US20080191402A1 - Interface Device for Transporting and Repositioning Sheets - Google Patents

Interface Device for Transporting and Repositioning Sheets Download PDF

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US20080191402A1
US20080191402A1 US11/996,841 US99684106A US2008191402A1 US 20080191402 A1 US20080191402 A1 US 20080191402A1 US 99684106 A US99684106 A US 99684106A US 2008191402 A1 US2008191402 A1 US 2008191402A1
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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
    • B65H39/00—Associating, collating, or gathering articles or webs
    • B65H39/02—Associating,collating or gathering articles from several sources
    • B65H39/06—Associating,collating or gathering articles from several sources from delivery streams
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2301/00—Handling processes for sheets or webs
    • B65H2301/30—Orientation, displacement, position of the handled material
    • B65H2301/33—Modifying, selecting, changing orientation
    • B65H2301/332—Turning, overturning
    • B65H2301/3321—Turning, overturning kinetic therefor
    • B65H2301/33212—Turning, overturning kinetic therefor about an axis parallel to the direction of displacement of material
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2301/00—Handling processes for sheets or webs
    • B65H2301/30—Orientation, displacement, position of the handled material
    • B65H2301/33—Modifying, selecting, changing orientation
    • B65H2301/332—Turning, overturning
    • B65H2301/3322—Turning, overturning according to a determined angle
    • B65H2301/33222—90°
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2301/00—Handling processes for sheets or webs
    • B65H2301/40—Type of handling process
    • B65H2301/44—Moving, forwarding, guiding material
    • B65H2301/443—Moving, forwarding, guiding material by acting on surface of handled material
    • B65H2301/4431—Moving, forwarding, guiding material by acting on surface of handled material by means with operating surfaces contacting opposite faces of material
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2404/00—Parts for transporting or guiding the handled material
    • B65H2404/20—Belts
    • B65H2404/26—Particular arrangement of belt, or belts
    • B65H2404/261—Arrangement of belts, or belt(s) / roller(s) facing each other for forming a transport nip

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  • This invention relates, generally, to paper-handling machines. More particularly, it relates to a machine that receives a pair of documents disposed in lateral relation to one another and discharges them with one document in overlying relation to the other.
  • Two documents or articles are sandwiched between an upper link and a lower link as they enter the machine in lateral relation to one another, carried by a conveyor belt or other suitable conveyor means. As they enter the machine, the two articles are in a horizontal plane.
  • a first pair of twisted belts engages a first article and rotates it ninety degrees (90°) into a vertical plane.
  • a second pair of twisted belts engages the second article and rotates it ninety degrees (90°) as well so that the first and second articles are disposed in spaced apart, parallel relation to one another.
  • the first article is then transported between a first pair of confronting elongate O-rings towards a pair of opposing rollers.
  • the second article is transported between a second pair of confronting elongate towards the same opposing rollers.
  • the first and second articles remain in their respective vertical positions while engaged by said elongate, opposing O rings, but are disposed in abutting relation to one another after they pass through the nip of the opposing rollers.
  • the abutting articles are then engaged by a third pair of twisted belts that simultaneously rotate the articles ninety degrees (90°) so that they are again disposed in a horizontal plane.
  • the first article overlies the second article, or vice versa, depending upon the direction of the twist provided by the twisted belts.
  • the articles are then deposited atop conveyor means 44 and carried to a discharge station. Said articles may be discharged into an inserter bin, an accumulator, or the like.
  • a primary advantage of this invention is that the path of travel of the printed documents is not abruptly changed at any time so that a generally forward path of travel is obtained at all times.
  • a closely related advantage is that such arrangement allows the machine to run much faster than a prior art machine where the path of travel is from longitudinal to transverse and back to longitudinal.
  • FIG. 1 is a top plan view of the novel folder interface machine
  • FIG. 2 is a side elevational view thereof.
  • Articles 12 and 14 are personalized printed documents that have been folded symmetrically along a line transverse to the direction of travel of said articles. However, it is not critical that the documents be folded. Said direction of travel is hereby defined as being a longitudinal path of travel and is denoted by single-headed directional arrows 16 , 18 . Note that articles 12 , 14 are disposed in lateral relation to one another in the plane of the paper as depicted in FIG. 1 .
  • articles 12 and 14 are sandwiched between upper link 20 and lower link 22 as they enter machine 10 , carried by a conveyor belt, not depicted, or other suitable conveyor means.
  • Articles 12 , 14 are normal to the plane of the paper in FIG. 2 .
  • Upper nip 24 is positioned in leading relation to lower nip 26 to reduce the chances that a thick article will become jammed as it passes between said nips.
  • a first pair of twisted belts collectively denoted 28 , engage article 12 and rotate it ninety degrees (90°) into a vertical plane, i.e., so that it is disposed normal to the plane of the paper.
  • a second pair of twisted belts collectively denoted 30 , engage article 14 and rotate it ninety degrees (90°) into a vertical plane, i.e., so that it is disposed normal to the plane of the paper.
  • Articles 12 and 14 are now disposed in transversely spaced apart, parallel relation to one another
  • Article 12 is then transported between confronting elongate O-rings 32 , 34 towards opposing rollers 36 , 38 and, at the same time, article 14 is transported between confronting elongate O-rings 40 , 42 , towards said opposing rollers 36 , 38 .
  • Articles 12 and 14 remain in the vertical, normal to the plane of the paper position while engaged by said elongate, opposing O rings, but are disposed in abutting relation to one another after they pass through the nip of rollers 36 , 38 .
  • Articles 12 and 14 are then engaged by a third pair of twisted belts, collectively denoted 42 , that rotate articles 12 , 14 ninety degrees (90°) so that they are again in the plane of the paper.
  • Article 12 will now overlie article 14 , or vice versa, depending upon the direction of the twist provided by the twisted belts. They may also be staggered (shiplapped) by any preselected distance.
  • Articles 12 and 14 are then deposited atop conveyor means 44 and carried to a discharge station. Said articles may be discharged into an inserter bin, an accumulator, or the like.
  • articles 12 and 14 maintain a substantially longitudinal path of travel through machine 10 .
  • they When they are converged toward one another by the confronting elongate O rings, they are not required to stop or slow down and they maintain their forward path of travel.
  • the repeated stopping and starting caused by the prior art method of changing from a forward path of travel to a sideways path of travel and back to a forward path of travel is eliminated.
  • the machine thus has a simpler construction, is less expensive to build, and can run faster with fewer jams or other malfunctions as compared to the earlier machines of this type.
  • FIGS. 1 and 2 The positions of articles 12 and 14 are shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 for exemplary purposes only, to show their positioning within various parts of the apparatus as described above.

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