EP3489022A1 - Dispositif d'impression sur les colis acheminés individuellement vers un groupe d'impression - Google Patents

Dispositif d'impression sur les colis acheminés individuellement vers un groupe d'impression Download PDF

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EP3489022A1
EP3489022A1 EP17405031.0A EP17405031A EP3489022A1 EP 3489022 A1 EP3489022 A1 EP 3489022A1 EP 17405031 A EP17405031 A EP 17405031A EP 3489022 A1 EP3489022 A1 EP 3489022A1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J11/00—Devices or arrangements  of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
    • B41J11/007—Conveyor belts or like feeding devices
    • 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
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J11/00—Devices or arrangements  of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
    • B41J11/20—Platen adjustments for varying the strength of impression, for a varying number of papers, for wear or for alignment, or for print gap adjustment
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J13/00—Devices or arrangements of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, specially adapted for supporting or handling copy material in short lengths, e.g. sheets
    • B41J13/10—Sheet holders, retainers, movable guides, or stationary guides
    • B41J13/12—Sheet holders, retainers, movable guides, or stationary guides specially adapted for small cards, envelopes, or the like, e.g. credit cards, cut visiting cards
    • 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
    • B65H5/025—Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines by belts or chains, e.g. between belts or chains by belts between belts and rotary means, e.g. rollers, drums, cylinders or balls, forming a transport nip

