Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
  • B41K—STAMPS; STAMPING OR NUMBERING APPARATUS OR DEVICES
  • B41K3/00—Apparatus for stamping articles having integral means for supporting the articles to be stamped
  • B41K3/02—Apparatus for stamping articles having integral means for supporting the articles to be stamped with stamping surface located above article-supporting surface
  • B41K3/12—Apparatus for stamping articles having integral means for supporting the articles to be stamped with stamping surface located above article-supporting surface with curved stamping surface for stamping by rolling contact
  • B41K3/121—Apparatus for stamping articles having integral means for supporting the articles to be stamped with stamping surface located above article-supporting surface with curved stamping surface for stamping by rolling contact using stamping rollers having changeable characters
  • B41K3/125—Apparatus for stamping articles having integral means for supporting the articles to be stamped with stamping surface located above article-supporting surface with curved stamping surface for stamping by rolling contact using stamping rollers having changeable characters having automatic means for changing type-characters
  • B41K3/126—Numbering devices
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
  • B41F—PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES
  • B41F33/00—Indicating, counting, warning, control or safety devices
  • B41F33/009—Devices for controlling numbering
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
  • B41P—INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO PRINTING, LINING MACHINES, TYPEWRITERS, AND TO STAMPS
  • B41P2233/00—Arrangements for the operation of printing presses
  • B41P2233/10—Starting-up the machine
  • B41P2233/13—Pre-registering

Definitions

• the invention relates to an apparatus and a method for setting up and adjusting a numbering machine, with which securities or securities sheets are printed with individual information, in particular a serial number.
• the numbering machine consists of carrier disks and numbering units on these carrier disks, several numbering units being mounted on a carrier disk and several of these carrier disks being mounted on a shaft and the shaft being driven by at least one drive element with at least one rotary encoder.
• Each of these numbering machines prints the individual information on the security or the security sheet, whereby the individual information is changed in the next printing operation. For example, the value of the serial number when printing individual securities after printing is increased or decreased by one.
• the adjustment of the position of the individual carrier discs and numbering of a numbering machine is done manually in the art.
• the individual carrier discs on the shaft and the individual numbering each carrier disc are roughly positioned and locked according to a predetermined scheme.
• a first pattern or a first pattern sheet is printed, the imprints of the individual numbering machines are measured and the correction values are calculated to the predetermined desired positions.
• the individual positions of the carrier discs on the shaft and the individual numbering each carrier disc are manually corrected and printed again a pattern sheet. This process is repeated as long as until the positions of the imprints of the individual numbering machines on the security or the securities sheet lie within the error limits of the target positions.
• a particular disadvantage is that this process is associated with a considerable amount of time and personnel. For example, it may take up to fourteen hours for the numbering machines on a numbering machine to be fully adjusted. During this time, the numbering machine will not be available for printing on securities or securities bills.
• the invention is therefore based on the object to provide an apparatus and a method for setting up and adjusting a numbering machine, with the or the disadvantages of the prior art are eliminated.
• an abutment device predetermines the desired position of the carrier discs and the respective numbering mechanisms on the corresponding carrier discs.
• the desired positions are determined as follows.
• the paper of a signature before it undergoes any printing is usually rectangular. After the signature has been has been completely printed, even before printing with the individual information by the Nurnmeriermaschine, the sheet is trapezoidal rolled or warped, the front of the sheet is shorter or in rare cases, longer than its rear side.
• the trapezoidal Auswalzung usually not evenly on both sides, but more towards one side than to the other side. For example, a signature may be more heavily rolled toward its left side than to its right side.
• this trapezoidal scaling may change depending on the order, for example, in a 32-job order, it may be different from a 50-job order.
• the actual positions of the individual securities or benefits on the printed sheet in the horizontal and vertical direction, ie in the x and y directions, via a measuring device are first based on an otherwise completely printed sheet to be printed with the individual information determined. These data are called actual data.
• the correction data for an actual optimum signature positioning are determined in the numbering machine. This applies in particular to the two front marks on which the printed sheet bears with its front side at the input of the numbering machine, and the side mark on which the printed sheet bears with one of its side edges.
