EP2955138B1 - Procédé de fabrication de collections à partir d'une pluralité de différents pamphlets publicitaires et dispositif d'exécution du procédé - Google Patents

Procédé de fabrication de collections à partir d'une pluralité de différents pamphlets publicitaires et dispositif d'exécution du procédé Download PDF

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EP2955138B1
EP2955138B1 EP15001321.7A EP15001321A EP2955138B1 EP 2955138 B1 EP2955138 B1 EP 2955138B1 EP 15001321 A EP15001321 A EP 15001321A EP 2955138 B1 EP2955138 B1 EP 2955138B1
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  • the publication US 4,694,631 A discloses an apparatus for automatically feeding pre-cut pages and inserting a personalized letter or other pre-cut inserts into a personalized envelope.
  • the device can also combine pre-cut inserts and envelopes from different sources and convert to a full postal envelope.
  • the publication US 4,179,111 describes a device for folding a sheet such as an envelope with an overlying insert, means for transporting the sheet and the insert and means for folding the sheet around the insert.
  • the publication WO 2008/074325 A1 discloses a method and apparatus for turning a cover sheet around a stack of overlapping sheets, leaflets and / or leaflets. Used for this purpose is a supply of cover sheets, deducted from the one envelope sheet and used to turn the pile.
  • the publication WO 03/008237 A1 refers to a method and apparatus for wrapping bundles of printed products with a folded sheet of film wrapped around the bundles as they are moved by a transfer device.
  • the publication WO 2013/023315 A1 discloses a device for collecting flat objects and for conveying the collected objects as stacks.
  • the device contains a plurality of receiving units arranged one behind the other, which are movable along a closed conveyor track in a conveying direction, wherein the receiving units each form at least along a collecting track a bearing surface on which the objects can be stored. Furthermore, the device contains at least one transfer station for transferring the objects to the receiving units.
  • the device further includes a feeder device for feeding individualized, provided with an identification information items to the receiving units.
  • the sawing device comprises a storage unit for providing the individualized objects in stack formation and a separating unit for separating the individualized objects, a control unit for checking the identification information on the objects, as well as a transfer station, via which the individualized objects are transferred to the receiving units.
  • the publication US 3,059,391 A relates to a method and apparatus for wrapping a letter and, if desired, one or more inserts or inserts with an envelope.
  • the envelope is formed from a strip material and transported to a position where the letter wrapped around the inserts is placed against the envelope, which is then folded and sealed with its flap to enclose the letter and inserts.
  • the publication WO 2010/051651 A2 discloses a device for collating flat objects, in particular printed products, and for conveying the collated objects further as a stack, with a plurality of receiving units which are movable in a conveying direction along a closed conveying path defined by a conveying member; a plurality of support elements defining at least in a collation area of the conveyor track a support surface inclined in the conveying direction, on which the objects can be stored, wherein the receiving units grippers comprise with a first and second gripper jaw, the grippers can take a clamping position and an open position, and are able to hold the objects lying on the support surface by transition from the open position to the clamping position between their gripper jaws, and wherein the grippers and the support elements are controllable such that within a receiving unit, the orientation of the support surface relative to the conveyor track and / or an opening angle between the first and second gripper jaw is adjustable independently of adjacent receiving units.
  • Another embodiment of a method not according to the invention is characterized in that the stack is placed on a base, that the packaging element is deposited on the stack so that it covers the stack with only a partial area, and that the packaging element with the remaining area around the Pile is knocked over;
  • the remaining surface of the packaging element is bent approximately at right angles downwards in a first step, and in a second step the downwardly bent part of the packaging element is bent back under the stack, the unit being turned off to bend the packaging element Stack and packaging element is moved through a transfer device.
  • the unit of stack and packaging element is moved through a transfer device for turning the packaging element.
  • a further embodiment is characterized in that for the bending of the packaging element in the transfer device movable elements are used, which are rotated about a transverse to the direction of movement of the unit of stack and packing element oriented axis of rotation.
  • Yet another embodiment is characterized in that bent after turning of the packaging element, the bent part of the packaging element by applying the unit of stack and packaging element to a conveyor belt and applied to the stack.
  • a further embodiment is characterized in that some of the advertising leaflets have a fold or a binding, that in the formation of the stack, the folded or bound advertising leaflets are placed on each other so that the folds or bonds form a common edge of the stack , And that the stack with the common edge is wrapped in the packaging element. Finally, it is advantageous if the packaging elements are grooved prior to breaking the stack.
