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Definitions

• the present invention relates generally to grouping apparatus for processing individual sheets or stacks of multiple sheets, and more particularly to a multiple grouping apparatus for processing a high-speed series of individual items
• Leaves or stacks of multiple leaves are possible.
• Such grouping or collating devices are most commonly used in paper processing lines where they pick and place cut single sheets of paper or multi-sheet stacks. In order to increase the throughput, they can also be present in embodiments as a multiple-grouping device. Such devices are used where, for example, brochures, books, documents from several single sheets are to be assembled. It should also take into account the different formats, i. the intention is to be able to use the same machine even for different sizes of paper, preferably 5 without the need for manual conversion, adjustment or adjustment, which would slow and increase the cost of the processing. To ensure that facilities of this size can operate economically, the most automated operation possible must be guaranteed.
• Such a high-speed automatic processing line is a composite of several individual devices that operate independently in a particular section of the processing line and include:
• Printing equipment for continuous paper webs longitudinal and transverse cutting devices, collating machines, folding machines, gluing or binding units, etc.
• This deflection unit forms the beginning of the subsequent area, the conveying area, briefly FB, which is characterized by the presence of means of transport.
• the so-called o Gruppierteil it is necessary to replicate the shift in the subsequent device part, the so-called o Gruppierteil, by on each grouping table a corresponding further
• Deflection unit is provided.
• a second object of the invention is thus to provide a grouping device. offer, with which both sheets of different weights and formats as well as desired group sizes can be processed. This requires adjustments or settings of the device, which can be made easily and quickly, possibly without the use of operating personnel.
• the present invention thus provides a device for grouping sheets or collation, being composed of two parts: a transfer table and one or more grouping tables.
• a transfer table for a simple grouper, there is only one grouping table; however, the embodiment is preferred as
• the individual sheets are gradually transferred to means of transport, preferably movable endless belts.
• the location of this transfer depends on the length of the leaves.
• the conveying means with which the means of transport are moved, have to be displaced.
• the leaves which are covered by a stationary, static guide means.
• bands are preferred, which are provided in pairs and pretend the path of the leaves in the system.
• the device of the invention has two symmetrically arranged at the transfer table
• Transport devices wherein the leaves are taken on the axis of symmetry between the same running transport.
• the length of the transport and guide means do not change during longitudinal adjustment of the deflection unit.
• the longitudinal adjustment of the transfer area is carried out via a displacement of the deflection unit.
• the longer format can be taken up and the delivery area shortened.
• both means of transport run synchronously and are exactly the same length, ie stand in the same position.
• the deflection means are arranged together in a movable or displaceable deflection unit for both symmetrical means of transport. In this way, changes in length of the means of transport of the transfer table can be performed only at both transport means at the same time.
• the leaves leave the transfer table and - at the point of as a double grouper - to a switch, which assigns the desired number of sheets to the respective grouping table.
• the switch tilts to the other side and serves the other grouping table.
• This control includes feeding the sheets, counting the desired number of sheets and tilting the switch after passing the desired number of sheets.
• control devices are known to those skilled in the art and need not be further explained here.
• the sheets thus assigned are subsequently recorded on the respective grouping table by associated means of transport. Thereafter, the leaves are also taken up by the guide means, which are preferably formed by upright bands.
• the length of this conveying area is determined by the format length. Investigations by the applicant have shown that the problem of the required variable storage area for the leaves is most easily and inexpensively solved by means of belts. As with the transfer table, it has on a movable deflection pulleys, which are preferred deflection means that can be moved together with the stationary belts. The length adjustment also takes place here via movable pulleys, with which different tape lengths can be absorbed by a rear o loop. Over the entire length of this conveying area, the sheets deposited thereon are moved by means of the transporting means in the direction of the deflection unit with the deflection rollers. Once there, the leaves reach an area where they are deposited on or under the pile, depending on the desired classification.
• this area is also called the stack area, in short SB. 5
• the back edge of the stack is raised or lowered, so that the next sheet can be inserted in the desired position.
• the leaves remain in the stack area until all leaves in the group are arranged.
• the leaves leave the device in the correct order by the advance of extraction conveyors.
• the standing bands are deflected upwards and downwards in the area of the air jet o (the so - called blowing bar), in order to be classified in the
• the role groups of the diversion units are partially coupled with each other and must therefore always be in the same position during operation.
• the two larger rollers of a deflection unit cause the blades to advance into the blast beams with the air nozzles.
• the two smaller wheels serve only to divert the means of transport.