• the uneven trapezoidal Auswalzung be averaged so that the difference of the leading edge to the trailing edge of the sheet in the lateral state of the numbering to the individual banknote is divided by a means.
• This is followed by a mathematical combination of the actual data with the correction data for creating an input data record in the control device for the rotary encoder and the abutment device.
• the page mark correction data and the actual data are added together and the result is divided by two.
• the input data in the vertical direction are optimal positioning data.
• the input data in the horizontal direction are averaged data on the maximum lateral difference between the page mark or lateral abutment edge of the print sheet and the lateral position of the respective row on the gripper of the paper sheet and the sheet bottom edge.
• the determination is made for each set of benefits on a security sheet or signature, with the middle row and rows, by definition, having no swaging.
• the abutment device is preferably a light-generating device with a light beam, for example a laser or a light source with focusing lenses, which predetermines the desired position with a light spot on the carrier disc or the numbering unit.
• the abutment device can also be designed as a mechanical stop or as a camera with a monitor with a crosshair.
• the abutment device is preferably guided parallel to the shaft of the numbering machine, wherein it is moved by a drive element to the individual desired positions of each carrier plate.
• Banknotes are usually printed with two or more serial numbers.
• one serial number is horizontal and another serial number is vertically aligned, although of course any other orientation is possible, for example diagonally.
• the numbering machine on two or more waves which are usually arranged in parallel one above the other.
• the numbering machines are horizontal on one shaft and vertically aligned on the other shaft.
• the abutment device may additionally be guided vertically to the shafts of the numbering machine and moved by a further drive element to the respective shafts.
• the abutment device preferably emits an optical and / or acoustic signal for the operating personnel. This is the indication for the operating personnel that now the carrier disk can be locked on the shaft or the numbering unit on the carrier disk and the next carrier disk or the next numbering unit can be positioned.
• the encoder specifies the individual nominal positions of the numbering units on the respective carrier discs.
• the drive element rotates the shaft until the setpoint position of the numbering machines has been reached and then switches off so that the carrier disk stops at the desired position.
• the method for setting a desired position of carrier disks and of numbering units on these carrier disks of a numbering machine proceeds as follows:
• the abutment device predetermines a desired position of the first carrier disk and of the first numbering unit on the first carrier disk.
• the abutment device thus simultaneously predefines the desired position of the first carrier disk and of the first numbering unit on the first carrier disk as x and y value.
• the abutment device is a laser
• the laser beam simultaneously forms both desired positions. In the case of a laser with a fixed focus position, which images a point at a predetermined distance sharply, thus the desired position of the first numbering unit on the first carrier disk, this desired position simultaneously also representing the desired position of the first carrier disk.
• the first numbering is placed on the first carrier disk and moved so long with the first carrier disk on the shaft until the first carrier disk has reached the desired position and locked on the shaft.
• the rotary encoder then predefines the setpoint position of the second numbering unit on the first carrier disk, whereupon the drive element ment shaft rotates until the first carrier disc has reached the target position of the second numbering.
• first carrier disk or first numbering unit can in this case be assigned to any carrier disk or any numbering unit and is not necessarily limited to an outer carrier disk or an external numbering unit.
• second or each further carrier disk or the second or each further numbering unit need not necessarily be the geometrically closest carrier disk or numbering unit. Rather, the abutment device can use any carrier disk or any numbering unit which has not yet been adjusted as the next following carrier disk or the next following numbering unit.
• an abutment device can be used which does not have to be adjusted to the different distance between carrier disc and numbering unit.
• a laser can be used, the focus position can be set to different distances.
• the abutment device can in each case preset the desired position of the carrier discs and the numbering units. give. A common specification for carrier disk and numbering is not required.
• the method for setting a desired position of carrier disks and numbering units on these carrier disks of a numbering machine proceeds as follows:
• the abutment device predetermines a desired position of the first carrier disk.
• the first carrier disk is moved on the shaft until the first carrier disk has reached the desired position and locked on the shaft.
