EP0603354B1 - Dispositif d'alimention d'une machine a encarter des produits imprimes - Google Patents

Dispositif d'alimention d'une machine a encarter des produits imprimes Download PDF

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EP0603354B1
EP0603354B1 EP93912534A EP93912534A EP0603354B1 EP 0603354 B1 EP0603354 B1 EP 0603354B1 EP 93912534 A EP93912534 A EP 93912534A EP 93912534 A EP93912534 A EP 93912534A EP 0603354 B1 EP0603354 B1 EP 0603354B1
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Heinz Linder
Albert Eugster
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B42—BOOKBINDING; ALBUMS; FILES; SPECIAL PRINTED MATTER
    • B42C—BOOKBINDING
    • B42C1/00—Collating or gathering sheets combined with processes for permanently attaching together sheets or signatures or for interposing inserts
    • B42C1/10—Machines for both collating or gathering and interposing inserts
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H39/00—Associating, collating, or gathering articles or webs
    • B65H39/02—Associating,collating or gathering articles from several sources
    • B65H39/04—Associating,collating or gathering articles from several sources from piles
    • B65H39/043—Associating,collating or gathering articles from several sources from piles the piles being disposed in juxtaposed carriers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2301/00—Handling processes for sheets or webs
    • B65H2301/30—Orientation, displacement, position of the handled material
    • B65H2301/33—Modifying, selecting, changing orientation
    • 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
    • B65H2301/43—Gathering; Associating; Assembling
    • B65H2301/431—Features with regard to the collection, nature, sequence and/or the making thereof
    • B65H2301/4317—Signatures, i.e. involving folded main product or jacket
    • B65H2301/43171—Inserting subproducts in a signature as main product
    • B65H2301/431711—Inserting subproducts in a signature as main product the subproduct being inserted in a direction substantially perpendicular to the fold of the main product
    • 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
    • B65H2301/43—Gathering; Associating; Assembling
    • B65H2301/432—Gathering; Associating; Assembling in pockets, i.e. vertically

