EP1299298A1 - Procede et dispositif de transport d'objets a l'etat maintenu sur une voie de transport comprenant une reserve d'accumulation - Google Patents

Procede et dispositif de transport d'objets a l'etat maintenu sur une voie de transport comprenant une reserve d'accumulation

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EP1299298A1
EP1299298A1 EP01940041A EP01940041A EP1299298A1 EP 1299298 A1 EP1299298 A1 EP 1299298A1 EP 01940041 A EP01940041 A EP 01940041A EP 01940041 A EP01940041 A EP 01940041A EP 1299298 A1 EP1299298 A1 EP 1299298A1
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stowage
stagnation point
holding elements
groups
holding
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Carl Conrad MÄDER
Erwin Müller
Markus Felix
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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
    • B65H29/00—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles
    • B65H29/003—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles by grippers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H29/00—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles
    • B65H29/02—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles by mechanical grippers engaging the leading edge only of the articles
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H33/00—Forming counted batches in delivery pile or stream of articles
    • B65H33/04—Forming counted batches in delivery pile or stream of articles by inserting marker slips in pile or stream
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2405/00—Parts for holding the handled material
    • B65H2405/50—Gripping means
    • B65H2405/55—Rail guided gripping means running in closed loop, e.g. without permanent interconnecting means

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  • the invention lies in the field of conveyor technology: and relates to a method and a device according to the preambles of the corresponding independent claims.
  • the method and device are used to convey objects on a conveyor line, the objects being held individually and being conveyed along the conveyor line one behind the other and at least to a limited extent independently of one another, and the objects passing through a buffer store during the conveyance along the conveyor line.
  • the extent of the holding elements in the conveying direction is the same for all holding elements and is advantageously greater than the corresponding extent of the objects (thickness of the flat objects), so that they were defined in rushed operation
  • the holding elements are simply dammed up on the conveying path and released and conveyed in a controlled manner from the head end of the traffic jam.
  • the jam which has a stationary head end and a variable length, represents the buffer store.
  • drives motor drives or
  • Buffer storage are transported away (removal drive). Means are also to be provided with which holding elements are stowed in the buffer memory from which
  • Buffer storage can be released and transferred to the conveyor drive.
  • Buffer memories are used wherever an object-delivering and an object-receiving unit are to be flexibly connected to one another in such a way that the units perform well (in objects per unit of time) within wide limits without mutual dependencies (decoupled) and yet without ejecting the objects from a common one Process regulations should be operated. If the performance of the object-delivering unit is greater than the performance of the object-receiving unit, the fill level of the buffer store increases. If the performance of the object-delivering unit is less than the performance of the object-receiving unit, the fill level of the buffer store drops.
  • buffer stores on conveyor lines for holding and independently conveying holding elements or objects held by holding elements, as described above, have a clock wheel on their stationary head end as a stowage or discharge means ,
  • This cycle wheel has teeth adapted to the holding elements and rotatably detects with each of its teeth the foremost holding element in the buffer memory in order to separate it from the head end of the buffer memory and to transfer it to the removal drive.
  • the speed of rotation of the cycle wheel is varied as required or the cycle wheel is switched (predetermined, unchangeable speed or standstill).
  • the object of the invention is to make conveying and buffering as described above more flexible in such a way that the flow of objects or holding elements (with or without holding objects) conveyed away from the head end of the buffer store to a greater extent different, downstream conditions can be adjusted as with Methods and arrangements according to the prior art is possible.
  • the application of the method and the device according to the invention are therefore intended to provide a discharge flow which can be led directly to a unit which places conditions on the discharge flow, if possible without further conversion or with a considerably reduced degree of further conversion.
  • the method and device according to the invention are intended, in particular, to bring about an increased process density and a reduction in conveyor line lengths necessary for flow flow conversions, in such a way that the conveying / buffering retains its essential features but is arranged closer to a downstream, object-receiving unit can and, if possible, does not require any other means for converting electricity.
  • the method according to the invention essentially consists in not releasing holding elements (with held objects or without) individually but in groups from the buffer store and transferring them to a removal conveyor drive, that is to say, when discharging, not a stream of individual holding elements as in the prior art but to generate a stream of holding element groups.
