EP1277685B1 - Méthode et dispositif pour changer la forme d'un flux d'articles plats - Google Patents

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EP1277685B1
EP1277685B1 EP02405570A EP02405570A EP1277685B1 EP 1277685 B1 EP1277685 B1 EP 1277685B1 EP 02405570 A EP02405570 A EP 02405570A EP 02405570 A EP02405570 A EP 02405570A EP 1277685 B1 EP1277685 B1 EP 1277685B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
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  • the invention is in the field of materials handling and relates to a method and a device according to the preambles of the corresponding claims.
  • Method and apparatus are used to convert a flow of flat objects, in which conversion, for example, from a flow in which all objects are the same orientation, a flow is created in which the objects are oriented differently by alternating current groups.
  • successively moving grippers are used, each holding an article in an edge region, with all articles oriented substantially the same. That is, in such a flow, for example, magazines held in the region of their back edge from above promoted so that all the front pages are directed forwardly in the conveying direction.
  • Printed products such as the magazines mentioned, are supplied in the manner mentioned, for example, to a stacking shaft in which they are deposited into a stack. If now this stack is to be a cross stack, ie a stack in which the objects are in groups rotated by 180 ° against each other (back edges of the magazines partly positioned on one side and partly on the other side of the stack), the stacking shaft is rotated with the resulting stack after the storage of each group of printed products, as described for example in the publication DE-2842117 (or US-4214743, F96).
  • the apparatuses for carrying out the known stack-rotation methods are relatively simple if a performance-impeding feed stop can be accepted for each stack rotation.
  • the supply current must be split by means of a switch onto two stack shafts, or the articles fed during the stack rotation must be stacked, which makes the devices significantly more expensive.
  • the above-mentioned methods with current distribution and different supply of the partial currents as well as the methods mentioned with current conversion can be carried out with simpler stacking devices and higher powers, but require complex devices and controllers for the distribution of power or current conversion.
  • the invention now has the task of creating improvement in these areas.
  • a feed flow in which flat objects are conveyed individually is to be converted into a removal flow, the objects being differently reoriented in groups during the conversion.
  • the inventive method should be much simpler than known flow rate conversions, which serve similar purposes. Nevertheless, the current conversion should be feasible with a variety of sizes of object groups.
  • the inventive method should be feasible with a very simple device and a simple control. At the same time it is the object of the invention to provide a device for carrying out the method.
  • the inventive method is based on a Zu Rushstrom in which the flat objects are oriented substantially the same, and produce a Wegumblestrom in which the objects of alternating successive groups are oriented differently such that they are supplied, for example without further action a stacking shaft and there filed a cross stack.
  • the inventive method can also be applied to a Zu utilizationstrom in which the objects are already oriented differently, and convert this Zu occupancystrom in a Wegturistrom in which the objects are the same orientation or differently oriented.
  • the principle of the inventive method is the Zu impactweg, along which the articles are individually conveyed to be conveyed, in a conversion area with a Wegholdweg along which the objects as converted Stream are conveyed away, crossing twice and alternately successively supplied groups of objects at the first and at the second intersection from the feed path on the Wegholdweg to pass.
  • the transfer preferably consists of simply depositing the articles to be conveyed by one gripper along the feed path onto a conveyor support (eg conveyor belt) which moves along the removal path.
  • the crossing angle between Zumoniweg and Wegnetweg is for example for the two intersections 90 °, but can also be greater or less than 90 °.
  • the output printed products are reoriented due to the crossing angle, for example, 90 ° (e.g., conversion from cross-feed to longitudinal feed for rectangular flat items). Since the Zu occasionweg meets in the two path crossings from opposite sides of the Wegholdweg, in addition to the above reorientation results in a rotation by 180 ° of the votes at the second intersection objects compared to the output at the first intersection objects. In the current conversion according to the inventive method, therefore, the objects of each second group are rotated by 180 ° more than the objects of the first groups.
  • the articles are conveyed in the feed stream transversely to their areal extent, for example held on an upper edge and suspended substantially freely, the distances between the products being smaller than their areal extent.
