EP1456106B1 - Procede et dispositif pour former des groupes d'objets plats - Google Patents

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EP1456106B1
EP1456106B1 EP02754097A EP02754097A EP1456106B1 EP 1456106 B1 EP1456106 B1 EP 1456106B1 EP 02754097 A EP02754097 A EP 02754097A EP 02754097 A EP02754097 A EP 02754097A EP 1456106 B1 EP1456106 B1 EP 1456106B1
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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
    • B65H29/66—Advancing articles in overlapping streams
    • B65H29/6681—Advancing articles in overlapping streams merging two or more streams into an overlapping 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
    • B65H39/00—Associating, collating, or gathering articles or webs
    • B65H39/02—Associating,collating or gathering articles from several sources
    • B65H39/06—Associating,collating or gathering articles from several sources from delivery streams
    • 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
    • B65H2301/435—Gathering; Associating; Assembling on collecting conveyor
    • 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
    • B65H2301/44—Moving, forwarding, guiding material
    • B65H2301/444—Stream of articles in shingled formation, overlapping stream
    • B65H2301/4447—Stream of articles in shingled formation, overlapping stream multiple streams
    • B65H2301/44472—Stream of articles in shingled formation, overlapping stream multiple streams superposed
    • 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
    • B65H2301/44—Moving, forwarding, guiding material
    • B65H2301/445—Moving, forwarding, guiding material stream of articles separated from each other
    • B65H2301/4451—Moving, forwarding, guiding material stream of articles separated from each other forming a stream or streams of separated articles

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  • the invention is in the field of cargo handling and general cargo processing and relates to a method and apparatus according to the preambles of the corresponding independent claims.
  • Method and apparatus according to the invention serve to form groups of flat objects, in particular printed products, wherein the flat objects are supplied in the form of a plurality of substantially continuous streams, wherein each removed group usually contains an object from each supply stream and wherein the flat objects in the groups are arranged substantially stacked.
  • Said group formation is a frequently used step in the further processing of products resulting from printing presses.
  • the signatures of books are grouped into such groups or other printed product parts produced in separate printing processes, finished printed products to be combined into shipping units, or inserts to be inserted in a main product.
  • different products are usually brought together from one another in the groups and usually one product type is supplied with each feed stream.
  • stacked printed product groups are formed along a gathering section.
  • the resulting groups or stacks are conveyed along the gathering route, wherein they rest one behind the other on a substantially horizontal surface or are accommodated in conveyor compartments in which the flat objects are ajar against an inclined wall.
  • the resulting groups or stacks are conveyed past feed points, at each feed point a feed stream discharging into the gathering section and usually at each feed point to each over-conveyed group, a printed product is added.
  • a combination of device-like simplicity and short, ie space-saving gathering distance is conceivable when the stacks are overlapping, that is promoted in the manner of a shingled stacking stream, ie in a stream that is on a substantially horizontal conveyor support rests and in which each scale consists of a plurality of stacked (stacked) objects. Solutions in this direction are described in the publications DE-3145491 (or US-4471953, F125) and DE-19643395 (or US-5727781, F425).
  • the overlapping stacks are conveyed along the gathering section by means of stack grippers which engage the trailing stack sides.
  • the objects of a following stack can cover a leading stack gripper.
  • the corresponding stacking gripper is opened upwards and lifts the objects of the trailing stack which cover it.
  • the articles to be deposited on the stacks are individually fed at upper leading edges in a feeding direction rectified with the conveying direction of the gathering line, their speed being slower than the speed of the shingled stacks on the gathering line.
  • the feed is controlled such that the unguided trailing edge of an object to be supplied is positioned on a guide surface or on an already stacked object and pushed by the speed difference in the stack gripper and thereby also under the raised objects of the trailing stack. Once this trailing edge of the object to be added strikes the gripper body and is thus aligned with the trailing edges already stacked objects stacked gripper, the feeding gripper is opened and the stack gripper closed.
  • Publication DE-19643395 also proposes a collating method based on the idea of a scaly stack flow.
  • the supplied at a feed point, rectangular or optionally square printed products are not actually on a conveyed over, resulting stack but they are placed in the form of a scale flow on a possibly already consisting of several shingled streams group stream.
