EP4244067A1 - Presse d'impression à feuilles ayant un séchoir pour le séchage de feuilles imprimées par un dispositif d'impression sans impact - Google Patents

Presse d'impression à feuilles ayant un séchoir pour le séchage de feuilles imprimées par un dispositif d'impression sans impact

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EP4244067A1
EP4244067A1 EP22764716.1A EP22764716A EP4244067A1 EP 4244067 A1 EP4244067 A1 EP 4244067A1 EP 22764716 A EP22764716 A EP 22764716A EP 4244067 A1 EP4244067 A1 EP 4244067A1
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sheet
sheets
fed printing
dryer
cooling
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Annemarie Koch
Heinz Michael Koch
Maik Walter
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Koenig and Bauer AG
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41F—PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES
    • B41F19/00—Apparatus or machines for carrying out printing operations combined with other operations
    • B41F19/007—Apparatus or machines for carrying out printing operations combined with other operations with selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet or thermal printers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41F—PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES
    • B41F21/00—Devices for conveying sheets through printing apparatus or machines
    • B41F21/10—Combinations of transfer drums and grippers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41F—PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES
    • B41F23/00—Devices for treating the surfaces of sheets, webs, or other articles in connection with printing
    • B41F23/04—Devices for treating the surfaces of sheets, webs, or other articles in connection with printing by heat drying, by cooling, by applying powders
    • B41F23/044—Drying sheets, e.g. between two printing stations
    • B41F23/0443—Drying sheets, e.g. between two printing stations after printing
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41F—PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES
    • B41F23/00—Devices for treating the surfaces of sheets, webs, or other articles in connection with printing
    • B41F23/04—Devices for treating the surfaces of sheets, webs, or other articles in connection with printing by heat drying, by cooling, by applying powders
    • B41F23/044—Drying sheets, e.g. between two printing stations
    • B41F23/045—Drying sheets, e.g. between two printing stations by radiation
    • B41F23/0456—Drying sheets, e.g. between two printing stations by radiation by infrared dryers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41F—PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES
    • B41F23/00—Devices for treating the surfaces of sheets, webs, or other articles in connection with printing
    • B41F23/04—Devices for treating the surfaces of sheets, webs, or other articles in connection with printing by heat drying, by cooling, by applying powders
    • B41F23/044—Drying sheets, e.g. between two printing stations
    • B41F23/0463—Drying sheets, e.g. between two printing stations by convection
    • B41F23/0466—Drying sheets, e.g. between two printing stations by convection by using heated air
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41F—PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES
    • B41F23/00—Devices for treating the surfaces of sheets, webs, or other articles in connection with printing
    • B41F23/04—Devices for treating the surfaces of sheets, webs, or other articles in connection with printing by heat drying, by cooling, by applying powders
    • B41F23/0483—Drying combined with cooling
    • 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
    • B41J11/0015—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 for treating before, during or after printing or for uniform coating or laminating the copy material before or after printing
    • B41J11/002—Curing or drying the ink on the copy materials, e.g. by heating or irradiating
    • B41J11/0021—Curing or drying the ink on the copy materials, e.g. by heating or irradiating using irradiation
    • B41J11/00216—Curing or drying the ink on the copy materials, e.g. by heating or irradiating using irradiation using infrared [IR] radiation or microwaves
    • 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
    • B41J11/0015—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 for treating before, during or after printing or for uniform coating or laminating the copy material before or after printing
    • B41J11/002—Curing or drying the ink on the copy materials, e.g. by heating or irradiating
    • B41J11/0022—Curing or drying the ink on the copy materials, e.g. by heating or irradiating using convection means, e.g. by using a fan for blowing or sucking air
    • 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

Definitions

  • Sheet-fed printing machine with a dryer for drying sheets printed by a non-impact printing device
  • the invention relates to a sheet-fed printing machine with a dryer for drying sheets printed by a non-impact printing device, according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • the machine arrangement described below that forms a sheet-fed printing press for processing sheet-shaped substrates has a plurality of machine units arranged one after the other in the transport direction of the sheets, with at least one of these machine units having a transport device that transports the sheets along a linear transport path.
