WO1992012079A1 - Systeme de changement de la vitesse de feuilles acheminees tout en restant en registre - Google Patents

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WO1992012079A1
WO1992012079A1 PCT/US1992/000213 US9200213W WO9212079A1 WO 1992012079 A1 WO1992012079 A1 WO 1992012079A1 US 9200213 W US9200213 W US 9200213W WO 9212079 A1 WO9212079 A1 WO 9212079A1
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Carl Ronald Marschke
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Marquip, Inc.
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G47/00—Article or material-handling devices associated with conveyors; Methods employing such devices
    • B65G47/22—Devices influencing the relative position or the attitude of articles during transit by conveyors
    • B65G47/26—Devices influencing the relative position or the attitude of articles during transit by conveyors arranging the articles, e.g. varying spacing between individual articles
    • B65G47/30—Devices influencing the relative position or the attitude of articles during transit by conveyors arranging the articles, e.g. varying spacing between individual articles during transit by a series of conveyors
    • B65G47/31—Devices influencing the relative position or the attitude of articles during transit by conveyors arranging the articles, e.g. varying spacing between individual articles during transit by a series of conveyors by varying the relative speeds of the conveyors forming the series
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H29/00—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles
    • B65H29/12—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles by means of the nip between two, or between two sets of, moving tapes or bands or rollers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2701/00—Handled material; Storage means
    • B65H2701/10—Handled articles or webs
    • B65H2701/17—Nature of material
    • B65H2701/176—Cardboard
    • B65H2701/1766—Cut-out, multi-layer, e.g. folded blanks or boxes

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  • the present invention relates to the high speed conveying of products of various shapes and sizes including discrete sheets of material, such as sheets of corrugated paperboard. More particularly, the present invention pertains to a system for changing the speed of conveyed sheets while holding the same in register.
  • sheets of uniform size are often conveyed in "register" such that a uniform spacing is maintained between sheets. Uniform edge to edge spacing or pitch spacing of the sheets is necessary so that the sheers may be fed serially and accurately into timed downstream processing equipment such as may be used, for example, to cut or fold the sheet.
  • Corrugated paperboard sheets may be conveyed at speeds of 1,500 feet per minute and, in order to maintain register, the sheets are typically conveyed between upper and lower conveying means which hold the positions of the sheets.
  • Other products of various sizes and shapes are also often conveyed and delivered for processing in a manner requiring accurate control of speed and spacing.
  • U. S. Patent 2,580,469 also shows a device for changing the speed of conveyed sheets. That device utilized a pair of counterrotating cams between which the sheet is fed from a first conveyor such that the increase or decrease in the radius of the cam surf ces causes a corresponding increase or decrease in the speed of the sheet being conveyed therebetween.
  • That device utilized a pair of counterrotating cams between which the sheet is fed from a first conveyor such that the increase or decrease in the radius of the cam surf ces causes a corresponding increase or decrease in the speed of the sheet being conveyed therebetween.
  • the extreme variation in the radii of the cams as they rotate in contact with the sheet results in a severe vertical deflection of the sheet which is totally unacceptable in a high speed handling situation where such deflection would tend to bend, break or otherwise damage relatively fragile corrugated board stock.
  • sheets of material being conveyed in register are accelerated or decelerated to a second speed while maintaining register by utilizing an intermediate speed changing belt operating at a constant linear speed, but specially configured to change the speed of the sheet received from the upstream conveyor to the speed of the downstream conveyor and to retain hold of and prevent the board from slipping during the speed change and sheet transfer.
  • the speed changing belt operates via positive driving engagement around a pulley positioned tangent to the surface of the sheets and rotating in the direction of sheet movement. At least a portion of the length of the speed changing belt comes into tangent contact with the sheets as the belt travels around the pulley.
  • the speed changing belt operates at a constant linear speed which is established to provide an instantaneous velocity at the outer belt surface as it travels around the pulley and makes initial contact with the sheet which velocity is equal to the speed of the infeed conveyor.
  • a flexible holding means is disposed on the opposite side of the sheets from the pulley and is positioned to contact the surface of the sheets and to form with the belt and pulley a nip for receiving sheets from the infeed conveyor.
