EP2420462B1 - Maschine zur Behandlung von flachen Gegenständen - Google Patents

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EP2420462B1
EP2420462B1 EP20100305824 EP10305824A EP2420462B1 EP 2420462 B1 EP2420462 B1 EP 2420462B1 EP 20100305824 EP20100305824 EP 20100305824 EP 10305824 A EP10305824 A EP 10305824A EP 2420462 B1 EP2420462 B1 EP 2420462B1
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Werner Brunnhuber
Robert Stahl
Martin Lasinger
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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
    • B65H5/00—Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines
    • B65H5/02—Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines by belts or chains, e.g. between belts or chains
    • 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
    • B65H29/16—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles by contact of one face only with moving tapes, bands, or chains
    • 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
    • B65H29/52—Stationary guides or smoothers
    • 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
    • B65H5/02—Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines by belts or chains, e.g. between belts or chains
    • B65H5/021—Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines by belts or chains, e.g. between belts or chains by belts
    • B65H5/026—Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines by belts or chains, e.g. between belts or chains by belts between belts and stationary pressing, supporting or guiding elements forming a transport nip
    • 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
    • B65H2301/50—Auxiliary process performed during handling process
    • B65H2301/51—Modifying a characteristic of handled material
    • B65H2301/511—Processing surface of handled material upon transport or guiding thereof, e.g. cleaning
    • B65H2301/5111—Printing; Marking
    • 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
    • B65H2404/20—Belts
    • B65H2404/24—Longitudinal profile
    • B65H2404/242—Timing belts
    • 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
    • B65H2404/20—Belts
    • B65H2404/26—Particular arrangement of belt, or belts
    • B65H2404/268—Arrangement of belts facing a transport surface, e.g. contact glass in copy machine
    • 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
    • B65H2404/50—Surface of the elements in contact with the forwarded or guided material
    • B65H2404/56—Flexible surface
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2601/00—Problem to be solved or advantage achieved
    • B65H2601/50—Diminishing, minimizing or reducing
    • B65H2601/52—Diminishing, minimizing or reducing entities relating to handling machine
    • B65H2601/522—Wear of friction surface
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2701/00—Handled material; Storage means
    • B65H2701/10—Handled articles or webs
    • B65H2701/19—Specific article or web
    • B65H2701/1916—Envelopes and articles of mail
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2701/00—Handled material; Storage means
    • B65H2701/10—Handled articles or webs
    • B65H2701/19—Specific article or web
    • B65H2701/1932—Signatures, folded printed matter, newspapers or parts thereof and books

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  • the present invention relates to the field of flat objects processing and more particularly relates to a machine for addressing flat objects, typically newspapers, magazines or mail items, comprising means for jogging these flat objects against the top wall referencing this machine.
  • the devices for transporting flat objects used in the machines for processing these objects are well known. They are conventionally formed of several drive members such as rollers (rollers) or conveyor belts traversing a flat object receiving plate and controlled by a suitable kinematics for conveying these objects downstream along a path conveyed in the machine. Such a transport device is found in the addressing machines and at different stations of a mail processing machine, from its supply station to its printing station.
  • the subject of the present invention is therefore a machine for treating flat objects, the transport device of which is improved in order to overcome the aforementioned drawbacks and in particular to perfectly control the drive speed and to treat objects of variable thickness so as to increase significantly the rate of transport of flat objects through the machine.
  • a flat object processing machine comprising at least one conveyor belt for conveying flat objects through said machine and an upper referencing wall for vertically striking these flat objects during their transport, characterized in that said conveyor belt is formed of a continuous flexible strip in direct contact with said upper referencing wall, said flat objects being pinched during their transport between said upper referencing wall and said continuous flexible strip of which the variable depression of the thickness of said transported flat objects provides both a support and a jogging of said flat objects against said upper referencing wall.
  • said reference upper wall has a plurality of protuberances for providing a multitude of points of contact with said conveyor belt or said flat objects or both.
  • Said protuberances have at most a height of some tenth of a millimeter.
  • the flat-object processing machine further comprises a support wall comprising flexible elements for supporting said flat objects outside the nip zone formed by said contact between said continuous flexible strip and said upper wall of referencing.
  • said continuous flexible strip is formed of the superposition of a support layer made of a thermoplastic polymer material intended to support and jog said flat objects and a serration of a thermosetting polymer material capable of cooperating with toothed traction sheaves. of said conveyor belt.
  • thermoplastic polymer material consists of a single strip, the two ends of which are previously bevelled in a complementary manner, at a given angle relative to the horizontal, are joined together by gluing by means of a polymer adhesive.
