EP1303452B1 - Procede et dispositif d'empilage d'objets plats - Google Patents

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EP1303452B1
EP1303452B1 EP01947093A EP01947093A EP1303452B1 EP 1303452 B1 EP1303452 B1 EP 1303452B1 EP 01947093 A EP01947093 A EP 01947093A EP 01947093 A EP01947093 A EP 01947093A EP 1303452 B1 EP1303452 B1 EP 1303452B1
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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
    • B65H29/003—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles by grippers
    • 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
    • B65H29/02—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles by mechanical grippers engaging the leading edge only of the 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
    • B65H2405/00—Parts for holding the handled material
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    • B65H2405/55—Rail guided gripping means running in closed loop, e.g. without permanent interconnecting means

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  • the invention is in the field of materials handling and relates to a method and an apparatus according to the preambles of the corresponding claims.
  • Method and apparatus are used for stacking flat objects, in particular of printed products such as newspapers, magazines, etc., which flat objects of the stacking are fed serially in a flow.
  • printed products are stacked for intermediate storage between processing steps or for packaging prior to shipment.
  • stacking for example, serves a stacking shaft with a substantially vertical stacking axis, which stacking shaft has one of the shape of the printed products substantially corresponding floor plan and bottom as an advantageously vertically displaceable stacking table.
  • the stacking shaft On the upper side (opposite the stacking table) the stacking shaft is open. The products are fed into this opening and through this opening they are positioned in the stacking shaft.
  • Printed products are supplied to such a stack shaft, for example in the form of a loose on a conveyor base, for example, on a conveyor belt, resting scale flow, the leading edge products are located on the upper side of the stream.
  • the conveyor base By conveying on the conveyor base, the products are conveyed to the opening of the stacking shaft and each product is over this Slid open until it falls into the slot or on already stacked in the shaft products.
  • the stacking table is, as already mentioned, usually movable in the vertical direction and is adjusted such that the top of the stack formed in the shaft is immediately below the opening at any time.
  • each product to be stacked slips over the stacking tray or over the top of the products stacked in the stacking tray as it is pushed over the stacking shaft opening. Also, this slipping is a not fully controllable movement, especially for less rigid products, and may therefore lead to problems.
  • Stacking by feeding a loosely arranged scale flow to a stacking shaft is described, for example, in the publication DE-2752513 (or CA-1091707) or EP-0309745 (or US-4886265).
  • the supply is also suitable by gripper coupled to a pulling member, each holding a product at its leading edge, pull over the stacking shaft opening and then release.
  • gripper coupled to a pulling member, each holding a product at its leading edge, pull over the stacking shaft opening and then release.
  • a stack is described, for example, in publication EP-0059746 (or US-4666143) or DE-3130945 (or US-4445681).
  • Other devices are disclosed in EP 870 710, which is considered to be the closest prior art, and in US 4,666,143.
  • Both stacking methods briefly described above thus include a horizontal feed and a subsequent free fall, which means a change in direction which is not easy to control and an uncontrolled movement. at reduced free fall, the horizontal feed still needs to be sharply braked and creates a slipping on the stack surface movement (pushing or pulling), which may be undesirable, especially for thin and less rigid products.
  • the invention now has the object to provide a method and an apparatus for stacking flat objects, which are fed in a flow stream serially, in particular for the stacking of printed products to create, such that a stacking without free fall and without slipping motion or at least is made possible with a significantly reduced, slipping motion, such that according to the invention, even as difficult stackable known objects are easily stackable.
  • Method and device should be easy to use not only for the production of simple stacks but also for the production of so-called cross stacks, in which the products are rotated in layers relative to each other by 180 ° about the stack axis.
  • the method according to the invention consists in supplying the articles of the stack to be kept individually, forming a stack-like arrangement of each of a group of articles held in such a way that the articles are still held individually, stabilizing the stack-like arrangement and the articles are first then release from the individual content, which then creates the desired stack.