  • the speed changing belt includes a speed change lobe which presents a region of continuously changing radius as the lobed region of the belt operates around the pulley, such that the outer surface of the belt including the lobe at the tangent contact with the sheet operates at a continuously changing speed which varies from the speed of the infeed conveyor or the speed of an outfeed conveyor.
  • the acceleration lobe comprises a length along the belt of uniformly increasing belt thickness.
  • the speed change lobe need only have a length equal to a portion of the length of a sheet such that the increase in thickness is gradual enough to allow an increase in the contacting radius to accelerate the sheets without slippage.
  • the resilient holding means may comprise a low inertia idler roll positioned with its axis of rotation parallel to the axis of the pulley.
  • the axis of the low inertia idler roll is fixed and the outer surface which contacts the sheets is resilient so that the upward deflection of the sheets as the radius of the speed changing belt .increases around the belt pulley may be accommodated.
  • the resilient holding means may comprise a flexible finger mechanism which is biased into engagement with the sheets. In the case of the flexible finger mechanism, the resilient holding means must be provided with a coefficient of surface friction substantially lower than that of the pulley and the speed changing belt such that non-slipping conveying engagement may be maintained between the pulley/speed change belt combination and the sheets.
  • the acceleration belt is positioned below the plane of the sheets such that it contacts the bottom surfaces thereof.
  • the pulley includes a peripheral surface portion which provides initial tangent contact with the sheets, while they are still simultaneously held by the infeed conveyor, and the acceleration belt is recessed in the peripheral surface of the pulley, except for the acceleration lobe which extends radially beyond the pulley surface as the lobe passes around the pulley.
  • the belt carrying the upper pulley may be replaced with a non-rotating cylindrical low friction guide means, such as an air bearing. It is also possible to mount the speed change belt and belt carrying mechanism to deflect vertically during movement of the speed change lobe past the tangent contact point to maintain the sheets in the same place and eliminate completely their vertical deflection.
  • FIG. 1 is a side elevation of a schematic representation of the speed changing system of the present invention.
  • FIG. 2 is an enlarged side elevation of the speed changing mechanism showing the conveyed sheet in its FIG. 1 position operating at the speed of the infeed conveyor.
  • FIG. 3 is a side elevation view similar to FIG. 2 showing a sheet leaving the speed changing mechanism at the increase velocity of the outfeed conveyor.
  • FIG. 4 is a view similar to FIGS. 2 and 3 showing an alternate construction for the flexible holding means operating in conjunction with the speed changing pulley and belt.
  • FIG. 5 is a top plan view of a combined pulley and acceleration belt of the presently preferred embodiment.
  • FIG. 6 is a side elevation of the apparatus of FIG. 5.
  • FIG. 7 is an enlarged side elevation similar to FIG. 2 showing an embodiment of the speed change belt for decreasing the speed of the sheets.
  • FIG. 8 is a side elevation of another embodiment of the invention.
  • FIG. 9 is a top plan view of the mechanism shown in FIG. 8 taken on line 9-9 thereof.
  • the infeed conveyor 11 may be of any suitable type, including a driven belt or live roll conveyor, and includes at its downstream end a pair of driven rolls 12 and 13 which maintain positive hold of the sheet 10 and, with similar sheet engaging upstream roller ⁇ (not shown) , and maintain a uniform equal spacing Si between the sheets 10. In other words, the sheets are maintained in register as they are conveyed over the infeed conveyor 11.
  • the system of the present invention includes an intermediate speed change mechanism 14 which accelerates (or decelerates) sheets received from the infeed conveyor 11, increases (or decreases) the speed of the sheets to that at which a second outfeed conveyor 15 is operating, and simultaneously increases (or decreases) the spacing S 2 therebetween.
  • the downstream outfeed conveyor 15 may also be of any suitable construction which will positively hold the sheets 10 and maintain them in register. As such, the outfeed conveyor 15 may include a series of pairs of driven rolls 16 and 17, only the upstream-most pair of which is shown in the drawing.
  • the description of the speed change mechanism 14, set forth hereinafter, relates specifically to a mechanism for accelerating the sheets 10 to a higher velocity and increasing the spacing therebetween.