  • This transport device is preferably designed as at least one transport belt, on which the sheets are transported individually one after the other. While they are lying on the at least one conveyor belt, the individual sheets are each held in place by a suction force, d. H. held by a holding force caused by a suction flow frictionally or non-positively on the conveyor belt in question.
  • the suction force is usually realized by a negative pressure acting on the respective sheet with reference to the surrounding barometric air pressure by means of a suction device.
  • Such a transport device is arranged in the sheet-processing machine arrangement, inter alia, in a dryer that dries the sheets.
  • the dryer is thus designed in particular as a continuous dryer for sheets in a single layer.
  • the dryer is followed by a cooling device for air conditioning and/or conditioning of the sheets heated in the dryer.
  • Following the cooling device z. B. arranged a suction belt table.
  • DE 102016207 397 A1 discloses a sheet-fed printing press with a dryer that dries sheets printed by a non-impact printing device.
  • DE 102011 009693 A1 discloses a cooling module for cooling substrates, in particular solar cells printed with paste after they have passed through a heating module, the cooling module having the following: an elongated cooling chamber with an inlet opening, which is adjacent to the heating module, and an outlet opening ; a transport unit for transporting substrates through the elongated cooling chamber, the transport unit defining a transport plane for the substrates; at least one first cooling unit, having a plurality of first plate elements, each of which extends substantially perpendicular to and above the transport plane in the cooling chamber, at least one first duct element, which extends through the first plate elements and is in thermally conductive relationship therewith, and at least one conveying unit for conducting a cooling fluid through the first line element; and a conveyor unit for conducting gas, in particular air, through spaces between the plate elements in the direction of the transport plane, wherein at least one second cooling unit is provided, with a plurality of second plate elements, each of which is essentially perpendicular to and below the transport plane in the cooling
  • DE 93 13212 U1 discloses a device for guiding an elongate web of material through a space of a plant that is limited in height, having a retaining element for gripping the insertion end of the web of material.
  • DE 3943466 A1 discloses a cooling device for a sheet-fed printing press, this cooling device having a conveyor belt and being foldable in a frame.
  • DE 12 93 163 A discloses a device for drying printing ink on a web-shaped print material, in particular a paper web, with this device having a cooling zone following a heating zone, in which cooling air is directed onto the print material by means of a fan and the used air is discharged , wherein the cooling zone is formed by a hood and a distribution chamber arranged within this at a distance from its walls on all sides, which has a nozzle base directing the cooling air onto the printed material, the air supply line being guided through the cover wall of the hood into the distribution chamber and the air extraction line being connected to the hood is connected.
  • EP 2 463 100 A1 discloses a sheet-processing machine, in particular a sheet-fed printing press, with a varnishing unit and one or more combination dryers, the combination dryers applying both radiant energy and heated air to the freshly varnished sheet, the combination dryers having a large number of round or polygonal air nozzles, between which narrow-band high-power infrared light sources are arranged, from which the coated sheet can be subjected to a total radiation density of at least 25 kW/m 2 , the temperature of the heated air passing through the nozzles being below 100°C, preferably below of 80°C.
  • a transport device comprising a transport unit that transports a sheet-shaped transport material without holding a one-sided portion of the transport material in a transport direction, and a blowing unit that blows air against a lower surface of the transport material transporting material transported by the transporting unit blows via a plurality of blowing holes opening with respect to the lower surface, wherein an arrangement interval of the plurality of blowing holes in the transporting direction is inconstant in the transporting direction.
