EP0190749B1 - Service apparatus for machines using continuous strips of paper forms or sheets - Google Patents
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- EP0190749B1 EP0190749B1 EP86101514A EP86101514A EP0190749B1 EP 0190749 B1 EP0190749 B1 EP 0190749B1 EP 86101514 A EP86101514 A EP 86101514A EP 86101514 A EP86101514 A EP 86101514A EP 0190749 B1 EP0190749 B1 EP 0190749B1
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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
- B65H21/00—Apparatus for splicing webs
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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
- B65H45/00—Folding thin material
- B65H45/02—Folding limp material without application of pressure to define or form crease lines
- B65H45/06—Folding webs
- B65H45/10—Folding webs transversely
- B65H45/101—Folding webs transversely in combination with laying, i.e. forming a zig-zag pile
- B65H45/1015—Folding webs provided with predefined fold lines; Refolding prefolded webs, e.g. fanfolded continuous forms
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- the present invention relates to a service apparatus for printers or other strip form, preferably having side holes for pulling.
- printers of data processing centres and electric accounting centres are fed with forms or sheets joined in the form of a continuous strip and packaged in packs made up of one or more thousands of accordion-folded sheets.
- the pack of forms or sheets is exhausted in a very short time so that the loading of a new pack of forms or sheets involves idle time which negatively affects productivity of the printer and hence in the last analysis the entire data processing line.
- the principal object of the present invention is to accomplish a single piece of equipment in which the service unit for feeding the printer and the service unit for collection of the strips of sheets or forms leaving the printer are grouped organically.
- the function of the feed service unit is to perform automatically and in time with the printer the splicing of the last sheet or form of the pack being fed to the printer with the first form or sheet of the immediately following pack in such a manner that upon exhaustion of the pack being fed the pack with which splicing was just performed replaces it automatically and there is no interruption in printer feeding.
- the function of the outlet service unit is to receive the strip of forms or sheets leaving the printer or the line, fold it accordion wise in a pack of predetermined size or containing a predetermined number of forms or sheets, cutting the strip of forms at the corresponding point and continuing the collection and folding without interruption of line operation.
- Another problem connected with the equipment lies in the fact that, as for all highly automated equipment, more precautions are necessary to prevent work accidents as regards the unit which receives and wraps the packs of forms leaving the printer in which cutting and compressing means are operating.
- a device including a receptacle which is formed of one fixed wall and three moveable walls, which can be adapted to different paper sizes.
- a slot is arranged through which a temporary supporting plate may be introduced.
- the paper sheets may be delivered onto the upper part of the receptacle whose bottom is formed by the temporary supporting plate.
- the temporary supporting plate is withdrawn and the sheets fall into the bottom part of the receptacle.
- stacking of the paper sheets can continue in the upper part of the receptacle while the stacked sheets are removed from the bottom part.
- the present invention has the object of solving the problems and drawbacks mentioned briefly above.