  • the objects to be conveyed in this way are placed overlapping one another on the conveying support of the removal path, so that the converted removal flow is a scale flow, but which has a gap at least after every second group of objects.
  • the device according to the invention has a feed means defining a feed path with grippers arranged behind one another and movable in a feed direction along the feed path and a removal conveyor defining a removal path which has a delivery support extending at least in one conversion area along the removal path and moving in a removal direction. In the conversion area Zu incidentweg and Wegjanweg intersect twice. Furthermore, the device has control means with which the grippers in the conversion region for the group-wise delivery of the articles to be conveyed can be selectively opened at the first and at the second path intersection.
  • Figure 1 shows a very schematic and three-dimensional illustrated, exemplary embodiment of the inventive device, based on the method of the invention is to be explained.
  • the device has as feed means 1, a rail 2 (shown as a dotted line), along the gripper 3 in a feed direction Z independently, that is, with variable distances from each other are movable. With the help of the gripper 3, the flat objects 4 (for example, rectangular printed products) are held at upper edge regions (for example, longer folding edges of rectangular, folded printed products) and fed substantially downwards.
  • the device furthermore has a removal device 10 with a delivery support 11, which advantageously moves at a constant speed in the removal direction W.
  • the Wegryweg defined by the removal means 10 is rectilinear and substantially horizontally through a conversion region 20 and is in this conversion region 20 twice that defined by the feed means 1 Feed path crossed (intersections A and B).
  • the Zu generalweg has a deflection of 180 ° between the two intersections and it runs at least in the conversion region 20 above the conveyor support 11 of the removal device 10 that the held by the gripper 3 conveyed objects 4 by simply opening the gripper 3 easily on the conveyor support eleventh of the removal means 10 can be stored.
  • the device has a respective control means 21, can be selectively opened with the gripper 3, which are conveyed over the path intersection, such that an affected object from an open gripper in the most controlled manner on the Conveying support 11 of the removal device 10 is stored or promoted with an open gripper on this away.
  • the device further comprises stowage means, the function of which is taken over, for example, by the control means 21, with the aid of which grippers 3 conveyed against the intersections A and B are opened directly in front of the intersections A and B or in front of the location on the gripper 3
  • the rail 2 can be optionally stopped and trailing grippers behind a stopped gripper can be stowed.
  • the supplied objects 4 are stored in groups alternately at the intersection A or pass the intersection A and are stored at the intersection B.
  • the depositing cycle is matched to the feed rate in such a way that the uninterrupted power in the time average is the same as the feed rate.
  • the removal speed is optionally determined by a further processing of the removal flow and is advantageously selected such that the objects 4 stored as a group are placed overlapping each other on the delivery support 11.
  • groups of, for example, four objects 4 are deposited on the conveyor support 11 at the intersection A (A groups) and groups of, for example, likewise four objects each are conveyed via the intersection A in alternation with these A groups placed at the intersection B (B-groups).
  • the objects of the B-groups are rotated by 180 ° relative to the objects of the A-groups on the conveyor support 11 of the removal means 10.
  • the stowage means of the intersection A is controlled in such a way that grippers 3 with articles (B groups) to be conveyed are conveyed unhindered past, that grippers are conveyed unhindered during the depositing of the articles of an A group and that grippers with articles of a subsequent A Group are stowed so long that between A-groups deposited at the intersection A on the conveyor support of the removal means arise Ablegelücken that are large enough to place it at the intersection B a B group.
  • the stowage means of the intersection B is controlled in such a way that grippers 3, which have already delivered articles of A groups, pass unhindered, that grippers with objects to be deposited are transported away unhindered by B groups and that grippers with objects of a following B group are so long that the B-group can be placed in a subsequent gap between two A-groups.
