Delivery systems and methods for setting the delivery systems

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10150644-B2
Application number	US-201615574645-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 28, 2016
Priority date	Jun 29, 2015
Publication date	Dec 11, 2018
Grant date	Dec 11, 2018

Abstract

A delivery system is used for delivering printed sheets which can be fed in a region of an inlet side of a delivery device. The delivery device includes at least one first discharge station and one second discharge station which is mounted downstream of the first discharge station, which is upstream in the transport path. The delivery stations are associated respectively with a format or transport-relevant device which can be controlled by a drive including a control element for adapting or correcting the guiding and delivery of the sheets in the relevant discharge station. At a delivery device level upstream of a lateral inlet in a stacking space of the upstream second discharge station, at least one operator interface, with at least one actuating device is provided. The at least one actuating device can be permanently connected to a signal or can be activated by an additional actuating device, with the control element of the at least one format- or transport-relevant device of the first discharge station and which allows or which can allow, during actuation, the control element of the system of the first discharge station which can vary with regard to the format- or transport-relevant size format, to be controlled.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A delivery system for the delivery of substrate sheets to be fed into a region of an intake side of the delivery system, the delivery system comprising:
at least a first delivery station and a second delivery station, the second delivery station being disposed downstream of the first delivery station in a substrate sheet transport path;
at least one of a format-relevant and a transport-relevant system assigned to each of the first delivery station and the second delivery station and which can be adjusted, with respect to one of an alignment and a correction of sheet guidance and deposition in one of the first delivery station and the second delivery station, by the use of a drive that include an actuator;
at least one user interface at a level of the delivery system and downstream of a lateral intake into a stacking space of the second delivery station;
at least one control means of the at least one use interface which is provided downstream of the second delivery station, the at least one control means being in one of permanent signal connection and in signal connection that can be activated via an additional control means with the actuator of the at least one of the format-relevant and the transport-relevant system of the first delivery station and that relates to one of the alignment and the correction of one of the sheet guidance and deposition in the first delivery station;
whereby the at least one control means can be operated to adjust the actuation of the least one system of the first delivery station that can be varied with respect to one of a format-relevant variable and a transport-relevant variable; and
wherein the user interface comprises at least one of a control means that can be actuated to adjust a deposition speed as a setting variable of a braking system of at least the first delivery station and a control means that can be actuated to adjust a release system of the at least first delivery station with respect to a respective release point for an opening of sheet holding elements which hold the subsequent sheets during transport as a setting variable and a control means that can be actuated to adjust a blower system of at least the first delivery station with respect to a pressure of blower air of the blower system as a setting variable.

2. The delivery system according to claim 1 , wherein the user interface comprises at least one control, means which is in signal connection, one of permanently and in a connection that can be activated via an additional control means, with the actuator of the at least one of the format-relevant and the transport-relevant system of the second delivery station, and by the actuation of which control means the actuator of the one of the format-relevant and the transport-relevant system of the second delivery station, that can be varied with respect to one of a format-relevant and a transport-relevant variable one of can be and is adjusted.

3. The delivery system according to claim 2 , wherein the control means that is in signal connection with the actuator of the at least one of the format-relevant and the transport-relevant system of the second delivery station is additionally connected, via an additional signal connection, to the actuator of the system of the first delivery station that corresponds functionally to the relevant system of the second delivery station, and by actuating said control means, in addition to adjusting the actuator of the relevant system of the second delivery station, the actuator of the corresponding system of the first delivery station also is or can be adjusted.

4. The delivery system according to claim 3 , wherein, in a signal path of the additional signal connection between the control means and the drive of the system relating to the first delivery station, one of a switching means and a data processing means is provided, which is configured and programmed to calculate, using a stored correlation, a measure for the co-adjustment of the system assigned to the first delivery station, from the measure to be adjusted in the system of the second delivery station, and to apply this measure to the drive of the system relating to the first delivery station.

5. The delivery system according to claim 1 , wherein the user interface comprises a control panel having a display, on which one or more of the control means are embodied as touch-sensitive fields.

6. The delivery system according to claim 1 , wherein the user interface comprises control means, which can be actuated to one of select the system that will be adjusted and to select a setting variable to be adjusted for the system.

7. The delivery system according to claim 1 , wherein the user interface comprises a control panel for each of the first and the second delivery station, each user interface having a display with touch-sensitive fields, which can be actuated to select a setting variable specific to the system for the delivery station assigned to the respective control panel.

8. The delivery system according to claim 1 , wherein one or more control means that are in signal connection with at least one actuator of the at least one transport-relevant system of the first delivery station, and one or more control means that are in signal connection with at least one actuator of the at least one of the format-relevant and the transport-relevant system of the second delivery station are included in one of the same control panel and the same display, and in that both an actuator of the relevant system of the first delivery station and an actuator of the relevant system of the second delivery station that is functionally comparable to the relevant system of the first delivery station can be one of adjusted and set using the same control panel.

9. The delivery system according to claim 8 , wherein one of the user interface and the control panel comprise control means, which can be actuated to select the delivery station that will be impacted by the adjustment.

10. The delivery system according to claim 1 , wherein the user interface provided downstream of the second delivery station is provided in an end-face region of the delivery system lying opposite the intake side for the sheets.

11. The delivery system according to claim 1 , wherein, in the region of the first delivery station, at least one camera is provided, which at least one camera one of is and can be directed into a stacking space of a pile to be formed in the first delivery station, and which is in signal connection with a display device disposed at one of a level of a downstream of, and behind, as viewed in the longitudinal direction of the delivery system, a lateral intake into the stacking space of the second delivery station, and disposed on an end face thereof.

12. A method for setting a delivery system for the delivery of substrate sheets including:
providing at least a first delivery station and a second delivery station;
locating the second delivery station downstream of the first delivery station in a substrate sheet transport direction;
one of setting and adjusting at least one of a format-relevant system and a transport-relevant system with respect to one of an alignment and a correction of one of sheet guidance and deposition in the respective to one of the first delivery station and the second delivery station;
performing an adjusting of the system assigned to the first delivery station and to the second delivery station for one of aligning and correcting one of sheet guidance and deposition in the one of the first delivery station and the second delivery station using a user interface;
locating the user interface at a level of the delivery system downstream

Assignees

• Koenig & Bauer Ag

Inventors

• Grossmann Karsten
• Bellmann Jens
• Taschenberger Volker
• Koch Michael

Classifications

• B65H29/247

  blowing on upperside of the sheet · CPC title

• B65H31/20

  adjustable for different article sizes · CPC title

• B65H2511/12

  Width · CPC title

• B65H2406/122

  Nozzles · CPC title

• B65H31/24

  multiple or compartmented, e.d. for alternate, programmed, or selective filling · CPC title