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Procede et dispositif permettant d'appliquer des objets sur un imprime Download PDF

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WO2004074154A1
WO2004074154A1 PCT/NL2004/000123 NL2004000123W WO2004074154A1 WO 2004074154 A1 WO2004074154 A1 WO 2004074154A1 NL 2004000123 W NL2004000123 W NL 2004000123W WO 2004074154 A1 WO2004074154 A1 WO 2004074154A1
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Cornelus Hermanus De Veer
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Priority to EP04712253A priority patent/EP1603819A1/fr
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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
    • B65H37/00—Article or web delivery apparatus incorporating devices for performing specified auxiliary operations
    • B65H37/04—Article or web delivery apparatus incorporating devices for performing specified auxiliary operations for securing together articles or webs, e.g. by adhesive, stitching or stapling
    • 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
    • B65H39/14—Associating sheets with webs
    • 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
    • Y10T156/10—Methods of surface bonding and/or assembly therefor
    • Y10T156/1052—Methods of surface bonding and/or assembly therefor with cutting, punching, tearing or severing
    • Y10T156/1062—Prior to assembly
    • Y10T156/1075—Prior to assembly of plural laminae from single stock and assembling to each other or to additional lamina
    • 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
    • Y10T156/10—Methods of surface bonding and/or assembly therefor
    • Y10T156/1089—Methods of surface bonding and/or assembly therefor of discrete laminae to single face of additional lamina
    • Y10T156/1092—All laminae planar and face to face
    • Y10T156/1097—Lamina is running length web

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  • a web of cards comprising a large number of cards, which are positioned one behind the other in a longitudinal direction, are made from single-layer paper and are successively separated from the said web of cards one by one in the card-sticking machine, in order each to be secured to a subsequent, repeating strip length, which forms a page and is advanced by the (rotary) printing installation or the like (for example intaglio, offset, heat-offset or cold-offset) , is fed to a card-sticking machine of this type.
  • the cards are attached to one another by means of a tearable perforation or other weakened line in the web of cards, in which case the cards can easily, quickly and reliably be separated from one another in a handling device of the card-sticking machine by being torn off one another. If a tearable perforation or other weakened line is not present, the cards may also, as an alternative, be separated from one another by being cut off one another with the aid of a cutting device.
  • the card-sticking machine includes a feed device having a drum and/or one or more rolls (referred to below as register drum for short) , over which the web of cards is guided
  • the rotational speed of the register drum is controlled by a control device of the card-sticking machine in order to allow the advance of the web of cards of the card-sticking machine to be synchronized with the advance rate of the repeating strip length moving past, so that each card is applied to substantially the same place on the repeating strip length.
  • the control device of the card-sticking machine will generally set the circumferential velocity of this register drum and therefore the speed at which the web of cards is supplied to the card-sticking machine to be considerably lower than the rate of advance of the repeating strip length moving past, since the card length is shorter than the repeating strip length in the respective conveying directions. More details of this synchronization and/or maintaining of a phase relationship between the web of cards and the repeating strip length are found in EP-A 0 949 178
  • the register drum may be designed with register means, such as radial projections
  • the register drum may move the web of cards on the basis of friction, in which case means are provided for pressing the web of cards onto the register drum.
  • a characteristic feature in this context is that only a small part of the surface area of the cards is generally fixed to the repeating strip length, usually less than 50% of the surface area, or even less than 25% or less than approximately 10% of their surface area.
  • a hotmelt adhesive which is applied to the cards in the card-sticking machine by means of a metering nozzle mounted therein, generally, although not necessarily, before the cards are separated from one another, is generally used to secure the cards to the repeating strip length.
  • the cards are often secured by adhesive at one longitudinal side edge, so that at a later stage they can easily be removed from the printed product of which the repeating strip length forms part.
  • the cards are generally rectangular, elongate and smaller than A4 or A5 format (for example approximately 14 cm long) .
