EP1364900B1 - Verfahren zum Fördern von flächigen, flexiblen Produkten und Vorrichtung zur Durchführung des Verfahrens - Google Patents

Verfahren zum Fördern von flächigen, flexiblen Produkten und Vorrichtung zur Durchführung des Verfahrens Download PDF

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EP1364900B1
EP1364900B1 EP03003302A EP03003302A EP1364900B1 EP 1364900 B1 EP1364900 B1 EP 1364900B1 EP 03003302 A EP03003302 A EP 03003302A EP 03003302 A EP03003302 A EP 03003302A EP 1364900 B1 EP1364900 B1 EP 1364900B1
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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
    • B65H29/669—Advancing articles in overlapping streams ending an overlapping stream
    • 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
    • B65H2301/42—Piling, depiling, handling piles
    • B65H2301/422—Handling piles, sets or stacks of articles
    • B65H2301/4224—Gripping piles, sets or stacks of articles
    • B65H2301/42242—Gripping piles, sets or stacks of articles by acting on the outermost articles of the pile for clamping the pile
    • 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
    • B65H2301/447—Moving, forwarding, guiding material transferring material between transport devices
    • B65H2301/4471—Grippers, e.g. moved in paths enclosing an area
    • B65H2301/44712—Grippers, e.g. moved in paths enclosing an area carried by chains or bands
    • 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
    • B65H2301/447—Moving, forwarding, guiding material transferring material between transport devices
    • B65H2301/4473—Belts, endless moving elements on which the material is in surface contact
    • B65H2301/44732—Belts, endless moving elements on which the material is in surface contact transporting articles in overlapping stream
    • 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
    • B65H2301/447—Moving, forwarding, guiding material transferring material between transport devices
    • B65H2301/4473—Belts, endless moving elements on which the material is in surface contact
    • B65H2301/44735—Belts, endless moving elements on which the material is in surface contact suction belt
    • 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
    • B65H2405/50—Gripping means
    • B65H2405/58—Means for achieving gripping/releasing operation
    • B65H2405/583—Details of gripper orientation
    • B65H2405/5832—Details of gripper orientation and varying its orientation after gripping
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2701/00—Handled material; Storage means
    • B65H2701/10—Handled articles or webs
    • B65H2701/13—Parts concerned of the handled material
    • B65H2701/131—Edges
    • B65H2701/1313—Edges trailing edge