  • the device according to the invention shown in FIG. 1 it is not essential how long the feed path and the path of removal between the path intersections A and B are. It is also not a condition that the A groups comprise as many items as the B groups. It is also not a condition that the path intersection B is arranged in Wegiercardi downstream of the intersection A. It could just as well be arranged relative to the removal direction upstream of the intersection A, wherein the generated scale flow sections would then each consist of a B group and a subsequent A group.
  • FIG. 1 A delivery system suitable as a delivery means which he can use for this purpose is described, for example, in publication WO-99/33731 (F475 ).
  • FIG. 2 shows, from a bird's eye view and in turn very schematically, a further, exemplary embodiment of the method according to the invention.
  • Identical parts of the corresponding device are designated by the same reference numerals as in FIG. 1.
  • Two removal means 10 and 10 ' are provided.
  • the feed means 1 consists essentially of a primary feed means 1.1 and two intermediate conveyors 1.2 and 1.2 '.
  • the intermediate conveying means 1.2 and 1.2 ' like the primary feeding means 1.1, have grippers 3 (represented by dots) and take over the objects 4 from the primary feeding means 1.1 in order to place them in two changing regions 20 and 20' at two intersections A and B or A '. and B 'to the removal means 10 and 10' to pass.
  • the process proceeds as described above in connection with FIG. 1, wherein, for example, half the objects are taken over by the intermediate conveyor 1.2 and placed on the removal device 10 and the other half pass through the intermediate conveyor 1.2, taken over by the intermediate conveyor 1.2 'and deposited on the removal device 10'.
  • the grippers are jammed either by the primary feed means 1.1 or by the intermediate conveyors 1.2 and 1.2 '.
  • the intermediate conveyors 1.2 and 1.2 ' which are advantageously designed as small rounds with a limited number of, for example, independently movable grippers 4, can also be omitted and the primary feed means 1.1 are crossed directly with the two removal conveyors 10 and 10'.
  • FIG. 2 it is clearly apparent from FIG. 2 that an embodiment with intermediate conveyors 1.2 and 1.2 ', in particular for centrally conveyed objects 4, which are taken over more laterally by the grippers of the intermediate conveyors and are thus deflectable by smaller deflection radii, is a very space-saving arrangement allowed.
  • the primary feed conveyor 1.1 can be configured more easily with grippers 3 connected to one another in a chain, that is to say constant gripper spacings.
  • FIG. 3 again shows a bird's eye view of another exemplary embodiment of the device according to the invention with a feed means 1 and a removal means 10.
  • the feed path and the removal path do not intersect at right angles but at an oblique angle.
  • the grippers 3 are rotatably configured relative to the rail 2, so that the articles 4 can be aligned parallel to the Wegjanweg before depositing on the conveyor support 11 of the removal means 10. This is necessary if the objects have 4 edges standing at right angles to one another and these edges should be aligned parallel or transversely to the removal direction W when conveying away. If this is not the case, the articles can also be deposited in their position oriented transversely to the feed direction Z, and the crossing angle for a specific tray can be selected specifically.
  • Figures 4 to 6 show two further embodiments of the inventive device in which the feed means 1 (without intermediate conveyor) is not equipped with independent grippers 4, but with grippers 3, which are conveyed only at regular intervals from each other (eg, chain 2.1 with it equidistant mounted grippers 3). It can be seen that in these embodiments, the distances of the Zu arrivalweges and the Wegncyweges between the two crossovers A and B are to be matched to the size of the A groups and the B groups and to be established between Schuppenstromsetechnischmaschineppstromlücken 22.
  • FIG. 4 shows an embodiment with a feed means 1 deflected by 180 ° between the path intersections A and B and a substantially rectilinear removal means 10.
  • the A and B groups to be deposited each have five objects.
  • the filing of the A groups and the B groups takes place simultaneously.
  • Groups 1A, 1B and 2A are already stored in the time shown, of the groups 2B and 3A are just filed the third item, the group 3B is still on the Zu establishmentweg between the crossings A and B.