  • An image forming device is known from US 2020/0 122 492 A1, comprising an endless transport belt for moving a sheet through the image forming device; a vacuum chamber for applying vacuum pressure through the transport belt, the vacuum chamber holding the sheet to the transport belt by a vacuum that draws air through the transport belt; and a drive or idler pulley for supporting the conveyor belt above the vacuum chamber, the pulley comprising: a hollow internal channel extending along an axial portion of the roller; an outer surface that is a running surface for the conveyor belt; a first end providing an air inlet hole for the hollow internal passage, the air inlet hole for receiving air from an air source; and perforations formed through a drum wall in the roller, the perforations allowing air pressure to be vented from the hollow internal channel towards the transport belt, the air diffusing through the transport belt to detach a sheet from the transport belt and a A baffle defined as a screen conforming to at least a peripheral portion of the outer surface of the roller, the baffle being slidable relative to the outer surface between
  • an image forming apparatus comprising: a medium transport section that transports a medium in a medium transport direction; an ink jet printing section that forms images on the medium being transported using ink; a varnish application section which applies an aqueous varnish to the medium on which the images have been formed; a treatment section that performs heating and drying treatment on the medium so that a tack evaluation value reaches 0.24 or less, which is the tack evaluation value indicating a degree of tack of the aqueous varnish applied to the medium when the medium to which the aqueous varnish has been applied is discharged to the varnish application section, and which is derived using a damped oscillation percentage of a pendulum, which is allowed to make pendulum motions, of an arbitrary location on the medium on which the aqueous varnish has been applied as a fulcrum; and a collecting section that collects the medium to which the aqueous varnish has been applied using the varnish application section and to which the treatment has been carried out
  • a system comprising: an imaging device comprising a processing stage configured to cause media sheets to be heated; and an apparatus for treating sheets of media after an image has been formed on the sheets of media by the imaging device, the apparatus for treating sheets of media being disposed on an output side of the imaging device and comprising: a perforated conveying and supporting substrate disposed so that it conveys the media sheets through a stabilization zone in which the conveyance and support substrate has a limited curvature; a suction device configured to apply a vacuum to the perforations of the conveyor and support substrate in the stabilization zone to suck the media sheets against the conveyor and support substrate; and a cooling system arranged to actively cool the media sheets while the media sheets are sucked against the conveyor and support substrate in the stabilization zone, the stabilization zone comprising an input side and an output side, the conveyor and support substrate forming part of an endless conveyor, the cooling system being arranged around the conveyor and support substrate in a return path from the output side to the input side, and the
  • US 2012/0 162 304 A1 shows that a dryer prints sheets respectively to 60°C to 80°C and a cooling device for cooling the sheets heated in the dryer to 15°C to 30°C.
  • a printing machine comprising: a print head configured to generate an ink on a printing surface, the ink containing at least one element; a dryer operatively configured to dry the ink deposited on the printing surface, the dryer being in fluid communication with an exhaust flow to exhaust the at least one element; at least one sensor operatively connected to the exhaust stream of the dryer, the at least one sensor being configured to i) determine a flow rate of the at least one element present in the exhaust stream and/or ii) determine a moisture content of the exhaust stream and/or or iii) determines a temperature of the exhaust stream and/or iv) identifies the at least one element; and a controller operatively connected to the at least one sensor and the dryer, the controller comprising at least one program for determining a degree of ink dryness detected on the printing surface based on a comparison of the at least one element of the exhaust stream and either i) the at least one in the element present in the ink before
  • JP 2015 - 155 091 A discloses a drying device with a drying module, the drying module having a blower box and a guide surface delimiting the blower box in the direction of the surface of the printing material to be dried, with a blower and an air guide grille being arranged as a heating register above the guide surface .
  • JP H07 - 186 368 A a drying device is known, with between a guide surface of the drying device and a conveyor belt of a transport device transporting the printing material to be dried along a drying section through the drying device, a gap is formed in the form of an annular gap, this gap having a gap width of up to 30 mm.
  • CN 1 10 884263 A discloses a dryer for a sheet-fed printing press, the dryer output of the dryer being set by a control device, the controlled variable of the regulation carried out by the control device for setting the dryer output of the dryer being a moisture content of the printed sheets to be dried.
  • the invention is based on the object of creating a sheet-fed printing press with a dryer that dries sheets printed by a non-impact printing device, with reliable onward transport of the sheets dried in the dryer being ensured.
  • FIG. 2 shows a side view of the cooling device with several cooling modules
  • FIG. 3 shows an enlarged side view of a cooling module of the cooling device
  • FIG. 4 shows a plan view of a guide surface of a cooling module of the cooling device
  • FIG. 5 shows a drying module of the dryer arranged in the sheet-fed printing press after the non-impact printing device
  • FIG. 10 shows a drying module with an integrated infrared radiation source.
  • the sheet-fed printing press first has a sheet feeder 01, in which a first stack 02 of sheets is ready for processing.