  • the objects are thus supplied individually held in the region of an edge, in groups, each group having a plurality of objects, which are parallel to each other, substantially transverse to the conveying direction and each other and which have such small distances from each other that they individually held stacked and can be stabilized in this stack-like arrangement.
  • Said, stack-like arrangement consists essentially in that the held edge portions opposite areas of the objects of a group are brought into a position in which they are positioned relative to each other substantially as in a real stack, that is directly adjacent to each other and in the highest possible Mass are aligned with each other, while the portions of the held edges are aligned, but have a distance defined by the means with which they are held.
  • This stack-like arrangement is stabilized in a suitable manner, and only then are the articles released from their integrity, so that also the areas of the originally held edges of the objects come to lie against each other and the group of objects forms a real stack in which the objects are stacked aligned all over the rest directly on each other or rest against each other. The removal of the stack takes place in any known manner.
  • a stack-like arrangement as is created according to the inventive method in an intermediate phase, is only possible if the flat objects are at least parallel to the held edge at least limited bendable and defined by the held promotion distances of the objects from each other on this flexibility and on to process the number in a group Items is matched.
  • Completely rigid objects can theoretically only be arranged in a stack-like arrangement of the type mentioned if their held edges abut one another without a distance from one another. A corresponding, held promotion is rather difficult to realize.
  • the degree to which the portions opposite the held edges in the stack-like arrangement can be aligned also depends on the distance between the edges held and, in addition, on the manner in which the held edges are aligned. In an arcuate, in particular in a circular arc-shaped arrangement of the held edges results in a higher degree of alignment for the holding edges held opposite article areas than is the case with a rectilinear alignment of the held edges.
  • every second stack-like arrangement of a group of objects is rotated, with rotated and non-rotated groups being stacked on one another as cross layers.
  • Figure 1 shows a group 1 of flat objects 2, as it is conveyed to the inventive stacking.
  • the objects 2 are held individually by holding elements 3, which holding elements each have a rolling or sliding body 4 and a gripper 5 arranged thereon.
  • the objects 2 are held by the gripper 5 in the region of an upper edge 10 here so that they are arranged substantially transversely to the conveying direction F substantially parallel to each other and aligned.
  • the rolling or sliding 4 roll along a rail track 6 and are driven by a suitable drive for this movement.
  • the holding elements 3 are designed such that, when they are positioned in contact with each other on the rail track 6, a regular distance between objects 2 held by them is set.
  • it is the rolling or sliding body 4, which define this distance, which thus all have an equal length in the conveying direction F, which length is greater than the corresponding extent of the gripper 5 and the objects 2 (thickness of the objects).
  • the holding elements 3 are advantageously at least limited independently of each other, that is, with varying distances from each other, movable along the rail track 6, and they are driven for the stacking such that the distances within groups 1 corresponds to the minimum distance.
  • a drive for example, a drive system with magnetizable drive elements 7, which are continuously moved in a rail track 6 of the rolling or sliding body 4 parallel rail 8 in the conveying direction F and to which the rolling or sliding body 4 are coupled, as long as the drive elements are magnetized.
  • Figures 2a and 2b show each group 1 of individually held by holding elements 3 objects 2 in a stack-like arrangement, as they are created by the inventive method before the release of the objects 2 from the content.
  • the regions of the objects 2 which are opposite the held edges 10 lie against one another in such a stack-like arrangement and are aligned with each other as well as possible.
  • suitable pressing means 11 by pressing are held together, for example by suitable pressing means 11 by pressing.
  • Holding elements 3 are advantageously at least limited independently of each other, that is, with varying distances from each other, movable along the rail track 6, and they are driven for the stacking such that the distances within groups 1 corresponds to the minimum distance.
  • a drive for example, a drive system with magnetizable drive elements 7, which are continuously moved in a rail track 6 of the rolling or sliding body 4 parallel rail 8 in the conveying direction F and to which the rolling or sliding body 4 are coupled, as long as the drive elements are magnetized.