  • all the scale flows superimposed in the group flow have the same scale spacing and leading ranges of the printed products of each group are aligned with each other but separated from each other by trailing areas of printed products of leading groups.
  • this leading portions of printed products belonging to a leading group lie on top of each other (there is no leading group whose objects are in-between), these leading portions are detected and accelerated, pulling the group out of the group stream as a stack and is separated from this.
  • the printed products to be supplied to the diagonal dandy group stream are fed into feed streams in which the product edges are oriented perpendicular to the conveying direction and which obliquely strike the stack stream, and each printed product is deflected in the direction of diagonal conveying for its positioning on the group stream. For this diversion forces are to exert pressure on the printed products which are picked up by the guide pins.
  • the position of the guide pins is to be aligned to the largest expected format of printed products to be stacked and to the scale distance. All small-sized products are aligned depending on the feed direction on one or the other of the guided corners and guided only on one side, very small products may remain completely unguided. Feeds are only possible from above and in the feed streams the leading edges must be overhead.
  • the invention now has for its object to provide a method and a device which serve to form groups of flat objects fed in feed streams and which, like the system according to DE-19643395, are based on a group stream consisting of a plurality of superimposed imbricated streams ,
  • the method and device according to the invention should make improvements not only in terms of format independence, flexibility and device-like simplicity but also in terms of shortness of the gathering path.
  • the orientation of the objects in the groups to be formed should be much less fixed by the method or the device but should be largely adaptable to the properties of the objects and the stack stability.
  • the flat objects from which groups are to be formed are fed into feed streams by merging the feed streams a group stream is formed, in which a plurality of scale flows lie on one another, and groups are separated from the group stream from the head end of the group stream by gripping successive, leading object areas and by accelerating the objects grasped, as is done according to DE-19643395.
  • the objects in the feed streams with respect to orientation relative to the conveying direction and with respect to distance from each other are already arranged as they should be arranged in the group stream and the feed streams are brought together substantially without change of direction parallel to the areal extent of the objects. This means that no substantial forces act on the flat objects at the feed points, in particular no forces which would impair the relative arrangement of the objects to one another in these streams. For this reason, it is unnecessary to guide the flat objects laterally in the feed streams, in the merge or in the group stream.
  • the group stream and the feed streams are conveyed on corresponding conveyor supports.
  • the conveying supports and thus the objects of the merged and merged streams are arranged parallel to the conveying direction parallel to one another, the projections of the streams extend on a plane parallel to said parallel alignment of the conveyor supports parallel to each other or coincide and run the projections of the streams on a plane perpendicular to the parallel orientation of the conveyor supports at an acute angle to each other.
  • the distance between the objects (scale distance) and the speed are the same and the merging is provided with suitable means to ensure that the streams are in phase such that edge portions of the articles of different shingled streams leading in the group stream are aligned.
  • the leading edge areas are detected and accelerated by a clamping and accelerating means acting over the entire width of the group stream, while the objects of at least one next group are pressed in such a way that they are not accelerated with the group to be separated and thus relative to the group stream can be moved.
  • the articles may be conveyed with underlying or overhead leading edges and the feed streams may be directed from one side or the other (from below and from above) against the group stream. From these properties of the inventive method results not only the required format independence and flexibility but also the ability to arrange the feed points very close to one another, resulting in a short "gathering distance".
  • the device for carrying out the method according to the invention can be realized with the simplest means, for example with a system of conveyor belts and / or conveyor belt pairs for merging the feed streams, with one Pressing means at the head end of the group stream immediately before the separation point and with a separating agent acting at the separation point, wherein the pressing means and the release agent can be formed as pairs of press belts can be pressed against each other. All conveying means before the separation point have the same first speed, the clamping and accelerating means has a relation to the first speed increased speed, which is adapted to the ratio of the length of the objects in the conveying direction to the scale spacing.
  • Figure 1 shows parts of four exemplary feed streams 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 and 1.4 of four different types of flat objects 11, 12, 13 and 14.
  • the feed streams are shown in an arrangement as the inventive method for merging into a (not shown) required group stream.