- the present invention calls for a service apparatus for machines such as printers using sheets or forms joined in continuous strips and folded accordion wise in packs, the service appatus being of the type comprising a splicing unit for splicing the last sheet of the pack being fed to the machine with the first sheet of an immediately following pack, and a receiving and piling unit for sheets or forms treated in the machine characterized in that said units are arranged adjacent to one another with the splicing unit positioned transversely at the head of the receiving and piling unit and in that said receiving and piling unit for the forms leaving the machine, the strip is guided and piled in a receptacle including a bottom panel which is moveable between a lowered or received position and a raised or compressing position, two parallely opposed first vertical walls of which one is fixed and the other is moveable in an adjustable manner toward or away from said fixed wall and two parallelly opposed second vertical walls perpendicular to the first walls of which one slides parallel to itself to allow access to said receptacle and the other second vertical wall
- the receptacle is allowed to adapt itself promptly to the differing dimensions of the forms or sheets leaving the printer with no need for long and laborious adjustment
- the aforesaid receptacle is provided with a cutting blade device comprising a temporary supporting plane which may move transversally to said receptacle from a position in which it allows free access to the inside of the receptacle for the strip arriving from the printer and an operating position in which it intercepts the arriving strip and constitutes with its bottom surface a board for compressing the pack of forms made up in the receptacle beneath said plane, and a cutting blade shaped in such a manner as to make a paper-knife type cut of the strip of forms or sheets at a crease of said strip, said blade being connected to said temporary supporting plane in a manner moveable between a withdrawn or rest position in which the blade is housed and protected in said plane with no possibility of making the cut and an operating position in which it projects in front of said temporary supporting plane in such a manner as to make said cut, there being provided first operating means for moving said temporary supporting plane between said two positions and there being provided second operating means to operate said blade
- said strip of sheets or forms arriving from the printer is guided inside said receptacle by a rocker device comprising a pair of tension rollers in contact with each other and made to rotate in opposite directions to aid passage of the paper strip through the interference created thereby, said rollers being mounted on the lower ends of a pair of levers connected at their upper end by a running roller for the paper and pivoted thereon, one of said levers being pivoted at an intermediate point to the end of an operating connecting rod in reciprocating motion, the other end of said connecting rod being pivoted to a crank made to rotate, means being also provided for adjusting the rotation radius of said crank and consequently the amplitude of the reciprocating motion of said connecting rod, the lastmentioned means being in turn engageable and disengageable.
- said vertical wall sliding parallel to itself is made of transparent material which allows surveillance of the operation of the receiving and piling unit from outside without danger for the operator, said wall sliding in a position such as to allow access to said receptacle only when said cutting blade means have finished the cutting action and have returned to rest position and when compression of the strip of forms or sheets already piled in the receptacle and folded accordion wise has been completed.
- the service apparatus which is the object of the present invention and indicated as a unit by reference number 10 comprise an inlet or splicing service unit 11 and an outlet or collection and piling service unit 12.
- the two units are grouped to form a very compact machine in which two different sliding planes for the paper strip 13 to and from the printer (not shown).
- the splicing head makes the splice, between the last sheet of the pack being fed to the printer (not shown) and from which is unfolding the strip indicated above with reference number 13, and the first sheet of the immediately following pack, indicated schematically with reference number 14 and positioned on the supporting plane 15.
- the strip 13 crosses the entire machine passing above the outlet service unit 12 in the direction of the arrow 16.
- the strip of sheets or forms then returns in the direction opposite to the direction of and beneath arrow 16, entering the outlet service unit 12 from the side 17 of the machine.
- the strip arriving from the printer crosses over the guide rollers 18 and arrives over the collection and piling receptacle 19 with accordion like folding, shown in greater detail in Figs. 3 and 3A.
- the receptacle 19 comprises a bottom plane 20 moveable vertically by means not shown.
- the receptacle 19 comprises also four vertical walls 21, 22, 23 and 24.
- the wall indicated with reference number 23 is fixed and defines the greatest extension of the receptacle together with the side wall 24 which however is made of transparent material and slides parallel to its lie plane between a position in which it completely closes access to the receptacle 19 while allowing vision and inspection of its interior and a withdrawn position in which it allows access to the interior of the receptacle.
- the walls indicated with reference numbers 21 and 22 are movable toward and away from the walls opposite thereto, walls 23 and 24 respectively.
- For this purpose in the bottom plane are made two groups of slits indicated with reference numbers 25 and 26 respectively.
- the wall indicated with number 21 is formed of vertical strips 27 joined together by a peripheral frame so that the wall 21 is movable along the slits 25 toward and away from the wall 23.
- the wall 22 is formed partially of vertical strips 28 which slide in the slits 26 toward and away from the transparent wall 24.
- They are preferably motorized rack devices operated by sensors which take the aforesaid dimensions upstream from the outlet service unit.
- the strip 13 arriving from the printer is drawn by guide rollers 18 and two drawing conveyors 29 above the receptacle 19 where it is guided and piled accordion wise by a rocker unit. It should be observed that the accordion likefolding is facilitated bythefactthatthestrip is already folded in this manner when it comes from the pack which feeds the printer.
