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Folding apparatus

US5287805A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateAug 19, 1992
Grant dateFeb 22, 1994
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Expiry dateAug 19, 2012

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB65H45/168
  • WIPO fieldHandling
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

In a folding apparatus with a collect cylinder (1) which can be switched from collect production to non-collect production, the holding elements and folding blades of which are connected with actuating elements, preferably embodied as scanner rollers (14, 15), which can be controlled by a respectively associated radial cam (12 or 13), the control area of which, preferably embodied as a control recess (16), can be selectively uncovered or covered by means of a cover device provided with cover cams (17) disposed on a drivable cam support (22) which is coaxial with the radial cam (12 or 13), a great variability in respect to feasible collect operations is attained in that the cover cams 17.1-17.8 of each cover device are received radially displaceable on the respectively associated cam support (22).

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