EP3489022B1 - Einrichtung zum bedrucken von einem druckwerk einzeln zugeführten versandstücken - Google Patents

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EP3489022B1
EP3489022B1 EP17405031.0A EP17405031A EP3489022B1 EP 3489022 B1 EP3489022 B1 EP 3489022B1 EP 17405031 A EP17405031 A EP 17405031A EP 3489022 B1 EP3489022 B1 EP 3489022B1
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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
    • 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
    • B41J11/007—Conveyor belts or like feeding devices
    • 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, driven by friction, passing flat items of mail such as envelopes, mailing bags, envelopes, cards, printed products or the like, guided in the conveying direction F on one side edge.
  • a conveying device which grips the mail items at a front end in conveying direction F and which forms a conveying plane of a conveying gap / channel of the conveying device with a guide plate located on the underside of the printing unit and a conveying unit opposite the guide plate.
  • the EP 1 183 154 B1 describes a franking machine with at least one print head of a printing unit for printing flat mail items that can be inserted or passed through, such as closed envelopes and postcards, which has a guide part protruding around the print head and opposite its mouth plane, one with the mailing objects between it and opposite one, around a guide part across the conveying direction arranged axes rotating conveyor rollers is assigned to a conveyor device transporting the items to be shipped, the conveyor device having two drive-connected ones which form a conveyor path with the guide part Has drive rollers which, viewed in the conveying direction, are arranged in front of and behind the print head and opposite one another against a drive roller, respectively.
  • a shipping object detected in between which exerts a pressure, reversible counter-pressure roller.
  • Such conveying devices require a high level of construction precision and precise coordination of the conveying rollers and the drive elements with one another, with the drive friction being interrupted between the conveying rollers, so that irregularities in the position and stability of the shipping objects can arise, which lead to imprecise printed images and impair control.
  • a corresponding device for printing mail items according to the preamble of claim 1 is in the US2009 / 159405 A1 disclosed.
  • the problem addressed by the present invention was to create a device for printing individually supplied mail items from a printing unit of a franking machine, which is characterized by a simple structure for reliable operation with tried and tested machine elements and components and is user-friendly and service-friendly.
  • the object is achieved according to claim 1.
  • the device is suitable for the arrangement of further traction means rotating in parallel.
  • the upper run of the traction means and the opposite guide plate form a conveyor gap / channel in which the supplied mail items are guided.
  • the upper run of the traction means which interacts with the guide plate, forms a section that rises (slightly) in the conveying direction F and opens into a conveying gap / channel which is used to precisely guide the transported mail items.
  • rollers of the conveyor system are expediently mounted on the free end of a lever arm of the pivotable double lever and thus determine the position of the run of the traction means.
  • the lever arms of a double lever are preferably connected to one another forming an acute angle, at right angles or differently therefrom, so that an optimal arrangement and function is created between the strands.
  • rollers are jointly and evenly applied to the inside of a strand by means of spring force.
  • the traction means have an adapted to the running grooves of the pulleys, a solid profile with a round cross-section made of an elastic material such as rubber or a rubber mixture that is suitable for tensioning.
  • the strands of the traction means can be kept under tensile stress in the inoperative position and during operation when the shipping items are passing through.
  • the rollers supporting the upper run form a conveying plane which is parallel to the conveying plane and which can be adapted to the thickness of the mail items passing through in order to change the conveying gap / channel.
  • the cross-sectional height of the conveying gap / channel can be determined automatically by the thickness of a mail item supplied under the action of a spring force on the double lever.
  • the traction means of the conveyor device are advantageously under tension under constant spring force, both in the operating and in the inoperative position of the conveyor device.
  • the conveying circumferential area can be arranged on the front rollers in the conveying direction above the conveying circumferential area of the upstream deflecting rollers, so that the mail items continuously run onto the front section of the upper Trums can be done.
  • the deflection rollers are preferably on the axes forming the machine frame mounted parallel shafts arranged transversely to the conveying direction F, at least one shaft being driven according to the transport speed of the mail items.
