EP0735954B1 - Procede, appareil et programme de preparation et de distribution d'une masse composee d'une pluralite de constituants de base - Google Patents

Procede, appareil et programme de preparation et de distribution d'une masse composee d'une pluralite de constituants de base Download PDF

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EP0735954B1
EP0735954B1 EP95903461A EP95903461A EP0735954B1 EP 0735954 B1 EP0735954 B1 EP 0735954B1 EP 95903461 A EP95903461 A EP 95903461A EP 95903461 A EP95903461 A EP 95903461A EP 0735954 B1 EP0735954 B1 EP 0735954B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41F—PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES
    • B41F31/00—Inking arrangements or devices
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01F—MIXING, e.g. DISSOLVING, EMULSIFYING OR DISPERSING
    • B01F33/00—Other mixers; Mixing plants; Combinations of mixers
    • B01F33/80—Mixing plants; Combinations of mixers
    • B01F33/84—Mixing plants with mixing receptacles receiving material dispensed from several component receptacles, e.g. paint tins
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01F—MIXING, e.g. DISSOLVING, EMULSIFYING OR DISPERSING
    • B01F33/00—Other mixers; Mixing plants; Combinations of mixers
    • B01F33/80—Mixing plants; Combinations of mixers
    • B01F33/84—Mixing plants with mixing receptacles receiving material dispensed from several component receptacles, e.g. paint tins
    • B01F33/841—Mixing plants with mixing receptacles receiving material dispensed from several component receptacles, e.g. paint tins with component receptacles fixed in a circular configuration on a horizontal table, e.g. the table being able to be indexed about a vertical axis
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01F—MIXING, e.g. DISSOLVING, EMULSIFYING OR DISPERSING
    • B01F33/00—Other mixers; Mixing plants; Combinations of mixers
    • B01F33/80—Mixing plants; Combinations of mixers
    • B01F33/85—Mixing plants with mixing receptacles or mixing tools that can be indexed into different working positions
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41F—PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES
    • B41F15/00—Screen printers
    • B41F15/14—Details
    • B41F15/40—Inking units
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01F—MIXING, e.g. DISSOLVING, EMULSIFYING OR DISPERSING
    • B01F2101/00—Mixing characterised by the nature of the mixed materials or by the application field
    • B01F2101/35—Mixing inks or toners