  • the proposal is now for objects other than the conventional cards to be automatically secured to the page at the time at which the page forms part of a strip of material which contains a large number of pages in succession in the longitudinal direction.
  • the object can be applied using a card- sticking machine.
  • the object is then placed onto the strip of material after it has passed through one or more stations in the printing installation in which an image, text or the like is applied, for example using printing ink, and before this strip ⁇ of material is divided into the separate sheets/pages. If the strip of material passes through a drying chamber or the like associated with the printing installation, it is preferable for the object to be applied by the card-sticking machine after the strip of material has passed through this drying chamber.
  • object is to be understood as meaning any conceivable object which can be applied to a card in order subsequently to be separated therefrom, i.e. not just the abovementioned cards or sachets, but also, for example, a piece of paper or film or foil.
  • these are objects which are unsuitable to be fed to the card-sticking machine in the form of a continuous web of such objects which are fixed to one another via a weakened line in order to be torn off one another in the card-sticking machine before being separately applied to a passing strip.
  • the invention also relates to a continuous web of cards, which are preferably secured to one another via a weakened line (tearable perforation) and are preferably made from flexible material, such as paper or (thin) solid cardboard or plastic film, preferably packaged in a container in at least one or a large number of "fan-folded" stacks next to and/or adjacent to one another, which container packaging is disclosed, for example, in EP-A 0 441 136 or EP-A 0 763 491, both incorporated by reference in the present application, the said continuous web being suitable for processing by a card-sticking machine in a (rotary) printing installation.
  • a weakened line such as paper or (thin) solid cardboard or plastic film
  • a (preferably relatively flat/thin) object is applied to the cards in the continuous web and can be removed from the card, for example a sachet (for example filled with powder, lotion, creme, liquid) , a (substantially inflexible) plastic card, so that the object can be distributed by being automatically applied in a printed product with the aid of the card, which printed product is distributed in the customary way.
  • the form of the object is such that it does not significantly affect the appearance of the printed product (for example preferably does not significantly thicken the printed product, which, for example, would impede standard distribution) .
  • the cards belonging to the continuous web of cards to have similar cards applied to them, for example made from paper, (thin) solid cardboard, (plastic) film and the like.
  • the objects can be secured to the cards in any desired way, for example by adhesive or a rivet. It is preferable for the size of the object to be such and/or for the object to be applied to a card such that the object does not project beyond the longitudinal and side edges of the card, and more preferably remains at a distance therefrom.
  • Fig. 1 shows a side view of the most important components of a card-sticking machine.
  • Fig. 2 shows part of a web of cards in plan view.
  • Fig. 3 shows part of a web of cards in side view and on a larger scale.
  • Fig. 4 diagrammatically depicts a side view of a stack of cards.
  • Fig. 5 shows a side view of a stack of cards on a pallet.
  • Fig. 6 shows a plan view of the stack of cards of Fig. 5.
  • Fig. 7 shows a detail of the stack of cards of Fig. 5 in a perspective view.
  • the card-sticking machine 1 illustrated is incorporated in a rotary printing installation (not shown; for example for intaglio printing, offset or cold-set) for printing newspapers, magazines or the like, at a location which is such that the strip of paper 2 which has been unwound from a stock reel and printed by printing rolls passes through the machine 1 in accordance with the dashed line and in the direction indicated by the arrow, on its way to downstream cutting, binding and finishing stations.
  • the strip 2 On arrival at the machine 1, the strip 2 has already been printed with print which is repeated at a predetermined repeat length, this repeat length corresponding to a page or an integer multiple of pages of printed matter.
  • cards 3 are fed to the card-sticking machine 1 in the form of a single row of cards 3 which has been formed into a continuous web 4 (cf. Fig. 2) which advances in the direction indicated by the arrow.
  • the cards 3 are secured to one another by a tearable perforation 10.
  • the cards 3 also include a tearable perforation 20 (which may optionally be absent) parallel to and at a short distance from a longitudinal edge 21 of the web 4.
