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WO1980000955A1 - Procede d'empilage de feuilles - Google Patents

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WO1980000955A1
WO1980000955A1 PCT/SE1978/000069 SE7800069W WO8000955A1 WO 1980000955 A1 WO1980000955 A1 WO 1980000955A1 SE 7800069 W SE7800069 W SE 7800069W WO 8000955 A1 WO8000955 A1 WO 8000955A1
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sheet
suction cups
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C Helgesson
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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
    • B65H29/26—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles by dropping the articles
    • B65H29/32—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles by dropping the articles from pneumatic, e.g. suction, carriers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H29/00—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles
    • B65H29/24—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles by air blast or suction apparatus
    • B65H29/241—Suction devices
    • B65H29/242—Suction bands or belts
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2301/00—Handling processes for sheets or webs
    • B65H2301/40—Type of handling process
    • B65H2301/42—Piling, depiling, handling piles
    • B65H2301/421—Forming a pile
    • B65H2301/4212—Forming a pile of articles substantially horizontal
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2406/00—Means using fluid
    • B65H2406/30—Suction means
    • B65H2406/32—Suction belts
    • B65H2406/323—Overhead suction belt, i.e. holding material against gravity

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  • the invention relates to an apparatus for stacking sheets of arr arbitrary material , e.g. plain or shaped metal sheet, in one stack or in several consecutive stacks
  • the apparatus is of the type comprising a number of suction cups movable in an endless path, which are compressibly engagable with the sheets for gripping same by subatmospheric pressure in the suction cup and are provided with a valve for breaking the subatmospheric pressure and thus depositing the sheet.
  • Stackers operating with suction cups exist already but are provided with a vacuum source for effecting the gripping. Such an arrangement results in a complicated connection and control of the suction cups.
  • magnetic stackers wherein magnetic or magnetized wheels grip the sheets but these stackers too are complicated and expensive and cannot be used for sheets consisting of another material than iron, such as glass sheets, aluminium sheets, etc.
  • the invention relates to an apparatus of the type initially referred to, which has obtained the characteristics appearing from claim 1.
  • the construction of the apparatus will be simple in relation to prior art stackers operating with a vacuum source or magnets.
  • Fig. 1 diagrammatically discloses the supplying device of the stacker
  • Fig. 2 is a diagram of the depositing portion of the stacker
  • Fig. 3 is a vertical cross-sectional view of an endless conveyor supporting the suction cups
  • Fig. 4 is a fragmentary side view of the suction cups and switches with operating arms, included into a device for sensing the length of the sheet and breaking the subatmospheric pressure in the suction cups carrying a sheet, when depositing said sheet in a stack.
  • the stacker shown includes a number of suction cups 10 - see Figs. 1 and 3 - which consist of rubber funnels having a stiffened margin 11.
  • suction cups are supported by cross beams 12 spanning the distance between two endless chains 13 running in an endless path in guide bars 14 over end sprockets one of which is shown at 15 in Fig. 1. As will be seen from Fig. 3, two such units can be arranged one beside the other for obtaining a sufficient number of suction cups over the width of the sheet.
  • the drive of the chains is not shown in detail but the chains can be driven in a conventional manner over the end sprockets provided for the chains.
  • each suction cup is connected by a hose 16 to a valve 17 mounted on the cross beam 12, and this valve is normally closed but can be opened by energizing electromagnets 18 fixedly mounted above the valve in part of the moving path thereof, an armature 19 being attracted by the magnets 18, which is connected with the head of the valve to operate same to open position.
  • energizing electromagnets 18 fixedly mounted above the valve in part of the moving path thereof, an armature 19 being attracted by the magnets 18, which is connected with the head of the valve to operate same to open position.
  • Fig. 1 there is shown a supply conveyor 20 on which the sheets are carried to the stacker.
  • a guide sprocket 22 the chains with the suction cups 10 are guided such that the suction cups are gradually lowered to engage an arriving sheet 21 and are pressed against said sheet, air trapped in the suction cups being squeezed from the suction cups.
  • the suction cups hold the sheet so that this will be removed from the supply conveyor 20, hanging from the suction cups, as is shown in Fig. 1, wherein a gripped sheet 21A hangs from the suction cups. Hanging in this manner, the sheet is then fed over the distance where the electromagnets 18 are arranged, see Fig.
  • this distance is assumed to extend over a number of sections distributed along said distance, where the sheets are to be deposited arbitrarily in one or the other of a number of stacks.
  • Fig. 2 it is presupposed that there are four such sections and they are designated 100, 200, 300, and 400, the electromagnets 18 associated with the stacks being designated 118, 218, 318, and 418. Within each section there are four electromagnets to which have been added the suffixes A, B, C, and D.
  • Each switch comprises a microswitch 23, Fig. 4, having a pivoted actuating arm 24 which is normally held with a roller 25 rotatably mounted on the arm in such position that the roller 25 is lifted by the leading edge of a passing sheet to roll then on the upper side of the sheet as long as the sheet is passing.