  • each A group and the subsequent B group together give a closed and regular scale flow section and that the shingled gaps 22 between successive sections are reduced to a minimum. It can also be seen that after the last articles of an A and B group have been deposited and the articles of another B group have been conveyed past the intersection A and the empty grippers of an A group at the intersection B, either the feeder for stopped in the present case four bars or the displacement must be accelerated accordingly before it can be started again with the storage of objects. Only in this way can it be ensured that the last A group stored has reached a place where another B group can be placed on it.
  • FIG. 5 shows a further, exemplary embodiment of the device according to the invention with a feed means 1, the grippers 3 of which are conveyed at mutually equal intervals and whose removal means 10 is operated at a constant speed.
  • the scale flow gaps 22, which are necessary between stored groups are generated in this case by the use of auxiliary conveying means 40 on the conveyor side and / or auxiliary conveying means 41 on the conveyor side, for example corresponding conveyor belts which are operated at speeds other than the feed speed and the removal speed.
  • the delivery-side auxiliary conveying means 40 take over the objects from the feed means and delay them, which equals the congestion described in connection with FIG.
  • the conveyance-side auxiliary conveyer 41 allows dropping of an A group at a small removal speed and shifting of the deposited group at a greater speed.
  • Another measure to enable a feed and carry away at constant speeds even with constant gripper distances in the feed is to slow A groups in the storage opposite the Wegjanauflage with known means (reduction of the distance between objects).
  • FIG. 6 shows a device according to the invention in turn with a gripper chain (chain 2.1 with grippers 3) or an equivalent conveying means as feed means 1 and with two removal conveyors 10 and 10 'and removal directions W and W', which feed means from the gripper chain into two intersections A and B and A 'and B' are crossed.
  • the method proceeds in the same way as described for FIG. 4, but the device is designed and controlled in this way, that the feed means 1 and the removal means 10 and 10 'can be operated at constant speeds. Trays at the crossing points A and A 'take place simultaneously and alternately with simultaneous trays in the way intersections B and B'.
  • the last A groups deposited are moved over the path intersections B and B' that B-groups can be placed on it.
  • the resulting scale flows have scale flow gaps 22 between scale flow sections (one A and one B group each) and enlarged scale spacings between A and subsequent B groups.
  • FIG. 7 shows, as an exemplary and very advantageous application and expansion of the method and the device, as described in connection with FIG. 1, the production of cross stacks 30 from a removal flow conveyed away from the current conversion according to the invention.
  • This discharge flow has scale flow sections 31 each having two groups of objects, in which the objects are rotated relative to each other by 180 °, wherein the scale flow sections A / B are separated by Schuppenstromlücken 22.
  • the Wegncystrom is guided via a reversal direction 32, for which the objects and on another conveyor support 33, obliquely from above a stacking shaft 34, from where the objects 4 fall into the stacking shaft and are stacked there.
  • An unillustrated ejection means by means of which a finished stack 30 is ejected from the stacking shaft, is movable in a direction of ejection direction X opposite to the conveying direction 33 and pushes the stack on the feed side out of the stacking shaft.
  • the ejection means is designed such that it is moved back outside the stacking shaft (below the stacking shaft or next to the stacking shaft) to its starting position.
  • the feed may indeed be interrupted, but can already be resumed when the stack 30 is not completely ejected from the stacking shaft 34, but his trailing side only at one Promoted spot is where the leading edges of the supplied items 4 would hit the ejected stack.
  • the supply interruption for the stack discharge is very short and the shingled flow gaps 22 or at least a part thereof can be utilized for this purpose. This means that neither measures for the production of the stack nor for its ejection further measures on the stack shaft supplied shingled stream are necessary.
  • the method illustrated in FIG. 7 is particularly suitable for use on folded printed products (eg, simply folded tabloids or double-folded newspapers), which are usually held up at their longer fold edges in feed streams.
  • folded printed products eg, simply folded tabloids or double-folded newspapers
  • These printed products are converted in the power conversion, as already described above, in a Wegneystrom in which they are conveyed parallel to the folded edges and the folding edges of product groups are alternately on one or the other side of the stream. Since these products are stiffer parallel to their fold edges than transversely thereto, they can also be brought into the stacking shaft 34 with a relatively long free fall, so that the ejection distance, which can be shortened until the resumption of the feed for the following stack.