  • the speed change mechanism can be adapted to decelerate sheets and decrease the spacing therebetween.
  • the system of the present invention can handle corrugated paperboard sheets or other similar sheet materials which are disposed on the infeed conveyor 10 in abutting end to end relation (no spacing S,) .
  • the speed change mechanism 14 of the system of the present invention is positioned downstream from the end of the infeed conveyor 11 (as defined by the driven rolls 12 and 13) by a distance substantially less than the length of a sheet 10- Thus, a sheet 10 passing between driven rolls 12 and 13 will enter the speed change mechanism while it is still engaged by the rolls 12 and 13.
  • the speed change mechanism includes an acceleration belt 18 which is driven at a constant speed around a pulley to provide a radially outer surface speed at the point of initial contact with the sheet equal to the speed V, of the infeed conveyor 11 as will be described in more detail hereinafter.
  • the belt 18 is preferably constructed in the manner of a conventional timing belt to include a ribbed or toothed configuration 20 on its underside adapted to engage a similar toothed drive sprocket 21 driven by a drive motor 22.
  • the acceleration belt 18 also operates about an upper pulley 23 which may also be provided with teeth to be engaged by the tooth pattern 20 on the belt to prevent slipping of the pulley with respect to the belt.
  • the belt 18 has a flat outer surface 24 over the greater portion of its length and it is synchronized with the sheets incoming from the infeed conveyor 11 of the pulley 23 such that, as it passes around the pulley, the surface of the belt is either at or slightly below the periphery of the pulley defined by the radius R, (FIG. 2) .
  • the uniform outer surface portion 24 of the belt may extend slightly beyond the outer periphery of the pulley 23.
  • the outer surface of the pulley or the radial outer surface of the belt traveling around the pulley may provide initial tangent contact with an incoming sheet 10 and, because the speed of the tangent contact surface belt is set to coincide with the speed of V, of the infeed conveyor 11, the sheet 10 will initially pass through the speed change mechanism 14 at the initial speed V,.
  • L p of the belt 18 inherently lies some distance below the outer surface 24 of the belt.
  • the pitch line radius R is less than the radius R, to the outer surface of the belt. Therefore, the outer surface of the belt as it travels around pulley 23 and in contact with the sheet will be moving at a velocity greater than the radially inner pitch line speed.
  • the linear speed of the belt must be established and set at a speed less than V,.
  • the pitch line speed V p is less than V, by a factor equal to the ratio of the radii R p Rj (see FIG. 2) .
  • the total motion or distance of travel of the outer surface of the belt will exceed the total pitch line distance or pitch length of the belt by approximately the factor R . /R p .
  • the distance of travel by the outer surface of the belt in one revolution is greater than the pitch spacing (repeat length) of the sheets (L + Sj) by an amount dependent on the magnitude of the length and thickness of the speed change lobe, the function of which will be described.
  • a resilient low inertia idler roll 25 is positioned above the pulley 23 and in engagement with the upper surface of the sheet 10.
  • the belt 18 and pulley 23 make tangent contact with the lower surface of the sheet and the idler roll 25 makes tangent contact with the upper surface of the sheet to define therebetween a nip for holding and conveying the sheets through the speed change mechanism.
  • the idler roll 25 comprises an interior having a series of generally radially extending flexible fins 26 which interconnect a central hub 27 and a flexible outer cylindrical surface portion 28. The idler roll thus provides means for resiliently holding the sheet in contact with the belt 18 and pulley 23 to maintain register between the belt and the sheet.
  • the entire outer surface of the belt 18 and the outer peripheral surface of the pulley 23 are provided with a high coefficient of friction surface to maintain positive driving contact with the sheet.
  • a portion of the length of the acceleration belt 18 is provided with an acceleration lobe 30 which is shaped to define a continuously increasing radius at the point of tangent contact between the belt and the sheet 10 as the belt travels around the pulley 23.
  • the acceleration lobe 30 comprises a portion raised from the outer surface 24 of the belt which increases in thickness from the belt surface uniformly to an upstream end 31 of maximum thickness.
  • the radius at the point of tangent contact with the sheet increases from the minimum R-. (FIG. 2) to a maximum R 2 (FIG. 3) as the upstream end 31 of the lobe reaches the top of the pulley in engagement with the sheet.
