EP1016603A2 - Méthode et dispositif pour alimenter des cahiers - Google Patents

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EP1016603A2
EP1016603A2 EP99124017A EP99124017A EP1016603A2 EP 1016603 A2 EP1016603 A2 EP 1016603A2 EP 99124017 A EP99124017 A EP 99124017A EP 99124017 A EP99124017 A EP 99124017A EP 1016603 A2 EP1016603 A2 EP 1016603A2
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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
    • 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
    • B65H2301/40—Type of handling process
    • B65H2301/42—Piling, depiling, handling piles
    • B65H2301/423—Depiling; Separating articles from a pile
    • B65H2301/4232—Depiling; Separating articles from a pile of horizontal or inclined articles, i.e. wherein articles support fully or in part the mass of other articles in the piles
    • B65H2301/42322—Depiling; Separating articles from a pile of horizontal or inclined articles, i.e. wherein articles support fully or in part the mass of other articles in the piles from bottom of the pile

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  • the present invention relates generally to the manufacture of print media such. B. Magazines, books, catalogs etc., and in particular the production of various Issues or groups of magazines with a national total circulation.
  • the label Magazine is used in the following as a general term for multi-page products such as magazines, books, catalogs etc.
  • magazine production there is an increasing desire to target advertisements specifically to individual subscriber groups within the entire group of subscribers different issues of a magazine are produced with different ad sections for different ad groups, which means that several issues composed of different signatures have to be produced within the total circulation of a magazine.
  • a generic collation to solve this problem is such.
  • the device comprises a collating device with a A large number of pockets arranged along a collecting chain, which are different Record combinations of signatures and add them to the collection chain.
  • Each of the Taschen has a feed mechanism that either activates or not can be activated to supply a signature from the appropriate pocket to the Enable or prevent collection chain. This optional supply of signatures from a variety of feed stations enables the production of different editions a magazine edition.
  • Sheet material includes a plurality of one after the other in an endless path Bags arranged under a variety of bottomless magazines Move sheets of sheets past.
  • Each of the pockets includes a belt mechanism by means of a sheet of which is pulled from one of the stacks and the corresponding pocket is fed when the bag passes under the corresponding stack.
  • US 4,989,850 describes a machine for gathering signatures on one Funding facility, where the individual magazines on the inside of a so-called demographic signature, d. H. a signature that contains personal data, to be printed with the name and address of the subscriber.
  • a signature that contains personal data
  • To one to supply such a signature to a main conveyor is proposed
  • the signatures are removed Conveying device fed by means of a separating cylinder which one at a common shaft arranged pair of discs.
  • the signatures are the same size and printed with the same text.
  • the signatures are personalized using an inkjet printer. It is also possible to provide two pockets with corresponding feed devices, which of the remote conveyor due to so-called demographic Commanding the different interests of different reader groups reflect different signatures.
  • Another object of the invention is a new and improved one To provide methods of operating the device.
  • the device for feeding comprises flatter Products from a stack of flat products to a collection point on one Conveyor a variety of themselves in an endless, at least partially below of the stack-running circuit moving feed units, each one Peel off a single flat signature from the stack.
  • Each of the feed units includes one first driven belt which can be brought into contact with the stack, and a deflection element, which deflects the flat product in a predetermined direction.
  • the remote one Feed station includes a remote feed conveyor with a plurality of pick-up points and a variety of feed units, each one Remove the flat product from one of the stacks of flat products and a pick-up point feed the feed conveyor.
  • the feed units move independently of the feed conveyor along a predetermined trajectory in an endless Circulation.
  • Each of the feed units comprises a first driven belt with an upper one Section which successively brought into contact with the stacks of flat products becomes.
  • a drive unit moves each of the plurality of feed units on each of the Magazine over.
  • Each of the feed units comprises a deflection section for deflection of the sheet material in a predetermined direction to the sheet material To feed pick-up point on the remote feed conveyor.
  • the method according to the invention for feeding flat products from a stack of flat ones Products at a reception center include the following steps: First, a A plurality of feed units are moved past the stack, each of the feed units comprises a band and a deflecting element. One of the feed units becomes a single one flat product removed from the stack from the deflecting section of the feed unit deflected and finally fed to the reception point.
  • the deflection section in which a flat product is deflected, which by means of a Feed unit of a variety of feed units from a stack of flat products is preferably fed to a receiving point arranged on a conveyor, enables fast delivery of individual flat products to a conveyor, especially to a conveyor belt.