• the entire group is conveyed to the output, where it is detected by the Abzugsför- 5 derstoff and transported out.
• the control device ensures that the loading of the leaves of a related group is not interrupted by the leaves intended for the other grouping table.
• the feed to the other table takes place only after the leading edge of the last sheet has passed the switch.
• the diverting units of the grouping tables are no longer concerned with the inclusion of a certain length of means of transport, but with the adaptation of the
• the continuous feed is perceived by the interaction of the conveying means, which are located at the edges of the transfer table or active grouping table. 5 Due to the parallel arrangement of the two grouping tables, during the
• Processing process are time-saving switched to the other, if one is occupied. This implies that the switch "knows" when the last document has passed a row to be ordered and has to switch over.
• the standing tape is rejected at o a wave and the document resp. the documents are released.
• the task of the standing tape is now fulfilled and it goes to the side, so it does not hinder the further processing.
• the documents of a series are sorted in the manner described above.
• the finished stack is now detected by the discharge conveyor, wherein the stationary belt is returned over another wave and the stack is passed to the discharge conveyor. Thereafter, the finished stack of two stacking areas are removed in a plane.
• the following processing steps may be, for example, folding, gluing or stapling the loose sheets.
• these further steps are well known to those skilled in the art and they do not require further explanation. They are not the subject of this invention.
• the main advantages of the device according to the invention are: the limitation of the movement of the paper sections by the stationary belts, the easy adjustability and adaptation of the standing belts to the requirements of smear-free grouping and the air control of the stacking position of the documents.
• a device equipped with these features is able to quickly arrange documents of any format in a simple manner without entailing too much stress on the documents.
• 1a is a schematic side view of the device according to the invention, wherein the standing bands are highlighted and the alternative positions of the movable deflection units of the transfer table and the grouping tables are indicated by dashed lines;
• FIG. 1b shows a schematic side view of the device according to the invention, wherein the movable belts are highlighted and the alternative positions of the movable deflection units of the transfer table and the grouping tables are indicated by broken lines;
• FIG. Fig. 2 is a schematic side view of the inventive actual
• Stack area i. the movable deflection unit with blowing bar.
• Fig. 3 is a schematic side view of the inventive device in which the division of the system is expressed in sections.
• FIGS. 1a and 1b both show the device 1 according to the invention in a side view. While in Fig. Ia standing bands 115, 125, 135 (and their counterparts 116, 126, 136) of guide means 11, 12, 13 are highlighted, they are in Fig. Ib transport means 10, 15 and 16 with movable belts 101, 102; 151, 152; 161, 162.
• the sheets to be sorted of a series enter the guide means 11 in the transfer area UB of a device 1. They lie between the upright belts 115 and 116 (guide means 11) and are moved by the movable belts 101 and 102 of the transport means 10. Depending on the format length, a movable deflection unit 110 is moved.
• the deflection unit 110 comprises in each case a first deflection roller 111 or 112 and a second deflection roller 113 or 114 for the transport means 10 with the upper and the lower movable belt, 101 and 102, respectively.
• Both movable belts 101 and 102 of the transport means 10 are mirror images of the level of the guide means 11 with the upstanding bands 115, 116 are arranged.
• the upper movable belt 101 of the transport means 10 is clamped as an endless loop between traction means 106 and 107, a Schubforderstoff 103 and the pulleys 111 and 113, respectively.
• the sheets of a series are transferred to a grouping device in the form of a grouping table 18 and 19, respectively.
• the assignment to the selected grouping table is carried out by a switch 105, which remains in the appropriate position until all sheets of a series have been handed over. Subsequently, additional sheets can be taken from the transfer table, which belong to the next series. For this purpose, the switch 105 takes a different position. Via guide plates 118 and 119, the leaves of a series reach either the upper grouping table 18 or the lower grouping table 19. Once there, the sheets reach between the vertical bands 125 and 126 or 135 and 136 of the guide means 12 and 13, respectively
• Movable belts 151 and 152 or 161 and 162 of the transporting means 15 and 16 which are arranged analogously to the transfer table in endless loops, are likewise used for moving the sheets thus picked up.
• the movable belts 151 and 152 or 161 and 162 of the transport means 15 and 16 are arranged in mirror image and between Switzerlandtorderstoffn
• 18 and 19 are displaceable deflecting units in both grouping tables 120 or 130, so that when the transfer table 110 has been moved near the diverter 105 toward the transfer table, the deflection of the grouping tables 120 or 130 is also closer to the switch 105 to push. This is just the great advantage of the guide means 11, 12, 13 with the upstanding bands 115, 116; 125, 126; 135, 136 which allow adjustments to different formats easily and without major expense.