  • An additional special meaning for a reliable functioning of the device consists in that the double levers which are pivotable in pairs between the shafts of the deflecting rollers, on transversely to the conveying direction F and parallel to each other, are pivotable to the traction means respectively. whose strands are stored assigned, whereby no additional space is required.
  • the transverse rods can be arranged or respectively in a plane determined by the shafts of the pulleys of the traction means. be fastened in the machine frame.
  • the lever arms of a double lever in the inoperative position can be distributed approximately symmetrically (evenly) on the plane defined by the crossbars, so that the lever arms of the double lever with the plane formed by the crossbars limit an approximately equal angle up and down , whereby an approximately even deflection / lifting of the strand up or down takes place when the mail pieces pass through.
  • the traction means sections Two upper strands are each assigned a freely rotatable friction wheel, which is directed from above onto the mail items fed to the traction element sections and acts to stabilize regular transport of the mail items.
  • the friction wheels can be set and adjusted in the conveying direction F behind the end edge of the transfer table above the traction element section for optimal detection of the mail items.
  • this can be arranged with the printing head between two pairs of rollers above the conveyor unit.
  • the upper run of the traction means in the conveying direction F parallel beads, respectively. channel-like depressions in the guide plate that have a slight deformation, respectively. broader coverage of the shipping items on the facing surface of the traction means.
  • a further reduction in the friction on the underside of the guide plate can be achieved if support strips running parallel on both sides of the beads are attached to the underside of the guide plate.
  • the transfer table that ends over the circumference of the deflection rollers is advantageously formed by recesses into which the traction means with their front ends for trouble-free Intervention.
  • Figs. 1 to 4 show a device 1 for printing on a printing unit 2 of a franking machine 3 individually supplied mail items 4 such as envelopes, mailing bags, sleeves, printed products or the like.
  • Fig. 1 shows a postage meter machine 3 immediately when a relatively thick mailing item 4 is being fed into the printing unit 2.
  • the mailing items 4 are individually by hand or from an upstream separating device (not shown) for stacked mail items 4 to a printing unit 2 of the franking machine 3 by means of a transport device via a transfer table 5 in the conveying direction F.
  • a guide plate 6 is arranged on the underside of the printing unit 2 at least approximately over the width of the supplied mail items 4, which forms a horizontal, overhead transport plane 7 for the fed mail items 4 and below a print head 8 of the printing unit 2 Has opening 9 for printing the mail items 4.
  • the guide plate 9 forms the horizontal transport plane 7, along which the mail items 4 arriving at the conveyor end of the transfer table 5 are picked up by a conveyor 11 of a conveyor device 12 at the front end 13 and transported by this under the printing unit 2 and the printing unit 2 continues along the transport plane leave.
  • the conveyor 11 and the conveyor level 7 are at a standstill, respectively.
  • Conveying channel 14 which extends at least approximately over the width of the conveying plane 7 and is delimited by a lateral guide 15 for positioning a mail item 4.
  • the latter points in the effective area of the conveying strand 24, 25 of the traction means 18, 19 in the conveying direction F of the traction means 18, 19 assigned to them Corrugations 47 and channel-shaped depressions, in which the shipping items 4 are deformed by the traction means 18, 19 to the semicircular surface of the latter - not in contact with this - in order to optimally use the conveying effect of the upper run 24 of the traction means 18, 19 and to be able to largely exclude the friction of the mail items 4 on the large-area guide plate 6.
  • the conveying mechanism 11 consists of at least two traction means 18, 19, which are spaced apart from one another around common horizontal axes on deflection roller pairs 16, 17 laterally spaced in the conveying direction F, and which each form a strand 24, 25 along the conveying plane 7 and opposite it.
  • the traction means 18, 19 are preferably designed with a circular full cross-section and consist of an elastic material such as rubber or a rubber mixture, which give off a favorable coefficient of friction. Accordingly, the deflection rollers of the deflection roller pairs 16, 17 have a groove or running groove on the circumference, which corresponds to the cross section of a circumferential traction means 18, 19.
  • the strand 24, 25 of the traction means 18, 19, respectively. the upper 24 and the lower Trum 25 are between the pulleys on running or.
  • the rollers 20, 21 of the conveyor 11 support / guide the strands 24, 25 evenly on a transport or Guide plane 7 parallel conveying section 22 of the upper run 24 and the ineffective lower run 25 of the traction means 18, 19.