  • stacks are ejected parallel to the fold edges, which can be done at an increased speed across the fold edges because of the higher stack stability over stack stability.
  • Each sub-step of the method shown in Figure 7 is thus carried out in its most optimal way and yet the combination of sub-steps remains very simple.
  • FIG. 7 shows impressively how simple the method according to the invention for conveying flow conversion is, how easy it is to produce cross stacks using the method according to the invention for conveying flow conversion and how space-saving the device for conveying flow conversion with integrated stacking device can be executed.

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  1. Procédé pour transformer un écoulement d'amenée dans lequel des objets plats (4) maintenus individuellement sont amenés dans une zone (20) de transformation le long d'un parcours d'amenée, en un écoulement d'enlèvement dans lequel les objets (4) sont orientés les uns par rapport aux autres différemment que dans l'écoulement d'amenée et sont enlevés le long d'un parcours d'enlèvement en reposant lâchement, caractérisé en ce que le parcours d'amenée et le parcours d'enlèvement se croisent en un premier croisement de parcours (A) et en un deuxième croisement de parcours (B) et en ce que les objets (4) sont transférés en groupes (1A, 1B, 2A, 2B, ...) du parcours d'amenée au parcours d'enlèvement en alternance sur le premier et le deuxième croisement de parcours (A et B), le transfert étant commandé de telle sorte que les objets plats (4) reposent dans l'écoulement d'enlèvement en tronçons d'écoulement empilés en écailles (A/B) constitués d'un ou de plusieurs groupes successifs (1A, 1B, 2A, 2B, ...) et d'interstices (22) entre les écoulements en écaille situés entre les tronçons (A/B) d'écoulement en écaille.
  2. Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que pour le transfert du parcours d'amenée au parcours d'enlèvement, les objets plats (4) sont relâchés par des dispositifs de saisie (3) et sont déposés sur un support de transport (11).
  3. Procédé selon les revendications 1 ou 2, caractérisé en ce que la vitesse d'enlèvement est constante et en ce que les objets (4) sont apportés à distances variables les uns des autres et sont arrêtés et retenus sélectivement en amont des croisements de parcours (A et B).
  4. Procédé selon les revendications 1 ou 2, caractérisé en ce que la vitesse d'enlèvement est constante, en ce que les objets (4) sont apportés à cadence régulière et en ce que les interstices entre les écoulements en écaille sont établis en utilisant des transporteurs auxiliaires (40) situés du côté de l'amenée et/ou des transporteurs auxiliaires (41) situés du côté de l'enlèvement.
  5. Procédé selon les revendications 1 ou 2, caractérisé en ce que la vitesse d'enlèvement est augmentée entre les transferts de groupes (1A, 1B, 2A, 2B, ...) et en ce que les objets (4) sont amenés à cadence régulière.
  6. Procédé selon les revendications 1 ou 2, caractérisé en ce que deux ou plusieurs parcours d'enlèvement qui présentent chacun deux croisements de parcours (A', B') avec le parcours d'amenée sont prévus, en ce que les vitesses d'enlèvement sont constantes le long de tous les parcours d'enlèvement et en ce que les objets (4) sont amenés à cadence régulière.
  7. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 1 à 6, caractérisé en ce que le parcours d'enlèvement s'étend essentiellement en ligne droite entre le premier et le deuxième croisement d'enlèvement (A et B) et en ce qu'entre le premier et le deuxième croisement d'enlèvement (A et B), le parcours d'amenée présente une déviation de 180°.
  8. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 1 à 7, caractérisé en ce que dans les deux croisements de parcours (A et B), le parcours d'amenée et le parcours d'enlèvement se croisent à angle droit.
  9. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 1 à 8, caractérisé en ce que l'écoulement d'enlèvement aboutit à un puits d'empilement (34) dans lequel les objets (4) sont empilés en piles croisées (30).
