EP0869092A1 - Méthode pour la fabrication de produits imprimés et un dispositif pour la mise en oeuvre de cette méthode - Google Patents

Méthode pour la fabrication de produits imprimés et un dispositif pour la mise en oeuvre de cette méthode Download PDF

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EP0869092A1
EP0869092A1 EP98810173A EP98810173A EP0869092A1 EP 0869092 A1 EP0869092 A1 EP 0869092A1 EP 98810173 A EP98810173 A EP 98810173A EP 98810173 A EP98810173 A EP 98810173A EP 0869092 A1 EP0869092 A1 EP 0869092A1
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Joachim Lackner
Marcel Strauss
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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
    • B65H15/00—Overturning 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
    • B65H35/00—Delivering articles from cutting or line-perforating machines; Article or web delivery apparatus incorporating cutting or line-perforating devices, e.g. adhesive tape dispensers
    • 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
    • B65H2301/30—Orientation, displacement, position of the handled material
    • B65H2301/33—Modifying, selecting, changing orientation
    • 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
    • B65H2301/30—Orientation, displacement, position of the handled material
    • B65H2301/33—Modifying, selecting, changing orientation
    • B65H2301/332—Turning, overturning
    • B65H2301/3321—Turning, overturning kinetic therefor
    • B65H2301/33216—Turning, overturning kinetic therefor about an axis perpendicular to the direction of displacement and to the surface of material
    • 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
    • B65H2301/30—Orientation, displacement, position of the handled material
    • B65H2301/33—Modifying, selecting, changing orientation
    • B65H2301/332—Turning, overturning
    • B65H2301/3322—Turning, overturning according to a determined angle
    • B65H2301/33222—90°
    • 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
    • B65H2301/30—Orientation, displacement, position of the handled material
    • B65H2301/34—Modifying, selecting, changing direction of displacement
    • 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
    • B65H2301/30—Orientation, displacement, position of the handled material
    • B65H2301/34—Modifying, selecting, changing direction of displacement
    • B65H2301/341—Modifying, selecting, changing direction of displacement without change of plane of displacement
    • B65H2301/3411—Right angle arrangement, i.e. 90 degrees
    • 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
    • B65H2301/30—Orientation, displacement, position of the handled material
    • B65H2301/34—Modifying, selecting, changing direction of displacement
    • B65H2301/341—Modifying, selecting, changing direction of displacement without change of plane of displacement
    • B65H2301/3411—Right angle arrangement, i.e. 90 degrees
    • B65H2301/34112—Right angle arrangement, i.e. 90 degrees changing leading edge
    • 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
    • B65H2301/44—Moving, forwarding, guiding material
    • B65H2301/445—Moving, forwarding, guiding material stream of articles separated from each other
    • B65H2301/4455—Diverting a main stream into part streams
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T83/00—Cutting
    • Y10T83/202—With product handling means
    • Y10T83/2092—Means to move, guide, or permit free fall or flight of product
    • Y10T83/2192—Endless conveyor
    • Y10T83/2194—And means to remove product therefrom
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T83/00—Cutting
    • Y10T83/647—With means to convey work relative to tool station
    • Y10T83/6476—Including means to move work from one tool station to another
    • Y10T83/6489—Slitter station
    • Y10T83/6491—And transverse cutter station