  • Figures 2a and 2b show each group 1 of individually held by holding elements 3 objects 2 in a stack-like arrangement, as they are created by the inventive method before the release of the objects 2 from the content.
  • the regions of the objects 2 which are opposite the held edges 10 lie against one another in such a stack-like arrangement and are aligned with each other as well as possible.
  • suitable pressing means 11 by pressing are held together, for example by suitable pressing means 11 by pressing.
  • FIG. 2a which shows a rectilinear alignment of the held edges 10 (straight rail track 6 on which the holding elements 3 are arranged), it is apparent that the articles 2 for producing the stack-like arrangement are at least must be limited bendable and that defined by the holding elements 3 minimum distance between the objects 2 and / or the number of objects to be processed in a group 1 2 must be matched to this bendability.
  • FIG. 1 A comparison of Figure 2a with Figure 2b, in which the holding means 3 are arranged on a circular arc curved rail track 6, the held edges 10 are thus aligned in a circular arc, shows how the orientation of the held edges 10 opposite article areas not only on the distances between the objects but also on the nature of the alignment of the held edges 10 to each other, that is dependent on the shape of the rail track 6.
  • FIGS. 3a and 3b schematically show the sequence of the method according to the invention on a variant of the method in which simple stacks (alignment of all objects in the stack equal) or cross stacks (alignment of the articles rotated by 180 ° about the stacking axis A) can be produced.
  • FIG. 3a illustrates the production of simple stacks 20 or of stacks in which the correlation between the orientation of the articles in the supplied flow and their orientation in the stack is the same for all articles.
  • the holding elements 3 are driven along a rail track 6 shown in dash-dotted line in the conveying direction F and indeed in groups 1, in which they are close to each other, so that between the objects held by them 2, the minimum distances are set.
  • the object areas of a group 1 which are opposite the held object edges 10 are encompassed by pressing means 11 which are moved in this phase on a track 21 parallel to the rail track, brought together and pressed together.
  • the holding means 3 are arranged in this phase on a circular arc-shaped curved part of the rail track 6 (see also Figure 2b).
  • the pressing By the pressing, the stack-shaped arrangement is stabilized and the articles 2 can be released from the content. This is realized by a divergence between rail track 6 and web 21 on which the pressing means 11 move and unillustrated control means by which the grippers 5 are opened.
  • the stabilized by the pressing means 11 Group 1 is transported by this against a stacking shaft 22 and stored in the stacking shaft. Then the pressing means 11 are moved apart to release the group 1 and, for example, extended laterally from the stacking shaft 22.
  • the stacks 20 produced in the manner described are removed as such from below from the stacking shaft 22 in a manner known per se or they can be combined as stacking sections in the stacking shaft to form a stack comprising several stacking sections and only then released from the stacking shaft 22. In the latter case, a plurality of laterally from the stacking shaft movable stacking tables 23 are provided. If cross-stacks are to be produced by the method illustrated by FIG. 3a, a stacking shaft is to be provided, for example, into which stacking sections are deposited, while a lower stacking section is rotated through 180 ° about the stacking axis before the stacking section is deposited.
  • the stack-like arrangement in which the object areas opposite the held edges 10 are held adjacent to one another by pressing means 11 can also be subjected directly to strapping, whereby a strapping band 24 is placed around the objects 2 of the stacked group 1, as indicated in the reference number 25 designated detail is indicated and how this can be performed in a known Umreifungsstation when the strapping station on the parallel path of movement (6 and 21) of holding elements 3 and pressing means 11 is arranged.
  • a stabilized with pressing means 11, stack-like arrangement can be stored after the dismissal of the objects 2 of the holding elements 3 without stacking shaft 22, for example, directly to a removal conveyor.
  • the prerequisite of a variant of the method as shown in detail 25 is that the object areas opposite the held edges 10 are already sufficiently well aligned with each other in the stack-like arrangement for the definitive stack.
