Suction tape conveyor table

• US 5,810,350 A
• Filed: 12/01/1995
• Issued: 09/22/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 12/01/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen Ag
• Original Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen Ag
• Inventors: Pollich, Gerhard
• Primary Examiner(s): Milef, Boris
• Application Number:
  US08/565,794
• Time in Patent Office: 1,026 Days
• Field of Search: 271/196, 271/197, 271/276, 198/689.1
• US Class Current: 271/276
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 11/005 Suction belts
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2406/321 integral in feed table
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 5/24 Feeding articles in overlapping streams, i.e. by separation of articles from a pile

Abstract

Device for conveying a stream of sheets to a sheet-processing machine having a conveyor table with endless transport tapes formed with through-holes and drivable around the conveyor table, and a suction box arranged below the conveyor table and connected with an underside of the transport tapes via suction openings formed in the feed table includes three suction chambers formed in the suction box and extending in succession in a sheet transport direction, the suction chambers including a first suction chamber subjectible to underpressure by a first vacuum source, a third suction chamber facing towards the sheet-processing machine, and a second and middle suction chamber subjectible in common with the third suction chamber to underpressure by a second vacuum source.

Claims

1. Device for conveying a stream of sheets to a sheet-processing machine, comprising:

a conveyor table with endless transport tapes formed with through-holes and drivable around said conveyor table, said transport tapes having an underside and said conveyor table having suction openings formed therein;

a suction box disposed below said conveyor table and connected with said underside of said transport tapes via said suction openings formed in said conveyor table;

three suction chambers formed in said suction box and extending in succession in a sheet transport direction, said suction chambers including a first suction chamber subjectible to underpressure by a first vacuum source, a third suction chamber facing towards the sheet-processing machine, and a second and middle suction chamber subjectible in common with said third suction chamber to underpressure by a second vacuum source;

a suction roller located between a sheet pile and said conveyor table, said suction roller being subjectible to underpressure together with said first suction chamber by said first vacuum source; and

said suction roller having a plurality of suction holes distributed over the circumference thereof, said suction holes, in a region of said circumference of said suction roller facing towards a sheet, and being subjectible to underpressure of a given level.

2. Device according to claim 1, wherein each of said suction roller and said first suction chamber is connected to its own vacuum source.

3. Device according to claim 1, wherein said suction roller is a guide roller for at least one of the transport tapes.

4. Device according to claim 1, wherein said suction roller is drivably mounted.

5. Device according to claim 1, wherein said suction holes, respectively, formed in said suction roller are arranged laterally of at least one of the transport tapes.

6. Device according to claim 5, wherein the at least one transport tape is guided in a groove formed in said suction roller.

7. Device according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the transport tapes is guided slip-free over said suction holes formed in said suction roller, and the through-holes formed in the at least one transport tape are arranged so as to can be bringable into correspondence with said suction holes formed in said suction roller.