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US3826706A
US3826706A US00278651A US27865172A US3826706A US 3826706 A US3826706 A US 3826706A US 00278651 A US00278651 A US 00278651A US 27865172 A US27865172 A US 27865172A US 3826706 A US3826706 A US 3826706A
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MULLER-MARTINI CORP A CORP OF NY
Mueller Martini Druckverarbeitungs Systeme AG
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41F—PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES
    • B41F13/00—Common details of rotary presses or machines
    • B41F13/54—Auxiliary folding, cutting, collecting or depositing of sheets or webs
    • B41F13/68—Adding inserts
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T156/00—Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
    • Y10T156/17—Surface bonding means and/or assemblymeans with work feeding or handling means
    • Y10T156/1702—For plural parts or plural areas of single part
    • Y10T156/1744—Means bringing discrete articles into assembled relationship
    • Y10T156/1768—Means simultaneously conveying plural articles from a single source and serially presenting them to an assembly station
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T156/00—Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
    • Y10T156/17—Surface bonding means and/or assemblymeans with work feeding or handling means
    • Y10T156/1702—For plural parts or plural areas of single part
    • Y10T156/1744—Means bringing discrete articles into assembled relationship
    • Y10T156/1776—Means separating articles from bulk source
    • Y10T156/1778—Stacked sheet source
    • Y10T156/178—Rotary or pivoted picker
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T156/00—Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
    • Y10T156/17—Surface bonding means and/or assemblymeans with work feeding or handling means
    • Y10T156/1798—Surface bonding means and/or assemblymeans with work feeding or handling means with liquid adhesive or adhesive activator applying means

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  • a conveyor advances printed sheets in a given path and a supply arrangement supplies objects which are to be afiixed to the sheets, provides a line of adhesive on each object and contacts the object with its line of adhesive to a respective sheet so as to aflix the object thereto.
  • An additional object of the invention is to provide such an arrangement which requires no manual labor.
  • one feature of the invention resides, in an arrangement of the character here described, in the provision of advancing means for advancing respective sheets in a path, and supply means for supplying substantially fiat objects which are to be affixed to respective ones of the sheets.
  • Engaging means engages respective ones of the objects and applicator means apply the line of adhesive to the respective engaged object.
  • Afiixing means contacts the thus applied line of adhesive on the respective engaged object to one of the sheets first to aflix the object to the sheet.
  • FIG. 1 is a somewhat diagrammatic side view illustrating an arrangement embodying the invention
  • FIG. 2 is a view of a detail of FIG. 1 as seen in the direction of the arrow II, on an enlarged scale and with the cover K omitted;
  • FIG. 3 is a section taken on line III--III of FIG. 2, on an enlarged scale.
  • FIG. 4 is a section taken on line IV-IV of FIG. 2.
  • reference numeral 1 generally identifies a unit of a collating apparatus known from the art and serving to bring together respective printed sheets first from a printed article, such as a magazine, brochure or the like.
  • Reference numeral 2 identifies a main drive shaft which acts upon the element 1 so that the latter will sequentially withdraw bi-folded printed sheets B from a stack 3 and deposit them on a substantially horizontal conveying unit 4.
  • the conveying unit 4 utilizes two endless parallel chains 5 which are arranged for spacing fromone another and have respective outer edge faces which are inclined upwardly so that the cross section defined by them is substantially triangular or roof-shaped.
  • a support 6 Located at a lateral side of the conveyor 4 which is opposite the side where the unit 1 is provided, there is a support 6 carrying a frame 7.
  • a drive shaft 8 which is driven by the main shaft 2 via a non-illustrated angle drive in the support 6 and a chain 40.
  • an engaging drum 9 which is constituted by a plurality of disks mounted with spacing from one another on the shaft 8. Each of the disks has a portion of a larger radius and portion of a smaller radius.
  • cam-controlled grippers which are located between the respective disks and which, during each rotation of the shaft 8, withdraw the respectively lowermost substantially flat object pin from a stack of such objects which is supported on a table 11. The latter extends in parallelism with the shaft 8. Details of how the engagement and withdrawal of the objects 10 is effected, and of the construction of the grippers and cam controls, are not required in the context of the present invention because they do not form a part of the present invention. It will sufiice to point out that after the respective lowermost object 10 has been withdrawn from the stack, it will contact that circumferential region of the drum 9 which has the larger radius.