- the rocker unit comprises a running roller 30 for the strip mounted between two side levers 31 and 32 pivoted at their upper ends to the side panels 33 and 34 of the machine.
- a horizontal bar 35 in which is made a slit 36 for passage and guiding the paper which passes beneath the bar 35 through the interference of two tension rollers 37 and 38 which are rotated in the direction of the arrows 39 by an electric motor 40 which is also integral with the lever 31 and hence with the rocker unit.
- a mechanism comprising the connecting rod 41 whose end is made integral with the lever 32 by means of the pin 42, the other end of the connecting rod being pivoted on a gear 43 which acts as a crank and is rotated by drive means not shown.
- the end 44 of the connecting rod is movable in an adjustable manner along the vertical diameter of the gear 43, consequently changing the amplitude of the horizontal travel of the free end of the connecting rod 41 and hence the amplitude of oscillation of the lever 32 and of the entire rocker unit.
- Said adjustment is also performed in a manner dependent on the dimensions or shape of the forms or sheets making up the strip 13.
- a device comprising a vertical rod 45 fitted with a handgrip 46, the lower end of the rod being movable in a box 47 against the counteraction of a compression spring 48.
- the rod 45 is connected to the end 44 of the connecting rod.
- rollers 37 have zones 49 of nonslip material so that the strip of paper cannot slide back.
- the temporary supporting plane and blade unit At a height intermediate between the rollers 37 and the inside of the receptacle 19 is mounted the temporary supporting plane and blade unit.
- This unit comprises a plane 50 which can move between a position in which it is completely withdrawn without interfering with the upper opening of the recepctacle 19 and an operating position in which it intercepts the strip of forms or sheets arriving through the rollers 37 so that the strip 13 instead of being deposited on the bottom plane 20 piles up on the plane 50.
- the plane 50 in the operative position also serves as a stop or fixed support for compressing the pile formed on the plane 20 before cutting.
- a jack or compressed air cylinder 51 the stem of which is integral with the rear edge of the plane 50.
- a pin 52 stops the travel of the plane 50.
- the plane 50 also constitutes the support of the cutting blade 53 which is shaped in such a manner that engagement with the end of the crease between two sheets of the strip 13 takes place first at one point and the cut thus takes place with a "paper-knife" effect.
- the plane 50 is tapered at its front edge while in its thickness is cut a seat 56 to house the blade 53 in a disappearing manner.
- a pair of compressed air cylinders 54 connected by a flexible hose 55 and a source of pressure and vacuum (not shown).
- a coat of antifriction material is applied on the seat 56.
- one advantage of the machine in accordance with the present invention lies in the fact that the temporary supporting plane and related blade in the rest position disappear beneath the upper plane of the splicing unit to reduce occupied space.
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- Controlling Rewinding, Feeding, Winding, Or Abnormalities Of Webs (AREA)
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Description
- The present invention relates to a service apparatus for printers or other strip form, preferably having side holes for pulling.
- It is known that the printers of data processing centres and electric accounting centres are fed with forms or sheets joined in the form of a continuous strip and packaged in packs made up of one or more thousands of accordion-folded sheets.
- With the advent of fast printers, as for example laser printers, the pack of forms or sheets is exhausted in a very short time so that the loading of a new pack of forms or sheets involves idle time which negatively affects productivity of the printer and hence in the last analysis the entire data processing line.
- In recent years this problem has been faced and solved by the applicant, who has conceived and developed service equipment forming the object of European Patent No. 0042619, European Patent No. 0057463 and European Patent No. 0059981.
- The principal object of the present invention is to accomplish a single piece of equipment in which the service unit for feeding the printer and the service unit for collection of the strips of sheets or forms leaving the printer are grouped organically.
- The function of the feed service unit is to perform automatically and in time with the printer the splicing of the last sheet or form of the pack being fed to the printer with the first form or sheet of the immediately following pack in such a manner that upon exhaustion of the pack being fed the pack with which splicing was just performed replaces it automatically and there is no interruption in printer feeding.
