Printing machine system

US8141485B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• KOENIG & BAUER AG · DE

Inventors

• Günther Oskar Eckert · Zellingen, DE
• Burkard Otto Herbert · Coburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 17, 2006
• Grant date: Mar 27, 2012
• Expiry date: Feb 10, 2029

Classification

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

Abstract

A printing system is provided with a first printing machine that includes at least one printing unit and a first folding funnel which is located at an exit of the printing unit. A second printing machine, with a second printing unit and a drier, together with a folding funnel at its exit, is also part of the printing system. The first and second folding funnels differ from each other in the number of formers that are placed next to each other in a machine plane, or vary in an effective width of one or more folders. A web, or a partial web, which is printed by the second printing unit, and which is guided through the drier, can be guided either to the second folding funnel structure, or can be guided to the first folding funnel structure, which differs from the second funnel structure in at least one of numbers and width.