  • the acceleration lobe 30 is constructed to provide uniform acceleration and has a length and register with the sheet such that the upstream edge 32 of the sheet 10 coincides with the upstream end 31 of maximum lobe thickness and radius R 2 , as shown in FIG. 3.
  • the trailing sheet must move through a distance of 40 inches (the 3 inch spacing plus the initial 37 inches of the sheet) before it beings to accelerate.
  • the leading sheet 10 has been traveling at a speed which is 120% greater and, therefore, the spacing between trailing and leading edges 32 and 33 of these adjacent sheets will continue to increase at a constant rate.
  • the rate of increase in the space will slow until the trailing edge 32 of the trailing sheet has been fully accelerated to speed V 2 (FIG. 3 position) .
  • the final spacing S 2 and the pitch spacing of the sheets is established.
  • the pitch spacing or repeat length is 60 inches (120% of 50 inches) and the sheet spacing ⁇ , is, therefore, 12 inches (60 inches minus 48 inches) .
  • the driven rolls 16 and 17 at the inlet to the outfeed conveyor 15 are spaced from the nip of the speed change mechanism 14 by a distance equal to or just slightly less than the length of the sheet. In this manner, the sheet is positively held at all times in one or the other of the conveyor nips so that sheet register is maintained.
  • rolls 16 and 17 are adjustable in the direction of travel to vary their distance from the speed change mechanism 14. Referring again to FIG. 3, as the leading sheet 10 leaves the nip formed by the acceleration belt 18 and idler roll 25 and is traveling at speed V 2 , the leading edge 33 of the following sheet is approaching the nip.
  • sheets may be readily accelerated (or decelerated) to a different speed and spacing and maintained in absolute register utilizing an acceleration belt which travels at a constant linear speed and, therefore, requires no complex speed changing mechanism.
  • the acceleration lobe 30 requires only a fairly nominal increase in the radius from R, to R 2 which does not result in any significant vertical displacement of the sheet or board as it is being accelerated.
  • a 4 inch diameter pulley 23 would require only a 0.4 inch maximum lobe thickness to effect a 120% increase in sheet velocity.
  • utilization of a prior art speed change device utilizing a rotating cam would require a roller having approximately a 16 inch diameter to accommodate sheets with a 50 inch pitch spacing. To effect a 20% increase in speed, the cam surface radius would have to increase from about 8 inches to about 9.6 inches, which would result in a vertical displacement of the sheet or board, likely to cause bending or damage and which would be intolerable.
  • an alternate flexible holding means to the idler roll 25 of the preferred embodiment comprises a flexible finger 34 or series of such fingers which are attached to an upper support structure 35 and extend laterally across the sheet 10.
  • the fingers 34 are biased into engagement with the sheet and will readily accommodate the upward vertical displacement thereof as the acceleration lobe 30 moves around the pulley 23 and under the sheet.
  • the surfaces of the fingers 34 in contact with sheet 10 should have a low coefficient of friction so as not to interfere with the frictional engagement between the belt 24 and/or the pulley 23 with the sheet 10.
  • FIGS. 5 and 6 show another embodiment of an acceleration belt and pulley combination believed to be as effective as the embodiment of FIGS. 1-3.
  • the acceleration belt 18 comprises a pair of spaced belts 36 which operate synchronously in recessed portions 37 in the pulley 23.
  • the pulley 23 includes a series of spaced outer peripheral portions 38 defining the recessed portions 37 therebetween, which outer peripheral portions engage the sheet 10 over the incoming length thereof until the sheet is engaged by the acceleration lobes 30 on the spaced belts 36.
  • the lobes 30 travel over the pulley 23 and into tangent contact with the sheet 10, the lobes 30 rise radially out of the recessed portions 37 to engage and accelerate the sheet, as previously described.
  • the thickness of the lobes 30 may be chosen to provide the desired increase in sheet velocity, as also previously described.
  • the resilient idler rolls 25, which are shown in phantom in FIG. 5 so as not to obscure the construction of the modified pulley 23, are longer axially than the recessed portions 37. IN this manner, the rolls 25 overlie the edges of the larger diameter outer peripheral portion 38 to hold the sheet in contact therewith until the sheet is engaged by the lobes 30.