  • the front card 3 in the web 4 is pulled off along the tearable perforation after adhesive has been applied to this card 4, after which this card 4 is stuck to the strip 2. This sticking is carried out in such a manner that a card 4 is stuck to at least substantially the same location on each repeat length of the strip 2 (cf. for example Fig. 2 of EP-A 0 949 178) .
  • the cards 3 or the web 4 may be provided with a series of register holes 9 (cf. Fig. 2) parallel to the longitudinal edge 21, but these register holes may also be absent.
  • the web 4, which is supplied from a stock (not shown) passes over freely rotating guide rolls 5 and 6 and then passes into the nip between a rotating, driven drive drum 7 and a pressure- exerting roll 8, so that the web is frictionally locked to the drive drum 7 and as a result is pulled out of the stock.
  • Two metering nozzles 11 then apply adhesive to the web 4 which is carried along with the drive drum 7.
  • One metering nozzle 11 only meters adhesive for a short time per card 3, so that a small spot of glue 12 is applied close to a corner of the card 3 (cf. Fig. 2) .
  • the other metering nozzle 11 applies a continuous or interrupted strip of glue 13 in the region between the longitudinal edge 21 and perforation line 20 (i.e. at a distance from the spot 12; cf. Fig. 2) .
  • the strip of glue 13 is in each case interrupted at the tearable perforation 10, so that there are no strings of glue formed when the cards 3 are being detached from one another.
  • the nozzles 11 are located one behind the other, and consequently only one is visible. Moreover, it will be clear that they maintain a space between them which at least substantially corresponds to the space a shown in Fig. 2.
  • Other locations for the nozzles 11 are also conceivable, optionally aligned in the transverse direction of the web 3.
  • the web 4 then moves through the gap between guide plates 14, 15 located one above the other and then passes into the nip between a rotating, driven discharge drum 16 and a co-rotating conveyor belt 22 which presses the web 4 onto the drum 16 over a radial circumferential part thereof (for example at least 10°), so that the web 4 is frictionally locked to the discharge drum 16.
  • the speed of the circumferential surface of the discharge drum 16 is in this case set to be higher than that of the circumferential surface of the drive drum 7, and it is also ensured that there is no slip or scarcely any slip between web 4 and drive drum 7 or discharge drum 16 (at most 0.1 mm, preferably at most 0.02 mm, most preferably at most 0.01 mm of slip for one or both drums 7, 16) , so that the web is pulled strongly in the section between the drums 7, 16, so that it yields at a tearable perforation, with the result that the front card 3 is separated from the web 4 in the region between the drums 7, 16.
  • the guide plates 14, 15 can ensure a local increase in stresses in the web 4 in order to help the tearable perforation 10 to yield, in this context, it will be clear that the free length of the web 4 between the drums 7, 16 is at most double the length of the card.
  • the drum 7 does not have any register pins or the like, which are intended to interact in a positively locking manner with the cards 3, for example by fitting through the register holes 9, projecting out of its circumferential surface.
  • the drum may be provided with register means of this type.
  • these register means on web 4 and drum 7 prevent slippage between drum 7 and web 4, and consequently the frictional lock between web 4 and drum 7, which is generated by the pressure-exerting roll 8, in order to prevent this slip, does not play any role, and consequently this roll 8 can be omitted in this embodiment.
  • the pressure-exerting roll 8 may if appropriate be replaced by another (pressure-exerting) means in order to ensure at least substantially slip-free frictional lock between drum 7 and web 4, for example a pressure-exerting belt which is similar to belt 22 and maintains a constant gap width over a radial part (for example at least 10°) of the drum circumference.
  • the belt 22 may if appropriate also be replaced by another (pressure-exerting) means in order to ensure at least substantially slip-free frictional lock between drum 16 and card 3, such as a pressure- exerting roll which is similar to pressure-exerting roll 8.
