System and method for folding and handling stacks of continuous web
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    发明授权
    System and method for folding and handling stacks of continuous web 有权
    用于折叠和处理连续卷材堆叠的系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US08360948B1

    公开(公告)日:2013-01-29

    申请号:US12754256

    申请日:2010-04-05

    IPC分类号: B31F1/08

    摘要: This invention provides a system and method for separating, folding, stacking and transporting a continuous web that allows stacks of web that are relatively large (four-feet-high or more) to be generated at high speed directly beneath the folding mechanism and to be transferred as complete, discrete stacks to downstream locations and stack utilization devices without interrupting the ongoing, upstream stack-folding and stack-formation process. A zigzag folded web passes by a pair of opposing front and rear compression plate assemblies, with fingers that are extended to selectively project into the folding area, onto a stack supported by a vertically moving supporting mechanism. The supporting mechanism cycles between an ever-lower position in which upper, loose pages of the folded web pass by plate fingers (when retracted) and an upper position in which the stack engages and presses upwardly against the now-extended plate fingers to compress the stack. After the web is separated above the chute, the supporting mechanism eventually travels to the base where the now-completed stack is conveyed to a downstream location. While the supporting mechanism is occupied transferring the completed, old stack, new folded web is deposited on a deployed temporary support that allows a new stack to form thereon until the supporting mechanism has completed the transfer of the old stack, and is ready to receive the new stack from the temporary support.

    摘要翻译: 本发明提供了一种用于分离,折叠,堆叠和输送连续卷材的系统和方法,其允许在折叠机构正下方以高速生成相对较大(4英尺高或更大)的纸幅的堆叠,并且是 作为完整的离散堆栈转移到下游位置并堆叠利用装置,而不中断正在进行的上游堆叠折叠和堆叠形成过程。 锯齿状折叠的纸卷通过一对相对的前后压缩板组件,其中手指被延伸以选择性地突出到折叠区域中,并由支撑在垂直移动的支撑机构上的叠层上。 支撑机构在其中较低的位置之间循环,其中折叠的纸卷的上部松散页通过板指(当缩回时)通过其上部位置,其中堆叠接合并向上压靠现在延伸的板指以压缩 堆栈 在网状物在滑槽上方分离之后,支撑机构最终行进到底部,在此底部将现在完成的堆叠传送到下游位置。 当支撑机构被占用传送完成的旧堆时,新的折叠卷材沉积在部署的临时支架上,允许在其上形成新的堆叠,直到支撑机构已经完成旧堆栈的传送,并且准备好接收 新的堆栈从临时支持。