WO2008137472A2 - Système de manipulation de papier comprenant un système d'impression de document au format lazy-portrait - Google Patents

Système de manipulation de papier comprenant un système d'impression de document au format lazy-portrait Download PDF

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WO2008137472A2
WO2008137472A2 PCT/US2008/062084 US2008062084W WO2008137472A2 WO 2008137472 A2 WO2008137472 A2 WO 2008137472A2 US 2008062084 W US2008062084 W US 2008062084W WO 2008137472 A2 WO2008137472 A2 WO 2008137472A2
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Frank W. Delfer
Charles B. Clupper
Marc J. Fagan
Brett Jay Flickner
Matthew Thomas Leetola
John Lawrence Arndt
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    • 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
    • B41J11/66—Applications of cutting devices
    • B41J11/68—Applications of cutting devices cutting parallel to the direction of paper feed
    • 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
    • B41J11/66—Applications of cutting devices
    • B41J11/70—Applications of cutting devices cutting perpendicular to the direction of paper feed
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H23/00—Registering, tensioning, smoothing or guiding webs
    • B65H23/04—Registering, tensioning, smoothing or guiding webs longitudinally
    • B65H23/32—Arrangements for turning or reversing webs
    • 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
    • B65H2301/10—Selective handling processes
    • B65H2301/12—Selective handling processes of sheets or web
    • B65H2301/121—Selective handling processes of sheets or web for sheet handling processes, i.e. wherein the web is cut into sheets
    • 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
    • B65H2301/41—Winding, unwinding
    • B65H2301/414—Winding
    • B65H2301/4148—Winding slitting

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  • This invention pertains generally to a system and method for handling lazy-portrait printed documents (printing across the continuous paper web to produce paired portrait orientated pages or in "lazy-portrait narrow-end to narrow-end” formatting (LPEE)) so as to generate acceptably oriented pages that are then processed and grouped into pre-designated document sets with continuously numbered pages.
  • lazy-portrait printed documents printing across the continuous paper web to produce paired portrait orientated pages or in "lazy-portrait narrow-end to narrow-end” formatting (LPEE)
  • a critical element of the prior art printing method is that to print either black or color markings on both pages, with the headings in color and the body in black, both the black and color- capable printing heads must span the entire width (long-side to long-side of a page) of both the duplexed sheets, W B and W c , respectively (see FIG. 1 -Prior Art).
  • Examples of printers that function in this manner are the IBM InfoPrint 4000 and Oce VahoStream 7000.
  • a continuous stream of traditionally printed sheets such as the ones shown in
  • FIG. 1 -Prior Art is printed and then moves into a slitter that separates the single steam into two streams of continuous sheets that then enter a cutter and collator for further processing to generate correctly page-sequenced document sets.
  • the continuous web is printed in a lazy-portrait narrow-end to narrow-end (LPEE) format (as seen in FIGS. 2 and 3, for four pages and two pages, respectively), which is a means for more efficient and cost effective printing of variable and form data onto paper oriented in a lazy-portrait orientation.
  • LEE lazy-portrait narrow-end to narrow-end
  • the term "lazy-portrait” is defined as a portrait oriented page that is generated by printing the page from one wide edge to the other wide edge (side to side) and not from narrow edge or end to narrow edge or end (top to bottom or visa-versa), as is done in every other currently existing printing system.
  • the critical issue with the subject invention is that when a pair of head- to-head or bottom-to-bottom pages are printed on a continuous stream of paper, the single stream of paper with the paired images must then be separated/slitted into two separate streams of paper with one stream being flipped over to correctly orient and number-sequence the final pages when cut and stacked into a document set (as seen in FIG. 4 for a pair of LPEE printed sheets).
  • the current subject invention presents a system and method for accomplishing this sheet flipping process by flipping one entire stream of post- slitted sheets. [0008] Again, it is noted that conventional/traditional paper handling systems exist that can transport and process paper printed in the existing and traditional two-up portrait style (not the subject paper LPEE orientation).
  • U.S. Patent No.: 6,595,465 (a turn-bar assembly for redirecting a continuous paper web) describes turning a single web of paper to reorient the travel direction and, in addition, to optionally flip the paper web from obverse to reverse (face up to face down) image orientation in this reoriented travel direction.
  • This patent differs from the subject invention in that it reorients the paper direction, which is not associated with the manner in which a turn-bar is employed in the subject invention.
  • U.S. Patent No.: 7,021 ,184 discloses a system and method for providing sheets to an inserter system using a rotary cutter.
  • the '184 patent demonstrates using a turn-bar after the sheets have been cut from a continuous roll of paper. Unlike the '184 system, the subject invention uses a turn-bar before cutting the sheets in a cutter.