  • the sheets are preferably rectangular substrates of paper, card or paperboard. Paper, cardboard and cardboard differ in their respective grammage, ie the weight in grams for one square meter of this Arc. Paper has a basis weight between 30 g/m 2 and 150 g/m 2 , cardboard has a basis weight between 150 g/m 2 and 600 g/m 2 and cardboard has a basis weight of more than 600 g/m 2 .
  • the sheets can also each have a substrate made of a plastic and/or as a thin sheet made of a z. B. metallic material.
  • Sheet feeder 01 can also be embodied as a magazine feeder having a plurality of first stacks 02.
  • a sheet separator 03 which is also referred to as a suction head, successively grips each of the stacked sheets from above and guides these sheets, e.g. B. by means of a first rocking gripper 04 and, if necessary, a transfer drum 34 interacting with the first rocking gripper 04 in a sequence of sheets separated from one another, e.g. g. to a first coating device 05, with this first coating device 05 e.g. B. is designed as a primer application device.
  • the first coating device 05 has a z. B. designed as a pressure cylinder transport cylinder 06 and z. B.
  • a printing unit cylinder 07 that interacts with this transport cylinder 06 and has an forme roller 08 that is or at least can be set against this printing unit cylinder 07, preferably in the form of an anilox roller, with at least one doctor blade being positioned in the axial direction of the forme roller 08 for optimal dosing of a coating material to be applied to the surface of the sheet 09 or a chamber doctor blade system 09 extends.
  • Transport cylinder 06 transports the sheets held on its lateral surface along a curved transport path, in particular in the shape of a circular arc.
  • the first coating device 05 carries the coating material, e.g. B. a primer either over the entire surface or only at certain, ie at predetermined locations, ie partially.
  • the sheets are then transported by the transport cylinder 06 of the first coating device 05, e.g. B. by means of a preferably endlessly circulating first gripper system 11, in particular a first chain conveyor, and z. B. at least one first conveyor belt 12 passed to a non-impact printing device 13, wherein the first gripper system 11 and the first Conveyor belt 12 interact when transferring the sheets to the non-impact printing device 13, in such a way that the first gripper system 11 delivers the sheets to the first conveyor belt 12, which has a linear transport section, with a transfer of the sheets to the non-impact -Printing device 13 takes place from the first conveyor belt 12.
  • the first conveyor belt 12 is preferably designed as a circulating endless belt.
  • a first dryer 14 is provided in the area of the first gripper system 11, which dries the sheets that have been coated in the first coating unit 05.
  • B. is designed as a hot air dryer and / or as a drying by IR radiation or UV radiation dryer.
  • the non-impact printing device 13 usually has several, e.g. B. four each independently controllable inkjet printing devices, each of these inkjet printing devices to create a preferably multicolored print image each have a different ink on the z. B. previously coated in the first coating device 05 side of the sheet.
  • the non-impact printing device 13 preferably has a second conveyor belt 16, so that the sheets are printed by the inkjet printing devices while they are lying on this second conveyor belt 16.
  • the second conveyor belt 16 is preferably designed as a circulating endless belt.
  • a second dryer 17 drying the printed sheets is arranged downstream of the non-impact printing device 13 in the transport direction T of the sheets. B.
  • the second dryer 17 has a transport device 18 which transports the sheets horizontally in a translatory manner, ie along a linear transport path.
  • This transport device 18 is designed as a third transport belt 18 in the sheet-fed printing press shown as an example in FIG.
  • the third conveyor belt 18 is also preferably designed as a circulating endless belt.
  • the transport device 18 of the second in this example Dryer 17 transfers the dried sheets preferably to a generally immediately downstream suction belt table 19, from which the sheets z. B. by means of a second oscillating gripper 21 and optionally a transfer drum 33 cooperating with the second oscillating gripper 21 to a second coating device 22 .
  • the second coating device 22 is z. B.
  • the second coating device 22 has a z. B. designed as a pressure cylinder transport cylinder 23, with this transport cylinder 23 z. B. a printing unit cylinder 24 interacts with an applicator roller 26 that is or at least can be positioned on this printing unit cylinder 24, preferably in the form of an anilox roller, with at least one doctor blade 27 or a chamber doctor blade system 27 extending in the axial direction of the applicator roller 26.
  • the first conveyor belt 12 and/or the second conveyor belt 16 and/or the third conveyor belt 18 are each preferably designed as a circulating flat belt and also preferably as a suction belt, with the suction belt having a perforation at least in sections.