  • the holding elements within the groups such as in the buffer store or in interrupted conveying operation, advantageously have the minimum distance from one another, the distances between groups and the conveying speed are optionally constant or variable, and the number of holding elements in the groups is constant or variable.
  • the objects conveyed away from the head end of the buffer are still kept individually.
  • the method and device according to the invention are particularly suitable for feeding object groups to units in which objects are processed in narrow groups, for example stacked or packaged.
  • the groups of holding elements which are released from the buffer storage and transferred to the removal conveyor drive according to the method according to the invention, are pre-formed in the buffer storage, in which the holding elements are already arranged at minimal distances from one another.
  • other conversions of the delivery flow that are oriented to downstream conditions of the discharge flow can also be carried out in the buffer memory, for example reorientation of the objects, marking of the objects as members of a specific group, marking of objects as specific group members (e.g. group member, the in the group as the foremost or rearmost) or the formation of sub-groups within the groups.
  • the device according to the invention has for the serial conveying of
  • Holding elements or of objects individually held by holding elements along a conveying path on a plurality of holding elements, one behind the other and at least limited independently of one another along one of the Conveying track defining rail track are movable. Furthermore, the device has a feed drive for feeding holding elements to the tail end of a buffer store, a buffer drive for feeding holding elements from the tail end of the buffer store towards the head end and a conveying drive for conveying away holding elements from the head end of the buffer store, and a means for forming holding element groups in the buffer store and a means for releasing groups of holding elements from the buffer store and for transferring the groups to the removal drive.
  • Gravity can be used at least partially as a feed, buffer and removal drive.
  • Feed, buffer and removal drives can be designed as separate drives or as one or two drives, at least one of the drives taking on more than one of the drive functions mentioned.
  • the functions of the above-mentioned means for forming groups and for releasing and transferring can be performed by a separate device part or together by the same device part.
  • the holding means carry objects in the feed flow, in the buffer store or in the discharge flow or not. In most applications, either all of the holding elements will be loaded or all of the holding elements will be unloaded. Applications with partially loaded and partially unloaded holding elements are also conceivable.
  • Figure 1 shows the principle of the inventive method
  • FIGS. 2 and 3 the sequence of a group layoff for two exemplary embodiments of the method according to the invention
  • FIGS 7 and 8 application examples for the inventive method and the inventive device.
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of the inventive method.
  • objects e.g. flat objects such as newspapers or magazines, for example conveyed from an object-delivering unit 3 to an object-receiving unit 4 along a conveyor line defined by a rail track 5.
  • the holding elements 1 are independent of one another, that is to say advantageously not connected to one another, possibly connected to one another by connecting elements which have a variable length in the conveying direction F.
  • the holding elements 1 are rolling or sliding bodies, each having a gripper for gripping an object 2.
  • all of the holding elements 1 advantageously have the same, as short as possible length, such that, when pushed against one another, they form a dense conveying flow with uniform distances between the grippers or between the objects held by the grippers.
  • the conveying section is divided into three parts in terms of function: an infeed section 10, an outfeed section 11 and between the infeed section 10 and outfeed section 11 a buffer store 12 with a head end 13 and a tail end 14, whereby the position of the head end 13 on the conveyor line is substantially constant and the position of the tail end 14 varies depending on the fill level of the buffer store 10.
  • individual holding elements 1 or individual, held objects 2 are not released at the head end 13 of the buffer memory 10, but rather holding element groups 15 are released and conveyed away, which holding element groups 15 are pre-formed in the buffer memory 12 before they are released.
  • two stowage means 16 arranged one behind the other in the conveying direction are provided for this group formation and group discharge at the head end of the buffer store.
  • the performance in holding elements per unit of time must be the same for the conveyance as for the conveyance away.
  • the maximum buffer storage capacity and, of course, other features of a given device set limits on the distances and speeds that are possible for feeding and conveying away. Distances and / or speeds for the feed can be freely selected within these limits.
  • the distances within the groups essentially correspond to the minimum distance, while the distances between the groups are freely selectable. In the buffer store 12, the distances are equal to the minimum distance and the speed is such that for each group discharge the corresponding group is present and preformed at the head end of the buffer store.