  • a group 2 separated from the group stream having, from each feed stream 1.1 to 1.4, an article 11, 12, 13 and 14, leading leading edge regions of the articles in the group being aligned and the lateral arrangement of the articles in the group corresponds to the relative location of the feed streams prior to merging.
  • the arrows F.1, F.2, F.3 and F.4 and the dot-dash line L.1 represent the conveying directions of the scale flows (aligned with the centers of gravity of the objects), which are dash-dotted lines L.2 to L.4 Projections of the dotted line L.1 on the conveying path of the feed streams F.2 to F.4.
  • the objects 11 of the feed stream 1.1 are rectangular
  • the objects 12 of the feed stream 1.2 triangular
  • the objects 14 of the feed stream 1.4 round.
  • All feed streams 1.1 to 1.4 are shingled streams (distance between the articles smaller than the length of the articles in the conveying direction).
  • the leading edge regions are at the bottom, in the other shingled streams overhead.
  • the objects lie substantially in planes transversely to the paper plane of the figure and the conveying directions are parallel to this plane of the paper.
  • the conveying directions are still fed parallel to the paper plane at an acute angle to each other, as indicated by the dashed lines L.1 to L.4, and the objects are still in planes transverse to the paper plane.
  • the leading edge regions of the articles are equidistant from each other (scale spacing) and the feed streams are aligned (synchronized) such that the leading edge regions of the articles of merged feed streams are substantially one above the other.
  • the objects 12 and 13 lie eccentrically between the objects 11 and 14. This is achieved by a displacement of the feed streams 1.2 and 1.3 transversely to the conveying direction (distance between the arrows F.2 and F.3 of the dotted lines L) .2 or L.3).
  • the method according to the invention in no way restricts the format of the objects to be assembled in a group and also does not restrict their relative, lateral arrangement in the group (arrangement transverse to the conveying direction). The only condition is that leading edge regions of objects belonging to a group are substantially aligned (so accurate that they can be detected when the groups are separated).
  • FIG. 2 shows in section (areal extent of the objects transversely to the plane of the paper) a group stream 3 formed from four superimposed feed streams 1.5 to 1.8, wherein the feed streams consist of differently sized, rectangular and flat objects 15 to 18.
  • the feed streams are in the group stream directly to each other; in Figure 2, they are shown spaced from each other.
  • the orientation of the leading edge regions of all feed streams is clearly evident therefrom.
  • Figure 2 shows two exemplary groups 2.1 and 2.2, which can be formed from the group stream 3 depending on the lateral orientation of the feed streams. In both groups, the leading edges are aligned.
  • group 2.1 the objects are 15 to 18 arranged on a common center line, in the group 2.2 they are aligned on a lateral edge.
  • FIG. 3 likewise shows, in a section parallel to the conveying direction, those parts of an exemplary embodiment of the device according to the invention which are arranged in the region of the head end of the group stream 3 and essentially serve to separate groups 2 from this head end.
  • the group stream is conveyed on a conveyor support 20 against its head end.
  • a pressing means 21 is provided, for example, with the group flow follower pressing elements 22, whose distance from one another corresponds to the scale spacing in the group stream 3 and through which the group flow is pressed against the conveyor pad 20.
  • a clamping and accelerating means 23 is provided for the separation of groups, for example in the form of a press wheel 24 which cooperates with a Wegumbleauflage 25 and which has recesses 26 at its periphery, such that it rotates a rhythmic sequence of generated from each other temporally spaced pressing steps in which it is pressed against the Wegumbleauflage 25.
  • this gripping gripper can be used as clamping and accelerating means for use.
  • the Wegsellauflage 25 and the pressing peripheral parts of the press wheel 26 have the same speed, which is at least as much greater than the speed of the group stream 3 and the conveyor pad 20 and the pressing elements 21 that a group to be separated 2 is promoted so far in a conveyor cycle in that the trailing edge also corresponds to the longest article in the conveying direction is pulled out of the group stream 3. While the group stream 3 is conveyed in a conveying cycle by a scale distance, the separated groups must be conveyed away in a conveying cycle at least by the length of the group in the conveying direction. The rhythm of the pressing steps is to be matched to the scale spacing in the group stream 3.