  • FIG. 1 shows a device according to the invention with a main conveyor device 10 shown on the receiving points 12 for receiving z. B. of sheets, signatures or Similar flat products, which are generally exemplified below as signatures 14 are designated, are arranged.
  • a plurality of feed stations, not shown, can be arranged, at which individual Signatures are fed from the feed station to the main conveyor so that a Book block is formed, which is subsequently processed further, for. B. bound and cut until a finished product, e.g. B. a magazine.
  • the main conveyor different types of signatures, e.g. B. the signatures A, B, C and D are supplied, which, for. B. are printed differently, for different Issues of a magazine are determined and even differ in their format can distinguish.
  • the different signatures A, B, C, D are removed in erected signature magazines 16, 18, 20, 22 and are one of the magazines remotely located feed conveyor 24 which feeds the individual Signatures conveyed to the main conveyor 10.
  • the individual signatures A, B, C, D can the main conveyor 10 from the remote Feed conveyor 24 by means of a conventional, e.g. B. from US 4, 989,850 or the feed mechanism 26 known from US 3,819,173.
  • the magazines are preferably bottomless.
  • a large number of feed units 28 are used to pull the signatures out of the magazine provided, which are arranged in an endless cycle and are independent of the remotely positioned conveyor track 24 along a predetermined movement path 30 move.
  • the remote feed conveyor 24 transports the signatures A, B, C, D either directly or, as shown in FIG. 1, via a turning drum 32, through which the signatures are turned to the main conveyor 10. Die individual signatures are predetermined by the feed conveyor 24 Recording sites 13 (see Fig. 2) transported and can one or more Printing stations are supplied, where they are from a printer, for. B.
  • Inkjet printer 34, 35 with individual data, e.g. B. with the name and address of the respective subscriber.
  • These printing stations can be at any Places along the feed conveyor 24 may be arranged.
  • Any signature can be on this way, while being transported horizontally, by means of a suitably arranged one Inkjet printer can be printed.
  • a signature can also are printed by a printing station 34 while they are on the transfer drum 32nd is held.
  • the Transfer drum 32 upstream or arranged on the transfer drum 32 Printing stations can also have printing stations 36 arranged downstream of the transfer drum 32 be provided so that after the turn also the back of the signature 14 with individual or additional information can be printed.
  • the remote feed station 15 guides the main conveyor 10 different signatures A, B, C and D too. It comprises a feed conveyor 24 and a plurality of feed units 28 which one of the signatures A, B, C, D the magazines 16, 18, 20, 22 of one of the receiving points 13 on the feed conveyor 24 as shown in more detail in FIG. 2.
  • each of the remote signature magazines 16, 18, 20, 22 two side walls 38, 40, which hold the signature stack 23.
  • the magazines are preferably bottomless.
  • Under the magazine 16 is a variety of Feed units 28 are arranged, which are preferably connected to each other and themselves move along a predetermined endless trajectory 30, some of which underneath the stationary, bottomless signature magazines 16, 18, 20, 22 runs.
  • the feed stations 28 are preferably of identical design and include each a separating section 39 for subtracting a single signature 14 from the Signature stack 23 and a deflection section 41 for deflecting the individual signature in a given direction.
  • Each of the feed units 28 preferably includes one driven belt 42, the upper portion 44 of the stack 23 within the Signature magazine 16 supports.
  • the upper portions 44 of the bands 42 move into the indicated by the arrow Z opposite to that indicated by the arrow X.
  • Die Speed of the upper sections 44 and the speed of the feed units 28 is preferably substantially the same, so that there is a certain point on the top Section 44 of band 42 does not move with respect to signature magazine 16.
  • the Feed conveyor 24 can move in the same direction X as that Feeding units 28.
  • a sucker 47 can be operated, the lowest signature of pulls the bottom of the stack 23 down. The sucker 47 is always activated when a single signature is to be peeled off the bottom of the stack.
  • the of the suction can be carried out by moving contact, e.g. B. a cam drive, or by activating and deactivating a vacuum on the vacuum cleaner 47 can be controlled.
  • the sucker 47 draws a signature from the bottom of the Signature stack 23 downwards, so that the signature 14 according to the movement of the Band 42 is moved in the direction indicated by arrow W.
  • the signature 14 runs into the deflection section 41 of the feed unit 28, it becomes essentially one deflected in the direction parallel to the direction of movement of the feed conveyor track 24.
  • the sucker 47 guides the leading edge of the signature 14 around the first pulley 43 and releases it after half a revolution of the suction shaft 50.
  • the signature is now moves downward and changes direction when its leading edge is in the Deflection section 41 of the feed unit 28 arrives.
