Method for monitoring and/or controlling a transport device, transport device for carrying out said method and clamp for detachably holding and transporting
First Claim
1. A method for monitoring and/or controlling a high-speed transportation apparatus (10, 20) in which a multiplicity of like products (17), particularly printed products such as newspapers or magazines, are held detachably by means of individual clamps (12) arranged in a succession to one another and are transported along a transportation path (19) in succession, the method comprising:
- transporting the clamps (12) along a continuous transport chain (11) defining the transportation path (19);
providing each of the clamps with at least one readable tag (T1, . . . , T5;
Tn);
bringing an element of a read in/out apparatus (30) within the transport path (19) and adjacent to a corresponding one of the clamps for the purpose of reading in and/or out prescribed volumes of data in the at least one tag (T1, . . . , T5;
Tn) on the corresponding one of the clamps (12); and
moving the element of the read in/out apparatus (3) within the transport path (19) along with the corresponding one of the clamps (12) over a selected section of the transport path (19).
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method for monitoring and/or controlling a transport device (10) wherein a plurality of similar products (17), in particular printed products, such as newspapers, magazines or similar are held in a detachable manner by means of individual clamps (12) that are arranged in a row, one behind the other, and are transported in sequence along a transport path (19). Improved operational reliability and controllability is characterized in that a contract-free read-in or read-out tag (T1-T5, Tn) is provided on the clamps (12), and that a reading-in/reading-out device (30) is disposed in the vicinity of the respective clamp for reading-in or reading-out data in the tags of a clamp (12), and is displaced with the respective clamp (12) over a selected section of the transport path (19).
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26 Claims
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1. A method for monitoring and/or controlling a high-speed transportation apparatus (10, 20) in which a multiplicity of like products (17), particularly printed products such as newspapers or magazines, are held detachably by means of individual clamps (12) arranged in a succession to one another and are transported along a transportation path (19) in succession, the method comprising:
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transporting the clamps (12) along a continuous transport chain (11) defining the transportation path (19); providing each of the clamps with at least one readable tag (T1, . . . , T5;
Tn);bringing an element of a read in/out apparatus (30) within the transport path (19) and adjacent to a corresponding one of the clamps for the purpose of reading in and/or out prescribed volumes of data in the at least one tag (T1, . . . , T5;
Tn) on the corresponding one of the clamps (12); andmoving the element of the read in/out apparatus (3) within the transport path (19) along with the corresponding one of the clamps (12) over a selected section of the transport path (19). - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A method for monitoring and/or controlling a transportation apparatus (10, 20) for a multiplicity of printed products, comprising:
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transporting clamps (12) in which the printed products are detachably held in succession to one another along a continuous transport chain (11) defining a transportation path (19), each of the clamps including at least one readable tag (T1, . . . , T5;
Tn);moving an element of a read in/out apparatus (30) along a selected section of the transport path (19); bringing the element of the read in/out apparatus (30) close to a corresponding one of the clamps (12), wherein the element of the read in/out apparatus (30) is moved into a position within the transport path (19) that is between the corresponding one of the clamps (12) and an adjacent one of the clamps (12); and reading and/or out prescribed volumes of data to the tags (T1, . . . , T5;
Tn) on the corresponding one of the clamps (12). - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26)
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