  • the method according to FIG. 3 b differs from the method according to FIG. 3 a in that every second item group 1 after the objects 2 have been released from the holding elements (not shown) and before being deposited in the stacking shaft 22 by a corresponding rotation of the pressing means from which the group 1 is rotated 180 ° about the stacking axis A.
  • stacks 20 stored in the stacking shaft 20 become so-called cross-layers, that is, too relative mutually rotated by 180 ° about the stack axis A stacking sections, which together form a cross stack.
  • An apparatus for carrying out the method according to FIGS. 3 a and 3 b has, for example, a conveyor system according to the publication WO-99/33731, as well as a circulation system equipped for the necessary movements of a plurality of pressing means 11, a stacking shaft 22 and means for transporting away in the stacking shaft 22 created stacking 20, wherein for the variant 25 instead of a stacking shaft 22 Umrei humidityngsstation is to be used.
  • FIG. 4 shows, in a very schematic manner, an exemplary embodiment of the device according to the invention, which serves to produce simple stacks 20 of objects 2 which are held in groups and kept individually.
  • the device has a conveyor system with holding elements 3, a rail track 6 and a suitable drive for moving the holding elements 3 along the rail track 6, for example in the manner as they have already been described above.
  • the conveyor system is designed such that groups 1 of supplied articles 2 are guided over a stacking shaft 22 and transferred by means of a correspondingly extending (eg arcuate) track section and a stacking table 23 in a stack-like arrangement, wherein the stacking table 23 serves as a stabilizer, optionally supported by an auxiliary pad 31.
  • the objects 2 in the stack-like arrangement are released by the grippers 4, for example by opening and pivoting away the gripper 4 (or by opening the gripper 4 and pushing the objects through a corresponding backdrop) either successively during the stacking table 23 in Lowering the stacking shaft and the items get into the leadership of the pile shaft walls or all at the same time and only when the whole stack 20 (or stacking section) is positioned in the stacking shaft.
  • the auxiliary pad 31 can be pivoted away from the stacking shaft opening.
  • the stacking well 22 has a plurality of, for example, circumferentially moving stacking tables 23, so that during the formation of a stacked arrangement and its positioning in the stacking shaft 22, a previously formed stack 20 can be lowered onto a removal means 40 (e.g., removal belt) and transported away.
  • a removal means 40 e.g., removal belt
  • the stacking tables 23 can be pivoted away from the stacking shaft or made extendable. If cross-stacks are to be produced with the device, the lower part of the stacking shaft 22 is designed to be rotatable about the stack axis.
  • the rail track 6 runs downwards, so that the force of gravity can be utilized as the driving force 3. For this reason, no further drive is provided in this area, and a drive to which the holding means 3 can be coupled and as described for example in the publication WO-99/33731, on a different from the conveying path of the holding means (rail track 6) conveying path 41 run. As a result, it may be possible to give the circular-arc rail section a smaller radius.
  • FIGS. 5a and 5b show, as a side view (FIG. 5a) and as a plan view (FIG. 5b), a further, exemplary embodiment of the device according to the invention.
  • This has, like the embodiment according to FIG. 4, a conveyor system with holding elements 3 and rail track 6, as well as a stacking shaft 22 and a stacking path conveying device 40.
  • the rail track 6 has a controllable branching point 42 above the stacking shaft, from where two branches 6.1 and 6.2 (both visible only in FIG. 5b) extend towards the bottom on both sides of the stacking shaft 22 and into opposite directions Turn directions by 90 °.
  • Groups 1 of articles 2 are alternately controlled on one or the other rail track 6.1 or 6.2 for the formation of stacked arrangements and their stabilization by the stacking table 23 and the auxiliary pad 31 and thereby rotated in alternate directions by 90 ° and from opposite sides on the stacking table 23 stored so that they form 22 stacked stack layers in the stacking shaft.