  • the deflection section 41 comprises two Rollers 52 and 54 and a second belt 56 which wraps around the two rollers 54 and 52 runs around.
  • the second belt 56 contacts a lower roller 48 of the Separating section of the feed unit 28, and the second roller 52 of the Deflection section 39 contacts the first band 42 of a separation section one subsequent feed unit.
  • the second band 56 of each deflection section 41 is preferably independent of the feed unit 28 and the first belt 42, but at the same speed as the feed units driven. Once the leading edge of a signature in the gap between the first band 42 and the second band 56, it is between the detected both belts, fed to a receiving point 13 of the feed conveyor 24 and conveyed from this to the main conveyor 10.
  • the individual signatures by means of gripper drums 58, 60 Signature stack 23 to a receiving point 13 on the feed conveyor 24 to hand over.
  • a single signature is as described above Subtracted bottom of a signature stack 23.
  • the variety of feed units 28 that are move along an endless trajectory, include a deflection section 41 and a separating section 39. They move into that indicated by the arrow X.
  • a vacuum mechanism takes hold of it Leading edge of the lowest individual signature 14 and pulls it into the feed unit, as soon as a feed unit passes under a stack 23, 23a.
  • the signature 14 drawn into the feed unit and from the deflection section 41 of the Feed unit 28 deflected. Because bands 42 and 56 are preferably the same Speed driven like the feed units, the signature 14 passes through the Feed unit 28, leaves this at the bottom of the same with the double linear Speed of the feed unit 28 and is tangent to the rotating Pass gripper drum 58.
  • the gripper drum 58 rotates into the Signature transport direction, its surface speed preferably higher is as the linear speed of the signature 14.
  • the speed of the gripper drum is preferably 10% faster than the linear velocity of the signature 14 to ensure that the signature 14 is correctly gripped by the gripper drum 58 and is transported.
  • the signature 14 is then preferably from the gripper drum 58 detects when a gripper arranged on the gripper drum 58 a position about 5 ° after has reached its uppermost position indicated by the dash-dotted line 62.
  • the gripper drum 58 rotates further, the signature 14 becomes from the feed unit 28 transferred to a receiving point 13 on the feed conveyor 24.
  • the gripper drum 58 then rotates about 175 ° further, as shown in FIG. 4.
  • thickness control devices can be provided, which during the rotary movement of the gripper drum 58 measure the thickness of a signature 14.
  • an additional gripper drum 60 one Continue the feeding process and another signature 14a from a signature stack 23a to another pick-up point 13 on the feed conveyor 24. It is accordingly possible, the feed conveyor 24 different individual signatures of to feed various batches of signatures, which are then fed from the feed conveyor 24 a main conveyor are transported.
  • personalized data can also be the latest data printed on the signature 14 Information includes, which during the printing process of the individual signatures 14 were not yet known.
  • Fig. 6 shows a more detailed side view of a feed device according to the present invention.
  • the feed units 28 are arranged in a housing 17 and move in an endless cycle along a rail 70.
  • a gripper arranged on the gripper drum 58 grips the front edge a signature as soon as the signature emerges from the feed unit 28 on the ground.
  • the signature 14 is passed directly into the gripper of the gripper drum 58. At this time the signature 14 is no longer guided by the belts of the feed unit 28, but by the Gripper drum.
  • the gripper drum carries the signature on and changes it Direction from the original direction of movement X, which is the direction of movement corresponds to the feed units 28, in the direction of movement Y of the feed conveyor 24.
  • the gripper drums 58 which are preferably driven by belts, can, for. B. have a groove in which a band 72 is guided and which is designed so that the Outer surface of the belt 72 lies in a plane with the outer surface of the gripper drum 58.
  • Band 72 may be made of any suitable material, but is preferably a circumferential polyurethane tape.
  • the belt 72 leaves the drum 58 tangential to the side opposite the feed conveyor 24 and runs in the substantially parallel to the feed conveyor 24 so that it is one with this Band gap forms.
  • a signature 14 is passed around the gripper drum 58 was, it runs in this gap between the gripper drum 58 and preferably as a conveyor belt trained feed conveyor 24 is from the Gripper drum 58 released and between the upper belt 72 and the lower belt 24 gripped and transported in the direction of movement Y of the feed conveyor 24.
  • the signature 14 can e.g. B. too an inkjet printer module, where they are printed and then is transported to a main conveyor.
  • the invention Feed mechanism described using a remote feed conveyor it is also possible to use this principle when supplying signatures from one Apply signature stack to a transport device, especially if it is in the transport device around a trained as a conveyor belt Main conveyor acts.

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