  • the arm 24 is swung counter-clockwise as seen in Fig. 4, to close the normally open switch 23 so that the energization circuit of the associated electromagnet is closed.
  • the switches and the electromagnets are arranged in such a way that the length of a passing sheet is sensed by means of the switches and the actuating arms thereof and the electromagnets are then activated as required to make all suction cups holding the sheet release simultaneously in a predetermined position in the moving path of the sheet, such position being chosen to correspond to one of the four sections. How this control is performed will be explained with reference to the diagrammatic Fig. 2.
  • all electromagnets are connected at one terminal thereof to a conduit 26 from a power source, the terminals of which are indicated at 27.
  • the electromagnets having the suffixes A, B, and C
  • the other terminal thereof can be connected to the other conduit 28 from the power source 27 over a switch gear 29 arranged as section selector, and switches 123, 223, etc., while the otherterminal of electromagnets, having the suffix D, can be connected to the conduit 28 over the switch gear 29 only.
  • the switch gear 29 has four positions designated 1, 2, 3, and 4, which correspond to deposition of the sheets in the associated sections 100, 200, 300, and 400.
  • the switches 23 associated with each section are connected in series with each other and with the switch gear 29, and if the switch gear 29 is set e.g. to position 3, as assumed in Fig. 2, a sheet moving from the right in
  • Fig. 2 along the row of the actuating arms 24 with the rollers 25, associated with the switches, will close the switches 323A, 323B, and 323C in the order mentioned at the arrival at the section 300 without the electromagnets 318A, 318B, and 318C being energized.
  • the current circuit through these electromagnets from the conduit 26 to the conduit 28 is interrupted at the switch 323D as long as the sheet has not advanced sufficiently to actuate this switch. However, when this happens during the continued movement of the sheet, all electromagnets the switches of which have been actuated by the sheet, will be activated so that the suction cups holding the sheet will be connected to the atmosphere via the associated valves 17 to release the sheet as a consequence thereof, said sheet thus dropping into the section 300.
  • the sheets will thus be deposited in one of the four sections.
  • the switches 123, 223, etc. accordingly measure the length of the sheet, and when the last switch in the row of switches, associated with a section, has been actuated, suction cups to the number corresponding to the length of the sheet are caused to release.
  • a movable abutment designated 130, 230, and 330, respectively, is provided for each of the three first sections 100, 200, and 300.
  • This abutment is displaced between an inoperative position shown with respect to the abutments 130 and 230, and an operative position shown with respect to the abutment 330, by means of a hydraulic or pneumatic double-acting cylinder 31 to which pressurized fluid is supplied via a reversing valve 32 from a suitable source of pressurized fluid.
  • the valve 32 is a solenoid valve and is energized over the switch gear 29 through a conduit designated 133, 233, and 333, respectively, for the three abutments.
  • the reversing valves associated with the abutments 130 and 230 are not actuated in order that the abutments shall be maintained in the inoperative position when the switch gear 29 is set to position 3 as shown in the drawing in Fig.
  • the valve of the abutment 330 is energized from the switch 27 and thus is actuated to hold the abutment 330 in the operative position thereof as is also shown in Fig. 2.
  • the abutment 130 is instead in the operative position when the switch gear is in the position 1, and the abutment 230 is in the operative position when the switch gear is in the position 2, while all abutments are in the inoperative position when the switch gear is in the position 4 because there can be arranged a stationary abutment for the section 400, the last section of the row.
  • the sections can comprise areas on the ground or the floor large enough to receive a stack of the sheets handled, the border between the sections being defined by the abutments.
  • the stacker disclosed can be used not only for stacking sheets in any one of four separate sections but also for stacking sheets of different lengths because a sheet which is of such a length that it extends over the total length of two or more sections will be held by the suction cups until the switch 23D for the last one of the sections involved is actuated, all electromagnets along the total length of the sheet being energized over said switch and the switch gear 29 for the deposition of the sheet.
  • the switch gear is set in dependence on the length of the sheets handled and only the abutment which will be located at the leading edge of the sheets then will be in the operative position, the rest of the abutments being in the inoperative position so as not to interfere with the deposition of the sheet.
  • the length of the sheet is sensed by a stationary sensor sensing the leading edge of the arriving sheet and starting a pulse generator which controls a shift register.
  • the pulse generator is stopped.
  • the shift register information indicating the length of the sheet and such information will be shifted in the shift register synchronously with the sheet moving to the position where it is to be stacked, by a predetermined number of pulses being counted from the sensing of the leading edge.
  • the vacuum is broken in suction cups to the number corresponding to the length of the sheet registered in the shift register.
  • the counting of the pulses in the shift register is started when the sensor senses the leading edge of the sheet.

