EP1155994B1 - Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Umorientieren von Druckprodukten - Google Patents

Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Umorientieren von Druckprodukten Download PDF

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EP1155994B1
EP1155994B1 EP01110352A EP01110352A EP1155994B1 EP 1155994 B1 EP1155994 B1 EP 1155994B1 EP 01110352 A EP01110352 A EP 01110352A EP 01110352 A EP01110352 A EP 01110352A EP 1155994 B1 EP1155994 B1 EP 1155994B1
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Gunter Gämmerler
Jürgen Dichtl
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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
    • B65H29/00—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles
    • B65H29/66—Advancing articles in overlapping streams
    • 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
    • B65H2301/34—Modifying, selecting, changing direction of displacement
    • B65H2301/341—Modifying, selecting, changing direction of displacement without change of plane of displacement

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  • the present invention relates to a method and a device for reorienting products, in particular printed products, which are conveyed on a product support in a product stream, in particular a shingled stream.
  • Such devices are generally known and serve to act on a conveyed stream of printed products so that the individual printed products after passing through the Einwirk Anlagen have a different orientation relative to the conveying direction than before entry into the Einwirk listening.
  • a scale flow first passes through a cutting station in which the printed products are trimmed, for example, on two parallel opposite sides.
  • the orientation of each printed product within the scale flow must be changed, ie the products must be rotated within the scale flow.
  • a device according to the preamble of claim 7 is known from CH-A-637900.
  • the invention can be applied both to individual products conveyed in a product stream and to products promoted in a scale flow.
  • the inventive method it is possible to change the original pulse of an incoming scale flow, which is oriented in the conveying direction, characterized in that the product to be rotated relative to the conveyed imbricated flow is moved exclusively translationally. This can better control the rotation of the product.
  • the conveying direction of the product stream is changed in the Einwirk Anlagen. This means that for a reorientation of the products within the product stream by 90 ° rotation of the individual products by an angle less than 90 ° is required. If, for example, the conveying direction of a scale flow in the single-acting device is changed by 45 °, then the individual printed products within the single-acting device also have to be rotated by only an angle of 45 °, which contributes to a stabilization of the outgoing scale flow.
  • the rotation of the individual products within the scale flow is carried out by moving the products against an obstacle, which is preferably curved, but in particular not curved in a circular manner is. It is possible, for example, to provide as an obstacle a curved stop on which the products impact after the exclusively translatory movement, whereby the rotary motion is initiated to reorient the products.
  • an obstacle which is preferably curved, but in particular not curved in a circular manner is. It is possible, for example, to provide as an obstacle a curved stop on which the products impact after the exclusively translatory movement, whereby the rotary motion is initiated to reorient the products.
  • the translational movement is carried out in the same direction to the conveying direction of the incoming product stream, but not transversely, i. at right angles to this direction but obliquely.
  • a single printed product can be gripped with the aid of a pair of rollers at a corner and something can be pulled out of the scale flow, whereby this product is impressed a translational velocity component, which can preferably point in the direction of the outgoing scale flow.
  • the product stream is further guided in the Einwirk Nurs over a fixed portion of the product support.
  • the obstacle of the Einwirk wisdom is flexible.
  • Such a flexible design of the stop facilitates adjustment and adaptation to different formats or different products.
  • the obstacle has an end region which is oriented at right angles to the conveying direction of the arriving conveyor belt.
  • a stop is created on the products while - In a small section - impinge at right angles, but which stabilizes the subsequent rotational movement of the products and aligns the outgoing, reoriented scale flow properly straight.
  • the relative position between the other end region and the conveying direction of the outgoing conveyor belt is adjustable, as this can easily be used to adapt the format.
  • the Einwirk wisdom has a pair of rollers with at least one driven roller, wherein preferably the driven roller is disposed above the stationary support portion.
  • the Einwirk Anlagen pressure elements which cooperate with the driven roller to allow withdrawal of a product from the product stream by means of the driven roller.
  • two imbricated superimposed printed products are pressed by the pressure elements, so that with the help of the driven roller or the driven roller pair, the product to be bottomed can be pulled out of the scale flow.
  • Fig. 1 shows a device for reorienting conveyed in a scale flow S printed products P with a Einwirk Anlagen 14 in which the orientation of the products P of the scale flow S relative to the conveying direction of the scale flow is changed, i.
  • the individual products of the scale flow are rotated in the Einwirk listening 14 about an axis perpendicular to a product support axis.