  • FIG. 1 shows particularly clearly that the axis of the shaft 8 extends at a right angle to the direction in which sheets B are conveyed by the conveyor 4; it also shows that the shaft 8 extends in parallelism with one of the flanks of the conveyor 4, that is with one of the upwardly and inwardly inclined side edges of the chain 5 facing towards the support 6.
  • the spacing of the drum 9, or rather of the periphery of the drum 9 from the adjacent chain 5 is so selected that a sheet B which straddles the two chains 5 so that its two sections (created by bifolding) hang down with the fold for being located at the top, will extend at a tangent. to the larger portion of the drum circumference.
  • the drive speed is so selected that the angular velocity of the drum 9 equals the speed at which the conveyor 4 advances the sheets B.
  • the drum 9 is also provided with a circumferential groove 12 with which in operation a line of adhesive applied to the respective object 10 will become juxtaposed.
  • the object 10 will be pressed against the sheet B to which it is to be secured, laterally of the line of adhesive.
  • the drum 9 can be axially displaced so that the objects 10 can be adhesively secured to the respective sheets B at a freely selectable spacing from the fold provided in the latter.
  • Reference numeral 14 in FIG. 3 designates an applicator wheel whose peripheral or edge face is continuously provided with a film of adhesive.
  • the peripheral or edge face of the wheel 14 can be brought in contact with the drum 9 in order to apply a line or strip of adhesive to the respecive object 10 which is held on the periphery of the drum 9.
  • the wheel 14 is driven so as to have the same angular velocity as the drum 9 and is permitted to contact the latter only over that portion of the drum periphery on which an object 10 is held.
  • a gear 15 is mounted on the shaft 8 to turn with but not relative to the same and cams with a gear 16 which is connected via a coupling 17 with a gear 18.
  • the coupling 17 comprises a leaf spring 19 provided on the gear 18 and acting to bias a pin 20 which is axially slidable in the gear 18, into a conical recess in the gear 16.
  • Two shafts 21 and 22 are turnably journalled in the frame 7 and a gear 23 and a dipping wheel 24 are mounted on the shaft 21 for rotation therewith.
  • An additional gear 25 and an intermediate wheel 26 are mounted for rotation with the shaft 22.
  • FIG. 2 shows that the gear 25 cams with the gears 18 and 23.
  • the distance between the wheel 24 and the wheel 26 is so selected that the film of adhesive which is engaged by the periphery of the wheel 24 as the latter dips into a body of adesi've accommodated in a reservoir 27 (see FIG. 2) will be transmitted during rotation to the peripheral or circumferential surface of the intermediate wheel 26. From there it is transmitted to the peripheral or edge face of the wheel 14, in the same manner as the transmission takes place between the wheels 24 and 26.
  • An arm 28 is pivotably mounted on the shaft 22 and on the free end of this arm there is turnably journalled in a carbon bearing 29 a shaft 30 which parallels the shafts 2 1 and 22 and which carries the wheel 14 as well as a gear 31 which cams with the gear 25.
  • Arm 34 is also provided on the arm 28, carrying a. turnably journalled roller 35 which constitutes the follower roller of a cam track 36 constituted by two cam disks 36' and 36 mounted on the shaft 8 and each having a radius r over approximately 115 of arc and a radius r over approximately 210 of arc (see FIG. 2).
  • the cam disks 36' and 36" can be rotated on the shaft 8 with reference to one another, and of course can be locked (by wellknown and not illustrated means in their selected positions) in order to thereby vary the length of that portion of the cam track 36 which has the radius r It is pointed out that the length of the portion of arc having the radius r as well as its relative angular position with respect to the drum 9, determines the beginning and the end of an applied line of adhesive, that is a strip of adhesive which is applied to an object F10.
  • I may use a photoelectric cell 39, mounted on the frame 7 and oriented towards the axis of the drum 9.
