers, grammages, web lengths, roll diameter, gross and net weights and defects within the wound web, packaging specifications, etc. - are ideal for Labeling of finished rolls. In addition, as they can later be modified as needed or described with additional data, the traceability and traceability of the finished rolls will also be improved - Key words: Role of when, where, by whom produced, processed, stored, transported, consumed, disposed of and complained. However, the question of how the finished rolls can be optimally equipped with RFID chips is unclear.

It is therefore the object of the present invention to provide a method and a device for time-saving loading of material web rolls, in particular so-called finished rolls, with RFID chips.

The object is achieved according to the method that the loading takes place during winding of the webs.

For the purposes of the present application, the term "winding" is to be understood as meaning all process sections which are in direct contact with the winding process. In a broader sense, therefore, all process sections are associated with the term "winding", which include the production of the position of the cores in their Anwickelposition, for example in the winding bed to eject the finished web roll or the finished finished roll set from the roll winding device.

In this way, no additional time interval is required for this process step. According to the invention, therefore, the loading process takes place parallel to the winding process and therefore within the roll winding device. So here are the times immediately before and after the actual winding process to be included. Thus, can be produced effectively. Furthermore, misadjustments can be excluded particularly reliably, since the sleeves and the partial webs to be wound on them already have contact or are positioned at least in a defined relationship to one another. Thus, it can be guaranteed without doubt that the right finished roller is provided with the right RFID chip. According to the invention, it is thus provided that the loading of the material web rolls with RFID chips takes place during winding of the material web or immediately before or afterwards within the roll winding device, in particular in the winding bed or a winding station or on the way to the complete ejection of the finished wound web rolls.

It is advantageous if the loading takes place at the beginning and / or end of the winding process.

Winding start and end provide particularly suitable winding process sections for equipping. Here the winding speed is reduced. Wickelanfang and end also offer spatially ideal conditions. Also, different assemblies of the reel winder can be effective for placement on the sleeve or the finished roller.

It is also advantageous if the RFID chips are embedded in adhesive tracks, which are primarily used primarily to set the material webs on a winding core or on the outer circumference of the material web rolls.

This offers ideal process sequences for a smooth integration of the parallel process step to be integrated. Depending on the adhesive application method or adhesive used, depending on the process or the device, it may be preferable for the RFID chips to be applied to the material web rolls together with the adhesives producing adhesive traces, or for the RFID chips subsequently to be applied or in the, already applied to the web rolls applied, adhesive traces or embedded.

It is also particularly advantageous that the adhesive track acts protectively on the RFID chip. This is then particularly protected against moisture and shock, which brings ideal conditions for a long use of the RFID chip with it. Thus, the RFID chip can later in the course, for example, with shipping data, reloading times, transport routes, dealer and service data, error detection and return data u.v.m. described and read out again.

Advantageously, the RFID chips are respectively placed in the edge region of the material web rolls or in the material web roll center.

Here they are easy to bring in and later legible even by weak readers or unfavorable environmental conditions.

It is particularly preferred for the RFID chips (5, 6) to be loaded with machine-readable data before or during loading, which are used for control and regulating tasks both during winding of the material web rolls and during possible subsequent processing and processing or for logistical purposes Can be used in connection with the web rolls.

In this way, the finished rolls can not only be easily identified, but also partly or fully automatically further processed or processed.

According to the device, the object of the invention is achieved in that the device is part of a roll winding device or is in operative connection with at least one component of such a roll winding device.

In this way, material web rolls, in particular paper finished rolls, can be equipped with RFID chips during their winding process. Thus, an effective production and a secure allocation is guaranteed.

For this purpose, it is of particular advantage if the device is part of an adhesive application device, a web separation device or a combined adhesive application and web separation device.

Thus, the RFID chips on or in the adhesive can be introduced. The adhesives then serve as protection for the partially sensitive RFID chips. Furthermore, in this embodiment, it is advantageous that the adhesive application device, a web separation device or a combined adhesive application and web separation device anyway with the winding tube or the web of the finished roll for initial or Endbeleimung must come into contact and the RFID chips are connected with very little effort and particularly reliable process with its intended role.