  • a significant benefit of utilizing a turn-bar after the paper unwinder and before the cutter is that the work-cell layout can be optimized for space and material handling purposes. Additionally, a benefit of this method, as it applies to LPEE printing, is that the paper sheet reohentation through flipping one of the two streams does not require additional equipment at either the printer or insert.
  • An object of the present invention is to provide a paper handling system that orients lazy-portrait narrow-end to narrow-end format printed sheets into correctly oriented and page-sequenced document sets.
  • Another object of the present invention is to furnish a paper handling system that flips one of two paired lazy-portrait narrow-end to narrow-end format printed sheets to generate printed sheets that have correctly sequenced pages that are assembled into desired document sets.
  • a further object of the present invention is to supply a paper handling system that produces correctly oriented and page-sequenced document sets from a continuous web of lazy-portrait narrow-end to narrow-end (LPEE) format paired printed sheets by slitting a continuous stream of LPEE paired sheets into two streams, flipping one of the two streams, cutting each stream, and collating the cut sheets into correctly page-sequenced document sets.
  • LPEE lazy-portrait narrow-end to narrow-end
  • Still another object of the present invention is to disclose a method that orients lazy-portrait narrow-end to narrow-end format printed sheets into correctly oriented and page-sequenced document sets.
  • Yet a further object of the present invention is to describe a method that flips one of two paired lazy-portrait narrow-end to narrow-end format printed sheets to generate printed sheets that have correctly oriented and sequenced pages that are assembled into desired document sets.
  • Still yet another object of the present invention is to relate a method that produces correctly oriented and page-sequenced document sets from a continuous web of lazy-portrait narrow-end to narrow-end (LPEE) format paired printed sheets by slitting a continuous stream of LPEE paired sheets into two streams, flipping one of the two streams, cutting each stream, and collating the cut sheets into correctly page-sequenced document sets.
  • LPEE lazy-portrait narrow-end to narrow-end
  • Yet an additional object of the present invention is to disclose a paper handling system and method of use that produces correctly oriented and page-sequenced document sets from a continuous web of lazy-portrait narrow-end to narrow-end (LPEE) format paired printed sheets by slitting a continuous stream of LPEE paired sheets into two streams, rolling each stream of sheets into a separate roll, flipping one roll 180°, withdrawing each continuous stream sheets from the top of one roll and the bottom of the 180°- flipped roll, thereby correctly orienting and page-sequencing the printed pages, optionally passing each of the withdrawn streams of continuous sheets through a turn-bar device, cutting each stream, and collating the cut sheets into the final correctly oriented and page-sequenced document sets.
  • LPEE lazy-portrait narrow-end to narrow-end
  • LPEE lazy-portrait narrow-end to narrow-end
  • the LPEE formatted printed continuous web is split into two continuous streams of sheets. Both streams of sheets are rolled onto separate rolls. Each roll is then unwound, but one roll is unwound from the top in its original winding orientation and the other roll is rotated/flipped 180° and unwound from the bottom. Each unwound stream is optionally passed through a turn-bar apparatus (to minimize physical space requirements) and sent to a cutter. The two streams are then cut into separate sheets and collated into desired document sets with correctly oriented and page-sequenced sheets. Necessary control and verification means are included in the system to control the process and verify correctly assembled document sets have been generated.
  • FIG. 1 is a depiction representing the PRIOR ART, wherein four total sheets are shown with paired/duplexed-document pages printed side-by-side, with all side-by-side pages oriented in traditional portrait-parallel fashion to one another.
  • FIG. 2 illustrates the subject invention's lazy-portrait documents wherein four total printed sheets are depicted in a duplexed lazy-portrait head- to-head page orientation and printed on the web in two printing lanes (simplexed printing jobs are only printed on one side of a sheet, thereby making assembly of a multi-page document more simplistic than with the duplexed embodiment which requires a sheet flipping process step that is the main focus of the subject invention).
  • FIG. 3 shows the subject invention's formatting technique that produces lazy-portrait documents wherein a pair of printed sheets is depicted in a duplexed lazy-portrait head-to-head page orientation and printed on a continuous web in two printing lanes.
  • FIG. 4 shows the subject invention's ability to flip one of the paired sheets seen in FIG. 3 to produce correctly page-sequenced sheets (during normal operation, an entire stream of sheets is flipped and matched with its appropriate mate from the original pairing, as directed by a controller that tracks the exact position of each page during the document set processing procedure).
  • FIG. 5 shows that during the subject method, the LPEE formatted web is first divided into two streams by a slitter and then each one of the streams is collected into a roll.
  • FIG. 6 shows a first embodiment of the subject invention.
  • FIG. 7 shows a second embodiment of the subject invention.
  • the present invention is embodied in the system generally shown in FIG. 2 through FIG. 7. It will be appreciated that the system may vary as to configuration and as to details of the exact components, and that the method may vary as to the specific steps and sequence, without departing from the basic concepts as disclosed herein.