  • thermoplastic polymer material is fixed on said thermosetting polymer material by glue or any other means of attachment suitable for bonding the two polymeric materials.
  • thermoplastic polymer material has a thickness of between 20 and 25 mm and said thermosetting polymer rubber material is between 2 and 4 mm thick.
  • thermoplastic polymer material may have a density of between 30 and 150 kg / m 3 and an open or closed mixed-cell type structure.
  • it has one of the following sections: square, rectangular or trapezoidal.
  • thermosetting polymer material is rubber or a silicone and said thermoplastic polymer material is a polyurethane or polychloroprene foam.
  • the figure 1 schematically illustrates an exemplary embodiment of a flat objects addressing machine according to the invention.
  • This machine intended for the production of printed matter (magazines, magazines, newspapers, etc.) or for high-speed mail processing conventionally comprises at least one conveyor belt 10 controlled by a drive motor 12 through a suitable kinematic (not shown) for conveying from upstream to downstream and in front of a print head 14 flat objects which rest during this transport in part on a support plate 16 while being pressed against an upper referencing wall 18
  • the belt is in direct contact with this upper jogging wall 18, even in the absence of transported flat objects, so that it also ensures an effective effect. pinch on at least one edge flat objects transported a perfect hold of these.
  • the support plate is provided with openings each arranged in line with a printing module of this head (typically for the ejection of ink during the maintenance phases) and elements flexible, such as blades, one arranged upstream of these openings and the other respectively upstream and downstream thereof.
  • the print head is provided with four adjacent modules offset in the direction of advance of the flat objects and therefore four openings 16A, 16B, 16C, 16D facing them with which is associated four blades flexible 16E, 16F, 16G, 16H. Downstream of these first four blades and possibly upstream, is disposed an additional flexible blade 16I, 16J to provide better support flat objects in the printing area.
  • the belt 10 intended to be mounted on two toothed pulleys 20A, 20B motorized by the drive motor 12 consists of a continuous flexible band formed by the superposition of two separate polymeric structures.
  • the first in direct contact with these toothed pulleys is provided with a serration 22 adapted to ensure a pulley / belt connection sufficiently strong for a drive without slip.
  • This serration is made of a thermosetting polymer material, for example a natural or synthetic rubber or a silicone.
  • the second which will constitute a support part for the flat objects which will rest partly on it during their transport while at the same time ensuring the jogging function against the upper referencing wall is formed of a thermoplastic polymer material. for example a polyurethane foam or polychloroprene.
  • this foam is in the form of a single band whose two ends 24A, 24B previously beveled in a complementary manner, at an angle of 30 ° relative to the horizontal, are met between them by gluing by means of a polymer glue, advantageously based on polyurethane (see the detail of the Figure 1A ).
  • the polyurethane forming the foam 24 is chosen according to the technical specifications of drive (friction, abrasion, hardness, elasticity) expected for conveying the flat objects, preferably with a density of between 30 and 150 kg / m3 and a structure of open or closed mixed cell type. Its section can be square, rectangular or even trapezoidal.
  • the thickness of the foam is preferably between 20 and 25 mm, the serration supporting it having a thickness of 2 to 2.5 mm.
  • the objects transported are no longer in contact with a relatively rigid smooth strip because of its necessary connection with motorized toothed pulleys but with a much more flexible support formed of this polyurethane foam which allows by a pinch of transported objects a better adhesion and therefore a perfect control of the speed of training during their conveying.
  • this great flexibility allows during their transport to take the footprint of flat objects and thus ensure better compensation for variations in thickness of these objects, as is explained below.
  • FIG. 2 shows a partial section at the printing area of the machine of the figure 1 .
  • the flat objects for example mailpieces 30, are pressed against the upper referencing wall 18 by the polyurethane foam 24 which is more or less compressed against this wall according to the thickness of this article. mail.
  • the frictional forces existing between this polyurethane foam and the mail piece are greater than those existing between the mailpiece and the reference metal wall, the mail piece can then be driven without slipping. .
  • the transport device of the invention implementing a flexible conveyor belt in permanent contact with an upper jogging wall, a continuous and smooth flattening movement of the flat objects is obtained without resorting to a mechanical device of plating and this even when objects of varying thickness follow one after the other, unlike the devices of the prior art.
  • the automatic adjustment by the dynamic sinking of the foam takes place all the way of transport and, because of the absence of constraint, one increases the speed of transport.