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  • the invention lies in the field of preparing and dispensing in accordance with the wish of a user a liquid or pasty, coloured mass which consists of a plurality of basic components.
  • the object of the invention is to provide a method which also enables use of return masses in the preparation of new, coloured masses, wherein the returned masses can be re-used quickly, such that the generally limited storage life of these masses no longer represents an obstacle.
  • the invention has the object that the speeds at which return masses can be collected and added during preparation are so high that an apparatus according to the invention can operate in line with a production installation and can even increase the preparation speed.
  • the invention provides the method according to claim 1.
  • This method can be implemented with the apparatus according to claim 3.
  • the method can comprise the steps according to claim 2.
  • the invention also relates to a control program according to claim 4 which forms part of the apparatus of claim 3 such that the apparatus performs the method according to claim 1.
  • This control program is based on the flow diagram as according to the annexed figure 2.
  • the method according to the invention is based on the insight that it is often possible to use at least a part of returned masses to make new masses.
  • the starting point for preparing colours of practically any desired composition can be a plurality of ten to twenty basic components. Depending on the desired colour of the printing ink, use can be made of a suitable number of basic components in predetermined ratio. It is noted that for the sake of brevity no reference is made to additives such as thickening agents, water and possibly necessary chemicals which for instance provide the adhesion of the ink to the fabric or fibre material for printing.
  • Essential for the "management system" is that each receiving container, which is later returned as the first container referred to in claim 1, is followed by the system, or is at least identifiable at any necessary moment.
  • the composition thereof is established and linked inseparably to the relevant container in which the mass is prepared.
  • This inseparable link can be established on the one hand by using containers with their own unique identification or alternatively through identification of the mass present in a container, for instance by using a photospectrometer.
  • the mass After the mass has been designated a remnant, the mass is recognized by the system on the basis of the container in which it is located.
  • the control of the apparatus determines whether, and if so, to which collecting vessel the mass, given its composition, can be added.
  • the mass is subsequently is added to this collected mass.
  • the weight of the added mass is measured so that the new composition of the collected mass can also be calculated.
  • each container carries its own identification device such as a strip code, a dot code, a transponder or any other suitable device.
  • An important objective of the invention is the re-use of masses which must be deemed remnants and which can no longer, or only with the greatest difficulty and inherent inaccuracy, be decomposed into the composite basic components. Many masses have in addition a limited storage life, or the quantities in which they are prepared are such that known reprocessing methods are not applicable.
  • Masses are used which are composed of basic components, wherein preparation of these masses is controlled from the location where the masses are used, for instance a printing machine. After homogenizing the mass can no longer be decomposed into the basic components.
  • the storage life of the masses is generally short, so that it is not possible to wait for re-use until a mass with the same composition is once again required.
  • the requisite speeds at which masses are prepared are too high to re-use the remnant or return masses per container by means of numerical recalculation.
  • a known instrument as a spectrophotometer is not necessary according to the invention. Such instruments are in any case relatively expensive, time-consuming and inaccurate.
  • the composition of any produced mass is recorded by a central control unit.
  • the receiving container is also provided with its own identification device, so that at any desired moment can be determined which container is situated at which location.
  • the central control unit contains the necessary data relating to the composition of the mass present in the relevant container.
  • the mass is recognized by the system by means of the identification device carried by the container. Thereafter is determined whether the combination of the basic components present therein forms part of for instance a much used combination. If this is the case the remnant or return mass is added to other remnants in which the same combinations occur. On the basis of the above stated numerical recalculation the composition of the mass which results from these mixings is in each case determined and stored in the memory. It will be apparent that the system also remembers in which container or containers the relevant mass is located.
  • the system according to the invention provides the option of a fully automatic preparation of mixtures of basic components with a very high degree of re-use of return masses.
  • Figure 1 shows a total system, wherein the system according to the invention is designated with block 1.
  • Figure 2 shows a flow diagram of a program which controls an apparatus according to the invention for performing the method according to the invention.
  • the program is built up as follows:
  • Figure 3 shows by way of example a possible arrangement. Attention is drawn to the fact that the spectrophotometer according to the invention included in the block diagram of figure 3 is not an essential measuring instrument, but can if desired be used for performing a rough, for instance random, check.
  • Figure 4 shows an apparatus 2 according to the invention.
  • Containers 3 are fed via a conveyor belt 4 to a weighing and emptying station 5.
  • the containers 3 can be transported to and from a vertical vessel washer, a push-out member 7, a cover washer 8, a cover placer 9, a colour checking station 10, a mixer 11, a collecting station 12, 13 for vessels.
  • a washing station 15 is placed along a conveyor belt 14 which connects onto the unit 5.
  • FIG. 5 shows an example of a printing device.
  • a turntable or rearranging platform 16 transports vessels 17 to and from pick and place units which are all designated 18 for the sake of convenience.
  • Designated 19 are suction and scraping stations for containers.
  • a weighing station 20 the containers are weighed to determine the weight of the mass present therein.
  • the coding which is read by the reader is supplied as address to the memory of a central processor unit (not drawn) which thereby has available sufficient information to be able to apply the relevant masses directly or for re-use.
  • Designated schematically are conveyors 22, 23 which can feed the respective containers to printing machines 24, 25.
  • Figure 6 shows an arrangement with a conveyor belt 26 for containers 27.
  • Three pick and place units are grouped round a turntable 28.
  • Mixing units are designated with 29.
  • the reference numeral 30 refers to a dosing unit.
  • FIG 7 shows a conveyor 31 which transports vessels 32 to respective dosing stations 32, 33, 34 under the control of a central control unit.
  • Each dosing station comprises a cover 35 with a suction line 36 for supplying printing ink to an associated printing station 37, 38, 39 respectively.

