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US 6,768,104 B1Granted
Method and device for processing sheets
AssigneeKoenig & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsHartmut Karl Sauer, Johannes Georg Schaede
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Abstract
Sheets carrying imprinted materials are counted using a rotating counting disk that carries at least a receiver connected to a sensor. During counting of the sheets, a location of the imprinted materials on the sheets can also be determined.
Claims11
A method for processing imprinted material including:
- providing imprinted materials each having a plurality of copies;
- providing a receiver connected to a sensor which detects reflections;
- moving a partial area of one of said plurality of copies and said sensor with respect to each other;
- using said sensor for detecting reflections from a scanned area of said one of said plurality of copies;
- generating a signal as a function of said reflections from said scanned area of said ones of said plurality of copies;
- evaluating said signal as a function of said scanned area;
- and
- measuring a distance between a lateral edge of said one of said plurality of copies and a printed image on said one of said copies using said signal.
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A device for processing sheets comprising:
- a counting device, at least a portion of said counting device being movable relative to a sheet to be processed;
- and
- a receiver adapted to detect a reflection of at least a partial area of a sheet to be processed, said receiver being arranged on said movable portion of said counting device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.