EP0582177A2 - Procédé et dispositif pour décorer des objets comprenant une surface d'enveloppe conique - Google Patents

Procédé et dispositif pour décorer des objets comprenant une surface d'enveloppe conique Download PDF

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EP0582177A2
EP0582177A2 EP93111972A EP93111972A EP0582177A2 EP 0582177 A2 EP0582177 A2 EP 0582177A2 EP 93111972 A EP93111972 A EP 93111972A EP 93111972 A EP93111972 A EP 93111972A EP 0582177 A2 EP0582177 A2 EP 0582177A2
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Claus Schötz
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65HHANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H81/00Methods, apparatus, or devices for covering or wrapping cores by winding webs, tapes, or filamentary material, not otherwise provided for
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41FPRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES
    • B41F17/00Printing apparatus or machines of special types or for particular purposes, not otherwise provided for
    • B41F17/28Printing apparatus or machines of special types or for particular purposes, not otherwise provided for for printing on curved surfaces of conical or frusto-conical articles

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  • the invention relates to a method for decorating objects having a conical outer surface with a decoration of an embossing film, the embossing film provided in succession with a plurality of decors being unwound from a supply roll and being fed to an embossing station which receives the object to be decorated, in which the decoration is carried out by the Embossing foil is transferred to the conical outer surface of the object to be decorated by means of an embossing roller which can be driven by a first drive device, the embossing foil being deflected around a deflection roller which is arranged upstream of the embossing station in the direction of advance of the embossing station and combined with the supply roll and is fed from there to the embossing station, wherein the deflection roller is adjusted to the position adapted to the respective angular position of the object to be decorated, and a device for decorating an object having a conical outer surface with a decor of an embossing film, with a
  • Such a method and such a device are known from DE 39 31 556 C2 of the applicant.
  • the deflection roller is continuously shifted linearly by a distance corresponding to the respective deviation between the straight course of the embossing film and the arc of the development of the conical outer surface of the object to be decorated, and at the same time the deflecting roller is continuously pivoted in such a way that the straight course of the embossing film in is balanced with respect to the respective opening angle of the arcuate development of the conical outer surface of the object to be decorated.
  • the deflection roller in the device proposed there is rotatably mounted on a bearing part about its longitudinal axis, the bearing part being connected to an adjustment platform by means of a pivot axis.
  • the adjustment platform is arranged on a stationary base part in a linearly movable manner by means of a drive device, the bearing part having a feeler element which is slidably guided on a guide device provided on the stationary base part.
  • This known device therefore has a number of structural parts which interact with one another in a slidable manner and which are each subject to mechanical wear. In addition, the production of all these individual parts requires a certain amount of effort.
  • DE-AS 27 21 980 discloses an embossing foil feed device for an embossing machine.
  • the aim is to decorate a truncated pyramid-shaped surface of an object, which is, for example, a housing of a television set, by means of an embossing foil.
  • a supply roll for the embossing film is provided which can be moved axially and approximately parallel to the embossing roller of the embossing station.
  • the embossing film is mounted between the supply roll and the embossing roller before contacting the corresponding partial jacket surface of the truncated pyramid-shaped object via an approximately parallel to itself to the tension of the embossing film and rotatable about a transverse axis perpendicular to the partial jacket surface to be decorated of the object to be decorated .
  • the stamping film is guided around a dancer roll, which is movable with the supply roll for the stamping film. Since there are several flat surface partial surfaces on a truncated pyramid-shaped object to be decorated, it is sufficient there to use a so-called dancer roller, i.e.
  • a method and a device for the lateral guidance of a moving web along a path of web movement is known.
  • the web runs over a main web guide roller, which can be pivoted in a movement plane from a neutral position in which the main web guide roller is oriented perpendicular to the desired path of web movement.
  • the lateral position of the web running onto the main web guide roller is sensed at a sensing point in front of the main web guide roller.
  • the main web guide roller is pivoted from its neutral position in such a direction that the deviation of the web from its desired path of web movement is corrected.
  • the web running from the main web guide roller is changed over an exit web guide roller steers and runs from this at a point which is adjacent to a plane through the sensing point and perpendicular to the plane of movement of the main web guide roller, the exit web guide roller being held parallel to the main web guide roller during the pivoting movement thereof.
  • a device for helically winding a cylindrical or a truncated cone-shaped object with a strip-shaped winding material is known from GB 1 282 588.
  • the invention has for its object to provide a method and an apparatus of the type mentioned, wherein it is comparatively simple or with relatively simple constructional means to fit a conical surface with objects decorated with an embossing foil.
  • this object is achieved in that the deflecting roller is moved by means of a second drive device along an arcuate guide device which is arranged in the plane spanned by the common surface line of the cylinder surface of the embossing roller and the conical surface of the object to be stamped, and the center of curvature thereof in the said common surface line of the embossing roller and the object to be decorated, which is drivable by means of a third drive device, the object to be decorated being driven by the associated third drive device during the embossing process and the embossing roller being uncoupled from the associated first drive device serving for positioning purposes and only by frictional engagement is driven.
  • the object on which the invention is based is achieved in that the adjusting device has an arcuate guide device which is arranged in the planes spanned by the common surface line of the cylindrical surface of the embossing roller and the conical surface of the object to be stamped, and along which the deflection roller with a second drive device is adjustable, the center of curvature of the guide device being in the said common surface line of the embossing roller and the object to be decorated, and the guide device being oriented parallel to a section to the said common surface line and away from this section on the side of the object facing away from the intersection of the surface lines of the object runs that the first drive device is used to position the embossing roller, and that the holding device for the object to be decorated by means of a d ridden drive device is drivable.