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  1. Procédé de préparation automatique d'une quantité prédéterminée d'une masse colorée liquide ou pâteuse constituée par au moins un constituant de base, le rapport des constituants de base composites de cette masse étant connu, lequel procédé comprend les étapes suivantes, devant être exécutées selon une séquence appropriée sous la commande de moyens de commande, comme par exemple un réseau PLC, un ordinateur, un microprocesseur ou analogue commandé par un programme, et consistant à :
    (1) prévoir un nombre de premiers récipients qui sont remplis chacun au moins partiellement par une masse de retour liquide ou pâteuse constituée par un ou plusieurs constituants de base, le rapport des constituants de base composites de cette masse étant connu ;
    (2) déterminer la quantité, par exemple le poids, de la masse dans chaque premier récipient ;
    (3) déterminer la quantité individuelle de chaque constituant de base dans chaque premier récipient sur la base des données connues conformément à l'étape (1) sur la base de la détermination conformément à l'étape (2) ;
    (4) prévoir un nombre de seconds récipients qui sont remplis chacun au moins partiellement par une masse liquide ou pâteuse constituée par un constituant de base ;
    (5) facultativement déterminer la quantité de masse dans chaque second récipient ;
    (6) déterminer une quantité désirée de masse liquide ou pâteuse constituée par au moins un constituant de base, le rapport des constituants de base composites de cette masse étant connu ;
    (7) retirer la masse d'au moins un premier récipient ou d'au moins un premier récipient et d'au moins un second récipient et introduire la masse dans un récipient de logement sur la base des résultats des étapes (2), (3) et (5) de telle sorte qu'en utilisant la quantité maximale possible de masse provenant des premiers récipients, on introduit cette quantité ou ces quantités d'un ou de constituant(s) de base dans le récipient de logement, ces quantités fournissant dans ce récipient la quantité de masse avec le rapport désiré des constituants de base composites désirés conformément à l'étape (6) ; et
    (8) facultativement mélanger ou homogénéiser d'une autre manière la masse dans le récipient de logement.
  2. Procédé pour la collecte automatique d'une masse colorée liquide ou pâteuse constituée par au moins un constituant de base, le rapport des constituants de base composites de cette masse étant connu, lequel procédé comprend les étapes suivantes, devant être exécutées selon une séquence appropriée sous la commande de moyens de commande activés par un programme et consistant à :
    (1) prévoir un nombre de premiers récipients qui sont remplis chacun au moins partiellement par une masse de retour colorée liquide ou pâteuse constituée par un ou plusieurs constituants de base, le rapport des constituants de base composites de cette masse étant connu ;
    (2) prévoir un second récipient qui est rempli facultativement au moins partiellement par une masse colorée liquide ou pâteuse constituée par un ou plusieurs constituants de base, la quantité individuelle de chacun des constituants de base composites étant connue ;
    (3) vider les premiers récipients un par un dans le second récipient, la quantité de masse ajoutée étant déterminée sur la base d'un accroissement déterminé du poids de ce récipient ;
    (4) déterminer la quantité individuelle ajoutée de chaque constituant de base dans le second récipient conformément à l'étape (2) sur la base des données concernant la composition connue selon (1) et de la quantité ajoutée connue d'après l'étape (3) ;
    (5) déterminer les quantités individuelles réelles dans le second récipient sur la base des quantités individuelles conformément à l'étape (2) et conformément à l'étape (4 ; et
    (6) facultativement mélanger ou homogénéiser d'une autre manière la masse dans le second récipient.
  3. Appareil pour la mise en oeuvre du procédé selon la revendication 1 pour la préparation d'une quantité prédéterminée d'une masse liquide ou pâteuse constituée par au moins un constituant de base, le rapport des constituants de base composites de la masse étant connu, lequel appareil comprend :
    (1) des premiers moyens d'alimentation pour alimenter et, si cela est nécessaire, rendre accessibles des premiers récipients, qui sont remplis chacun au moins partiellement par une masse de retour liquide ou pâteuse constituée par un ou plusieurs constituants de base, le rapport des constituants de base composites de cette masse étant connu ;
    (2) des premiers moyens de détermination pour déterminer la quantité, par exemple le poids, de la masse dans chaque premier récipient ;
    (3) des seconds moyens de détermination pour déterminer la quantité individuelle de chaque constituant de base dans chaque premier récipient sur la base des données connues selon l'étape (1) sur la base de la détermination conformément à l'étape (2) ;
    (4) des seconds moyens d'alimentation pour alimenter et/ou rendre accessibles un certain nombre de récipients qui sont remplis chacun au moins partiellement par une masse liquide ou pâteuse constituée par un constituant de base ;
    (5) des troisièmes moyens facultatifs de détermination pour déterminer la quantité de masse dans chaque second récipient ;
    (6) des moyens de mémoire comportant des moyens d'entrée de données pour mémoriser des données d'entrée concernant une quantité désirée de masse liquide ou pâteuse constituée par au moins un constituant de base, ainsi que le rapport des constituants de base composites ; et
    (7) des moyens de commande activés par un programme et qui sont connectés de manière à recevoir une information envoyée aux sorties des premiers moyens de détermination, des seconds moyens de détermination et des troisièmes moyens de détermination, qui sont facultativement présents, pour retirer une masse d'au moins un premier récipient ou d'au moins un premier récipient et d'au moins un second récipient et introduire la masse dans un récipient de logement de telle sorte qu'en utilisant la quantité maximale possible de masse des premiers récipients, cette quantité ou ces quantités de constituant(s) de base est/sont introduites dans le récipient de logement, ces quantités fournissant dans ce récipient la quantité de masse avec le rapport désiré des constituants de base composites désiré conformément à l'étape (6) ; et
    (8) des moyens optionnels d'homogénéisation pour homogénéiser, par exemple par mélange, la masse dans le récipient de logement.
  4. Appareil selon la revendication 3, dans lequel le programme activant les moyens de commande est conforme à l'organigramme représenté sur la figure 2 des dessins.
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NL9302213A NL9302213A (nl) 1993-12-20 1993-12-20 Werkwijze, inrichting en programma voor het bereiden en afleveren van een uit ten minste één basiscomponent bestaande massa.
NL9400415A NL9400415A (nl) 1993-12-20 1994-03-16 Werkwijze, inrichting en programma voor het bereiden en afleveren van een uit een aantal basiscomponenten bestaande massa.
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PCT/NL1994/000323 WO1995017307A1 (fr) 1993-12-20 1994-12-20 Procede, appareil et programme de preparation et de distribution d'une masse composee d'une pluralite de constituants de base

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