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  • the invention relates to a device with a feeder for loading a inserting machine for printed products according to the preamble of patent claim 1.
  • a device of the type mentioned at the outset in which printed sheets conveyed by circulating belts fall between V-shaped and fixedly arranged side plates, so that they lie at the front in the conveying direction of the circulating belts Fall edge onto a conveyor chain and be transported next to a side plate.
  • the printed sheets deposited by the circulating belts on the conveyor chain 14 reach the area of further feeders. In doing so, they step under the conductor plates arranged in the area of these feeders, so that the printed sheets conveyed there by the transport chain must inevitably fall between the first printed sheets.
  • the deflecting rollers of the circulating belts are arranged to the side of the conveying path and the printed sheets are collected standing on the side plates and stacked against one another.
  • the object of the present invention is therefore to provide a device of the type described in the preamble of patent claim 1, which allows the inserting machine to be ergonomically assigned to a corresponding feeder.
  • this object is achieved according to the features listed in the characterizing part of patent claim 1.
  • This constructive measure allows a simple and effective role formation of the conveyor line.
  • the printed products can be fed into the pockets of a inserting machine in a simple and less tiring procedure.
  • the feeder stack can also be loaded by a transporter or another conveyor, such as conveyor belts.
  • Feeders to the pockets of the inserting machine do not have to be problematic because in this way the printed products would have to be clamped in at least two distant locations on the flat belts because of their insufficient stability to avoid deformation.
  • the flat belts form an undershot conveying section with the gripping drum. It is provided that the flat belts are arranged approximately in the middle of the drum width and have approximately their deflection radius.
  • the rear end of the conveyor line in the conveying direction is expediently designed as a feed opening, which is formed by the flat belts and communicates with the stacking magazine or the discharge end of the feeder and allows a smooth transfer of a printed product from the feeder to the feed line.
  • a feeder known per se consisting essentially of a stacking magazine and a downstream gripping drum, can be connected upstream of the conveying section at its front end by an undershot conveying channel formed by a deflection roller and the flat belts.
  • an undershot conveyor channel the front end of which is designed as a feed opening communicating with the discharge end of the gripping drum, has proven to be advantageous.
  • This last-mentioned embodiment of the device according to the invention provides that the folded edges of the printed products conveyed in the stack magazine or the edge of a card conveyed in advance face the conveying path of the inserting machine.
  • a guide delimited by guide surfaces can be provided on the rear sides of the conveying path formed by the flat belts, by means of which the lateral areas of the printed products, in particular on the deflection roller, can be prevented from lifting off.
  • the guide on the deflection roller is advantageously formed with an upper and a lower guide surface and extends approximately to the conveying end of the deflection roller.
  • the guide gap can be set in a position inclined against the conveying direction of the insertion machine. This allows the supplied printed products to hit the walls of the pockets flatly, ie the printed products reach their end position in the pockets without any particular delay.
  • An adjustable guide element can be attached to the side of the conveyor section, which is provided for aligning the printed products in front of the pockets.
  • the device according to the invention is designed to be displaceable, so that it can be optionally delivered along the conveying path of the inserting machine.
  • FIG. 1 shows the conveying path 1 of a partly illustrated inserting machine 2 and the conveying direction of the printing products 4 which are opened in the following pockets 3, the pockets being assigned means for opening the printing products located in front of them in the fold.
  • a device 5 with a feeder 6 for loading the inserting machine 2 or the pockets 3 along the conveying path 1 is fed to the conveying path 1 laterally.
  • the conveying flow of the printed products 4 takes place from the feeder 6 approximately perpendicular to the conveying direction of the inserting machine 2, the printed products 7 on the underside of a stack 8 placed by hand, for example.
  • the mode of operation and the structural design of the feeder 6 can be assumed to be known and therefore does not require a new description.
  • an endless flat belt 9, 10 Connected to the discharge end of the feeder 6 is an endless flat belt 9, 10, which consists of two conveyor belts which are in contact with one another and which run around deflection rollers and form a conveyor section 11 which ends above the conveyor path of the inserting machine.
  • the printed products 7 delivered by the feeder 6 pass between the tightly abutting treads of the flat belts 9, 10, which are arranged in the region of the conveying path 11 above an above the conveying path 1, about an axis 12 of a first deflecting roller 13 which runs approximately parallel to the conveying direction of the inserting machine 2 are.
  • the flat belts 9, 10 are rotated about 90 ° on a common conveyor section 22, so that its end, which is effective for conveying, runs at least approximately parallel to the longitudinal sides of the openings of the pockets 3 of the inserting machine 2 and is approximately perpendicular to the latter.
  • the flat belts 9, 10 are separated and are individually returned to the discharge end of the feeder 6 via deflection rollers.
  • the superimposed flat belts 9, 10 form an undershot conveying channel on the gripping drum 14 of the feeder 6 downstream of the stack 8, one of the flat belts 9 being fed via the gripping drum 14 and the other of the flat belts 10 from can be brought up to the side of the gripping drum 14.
  • the front end of the conveyor section 11 thus formed is characterized by a feed opening 18 communicating with the stacking magazine 17.
  • the fold edges of the printed products 7 are created in an arrangement that is averted from the inserting machine 2.
  • FIG 3 shows an alternative embodiment of the device 2 according to the invention, in which the conveying path 11 runs undershot around a second deflecting roller 20 which follows the gripper drum 14 downstream and the folded edges of the printed products 7 in the stack magazine 17 are turned towards the inserting machine 2.
  • the flat belts 9, 10 in turn form on the gripping drum 14 a feed opening 18 to which the conveyor line 11 connects.
  • the edge of a card to be conveyed is facing the pockets 3 or the conveying path 1.
  • the printed products 7 or their lateral overhang supporting guides 21 are arranged on the conveyor line 11. This applies both to the embodiment according to FIG. 2 and according to FIG. 3.
  • the embodiment according to FIG. 2 has guides 21 in the undershot area of the conveyor section 11 on the gripping drum 14 and on the flat section in front of the first deflection roller 13, where the printed products 7 are guided between an upper and a lower guide surface until they leave the first deflection roller 13.
  • the downward conveying section 22 is set in a position inclined against the conveying direction of the inserting machine 2.
  • Guide elements acting on the printed products 7 are arranged on the side of the conveying section 22.
  • the device 5 is designed such that it can be moved along the conveying path 1.

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  • Feeding Of Articles By Means Other Than Belts Or Rollers (AREA)
  • Delivering By Means Of Belts And Rollers (AREA)
  • Separation, Sorting, Adjustment, Or Bending Of Sheets To Be Conveyed (AREA)
  • Collation Of Sheets And Webs (AREA)

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Un dispositif (5) comprend un margeur (6) pour l'alimentation d'une machine (2) à encarter des produits imprimés, avec des pochettes (3) qui se suivent le long d'une voie de transport (1) et au-dessus desquelles se termine une section de transport (11) située en aval du margeur (6) et formée par deux courroies plates adjacentes sans fin (9, 10).