  • FIG. 7 there is shown a deceleration belt 40 which may be utilized to reduce the speed of sheets and the spacing thereof.
  • the belt 40 has a generally enlarged uniform thickness along the greater portion of its length, beginning with a leading lobe 41 which is synchronized to make tangent contact with the leading edge 33 of the incoming sheet.
  • the uniform thickness portion of the belt will maintain the sheet at its incoming velocity until the end portion 42 of the belt 40 reaches the top tangent portion of the pulley 23.
  • the end portion is tapered to provide a uniformly decreasing belt thickness and, correspondingly, a uniformly decreasing radius as the end portion travels over the pulley and in tangent contact with the sheet.
  • the sheet will decelerated from the incoming speed V-. to a lower speed V 2 and the initial spacing Si between sheets will be correspondingly reduced to a smaller spacing V 2 .
  • FIGS. 8 and 9 there is shown another embodiment of the invention incorporating two significant changes.
  • the pulley 23 of the previously described embodiments, carrying the acceleration belt l ⁇ , is replaced by a stationary air bearing 48.
  • the air bearing is a cylindrical tubular member provided in an appropriate region of its outer surface with a pattern of air holes 50.
  • the hollow interior of the air bearing is pressurized and the air escaping from the air holes 50 provides a virtually frictionless cushion over which the acceleration belt 18 travels.
  • the diameter of the air bearing 48 may be generally the same as the diameter of the pulley 23 or it may have a substantially larger or smaller diameter to suit the size and length of the acceleration lobe 30, as well as the size and shape of the product being conveyed.
  • the entire speed change mechanism 14 including the acceleration belt 18, drive sprocket 21, and pulley 23 or air bearing 48, is mounted for vertical movement to compensate for the changing radius as the acceleration lobe 30 moves past the tangent contact point.
  • a pair of rollers 43 are mounted to depend downwardly from the support structure 35 on mounting brackets 44 to engage the outer surface of the acceleration belt 18.
  • the entire speed change mechanism 14 is attached to a slide mechanism 46 which is slideably mounted for vertical movement in a stationary vertical track 45.
  • the slide mechanism 46 is adapted to move downwardly in the track 45 against the bias of a coil spring 47 mounted on the track in the path of the slide mechanism.
  • the flexible holddown finger 34 is positioned and operates in the same manner as previously described, although it does not have to move in response to vertical deflection of the sheets as in the prior described embodiments.

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Système de changement de la vitesse de feuilles acheminées (10) permettant de maintenir les feuilles en registre, comprenant une courroie de changement de vitesse (18) fonctionnant à une vitesse constante pour présenter une partie de la surface extérieure radiale (24) se déplaçant sur un guide cylindrique (48) et venant en contact tangent avec la surface de la feuille (10) se déplaçant à une vitesse égale à celle des feuilles entrantes. Une partie de la courroie de changement de vitesse comprend un lobe d'accélération (30) positionné pour venir au contact de la partie arrière de la feuille et pour donner un rayon augmentant continûment au niveau de la partie de contact tangent à mesure que la courroie se déplace autour de la partie de la surface extérieure radiale (48), de sorte que la vitesse de la surface extérieure du lobe (30) et de la feuille (10) au contact de ce dernier augmente de manière continue à partir de la vitesse d'entrée jusqu'à une seconde vitesse voulue. La courroie (18) de changement de vitesse à vitesse constante ne nécessite qu'un entraînement simple à vitesse constante, et le lobe (30) de changement de vitesse fixé à la courroie (18) ne nécessite qu'une augmentation relativement faible de rayon utile de la courroie autour du guide cylindrique (48) de manière à éviter les déplacements verticaux indésirables de la feuille à partir du plan de déplacement. Seule la masse de la feuille ou autre produit acheminé (et une éventuelle poulie folle supérieure verrouillée (25)) est soumise à des forces d'accélération (ou de décélération) lorsque tous les constituants d'entraînement de la machine fonctionnent à vitesse constante pendant le changement de vitesse, réduisant ainsi au minimum les effets inertiels globaux.
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