WO1998029234A2 - Dispositif d'amenee multiple pour machine de personnalisation de cartes et de plaques en plastique ou en metal - Google Patents

Dispositif d'amenee multiple pour machine de personnalisation de cartes et de plaques en plastique ou en metal Download PDF

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WO1998029234A2
WO1998029234A2 PCT/EP1997/006501 EP9706501W WO9829234A2 WO 1998029234 A2 WO1998029234 A2 WO 1998029234A2 EP 9706501 W EP9706501 W EP 9706501W WO 9829234 A2 WO9829234 A2 WO 9829234A2
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card
cards
feeder
personalizing
guide
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Card Identification Machines S.P.A. C.I.M.
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Mucelli, Alberto
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Priority to AU56543/98A priority Critical patent/AU5654398A/en
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06K—GRAPHICAL DATA READING; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
    • G06K13/00—Conveying record carriers from one station to another, e.g. from stack to punching mechanism
    • G06K13/02—Conveying record carriers from one station to another, e.g. from stack to punching mechanism the record carrier having longitudinal dimension comparable with transverse dimension, e.g. punched card
    • G06K13/08—Feeding or discharging cards
    • G06K13/10—Feeding or discharging cards from magazine to conveying arrangement
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H3/00—Separating articles from piles
    • B65H3/24—Separating articles from piles by pushers engaging the edges of the articles
    • 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
    • B65H2301/42—Piling, depiling, handling piles
    • B65H2301/423—Depiling; Separating articles from a pile
    • B65H2301/4232—Depiling; Separating articles from a pile of horizontal or inclined articles, i.e. wherein articles support fully or in part the mass of other articles in the piles
    • B65H2301/42322—Depiling; Separating articles from a pile of horizontal or inclined articles, i.e. wherein articles support fully or in part the mass of other articles in the piles from bottom of the pile
    • 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
    • B65H2701/19—Specific article or web
    • B65H2701/1914—Cards, e.g. telephone, credit and identity cards