  • the device according to the invention for carrying out the method according to the invention is characterized in that the device comprises a packing device in which the packaging element lying partially under the stack is wrapped around the stack, wherein the wrapping device comprises a transfer device and means for moving the unit of stack and packing element through the transfer device.
  • a further embodiment is characterized in that the means for moving the unit of stack and packaging element are formed as lying in a plane transport routes or conveyor belts, between which a conveyor gap is left free.
  • the transfer device comprises movable elements which engage in the conveying gap in the transport path of the unit of stack and packaging element.
  • the packaging element may be a single sheet, a folded product, a 4-side, an 8-side, stapled, glued or configured in a comparable manner.
  • the movable elements comprise a bristle brush roll, which is arranged in the conveyor gap and is rotatable about a rotational axis oriented transversely to the transport direction.
  • the movable elements may also comprise rod-shaped drivers which are rotatable about a predetermined axis of rotation through the conveying gap.
  • the axis of rotation can be oriented transversely to the transport direction and the drivers can simultaneously perform an oscillating movement parallel to this axis of rotation with the rotational movement about this axis of rotation, between a first extreme position in which the carriers in the transport path of the unit stack and packaging element protrude, and a second extreme position in which the drivers are outside the transport path of the unit of stack and packaging element takes place.
  • rod-shaped carriers are arranged on opposite sides of the transport path of the unit of stack and packaging element in a mirror-symmetrical arrangement.
  • a further embodiment is characterized in that the rod-shaped drivers for generating the overlapping rotational movement and oscillating movement are each mounted in a concentric circle on obliquely arranged turntables.
  • the overlapping rotational movement and oscillating movement of the drivers can also be generated in each case by separate mechanical means.
  • means are provided for feeding the packaging elements to the handling device.
  • the feeding means comprise a creasing device for creasing the supplied packaging elements.
  • Fig. 1 shows a schematic representation of a method according to an embodiment of the invention.
  • the example shown assumes four individual advertising leaflets 11a to 11d, of which in each case a corresponding supply stack (a pallet or the like) 10a to 10d with a plurality of individual copies is provided and provided.
  • a promotional brochure in this case the
  • N 3,4, ...) different advertising leaflets one is kept ready and the remaining N-1 advertising leaflets are packed with the help of this one selected advertising leaflet.
  • the Einpackvoriques 14 are supplied from the stockpile 10d of the selected advertising leaflet 11d advertising brochures 11d in another way and each used individually for wrapping or wrapping the stack 13 so that at the output of the wrapping 14 collections 15 are issued in which the stack 13 in a order the edge is beaten advertising leaflet 11d wrapped. In this way, all advertising brochures are once present in the collection 15 and wrapped without the need for extra packing material and provision.
  • the promotional leaflets 11a to 11d provided a promotional leaflet is particularly suitable because of its nature (format, material, strength, flexibility, etc.) as a wrapping material, it is advisable to select this promotional leaflet to wrap the stack 13 therein.
  • the optical design of the selected advertising brochure can already be adapted to his special sentence before, so that information (font, pictures, etc.) on the advertising leaflet are also easy to see when the promotional brochure is used as a wrapping material. It is also advantageous that the advertising leaflet used for wrapping is placed in a prominent place and particularly clearly outwardly in front of all other advertising leaflets within the collection 15.
  • FIG Fig. 2 An embodiment of a packing device 14 is shown in perspective in FIG Fig. 2 played.
  • the packing device is between the end of a collecting device 12 (left edge of Fig. 2 ) and the inlet region of a transport device 29 (right edge of Fig. 2 ) and comprises in a transport plane a plurality of successively arranged band-equipped transport paths 24, 27 and 28. Between the transport sections 24 and 27, a wide conveyor gap 26 is released, is returned to the below.
  • the collecting device 12 outputs the stacks 13 compiled from the individual advertising leaflets, which pass over the upper section of a conveying path 21 coming from below onto the first transport path 24. Synchronously with each output stack 13 is by means of the conveyor line 21 from below each serving as a packaging element advertising leaflet 11d so upwards promoted that it partially, ie with a rear in the transport direction section, comes to rest under the coming of the collection device 12 associated stack 13, while a front portion of the advertising leaflet 11d remains uncovered.