• the abutment device predetermines a setpoint position of the first numbering unit
• the first numbering unit is placed on the first carrier disk and displaced on the first carrier disk until the first numbering unit has reached the desired position and locked on the first carrier disk.
• the rotary encoder predefines the setpoint position of the second numbering mechanism on the first carrier disk, whereupon the drive element rotates the shaft until the first carrier disk has reached the setpoint position of the second numbering unit.
• the advantage of the invention is that the device and adjustment of a numbering machine is at least partially automated, whereby the time and personnel requirements can be significantly reduced. For example, with the device according to the invention and the method according to the invention, it takes only two hours until a numbering machine is completely set up and adjusted. As a result, it is advantageously possible to set up and adjust a numbering machine between different print jobs with only a slight loss of time.
• FIG. 1 shows schematically a system according to the invention in the form of a laser, which specifies the nominal position of a numbering on a support disk, in side view,
• FIG. 2 is a photo of the inventive plant of FIG. 1 in an oblique view
• Fig. 4 in the figures 4a to 4d schematically the process in the device and adjustment of a carrier disk and two numbering works on this carrier disk in plan view.
• Fig. 1 and Fig. 2 show a system according to the invention in the form of a laser 4, which specifies the desired position of a numbering 2 on a support plate 1, wherein the support disk is mounted on a shaft 3.
• a laser beam 6 the target position 5 of the numbering 2 as a light spot on the numbering 2 before, for example, as shown in FIG. 3, the position of the left digit wheel of the numbering. Reference point here is the lower edge of the digit "0".
• FIG. 4 shows the process of setting up and adjusting a carrier disk 1 and two numbering units on this carrier disk 1 when using a laser with a fixed focus position, which can not be set to different distances between laser and measuring object.
• the laser according to FIG. 4 a, predetermines the desired position 5 of the first carrier disk 1 and thus also simultaneously of the first numbering unit 2.
• the operating personnel now sets the numbering 2 on the carrier disk 1, releases the locking of the carrier disk 1 on the shaft 3 and pushes the carrier disk 1 in the direction of the desired position 5.
• the numbering unit. 2 moved in the direction of the target position 5.
• the support disk 1 is again shifted slightly in the direction of the desired position 5, then the numbering unit 2 again, etc. This recursive process is repeated until both the numbering unit 2 and the carrier disk 1 have reached the desired position.
• the abutment device emits an optical and / or acoustic signal.
• the operator is thus informed by an optical and / or acoustic signal that the target position tion of the carrier disk 1 and numbering mechanism 2 is reached.
• the operator locks the carrier plate 1, which is now in its desired position and acknowledges the process, for example, with a pressure on a corresponding button of a control.
• the operator sets the numbering unit 2 on the carrier plate 1 and shifts it until the reference point, in the example of Fig. 3, the lower edge of the left digit "0" coincides with the target position
• the operator locks the numbering unit 2 on the support disk 1, which is now in its desired position, and acknowledges the process, for example by pressing a corresponding key of a control element.
• a drive device rotates the shaft 3 until the rotary encoder of the drive device gives a signal that the target position of the numbering machine has been reached.
• the rotary encoder stops the drive device, so that the shaft 3 and thus the carrier plate 1 stops at the target position of the numbering machine.
• the operator sets the numbering on the support plate 1 and repeats the process of adjusting the previous numbering works accordingly.
• the process is repeated for all other numbering works and carrier discs accordingly until the last numbering is applied to the last carrier disc.
• the abutment device is here guided parallel to the shaft of the numbering machine, wherein it is moved by a drive element to the individual desired positions of each carrier plate.
• a security or security sheet can be printed with the configured and adjusted numbering machine for checking and the deviation of the printed individual information with the predetermined position checked.
• the preferred positioning accuracy of the respective numbering units is 0.1 mm, i. the printed individual information should not differ by more than 0.1 mm from the given position.

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• Inking, Control Or Cleaning Of Printing Machines (AREA)
• Manufacturing Optical Record Carriers (AREA)
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• Control Of Position, Course, Altitude, Or Attitude Of Moving Bodies (AREA)
• Credit Cards Or The Like (AREA)
• Optical Recording Or Reproduction (AREA)

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