  • the following variants are possible, for example, for releasing the groups from the buffer storage and transporting them away (distances between groups: distance between the first or last holding element from successive groups), the groups being in each case the same size or comprising different numbers of holding elements can:
  • Group layoffs are clocked regularly (time intervals between group layoffs are constant) and variable transport speed, which leads to variable group spacings;
  • the device according to the invention can be implemented with a single drive for feeding, buffering and conveying away, if the drive is designed in such a way that it grinds in the buffer against jammed holding elements, or in such a way that holding elements jammed in the buffer can be temporarily decoupled from the drive.
  • a conveyor system with a drive running continuously along the conveyor line, to which the holding elements can be magnetically coupled is described, for example, in publication WO-99/33731 (F475).
  • Gravity can be used instead of mechanical means, in particular for the feeding and for the buffering, if the conveyor line is laid down in a correspondingly sloping manner.
  • another braking effect can be used instead of an active stowage agent, for example gravity on a rising piece of the rail track, the friction between the rail track and holding elements or just the momentary lack of a driving force (passive stagnation point).
  • the objects 2 are supplied to the object-delivering unit 3, for example in a stream of shingles or individually, for example from a storage unit (winding, feeder), and are taken over there by the holding elements 1.
  • the objects 2 are, for example, delivered or processed in groups by the holding elements 1 and conveyed further for delivery in any order.
  • a return path is to be provided for empty holding elements 1, on which they are conveyed back to the unit delivering objects 2 for taking over objects 2 again.
  • the objects delivering and the objects Acquiring unit (3 and 4) determine the function of conveying and buffering to a large extent, but like the conveying route for the return transport of the empty holding elements 1 are not within the scope of the invention.
  • FIGS. 2 and 3 show very schematically, using two examples, how holding element groups 15 are pre-formed at the head end 13 of the buffer store 12, released and transferred to a conveying drive in the method according to the invention. Parts and functions that have already been described in connection with FIG. 1 are identified by the same reference numbers.
  • FIG. 2 shows a buffer store 12, at the head end 13 of which two stowage means 16.1 and 16.2 are provided, which stowage means alternately define a front stagnation point P.l and a rear stagnation point P.2 (upstream from the front stagnation point P.l).
  • the stowage means 16.1 and 16.2 can be moved parallel to the conveying direction F and can be switched into an active configuration (with an effect on the conveying flow) and an inactive configuration (without an effect on the conveying flow) and they can also assume a conveying function if necessary.
  • FIG. 2 shows five process stages a) to e) which are followed for the release of a group 15 from the buffer store 12.
  • the holding element group 15 to be released consists of five holding elements 1 in the illustrated case.
  • the first stowage means 16.1 is active in a front stagnation point P. 1 and thereby stalls the feed and buffer flow
  • the second stowage means 16.2 is used to prepare the group 15 in a rear stagnation point activated (a, b).
  • the first stowage means 16.1 is deactivated (c) and the second stowage means 16.2 is moved in the active configuration to the front stowage point P.1 (d), pushing the group to be released in front of it.
  • the second stowage agent then takes over the stowage function, while the released one Group 15 is promoted away from the front stagnation point Pl.
  • the roles of the two stowage means 16.1 and 16.2 are reversed for the formation and discharge of a subsequent group.
  • Suitable conveyor drives can be used to carry out the method shown in FIG. 2, the conveyor drive being designed in such a way that it can take over the group 15 pushed out of the buffer by the storage means as such.
  • Suitable drives for feed and buffer conveyor are, for example, gravity or a grinding drive.
  • a further or the same grinding drive or a group conveyor can be used for the conveyance away. When conveying away with a grinding drive, it must be ensured that the speed of the expelling stowage is at least as high as the conveying speed.
  • the groups released from the buffer store 12 comprise different numbers of holding elements 1, so that the position of the rear stowage point P.2 and the stroke of the stowage means parallel to the conveying direction differ according to the group size.
  • the groups are released at regular intervals, the distances dG between the last holding elements of successive groups remaining the same.
  • the holding elements are lined up with minimal distances d.
