EP3500435A1 - Anlage und verfahren zum produzieren von individuellen wert- und sicherheitsdokumenten aus vormaterialstücken - Google Patents
Anlage und verfahren zum produzieren von individuellen wert- und sicherheitsdokumenten aus vormaterialstückenInfo
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- EP3500435A1 EP3500435A1 EP17758100.6A EP17758100A EP3500435A1 EP 3500435 A1 EP3500435 A1 EP 3500435A1 EP 17758100 A EP17758100 A EP 17758100A EP 3500435 A1 EP3500435 A1 EP 3500435A1
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- Prior art keywords
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B42—BOOKBINDING; ALBUMS; FILES; SPECIAL PRINTED MATTER
- B42D—BOOKS; BOOK COVERS; LOOSE LEAVES; PRINTED MATTER CHARACTERISED BY IDENTIFICATION OR SECURITY FEATURES; PRINTED MATTER OF SPECIAL FORMAT OR STYLE NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; DEVICES FOR USE THEREWITH AND NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; MOVABLE-STRIP WRITING OR READING APPARATUS
- B42D25/00—Information-bearing cards or sheet-like structures characterised by identification or security features; Manufacture thereof
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- B42D25/00—Information-bearing cards or sheet-like structures characterised by identification or security features; Manufacture thereof
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Definitions
- the present invention relates to a plant and a method for producing individual value and security documents from Vormaterial Glaen.
- the security documents produced may, for example, identity cards or others
- Identification cards ID cards or as individualizing cards in one
- a book-shaped identification document for example, a passport book, such as a
- value documents can be, for example, credit cards or debit cards.
- Identification documents in particular identity documents, such as identity cards, serve to verify the identity of a person.
- Identity documents are issued by public authorities in the exercise of their sovereign obligations, for example to allow the document holder to cross the border to another state or to identify himself to an official or other person.
- Such a document of identification is the German one
- the ID card identifies the owner of the document
- the ID card is provided with various security features that allow a third party to verify the authenticity of the document, for example by means of a guilloche print, the owner's facial image and the machine-readable zone of the document Personal and other data reproducing hologram and a kinegraphic object that shows, for example, the federal coat of arms.
- the ID card can also be integrated as part of a book-shaped security document, for example, in a passport book.
- Passport books have, in addition to the person identifying data on the document card, the format of the German passport ID-3 according to ISO / IEC 7810 in the am
- the document card for example identity card, may typically be in the form of a plastic laminate with a laminated piece of film containing the required
- the document card is provided with a so-called pass tab, which protrudes laterally beyond the intended format of the document card and is stapled together with the passbook sheets. This goes out
- Document card is included in the passport book.
- the invention is based on objects
- identification documents are conventionally produced in production plants based on so-called
- Isolated solutions are based, ie the individual production steps are carried out in only loosely linked system parts. This required starting materials and resulting intermediates are stored up and down and transported by hand crate by crate from one system station to the next, ie the documents are produced batchwise. This procedure is disadvantageous, for example because the area required for the system is high and the systems are stationary. In addition, these facilities are inflexible in terms of the ability to produce different types of documents, since only one type of document can be produced in a batch, so that the throughput time for the identification documents is long. Another problem is that the individual process steps have different capacities for this purpose
- Production process be executable.
- Security documents in particular requires a considerable period of time, if they are produced at a central manufacturing plant. Different types of documents have to be produced simultaneously in this case. It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide an apparatus for producing the value and security documents and a method of producing the same, with which a rapid production of different types of value and security documents is possible.
- 'plant module' As far as the term 'plant module' is used below, it is to be understood as a physical production unit which makes changes in properties of the pieces of primary material supplied to it. This can be the physical
- system module should in particular also include magazine modules, which pre-material, pre-intermediate and / or can store.
- individualized and “individualizing” are used below, this is to be understood as a property of a value or security document, for example a credit card or passport, according to which the document is assigned to a specific subject (person, animal, Subject) is attributable. This property results from given security features of the value or security documents.
- personalizing is understood to mean the property of a security or value document, according to which the document can be assigned to a person.
- Security document is preferably a document in the form of a flat, particularly preferably rectangular, carrier for display, preferably individualized to understand information.
- a value or security card is to understand both a rigid and flexible object, so both a no or little bendable or twistable object as well as an easily bendable object.
