Machine for making brochures and the like

US4735406A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Grapha-Holding AG · CH

Inventor

• Walter Weber · Lorsch, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 28, 1984
• Grant date: Apr 5, 1988
• Expiry date: May 28, 2004

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65H2301/44795
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A machine for accumulating folded sheets into brochures wherein the sheets are stapled to each other along fold lines has a rotary transporting device with several axially parallel saddle-like carriers for opened sheets and pushers which advance the sheets along their carriers into the range of a stapling device. The sheets are fed to the carriers at two or more stations which are spaced apart from one another in the axial direction of the transporting device and open the sheets shortly before the sheets reach the respective carriers so that each sheet which is deposited at the first station directly straddles its carrier and each sheet which is deposited at a next station directly straddles the previously deposited sheet. the stapling device has several stapling units which perform a pendulum movement about the axis of the transporting device and are operated to simultaneously apply staples to two or more brochures.