  10. Procédé selon la revendication 9, caractérisé en ce que la pile croisée (30) est expulsée du puits d'empilement (34) dans une direction d'expulsion (X), la direction d'expulsion (X) étant orienté dans le sens opposé à celui dans lequel les objets sont amenés.
  11. Dispositif de transformation d'un écoulement d'amenée, dans lequel des objets plats (4) maintenus individuellement sont amenés le long d'un parcours d'amenée à une zone (20) de transformation en un écoulement d'enlèvement dans laquelle dans lequel les objets (4) sont orientés les uns par rapport aux autres différemment que dans l'écoulement d'amenée et sont enlevés le long d'un parcours d'enlèvement, lequel dispositif présente un moyen d'amenée (1) doté de dispositifs de saisie (3) mobiles le long du parcours d'amenée et un moyen d'enlèvement doté d'un support de transport (11) qui s'étend le long du parcours d'enlèvement et qui peut être déplacé dans une direction d'enlèvement, caractérisé en ce que le parcours d'amenée et le parcours d'enlèvement se croisent en un premier croisement de parcours (A) et en un deuxième croisement de parcours (B), en ce que sur les deux croisements de parcours (A et B) sont prévus des moyens de commande (21) qui ouvrent sélectivement les dispositifs de saisie (3) et en ce que les moyens de commande peuvent être commandés de telle sorte que par ouverture de dispositifs de saisie (3) prédéterminés, les objets (4) sont transférés en groupes (1A, 1B, 2A, 2B, ...) du moyen d'amenée (1) au moyen d'enlèvement (10) en alternance sur le premier et le deuxième croisement de parcours.
  12. Dispositif selon la revendication 11, caractérisé en ce que le moyen d'amenée (1) présente un rail (2) le long duquel les dispositifs de saisie (3) peuvent être déplacés indépendamment les uns des autres, et en ce que le dispositif présente de plus sur les deux croisements de parcours (A et B) un moyen d'accumulation qui arrête et accumule les dispositifs de saisie (3).
  13. Dispositif selon la revendication 12, caractérisé en ce que le moyen d'amenée (1) présente un moyen primaire d'amenée (1.1) doté de dispositifs de saisie (3) et un moyen de transport intermédiaire (1.2) doté de dispositifs de saisie (3), au moins le dispositif de saisie (3) du moyen de transport intermédiaire (1.2) ou du moyen de transport primaire (1.1) pouvant être déplacés indépendamment les uns des autres.
  14. Dispositif selon la revendication 11, caractérisé en ce que les dispositifs de saisie (3) du moyen d'amenée (1) peuvent être déplacés à distance mutuelle constante.
  15. Dispositif selon la revendication 14, caractérisé en ce que des moyens auxiliaires de transport (40) et/ou des moyens auxiliaires de transport (41) sont de plus prévus respectivement sur le côté d'amenée et sur le côté de l'enlèvement.
  16. Dispositif selon la revendication 14, caractérisé en ce que le moyen de transport d'amenée (1) ou le moyen de transport d'enlèvement (10) peuvent être entraînés à des vitesses variables.
  17. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications 11 à 16, caractérisé en ce qu'entre les croisements de parcours (A et B), le moyen de transport d'enlèvement (10) s'étend essentiellement en ligne droite et en ce qu'entre les croisements de parcours (A et B), le moyen de transport d'amenée (1) présente une déviation de 180°.
  18. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications 12 à 17, caractérisé en ce qu'au moyen de transport d'enlèvement (10) se raccorde un puits d'empilement (34), lequel puits d'empilement (34) présente un moyen d'expulsion dont la direction d'expulsion (x) est orientée en opposition au côté d'amenée du puits d'empilement (34).
  19. Utilisation des procédés selon l'une des revendications 1 à 10 ou du dispositif selon l'une des revendications 11 à 18 pour des produits imprimés rectangulaires pliés qui sont maintenus dans l'écoulement d'amenée par le haut et par leur bord replié longitudinal.
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