  • the center of curvature of the circular arc-shaped guide device lies not only in the mentioned common surface line of the embossing roller and the object to be decorated, but in the central region of this surface line of the object to be decorated. Then it is namely possible to feed the stamping foil to the conical object to be decorated perpendicular to the axis of the object to be decorated and then to carry out the stamping process.
  • the first, the second and the third drive device are preferably connected to a control device in such a way that the first drive device is uncoupled from the embossing roller during the embossing process and, at the same time, the deflection roller is matched along the guide device and the object to be decorated by means of the second drive device are suitably driven by means of the third drive device, while the embossing roller is decoupled from the first drive device only by frictional engagement.
  • the drive devices are electric motors.
  • Said first drive device thus serves to position the embossing roller precisely in relation to the decor of the embossing film. As soon as this positioning has taken place, the first drive device can be uncoupled from the embossing roller. The further drive of the embossing roller then takes place only by frictional engagement the object to be decorated conical surface.
  • the circular arc-shaped guide device, along which the deflection roller and thus the stamping film is moved relative to the stamping station, is arranged in the plane spanned by the common surface line of the cylindrical surface of the stamping roller and the conical surface of the object to be stamped, so that an undesired curvature of the stamping station incoming stamping foil is prevented.
  • the stamping foil thus runs into said stamping station in the stamping station, ie into the stamping gap given by the common surface line of stamping roller and conical object and is adjusted according to the rotation of the conical object to be stamped along the arcuate guide device.
  • the embossing foil is fed perpendicular to the said surface line precisely when the deflection roller is located on the section of the guide device which is parallel to the surface line. Then the embossing film is then fed according to the movement of the deflecting roller along the circular arc-shaped guide device against the mentioned surface line at a changing angle, this angle corresponding to the respective angle of rotation position of the object to be decorated with a conical surface, i.e. corresponds to the respective development section of the conical lateral surface.
  • FIG. 1 shows schematically in a view from above a device 10 with an embossing roller 12, which has a cylindrical outer surface 14.
  • the embossing roller 12 is heatable and can be driven for positioning purposes by means of a first drive device 16, which is indicated by the arrow 18.
  • an object 24 to be embossed on its conical outer surface 20 with the decoration of a strip-shaped embossing film 22 bears against the cylindrical outer surface 14 of the embossing roller 12.
  • the object 24 is arranged in FIG. 1 under the embossing roller 12 and consequently drawn with dashed lines.
  • the conical object 24 lies with a surface line 26 on the cylinder surface 14 or a surface line of the embossing roller. It is arranged on a holding device (not shown) which can be driven by a third drive device 28, which is indicated in FIGS. 1 and 2 by the arrow 30.
  • the embossing film 22 is unwound from a supply roll (not shown) and deflected around a deflection roll 32 combined with the supply roll, which can be moved along a circular guide device 36 by means of a second drive device 34.
  • the circular arc-shaped guide device 36 is arranged in the plane spanned by the common surface line 26 of the cylinder surface 14 of the embossing roller 12 and the conical surface 20 of the conical object 24 to be stamped, in FIG. 2 by a dash-dotted line 38 perpendicular to the plane of the drawing and it has a radius of curvature R (see FIG. 1), whose center of curvature 40 lies in said surface line 26.
  • the center of curvature 40 is preferably located in the central region of the common surface line 26 of the object 24 to be decorated, so that it is possible to place the stamping foil 22 between the stamping roller 12 and the object to be decorated 24 perpendicular to the axis 44 of the stamping roller 12 at the beginning of the stamping process of the stamping station 42 and feed perpendicular to the common surface line 26.
  • the first drive device 16, the second drive device 34 and the third drive device 28 are connected to a control device 46, which is indicated schematically in FIG. 1 by a block.
  • the control device 46 is provided to switch off the first drive device 16 and consequently the drive of the embossing roller 12 during the embossing process, while at the same time the deflection roller 32 by means of the second drive device 34 and the holding device for the object 24 to be decorated and thus the by means of the third drive device 28 Object 24 to be decorated is driven in a suitably adapted manner, so that an over-determination of the movement of the deflection roller 32 or the stamping foil 22 is prevented. This makes it possible to precisely stamp objects with any dimensions and / or conicity using the device 10.
  • FIG. 1 shows a further intermediate position of the deflection roller 32 on the circular-arc-shaped guide device 36 and the corresponding position of the embossing film 22 with thin dashed lines indicated to suitably emboss a conical object 24 on its outer surface 20 with a decor.
  • FIG. 1 Two surface lines of the conical object 24 are shown in FIG. 1 with thin lines which intersect at a common intersection 48.
  • the circular-arc-shaped guide device 36 runs with a section 50 parallel to the common surface line 26 of the embossing roller 12 and the conical or truncated-cone-shaped object 24 and, moreover, on the side of the object 24 facing away from said intersection 48 of the surface lines of the object 24.

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  • Delivering By Means Of Belts And Rollers (AREA)
  • Footwear And Its Accessory, Manufacturing Method And Apparatuses (AREA)
  • Making Paper Articles (AREA)
  • Container Filling Or Packaging Operations (AREA)
  • Lining Or Joining Of Plastics Or The Like (AREA)
EP93111972A 1992-08-06 1993-07-28 Procédé et dispositif pour décorer des objets comprenant une surface d'enveloppe conique Expired - Lifetime EP0582177B1 (fr)

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DE4226002A DE4226002C2 (de) 1992-08-06 1992-08-06 Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Dekorieren von eine konische Mantelfläche aufweisenden Gegenständen
DE4226002 1992-08-06

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