- the card may have one of the formats ID-1, ID-2 or ID-3 according to ISO / IEC 7810 in the version valid on the priority date of the present application.
- the value or security document may include, for example
- Identity card driver's license, an access control card or other ID card, check, bank, credit or cash card, customer card, health card, chip card, company ID card, proof of eligibility, membership card, ticket,
- the security or security document may be made of a material suitable for the purpose of the present invention, for example, a plastic (polymer), paper, paperboard, glass or other materials or blends of these materials, and optionally filled with reinforcing materials.
- the security or security document is made by lamination of laminate layers, for example made of a material suitable for lamination.
- the security or security document may be formed from a polymer selected from a group comprising polycarbonate (PC), polyethylene terephthalate (PET), its derivatives such as glycol modified PET (PETG), polyethylene naphthalate (PEN), polyvinyl chloride (PVC ), Polyvinyl butyral (PVB), polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA), polyimide (PI), polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), polystyrene (PS), polyvinylphenol (PVP),
- PC polycarbonate
- PET polyethylene terephthalate
- PET polyethylene terephthalate
- PEN glycol modified PET
- PEN polyethylene naphthalate
- PVC polyvinyl chloride
- PVB Polyvinyl butyral
- PMMA polymethyl methacrylate
- PI polyimide
- PVA polyvinyl alcohol
- PS polystyrene
- PVP polyvinylphenol
- Polypropylene PP
- PE polyethylene
- TPE thermoplastic elastomers
- TPU thermoplastic polyurethane
- ABS acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene copolymer
- PA polyamide
- cellulose cellulose
- cardboard a glass and / or metal and / or a ceramic
- the value or security document preferably consists of PC or PC / TPU / PC.
- the polymers may be either filled or unfilled. In the latter case they are preferably transparent or translucent. If the polymers are filled, they are opaque.
- the thickness of a document card is preferably 250 to 950 ⁇ .
- processing scheme includes the ordered, logical and real sequence of individual processing steps, which are used for
- Security documents created from material pieces in at least two processing steps of a respective individual processing scheme formed by: (a) designed to execute the at least two processing steps trained plant modules; (b) a transport device connecting the plant modules; (c) a plant control unit configured to control the transport means; where the plant modules in With respect to the transport device are arranged and the transport device is designed such that the transport device can supply Vormaterial sunnye all system modules in any order and can dissipate Vormaterial laminatede of all plant modules in any order, the
- Transport device with the plant control unit is controllable, so that the
- Prematerial pieces can be supplied to a system module provided for executing a processing step.
- Transporting device can supply all of the plant modules in any order in any order and can dissipate preliminary material pieces of all the modules in any order, comprising the following steps: (i) providing the intended for producing the individual value or security documents Vormaterial Publishede; (ii) determining a plant module for executing the next processing step based on the respective individual processing scheme; (Iii) driving the transport means by means of a for controlling the
- Transport device trained plant control unit for supplying one or more Vormaterial Publishede to the designed to execute the next processing step to be executed plant module; (iv) feeding the one or more primary material pieces to the selected plant module; (v) executing the processing step in the selected plant module by altering at least one property of the one or more prematerial pieces; (vi) driving the transport device by means of the plant control unit to discharge the one or more processed material pieces from the selected plant module; (vii) discharging the one or more processed pieces of primary material from the selected plant module; and (viii) performing further processing steps of the individual processing scheme by repeating the above
- the core idea of the invention is to provide a plant and associated methods in which a transport device is capable of interconnecting all the processing steps necessary for producing individual value and security documents with regard to a material flow of material pieces.
- the transport device is designed to convey the Vormaterial Publishede to all system modules of the system. In this way, the starting material pieces can be supplied to each of the system modules as well as removed from each of the system modules again.
- the advantage is that due to the flexible arrangement of the individual processing steps any production processes can be realized. It is thus possible without great effort and in a compact embodiment of the system to produce individually designed value and security documents.
- a hologram film a hologram film exposed to a hologram and fixed in a hologram producing apparatus
- a laminate piece provided with laser-engraved reproductions of data, an electronic component such as an RFID circuit.
- step (i) first the pieces of starting material, i. corresponding intermediate products of the individual value or security documents provided, for example, pieces of film to be laminated, including an inlay piece of film, laser-engravable pieces of film and optionally a piece of film carrying an RFID circuit
- Security thread a security patch and the like.
- five to nine pieces of film are collected.
