Versatile printed copy severing, folding and assembling apparatus

US4746107A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• M.A.N. Roland Maschinenfabrik AG · DE

Inventors

• Eckhard Schneider · Stadtbergen, DE
• Erwin Saalfrank · Neusäß, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 31, 1987
• Grant date: May 24, 1988
• Expiry date: Mar 31, 2007

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B41F13/60
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

To permit, selectively, assembly of different types of copy products (A1, A2), for example each containing different information, such as inserts advertising men's wear and ladies' wear, respectively, for a newspaper, first and second transverse severing and folding units (1, 8, 9, 10; 15, 18, 19, 20) are provided receiving, selectively, different portions (1a, 1b) of webs on which different copy product information is printed. An intermediate transport system (21, 25) is provided receiving, selectively, the first type of copy products (A1) from the first transverse severing and folding unit (1, 8, 9, 10) and, selectively, supplying the first type copy products with predetermined alignment to a folding flap cylinder (20) of the second severing and folding unit (15, 18, 19, 20), the second folding flap cylinder guiding the first copy products (A1) together with a severed, folded copy product (A2) of another type about a portion of its circumference and transferring the now joined copy products to, for example, a third folding unit (23) via an output transport system. The intermediate transport system which may include another folding flap cylinder (11) can be, selectively, enabled o…