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  • the invention relates to a method for the production of printed products such as books, brochures or the like.
  • the printing system is followed by a cutting device and a binding unit in this order.
  • Other processing options include folding, stacking, stapling, etc. known
  • Digital printing systems are among those printing systems at those printed on paper according to a predetermined page sequence or processed.
  • folding devices are used for the wide range of formats, which do not allow continuous processing to the end product. This primarily affects a folding device that requires different outputs when processing differently folded printed products. A folding device with several outlets is not suitable for efficient processing, because an additional high technical effort would be necessary to guide all processed products to a common delivery in order to be able to process them from there. This view applies in particular to online processing for webs printed according to a predetermined page sequence.
  • the object of the invention is therefore a method of the beginning mentioned type and a device for its implementation to create that exempt from the disadvantages listed are and an on-line processing of paper webs to variable Allow format sizes of the printed products.
  • this object is achieved in that the Single sheets cut from the web on the further conveying path optionally in their position relative to the feed direction of the Lane rotated by 90 ° and one or more rows in a row over a common funding section of the further funding path for further processing.
  • 1 to 4 convey the processing of one of Printing machine (not visible) of an inventive Device supplied fixed web 1 made of paper or plastic.
  • the direction of feed of the web 1 is shown by arrow Z. and illustrate the dashed lines on lane 1 the intended cuts across or across and lengthways to lane 1 for cutting into single sheets.
  • the web 1 is initially separated into single sheets 2 by cross cutting.
  • the individual sheets 2 On the further conveying path in the direction of further processing A, the individual sheets 2 maintain their position and are guided in a row in a row on a common conveying section 4 of the further conveying path 3.
  • the individual sheets 2 can be displaced by 90 ° on a conveying section 4 'angled from the feed direction.
  • the further conveyor path 3 'thus has a 90 ° angle.
  • Fig. 2 shows a type of processing in which in contrast to Fig. 1 the cross-cut single sheet 2 in its position Rotated 90 ° and then one after the other in a row be promoted.
  • FIG. 3 shows a fed paper web 1, which is cut both transversely and lengthwise to form single sheets 2.
  • the web 2 passes through a cutting device, not shown, in which individual sheets 2a, 2b are cut in two rows.
  • the individual sheets 2a, 2b are left in their position on the further conveying path 3 and fed to the further processing A in a row one after the other.
  • the individual sheets 2a are shifted laterally on the conveyor section 5 and fed to the conveyor section 4 for further processing.
  • the individual sheets 2a, 2b according to FIG. 3 can be around Are deflected by 90 ° so that they are shown in follow the longitudinal format direction one after the other while doing one 90 ° deviating from the feed direction of the web 1 conveyor section 4 'track.
  • FIG. 4 shows a procedure in which the single sheets 2a, 2b in contrast to FIG. 3 in their position additionally rotated and then in a row in a row the further processing A are fed.
  • FIG. 5 shows excerpts of a device in which a printed paper web 1 is fed to a cutting device 7.
  • the cutting device 7 shown allows the paper web 1 to be separated by a movable knife 8 arranged transversely to the feed direction of the latter.
  • the individual sheets 2 pass through a switch 9, through which they are optionally guided on conveying path 5 or 6.
  • the conveying path 5 is intended to maintain the position of the individual sheets 2 'and to deflect them on an angled further conveying path 3'.
  • a folder is shown as further processing device A '.
  • On the conveyor path 3, 3 'a switchable alignment device 10 is arranged in front of the switch 9, which is adjustable and can be used or used on a case-by-case basis. is ineffective.
  • the conveying section 4, 4 ' as an inclined roller table for the subsequent alignment of the individual sheets 2, 2'; 2a, 2b; 2a ', 2b'.
  • a corresponding feeder 11 is assigned to the merging point of the conveyor lines 5, 6, which inserts 12 feeds the single sheet stream.
  • a device is again without a digital printing system shown, in which, in contrast to FIG. 5, the paper web 1 through the cutting device 7 both transversely and is cut lengthwise so that the width of the paper web 1 distributed several - here two - single sheets 2a ', 2b' arise.
  • a fixed or driven knife 13 provided for the longitudinal cut.
  • the position is also different from FIG. 5 the switch 9 so that the single sheets 2a ', 2b' side by side get to the overhead conveyor 6.
  • the individual sheets 2a ', 2b' by turning while changing the conveying direction in pairs rotated and moved in a row one after the other.

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
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  • Folding Of Thin Sheet-Like Materials, Special Discharging Devices, And Others (AREA)
  • Separation, Sorting, Adjustment, Or Bending Of Sheets To Be Conveyed (AREA)
  • Collation Of Sheets And Webs (AREA)
  • Registering Or Overturning Sheets (AREA)
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