- the individual processing steps of the respective individual processing scheme for the production of the individual value and security documents are carried out.
- Plant module for performing the next processing step determined based on the respective individual processing scheme. If several parallel plant modules are available to perform a particular processing step, any one will be selected or determined based on specific criteria which of the plant modules is to be used. Criteria for selecting the plant module may be, for example, a frequency of use, in order to obtain a uniform wear and tear, or a disposition according to a pre-planning, for example, to minimize a production time.
- step (iii) the transport device is controlled by means of the plant control unit, so that one or more pieces of preliminary material are added to the one for the Execution of the next processing step trained system module to be promoted.
- the one or more preliminary material pieces are then fed to the selected system module.
- the one or more prematerial pieces are subsequently processed in the selected plant module.
- at least one property of the one or more Vormaterial publishede is changed. For example, this is one or more
- Prematerial pieces a polymer film piece which is printed by means of a printing device with individualizing, in particular personalizing, data, or the one or more preliminary material pieces are one with a hologram film
- coated polymer laminate piece which is trimmed by means of a format-trimming device to the desired format (format cut).
- the transport device is subsequently processed by means of the system control unit for discharging the one or more
- the one or more processed pieces of primary material are removed from the selected plant module. It can be provided that the removal of the one or more processed
- the present invention also solves the problem that several
- the plant is converted after the production of a batch of a first document variant, in order for the Set up production of a second document variant.
- the individual primary material pieces can be guided as intended to the plant modules provided for this purpose, which are designed for the execution of the respective processing step variant.
- a lamination module several laminating sheet types (for example, in different formats and / or with different
- Embossed structures or it can be provided for each of laminating a separate system module.
- the plant control unit is formed by an electronic processing unit and preferably has a unit for storing data. It is preferably a conventional process computer.
- the plant control unit may be a programmable control unit.
- the plant control unit controls the transport device (and possibly the plant modules) in the production plant according to the invention and is for
- the plant control unit may be formed by a central processing unit which directly communicates with the transport means (and the plant modules) as in a conventional production control system.
- a LAN for example based on a glass fiber network
- WLAN wireless network
- the plant modules are preferably the following production modules which are constructed in a conventional manner: at least one of the plant modules can be produced by a printing device or by a piecing device for collecting primary material pieces or by a laminating device or a peripheral device. Pruning device or device for determining the quality of the
- Processing steps can be produced a document card, for example an identification card or an identification card provided for incorporation in a book-shaped document, for example a passport.
- Further plant modules may be a hologram exposure and / or grunting device, a
- Perforation device a punching device, an ultrasonic embossing device or a drilling device include.
- the transport device comprises one or more transport units, each transport unit being assigned to more than one of the plant modules, and wherein each transport unit is designed to be able to feed prematerial pieces to the respectively assigned system modules in any order and to allocate prematerial pieces from the respectively assigned ones
- the transport device can be made flexible and adapted to the respective requirements. It can be provided, for example, that a first
- Transport unit can only intervene in certain plant modules, a second
- Transport unit in turn into other system modules. Taken together, the transport units can intervene in all plant modules.
- the plant control unit can also be formed by a hierarchical system in which a subordinate arithmetic unit is assigned a subordinate arithmetic unit, which in turn communicates with the transport unit assigned to it.
- the subordinate arithmetic unit controls the transport unit and transmits data to it and collects data from it.
- Arithmetic unit controls the subordinate arithmetic unit and is designed for data transmission to this and data acquisition of this. In principle, as many as you like
- the one transport unit or one of the plurality of transport units are designed to be able to feed prematerial pieces of all system modules in any desired order and
- At least part of the plant modules associated with one of the several transport units and that of another plant module associated with the plurality of transport units are identical. This has the advantage that plant modules can also be supplied by several transport units. This can increase throughput in producing the individual value and security documents.
- the one or more transport units each have a transport element, wherein the transport element comprises at least one gripping and / or holding unit. This gripping and / or holding unit is then designed to fit the material to be transported Vormaterial Sharing and / or for the following processing step.
- the transport element is generally designed to replace a piece of primary material with the plant module via a correspondingly designed interface.
- Such an interface comprises, for example, means for receiving or transferring the material piece.
- further holding units may be formed within the system module.
