Ferag Ag

Wrh Walter Reist Holding Ag

Carl Conrad Mäder

Werner Honegger

Erwin Muller

Markus Felix

Konrad Auf Der Maur

Rudolf Infanger

Dieter Siebenmann

René Moor

Steven Brossi

Thomas Weber

Alexis Wiasmitinow

Robert Emmenegger

Giorgio Bovenzi

A conveying module includes a base structure; a first conveying device to convey a unit of goods in a first conveying direction (x) in the horizontal; a second conveying device to convey a unit of goods in a second conveying direction (y) in the horizontal, wherein the second conveying direction runs substantially perpendicular to the first conveying direction; a carrier structure to carry a unit of goods; a first lifting device to raise and/or lower the first conveying device in the vertical (z) between a lower position and an upper position; and a second lifting device to raise and/or lower the second conveying device in the vertical (z) between a lower position and an upper position; wherein a unit of goods located on the conveying module rests on the carrier structure when the first conveying device and the second conveying device are in the lower position.

Devices and installations for the automated storage and commissioning of goods and methods for operating such devices and installations

A measuring device serves for acquiring measurement values for measuring a tension in a conveying system. The measuring device is designed to guide a conveying member from a first section of the measuring device to a second section of the measuring device, to effect a deflection of the conveying member with regard to a straight-lined connection between the first and the second section and to detect measurement values corresponding to a reaction force according to this deflection. The measuring device includes surfaces for guiding rollers of the conveying member. One of these surfaces is a deflecting surface for deflecting the conveying member. The deflecting surface is formed on a deflecting element of a measuring element, and the reaction force is a force which acts upon the measuring element.

Measuring device for acquiring measurement values for measuring a tension in a conveying system, as well as a conveying unit and a conveying facility

A conveying member for a conveyor includes a conveying element with a main surface, and a roller mechanism having a roller holder and at least one roller with a physical roller pivot. The roller holder can interact with an actuating device, is arranged on the conveying element and is designed such that the roller pivot is movable relative to the main surface of the conveying element between a first position and a second position. In the first and second positions of the roller pivot, the roller projects partly beyond the main surface of the conveying element. In the first position of the roller pivot, the roller assumes an arrested position in which rotation of the roller is arrested, and in the second position of the roller pivot, the roller assumes a freewheel position in which the roller rotates freely.

Conveying member with roller mechanism

A transfer system for piece objects includes a pushing device and a main conveyor with a conveying region. The pushing device includes first and second pushing members. The transfer system includes a supply zone, which is behind the conveying region in a pushing direction. In an initial position of the pushing device, the first pushing member is between the conveying region and the supply zone and the second pushing member is behind the supply zone in the pushing direction. In an end position of the pushing device, the first pushing member is in front of the conveying region in the pushing direction and the second pushing member is between the conveying region and the supply zone. The first pushing member, between the initial position and the end position, is at a fixed spacing to, and in front, of the second pushing member in the pushing direction.

Transfer system with a pushing device for piece objects

A conveying device with a conveying chain, which includes a plurality of chain links, and a plurality of conveyed object containers, which are attached on the conveying chain, for receiving a conveyed object. The conveyed object containers are fastened to the conveying chain via holding elements connected to the conveying chain, wherein the conveyed object containers are held in each case by the holding element.

Conveying device with a conveying chain

A collecting device for collecting discrete items that are delivered from a conveyor to a delivery location. The collecting device includes a collecting region with a collecting device, in which collecting region the discrete items are collected, a delay region with a discrete items support, and a feed region having a feed device. The delay region is prior to the collecting region and is the region in which the discrete items delivered from the conveyor are held up. The feed region is prior to the delay region and is the region through which the discrete items are fed from conveyor to the delay region. The delay region has a conveying mechanism that is capable of conveying the held-up discrete item from the delay region into the collecting region by way of a conveying-active movement.

Collecting device for a conveyor

A conveying system includes several conveying sections that are driven in each case by an individual drive. A regulation unit for regulating a regulated drive of one of the two conveying sections includes a measuring device and a regulating device. The measuring device measures loading of the conveying system in a coupling region between the conveying section and another conveying section. The regulating device regulates the regulated drive in accordance with the measured loading.

Regulation of drives of conveying sections of a conveying system

A gripper for grasping and conveying objects while retaining the objects, and to a corresponding conveyor system and an operating method. The gripper has a gripper body and first and second gripper jaws. The gripper jaws each include at least one respective clamping region, can assume an open state and a closed state relative to each other, and can exert a clamping force on each other or on the object to be grasped. At least one of the gripper jaws includes a jaw body that is elastically deformable and is supported on the gripper body such that the body assumes a defined spatial position (resting position) when force is not applied to a control element and deforms and is deflected from the resting position when force is applied to the control element.