  • the distance between the downstream end of the action of the pressing means and the clamping and the head end of the group stream 3 is advantageously to be chosen such that the trailing portions of the objects of the group to be separated from this effect are no longer exposed.
  • the pressing force to be generated by the clamping and accelerating means is large enough to pull the objects of the foremost group out of the group stream 3 as far as possible without slippage.
  • the pressing force to be generated between the pressing means 21 and the conveying support 20 is large enough to prevent entrainment of objects with a group to be separated, to which they do not belong, due to mutual friction of the objects in and between the scale flows.
  • Figure 4 shows a schematic, three-dimensional representation of the pressing means 21 for the compression of the head end of the group stream 3 against the Roth detailauflage 20 and the clamping and accelerating means 23 for the separation of the groups 2 from the head end of the group stream 3.
  • Both agents act advantageously over the whole
  • they consist of rows of pressing elements or clamping and accelerating elements which are arranged transversely to the conveying direction and can be actuated substantially independently of the local thickness of the group stream 3 or group 2 (for example pressed against the conveying surface) , All these elements are advantageous displaceable transversely to the conveying direction and thereby adjustable so that they do not act on object edges.
  • the objects in the group 2 shown in FIG. 4 are laterally offset from one another, that is to say they are not aligned with a common center line or with a common longitudinal edge, as shown in FIG.
  • Such a laterally offset arrangement makes it imperative that both the pressing means and the clamping and accelerating means act as possible over the entire width of the group stream.
  • the groups have a thickness as uniform as possible over the width and that, for example, thick folding edges do not destabilize objects lying on each other.
  • the separation of the groups from the top end of the group stream may have the same direction as the promotion of the group stream towards its head end or it may be at an angle to this direction of conveyance.
  • FIG. 5 shows, in a very schematic manner (section parallel to the conveying direction), the parts of an exemplary embodiment of the device according to the invention, which serve to combine feed streams (1.1 to 1.3) into a group stream 3.
  • These parts are simple conveyor belts and conveyor belt pairs that can be pressed against each other.
  • the figure illustrates how close to each other the merging points can be arranged in such a device.

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  1. Procédé pour la formation de groupes (2) d'objet plats (11 à 18) amenés dans une pluralité de flux d'alimentation (1.1 à 1.8), lesquels flux d'alimentation (1.1 à 1.8) sont réunis en un flux groupé (3), dans lequel une pluralité de flux en écailles avec un écartement identique entre les écailles est superposée et dans lequel des zones de bord antérieur des objets (11 à 18) des flux en écailles superposés sont orientées les unes vers les autres dans le sens du transport, et dans lequel, à partir d'une extrémité avant du flux groupé (3), des groupes (2) d'objets (11 à 18) sont séparés par serrage et accélération des zones de bord antérieur orientées les unes vers les autres, caractérisé en ce que les flux d'alimentation (1.1 à 1.8) sont superposés dans au moins un poste de regroupement, les objets (11 à 18) de tous les flux à réunir et superposés étant parallèles les uns aux autres perpendiculairement au sens de transport, sont écartés les uns des autres de la même distance et sont transportés à la même vitesse, des projections des flux (1.1 à 1.8 et 3) à réunir et superposés dans un plan parallèle à l'orientation parallèle des objets (11 à 18) étant parallèles les unes aux autres ou coïncidant, des projections des flux d'alimentation (1.1 à 1.8) à réunir convergeant à angle aigu vers un plan perpendiculaire à l'orientation parallèle des objets (11 à 18) et les flux (1.1 à 1.8) à réunir étant synchronisés de telle manière que lorsque les flux sont superposés, les zones de bord antérieur des objets (11 à 18) sont orientées sensiblement les unes vers les autres.
  2. Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que les objets (11 à 18) dans les flux (1.1 à 1.8) à réunir ont des dimensions et/ou des formes différentes.
  3. Procédé selon la revendication 2, caractérisé en ce que dans une partie au moins des flux d'alimentation (1.1 à 1.8), les objets (11 à 18) sont transportés avec leur bord antérieur perpendiculaire au sens du transport.