- Input and / or output magazine has, so that Vormaterial Publishede before and / or after the execution of a processing step in the at least one system module can be stored. If it is intended for a subsequent processing step that another starting material piece or a machined and thus changed in its physical properties Vormaterial Meeting is to be transported, so the gripping and / or
- Holding unit may be unsuitable to record that appropriate Vormaterial Sharing.
- the transport element comprises at least one further gripping and / or holding unit, wherein the at least one further gripping and / or holding unit is formed differently from the at least one gripping and / or holding unit. This has the advantage that not only a gripping and / or holding unit is available on the transport element. The at least one further gripping and / or holding unit increases the flexibility.
- the at least one gripping and / or holding unit and / or the at least one further gripping and / or holding unit comprise exchangeable gripping and / or holding means
- the system control unit is designed in such a way select the suitable gripping and / or holding means for the material to be processed in a processing step and the at least one gripping and / or holding unit and / or the at least one further gripping and / or holding unit with the respectively selected gripping and / or holding means equip.
- one of the gripping and / or holding units can be equipped flexibly with a corresponding gripping and / or holding means, so that always the gripping and / or holding means suitable for the piece of material to be transported is used.
- the gripping and / or holding means can be kept in a magazine, for example.
- the magazine can be positioned on the transport unit or the transport element itself or else outside of the transport unit, for example, at a position adjacent to the plant modules.
- method step (iii) comprises a selection of a gripping and / or holding means suitable for the material to be processed and a corresponding loading of the gripping and / or holding unit with the selected gripping and / or holding means.
- At least one of the gripping and / or holding means comprises a suction cup or a plurality of suction cups.
- a suction cup or a plurality of suction cups about such a suction cup or such a variety of suction cups, a thin film can be securely fixed and transported.
- the size of the suction cups depends on the thickness and the nature of the film to be transported. Of course, other Vormaterial publishede pieces can be held and transported by suction cups.
- the suction cups can in particular also be designed by means of hydraulic suction or vacuum-generating devices.
- At least one of the gripping and / or holding means is designed as a laterally attacking carriage, so that an inserted into the carriage or laid Vormaterial Sharing from an upper side and / or an underside is machined.
- Embodiment is therefore provided that at least one of the gripping and / or holding means is designed to position and / or orient a Vormaterial Gla before and / or during and / or after the execution of a processing step in one of the plant modules.
- This offers the advantage that the transport element can be used with the gripping and / or holding means to position the Vormaterial Suite during the processing step and / or to orient. Both unique, during the processing step but then static,
- Positioning and / or orientation measures possible. Furthermore, dynamic positioning and / or orientation measures are also possible, for example, if an orientation of the material piece is changed stepwise or continuously during a processing step.
- a corresponding positioning and / or orientation unit in a system module can be dispensed with to position and / or orient the material piece over the transport element. This saves costs.
- the processing step is a laser processing step and the production of a CLI / MLI and / or a
- Laser perforation and / or laser marking includes. During the
- Vormaterial Faculty can then be statically and / or dynamically positioned and / or oriented by the transport element.
- the plant modules are arranged adjacent to each other largely in the form of a two-dimensional array.
- the transport device or the one or more transport units it is possible for the transport device or the one or more transport units to reach all of the plant modules or to be able to intervene in all plant modules in order to supply and remove prematerial pieces.
- this embodiment makes it possible to flexibly expand the plant or the processing scheme.
- Other system modules can be added almost arbitrarily, for example by extending the system on one of the lateral sides.
- Transport units may, for example, additionally be mounted on a laterally extending rail, so that the one or more transport units can be moved along the rail along the newly added installation modules and an expansion of the system is almost possible.
- Transport elements can then with the gripping and / or holding means in the
- Transport device are arranged around. In this arrangement, the
- Transport device work very efficiently, since the transport routes between the system modules are minimized.
- Transport device then have to perform, for example, without a lateral process only a rotation about an axis in order to engage or intervene with the respective transport element in the individual system modules. This reduces a transport time and makes the system more compact.
- Plant modules can be added in the vertical direction, as long as they are still reached by the respective transport element.
- plant modules adjacent to each other in the form of a partial or complete
- Circumferential hollow cylinder are arranged, wherein the transport device is located within the hollow cylinder.
- a transport path between the system modules is particularly short and the system is designed to be particularly compact.