- The function of the outlet service unit is to receive the strip of forms or sheets leaving the printer or the line, fold it accordion wise in a pack of predetermined size or containing a predetermined number of forms or sheets, cutting the strip of forms at the corresponding point and continuing the collection and folding without interruption of line operation.
- But known units are installed in line with all the data processing equipment so that the overall space occupied is large and surveillance by several operators becomes necessary during operation with the obvious cost burden, also considering the fact that the equipment is often in
operation 24 hours out of 24. - Another problem connected with the equipment lies in the fact that, as for all highly automated equipment, more precautions are necessary to prevent work accidents as regards the unit which receives and wraps the packs of forms leaving the printer in which cutting and compressing means are operating.
- From US-A-3640521, an apparatus for receiving computer type paper (continuous web of prefolded forms) and stacking them on a moveable base is known. The paper is fed between two rollers and the height difference between rollers and the moveable base is adjusted to obtain correct stacking. Side walls are moveable to accommodate different paper sizes. Various interruption methods are used to make the paper fold at the correct positions.
- From BE-A-50 38 11, a device is known including a receptacle which is formed of one fixed wall and three moveable walls, which can be adapted to different paper sizes. In the middle of the fixed wall a slot is arranged through which a temporary supporting plate may be introduced. With the temporary supporting plate fully introduced, the paper sheets may be delivered onto the upper part of the receptacle whose bottom is formed by the temporary supporting plate. When sufficient sheets have been stacked, the temporary supporting plate is withdrawn and the sheets fall into the bottom part of the receptacle. On re-introducing the temporary supporting plate, stacking of the paper sheets can continue in the upper part of the receptacle while the stacked sheets are removed from the bottom part.
- The present invention, as mentioned above, has the object of solving the problems and drawbacks mentioned briefly above.
- For this purpose the present invention calls for a service apparatus for machines such as printers using sheets or forms joined in continuous strips and folded accordion wise in packs, the service appatus being of the type comprising a splicing unit for splicing the last sheet of the pack being fed to the machine with the first sheet of an immediately following pack, and a receiving and piling unit for sheets or forms treated in the machine characterized in that said units are arranged adjacent to one another with the splicing unit positioned transversely at the head of the receiving and piling unit and in that said receiving and piling unit for the forms leaving the machine, the strip is guided and piled in a receptacle including a bottom panel which is moveable between a lowered or received position and a raised or compressing position, two parallely opposed first vertical walls of which one is fixed and the other is moveable in an adjustable manner toward or away from said fixed wall and two parallelly opposed second vertical walls perpendicular to the first walls of which one slides parallel to itself to allow access to said receptacle and the other second vertical wall moves toward or away from said vertical sliding wall.
- In this manner, the receptacle is allowed to adapt itself promptly to the differing dimensions of the forms or sheets leaving the printer with no need for long and laborious adjustment
- In accordance with another aspect of the present invention the aforesaid receptacle is provided with a cutting blade device comprising a temporary supporting plane which may move transversally to said receptacle from a position in which it allows free access to the inside of the receptacle for the strip arriving from the printer and an operating position in which it intercepts the arriving strip and constitutes with its bottom surface a board for compressing the pack of forms made up in the receptacle beneath said plane, and a cutting blade shaped in such a manner as to make a paper-knife type cut of the strip of forms or sheets at a crease of said strip, said blade being connected to said temporary supporting plane in a manner moveable between a withdrawn or rest position in which the blade is housed and protected in said plane with no possibility of making the cut and an operating position in which it projects in front of said temporary supporting plane in such a manner as to make said cut, there being provided first operating means for moving said temporary supporting plane between said two positions and there being provided second operating means to operate said blade between its two said positions, said second means being integral with said temporary supporting plane.