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  • Pile Receivers (AREA)

Abstract

Procede pour empiler des feuilles en une seule pile ou en plusieurs piles disposees de maniere consecutive. Chaque feuille est saisie au moyen d'un nombre de ventouses (10) et est transportee, suspendue a celles-ci, jusqu'a l'endroit ou l'empilage doit avoir lieu. A cet endroit la feuille est liberee par elimination du vide de toutes les ventouses tenant la feuille.
PCT/SE1978/000069 1978-11-06 1978-11-06 Procede d'empilage de feuilles Ceased WO1980000955A1 (fr)

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GB8038340A GB2058024A (en) 1978-11-06 1978-11-06 Method for piling sheets
DE19782857651 DE2857651A1 (de) 1978-11-06 1978-11-06 Method for piling sheets
PCT/SE1978/000069 WO1980000955A1 (fr) 1978-11-06 1978-11-06 Procede d'empilage de feuilles

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Cited By (2)

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US4442657A (en) * 1980-06-27 1984-04-17 N.V. Biscuits Delacre S.A. Device for transferring from a conveying belt, goods such as but not exclusively, biscuits
EP0510338A1 (fr) * 1991-04-24 1992-10-28 Iowa Precision Industries Inc. Procédé et dispositif pour empiler des feuilles

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US2183798A (en) * 1938-11-28 1939-12-19 Continental Steel Corp Sheet catching and stacking mechanism
DE1231624B (de) * 1962-06-20 1966-12-29 Saint Gobain Corp Mit Saugvorrichtungen arbeitender Foerderer

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US2183798A (en) * 1938-11-28 1939-12-19 Continental Steel Corp Sheet catching and stacking mechanism
DE1231624B (de) * 1962-06-20 1966-12-29 Saint Gobain Corp Mit Saugvorrichtungen arbeitender Foerderer

Cited By (2)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US4442657A (en) * 1980-06-27 1984-04-17 N.V. Biscuits Delacre S.A. Device for transferring from a conveying belt, goods such as but not exclusively, biscuits
EP0510338A1 (fr) * 1991-04-24 1992-10-28 Iowa Precision Industries Inc. Procédé et dispositif pour empiler des feuilles

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