- the one or more transport units of the transport device as a multi-axis robot and / or
- Multi-axis robot and / or articulated arm robot is designed to be particularly compact and transport paths between the system modules can be designed particularly ergonomic. Furthermore, this allows an extremely compact design of the system and it is also possible to adapt the system flexibly to local conditions and / or an existing production line, as a multi-axis and / or articulated arm robot due to its flexible and space-saving customizable
- Transport also difficult gripping and / or holding maneuvers can perform, for example, a "grab around the corner".
- the gripping and / or holding unit comprises forceps-like gripping and / or holding means.
- the gripping and / or holding means are designed to deform a value or security document held by means of the pincer-like gripping and / or holding means, in particular to bring it into a bent state.
- the plant and the methods make it possible to carry out almost any combination of processing steps.
- a piece of starting material is fed in succession to the corresponding system modules.
- sequences of processing steps corresponding to the respective individual processing scheme can be realized.
- the asset controller may maintain a list of value or security documents to be produced, the list being provided to each individual value or security document
- Security document assigns an individual processing scheme, which is to go through to produce. When producing undergo the corresponding Pre-material pieces then for an individual value or security document to be produced in the respective individual processing scheme
- an individual processing scheme for a group of value or security documents is the same.
- an individual processing scheme for a group of passports may be provided; for another group of passports is then another individual
- the individual processing scheme contains at least one optional processing step that is to be executed only for a specific group of value or security documents. This can be, for example, the mounting or inserting of an RFID chip or a hologram or a stamping.
- the system is designed to detect an identity and / or quality of a piece of starting material to be processed.
- a processing step in one of the plant modules can then be designed individually, for example by a corresponding activation of the plant modules by the plant control unit.
- An operating state of the plant or individual plant modules can also be detected and evaluated by the plant control unit.
- the plant can then be flexibly controlled depending on the plant condition. For example, it can be recognized that a plant module is currently performing a processing step, which is currently not available for processing a further material piece of starting material. If another system module is present, which can perform the same processing step, then it can be flexibly resorted to this by the processed
- Pre-material piece is then supplied to this system module.
- An advantage of the invention is that maintenance of the system is significantly facilitated. Thus, production does not have to be shut down during maintenance or repair of a system module to be serviced or defective.
- Plant modules for a processing step available, so can the waiting or defective plant module are taken out of production planning, serviced or repaired by a technician and then reconnected. If only one single system module is available for one processing step, a technician can, on the other hand, additionally integrate a system module of identical construction into the system, which additionally integrates the system module into the system
- individual plant modules of the plant are present at least in two functional design, so that the corresponding processing step is redundant.
- a Vormaterial Published can also be designed as multiple benefits.
- the transport device is designed such that the time required for transporting a material piece of material from one plant module to another plant module shorter than that for passing through a preceding or
- the corresponding processing step is performed in all plant modules at the same time or overlapping in time, so that the system in total to a high overall throughput is optimized. It is also possible that several value or security documents are produced at the same time.
- Fig. 1 a is a schematic representation of an embodiment of a system for
- 1 b a schematic representation of a further embodiment of a system for producing value and security documents with an arrangement of the system modules in the form of a two-dimensional array and a plurality of transport units;
- FIG. 2 is a schematic representation of another embodiment of a system for producing value and security documents with an arrangement of the system modules in the form of a partially encircling hollow cylinder.
- FIG. 3 shows a schematic illustration of a further embodiment of a system for producing value and security documents with an arrangement of the system modules in the form of a completely circumferential hollow cylinder;
- Fig. 4a is a schematic representation of a gripping and / or holding unit with several
- Fig. 4b is a schematic representation of the gripping and / or holding unit with several
- Fig. 4c is a schematic representation of the gripping and / or holding unit with several
- Fig. 5b is a schematic representation of the gripping and / or holding unit with the as
- Fig. 6 is a schematic flow diagram of the method for producing value and security documents.
- Fig. 1a shows a schematic representation of an embodiment of a plant 1 for producing value and security documents with an arrangement of
- Plant modules 2 in the form of a two-dimensional array 3.
- Plant modules 2 in the form of a two-dimensional array 3.
- Plant modules 2, the system 1 comprises a transport device 40 with a
- the transport unit 4 is designed as a multi-axis or articulated arm robot 6.
- the transport unit 4 comprises a transport element 7 which can engage or engage in or in all of the plant modules 2.