- In accordance with another aspect of the present invention said strip of sheets or forms arriving from the printer is guided inside said receptacle by a rocker device comprising a pair of tension rollers in contact with each other and made to rotate in opposite directions to aid passage of the paper strip through the interference created thereby, said rollers being mounted on the lower ends of a pair of levers connected at their upper end by a running roller for the paper and pivoted thereon, one of said levers being pivoted at an intermediate point to the end of an operating connecting rod in reciprocating motion, the other end of said connecting rod being pivoted to a crank made to rotate, means being also provided for adjusting the rotation radius of said crank and consequently the amplitude of the reciprocating motion of said connecting rod, the lastmentioned means being in turn engageable and disengageable.
- In accordance with another aspect of the present invention said vertical wall sliding parallel to itself is made of transparent material which allows surveillance of the operation of the receiving and piling unit from outside without danger for the operator, said wall sliding in a position such as to allow access to said receptacle only when said cutting blade means have finished the cutting action and have returned to rest position and when compression of the strip of forms or sheets already piled in the receptacle and folded accordion wise has been completed.
- These and other aspects and advantages of the present invention will appear more clearly from the detailed description below of a preferred embodiment given as a nonlimiting example with reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
- Fig. 1 is a top view of the service machine in accordance with the present invention;
- Fig. 2 is a partial side elevation view of the machine of Fig. 1 at the printer outlet service unit position;
- Figs. 3 and 3A are partially sectional, perspective and elevation views of the collection and piling receptacle of the strip of forms at the printer outlet service unit position;
- Fig. 4 is a partial view of Fig. 3 with the temporary supporting plane and cutting blade assembly in operating position; and
- Fig. 5 is a longitudinal section of the cutting blade assembly.
- Referring first to Figs. 1 and 2 the service apparatus which is the object of the present invention and indicated as a unit by
reference number 10 comprise an inlet orsplicing service unit 11 and an outlet or collection andpiling service unit 12. - As can be clearly seen in Fig. 1, the two units are grouped to form a very compact machine in which two different sliding planes for the
paper strip 13 to and from the printer (not shown). - More specifically in the
unit 11 the splicing head makes the splice, between the last sheet of the pack being fed to the printer (not shown) and from which is unfolding the strip indicated above withreference number 13, and the first sheet of the immediately following pack, indicated schematically withreference number 14 and positioned on the supportingplane 15. As is seen in Fig. 1 thestrip 13 crosses the entire machine passing above theoutlet service unit 12 in the direction of thearrow 16. - To the last-mentioned unit the strip of sheets or forms then returns in the direction opposite to the direction of and beneath
arrow 16, entering theoutlet service unit 12 from theside 17 of the machine. - The strip arriving from the printer crosses over the
guide rollers 18 and arrives over the collection and pilingreceptacle 19 with accordion like folding, shown in greater detail in Figs. 3 and 3A. - The
receptacle 19 comprises abottom plane 20 moveable vertically by means not shown. - The
receptacle 19 comprises also fourvertical walls - Of these the wall indicated with
reference number 23 is fixed and defines the greatest extension of the receptacle together with theside wall 24 which however is made of transparent material and slides parallel to its lie plane between a position in which it completely closes access to thereceptacle 19 while allowing vision and inspection of its interior and a withdrawn position in which it allows access to the interior of the receptacle. - The walls indicated with
reference numbers walls reference numbers - The wall indicated with
number 21 is formed ofvertical strips 27 joined together by a peripheral frame so that thewall 21 is movable along theslits 25 toward and away from thewall 23. - The
wall 22 is formed partially ofvertical strips 28 which slide in theslits 26 toward and away from thetransparent wall 24. - Concerning the means of moving the
walls strip 13, they are conventional devices not illustrated for the sake of drawing simplicity and clarity. - They are preferably motorized rack devices operated by sensors which take the aforesaid dimensions upstream from the outlet service unit.