  4. Procédé selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 3, caractérisé en ce que dans une partie des flux superposés dans le flux groupé (3), les zones de bord antérieur sont tournées vers le bas, et dans une autre partie les zones de bord antérieur sont tournées vers le haut.
  5. Procédé selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 4, caractérisé en ce que la distance entre les projections des flux (1.1 à 1.8) à réunir dans un plan parallèle à l'orientation parallèle des objets (11 à 18) et ainsi un décalage latéral des objets (11 à 18) dans les groupes (2) peuvent être ajustés en fonction de l'épaisseur des objets.
  6. Procédé selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 5, caractérisé en ce que le flux groupé (3) est compressé à partir de son extrémité avant.
  7. Procédé selon la revendication 6, caractérisé en ce que le flux groupé (3) est compressé dans des points de compression écartés les uns des autres dans le sens de transport et circulant avec les flux groupé (3), la distance entre les points de compression étant égale à la distance entre les objets (11 à 18) dans les flux superposés dans le flux groupé (3).
  8. Procédé selon la revendication 6 ou 7, caractérisé en ce que le flux groupé (3) est compressé dans des points de compression espacés perpendiculairement au sens de transport, les points de compression étant ajustables en fonction de la position des bords des objets (11 à 18) perpendiculairement au sens de transport.
  9. Procédé selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 7, caractérisé en ce que les zones de bord antérieur sont serrées à l'extrémité avant du flux groupé (3) dans des points de serrage espacés perpendiculairement au sens de transport.
  10. Procédé selon la revendication 9, caractérisé en ce que les points de serrage sont réglables en fonction de la largeur des objets perpendiculairement au sens au transport.
  11. Dispositif pour la formation de groupes (2) d'objets plats (11 à 18), lequel dispositif comprend des moyens d'alimentation pour le transport d'une pluralité de flux d'alimentation (1.1 à 1.8), des moyens pour regrouper les flux d'alimentation (1.1 à 1.8) en un flux groupé (3), dans lequel une pluralité de flux en écailles est superposée, un moyen d'évacuation pour le transport du flux groupé (3) et un moyen de serrage et d'accélération pour séparer les groupes (2) de l'extrémité avant du flux groupé (3), caractérisé en ce que le moyen de regroupement comprend au moins un point de regroupement contre lequel les deux exemplaires transportés au moins venant en premier sont disposés et duquel un exemplaire transporté est écarté, tous les exemplaires transportés du point d'alimentation étant orientés parallèlement les uns aux autres perpendiculairement au sens de transport et pouvant être déplacés à la même vitesse dans le sens de transport, les projections des exemplaires transportés amenés et évacués dans un plan parallèle à l'orientation parallèle des exemplaires transportés étant parallèles les unes aux autres ou coïncidant, les projections des exemplaires transportés amenés dans un plan perpendiculaire à l'orientation parallèle des exemplaires transportés formant ensemble des angles aigus et le dispositif présentant en outre de moyens pour la synchronisation des flux d'alimentation (1.1 à 1.8).
  12. Dispositif selon la revendication 11, caractérisé en ce qu'il est prévu pour compresser le flux groupé (3) au niveau de son extrémité avant un moyen de compression (21).
  13. Dispositif selon la revendication 12, caractérisé en ce que le moyen de compression (21) présente une disposition d'éléments presseurs (22), qui sont écartés les uns des autres dans le sens du transport et suivent le déplacement du flux groupé (3).
  14. Dispositif selon la revendication 13, caractérisé en ce qu'il est prévu perpendiculairement au dispositif de transport des rangées d'éléments presseurs (22) écartés les uns des autres, dont les positions sont réglables sur la largeur du flux groupé (3).
  15. Dispositif selon l'une ou l'ensemble des revendications 11 à 14, caractérisé en ce que le moyen de serrage et d'accélération présente en vue de la prise sur des points de serrage écartés les uns des autres perpendiculairement au sens de transport du flux groupé (3) une pluralités d'éléments de serrage.
  16. Dispositif selon la revendication 15, caractérisé en ce que les éléments de serrage sont disposés de manière mobile perpendiculairement au sens au transport du flux groupé (3).
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