  • the conveyor gap 26 Reached the unit of partially underlying promotional leaflet 11d and lying stack 13 with the advertising leaflet 11d the conveyor gap 26, the uncovered part of the advertising leaflet or packaging element 11d from both sides by projecting into the conveying gap 26 and 26 in the conveying gap from below detected above moving rod-shaped drivers 25 of a transfer device 18a and 18b, lifted up and folded against the transport direction to the rear around the stack 13.
  • the collections 15 are transported via the transport path 28 to the transport device 29 and handed over there.
  • the bar-shaped carriers 25 of the transfer devices 18a, b are, after they have left the region of the conveying gap 26 up out laterally out of the range of transport distances and returned in a closed circuit down to retract there again in the range of transport route and to be ready for a next lifting of a packaging element 11d in the conveying gap 26.
  • a plurality of carriers 25 is arranged on each side so on a arranged obliquely to the transport direction turntable 23 that the individual carriers 25 are aligned transversely to the transport direction and maintain this orientation in the room when turning the turntable 23 unchanged.
  • the rod-shaped carrier 25 thus carry out a movement, which is composed of a rotational movement about an axis of rotation oriented transversely to the transport direction and an oscillating linear movement in the direction of the axis of rotation. But it is also conceivable to arrange the drivers on the turntable so that they lie on the lateral surface of a truncated cone.
  • the advertising leaflets 11d used as packaging element are withdrawn individually from the supply stack 10d in a transversely arranged feeder 16 and transferred as a shingled stream to a deflection device 17, which individually removes the packaging elements or advertising leaflets 11d via two transport paths 19 and 20 to the conveying path 21, where they are then conveyed upward and combined with the coming out of the collection device 12 stacks 13 in the manner described ("toothed").
  • the advertising leaflets 11d can be scored in the shingled stream with advantage by a grooving device 50 arranged there, i. be provided in the middle with a groove, which facilitates the subsequent turning in the transfer device 18 a, b.
  • the packaging elements or advertising leaflets 11d are fed from below and the stacks 13 come to rest correspondingly on the advertising leaflets Fig. 3 shown plant and handling device 14b exactly the opposite, ie the packaging elements or advertising leaflets 11d are fed from above, stored from the top of the stacks 13 and in the conveying gap 26 by means of similar, but the other way round turning devices 18a, b turned down. Again, the stack 13 are transported by the collecting device 12 by means of transport routes 30 and 31 to an output side transport device 29.
  • the packaging elements or advertising leaflets 11d in turn arrive in a scale flow from a laterally arranged feed device 16 and are then moved individually and at a distance in a deflection device 17 parallel to the transport paths 30 and 31 obliquely downwards onto the stacks and deposited thereon.
  • a creasing device 50 can be used with advantage.
  • circumferential rod-shaped carrier 25 are used to beat the packaging elements or advertising leaflets 11d around an edge of the stack 13.
  • Fig. 1b For example, when some or all of the advertising leaflets 11a-d have a fold F or binding, when the stack 13 is formed, the folded banners are placed one upon the other so that the folds F and the bindings share a common edge K of the stack 13 form, and that the stack 13 is taken with the common edge K in the packaging element 11d.
  • Under advertising leaflets with bindings are understood in particular advertising leaflets which have on a particular page caused by gluing connection.
  • Fig. 4 grab in the local handling device 14c bent in the direction of rotation bristles 35 of the brush roller 34 under the freely emerging portion of the packaging element or advertising leaflet 11d and turn it in a first step in approximately right angles from above.
  • the upwardly bent part of the packaging element or advertising leaflet 11d is then transferred over the stack 13 bent back when the unit of stack 13 and upwardly curved packaging element or advertising leaflet 11 d enters the space between the conveyor belts 36 and 37.
  • additional conveyor belts 38 may be provided laterally of the brush roller 34.
  • a rotating double arm 41 with two opposite arms 42a and 42b is used in the local handling device 14e instead of brush rollers, which always exchange their position when one of the stacks has passed the conveying gap 26.
  • position of the double arm 41 keeps the double arm 41 with its upper arm 42a just the intended for packing promotional leaflet 11d so high that the right-funded stack 13 under the (stationary or only slowly moving) upper arm 42a can be moved through.
  • the advertising leaflet 11d strikes the top of the stack around and the stack passes with the folded advertising leaflet 11d between the conveyor belts 36 and 37.