These advantages are particularly easy to achieve if for loading the web rolls a movable element is provided, by means of which the material web, in particular a paper web, across the full width transversely severable and on both sides of the separating cut can be acted upon in each case with a parallel to this separating cut adhesive trace, and by means of which the RFID chips can be embedded in at least one adhesive track.

For availability over the entire width of the web or over the substantially entire width of the machine, it is also advantageous if the movable element is a carriage which is mounted in a web-width guide arranged transversely to the material web. Thus, all juxtaposed cores or finished rolls are quickly accessible in a single operation in succession and equipped with RFID chips. It is particularly preferred that an RFID chip applicator unit and an adhesive application and web separation device are arranged on the carriage. All necessary steps can then be carried out together. The RFID chips can be generated "just-in-time" on the slide or can be written on with data, ideally controllable and can be applied immediately to the finished roll or its winding core. For this purpose, it is particularly preferred for the RFID chip application unit to be detachably mounted on a supply roll for an RFID carrier tape on which RFID chips which are not yet successively charged with data are stored, a residual roll for the RFID carrier RFID chips liberated carrier tape and an RFID read / write device and an application positioner composed.

The adhesive application and web separation device preferably comprises adhesive spray nozzles and at least one web separation element.

Such a configuration is particularly inexpensive, universal and reliable.

With particular advantage, the separating element is arranged on the movable carriage such that the web-width separating cut produced by the separating element runs approximately centrally through the adhesive traces applied by the adhesive spray nozzles.

This again increases productivity and process reliability. It is particularly preferred in connection with the advantages already described, if for loading the web rolls a movable element is provided, by means of which the material web, in particular a paper web, transversely severable across full width and on both sides of the dividing line with an adhesive parallel to the dividing line adhesive acted upon is, in which the RFID chip can be embedded.

It is further preferred that the Trennrelement is designed as a freely rotatably mounted, circumferentially having a sharp edge against the web pressureable wheel or as a knife respectively as a water jet or laser beam cutting element.

In this way, the necessary separation work safely and accurately feasible.

Additional advantageous developments emerge from the respective subclaims in connection with the description of the exemplary embodiment and the figures.

The method according to the invention and the device according to the invention for carrying out the method are presented below in connection with web rolls, as they are produced in paper mills on slitter-winder machines. It will be understood, however, as stated above, that the invention may also be used to advantage in other locations within the paper industry value chain - for example, when winding parent rolls. Also, use of the invention in factories that use comparable webs instead of paper - e.g. Plastic films, non-wovens - produce, should not be excluded.

• Fig. 1 eine Draufsicht auf eine von einer nicht dargestellten Mutterrolle abgezogene längsgeschnittene Papierbahn mit Anfangs- und Endbeleimungsspuren und darin eingebettete RFID-Chips.
• Fig. 2 eine ausschnittsweise Seiteansicht einer fertig gewickelte Papierrolle (Fertigrolle), bei der die letzte Papierlage mittels einer Leimspur auf dem Außenumfang der Rolle festgelegt ist, wobei ein RFID-Chip in die Leimspur eingebettet ist.
• Fig. 3 eine dreidimensionale Darstellung eines Ausführungsbeispiels der Vorrichtung zur Bestückung von Materialbahnrol len mit RFID-Chips.

Hereinafter, the invention with reference to the FIGS. 1 to 3 but it should by no means be limited to the details presented therein. Herein show:

• Fig. 1 a plan view of a withdrawn from a mother roll, not shown, longitudinally cut paper web with initial and Endbeleimungsspuren and embedded RFID chips.
• Fig. 2 a partial side view of a finished wound paper roll (finished roll), in which the last paper layer is fixed by means of a glue trace on the outer circumference of the roll, wherein an RFID chip is embedded in the glue track.
• Fig. 3 a three-dimensional representation of an embodiment of the apparatus for equipping Materialbahnrol len with RFID chips.

The same parts are each provided with the same reference number.