  • the sheets are then from the transport cylinder 23 of the second coating device 22 z. B. by means of a preferably endlessly revolving second gripper system 28, in particular a second chain conveyor, to a delivery 29, with the sheets processed in this sheet-fed printing press described by way of example being deposited by the second gripper system 28 in the delivery 29, preferably in a second stack 32.
  • a third dryer 31 drying the sheets coated in the second coating device 22 is provided in the area of the second gripper system 28.
  • B. is designed as a hot air dryer and / or as a drying by IR radiation or UV radiation dryer.
  • the display 29 can also be used as one multiple second stacks 32 having multi-stack display can be formed.
  • the machine arrangement shown as an example in FIG. 1 is designed as a digital printing machine for use in an industrial printing process, in particular for producing printed products in mass production.
  • This machine arrangement which forms a sheet-fed printing press, feeds individual sheets sequentially, starting at sheet feeder 01 to delivery 29, at a transport speed of several thousand sheets per hour, e.g. B. with a transport speed in the range between 2,500 and 10,000 sheets per hour.
  • a transport speed of several thousand sheets per hour
  • e.g. B. with a transport speed in the range between 2,500 and 10,000 sheets per hour.
  • individual sheets that follow one another directly in the sequence are each spaced apart from one another by a gap.
  • This gap is significantly smaller than a length of the sheets extending in the transport direction T of the sheets and is only a few millimeters, e.g. B. about 20 mm.
  • Arched sheets provided at the outlet of the dryer 17 can also be transported by a transport device downstream of the dryer 17 in the transport direction T of the sheets, e.g. B. from the transport device of a cooling device 36 or a suction belt table 19 due to poor detection can no longer be taken over reliably, which in particular very quickly leads to a malfunction in said machine arrangement having several transport devices if such sheets are transported at a transport speed of several thousand sheets per hour, e.g. B. follow one another with a transport speed in the range between 2,500 and 10,000 sheets per hour.
  • the reason for the inadequate detection of the arched sheets is, in particular, that the bending resistance forces inherent in the curvature of the sheets in question cannot be overcome by a height-dependent suction force exerted by a suction belt.
  • arched sheets e.g. B. by means of a mechanical hold-down device for flatness.
  • the sheets which are strongly heated in the dryer 17 as a result of the drying process, also heat the devices that transport them further, in particular the conveyor belt 18 of the relevant transport device, to the extent that this conveyor belt 18 stretches and thus its tension and, as a result, its straight running loses.
  • condensed water condenses on cooler z. B. metallic components such. B. transport rollers 38 of the dryer 17 downstream transport facilities down. This is because sheets dried in the dryer 17 and previously printed by the non-impact printing device 13 exhibit increased evaporation of the water and solvents contained in the printing ink applied. These vapors are then reflected on cold components and lead to partly massive condensation in the machine units downstream of the dryer 17, such as a suction belt table 19, a z. B. as second coating device 22 and/or the delivery 29.
  • a cooling device 36 be arranged immediately downstream of the dryer 17 in the transport direction T of the sheets. H. from the dryer 17 separate frame is designed as an independent machine unit.
  • the transport device 18 of the dryer 17, designed as a conveyor belt 18, can also extend continuously through the cooling device.
  • the cooling device 36 is preferably arranged in an independent frame and has a conveyor belt that belongs solely to the cooling device 36 and is therefore separate from the dryer 17 .
  • the dryer 17 is heated to significantly more than 80 ° C and now z. B. to 30 ° C cooled arc preferably taken over by a suction belt table 19.
  • the cooling device 36 has at least one cooling module 37 above a conveying plane E, in which sheets lying flat are conveyed through the cooling device 36, preferably several along a z. B. linear transport route cooling modules 37 lined up.
  • Each cooling module 37 is z. B. removably plugged into a frame and / or arranged foldable together with its frame in a frame of the relevant cooling device 36, whereby the accessibility to the relevant cooling module 37 z. B. is improved for its cleaning and / or maintenance.
  • the cooling device 36 when designed as an endlessly revolving conveyor belt transport device conveying plane E for the sheets in cooling device 36, i.e.