  • the auxiliary pad 31 is advantageously designed such that it supports the object areas opposite the held edges 10 during the rotation by 90 °, during which rotation also the group 1 is formed and brought into the stack-like arrangement.
  • the holding elements 3 are driven on the rail tracks 6.1 and 6.2 by gravity, so that a follower drive according to WO-99/33731 above the stacking shaft 22 along one of the conveying paths (rail tracks 6.1 and 6.2) of the holding elements 3 different conveying path 41 can run. This results in a very simple device substantially without moving parts for the alternating rotation of the stacking sections.
  • Figures 6a and 6b show a further exemplary embodiment of the device according to the invention, which in turn serves for the production of cross stacks, wherein Figure 6a shows the device in a configuration for depositing a first stacking section and Figure 6b shows the device in a configuration for depositing one onto the first Stacking section following second stacking section, which is rotated 180 ° relative to the first stacking section around the stacking axis A.
  • the device in turn has a conveyor system with holding elements 3 and a rail track 6, and a stacking shaft 22 with a plurality of stackable tables 23 lowered therein and a removal device 40.
  • the rail track 6 has over the stacking shaft 22 to the stacking axis A 180 ° rotatable rail section 6.3 with a circular arc-shaped area and two of this rotatable rail section 6.3 in two of its positions subsequent rail sections 6.4 and 6.5 for conveying the support elements 3 after discharge of the objects 2 on.
  • the rotatable rail section 6.3 closes against the infeed rail track 6, along which the holding means 3 are supplied with the objects 2, so that a group 1 of objects 2 or holding means 3 on the rotatable rail section can be positioned and simultaneously formed into a stack-like arrangement (stabilization by auxiliary pad 31).
  • the rotatable rail section 6.5 assumes a middle position for connection to the feeding rail track 6 and is rotated in opposite directions by 90 ° for the storage of alternating stacking sections.

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  1. Procédé de formation de piles ou de sections (20) de piles d'objets plats (2) qui sont amenés successivement à la formation des piles dans un écoulement de transport, les objets (2) étant apportés à la formation des piles dans l'écoulement de transport en étant maintenus individuellement dans la zone d'un bord (10) et transversalement par rapport à la direction du transport (F), essentiellement parallèlement les uns aux autres et alignés les uns par rapport aux autres, les groupes (1) d'objets (2) apportés successivement étant disposés en piles, les agencements en piles étant stabilisés et, pour la formation de piles ou de sections de piles, les objets (2) des groupes (1) disposés en piles étant libérés de leur état maintenu, caractérisé en ce que dans le groupe (1) disposé en pile, les parties des objets situées face aux bords maintenus (10) dans le groupe (1) disposé en pile sont placées les unes contre les autres, les bords maintenus étant alignés les uns par rapport aux autres.
  2. Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que dans le groupe (1) disposé en pile, les bords maintenus (10) sont alignés les uns par rapport aux autres en un arc de cercle.
  3. Procédé selon les revendications 1 ou 2, caractérisé en ce que le groupe (1) disposé en pile est stabilisé par le fait que les parties des objets situées face aux bords maintenus (10) sont repoussées l'une contre l'autre.
  4. Procédé selon les revendications 1 ou 2, caractérisé en ce que le groupe (1) disposé en pile est stabilisé par le fait que les parties des objets situées face aux bords maintenus sont posées sur une base (23, 31).
  5. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 1 à 4, caractérisé en ce que les groupes (1) disposés en piles sont cerclés avant que les objets (2) des groupes (1) soient libérés de leur état maintenu.
  6. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 1 à 4, caractérisé en ce que les groupes disposés en piles sont déposés sur une table d'empilement (23) d'un puits d'empilement (22) et sont abaissés au moins en partie dans le puits d'empilement (22) avant que les objets (2) des groupes (1) soient libérés de leur état maintenu.
  7. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 1 à 6, caractérisé en ce que les groupes (1) constituent des sections de piles (20) et sont transformés en piles qui comprennent plusieurs sections de piles.