Fig. 1 shows a withdrawn from a mother roll, not shown material web 1. The upper part 1.1 of this web is divided into 3 partial webs / single sheets 1.1.1 - 1.1.3. The lower, separated by a machine-wide section 2 from the upper part 1.1 lower part 1.2 of the web 1, however, consists of a total of 4 partial webs / single sheets 1.2.1-4. The upper individual webs 1.1.1 - 1.1.3 are each determined by means of adhesive traces 3.1 - 3.3 - these adhesive traces are also referred to as initial gluing traces - on the outer circumference of the finished wound single roles. The lower single sheets 1.2.1 -1.2.4 with their adhesive traces 4.1 -4.4, which are often also called Endbeleimungsspuren, however, are each secured to empty tubes, not shown here, so that generates after ejection of the finished rolls from the remaining mother roll, not shown, another finished roll set can be. RFID chips 5.1 - 5.3 or 6.1 - 6.4 are embedded in the end or initial gluing tracks 3.1 - 3.3 and 4.1 - 4.4, respectively.

Fig. 2 shows in side view fragmentary a finished roller 7 and a single track 1.1 with an applied on it adhesive trace 3.1, in which an RFID chip 5.1 is embedded. By means of the glue track 3.1, the single track 1.1.1 is set on the outer circumference of the finished roller 7. Similar conditions prevail in an initial gluing, not shown, only that instead of the finished rolls empty cores are to be based. For the sake of order, it should be noted that the RFID chips are preferably applied in the course of the initial gluing. However, it is also possible to introduce them in the course of final bonding. Of course, both methods of introduction can also be combined with each other.

EP 0 512 196 B1 shows a machine for winding material web rolls, in particular paper webs. The machine shown there is a roller cutter of the type backup roller scooter. Laterally next to the partially web-wrapped support roller a web separation device is arranged. It contains a traversable in Bahnumschlingungsbereich on the support roller transversely movable separating element through which the web is machine-width severable. According to the invention, in addition to the support roller, an adhesive tape dispenser for an adhesive tape with an adhesive layer applied to a carrier tape is additionally installed, which comprises a supply roll for the adhesive-coated carrier tape and a reel for the carrier tape freed from the adhesive layer. The adhesive tape is guided transversely to the web about a free-running pressure roller, which is mounted on a transversely movable carriage with the adhesive tape against the web-wrapped support roller pressed. The separating element, in the concrete embodiment a wheel, is fastened to the carriage in the direction of adhesive tape application behind the pressure roller. By means of the mentioned device, the individual webs can be provided in a single pass with a so-called end and a so-called initial gluing. The Endverleimung serves to determine the last position of the individual webs on the outer circumference of the finished wound web rolls, while the initial gluing causes that formed by knocking off the single sheets new web beginnings are attached to new winding or empty tubes. The assembly described forms a possible basic module for a preferred embodiment of a device V according to the invention, as shown in FIG FIG. 3 is shown in a three-dimensional representation as a device V for loading web rolls with RFID chips.

1. 1. eine Vorratsrolle mit einem Trägerband, auf dem in Abrollrichtung einzelne noch nicht mit Daten beaufschlagte RFID-Chips lösbar angeordnet sind;
2. 2. eine Restrolle zu Aufnahme des von den RFID-Chips befreiten Trägerbandes;
3. 3. eine RFID-Schreib-/Leseeinrichtung zum Beaufschlagen der RFID-Chips mit den benötigten Daten bzw. zum Auslesen dieser Daten und
4. 4. einen Applikationspositionierer, mittels dessen die RFID-Chips vom Trägerband in die Leimspur eingebettet werden.

