EP0675008A1 - Machine à mettre sous enveloppe avec un approvisionnement réglable et facultatif des inserts et des enveloppes à partir de postes d'apprivisionnement multiples - Google Patents

Machine à mettre sous enveloppe avec un approvisionnement réglable et facultatif des inserts et des enveloppes à partir de postes d'apprivisionnement multiples Download PDF

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EP0675008A1
EP0675008A1 EP95250036A EP95250036A EP0675008A1 EP 0675008 A1 EP0675008 A1 EP 0675008A1 EP 95250036 A EP95250036 A EP 95250036A EP 95250036 A EP95250036 A EP 95250036A EP 0675008 A1 EP0675008 A1 EP 0675008A1
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Uwe Hübler
Wilfried Kopanski
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B43—WRITING OR DRAWING IMPLEMENTS; BUREAU ACCESSORIES
    • B43M—BUREAU ACCESSORIES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B43M3/00—Devices for inserting documents into envelopes
    • B43M3/04—Devices for inserting documents into envelopes automatic
    • B43M3/045—Devices for inserting documents into envelopes automatic for envelopes with only one flap
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B43—WRITING OR DRAWING IMPLEMENTS; BUREAU ACCESSORIES
    • B43M—BUREAU ACCESSORIES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B43M3/00—Devices for inserting documents into envelopes
    • B43M3/04—Devices for inserting documents into envelopes automatic
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H39/00—Associating, collating, or gathering articles or webs
    • B65H39/02—Associating,collating or gathering articles from several sources
    • B65H39/04—Associating,collating or gathering articles from several sources from piles
    • B65H39/042—Associating,collating or gathering articles from several sources from piles the piles being disposed in superposed carriers
    • 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
    • B65H2301/43—Gathering; Associating; Assembling
    • B65H2301/431—Features with regard to the collection, nature, sequence and/or the making thereof
    • B65H2301/4318—Gathering, associating, assembling articles from a single source which is supplied by several sources