  • conveying plane E is preferably formed by a conveyor belt 18 extending through cooling device 36
  • the arrangement of the relevant cooling module 37 is plugged into a removable frame and/or in a foldable frame very advantageous with regard to maintenance of the relevant transport device and/or any necessary removal of sheets.
  • This conveyor belt 18 is designed either as a conveyor belt of the dryer 17 that also extends through the cooling device 36 or as a conveyor belt that belongs solely to the cooling device 36, with the cooling device 36 in the latter variant being arranged in its own frame, i.e. separate from the dryer 17 .
  • the relevant cooling module 37 is preferably designed in such a way that it uses air as a coolant, e.g. B. Ambient air or cooled air.
  • each of the cooling modules 37 of the cooling device 36 is z. B. each formed as a blow box 41, wherein the respective blow box 41, the cooling medium is formed in each case on the surface of the sheet to be cooled conductive.
  • the respective blower box 41 is designed in such a way that it forms a narrow gap S37 with a guide surface 42 to the surface of the sheet to be cooled, with its gap width z. B. 8 mm to 35 mm, preferably 20 mm.
  • perforations are arranged as blowing nozzles 43 (FIG. 4), the cooling medium being blown through these blowing nozzles 43 onto the surface of the respective sheet to be cooled.
  • These blowing nozzles 43 are z. B. arranged symmetrically to a center line M extending in the transport direction T of the sheet to be transported through the cooling device 36 .
  • Venturi nozzles 49 may be arranged for a defined removal of the blown from the nozzles 43 itself provide warming air.
  • the guide surface 42 of the respective blower box 41 is arranged at such a height above the surface of the sheet to be cooled that the cross section of an outer annular gap through which a volume flow of the coolant exits the gap S37 is less than or almost equal to the total cross section over all opening areas of the Blow nozzles 43 in the guide surface 42, so that the pressure in the pressure flow is increased and the exchange of energy with the hot surface of the sheet to be cooled is promoted.
  • the annular gap formed between the guide surface 42 of the respective blow box 41 and the surface of the sheets to be cooled thus becomes the actual throttle cross section for the flow system of the cooling device 36.
  • cooling device 36 has a multiple arrangement of cooling modules 37 (Fig. 2), with these cooling modules 37 being arranged along the relevant transport route above the conveying plane E of the sheets to be cooled, separating gaps 39 between adjacent individual cooling modules 37 are formed in such a way that the respective Parting line 39 offers a particularly stepped cross-sectional enlargement for the arched leading edge of a sheet to be cooled, guided in edge guidance along the respective guide surface 42, so that the raised front edge of a sheet to be cooled can never hook into one of the dividing lines 39, creating a stopper.
  • the cooling device 36 is preferably designed in such a way that it cools its transport device.
  • the lower returning strand 44 of this conveyor belt 18 is actively cooled.
  • the lower run 44 of the conveyor belt 18 is guided through a flow space 48, e.g. B. in the form of a tunnel, so that this flow space 48 encloses the lower run 44 of the conveyor belt 18 .
  • This flow space 48 is traversed by a gaseous flow medium, this Fluid preferably flows along both the top and bottom of the lower strand 44 of the conveyor belt 18.
  • the flow space 48 is blown through with cold air and this cold air flows around the lower strand 44 of the conveyor belt 18 as cooling air.
  • the transport device of the cooling device 36 transporting the sheets to be cooled has transport rollers 38, with these transport rollers 38 being activated by a z. B. water as a cooling medium using roll cooling are cooled.
  • the cooling device 36 its cooling capacity is set by a control device, the controlled variable of the regulation carried out by this control device for setting the cooling capacity being a temperature of the sheets in the stack 32 of the delivery 29.
  • the control device carries out a target/actual value comparison, the actual value being provided by a temperature sensor in the display 29 on the control device and the target value being fixed or adjustable on the control device.
  • the control device then outputs a control step specification to at least one actuator that provides the cooling capacity of the cooling device 36 .
  • a dryer output of the dryer 17 arranged upstream of the cooling device 36 is set by the control device, the controlled variable of the regulation carried out by this control device for setting the dryer output of the dryer 17, e.g. B. is a moisture content of the printed sheets to be dried.
  • the control device in turn carries out a target/actual value comparison, the actual value being provided by a moisture sensor detecting the moisture content of the sheet at the control device and the target value being fixed or adjustable at the control device.