Ferner unterscheidet sich die Vorrichtung nach dem bevorzugten Ausführungsbeispiel von dem erwähnten Grundmodul nach EP 0 512 196 B1 weiter dadurch, dass der Leim mittels Leimdüsen direkt auf die Einzelbahnen aufgebracht wird; die aus EP 0 512 196 B1 bekannte Klebebandvorratsrolle und die dortige Aufrollung für das leergewordene Klebemittelträgerband können aber selbstverständlich ebenso Anwendung finden. Dann können die RFID-Chips in geeignetem Abstand auf dass sich abrollende Klebemittelträgerband appliziert und gemeinsam mit diesem auf die Rolle aufgebracht werden.The mentioned document should therefore be considered in the context of the described, preferred embodiment, as an integral part of the present invention; only the additional new elements are therefore presented below. These additional parts are:

1. 1. a supply roll with a carrier tape on which in the unwinding individual not yet acted upon with data RFID chips are detachably arranged;
2. 2. a residual role for receiving the liberated from the RFID chip carrier tape;
3. 3. an RFID read / write device for applying the RFID chips with the required data or for reading this data and
4. 4. an application positioner, by means of which the RFID chips are embedded by the carrier tape in the glue track.

Furthermore, the device according to the preferred embodiment differs from the mentioned basic module EP 0 512 196 B1 further in that the glue is applied directly to the individual webs by means of glue nozzles; from EP 0 512 196 B1 However, known tape supply roll and the local reel for the emptied adhesive carrier tape can of course also apply. Then the RFID chips can be applied at a suitable distance on that rolling adhesive carrier tape and applied together with this on the roll.

The device V consists of a mounted in a guide 8 over the entire width of the web 1 movable element 9, which is designed as a carriage 10 on which an RFID application unit 11 and a Klebemittelauftrags- and web separation device in the form of a gluing and separation unit 12th are arranged. The RFID application unit 11 is composed of a supply roll 13 for a carrier tape 14, on which successively not yet acted upon with data RFID chips 5 and 6 are detachably mounted, a residual roll 15 for the of RFID chips 5 and 6 liberated carrier tape 14 and an RFID read / write device 16 and an application positioner 18 together. On its way from the supply roll 13 to the remaining roll 15, the carrier tape 14 passes through various guide rollers 17.1- 17.3. The application positioner 18 comprises a positioning cylinder 19, by means of which the carrier tape 14 can be pivoted such that the RFID chips 5 and 6 temporarily stored on it are successively embedded in the adhesive agent tracks 3 and 4, respectively, produced by the adhesive application and web separation device 12. The adhesive applicator and web separator 12 includes adhesive spray nozzles 20 and a separator 21. Not shown are the elements that drive the individual parts of the apparatus.

As mentioned above, the invention can be used to advantage, in particular in the paper industry, in the production of so-called finished rolls 7. Therefore, the conditions there are to be shown in more detail below: When the individual rolls produced from a master roll have almost reached their nominal diameter, the working speed of the slitter winder is reduced to zero. At standstill, all individual webs are then severed by means of the device V according to the invention by the device V is moved across the individual webs from a parking position, which is located outside the web width. In this case, the individual webs are at the same time provided on both sides of the separating cut with a parallel to the separating cut adhesive tape 3, 4, then immediately RFID chips 5, 6, which were immediately before acted upon with a series of actual and / or desired data, be embedded. Once this is done, the finished rolls 7 in their entirety - this is called the finished roll roll - are ejected in a known manner from the slitter-winder. In the course of this ejection process, the last position of the individual webs is determined on their respective role thanks to the adhesive traces or strips - this is referred to as Endverklebung. Now you can insert new cores (empty tubes) into the slitter and start the machine again. In the course of this restart, the single lanes are now determined by virtue of the applied adhesive trace 4 inevitably on the empty tubes - in this regard, the term has begun to naturalization.

The advantages of the solution according to the invention consist essentially in that the RFID chips 5, 6 on simple and secure - the embedding of the RFID chips in a glue track provides additional protection for the chips - attached to the finished rolls 7 and the emptiness sleeves become. In addition, the RFID chip application does not cost a separate time, so that the production of appropriately equipped slitter winder automatically increases, which is particularly desirable because the roll change is one of the time-consuming processes of slitting. Only for the sake of completeness, it should finally be mentioned that the described role change does not necessarily have to take place at a standstill. It is quite possible to make it even running machine, possibly at crawl speed. Under these circumstances, the device V according to the invention must, of course, traverse the individual webs in an angle deviating from the right angle to the running direction of the individual webs, so that all individual webs are in the end cut off at right angles. Of course, the angle required in each case depends on the speed of the web.

