Sheet-fed printing press with postprocessing unit

US6027270A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG · DE

Inventor

• Martin Greive · Heidelberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 21, 1998
• Grant date: Feb 22, 2000
• Expiry date: Dec 21, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65H45/142
• WIPO field: Textile and paper machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A sheet-fed printing press having a plurality of stations arranged in a row and including at least one feeder, at least one digital printing unit and at least one delivery, and a common sheet transport path, over which all sheets pass, extending between the at least one printing unit and the at least one delivery, includes a postprocessing unit for the printing press, having a plurality of postprocessing stations arranged in a row, the row of postprocessing stations being disposed parallel to and offset with respect to the row of stations of the printing press, a sheet deflector disposed on the common sheet transport path for feeding the sheets selectively to the at least one delivery and to a collecting container for receiving a batch of sheets, and a displacement device for pushing a batch of sheets, which have been collected in the collecting container, transversely to the general sheet transport direction in the printing press, into an input station of the postprocessing unit.