Depot for material rolls, material supply system and method for storing material rolls
AssigneeKoenig & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsHarald Gretsch, Lothar Hohmann, Erwin Lehrieder, Josef Olbort
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Abstract
A depot or a storage facility for a plurality of material rolls, which rolls are intended for further processing in a processing machine, includes two outer shelving blocks in addition to at least one inner shelving block that is situated between the two outer shelving blocks. A storage location of the inner shelving block can be loaded or unloaded by a retrieval device which can access the shelving block from both longitudinal sides of the shelving block.
Claims41
1-37. (canceled)
A depot for rolls of material which are intended for processing in a web-processing machine, said depot comprising:
- a first outer shelf block;
- a second outer shelf block, said first and second outer shelf blocks extending parallel to each other in a longitudinal direction;
- an inner shelf block located between, and spaced laterally from said first and second outer shelf blocks and extending parallel to said outer shelf blocks in said longitudinal direction;
- first and second corridors extending longitudinally between adjacent ones of said first and second outer shelf blocks and said inner shelf block;
- at least one storage space in said inner shelf block and adapted to be filled and emptied from both longitudinal sides;
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- at least one shelf serving element located in at least one of said first and second corridors and adapted to fill and empty said at least one storage space in said inner shelf block.
The depot of claim 40 further including a second shelf serving element located in a second of said corridors, said at least one storage space in said inner shelf block being adapted to be filled and emptied from said first and second corridors by said first and second shelf serving elements.
The depot of claim 45 further including a preparation circuit adapted to prepare the rolls of material, said at least one direct transport track being adapted to transport unprepared rolls of material from said stock reception area to said inner shelf block and bypassing said preparation circuit.
A material supply system of a web-processing machine comprising:
- at least one stock reception area adapted to receive unprepared rolls of material;
- a depot adapted to store rolls of material;
- and
- a transport system between said stock reception area and said depot.
A method for storing rolls of material for use in a web-processing machine including:
- providing a depot;
- providing first and second outer shelf blocks in said depot;
- providing at least one inner shelf block, extending parallel with said first and second outer shelf blocks;
- initially storing a roll of material in said inner shelf block from a first side of said inner shelf block;
- providing a serving element operable in conjunction with said inner shelf block;
- using said serving element and removing said roll of material from a second side of said inner shelf block;
- providing a first transport track for supplying prepared rolls of material to said inner shelf block;
- and
- providing a second transport track for supplying unprepared rolls of material to said inner shelf block.
The method of claim 65 further including using said serving element and selectively conveying said prepared roll of material to one of a storage space of said inner shelf block and to a storage space of an adjoining shelf block located closer to said processing machine.
A method for storing rolls of material for use in a web-processing machine including:
- providing a depot;
- providing first and second spaced outer shelf blocks and at least one inner shelf block extending parallel to each other in said depot;
- using said inner shelf block for storing unprepared rolls of material and prepared rolls of material;
- providing a stock reception area;
- providing a transport system having at least first and second transport tracks;
- and
- storing unprepared rolls of material selectively in one of said first and second outer shelf blocks adjacent said stock reception area using said first transport track and in said inner shelf block using said second transport track.
A method for storing unprepared and prepared rolls of material for a web-processing machine including:
- providing a depot;
- providing a material roll preparation circuit in said depot;
- determining a storage strategy on the basis of material roll consumption data for a pending production period of said web-processing machine and an actual material roll inventory;
- issuing a storage command for fresh unprepared rolls of material;
- registering requests for rolls of material from the web-processing machine;
- checking for the availability of rolls of material in said depot in accordance with said request;
- removing rolls of material from said depot in accordance with said request;
- positioning prepared and unprepared rolls of material in a production oriented manner in accordance with planned requirements;
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- executing a strategy for redepositing said prepared rolls of material and said unprepared rolls of material in said depot in said production-oriented manner in accordance with said planned requirements.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.