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  • This invention relates to a multiple feeder for a personalizing machine for plastic or metal cards and plates, generally of standardized type, used for the most varied uses (credit cards, machine identification plates, etc )
  • Card personalization generally involves a series of operations, such as recording data on a magnetic band which may be present on the card, initializing a chip possibly provided on the card, thermographing its surface, data punching and possible colouring of the punched data All these operations are generally effected by automatic machines provided with a holder for a stack of cards to be processed, these being withdrawn one by one to be subjected to the required processing cycle, generally controlled by a computer which transmits to the various machine components the data with which each card is to be personalized
  • Card personalization is generally effected by an organization which deals with one particular card (and only that), and consequently known card personalizing machines are provided with a single loader in which the cards to be personalized are stacked and from which they are withdrawn one by one
  • An object of the invention is to provide a multiple feeder for applying to card and plate personalizing machines, which is able to selectively withdraw different cards on the basis of a predetermined operating program
  • a further object of the invention is to provide a multiple feeder which can be applied to a card and plate personalizing machine without adding substantially to its overall size
  • a further object of the invention is to provide a multiple feeder for a card and plate personalizing machine having considerable operational reliability.
  • Figure 1 is a schematic plan view of a card personalizing machine using a multiple feeder according to the invention
  • Figure 2 is a plan view of the multiple feeder
  • Figure 3 is a detailed plan view of the members for extracting cards from the containers
  • Figure 4 is a reduced cross-section therethrough on the line IV-IV of Figure 3;
  • Figure 5 is a reduced cross-section therethrough on the line V-V of Figure 3;
  • Figure 6 is a reduced longitudinal section therethrough on the line VI-VI of Figure 3;
  • Figure 7 is a reduced longitudinal section therethrough on the line VII-VII of Figure 3.
  • the multiple feeder of the invention indicated overall by 2 is installed on a card (for example credit card) or plate personalizing machine, comprising a track 4 along which the individual cards 6, retained by a gripper 8, are subjected to the action of a punching unit 10 and a thermographing unit 12.
  • a card for example credit card
  • thermographing unit 12 As these units are of traditional type, they will not be described in detail.
  • the multi-load holder 2 comprises a plurality of parallelepiped containers 14 (five in the illustrated example), each able to contain a stack of cards 6 to be personalized. Considering that the cards are rectangular, in this - —
  • the parallelepiped containers 14 are arranged side by side so that each pair has a common longitudinal vertical wall, and all have their front walls coplanar.
  • each container 14 rest directly on the floor of the personalizing machine, whereas the two transverse walls are slightly raised to an extent sufficient for passage of the lower card 6 of each stack.
  • each container 14 there is provided an extractor for said lower card. It consists of a pusher 16 movable, under the control of a crank and slotted link device 18 operated by an electric motor 20, between a rest position totally upstream of the corresponding container 14 (with reference to the card extraction direction, and hence to the machine operating cycle), and a more advanced operating position suitable for pushing the lower card of the stack out of the container.
  • a transverse guide 22 able to receive the cards 6 pushed by the respective pushers 16 to be positioned with their longitudinal axis perpendicular to the guide axis.
  • a fork member 24 is slidable, with the end of its prongs emerging from the guide surface and hence from the surface on which the cards 6 rest on it.
  • the fork member is associated with an endless belt 26 extending between two pulleys 28,30, one of which 30 is coupled to an electric motor 32.
  • each container 14 there are provided two photoelectric sensors 34, 36.
  • One 34 of these is located external to the front wall downstream of the container 14 and the other 36 is located at the opposite edge of the guide 22. The function of these sensors is clarified hereinafter.
  • the downstream end of the transverse guide 22 opens into the track 4, upstream of the end-of-travel position of the gripper 8.
  • a pusher 38 movable, under the control of a crank and slotted link device 40 operated by an electric motor 42, between a rear end-of-travel position, in which said pusher is located upstream of the position in which the transverse guide 22 opens into the track 4, and a front end-of- travel position in proximity to the gripper 8, when this is in its rear end-of- travel position.
  • the various electric motors, sensors and other control and operating members are under the overall control of an external computer (not shown) which coordinates the entire machine operating cycle, which is as follows.
  • the parallelepiped containers 14 are loaded with cards of different types to be personalized, grouped on the basis of their characteristics.
  • the machine is automatically reset, this operation consisting of checking the state of the sensors 34 to verify that there is no card 6 partly emerging from the respective container 14 and locked in that position for example by untimely interruption of a previous operating cycle. If an anomaly is detected, the motor 20 of the corresponding pusher 16 is powered to completely transfer that card into the transverse guide 22.
  • the state of the sensors 36 is then checked, to verify that there is no card present in the guide 22 following a malfunction of the previous operating cycle.
  • the electric motor 32 is then powered to cause the fork member 24 to undergo a complete forward and then rearward stroke so that it transfers onto the track 4 any card present in the guide 22.
  • the actual operating cycle begins.
  • the electric motor of that pusher 16 corresponding to the container 14 from which a card 6 is to be extracted for its personalization is operated.
  • a one-revolution rotation of the motor 20 causes the pusher 16 to undergo its forward stroke to engage the lower card of the strack and push it forwards towards the transverse guide 22.
  • the machine On completion of the revolution by the motor 42, the machine returns to the condition for repeating the operating cycle on a new card taken from the same or another container, depending on the new command fed.
  • the multiple feeder of the invention enables the objects to be totally attained, in that it is applicable to card and plate personalizing machines and enables different cards to be selectively withdrawn according to requirements. Moreover the multiple feeder does not substantially increase the overall size of the personalizing machine.

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Abstract

L'invention concerne un dispositif d'amenée multiple pour machine de personnalisation produisant des cartes rectangulaires, des plaques rectangulaires, et similaire. Ce dispositif est caractérisé par: plusieurs récipients parallélépipèdes (14), destinés à contenir les cartes empilées, un dispositif d'extraction individuel (16), permettant d'extraire la carte située sous chaque pile de cartes (6), un dispositif de guidage (4) commun à tous les récipients parallélépipèdes (14) placés côte à côte, des moyens permettant de transférer chaque carte vers des postes de traitement subséquents de la machine de personnalisation, et des moyens permettant que le cycle de fonctionnement dudit dispositif d'amenée soit synchronisé par rapport aux opérations de personnalisation des cartes.
PCT/EP1997/006501 1996-12-17 1997-11-21 Dispositif d'amenee multiple pour machine de personnalisation de cartes et de plaques en plastique ou en metal WO1998029234A2 (fr)

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AU56543/98A AU5654398A (en) 1996-12-17 1997-11-21 Multiple feeder for a personalizing machine for plastic or metal cards and pla tes

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ITVE960041 IT1288170B1 (it) 1996-12-17 1996-12-17 Alimentatore multiplo per macchina personalizzatrice di schede e targhette.
ITVE96A000041961217 1996-12-17

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WO2013178455A1 (fr) * 2012-05-31 2013-12-05 Weidmüller Interface GmbH & Co. KG Imprimante doté d'un dispositif de séparation
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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
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WO2013178455A1 (fr) * 2012-05-31 2013-12-05 Weidmüller Interface GmbH & Co. KG Imprimante doté d'un dispositif de séparation
CN104379476A (zh) * 2012-05-31 2015-02-25 威德米勒界面有限公司及两合公司 具有分离装置的印刷机
US11752539B2 (en) 2020-01-27 2023-09-12 Panduit Corp. Embossing system
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