Device for producing folded items

US6024684A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• KOENIG & BAUER AG · DE

Inventors

• Edgar Maylander · Estenfeld, DE
• Horst Bernhard Michalik · Höchberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 5, 1998
• Grant date: Feb 15, 2000
• Expiry date: May 5, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65H45/226
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Folded products are produced in a web-fed press by directing the printed web to longitudinal formers and then to multi-width transverse folders. The longitudinal formers are supported so that at least selected ones of them can be shifted vertically with respect to the transverse folders. A parallelogram-like linkage is used to shift the longitudinal formers vertically. Vertical shifting of the formers accomplishes transverse shifting of the location of the delivery of formed products from the formers to the multi-width transverse folders.