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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

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• the present invention relates to a method and apparatus in a plant including at least two insertion machines, for coordinating product streams from the machines, the stream in turn having been branched off from a stream of news- papers coming from a newspaper printing press, to a single stream of newspapers having the same speed as the one coming from the press.
• One object of the present invention is to provide a method and apparatus of the kind mentioned in the introduction, which solves this problem.
• Essentially distinguishing for the invention is that two or more streams of newspapers from the insertion machines, one. stream from each machine. are put together, to for a.
• a coordinating con ⁇ veying means including a reception conveyor and a trans- verse collecting conveyor, that the newspapers from the respective insertion machine being deposited in pre ⁇ determined positions on the reception conveyor such that the stream from a first insertion machine is taken to the starting end of the conveyor and the remaining streams in turn to successive positions along the conveyor, the centre line of the respective stream being displaced a pre ⁇ determined distance laterally relative the conveyor, for providing overlapping of the newspapers separately de ⁇ posited from the different streams across the conveyor, that consecutive batches consisting of one newspaper from each stream conveyed on the conveyor thereafter are fed out to the collecting conveyor at 90 to the reception conveyor, the conveying speeds of the two conveyors being mutually synchronized, and that each of the different batches is deposited on the last newspaper of a batch pre- viosly depositedon thecollecting conveyor and with the same displacement as the spacing of the newspapers in each batch, for thus providing a uniform stream of newspapers.
• a stream 5 of newspapers coming from a newspaper printing press 4 is branched off in the illustrated embodiment into three branch streams 6, 7, 8 in a manner known per se.
• These branch streams 6, 7, 8 are taken to three insertion machines 9, 10, 11. After the respective insertion machine 9, 10, 11 the branch streams 6, 7, 8 are led to a reception
• the processed, newspapers 1, 2, 3 from the respective machine 9, 10, 11 are deposited on the conveyor t 12, Where each separate newspaper 1, 2, 3 assumes its given position.
• the positions of the newspapers 1, 2, 3 5 are thus synchronized with each other in the different streams 6, 7, 8.
• the individual newspapers 1, 2, 3 may lie completely separate from each other, for example.
• the synchronized streams 6, 7, 8 are led over, in a manner known per se, to the reception conveyor 12, which can be
• each compartment accommodating with some margin a "width" of each newspaper in the conveying direction.
• the different streams 6, 7, 8 connect up with the reception conveyor 12 successively along the length of the conveyor, i.e. the first stream 6 is led on to the
• the centre lines 13, 14, 15 of the respective streams 6, 7, 8 are displaced laterally in relation to the conveying path of the conveyor 12.
• the first stream 6 is
• conveyor 12 takes place in the following manner: A news ⁇ paper 1 is deposited from the stream 6 at the beginning of the path of the conveyor 12, as illustrated on the drawing, and is thus placed in a position farthest to the right, the conveyor path being transverse the streams coming from
• OMPI 1, 2, 3 lying partially one on top of the other.
• the overlap is 50 mm between each individual newspaper, i.e. as much as the streams 6, 7, 8 coming onto the conveyor 12 are displaced in relation to each other.
• This batch 17 of three newspapers 1, 2, 3 is now conveyed to a collecting conveyor 18 at right-angles to the conveyor 12.
• the speed of the conveyor 18 is synchronized to that of the conveyor 12, such that when the first batch 17 of newspapers 1, 2, 3 is transferred to the collecting conveyor 18, this batch is conveyed sideways with a speed of a magnitude such that when the next batch of newspapers 1, 2, 3 arrives on the conveyor 18 the last newspaper 3 of the first batch 17 is in aposition such that the first newspaper 1 in the next batch 17 is deposited on it with a displacement of 50 mm, i.e. the mutual spacing of the three newspapers 1, 2, 3 in the batch 17.
• a conventional angular conveyor (not illustrated) is subsequently used for turning the news ⁇ paper streams to form an overlapped configuration of news ⁇ papers conveyed with the back or the long edge first.
• a stop plate 20 arranged on the conveyor 18 is provided to arrest the movement of the batches 17 from the reception conveyor 12 when they arrive on the conveyor 18.
• the speed of the newspaper stream 5 leaving the newspaper printing press 4 is 45,000 newspapers/hour.
• Each of the branch streams 6, 7, 8 has a speed of 15,000newspapers/hour.
• this rapidly moving stream 19 has been given a speed substantially corresponding to the speed of the stream.5 of newspapers coming from the press 4, i.e. 45,000 newspapers/hour.

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• 1982
  • 1982-11-12 SE SE8206468A patent/SE8206468L/sv not_active Application Discontinuation
• 1983
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