Folding apparatus for transverse folding and transporting of two types of printed substrates

US4754959A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG · DE

Inventors

• Ingo Kobler · Bendorf, DE
• Eckhard Schneider · Stadtbergen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 31, 1986
• Grant date: Jul 5, 1988
• Expiry date: Jul 31, 2006

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B41F13/54
• WIPO field: Textile and paper machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

To provide, selectively, different outputs from a cutting and folding apparatus (FIGS. 3, 4, 5), first and second cutting and folding groups (11, 12, 13; 608, 609, 610, 611; 14, 15, 13; 621, 622, 623) provide, respectively, first and second types of printed substrates (A1, A2), for example forming advertising material for men's wear and ladies' wear, for subsequent insertion into a newspaper, the respective first and second cutting and folding apparatus delivering the printed substrates which may have undergone one longitudinal fold, and have been transversely folded by the cutting and folding apparatus to transport belts, which, further and selectively, either transport the two different types of cut and folded substrates to separate receiving stations (21, 22) which may form further longitudinal folds therein, or, in dependence on a setting of a switch (16, 16'; 26, 611), supply the two types of printed subject matter to one further receiving station (22; 614) and associate the two types of substrates (A1, A2) by an alignment apparatus providing different path lengths for the respective substrates, so that the leading edges thereof are in alignment and match, for ready and automa…