  • the machine 1 To synchronize the advance of a card 3 and the strip 2, in order for the card 3 always to be secured to the correct location on a repeating strip length, the machine 1 includes, between the drums 7, 16, a detector 17 which comprises a light sensor 17a and a light beam generator 17b, the light beam from generator 17b being interrupted by a passing card 3, which is recorded- by the sensor 17a. It is in this way possible to reliably determine, inter alia, the position between the drums 7, 16 of the front edge of the first card 3 of the web 4. The detector 17 also counts the number of cards 3 and controls the metering from the nozzles 11.
  • the machine 1 is controlled in such a manner that the circumferential surface of the drum 16 moves at the same speed as the strip 2.
  • the control unit receives information concerning the speed of the strip 2 from the printing press, and the control unit matches the speed of the drum 16 to this speed.
  • the speed of the circumferential surface of the drum 7 is controlled by the control unit as a function of the position of the card 3 detected by the detector 17, in order to ensure that the card 3 reaches the correct location on the strip 2. It will be clear that the variation in speed of the drum 7 for this synchronization is relatively minor with respect to the mean speed of this drum 7, for example amounting to at most 20% thereof.
  • an object 18 is applied to each card 3. It will be clear that the object 18 covers only part of the surface of the card 3. It is preferable for the object 18 to be located on that side of the card which faces away from the glued side of the card.
  • the object 18 will generally be considerably more flexurally rigid than the card 3 to which it is secured. To ensure that the object 18 on the card 3 is advanced without problems, it is preferably for the object 18 to be secured to the card 3 in such a manner that at least its front edge (i.e. the front edge as seen in the direction of advance) cannot become caught behind anything. This can be avoided by affixing the front edge to the card 3 locally or over its entire width, for example by a small piece of adhesive tape 25. To allow easy removal of the object 18 from the card 3 in the completed printed product, it is preferable for the object 18 only to be stuck to the card 3 locally, for example at one location 26, rather than over a large area. This represents a significant departure from the film-like membership cards which are already known per se and are stuck over their entire surface, as an easily removable label, to a sheet or card which is to be incorporated in the printed product.
  • Figs. 4-7 show how the cards, with the objects 18 (not shown) on them, can be held in a storage container in order to be fed to the card-sticking machine 1.
  • the web of cards 4 is present in one or more stacks, with the web 4 in a stack being folded in zigzag ("fan folded") , the folded edges being denoted by 37 and 39. These folded edges preferably also form the longitudinal boundaries of a card 3 and also the weakened lines.
  • Each stack is preferably inside a box 61, 63.
  • the web 4 continues uninterrupted into the adjacent stack, with the web 4 preferably extending from the bottom of one stack (in Fig. 4 in box 63) along this stack before passing to the top of the next stack (in Fig.
  • Figs. 5-7 show how stacks of this type may be arranged next to one another and behind one another, with the web 4 continuing without interruption into all the stacks. As can be seen from the drawing, web 4 runs through the stacks column by column, in the manner illustrated in Fig. 2, and the web 4 follows a loop 72 at the transition from one column to the next.
  • the present invention relates to the subject matter of one of claims 1-8 from EP-Bl 0 763 491, with the particular feature that these transverse folds are weakened lines along which the material can be separated in the card-sticking machine, while objects are applied to the material, so that they can be secured in the printed product by the card-sticking machine.
  • This allows more than 100,000 cards to be supplied as a single package.
  • the loop 72 may optionally include a turn.

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La présente invention concerne un procédé et un dispositif permettant d'appliquer des objets sur des pages d'un imprimé. Le procédé consiste à faire avancer une bande de matière (2) qui comporte un certain nombre de longueurs de bande répétitives, chaque longueur de bande définissant au moins une page de l'imprimé. Un objet (18) est assemblé à chaque longueur de bande répétitive de la bande de matière par mise en oeuvre d'une bande continue (4) de cartes (3), dans laquelle un objet est fixé à chaque carte de la bande continue de cartes, séparation de chaque carte de la bande continue de cartes et assemblage de chaque carte à une longueur de bande répétitive de la matière en bande.
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