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  • the invention relates to an inserting machine with controllable supply of filling material and insert sleeves via multiple take-off devices of the type specified in the preamble of claim 1.
  • a document feeder with several stations consisting of several document feeder assemblies, one assembly from EP 102704 is known for feeding envelopes and for inserting stacks of collated documents into the envelopes, as well as a transport deck for transferring the documents from the document feed assembly to the envelope feed assembly.
  • monitoring means are used to emit control signals in a machine cycle to switch the various feed assemblies on and off.
  • the feed assemblies are activated one after the other and when a stack has been completely gathered, it is fed to the envelope feed assembly without the documents remaining on the transport deck.
  • sensor units which interact with the central control, are used for the compilation of sets of filling material, in order to deliver them to a transport deck in an aligned manner. It is disadvantageous that the means of transport undo the order of the product alignment.
  • EP 180386 describes an inlay system for compiling documents for inserting into envelopes that uses an interactive system for selecting and controlling from one of various possible configurations for assembling documents. Compound packs are fed from the document feed assembly to the envelope feed assembly by a transport unit that is insufficiently designed to maintain the alignment of the documents on the transport path.
  • DE-OS 3312087 describes a method for filling filling material into an envelope, in particular into an envelope.
  • the filling material and casing are separated from separate stacks and led to a filling station on separate transport routes.
  • the transport lanes must be essentially congruent in the filling area, in their end areas.
  • the filling process is controlled by stopping the casing or increasing the transport speed of the filling material.
  • Filling is supported by filling guides and alignment cams located on the transport route.
  • EP 102699 Also known from EP 102699 is a universal multi-station document feeder, in which all units of the insertion system are controlled according to a desired configuration by a main control unit. In a sequence stop mode of operation, a set of contents is formed and passed closed to a transport device.
  • An inserting machine with an integrated folding device combines the functions of feeding, folding, inserting and closing in one machine.
  • the machine has a first transport route for the mail, a second transport route for feeding empty envelopes and a third transport route for the removal of filled envelopes, the filling module and folding module being connected to one another, and thus also the first to the second transport route and both with the third way.
  • the intermediate stops on the transport routes or in the separate folding units required for inserting ensure insufficient maintenance of the leading edge alignment of the contents.
  • EP 556922 explains a method which collates documents by additionally stopping the documents by means of a stop edge either on the transport deck or in the separate folding device before they are transported on as a set of documents.
  • Other designs provide stop or stop wheels, as described in US 4640506 and US 4805841, to stop the forward movement of the documents being fed, e.g. in front of an inserting machine.
  • An intermediate stop by stop edges, stop or stop wheels counteracts, as already shown, the alignment of the documents created by the multiple collecting station.
  • the invention has for its object to connect multiple deduction and inserting devices of the respective generic type that a collated set of contents is always aligned and leading edge in the inserting and folding device and ensures a continuous filling process with less space and less mechanical effort. Another object of the invention is to achieve a much more compact design with increased performance by integrating the folding unit directly in the inserting device.
  • the basic idea of the invention is that the filling material is brought together from a programmable multiple take-off device and has the same leading edge directly without a transport deck and without a stopover Inserting and folding device is fed.
  • the object of the invention is achieved in that a roller arrangement which is arranged in the multiple take-off device and which receives the fully assembled filling material set with the same leading edges, feeds it directly to the inserting and folding device.
  • a common roller arrangement designed in this way is also arranged between the multiple take-off device and the inlet area for insert sleeves in the inserting device in order to be able to dispense with transport routes in this area as well.
  • the filling material is no longer stopped in front of the inserting device.
  • no transport deck with appropriate transport means is required.
  • the collated documents or documents are aligned in the leading edge at all times in the mail processing device. Sources of error caused by a transport device and means of transport, e.g. Stops and stop means have been removed.
  • a folding unit can be arranged directly in the inserting device, without additional feeding or transport units and without means for an intermediate stop.
  • the invention achieves higher processing reliability and performance with a smaller installation space.
  • the invention makes it possible to use the known combination of inserting and folding device with extraction devices without a stopover and transport deck and thus to have a more reliable, more powerful and more compact machine.
  • the insert casing 10 corresponding to the filling material 9 is also automatically drawn off from a multiple take-off device 11, which consists of several insert casing stations 14 arranged horizontally one above the other.
  • the withdrawal of the insert sleeve 10 is coordinated by a central control unit, not shown in the drawing, which controls the insert sleeve stations 14 individually and activated independently of each other.
  • the insert sleeves 10 to be fed one after the other in successive processing cycles can have different properties, and accordingly the type of feed and the sleeve withdrawal from the insert sleeve station 14 can be controlled for certain criteria, for example the filling material thickness.
  • a corresponding insert sleeve shaft 12 can be inserted in front of the inlet area 13 of the inserting device 2.
  • the arrangement ensures the manual feeding of inserts which differ greatly in their properties and optionally the manual feeding through a manual feed shaft 31.
  • a sensor unit in the multiple take-off device 1 interacts with the central control, not shown in the drawing, in order to create sets of filling material simultaneously and with the same leading edges.
