Numbering process and numbering box to carry out the process
AssigneeKBA-Giori S.A.
InventorJohannes Georg Schaede
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Abstract
The numbering box for typographic numbering in sheet or web fed printing machines, said box numbering with p digits k*n items on said sheets or web for allowing a sequential collecting of said items in the finishing and collating process of layers of q sheets or of web cut into layers of q sheets, wherein said box carries out a purely sequential actuation for digits 1 to s, where 10S is smaller or equal to q, a purely individually settable actuation for digits s+1 to r, where the maximum number printable by digits 1 to s and s+1 to r is smaller or equal to k*n*q, and a sequential actuation for digits r+1 to p.
Claims16
A process for numbering objects that are arranged in k columns and n rows on a substrate, the objects receiving a serial number with p digits, composed of digits 1 to s, s+1 to r and r+1 to p, the process comprising steps of:
- for each first substrate of a run of 10s successive substrates, calculating a start value Z for digit s+1 to digit r of the serial number with the formula:
- Z=(j−1)+(i−1)*n+(m−1)*(k*n),
- wherein k*n is smaller than 10s, s is smaller than p, j identifies a line of the object, i identifies a column of the object and m identifies a run of 10s successive substrates;
- and
- sequentially numbering the objects.
A process for downwardly numbering objects that are arranged in k columns and n rows on a substrate, the objects receiving a serial number with p digits, composed of digits 1 to s, s+1 to r and r+1 to p, the process comprising steps of:
- for each first substrate of a run of 10s successive substrates, calculating a start value Z for digit s+1 to digit r of the serial number with the formula:
- Z=D/10s−((j−1)+(i−1)*n+(m−1)*k*n),
- wherein D is a serial number from which downward numbering starts, k*n is smaller than 10s, s is smaller than p, j identifies a line of the object, i identifies a column of the object and m identifies a run of 10s successive substrates;
- and
- sequentially numbering the objects.
A process for processing piles of substrates each containing objects that are arranged in k columns and n rows, the objects receiving a serial number with p digits, composed of digits 1 to s, s+1 to r and r+1 to p, the process comprising steps of:
- for each first substrate of a run of 10s successive substrates, calculating a start value Z for digit s+1 to digit r of the serial number with the formula:
- Z=(j−1)+(i−1)*n+(m−1)*(k*n),
- wherein k*n is smaller than 10s, s is smaller than p, j identifies a line of the object, i identifies a column of the object and m identifies a run of 10s successive substrates;
- sequentially numbering the objects;
- forming piles of q substrates, wherein q is divisible by 10s with an even result;
- and
- cutting each pile of q substrate along said rows and said columns to form packs of individual objects which are sequentially numbered.
A process for processing piles of substrates each containing objects that are arranged in k columns and n rows, the objects receiving a serial number with p digits, composed of digits 1 to s, s+1 to r and r+1 to p, the process comprising steps of:
- for each first substrate of a run of 10s successive substrates, calculating a start value Z for digit s+1 to digit r of the serial number with the formula:
- Z=D/10s−((i−1)+(i−1)*n+(m−1)*k*n),
- wherein D is a serial number from which downward numbering starts, k*n is smaller than 10s, s is smaller than p, j identifies a line of the object, i identifies a column of the object and m identifies a run of 10s successive substrates;
- sequentially numbering the objects;
- forming piles of q substrates, wherein q is divisible by 10s with an even result;
- and
- cutting each pile of q substrate along said rows and said columns to form packs of individual objects which are sequentially numbered.
A numbering box for typographic numbering of substrates each carrying k*n items to be numbered, said numbering box being adapted to print the items with serial numbers having p digits, the serial number comprising digits 1 to s, s+1 to r and r+1 to p;
- the numbering box comprising:
- sequential actuation means for digits 1 to s, where 10 is smaller or equal to q, wherein q is a number of successively numbered substrates to be collated and processed into piles of q substrates;
- individually settable actuation means for digits s+1 to r, where a maximum number printable by digits 1 to s and s+1 to r is smaller or equal to k*n*q;
- and
- sequential actuation means for digits r+1 to p.
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