  • each group would have to be pushed over the front stagnation point P1 by the expelling stowage means (16.1 or 16.2) in such a way that the first holding element of the group reaches a defined starting position, or a pre-formed group would have to do so Dismissal already in a position behind the front stagnation point Pl actively coupled to a removal drive (front stagnation point of the same defined starting point) and released from the buffer store by the action of this drive.
  • FIG. 3 shows, in the same way as FIG. 2, a method variant with a front stowage means 16.3 and a rear stowage means 16.4, which in turn can be switched into an active configuration and a rest configuration.
  • the two stowage means 16.3 and 16.4 do not work alternately in the front or rear stagnation point but are fixedly assigned to the front stagnation point P.l or the rear stagnation point P.2.
  • one (16.4) of the accumulation means can be moved parallel to the conveying direction F.
  • the stowage means 16.3 and 16.4 cannot take on a conveying function, so that in any case a drive must be provided over the entire conveying path, the function of which in the feed area and in the buffer store can be taken over by gravity.
  • the discharge of a group 15 takes place in the following phases: the front stowage agent is active in the front stagnation point P. 1, the rear stowage agent is positioned and activated in order to prepare the group 15 to be released in the rear stowage point P.2 (a, b); for the release of group 15, the front stowage means 16.3 is deactivated and the group is carried away (c); when the group has passed the front stowage point, the front stowage means 16.3 is reactivated, the rear stowage means 16.4 is deactivated and, if necessary, shifted parallel to the conveying direction for the discharge of a next group (d, e).
  • the front stowage means 16.3 can be displaced in the same way instead of the rear stowage means 16.4 parallel to the conveying direction, that is to say the front stagnation point P.1 is variable and the rear stagnation point to be stationary. Both stagnation points P1 and P.2 are stationary for the discharge of the same groups.
  • Figures 4 to 6 schematically show some exemplary embodiments of the device according to the invention.
  • FIG. 4 shows an embodiment with two stowage means 16, which work alternately as described in connection with FIG. 2 and assume a promotional function for the discharge of groups.
  • Gravity is used as the feed and buffer drive (rail track falling towards the head end of the buffer store) and the removal drive is a driver chain 30, the drivers of which are spaced apart from one another to match the minimum spacing of the holding elements.
  • the stroke of the stowage means 16 parallel to the conveying direction F is set up in such a way that a group 15 to be released is pushed so far beyond the front stagnation point P. 1 that the last holding element of the group also comes into the effective range of the driving chain 30.
  • the speed of this ejection stroke must be the same as the speed of the drive chain 30.
  • FIG. 5 shows an embodiment with more than two stowage means 16, which are coupled to a rotating transport element 31 (for example a chain), which are spaced apart from one another by the minimum spacing of the holding elements and which, for example, can be pivoted into an active configuration (filled or shown in black) ) or a rest configuration (empty or shown in white) can be switched.
  • the function of the stowage means 16 is essentially the same as the function of the alternating stowage means 16.1 and 16.2 according to FIG. 2, but for the formation of groups of different sizes, stowage means are not positioned accordingly, but rather a correspondingly selected stowage means is activated (distance between two active stagnation means is equal to the length of a group to be released).
  • the transport member 31 is driven in a controlled manner in such a way that it moves in the specified direction for the discharge of a group by the group length and thus releases the group to be discharged and stands still between discharges.
  • the stowage means can be flexibly linked with one another and driven against one another in the area of the buffer store , For a group discharge, the foremost active stowage agent is then deactivated and the second foremost is accelerated in a controlled manner and moved to the front stowage point P1.
  • FIG. 6 shows an embodiment of the device according to the invention, in which the function of the front stowage means is taken over by gravity, as a result of which a non-stationary front stagnation point Pl (passive stagnation point) can be realized very easily.
  • the rear stowage device is a stationary cycle wheel 16.5.
  • the removal conveyor drive is a group conveyor, for example a driver chain 32, the drivers of which are at a distance from one another which is at least as long as the length of the largest group to be expected.
  • the clock wheel 16.5 forms the groups by rotating intermittently and counting the holding elements 1 necessary for a group to be released. The counted holding elements remain jammed by gravity (passive stagnation point P1) and are conveyed away by the next driver of the driver chain 32.