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  • the invention relates to a method for conveying flat, flexible products according to the preamble of claim 1 and to an apparatus for carrying out the method according to the preamble of claim 7.
  • a generic method and a device of the generic type are known from EP-A 0 368 009.
  • printed products are conveyed in an imbricated formation in which the products partially overlap one another as seen entirely or in the conveying direction.
  • the trailing edges of the products cover the respective trailing product.
  • the gripper conveyor To be taken over by a gripper conveyor, the products are conveyed with their leading edges against a stop and the respective uppermost abutment printed product at least partially from the underlying printed product or the conveyor with a bulge individually arched or lifted.
  • the gripper, the spatial position relative to the tension member is not changeable, the printed products can seize and promote away.
  • the disadvantage of this is the relatively high design complexity, the mechanical stress on the products and the lack of flexibility of the known device. For example, it is not possible to transfer a plurality of products in a controlled manner to a single gripper.
  • US-B1-6,182,960 shows a method for conveying printed products according to the preamble of claim 1, wherein the grippers are moved in such a way that the conveyor jaw facing gripper jaw in the transfer area the trailing edge raised by a suction head of at least one partially resting on the trailing product Product shovel-like.
  • the invention is therefore based on the object, a method and an apparatus of the type mentioned in such a way that in an imbricated formation incoming products can be taken gently and with little technical effort individually or in stacks of grippers a way conveyor.
  • grippers are used according to the invention, which are designed such that they can be changed both individually between an open position and a clamping position as well as in their orientation relative to their trajectory. Examples of such grippers are described in EP-A 0 600 183.
  • the gripper shown there has two gripper jaws, which are pivotable relative to each other for opening and closing.
  • the entire gripper is also a parallel to the pivot axis of the Gripper jaws extending axis pivotally, so that the direction of the gripper jaw is variable relative to the path of movement.
  • the movements are initiated, for example, by means of gate controls.
  • the grippers are moved in such a way that the gripper jaw facing the conveyor in the transfer area engages under the trailing edge of at least one product partially resting on the trailing product like a scoop.
  • the trajectory is designed so that the gripper performs the described movement relative to the product to be transferred.
  • the mobility of the grippers relative to their trajectory is specifically exploited to under control controlled to take over a product, to capture and take over from the incoming imbricated formation. Underride takes place according to the invention, without the product to be taken has been previously lifted from the trailing printing product. According to the invention can therefore be dispensed with aids such as a bulge or Separier institute.
  • a braking device is preferably a stationary or co-moving stop is used or a suction device which is mounted in the conveying plane. This has the additional advantage that the time of closure of the gripper and the relative speed of the lower gripper jaw to the product to be taken over need only be adjusted within certain tolerances.
  • the inventive device can be realized with minimal design effort and extremely space-saving. In particular, it is not necessary to guide the grippers of the gripper conveyor as usual over a longer distance parallel to the conveyor or to the products to be transferred.
  • the trajectory of the gripper can be realized in particular strongly curved in the transfer area, since the orientation of the gripper can be adjusted to the product to be acquired by appropriate change in position relative to the movement path in the context of the invention.
  • a step for forming an intermediate stack is dispensed with. Variations in the distance between two products can be compensated by the braking device.
  • the grippers are moved relative to the incoming products such that they each take over a plurality of products, which are preferably braked by a stop. Furthermore, it can be provided that several products are already conveyed by the conveyor in scaly staggered so-called mini-layers and taken together. The jointly adopted products can then be advantageously fed together to a further processing station, eg a cutting device, so that an additional collecting step can be dispensed with.
  • Figures 1 and 3 show an inventive device with a conveyor 1 and a removal conveyor 2, from the grippers 3 each one (Fig. 1) or three products 6 (Fig. 3) are taken. Snapshots of the transfer area 10 for the case of FIG. 3 are shown in FIGS. 4a-c.
  • the conveyor 1 is designed as a belt conveyor, on the conveyor belt 1a a plurality of products 6, here folded printed products in the conveying direction F are promoted.
  • the products 6 arrive in an imbricated formation, in which the trailing edge 6a of each product 6 rests on the trailing product, so that it is partially overlapped. It is also it is possible for the products 6 to arrive in a double or multiple scale formation in which in each case a plurality of products substantially overlap one another congruently and the mini-layers thus formed are arranged in an imbricated manner.
  • the removal conveyor 2 comprises a plurality of grippers 3 moved along a movement path U.
  • the grippers 3 have two gripper jaws 4, 5 which are pivotable relative to one another about a pivot axis extending perpendicular to the plane of the drawing for opening and closing.
  • the individual closing of the gripper 3 is accomplished with a gate control, not shown here.
  • the grippers 3 are also pivotable as a whole about an axis perpendicular to the plane of the drawing axis.
  • the gripper jaws 4, 5 are aligned in a first part U1 of the movement path U such that the gripper jaw points in the direction of movement.
  • the grippers 3 approach as far as possible to the conveyor 1 in order finally to take over a product 6.
  • the movement path U is curved in such a way and / or the grippers are moved relative thereto in such a way that the gripper jaw 4 facing the conveying device 1 engages under a product 6 (FIGS. 4a-c).
  • the entire gripper 3 is wasted, so that in a second part U2 of the movement path U the now closed Gripper mouth is aligned against the direction of movement of the gripper 3.
  • This movement of the gripper 3 is realized by a suitable slide control, preferably the slide control already used for opening and closing the gripper.
  • the grippers are moved along the movement path U in such a way that the product 6 to be taken over is grasped by the gripper jaw 4 like a scoop.
  • the closing of the gripper 3 can be done before, during or after taking off.
  • the underrun product 6 is decelerated relative to the trailing products or at least relative to it takes over gripper 3.
  • the gripper 3 is moved so that the gripper jaw 4 engaging under the product makes a circular arc-shaped movement relative to the product 6.
  • the gripper jaw 4 is aligned tangentially when engaging under product 6.
  • the circular arc-shaped relative movement can, as in the present case, be realized by a movement path U of the gripper 3 which is circular arc-shaped in the transfer region 10.
  • the blade-like movement by appropriate movement of the gripper. 3 be realized relative to the movement path U by means of a suitable control.
  • the gripper 3 is moved relative to the product to be transferred 6 such that the under-gripping gripper jaw 4 from a first orientation in which they are an angle of 60 ° to 120 °, preferably about 90 ° , to the level of the product 6, (eg the middle gripper in Fig. 4a) is pivoted to a second orientation substantially in the plane of the product (eg left gripper in Fig. 4b).
  • the gripper is preferably pivoted counter to its direction of movement along the movement path U.
  • FIG. 2 shows a section of a device according to the invention, in which a suction device 9 with a conveyor belt 9a is used as the braking device 7.
  • the leading edge 6b of a product to be transferred 6 is pushed by the conveyor 1 on the conveyor belt 9a and fixed there by means of negative pressure.
  • the product 6 to be transferred is decelerated relative to the following products or at least fixed so spatially that it can not slip in the conveying direction F when gripped by the gripper 3.
  • the gripper 3 In the clamping position, the gripper 3 can finally remove the product from the suction device 9.
  • a gripper takes three products 6, which slide on a stop 8 to a mini-layer over each other.
  • the speed of the gripper is so matched to the conveying speed of the conveyor 1, the product size and the product offset, that in each case three products accumulate on the stop 8, before the bottom of them is attacked by the incoming gripper. It is also possible that the lowermost product of the mini-layer is already engaged under the abutment against the stop 8 and the gripper 3 pushes the three products 6 to be transferred against the stop, aligns in this way and then grips.

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  • Separation, Sorting, Adjustment, Or Bending Of Sheets To Be Conveyed (AREA)
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  • Collation Of Sheets And Webs (AREA)
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