• the deflection units 120 and 130 of the grouping tables are constructed identically. They include pulleys 121, 122, 123 and 124 or 131, 132, 133 and 134 for the transport means 15, 16 with the movable belts 151, 152 and 161 and 162 as well as those for the guide means 12, 13 with the upright belts 125, 126 or
• the standing belts 125 and 126 or 135 and 136 which were otherwise always arranged adjacent to each other, here diverge in the region of the deflection unit 120, 130, in order to make room for the grouping of the sheets: on a deflection roller 181 the upper standing band 125 of the upper grouping table 18 is stretched upwards to a deflection roller 183, in order subsequently to return about a deflection roller 185 and to extend to the outlet-side boundary of a pair of extraction requesting means 141, 142.
• the lower stationary belt 126 is deflected downwards in a deflection roller 182, reverses again in the case of a deflection roller 184 and hits the upper stationary belt 125 again in the case of a deflection roller 186.
• the upper stationary belt 135 runs in a deflection roller
• each case between the vertical belts 125 and 126 or 135 and 136 are located in the region of the deflection 120 and 130 devices 127 and 137 for deflecting loose leaves, wherein the subsequent sheet resp. Leaves can be pushed over or under resp. can. This is achieved by means of nozzles that allow air to flow onto the stack so that the stack is deflected in the desired direction. The nozzles are in so-called. Blasbalken 128 and 129 or 138 and 139. Auf this way, the leaves of a series are arranged. The ordered stack is then transferred via the extraction request means 141 and 142 or 143 and 144 in the direction of an output 145, in which the stacks are output in the same plane.
• Deflection unit 20 which can be displaced in the horizontal direction, includes a deflection region 260, which is also called blast beam.
• This has two Stapelungsbleche 263 and 264, which are provided with nozzles 265, 266 through which an associated fan 261 and 262 can convey air and thus locally a soft 0 force on a sheet 202, or a stack of sheets can exercise , which is partly already on the output side between stationary belts 251 and 252 and after a pair of pulleys 258 and 259.
• a subsequent sheet 201 is inserted, whereby a stacking of the sheets is achieved.
• the resulting stacking order depends on which direction in the particular case was blown.
• the stacking plates 263 and 263 are sized so that one of the leaves of a series can be picked up. What is clearly visible in this illustration is the fact that the blades in the blast beam 260 are not moved by any conveyor centers, but wait for the filling of a stacking plate 263 or 264 to be mentioned first, and then take-off conveyor o (not shown) for operation pick up and remove the ordered stack.
• the blades are brought into the blast beam 260 by mobile transport means 211 and 212. These are guided around deflection rollers 21 and 23 or 22 and 24 and leave the blowing bar 260 before the leaves come into the region of the stacking plates 263 and 264.
• the standing belts 251 and 252 are already guided by 5 pulleys 256 and 257, reversed their course at the point of greatest distance from each other, at pulleys 253 and 254, and return to the end of the stacking plates 263 and 264 back around before the pulleys 258 and 259 to reunite.
• FIG. 3 shows the division of the device according to the invention into an overflow region 301, which extends from the sheet receptacle to a deflection unit 310 of FIG
• Transfer table 311 extends, a stacking area 303, which designates the area between deflection units 320, 330 of grouping tables 313, and a conveying area 302, which is arranged between the deflection unit 310 of the transfer table 311 and the diverting unit 311. units 320, 330 of the grouping tables 313 is located. It should be noted that all means of transport 30, 35, 36 are found exclusively in conveying area 302. In the conveying area, a switch 312 is additionally arranged, which connects the transfer table 311 with the grouping table / grouping tables 313.
• the control of the feed of the sheets by means of the movable transport means and the conveying means, the control of the switch and the discharge of the sorted stacks are known to persons skilled in the field of paper collation and need not be further elaborated here.
• the means for feeding the sheets are designed for stepwise operation.
• the means for transporting the sheets are arranged for both the transfer table and the grouping tables for gradual operation.
• a central control unit is required, which interacts with various distributed over the entire system sensors and actuators.
• the sequence of the individual actions is determined in programs for the control unit, which are to be selected according to the desired operating mode, the order of the group size, the sheet format, the initial arrangement of the sheets and others. Only the adjustment of the deflecting units at the transfer table and the grouping tables must be carried out by qualified personnel.

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