- the transport element 7 has a gripping and / or holding unit 15 with gripping and / or holding means 8, which allow a transportable
- the system control unit 5 is designed to control the transport device 40 and the transport unit 4 in such a way that they correspond to an individual
- Transport element 7 is equipped with the corresponding gripping and / or holding means 8.
- Plant modules 2 may be arranged, in principle, the magazine 9 but also on the Transport unit 4 itself be positioned, for example in the vicinity of the transport element 7, so that the corresponding holding and / or gripping means 8 can be exchanged on the gripping and / or holding unit 15 without a method of the transport unit 4 itself.
- the processed primary material piece is removed by the transport unit 4 by the transport element 7 engages the plant module 2 "A” and the machined Vormaterial Suite by means of gripping and / or retaining means 8.
- the machined starting material piece is fed to the plant module 2 "B".
- the material piece of material is processed and then transported analogously into the plant module 2 "G”.
- the transport element 7 may also have at least one further gripping and / or holding unit, which comprises further gripping and / or holding means. In this way, the gripping and / or holding means 8 for certain Vormaterial Kunststoffe or certain
- the gripping and / or holding means 8 of the gripping and / or holding unit 15 may be formed, for example, as suction cups, whereas the other gripping and / or holding means of the further gripping and / or holding unit are designed as laterally attacking carriage. Replacement is not necessary because the gripping and / or holding means 8 and the other gripping and / or holding means are available directly on the transport element 7. This can reduce the transport time.
- lead material pieces also get into the respective plant module 2 in other ways. This is possible, for example, if the plant modules 2 can be filled in a different manner with Vormaterial Suiteen, for example by Manual filling via a rear opening. Thus, primary material pieces that are necessary for a processing step in one of the plant modules 2, in the
- Plant module 2 itself stored and magaziniert.
- such primary material pieces may be patches of non-individualized hologram threads or microchips, etc.
- An advantage of the arrangement of the plant modules 2 as a two-dimensional array 3 is that the plant 1 can be expanded flexibly. For example, more
- Plant modules 10 arranged on one side of the system 1 and logically integrated into the system so that they can be approached by the transport unit 4 and the transport element 7. If the original range of the transport unit 4 or the transport element 7 is insufficient, then in this embodiment
- a rail system 1 1 serve to move the transport unit 4 and to increase the range of the transport unit 4.
- Transport unit 4 comprises a further transport unit 4a (see Fig. 1 b).
- Transport units 4, 4a may each be assigned to certain plant modules 2.
- the respectively assigned plant modules 2 can be identical, so that the respective transport element 7, 7a of each of the several transport units 4, 4a can intervene in all plant modules 2.
- the respective associated system modules 2 are only partially identical, so that an overlap region is present, in which at least two of the several
- Transport units 4, 4a can engage by means of their transport element 7, 7a.
- additional transport units 4n may additionally be provided, as a result of which the system 2 can in principle be expanded as desired.
- FIG. 2 shows a schematic representation of a further embodiment of a plant 1 for producing individual value and security documents with a three-dimensional arrangement 12 of the plant modules 2 in the form of a partially encircling hollow cylinder 13. This arrangement allows an extremely compact construction of the plant 1.
- a three-dimensional arrangement 12 of the plant modules 2 in the form of a partially encircling hollow cylinder 13. This arrangement allows an extremely compact construction of the plant 1.
- Within the hollow cylinder 13 is a
- Multi-axis or articulated arm robot 6 is formed.
- the transport element 7 or the attached to a gripping and / or holding unit 15 gripping and / or holding means 8 can then on or in all arranged on the hollow cylinder 13 system modules 2 or intervene. In this way, a flexible transport and a flexible feeding and removal of Vormaterial Suiteen to or from the individual plant modules 2 is possible.
- system modules 10 are arranged in the vertical direction above the system 10.
- FIG. 3 shows a schematic representation of a further embodiment of a plant 1 for producing individual value and security documents with a three-dimensional arrangement 12 of the plant modules 2 in the form of a completely circumferential hollow cylinder 14.
- the embodiment is largely analogous to that shown in FIG Embodiment, however, a total of more plant modules 2 can be arranged on the completely circumferential hollow cylinder 14.
- the transport device 40 within the completely circumferential hollow cylinder 14 is the transport device 40 with the transport unit 4, which here also as a multi-axis rotary or
- Articulated robot 6 is formed.
- FIGS 4a to 4c show a schematic representation of a gripping and / or holding unit 15 with three different types of gripping and / or holding means 8.