LIST OF REFERENCE NUMBERS

1

web

1.1

upper part of the material web

1.1.1- 1.1.3

upper partial webs

1.2

lower part of the material web

1.2.1- 1.2.4

lower partial webs

2

broad band cut

3.1- 3.3

Adhesive traces for upper partial webs

4.1- 4.4

Adhesive traces for lower partial webs

5.1- 5.3

RFID chips for upper partial webs

6.1- 6.4

RFID chips for lower partial webs

7

Finished roll / web roll

8th

guide

9

movable elements

10

carriage

11

RFID application unit

12

Adhesive application and web separation device

12a

Adhesive applicator

12b

Bahn-separation device

13

supply roll

14

RFID carrier tape

15

residual role

16

RFID read / write unit

17.1- 17.3

Guide rollers for RFID carrier tape

18

Applikationspositionierer

19

actuating cylinder

20

Klebemittelsprühdüsen

21

separating element

V

contraption

Claims (15)

Method for equipping web rolls with RFID chips, characterized in that
the loading takes place during the winding of the material webs. Method according to claim 1,
characterized in that
the loading at the beginning and / or at the end of the winding process takes place. Method according to claim 1 or 2,
characterized in that
the RFID chips (5; 6) are embedded in adhesive traces (3; 4) which are primarily used to make the material webs (1.1, 1.2) each on a winding core or on the outer circumference of the web rolls. Method according to one of the preceding claims,
characterized in that
the RFID chips (5, 6) together with the adhesive traces (3,4) generating adhesives, are brought to the web rolls (7). Method according to one of the preceding claims,
characterized in that
the RFID chips (5, 6) are subsequently brought onto or into the adhesive traces (3, 4) already applied to the web rolls (7). Method according to one of the preceding claims,
characterized in that
the RFID chips (5; 6) are each placed in the edge region of the material web roll or in the material web roll center. Method according to one of the preceding claims,
characterized in that
the RFID chips (5; 6) are acted upon before or during loading with machine-readable data, which are used for control and regulating tasks both during winding of the web rolls (7) and during any subsequent loading and processing processes of the rolls of web material (7) can find. Device (V) for equipping web rolls (7) with RFID chips (5, 6),
characterized in that
the device (V) is part of a roll winding device or is in operative connection with at least one component of such a roll winding device. Device (V) according to claim 8,
characterized in that
the device (V) is part of an adhesive application device (12a), a web separation device (12b) or a combined adhesive application and web separation device (12). Device (V) according to claim 8 or 9,
characterized in that
for loading the web rolls (7) a movable element (9) is provided, by means of which the web (1), in particular a paper web, across the full width transversely severable
and on both sides of the separating cut (2) in each case can be acted upon by an adhesive track (3.1-3.3; 4.1-4.4) running parallel to this separating cut, and by means of which the RFID chips (5.1-5.3; 6.1-6.4) are inserted into at least one adhesive track (3.1 - 3.3; 4.1-4.4) are embeddable. Device (V) according to claim 10,
characterized in that
the movable element (9) is a carriage (10) which is mounted in a web-width guide (8) arranged transversely to the material web (1). Device (V) according to claim 11,
characterized in that
on the carriage (10) an RFID chip Applikatioseinheit (11) and a Klebemittelauftrags- and web separation device (12) are arranged to. Device (V) according to claim 12,
characterized in that
the RFID chip application unit (11) is detachably mounted from a supply roll (13) for an RFID carrier tape (14) on which RFID chips (5; 6) are not yet successively loaded with data, a residual roll (15) for the RFID chip (5; 6) freed Trä gerband (14) and an RFID read / write device (16) and an application positioner (18) composed. Device (V) according to one of claims 8 to 12,
characterized in that
the adhesive application and web separation device (12) comprises adhesive spray nozzles (20) and at least one web separation element (21). Device (V) according to one of claims 8 to 13
characterized in that
the separating element (21) on the movable carriage (10) is arranged such that the separating element (22) generated web pulp te separating section (2) approximately centrally through the telsprühdüsen of Klebemitemit (20) applied Klebemitteltspuren (3; 4) ver running.

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