Gripper, conveyor system, and method for operating such a conveyor system

A gripper for gripping and held conveying of objects as well as a corresponding conveying installation. The gripper has a first gripper jaw and a second gripper jaw. The gripper jaws can assume an open and a closed condition relative to one another, can exert a clamping force onto the object to be gripped, and a restoring force in the direction of the closed condition acts upon the gripper jaws. Moreover, at least one control element is present, which is capable of interacting with a switch. The control element is designed as a cam guide and has a functional contour with at least one arcuate contour segment. The conveying installation with opening locations that include a switch of a first and second type and control elements that either interact with the switch of the first type or the switch of the second type.

Gripper, a conveying installation and a method for the operation of such a conveying installation

An optical control method for use in print finishing, comprising the following steps: First, guiding a planar printed product along a conveying path past at least one optical sensor (). Secondly, detecting an electronic image () by the optical sensor, wherein the electronic image () comprises at least one region of the printed product. Third, extracting orientation information of the printed product from the electronic image. Fourth, comparing () the orientation information of the printed product from the electronic image with reference orientation information, and generating at least one signal on the basis of a result of the comparison.

Optical detection method during print finishing

An optical control method for use in print finishing, comprising the following steps: First, guiding a planar printed product () along a conveying path past at least one optical sensor (). Secondly, detecting an electronic image by the optical sensor (), wherein the electronic image comprises at least one region of the printed product (). Thirdly, transferring the electronic image into a corrected image on the basis of corrective information, which converts a recording perspective of the at least one optical sensor () into a target perspective. Fourth, comparing the corrected image to a reference value or a reference image, and generating at least one signal () on the basis of a result of the comparison.

Optical control method for detecting printed products during print finishing

The invention relates to a method for monitoring and/or controlling a transport device () wherein a plurality of similar products (), in particular printed products, such as newspapers, magazines or similar are held in a detachable manner by means of individual clamps () that are arranged in a row, one behind the other, and are transported in sequence along a transport path (). Improved operational reliability and controllability is characterized in that a contract-free read-in or read-out tag (T-T, Tn) is provided on the clamps (), and that a reading-in/reading-out device () is disposed in the vicinity of the respective clamp for reading-in or reading-out data in the tags of a clamp (), and is displaced with the respective clamp () over a selected section of the transport path ().

Method for monitoring and/or controlling a transport device, transport device for carrying out said method and clamp for detachably holding and transporting

The invention relates to a first product () which supports identification information () and a second product () which, optionally, supports identification information (). Said first and second products are maintained and transported together by a clamp (), such that the second printing product () at least partially overlaps the first printing product (). The identification information () of the first printing product () is arranged in the edge section () and the identification information () of the second printing product () is free. The printing products () are subjected to an optical-electronic control where an image capturing device () captures an image of the identification information (), when a control point is passed. The captured image is electronically processed and the result thereof is transformed into control signals.

Process and apparatus for monitoring sheet-like products transported by clamps

A gripper for holding and conveying flat objects (P) in a firmly held manner, in particular printed material such as newspapers, magazines or brochures, includes two clamping tongues (and) which can pivot relative to one another into an open and into a closed configuration, wherein the clamping tongues (and) are pressed against one another in the closed configuration. The distal ends of at least one of the clamping tongues (and) are fitted with two elastic arms () that extend laterally away from the clamping tongue, in the same direction as the clamping force, a clamping jaw () being arranged at the free end of each of the arms. The contact surfaces of the clamping jaws of at least one clamping tongue adapt to fit the contact surface of an opposite clamping jaw or a clamped object, under compression force, for example, they are mounted on the arm () by means of a ball joint.

Gripper for holding and conveying flat objects

Flat articles are inserted into printed products () continuously conveyed by grippers () of a gripper conveyor (), wherein the printed products are held by the grippers at their fold or spine edges and wherein the grippers () are conveyed through a deflection region from below round an essentially horizontal deflection axis (). Pegging elements () rotating around the deflection axis () are arranged along both sides of the deflection region and synchronized with the grippers, and form axially aligned and inter-spaced pairs and are radially distanced from the grippers. The printed products () are conveyed in a hanging manner into the deflection region and they are opened immediately upstream of the deflection region. The pegging elements () are activated as the grippers () enter the deflection region to grab the trailing part () of one opened printed product () and the leading part () of the next product by the corners opposite the fold or spine edge by clamping them together until the grippers () exit the deflection region.

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