  • the control device then gives a Adjustment step specification to at least one actuator providing the dryer performance of the dryer 17 . Since this dryer 17 z. B.
  • the control device is designed as a hot air dryer and / or as a drying by IR radiation dryer, is or are a control variable for setting this dryer performance z.
  • B the amount of hot air blown in and / or the temperature of the hot air blown in and / or the intensity of the IR radiation and / or the duration of the IR radiation.
  • the control device is preferably designed in such a way that it calculates at least one of the aforementioned manipulated variables and the associated control steps with regard to their respective amount and/or their respective direction of action and/or selects it using an algorithm or family of characteristics stored in the control device.
  • the already described cooling device 36 arranged directly downstream of the dryer 17 is designed in such a way that it reduces the surface temperature of the printed sheets dried in the dryer 17 and reduces any residual moisture remaining in the sheets. As a result, the sheets are decurled and gain in flatness, which is easy to process further. The sheets processed in the cooling device 36 then carry hardly any heat energy into downstream machine units. This also reduces the formation of condensate on components in downstream machine units.
  • the side facing the surface of the sheet 64 to be dried which is moved by the sheet-fed printing press in the transport direction T, extends over a z.
  • On the guide surface 61 of the dryer 17 in particular an edge of a sheet 64 that is arched out of the flat position, ie, that stands up, can be guided through the dryer 17 along the drying section.
  • the drying section of the dryer 17 is preferably flat and linear. The sheets 64 are preferably transported lying on at least one conveyor belt along the flat conveying path.
  • various nozzles 62 with differently shaped opening cross sections can be used as required and/or simultaneously in order to use the impulse of the hot air jet to blow the moist air squeegee in the boundary layer just above the surface of the sheet 64 to be dried, d. H. to be removed as far as possible, but at least to be swirled around and thus to ensure an exchange of air on the surface of the sheet 64 to be dried.
  • the nozzles 62 that are arranged in or on the guide surface 61 and are used are e.g. B. designed as round nozzles or slotted nozzles or as Venturi nozzles.
  • a radiation source 63 for infrared radiation emitted by the dryer 17 e.g. B. infrared emitters with a heating coil arranged in a glass tube or infrared halogen emitters with a heating coil arranged in a glass tube filled with a halogen can be used.
  • Surface radiators with heating elements arranged over a large area are also suitable.
  • a cross-sectional area of such infrared radiation sources 63 is z. B. in the form of a circle or an oval or as Twin tube or designed as a square or as a trapezoid, as shown by way of example in FIG. 7 in different representations of the cross-sectional area.
  • Fig. 8 shows an example of different arrangements of the infrared radiation sources 63. So the infrared radiation sources 63 in the guide surface 61 z. B. transversely or longitudinally or at an angle to the transport direction T of the moving sheet 64 or in the form of tiles.
  • FIG. 9 shows, by way of example, two different constructions for integrating the infrared radiation sources 63 into the relevant drying module 54 of the dryer 17.
  • the embodiment a) shown only schematically in FIG. B. made of glass and thus designed to be transmissive for infrared radiation, so that the indicated by directional arrows emitted by the infrared radiation sources 63 infrared radiation can penetrate the guide surface 61 of the dryer 17 in the direction of the surface of the sheet 64 to be dried.
  • the guide surface 61 of the dryer 17 has openings through which the infrared radiation, indicated by directional arrows, emitted by the infrared radiation sources 63 can radiate in the direction of the surface of the sheet 64 to be dried.
  • B. is in the form of an annular gap.
  • several channels 55 can be introduced with a preferably circular cross-section (Fig. 6), through which the moist air in the boundary layer is sucked off immediately above the surface of the sheet 64 to be dried in part.
  • the ducts 55 for partially sucking off the moist air in the boundary layer immediately above the surface of the sheet 64 to be dried are arranged in the guide surface 61 of the dryer 17, preferably in its edge regions running parallel to the transport direction T of the moving sheet 64, which also has a positive effect on a correctly positioned guidance of the moving sheet 64 along the drying path of the dryer 17 has.