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  • the invention relates to a device for printing from a printing unit of a franking machine individually supplied on at least one of the flat sides of the printing unit frictionally driven passing flat, guided in the conveying direction F on one side edge packages such as envelopes, mailers, envelopes, cards, printed products or the like.
  • a conveying device which detects the packages at a front end in the conveying direction F and which forms a conveying plane of a conveying channel with a guide plate arranged on the underside of the printing unit, one with an opposite conveying mechanism of the conveying device.
  • the EP 1 183 154 B1 describes a postage meter with at least one printhead of a printing unit for printing insertable or continuous flat shipping objects such as closed envelopes and postcards, which consists of a guide head about the printhead and its mouth, the one the shipping objects between them and opposite to a transverse to the conveying direction Arranged axes arranged rotating conveyor rollers of a shipping objects transporting conveyor, wherein the conveyor two with the guide part forming a conveyor line, drive-connected Having drive rollers, which are arranged in front of and behind the print head viewed in the conveying direction and opposite one respectively against a drive roller resp. a shipping object detected therebetween is provided with a pressure-exerting, reversible counter-pressure roller.
  • Such conveyors require high design precision and precise matching of the conveyor rollers and the drive elements with each other, whereby between the conveyor rollers, the drive friction is interrupted, so that irregularities can occur with respect to position and stability of the shipping objects, which lead to imprecise print images and affect the control.
  • the object is achieved in that the conveyor considered in the conveying direction (F) of the packages at least two spaced apart, each having a common axes of pulleys, endless traction means, whose upper, the guide plate facing strand and the lower run of rollers are guided, each pairwise opposite to pivotal ends of a plurality of, the upper resp. the lower run of the traction means associated, formed from angled lever arms double levers of the conveyor freely rotatably mounted and supported by means acting on the double lever spring force on the inside of the strands.
  • the device is suitable for the arrangement of further parallel circulating traction means.
  • the upper run of the traction means cooperating with the guide plate forms a (slightly) rising in the conveying direction F section, which opens into a conveying gap / channel, which serves to guide the transported packages accurately.
  • each associated with a Trum rollers of the conveyor are mounted on the free end of a lever arm of the pivotable double lever and thus determine the location of the strands of traction means.
  • the lever arms of a double lever forming an acute angle forming at right angles or deviating from each other, so that an optimal arrangement and operation between the strands arises.
  • the traction means adapted to the grooves of the pulleys, in cross-section round solid profile made of an elastic material such as rubber or a rubber compound, which is suitable for tension.
  • rollers supporting the upper run form a conveying plane parallel to the transport plane which is adaptable to changing the conveying gap / channel to the thickness of the continuous packages.
  • the cross-sectional height of the conveying gap / channel can be automatically determined under the action of a spring force on the double lever by the thickness of a supplied package.
  • the traction means of the conveyor both under the operating and inoperative position of the conveyor under constant spring force under tension.
  • the pulleys on the axes forming, in the machine frame mounted, arranged transversely to the conveying direction F, fixed parallel shafts, wherein at least one shaft is driven by the transport speed of the packages.
  • the cross bars can be arranged in a plane determined by the waves of the pulleys of the traction means level. be mounted in the machine frame.
  • the lever arms of a double lever in the inoperative position may be approximately symmetrically (evenly) aligned with the plane defined by the crossbars, so that the lever arms of the double levers with the plane formed by the crossbars define an approximately equal angle up and down , whereby the passage through the packages an approximately uniform deflection / lifting of the strands is up or down.
  • the friction wheels can be adjusted and adjusted behind the end edge of the transfer table above the traction means section in the conveying direction F for optimum detection of the packages.
  • the upper run of the traction means in the conveying direction F parallel extending beads respectively.
  • groove-like depressions be assigned in the guide plate, which responds to a slight deformation. provide wider coverage of packages on the facing surface of the traction means.
  • a further reduction of the friction on the underside of the guide plate can be achieved if on both sides of the beads parallel support strips are attached to the underside of the guide plate.
  • Fig. 1 to 4 show a device 1 for printing from a printing unit 2 of a postage meter 3 individually deliverable packages 4 such as envelopes, mailers, envelopes, printed products or the like.
  • Fig. 1 represents a franking machine 3 immediately upon the delivery of a relatively thick package 4 in the printing unit 2.
  • the packages are 4 individually supplied by hand or in a not-known, upstream separation device for stacked packages 4 a printing unit 2 of the franking machine 3 by means of transport device via a transfer table 5 in the conveying direction F.
  • a guide plate 6 is arranged at least approximately over the width of the supplied packages 4, which forms a horizontal, overhead transport plane 7 for the supplied packages 4 and under a print head 8 of the printing unit 2 a Having opening 9 for printing the packages 4.
  • the guide plate 9 forms the horizontal transport plane 7, along which the respectively at the conveying end of the transfer table 5 incoming packages 4 are detected by a conveyor 11 of a conveyor 12 at the front end 13 and transported by this under the printing unit 2 and the printing unit 2 further along the transport plane leave.
  • the conveyor 11 and the conveyor plane 7 are at standstill resp.
  • Both the printing unit 2 and the conveying device 12 are fixedly connected to a machine frame 16 of the device 1.
  • the conveyor 11 consists of at least two at a distance next to each other to common horizontal axes at laterally spaced in the conveying direction F guide roller pairs 16, 17 circulating traction means 18, 19, along the conveying plane 7 and opposite of this in each case a strand 24, 25 form.
  • the traction means 18, 19 are preferably formed with a circular solid cross section and consist of an elastic material such as rubber or a rubber compound, which give a favorable coefficient of friction. Accordingly, the pulleys of Umlenkrollenforme 16, 17 on the circumference of a groove or groove, which corresponds to the cross section of a rotating traction means 18, 19.
  • the strands 24, 25 of the traction means 18, 19 resp.
  • Trum 25 are between the pulleys on running resp.
  • Support rollers 20, 21 supported which are each freely rotatably mounted at the free ends of an angle connected from connected lever arms 27, 28, pivotable double levers 26, so that the upper run 24 with the lower strand 25 the thickness of a package 4 according to each in common Adjust / move down or up.
  • Both in the inoperative position and in transit packages 4 in the operating position support / run the rollers 20, 21 of the conveyor 11, the strands 24, 25 uniformly on a to the transport resp.
  • the entrance area in front of the conveying gap / channel 14 has, viewed in the conveying direction F, a roller 20 and subsequent rollers 20 that are higher than the front deflection roller 16, so that an ascending and conveying-effective traction means section 31 formed by the upper strand is formed in the conveying direction F, whose rise by the different thickness packages 4 in time with the feed changes.
  • Thicker or thinner clocked supplied packages 4 change the inclination of the increase in the force acting in the feed area Werstoffabête 31 and the cross-sectional height of the conveying gap resp. Delivery channel 14 resp. the location of the runs 24.25.
  • the length of the conveying gap / channel 14 depends on the thickness of a package 4.
  • the traction means 18, 19 are held by the respective Werstoffspannwerk forming, permanently loaded with spring double lever 26 and on the inside of the strands 24, 25 of a traction mechanism 18, 19 pending running / support rollers 20, 21 under constant tension.
  • the conveyor 11 (traction mechanism) formed from common axes 32, 33 aligned transversely to the direction of travel F of the packages 4 for the deflection rollers 16, 17 of the traction means 18, 19 is below in the machine frame 10 of the franking machine 3, for example in a lower part of a machine frame arranged the printing unit 2.
  • the pulleys 16, 17 are fixed to the axles 32, 33 forming, driven shafts 34, 35 which are mounted in the machine frame 10 and of which a shaft 34 and 35 is driven.
  • the double lever 26 are of between the axes 32, 33, respectively.
  • the transverse rods 36 are preferably arranged in a through the axes 32, 33 of the guide rollers 16, 17 of the traction means 18, 19 formed (horizontal) plane. fixed in the machine frame 10.
  • Each a double lever 26 constituting, the same length lever arms 27, 28 are in accordance with the Fig. 1 to 3 connected at an angle of about 90 °.
  • the lever arms 27, 28 of a pivotable double lever 26 are approximately symmetrically aligned on the plane of the crossbars 36 and change the position in a transported through the printing unit 2 package. 4 due to its acting on the upper run 24 thickness as in Fig. 2 shown.
  • the spring force-exerting springs 23 are at one end to a double lever 26 facing the end with one of the lever arms 27, 28 of the double lever 26 and the opposite end at the other end to a in clamped about the plane of the cross bars 36 arranged fastener 37.
  • the Switzerlandstoffabêten 31 is in the region of the intake sections 30 of the upper runways 24 each with the strand 24 a pull-in gap 39 forming friction wheel. Assigned to Einzugsrad 38, which is acted upon by a spring force.
  • a package 4 arriving at the draw-in section 30 is initially received at the leading edge 40 in the draw-in gap 39 respectively formed by the draw-in sections 30 and friction wheels 38 and conveyed by the unit formed therefrom, wherein the friction wheels 38 are freely rotatable or like the speed of the traction means 18, 19 can be driven and pressed by springs 41 on the packages 4 on the intake section 30.
  • the friction wheels 38 are secured to a common, positioned transversely to the conveying direction F shaft 42 which is pivotally mounted on levers 41 loaded by springs 41.

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  • Delivering By Means Of Belts And Rollers (AREA)
  • Feeding Of Articles By Means Other Than Belts Or Rollers (AREA)
  • Separation, Sorting, Adjustment, Or Bending Of Sheets To Be Conveyed (AREA)
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EP17405031.0A EP3489022B1 (fr) 2017-11-22 2017-11-22 Dispositif d'impression sur les colis acheminés individuellement vers un groupe d'impression
US16/058,132 US10815085B2 (en) 2017-11-22 2018-08-08 Device for printing packages which are fed individually to a printing unit
CN201811398230.2A CN109808317B (zh) 2017-11-22 2018-11-22 用于印刷单个地被运送给印刷机构的寄送件的设备

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