  • a reflector 7 may be provided on the drum 9, cooperating with the photocell 39 in order to produce in the latter a signal in response to the absence of an object 10 on the circumference of the drum 9.
  • Such a signal may activate a known non-illustrated ejecting device which will then eject the sheet B (which should have been but is not now provided with an object 10) in known manner.
  • the wheel 14 enters partially into the groove 12, thus preventing the application of adhesive to the drum 9 per se.
  • said advancing means comprising chain-conveyor means having a substantially triangular cross-sectional configuration in direction transversely to said path and being straddled by said bi-folded sheets; supply means for supplying substantially flat objects which are to be affixed to respective ones of said sheets; engaging means for engaging respective ones of said objects; applicator means for applying a line of adhesive to the respective engaged object; and affixing means for contacting the thus applied line of adhesive on the respective engaged object to one of said sheets so as to affix such object to the sheet.
  • said supply means comprising support means for supporting a stack of said objects; and wherein said engaging means comprises an engaging drum mounted for rotation about an axis of rotation paralleling one side of the triangular cross-section of said chain-conveyor means and operative for engaging one of said objects during each revolution, and a suction arm pivotable between a position gripping one of said objects and a position releasing the gripped object for engaging by said engaging drum so as to overlie a portion of the periphery of the latter.
  • said applicator means comprising a reservoir for a body of adhesive, a disk member having a circumferential edge adapted to receive adhesive from said reservoir and being mounted for rotation about an axis paralleling the axis of rotation of said drum, a mounting arm mounting said disk member for pivoting movement toward and away from said drum, and cam means controlling movement of said arm so that said disk member contacts only the object on said portion of the periphery of said drum, to thereby apply to said object a line of adhesive.
  • said applicator means further comprising drive means for driving said disk member in rotation at an angular velocity corresponding to that of said drum.
  • said applicator means further a dipping wheel having a circumferential portion and mounted for rotation so as to dip with said circumferential portion into the body of adhesive in said reservoir, and a transfer wheel also mounted for rotation and arranged to engage both said circumferential portion and said circumferential edge so as to transfer adhesive from said dipping Wheel to said disk member.
  • said dipping wheel and said transfer wheel each having a shaft defining an axis of rotation for the respective wheel; and wherein said adjustable means comprises eccentric journals journalling the respective shafts for rotation.
  • said detecting means comprises a reflector provided on said portion of said periphery and for reflecting light in the absence of an overlying object thereon, and a photoelectric cell positioned for receiving light reflected by said reflector and generating a signal in response to such reception.

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US4083551A (en) * 1976-09-30 1978-04-11 Harris Corporation Method and apparatus for on-line tipping of inserts
US5275685A (en) * 1991-11-07 1994-01-04 Ferag Ag Apparatus for gluing attachment slips to printed products
US5350167A (en) * 1993-01-14 1994-09-27 Ferag Ag Apparatus for transporting sheet-like products
US5425837A (en) * 1993-01-14 1995-06-20 Ferag Ag Apparatus for delivering sheet-like products to a device for processing printed products
US6234231B1 (en) * 1997-11-25 2001-05-22 Grapha-Holding Ag Device for attaching a supplement to a surface of signatures
US7547372B1 (en) * 2005-02-08 2009-06-16 Sloan Donald D Thermally reactive ink transfer system
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US4083551A (en) * 1976-09-30 1978-04-11 Harris Corporation Method and apparatus for on-line tipping of inserts
US5275685A (en) * 1991-11-07 1994-01-04 Ferag Ag Apparatus for gluing attachment slips to printed products
US5350167A (en) * 1993-01-14 1994-09-27 Ferag Ag Apparatus for transporting sheet-like products
US5425837A (en) * 1993-01-14 1995-06-20 Ferag Ag Apparatus for delivering sheet-like products to a device for processing printed products
US6234231B1 (en) * 1997-11-25 2001-05-22 Grapha-Holding Ag Device for attaching a supplement to a surface of signatures
US7547372B1 (en) * 2005-02-08 2009-06-16 Sloan Donald D Thermally reactive ink transfer system
US20100096062A1 (en) * 2008-09-16 2010-04-22 Serigraph, Inc. Supported Article for Use in Decorating a Substrate

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