  • the feed and buffer drive is, for example, a grinding drive. It is also conceivable for the rail track to drop against the clock wheel 16.5 and for the holding elements to be fed to the buffer store by gravity and to be pushed against the clock wheel 16.5.
  • a single stowage means can also be used, which is controlled in such a way that a group is formed (or counted) between its deactivation and further activation, that is to say via the stationary stagnation point P.2 is promoted.
  • friction can also act as a stowage agent in the variable, passive stagnation point Pl, and friction between the rail track and holding means, for which purpose the rail track can also run downstream from P.1.
  • FIGS. 7 and 8 show two examples for the application of the method and device according to the invention or for the further processing of group streams created according to the method according to the invention.
  • FIG. 7 very schematically illustrates a possibly double buffering with group discharge.
  • the system shown is used to produce a predetermined sequence of packages, which all contain different predetermined numbers of types A, B and C printed products (newspapers or magazines).
  • the printed products of types A, B and C are taken individually on different conveying paths, for example driven by gravity, each fed to a buffer store 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, from which buffer stores the printed products in groups according to the inventive method or individually according to the state of the art are released into a central buffer memory 12 such that they are premixed in the central buffer memory 12 for the sequence of packets to be created.
  • At least this buffer store 12 works according to the method according to the invention, that is to say the products which are premixed in the buffer store 12 are pre-formed in the buffer store into groups 15, each representing a packet, released as groups 15 from the buffer store 12 and transferred to a group conveyor 40.
  • groups 15 For the preparation and dismissal of the Groups are provided, for example, with two alternating stowage means 16.1 and 16.2, as described in connection with FIG. 2.
  • the group conveyor 40 conveys the groups 15 of the products, which are still kept individually, into a packaging machine 41 which, for example, processes the groups supplied by the group conveyor 40 into packages 42, for example by cross-laying and tying or wrapping, in a regular cycle.
  • a control unit 43 controls the packaging machine 41, synchronizes the group conveyor 40 with the packaging machine 41 and controls the buffer memories 12.1, 12.2, 12.3 and 12 in accordance with a specified package sequence and the specified package contents.
  • a device 44 for printing and placing cover sheets 45 integrated in the packaging machine 41 is also controlled by the control unit 43.
  • Figure 8 shows double buffering and grouping. This is used to store printed products 2 conveyed by holding elements 1 in a buffer store, to release them in the form of sections 15.1 (groups of products) from the buffer store and to insert a separating sheet 50 between sections 15.1. Sections 15.1 are then jammed again and released in the form of pack stacks 15.2 (group of sections), the pack stacks for example containing different numbers of sections 15.1. These stacks of packages can also be fed to a packaging machine in the manner shown in FIG.

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Abstract

La présente invention concerne des éléments de maintien (1), conçus pour transporter des objets individuels (2) à l'état maintenu, lesdits objets étant indépendamment mobiles le long d'une voie de rail (5), de manière au moins séparée les uns des autres. Ces objets présentent, à l'état poussé, une distance minimale régulière entre eux. Lors du transport, lesdits éléments de maintien sont retenus au niveau d'un point de retenue, au moyen d'un système de retenue (16), de façon à former une réserve d'accumulation (12) en amont du point de retenue, puis sont libérés de la réserve d'accumulation (12) de manière commandée. Ces éléments de maintien (1) sont ainsi libérés, puis évacués de la réserve d'accumulation (12) non pas de manière individuelle, mais sous forme de groupes d'éléments de maintien (15). Dans ces groupes (15), les éléments de maintien (1) présentent avantageusement la distance minimale susmentionnée entre eux. Un autre système de retenue (16) est utilisé pour former les groupes devant être libérés (12) dans la réserve d'accumulation (12). Cet autre système de retenue agit au niveau d'un autre point de retenue, en amont dudit premier point de retenue. De cette manière, la formation des groupes est intégrée à l'opération d'accumulation, dans le sens d'une compression de processus, et le flux de groupes évacués de la réserve d'accumulation (12) peut être transféré à une unité (4), sans autre changement, des groupes d'objets maintenus par des éléments de maintien (1) étant traités dans ladite unité, par exemple empilés ou emballés sous forme de piles.
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