  8. Procédé selon la revendication 7, caractérisé en ce que des sections successives de piles (20) ou des groupes (1) successifs qui formeront les sections de piles (20) et disposés en piles sont tournées autour de l'axe d'empilement (A) dans des directions opposées alternées de 90° ou sont tournées en alternance de 0° et de 180° autour de l'axe d'empilement (A), pour former des piles croisées.
  9. Dispositif de formation de piles ou de sections (20) de piles d'objets plats (2) apportés successivement dans un écoulement de transport, lequel dispositif présente un système de transport qui amène l'écoulement de transport, un moyen d'empilement et un moyen d'évacuation des piles formées, le système de transport présentant plusieurs éléments de maintien (3) et un tronçon de voie (6), les éléments de maintien (3) étant prévus pour maintenir chacun un objet plat (2) dans la partie d'un de ses bords (10) et pouvant être déplacés le long du tronçon de voie (6), des objets (2) transportés successivement pouvant être transportés en groupes (1) dans lesquels les objets (2) sont alignés les uns par rapport aux autres et essentiellement parallèlement les uns aux autres, caractérisé en ce que le moyen d'empilement présente un moyen qui agence chaque groupe (1) en pile et qui stabilise les groupes (1) disposés en piles, ainsi qu'un moyen de commande qui fait libérer par les éléments de maintien (3) les objets (2) agencés en groupes (1) stabilisés et disposés en pile.
  10. Dispositif selon la revendication 9, caractérisé en ce que le moyen d'agencement et de stabilisation des groupes (1) présente un tronçon de voie en arc de cercle.
  11. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications 9 ou 10, caractérisé en ce que le moyen d'agencement et de stabilisation des groupes (1) présente un moyen de pressage (11).
  12. Dispositif selon la revendication 11, caractérisé en ce que plusieurs moyens de pressage (11) qui peuvent être déplacés sur un parcours circulaire sont prévus.
  13. Dispositif selon la revendication 12, caractérisé en ce que le ou les moyens de pressage (11) peuvent de plus être déplacés de telle sorte qu'un groupe (1) maintenu par le moyen de pressage (11) puisse tourner autour de l'axe d'empilement (A).
  14. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications 9 ou 10, caractérisé en ce que le moyen d'empilement présente un puits d'empilement (22) qui présente au moins une table d'empilement (23) et en ce que le tronçon de voie (6, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5) conduit du haut vers le puits d'empilement (22) et latéralement du puits d'empilement (22) en bas, et en ce que les moyens de commande qui libèrent les objets (2) sont disposés à la hauteur de l'extrémité supérieure du puits d'empilement (22).
  15. Dispositif selon la revendication 14, caractérisé en ce que le moyen d'agencement et de stabilisation des groupes (1) présente une base qui est une table d'empilement (23) qui peut être déplacée verticalement dans le puits d'empilement (22) ou une base auxiliaire (31).
  16. Dispositif selon les revendications 14 ou 15, caractérisé en ce qu'au-dessus du puits d'empilement (22), le tronçon de voie (6, 6.1, 6.2) présente un aiguillage asservi (22), et partant de l'aiguillage (42), descend vers le bas sur deux côtés mutuellement opposés du puits d'empilement (22), tandis qu'entre l'aiguillage (42) et le puits d'empilement (22), le tronçon de voie (6.1, 6.2) tourne de 90° dans des sens opposés.
  17. Dispositif selon les revendications 14 ou 15, caractérisé en ce qu'une partie (6.3) du tronçon de voie (6, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5) déborde au-dessus du puits d'empilement (22) et peut tourner autour de l'axe d'empilement (A) et en ce que ce tronçon de voie présente des tronçons d'évacuation (6.4, 6.5) disposés sur deux côtés mutuellement opposés du puits d'empilement (22) et auxquels la partie rotative (6.3) peut être sélectivement raccordée.
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