- the gripping and / or holding means 8 include large suction cups 17, small suction cups 18 and a pair of pliers 19. Die to be used type of suction cups is selected, for example, depending on a material thickness of Vormaterial publishedes.
- Holding unit 15 has in the middle a joint 18, on which the gripping and / or
- Holding unit 15 is attached to the transport element. Depending on the desired gripping and / or holding means 8, the gripping and / or holding unit 15 is brought into a different position and orientation, for example by rotation about the hinge 18 around.
- FIG. 4 a shows a schematic illustration of the gripping and / or holding unit 15, with a material piece 16 being held by the large suction cups 17.
- Suction cups 17 generate a negative pressure upon contact with the primary material piece 16 and fix the preliminary material piece 16 so that it can be transported by means of the transport unit. If necessary, the negative pressure can be reduced again, so that the connection of the Vormaterial Cultures 16 to the large suction cups 17 dissolves again.
- existing pliers 19 is driven when using the large suction cups 17 in a holding position, with the pliers fingers of the pliers 19 are pointing upwards.
- FIG. 4 b shows a schematic representation of the gripping and / or holding unit 15, wherein the preliminary material piece 16 is held by the small suction cups 18.
- the number of small suction cups 18 is greater than the number of large suction cups 17.
- the small suction cups 18 produce a contact with the Vormaterial Sharing 16 a
- FIG. 4 c shows a schematic representation of the gripping and / or holding unit 15, wherein a preliminary material piece 16 is held by the pliers 19.
- the gripping and / or holding unit 15 is angled at the joint 18 and placed the pliers 19 in a corresponding position.
- further mechanical or hydraulic devices may be provided (not shown) or the small ones
- Suction cups 18 may be activated at the beginning of the gripping movement, so that the
- Camber direction can be specified or initiated.
- FIG. 5a and 5b show a schematic representation of a gripping and / or holding unit 15 with a designed as a carriage 21 holding and / or gripping means 8.
- FIG. 5a shows a plan view of the carriage 21, in which a in the carriage 21st inserted Vormaterial Sharing 16 is indicated.
- the carriage 21 consists of two mutually connected carriage arms 22, which are centrally connected to the transport element 7.
- Fig. 5b is a side view of the short side 23 of the carriage 21 is shown.
- the slide arms 22 each have a groove 25 on inner sides 24.
- Voraterial significance 16 can on the short side 23 of the carriage 21 in the carriage 21st be pushed in and out again, so that the Vormaterial family 16 engages in the grooves 25 and is held vertically by these.
- the advantage of the gripping and / or holding means 8 embodied in this way is that one in the carriage 21st
- Vormaterial Sharing 16 can be edited by a top 26 and a bottom 27.
- In the grooves 25 of the carriage 21 can more
- Fixing means 28 may be formed, for example, suction openings which releasably fix the inserted Vormaterial Suite 16 by means of a negative pressure.
- the carriage 21 may additionally comprise suction cups 29 on an upper side 31 of the carriage arms 22. These suction cups 29 make it possible, for example, to releasably fix a value or security document 30 on the upper side 31, for example, so that the value or security document 30 can be transported.
- Fig. 6 shows a schematic flow diagram of the method for producing individual value and security documents.
- first material pieces are provided in the first method step 101.
- the provision may also include equipping individual plant modules with primary material pieces.
- magazines provided correspondingly for the preliminary material pieces can be filled manually or mechanically.
- next method step 102 it is determined on the basis of the individual processing scheme which processing steps are to be carried out. So can different documents with
- the transport device is correspondingly activated in the next method step 103.
- Holding means selected by the plant control unit A transport element of a transport unit of the transport device is then at its gripping and / or
- Holding unit equipped with the selected gripping and / or holding means 105.
- the starting material piece is fed to the planned for the next individual processing step plant module.
- Vormaterial Schweizer Provided Vormaterial Schweizere provided so the multiple Vormaterial orchide be supplied according to the system module.
- the one or more prematerial pieces of the transport element or by the gripping and / or holding means positioned and / or oriented 107. Then 108 becomes the corresponding one
- Processing step executed in the plant module.
- the transport element or the gripping and / or holding means change the one or more Vormaterial Publishede in their positions and / or orientations, so that the transport unit may be part of the processing step.
- the one or more preliminary material pieces are removed again from the system module.
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