  • the double arm turns so far and so fast in the clockwise direction that the other arm 42b now in Fig. 6 shown position of the arm 42a occupies and supports the bottom advertising leaflet of the next batch. This process is repeated continuously.
  • the in Fig. 7 The mechanism shown acts with its rod-shaped drivers 48a, b and 49a, b similar as in the Fig. 2 and 3 ,
  • the drivers 48a, b and 49a, b are pair wise by means of a flexible but length-loyal connecting element 46a, b over and movable guide wheels 45a, b connected to each other, wherein the whole arrangement of guide wheel 45a, b and driver pair on both sides of the conveyor belt 43 is rotatable about an axis of rotation 47 each.
  • the drivers 48a, b, 49a, b are thus movable through the conveying gap 26 about the axis of rotation 47 oriented transversely to the transport direction and at the same time as the rotational movement about this axis of rotation 47 perform an oscillating movement parallel to this axis of rotation, which is between a first extreme position, in which the drivers 48a, b, 49a, b protrude into the transport path of the unit from stack 13 and packaging element 11d, and a second extreme position, in which the drivers 48a, b, 49a, b outside the transport path of the unit of stack 13 and Packing element 11d takes place takes place.
  • the movement of the driver 48a, b, 49a, b is thus analogous to the movement of the driver 25 on the turntables 23 in Fig. 2 and 3 ,
  • the arrangement of the mechanism on both sides of the transport path in the same way mirror-symmetrically, as in the handling devices 18a, b from Fig. 2 and 3 ,

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  1. Procédé de production de collections (15) constituées d'une pluralité N = 3, 4, ... de prospectus publicitaires différents (11a-d) qui sont livrés et distribués à des destinataires, par exemple des ménages, dans le cadre d'un « mailing direct », lesquelles collections (15) comprennent chacune une pile (13) de prospectus publicitaires (11a-c) qui est emballée dans un élément d'emballage (11d) enroulé autour de la pile (13), le procédé comprenant les étapes suivantes visant à :
    - produire les N prospectus publicitaires (11a-d) ;
    - former le pile (13) à partir de N-x des N prospectus publicitaires (11ad), avec x = 1 ;
    - produire le prospectus publicitaire restant en tant qu'élément d'emballage (11d) ;
    - envelopper la pile (13) dans l'élément d'emballage (11d) ;
    l'élément d'emballage (11d) étant placé sur une base, la pile (13) étant placée sur l'élément d'emballage (11d) de telle sorte que seule une partie de la surface de l'élément d'emballage (11d) est recouverte par la pile (13) et l'élément d'emballage (11d) est enroulé autour de la surface restante de la pile (13), et
    pour enrouler l'élément d'emballage (11d) autour de la pile (13), la surface restante de l'élément d'emballage (11d) étant pliée vers le haut à peu près à angle droit dans une première étape et la partie de l'élément d'emballage (11d) qui est pliée vers le haut est repliée par-dessus la pile (13) dans un seconde étape.
  2. Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que l'unité formée de la pile (13) et de l'élément d'emballage (11d) est déplacée à travers un dispositif d'enveloppe (14a-f; 18a,b ; 44a,b) afin de plier l'élément d'emballage (11d).
  3. Procédé selon la revendication 2, caractérisé en ce que des éléments mobiles (23, 25 ; 34, 35 ; 39, 40 ; 41, 42a,b ; 45a,b, 46a,b, 48a,b, 49a,b), qui sont mis en rotation sur un axe de rotation (47) orienté transversalement à la direction de déplacement de l'unité constituée de la pile (13) et de l'élément d'emballage (11d), sont utilisés pour plier l'élément d'emballage (11d) dans le dispositif d'enveloppe (14a-f; 18a,b ; 44a,b).
  4. Procédé selon la revendication 2, caractérisé en ce que, après le pliage de l'élément d'emballage (11d), la partie pliée de l'élément d'emballage (11d) est repliée et posée sur la pile (13) par application de l'unité formée de la pile (13) et de l'élément d'emballage (11d) sur une bande transporteuse (27, 31, 36).
  5. Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que certains prospectus publicitaires (11a-d) comportent un pli (F) ou une reliure, en ce que les prospectus publicitaires, pliés ou munis d'une reliure, sont posées les uns sur les autres lors de la formation de la pile (13) de telle sorte que les plis (F) ou les reliures forment un bord commun (K) de la pile (13) et en ce que la pile (13) est enveloppée avec le bord commun (K) dans l'élément d'emballage (11d).