- As already mentioned the
strip 13 arriving from the printer is drawn byguide rollers 18 and twodrawing conveyors 29 above thereceptacle 19 where it is guided and piled accordion wise by a rocker unit. It should be observed that the accordion likefolding is facilitated bythefactthatthestrip is already folded in this manner when it comes from the pack which feeds the printer. - The rocker unit comprises a running
roller 30 for the strip mounted between two side levers 31 and 32 pivoted at their upper ends to theside panels 33 and 34 of the machine. - Beneath the
roller 30 between the twolevers horizontal bar 35 in which is made aslit 36 for passage and guiding the paper which passes beneath thebar 35 through the interference of twotension rollers arrows 39 by anelectric motor 40 which is also integral with thelever 31 and hence with the rocker unit. - To drive the rocker unit is provided a mechanism comprising the connecting
rod 41 whose end is made integral with thelever 32 by means of thepin 42, the other end of the connecting rod being pivoted on agear 43 which acts as a crank and is rotated by drive means not shown. Theend 44 of the connecting rod is movable in an adjustable manner along the vertical diameter of thegear 43, consequently changing the amplitude of the horizontal travel of the free end of the connectingrod 41 and hence the amplitude of oscillation of thelever 32 and of the entire rocker unit. - Said adjustment is also performed in a manner dependent on the dimensions or shape of the forms or sheets making up the
strip 13. - Forthis purpose a device is provided comprising a
vertical rod 45 fitted with ahandgrip 46, the lower end of the rod being movable in a box 47 against the counteraction of a compression spring 48. Therod 45 is connected to theend 44 of the connecting rod. - Consequently the position assumed by the
rod 45 in its relationship with the box 47 establishes the position and the distance from the centre of theend 44 of the connecting rod with respect to thegear 43. - It should be observed that the
rollers 37 havezones 49 of nonslip material so that the strip of paper cannot slide back. - At a height intermediate between the
rollers 37 and the inside of thereceptacle 19 is mounted the temporary supporting plane and blade unit. - This unit comprises a
plane 50 which can move between a position in which it is completely withdrawn without interfering with the upper opening of therecepctacle 19 and an operating position in which it intercepts the strip of forms or sheets arriving through therollers 37 so that thestrip 13 instead of being deposited on thebottom plane 20 piles up on theplane 50. - This happens when on the bottom plane 20 a predetermined height of forms or sheets (always joined in a continuous strip and folded accordion wise) has been piled so that the strip must be cut and the pack of sheets thus formed on the
plane 20 removed. - The
plane 50 in the operative position also serves as a stop or fixed support for compressing the pile formed on theplane 20 before cutting. - To move the
plane 50 is provided a jack or compressedair cylinder 51 the stem of which is integral with the rear edge of theplane 50. Apin 52 stops the travel of theplane 50. - The
plane 50 also constitutes the support of thecutting blade 53 which is shaped in such a manner that engagement with the end of the crease between two sheets of thestrip 13 takes place first at one point and the cut thus takes place with a "paper-knife" effect. - As can be clearly seen in Fig. 5 the
plane 50 is tapered at its front edge while in its thickness is cut aseat 56 to house theblade 53 in a disappearing manner. - To move the
blade 53 between the withdrawn position in the thickness of theplane 50 and the cutting position is provided a pair ofcompressed air cylinders 54 connected by aflexible hose 55 and a source of pressure and vacuum (not shown). - To facilitate sliding of the blade with respect to the plane 50 a coat of antifriction material is applied on the
seat 56. - On the
side walls 33 and 34 are providedguides 57 for the sliding of theplane 50 parallel to itself. - As can be appreciated from Figs. 1, 2 and 3 one advantage of the machine in accordance with the present invention lies in the fact that the temporary supporting plane and related blade in the rest position disappear beneath the upper plane of the splicing unit to reduce occupied space.
- As shown in Fig. 2, in the body of the machine is made an
opening 58 corresponding to the slidingtransparent wall 24 opposite which is made a plane 59 (Fig. 1) on which thepack 60 formed on theplane 20 compressed and separated from the rest of the strip arriving from the printer is moved by expulsion to then be carried away. - The invention has been described in relation to some peculiar and preferred aspects it being understood that conceptually and mechanically equivalent modifications and variants are possible and foreseeable without exceeding its scope.
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