  • the running / supporting rollers 20 acting in a supporting manner on the inside on the conveying section 22 of the upper run 24 are achieved by a spring force exerted on the double lever 26, for example by a spring force Fig. 1 and 2 tension spring 23 shown.
  • the upper rollers 20 hold the upper run 24 in the area of the conveyor section 22 against the guide plate 6 below the printing unit 2, so that the conveyor sections 44 of the run 24 are approximately in contact with the guide plate 2 in the inoperative position.
  • the device is characterized, among other things, by the fact that, with the adjustable strands 24, 25 of the traction means 18, 19, a permanent tension of the latter is maintained both outside of operation and during operation of the present conveyor system 11.
  • the entrance area in front of the conveyor gap / channel 14, viewed in the conveying direction F, has a roller 20 standing higher than the front deflection roller 16 and subsequent rollers 20, so that, viewed in the conveying direction F, a rising and conveying traction element 31 formed by the upper run arises, its rise changes by the different thickness mail pieces 4 in the cycle of the feed. Thicker or thinner mail pieces 4 supplied in a clocked manner change the inclination of the rise in the traction element sections 31 acting in the supply area and the cross-sectional height of the conveyor gap, respectively.
  • Conveyor channel 14 respectively. the location of the strand 24.25.
  • the length of the conveyor gap / channel 14 depends on the thickness of a mail item 4.
  • the traction means 18, 19 are kept under constant tension by the double levers 26, which each form a traction mechanism, permanently loaded with spring force, and the running / support rollers 20, 21 on the inside of the strands 24, 25 of a traction means 18, 19.
  • the conveyor 11 (tensioning mechanism) formed from common axes 32, 33 for the deflection rollers 16, 17 of the traction means 18, 19, aligned transversely to the direction of movement F of the mail items 4, is in the machine frame 10 of the franking machine 3, for example in a lower part of a machine stand, below of the printing unit 2 arranged.
  • the deflection rollers 16, 17 are attached to the driven shafts 34, 35 which form the axes 32, 33 and are mounted in the machine frame 10 and by which a shaft 34 and 35 is driven.
  • the double levers 26 are of between the axes 32, 33, respectively.
  • the transverse rods 36 are preferably arranged or respectively in a (horizontal) plane formed by the axes 32, 33 of the deflecting rollers 16, 17 of the traction means 18, 19. attached in the machine frame 10.
  • the lever arms 27, 28 of equal length, which each make up a double lever 26, are according to FIGS Figs. 1 to 3 connected at an angle of about 90 °.
  • the lever arms 27, 28 of a pivotable double lever 26 are distributed approximately symmetrically on the plane of the transverse rods 36 and change the position of a mail item 4 transported through the printing unit 2 due to its thickness acting on the upper run 24 as in Fig. 2 shown.
  • the springs 23 exerting a spring force are connected at one end to an end facing the double lever 26 with one of the lever arms 27, 28 of the double lever 26 and at the opposite end at an end in about the plane of the cross bars 36 arranged fastening element 37 clamped.
  • the traction element sections 31 are each in the area of the intake sections 30 of the upper strand 24 a friction wheel forming an intake gap 39 with the strand 24, respectively.
  • Retraction wheel 38 assigned, which is acted upon by a spring force.
  • a mail item 4 arriving at the intake section 30 is initially received at the front edge 40 in the intake gap 39 formed by the intake sections 30 and friction wheels 38 and transported further by this unit, with the friction wheels 38 being freely rotatable or like the speed of the traction means 18, 19 can be driven and are pressed by springs 41 onto the mail items 4 on the intake section 30.
  • the friction wheels 38 are fastened to a common shaft 42, which is positioned transversely to the conveying direction F and which is pivotably arranged on levers 43 loaded by springs 41.
  • the same constructional measure is provided at the transition to the delivery 45 behind the printing unit 2, where a guide element 46 provided with slot-like recesses 44 and an ejection roller 49 driven about an axis transversely to the conveying direction F removes the printed mail items 4 from the traction means 18, 19 and continues.

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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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