  • the invention can of course find application to the transport of mail items in a machine of mail processing as in a machine for scanning such articles, paper, newspapers or the like provided that the weight of these objects does not cause a complete crushing of the polyurethane foam causing it to lose its vertical jogging function (in practice for a 25 mm thick foam, flat objects up to 12 mm thick will be tolerated).

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  1. Maschine zur Bearbeitung flacher Gegenstände, umfassend wenigstens ein Förderband (10), um flache Gegenstände (30) durch die Maschine zu befördern, sowie eine obere Ausrichtwand (18), um diese flachen Gegenstände während ihres Transports vertikal einzurütteln, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß das Förderband von einem durchgehenden flexiblen Band, das in direktem Kontakt mit der oberen Ausrichtwand steht, gebildet ist, wobei die flachen Gegenstände während ihres Transports zwischen der oberen Ausrichtwand und dem durchgehenden flexiblen Band eingeklemmt sind, dessen veränderliche Eindrückung mit der Dicke der beförderten flachen Gegenstände sowohl ein Stützen als auch ein Einrütteln der flachen Gegenstände an der oberen Ausrichtwand sicherstellt.
  2. Maschine zur Bearbeitung flacher Gegenstände nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die obere Ausrichtwand eine Vielzahl von Vorsprüngen (18A) aufweist, die dazu bestimmt ist, eine Vielzahl von Kontaktstellen mit dem Förderband oder den flachen Gegenständen oder beiden zu gewährleisten.
  3. Maschine zur Bearbeitung flacher Gegenstände nach Anspruch 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Vorsprünge höchstens eine Höhe von einigen Zehntel Millimetern aufweisen.
  4. Maschine zur Bearbeitung flacher Gegenstände nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß sie ferner eine Tragwand (16) mit flexiblen Elementen (16E-16H) umfaßt, um die flachen Gegenstände außerhalb des durch den Kontakt zwischen dem durchgehenden flexiblen Band und der oberen Ausrichtwand gebildeten Klemmbereichs zu tragen.
  5. Maschine zur Bearbeitung flacher Gegenstände nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß das durchgehende flexible Band durch das Übereinanderanordnen einer Tragschicht aus einem thermoplastischen Polymermaterial (24), die dazu bestimmt ist, die flachen Gegenstände zu tragen und einzurütteln, sowie einer Zahnung (22) aus einem duroplastischen Polymermaterial, die geeignet ist, mit gezahnten Riemenscheiben (20A, 20B) zum Antreiben des Förderbandes zusammenzuwirken, gebildet ist.
  6. Maschine zur Bearbeitung flacher Gegenstände nach Anspruch 5, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß das thermoplastische Polymermaterial von einem einzigen Band gebildet ist, dessen beide Enden (24A, 24B), die zuvor unter einem bestimmten Winkel gegenüber der Horizontalen ergänzend abgeschrägt werden, durch Verkleben mittels eines Polymerklebers untereinander verbunden sind.
  7. Maschine zur Bearbeitung flacher Gegenstände nach Anspruch 5, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß das thermoplastische Polymermaterial eine Dichte zwischen 30 und 150 kg/m3 sowie eine Struktur vom Typ mit gemischten offenen oder geschlossenen Zellen aufweist.
  8. Maschine zur Bearbeitung flacher Gegenstände nach Anspruch 5, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß das thermoplastische Polymermaterial einen der folgenden Querschnitte aufweist, nämlich quadratisch, rechteckig oder trapezförmig.
  9. Maschine zur Bearbeitung flacher Gegenstände nach Anspruch 5, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß das thermoplastische Polymermaterial an dem duroplastischen Polymermaterial durch Kleber oder jedes andere Befestigungsmittel, das sich für die Verbindung der beiden Polymermaterialien eignet, befestigt ist.
  10. Maschine zur Bearbeitung flacher Gegenstände nach Anspruch 5, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß das thermoplastische Polymermaterial eine Dicke zwischen 20 und 25 mm aufweist und das duroplastische Polymermaterial eine Dicke zwischen 2 und 2,5 mm aufweist.
  11. Maschine zur Bearbeitung flacher Gegenstände nach Anspruch 5, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß das duroplastische Polymermaterial ein Kautschuk oder ein Silikon ist.
  12. Maschine zur Bearbeitung flacher Gegenstände nach Anspruch 5, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß das thermoplastische Polymermaterial ein Polyurethan- oder Polychloroprenschaum ist.
  13. Maschine zur Bearbeitung flacher Gegenstände nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 12, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die flachen Gegenstände aus Zeitschriften, Magazinen, Zeitungen, Poststücken ausgewählt sind.
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