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  1. Dispositif (5) comprenant un margeur (6) pour alimenter une machine à emboîter (2) destinée à des produits imprimés (4), comportant des compartiments (3) qui peuvent être alimentés, qui sont entraînés en se suivant le long d'au moins un trajet de transport (1) et auxquels sont associés des moyens pour ouvrir les produits imprimés (4) qui se trouvent dans les compartiments (3) avec le pli en avant, cependant que le margeur (6) est disposé en déplaçant les produits à peu près à angle droit par rapport à la direction de transport de la machine à emboîter (2), et qu'il comporte un trajet de transport situé en aval (11) qui se termine au-dessus du trajet de transport (1) de la machine à emboîter (2) et qui est constitué par deux courroies plates sans fin (9, 10), celles-ci passant sur des rouleaux de déviation (13) et portant l'une sur l'autre par une surface active de transport, caractérisé par le fait que les courroies plates (9, 10) qui sont amenées au-dessus d'un axe (12) d'un premier rouleau de déviation (13), lequel est disposé au-dessus du trajet de transport (1) et s'étend à peu près parallèlement à la direction de transport de la machine à emboîter (2), forment, par les surfaces actives de transport qui tournent ensemble de 90° environ, une section de transport (22) s'étendant vers le bas à peu près verticalement.
  2. Dispositif selon la revendication 1, comprenant un margeur (6) qui est constitué pour l'essentiel par un magasin de piles de produits (17) et par un tambour de préhension (14) monté en aval, caractérisé par le fait que les courroies plates (9, 10) forment sur le tambour de préhension (14) une section de transport qui passe au-dessous de celui-ci.
  3. Dispositif selon la revendication 1, caractérisé par le fait que l'extrémité avant du trajet de transport (11) est réalisée sous la forme d'une ouverture d'entrée (18) qui est formée par les courroies plates (9, 10) et qui communique avec le magasin de piles de produits (17).
  4. Dispositif selon la revendication 2, dans lequel les bords pliés déplacés à l'avant des produits imprimés (7) qui se trouvent dans le magasin de piles de produits (17) ou le bord déplacé à l'avant d'une carte, respectivement, est disposé en étant opposé au trajet de transport (11) ou aux compartiments (3) de la machine à emboîter (2), respectivement.
  5. Dispositif selon les revendications 1 et 2, comprenant un margeur (6) qui est constitué pour l'essentiel par un magasin de piles de produits (17) et par un tambour de préhension (14) monté en aval, caractérisé par le fait que le trajet de transport (11) présente à son extrémité avant un canal de transport qui est constitué par un deuxième rouleau de déviation (20), ainsi que par les courroies plates (9, 10), et qui passe au-dessous de celui-ci.
  6. Dispositif selon la revendication 4, dans lequel les bords pliés déplacés à l'avant des produits imprimés (7) qui se trouvent dans le magasin de piles de produits (17) ou le bord déplacé à l'avant d'une carte, respectivement, est disposé en étant tourné vers le trajet de transport (11) ou vers les compartiments (3) de la machine à emboîter (2), respectivement.
  7. Dispositif selon les revendications 1 à 6, caractérisé par le fait que des guidages (21) qui supportent les produits imprimés (7) sont disposés sur le trajet de transport (11).
  8. Dispositif selon la revendication 7, caractérisé par le fait qu'un guidage (21) qui est constitué par des surfaces de guidage supérieure et inférieure est associé au premier rouleau de déviation (13).
  9. Dispositif selon les revendications 1 à 8, caractérisé par le fait que la section de transport (22) qui s'étend vers le bas présente une position inclinée à l'opposé de la direction de transport de la machine à emboîter (2).
  10. Dispositif selon les revendications 1 à 9, caractérisé par le fait que des organes de guidage pouvant être déplacés sont disposés latéralement par rapport à la section de transport (22) qui s'étend vers le bas.
  11. Dispositif selon les revendications 1 à 10, caractérisé par le fait que le dispositif (5) est réalisé en pouvant être déplacé sur le trajet de transport (1).
EP93912534A 1992-07-15 1993-06-29 Dispositif d'alimention d'une machine a encarter des produits imprimes Expired - Lifetime EP0603354B1 (fr)

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CH223092A CH685991A5 (de) 1992-07-15 1992-07-15 Einrichtung zur Beschickung einer Einsteckmaschine fur Druckprodukte.
PCT/CH1993/000164 WO1994002326A1 (fr) 1992-07-15 1993-06-29 Dispositif d'alimention d'une machine a encarter des produits imprimes

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