  • LPEE lazy-portrait narrow-end to narrow-end
  • the pages must be reoriented with the heads of all of the sheets in the same orientation and the faces of the sheets on the same side prior to collation (see FIGS.
  • the LPEE formatted web WB (coming in on the far left) has both lanes of data printed with the LPEE paired information.
  • the LPEE formatted web is then slit SWB into two streams of continuous sheets 80 and 85. Each of these streams 80 and 85 are wound into Roll A and Roll B (or since the original non- phnted-on continuous web material is usually initially rolled, the production of these two new rolls may be termed "rewound" rolls). Often, the two rolls of
  • LPEE formatted paper Roll A and Roll B may be up to fifty inches in diameter.
  • An example of the type of rewinder (or winder) capable of this process is the Dusenbery Model 485 Slitter Rewinder.
  • FIG. 6 depicts one embodiment of the subject invention. Usually, though not necessarily, the two rolls of LPEE formatted paper Roll A and Roll
  • Roll B are moved to a location in which they will be unwound, frequently in a process of generating mail items that are formed via utilization of required assembly devices (such as: folder, mail insert, and the like). Due to the inherent nature of the subject LPEE formatting, one roll of paper has the data printed face up (Roll A) and the other roll of paper has the data printed face down (Roll B). In order to reorient the paper so that both paper paths have the correct leading edge presented to the paper cutter (for correct orientation of page heads and page-sequences), one paper path is reversed 180° by rotating the finished roll (Roll B) prior to unwinding and withdrawing off the bottom of this roll (Roll B). The rotation of Roll B may be accomplished by any suitable means such as physically turning the roll around or any equivalent action.
  • Roll B rotation process results in one roll (Roll B in FIG. 6) unwinding on the bottom of the roll in one unwind direction (Path B in FIG. 6).
  • Roll A is unwound from the top of the roll in the opposite unwind direction, relative to Roll B. It must be appreciated that the 180° rotation of Roll
  • Unwinders capable of unwinding the rolls of paper in this manner are commercially available such as the Energy Saving Products and Sales Corporation (ESP) Model ESP400 unwinder.
  • ESP Energy Saving Products and Sales Corporation
  • turn- bar assemblies are utilized in both paths after unwinding and before the cutter (which allows maximum space utilization during assembly of desired document sets and insertion into mailing pieces).
  • the turn-bars utilized in the subject invention are commercially available, like the Foltz Machine, lnc turn- bar assembly.
  • FIG. 6 Roll A in mounted on a roll unwinder 90 and Roll B on roll unwinder 95.
  • the unwind direction brings the continuous LPEE formatted sheets off the top of Roll A and into paper Path A.
  • the unwind direction for Roll B is off the bottom and into paper Path B (since it has been rotated 180° from the orientation during winding).
  • the individual sheets are transported to a collator or accumulator 120 that assembles the necessary individual sheets into document sets 125 that are then moved into a folder 130.
  • the folded document sets 135 are then transported to a mail inserter for mail piece assembly. Having the two turn-bar assemblies 100 and 105 positioned to alter Path A and Path B in perpendicular directions to the cutter-to-collator axis permits the grouping of required devices to be in a more compact physical space than having both unwinders 90 and 95 positioned parallel to the cutter- to-collator axis.
  • a further way to accomplish the correct page orientations and page-sequences is to unwind Roll A on roll unwinder 90 and use turn-bar assembly 100 in the same manner as discussed above, to then position Roll B directly along the cutter-to-collator axis and transport paper Path B through turn-bar assembly to flip the stream, yet direct it straight out the opposite side of the turn-bar assembly 106.
  • This configuration again generates correctly oriented pages and page-sequence in the final document sets.
  • a suitable control and verification means are associated with the subject system and method. Those means implement the subject invention by generating printed pages from input data, tracking printed pages through the slitter, subject flipping process, cutter, and collator, and verifying the process is functioning properly and that correctly page-sequenced document sets are created.

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L'invention concerne un système de manipulation de feuilles imprimées et un procédé utilisé pour des pages Web imprimées au format bord étroit à bord étroit (LPEE) afin de produire des ensembles de documents. Ledit système comprend : une imprimante pour imprimer des pages de document couplées au format LPEE sur une bande continue; et une molette de coupe qui divise les pages Web imprimées au format LPEE en deux flux de feuilles. Le procédé consiste : à recueillir chaque flux sur des rouleaux séparés de feuilles continues; à retirer le flux de feuilles continues de la partie supérieure d'un premier rouleau, à faire tourner le second rouleau de 180°, et à retirer le flux de feuilles continues de la partie inférieure du second rouleau; à transférer chaque flux de feuilles continues déroulé vers un dispositif de coupe qui découpe chaque flux en pages individuelles; et à assembler les pages individuelles en ensembles de documents par séquences de numéros de pages correctement alignés.
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