  • the drying process which is caused by the fact that the radiant energy emitted by infrared radiation sources 63 primarily heats the surface of the arc 64, but also causes heating with a decreasing effect in its depth, is significantly supported by the proposed gap flow, because on the one hand considerably more heated volume flow of hot air is provided directly on the surface of the sheet to be dried 64 and, on the other hand, the heat-moisture exchange between the moist surface of the sheet to be dried 64 and the gap flow is promoted by the convection, which is expanded by the physical state variable pressure and thus speed becomes. Therefore, the dryer 17 becomes more efficient while retaining all energetic input quantities.
  • the dryer 17 has along a z. B. linear transport path preferably several drying modules 54 lined up. These drying modules 54 are each tight z. B. arranged as an endlessly circulating conveyor belt transport device of the non-impact printing device 13 in the transport direction T of the sheet directly downstream dryer 17.
  • each of the drying modules 54 generally has a blower box 51 and a particularly heat-resistant blower 52 and an air guide grille above the guide surface 61 53 as a heating register, the heating register being used to heat the air that is caused to flow by the blower 52 .
  • Each sheet 64 to be dried is guided in a gap S17 extending between the guide surface 61 of the dryer 17 and the conveyor belt 18, with z. B. it supporting transport rollers 59 are arranged.
  • the gap S17 which is designed in particular as an annular gap, has a gap width between z. B. 8 mm and 35 mm, preferably between 10 mm and 20 mm.
  • At least one infrared radiation source 63 directed at the surface of the sheet 64 to be dried is arranged in a separating gap between drying modules 54 arranged adjacent to one another in the transport direction T of the sheets 64.
  • the infrared radiation source 63 in question is particularly suitable for guiding an edge of the sheet 64 that is arched out of the flat position, ie, that stands up, on its side directed toward the surface of the sheet 64 to be dried, in each case z. B. covered with a protective glass 57.
  • 10 shows a preferred embodiment of the drying module 54, in which the respective infrared radiation source 63 directed towards the surface of the sheet 64 to be dried is integrated in a housing 58 of the drying module 54 concerned.
  • a meandering jet catcher is arranged in the flow path between the fan 52 and the air guide grille 53, so that the fan 52 and the air guide grille 53 are thermally decoupled.
  • suction belt table 0 - 1 second rocking gripper 2 second coating device 3 transport cylinder 4 printing unit cylinder 5 - 6 applicator roller 7 squeegee; chamber doctor blade system second gripper system

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L'invention concerne une presse d'impression à feuilles ayant un séchoir (17) pour le séchage de feuilles (64) imprimées par un dispositif d'impression sans impact (13), le séchoir (17) étant conçu comme un séchoir à air chaud et/ou comme un séchoir pour un séchage par rayonnement infrarouge (IR), dans lequel : un dispositif de refroidissement (36) est disposé directement en aval du séchoir (17) dans la direction de transport (T) des feuilles (64) ; le dispositif de refroidissement (36) possède au moins un module de refroidissement (37) au-dessus d'un plan de convoyage (E) dans lequel les feuilles (64) sont transportées dans un état plat à travers le dispositif de refroidissement (36) ; le module de refroidissement (37) concerné est conçu d'une manière telle qu'il utilise de l'air en tant que milieu de refroidissement ; chacun des modules de refroidissement (37) du dispositif de refroidissement (36) est conçu comme un caisson de soufflante (41) ; chaque caisson de soufflante (41) est conçu pour diriger le milieu de refroidissement sur la surface de chacune des feuilles (64) devant être refroidies ; chaque caisson de soufflante (41) possède des buses de soufflage (43) ; le milieu de refroidissement est soufflé par ces buses de soufflage (43) sur la surface de la feuille (64) particulière devant être refroidie ; chaque caisson de soufflante (41) est conçu d'une manière telle qu'il forme un intervalle (S37) avec une face de guidage (42) par rapport à la surface de la feuille (64) concernée devant être refroidie ; la face de guidage (42) du caisson de soufflante (41) concerné est disposée à une hauteur telle, au-dessus de la surface de la feuille (64) concernée devant être refroidie, que la section transversale d'un intervalle annulaire externe, à travers lequel un écoulement volumique du milieu de refroidissement sort de l'intervalle (S37), est plus petite que ou presque égale à la section transversale totale sur toutes les faces d'ouverture des buses de soufflage (43) dans la face de guidage (42).
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