  6. Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que les éléments d'emballage (11d) sont rainurés avant d'envelopper la pile (13).
  7. Dispositif destiné à mettre en oeuvre le procédé selon la revendication 1, le dispositif comprenant un dispositif d'emballage (14) dans lequel l'élément d'emballage (11d), se trouvant partiellement au-dessous de la pile, est enroulé autour de la pile (13), le dispositif d'emballage (14) comprenant un dispositif d'enveloppe (14a-f; 18a,b ; 44a,b) ainsi que des moyens (24, 27, 28 ; 30, 31 ; 32, 33, 36, 37, 38, 43) destinés à déplacer l'unité formée de la pile (13) et de l'élément d'emballage (11d) à travers le dispositif d'enveloppe (14a-f; 18a,b ; 44a,b).
  8. Dispositif selon la revendication 7, caractérisé en ce que les moyens destinés à déplacer l'unité formée de la pile (13) et de l'élément d'emballage (11d) sont conçus sous la forme de sections transporteuses (24, 27, 28 ; 30, 31) ou de bandes transporteuses (32, 33, 36, 37, 38, 43), situées dans un plan, entre lesquelles un espace de transport (26) est ménagé.
  9. Dispositif selon la revendication 8, caractérisé en ce que le dispositif d'enveloppe (14a-f; 18a,b ; 44a,b) comprend des éléments mobiles (23, 25 ; 34, 35 ; 39,40 ; 41, 42a,b ; 45a,b, 46a,b), 48a,b, 49a,b) qui s'engagent sur le chemin de transport de l'unité formée de la pile (13) et de l'élément d'emballage (11d) dans l'espace de transport (26).
  10. Dispositif selon la revendication 9, caractérisé en ce que les éléments mobiles comportent un rouleau-brosse (34, 39), muni de poils (35, 40), qui est disposé dans l'espace de transport (26) et qui peut tourner sur un axe de rotation orienté transversalement à la direction de transport.
  11. Dispositif selon la revendication 9, caractérisé en ce que les éléments mobiles comportent des éléments d'entraînement en forme de tige (25, 48a,b, 49a,b) qui sont déplaçables en rotation autour d'un axe de rotation spécifié (47) à travers l'espace de transport (26).
  12. Dispositif selon la revendication 11, caractérisé en ce que l'axe de rotation (47) est orienté transversalement à la direction de transport et les éléments d'entraînement (25, 48a,b, 49a,b) effectue un mouvement oscillant parallèlement à cet axe de rotation (47) en même temps que le mouvement de rotation sur cet axe de rotation (47), lequel mouvement oscillant s'effectuant entre une première position extrême, dans laquelle les éléments d'entraînement (25, 48a,b, 49a,b) font saillie dans le chemin de transport de l'unité formée de la pile (13) et de l'élément d'emballage (11d), et une seconde position extrême dans laquelle les éléments d'entraînement (25, 48a,b, 49a,b) sont situés à l'extérieur du chemin de transport de l'unité formée de la pile (13) et de l'élément d'emballage (11d).
  13. Dispositif selon la revendication 12, caractérisé en ce que les éléments d'entraînement en forme de tige (25, 48a,b, 49a,b) sont situés sur des côtés opposés du chemin de transport de l'unité formée de la pile (13) et de l'élément d'emballage (11d) selon une disposition à symétrie de miroir.
  14. Dispositif selon la revendication 13, caractérisé en ce que, pour générer le mouvement de rotation et le mouvement oscillant superposés, les éléments d'entraînement en forme de tige (25) sont fixés respectivement sur des disques rotatifs (23), agencés obliquement, en cercles concentriques.
  15. Dispositif selon la revendication 13, caractérisé en ce que le mouvement de rotation et le mouvement oscillant superposés des éléments d'entraînement (48a,b, 49a,b) sont générés par des moyens mécaniques séparés (47 ou 45a,b, 46a,b).
  16. Dispositif selon la revendication 7, caractérisé en ce que des moyens (16, 17) sont prévus pour amener les éléments d'emballage (11d) au dispositif d'enveloppe (18a,b).
  17. Dispositif selon la revendication 16, caractérisé en ce que les moyens d'amenée (16, 17) comportent un dispositif de rainurage (50) destiné à rainurer les éléments d'emballage amenés (11d).
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