  • the Einwirk wisdom 14 has an incoming conveyor belt 10 and an outgoing conveyor belt 12, wherein the conveying direction A of the incoming conveyor belt 10 and the conveying direction B of the outgoing conveyor belt 12 include an angle of 45 °.
  • the incoming conveyor belt 10 is preceded by a feed belt 16 which is curved in plan view and thereby causes a deflection of the product conveying direction by 45 °. As shown in FIG. 1, the product flow (in the plan view of FIG.
  • a stationary support portion 20 is provided between the incoming conveyor belt 10 and the outgoing conveyor belt 12, which in the illustrated embodiment consists of a stainless steel plate which interconnects the incoming conveyor belt 10 and the outgoing conveyor belt 12.
  • the product support in the Einwirk listening is thus formed by the moving upper run of the incoming conveyor belt 10, by the stationary support portion 20 and by the moving upper run of the outgoing conveyor belt 12.
  • the activating device 14 has a synchronously driven roller pair 22, 24 (FIG. 2) which forms between them a clamping gap 26 which lies in the plane of the stationary support section 20.
  • the stationary support portion 20 is cut out at this point.
  • the axes of rotation of the roller pair 22, 24 extend at right angles to the conveying direction B of the outgoing conveyor belt 12, parallel to the plane of the product support and at an angle of 45 ° to the conveying direction A of the incoming conveyor belt 10 (see Fig. 1).
  • the pair of rollers 22, 24 is adjustable by means of an adjusting device 28 in the direction of the axis of rotation X.
  • three pinch rollers 30 are provided at the end and above its upper run, which press from above on the scale flow S and thereby allow a product lying below of the roller pair 22, 24 from the scale flow can be pulled out.
  • the axis of rotation of the pressure rollers 30 extends at right angles to the conveying direction A of the incoming conveyor belt 10 and, seen in plan view, is arranged slightly upstream of the downstream deflection roller of the incoming conveyor belt 10.
  • the activating device 14 has an obstacle in the form of a stop 34, which is formed as an elongated metal strip which extends perpendicular to the plane of the stationary support section 20.
  • the stop 34 is guided in a guide 36 which is stationary and has a slot which is oriented at right angles to the conveying direction A of the incoming conveyor belt 10.
  • the stopper 34 may indeed be passed through the slot, but it is always ensured that that portion B 1 of the stopper 34, on which the conveyed product first impinges, is oriented at right angles to the conveying direction A of the incoming conveyor belt 10.
  • the other end of the curved and flexible stop 34 is guided in a region B2 parallel to the conveying direction B of the outgoing conveyor belt 12.
  • the stop 34 is fastened in the region B2 to an adjusting device 38, with which the region B2 of the stop 34 can be adjusted perpendicular to the conveying direction B of the outgoing conveyor belt 12. With a corresponding adjustment along the double arrow shown in FIG. 1, the stop 34 can be tracked through the slot of the guide 36.
  • a brush 40 is provided above the scale flow S and in the conveying direction before the stop 34.
  • the incoming scale flow S first reaches the feed belt 16, which is formed as a 45 ° curve and causes a deflection of the scale flow by 45 °. Subsequently, the scale flow is transferred to the incoming conveyor belt 10, whereby the scale flow S is conveyed in the conveying direction A. At the end of the incoming conveyor belt 10, the scale flow S is fixed by the pressure rollers 30, so that subsequently by the pair of rollers 22, 24, a product from the scale flow S can be slightly pulled out.
  • the device is adjusted so that a product is gripped at its corner by the roller pair 22, 24 before this product touches the stop 34.
  • this product with an exclusively translational movement of the scale flow S pulled something out and moved in the direction B, that is already accelerated in the direction of the outgoing scale flow.
  • this product applies to the area B 1 of the stop 34, whereby the rotational movement of the individual products shown in Fig. 1 is initiated.
  • the product is still moved translationally through the pair of rollers 22, 24 in the direction B.
  • the impulse of the product which has been promoted by the conveyor belt 10 on the stationary support portion 20, but at the same time while the product rotates, wherein the rotational movement is controlled controlled by serving as a guide curve stop 34.
  • the illustrated device moreover has a self-organizing effect, i. Also, an irregularly aligned, incoming scale flow is better again after passing through the Einwirk Nur 14, i. aligned properly and in a straight line.
  • the device described acts self-organizing, as compensated by the combination of the translational movement and the rotational movement misalignments of the incoming products. Furthermore, the proper rotation is largely independent of the speed of the scale flow.
  • the present invention is equally applicable to the reorientation of individual products.
  • the stop 34 may also be formed as a strand of a preferably driven conveyor belt, which is oriented perpendicular to the stationary support 20 and which runs along with the rotating product.
  • a rotating brush can also be used instead of the conveyor belt.

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Separation, Sorting, Adjustment, Or Bending Of Sheets To Be Conveyed (AREA)
  • Auxiliary Devices For And Details Of Packaging Control (AREA)
  • Attitude Control For Articles On Conveyors (AREA)
  • Collation Of Sheets And Webs (AREA)
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