  • the individual filling material constituents are continuously brought together with the same leading edges and are guided from the common roller arrangement 4 directly and without a stop to the inlet area 5 of the inserting device with the same leading edges.
  • a microcomputer evaluates the filling material leading edge, filling length and feed speed of the withdrawn filling 9, which is detected by a sensor arrangement during the movement, and controls accordingly the permissible offset of the subsequent prints, so that essentially all documents are deducted with the same leading edge.
  • An insertion sleeve 10 withdrawn from the multiple take-off device from one of the stations 14 is aligned synchronously with the feed of the filling material 9 by means of a roller arrangement 4a and fed directly to the inlet area 13 of the inserting device 2.
  • the common roller assemblies 4 and 4a used for the multiple take-off and for feeding the inserting components connect the multiple take-off devices 1, 11 directly to the inlet areas 5, 13 of the inserting device 2.
  • the roller assemblies 4 receive the collected filling material set 9 from the roller arrangement of the multiple pull-off device 1 as soon as the latter has passed the last filling station 15 and the roller arrangement 4a receives the insertion sleeve 10 from the roller arrangement of the multiple take-off device 11 in a time predetermined for the filling process for forwarding to the inserting device 2.
  • the filling material 9 is first folded in the inserting and folding device and then pushed into the insertion sleeve 10.
  • the folding and slider unit 18 successively generates the folding flap fold 9a and the slider / former fold 9b.
  • the inserting partners move relatively towards each other when the second fold is folded in the inserting device 2. This relative movement ends only after the insertion sleeve 10 has been filled with the folded filling material 9. It is also possible to dispense with the second fold 9b and to produce only one fold.
  • the slide 18a can have a suitable filling material trailing edge drive, that of the folding flap 9a, once folded, grips the filling material at its rear edge and moves it into the insertion sleeve 10. It is also possible to use a device that does not fold, but has the advantages of the described invention.
  • the common roller arrangements 4 and 4a are brought into operation either by means of a central drive or with a plurality of drives which are separate from one another for the pull-off and inserting processes.
  • the filled envelopes are then closed and ejected in a downstream closing device 30.
  • FIG. 2 Details of the inserting device are shown in FIG. 2.
  • the folding device shown in FIG. 2 is a folding device, as is known for example from DE 4220404.
  • the folding device is arranged directly in the inserting device.
  • the filling area of the inserting and folding device comprises a receiving plate 6 with a hill arrangement 16 and guide elements 7 for guiding the filling material 9, a stop means 3 being arranged on the receiving plate 6, at the end opposite the hill 16, and a folding former 21 being arranged opposite.
  • the insertion sleeve opener 26 is fastened directly to the former 21.
  • the stop means 3 is an adjustable stop 25 that can be tilted about an axis of rotation or another suitable arrangement.
  • a means 24 is provided for adjusting the stop position.
  • the stop means 3 is advantageously arranged directly inside the inserting device and below the folding and sliding unit 18.
  • a hold-down device 8 serves to guide the filling material.
  • the hold-down device 8 does not stop the filling material 9 or does not hold it.
  • the hill arrangement 16 and the guide elements 7 cooperate with the hold-down device 8 in order to guide the filling material 9 directly against the lifting means. With this arrangement, the filling material 9 is stopped at the same leading edge.
  • the folding and slide unit 18 is composed of a folding flap 18b with a slide 18a and the fixed receiving plate 6. As can be seen from FIG. 2, the folding and slider unit 18 has a driver 17 for the slider 18 a, which is attached to the bearing 22.
  • An optical edge control device 28 below the hill arrangement 16 detects the supplied filling material set and triggers the folding process, shown in FIG. 3.
  • the folding flap 18b has a folding flap drive means 23 which can pivot a folding finger 19 away via a folding finger axis 27.
  • the slide 18a is displaced vertically by a driver 17 fastened to the bearing 22.
  • the set of contents is received by the folding and sliding unit 18 and stopped by the stop means 3 with the same leading edges.
  • the folding and slider unit 18 is in the starting position below the set of contents.
  • the folding flap 18b By rotating the folding flap 18b, the set of contents is folded for the first time by means of the folding finger 19.
  • the insert sleeve 10 taken over by the inserting and folding device 2 is opened by the insert sleeve opener 26 and the filling material 9 is pushed into the insert sleeve by the slide which forms the second fold with the folding funnel 21.
  • the inserting and folding device 2 is shown in a different sequence phase from FIG.
  • the folding and sliding unit 18 enables the production of a fold, for example a Z-fold, wrap fold or single fold of the filling material 9 directly in the inserting device.
  • the position of the fold can be adjusted directly by suitable adjustment of the stop means 3, which stops the filling material supplied in the inserting device.
  • the folding process is triggered. Parallel to the folding process of the first fold 9a by means of the folding finger 19 and the folding flap 18b, the insert sleeve 10 with the insert sleeve opener 26 is opened and the filling material 9 is pushed into the insert sleeve by the slide 18a, which forms the second fold 9b with the folding former 21.
  • the filled insert sleeve is then fed to a downstream device, for example a closing device or sorting unit.
  • a downstream device for example a closing device or sorting unit.
  • the folding flap 9a it is also possible to catch and turn formats, for example 4 inches, by means of suitable catch hooks which are fastened at the pivot point of the folding and sliding unit 18.
  • a trailing edge driver drives through a slot in the catch hook and pushes the filling material 9 in the direction of the insertion sleeve 10.

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EP95250036A 1994-03-04 1995-02-13 Machine à mettre sous enveloppe avec un approvisionnement réglable et facultatif des inserts et des enveloppes à partir de postes d'apprivisionnement multiples Expired - Lifetime EP0675008B1 (fr)

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