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Muller Martini Holding Ag

M&uuml;ller Martini Holding Ag

Albert Eugster

Heinz Linder

Felix Kramer

Jean-Claude Oppliger

Peter Merkli

Peter Bartschi

An apparatus for stabilizing printed products being transported in a conveying stream over a distance hanging from clamps of a conveying device for transferring the printed products into a processing unit, wherein the clamps are of at least two parts including a clamp part which is movably controlled for opening and closing the clamp, and wherein between spaced-apart printed products a guide arrangement is provided which travels with the printed products and prevents a deflection of the printed products. The guide arrangement which includes the stabilizing elements is fastened at least to an immovable clamp part which interacts with the moveable clamp part, wherein the guide arrangement is moveable from an ineffective position into a support position behind the printed products which are being transported in the conveying direction.

Apparatus for stabilizing printed products being transported in a containing stream over a distance hanging from clamps on a conveying device

A conveying arrangement for processing printed material to printed products has a conveying member supplying printed material and an intermediate conveying device with compartments rotating about an axis of rotation and formed by two opposed adjustable plates. The compartments receive the printed material from the conveying member. A synchronously operating conveyor is arranged downstream of the intermediate conveying device and has pocket-shaped receiving elements receiving the printed material from the compartments. The compartments, when approaching the conveying member, are moved into an open position for receiving the printed material and then into a closed position for further transporting the received printed material. The compartments have controllable conveyors arranged opposite one another on the opposed adjustable plates. The conveyors transport frictionally the printed material, clamped therebetween, out of the compartments. A drive acts on the conveyors.

Conveying arrangement for processing printed material to printed products

A device for pushing a stack of printed products from a table on which the stack is stacked has a stacking receptacle provided on the table and receiving the printed products for stacking. The stacking receptacle is defined by four lateral edges of the printed products and has two opposed lateral guide walls viewed in a pushing direction of pushing out the stack of printed products. The guide walls each have vertical guide rails moveable along the guide walls in the pushing direction. The guide rails on the opposed guide walls are positioned opposite one another in guide rail pairs forming a forward receptacle boundary and a rearward receptacle boundary in the pushing direction. The rearward receptacle boundary in the pushing direction is a pushing device for the stack of printed products.

Device for pushing a stack of printed products from a table

An insertion and gathering device having two deflection wheels, a conveying apparatus circulating around the deflection wheels, receiving containers coupled to and moved along successively by the conveying apparatus with each receiving container having a pocket with an open upper end constituting an insertion opening and extending crosswise to the conveying direction, a feed station for feeding folded products into the insertion openings, a removal station for removing folded products from the receiving devices, and a stationary opening device for opening the folded products arranged between the feed station and the removal station downstream of the first deflection wheel.

Device for opening and inserting printed products in a gathering line

A device for transporting printed products has an endless circulating traction member having support frames. Receiving elements configured to pick up supplied printed products and to release the printed products are fastened on the endless circulating traction member at regular spacings on the support frames and are in the form of rollers having a circumference. The rollers cooperate in roller pairs with one another and define between its circumference, respectively, a conveying gap. The support frames have axles extending perpendicularly to the conveying direction of the printed products. The rollers are drivingly supported with one end thereof on the axles.

Device for transporting printed products

A method for producing a roll from printed products in a winding operation includes winding the printed products with winding tape onto a winding core; driving a winding rug with a first drive, wherein the winding rug is arranged on the underside of the winding core and fitted against the winding core for rotating the winding core; driving a winding tape supply with a second drive, wherein the winding tape is unwound from the winding tape supply; and maintaining a predetermined tape tension during the winding operation. Maintaining the predetermined tape tension includes measuring speed and distance with measurement devices at the first and second drives to obtain measured values, computing the diameter of the winding tape supply with the measured values, and regulating a rotational moment with the computed diameter of the winding tape supply to maintain the tension.

Method and arrangement for producing a roll from printed products

A winding device for flat printed sheets has a rotatably supported winding drum for receiving and dispensing printed sheets. At least one winding mandrel having a winding belt wound thereon and configured to unwind the winding belt and feed undershot the winding belt to the winding drum is provided. The winding belt receives the printed sheets and, by being wound onto the winding drum together with the printed sheets, forms winding layers of the printed sheets on the winding drum. A touch probe detects an empty state of the winding drum, without printed sheets wound thereon, or a loaded state of the winding drum, having printed sheets wound thereon, by interacting with the winding belt or the printed sheets.

Device for winding and unwinding flat printed sheets onto or from a rotary winding drum

For a space-saving and cost-effective device for winding or unwinding printed products onto or off of a reel hub ( ), which can be supported on a winding stand and to which at least one winding tape ( ) is supplied undershot to the reel hub ( ) and which can be rolled off a winding mandrel to form wound layers of printed products, the drivable reel hub ( ) is permanently joined on the front to an upper column part ( ) of the winding stand, which roughly vertically penetrates the winding axis ( ), and is removably supported on the winding stand element ( ), which is composed of the winding stand foot ( ) and the lower column part ( ).

Winding stand for a reel hub employed for winding and unwinding flat printed products

A method and device for producing printed products wherein first primary products are supplied, respectively, fold first to successive, uniformly-spaced pockets disposed transversely to a conveying direction at a beginning of a first segment of a production path formed by feeders. Subsequently, the first primary product in each pocket is grasped at a protruding gripping edge and opened for insertion of a partial product or enclosure. A further primary product is supplied, respectively, to the successive pockets on a further segment adjoining the first segment of the production path for producing a further printed product, including partial products or enclosures, in the successive pockets.

Method of producing printed products by inserting partial products and/or enclosures into a primary product, and device for executing the method

An apparatus for feeding printed products to a processing unit includes a rotating conveyor drum which individually pulls the stacked printed products from a magazine; the conveyor drum has on an approximately circular travel path a gripping device formed by at least one movable gripping arm for receiving the printed product from the separating device, wherein the gripping device can be controlled into an open position or closed position by means of a cam mechanism connected to a closed guide track arranged in a vertical plane relative to the axis of rotation and stationary relative to the axis of rotation. The movable gripping arm of the gripping device is connected to a double roller lever which is mounted on the conveyor drum so as to be pivotable about an axis extending parallel to the axis of rotation of the conveyor drum and which travels in two closed guide tracks arranged stationary in at least one vertical plane about the axis of rotation of the conveyor drum.

Apparatus for feeding printed products to a processing unit

A method and an apparatus for collecting or gathering printed products to form final printed products, such as newspapers, magazines, brochures and/or books, wherein the printed products are moved along supply lines and are supplied to one or more processing locations. At least two of the printed products intended for forming a final printed product are combined at a collecting point provided in a supply line and the combined printed products are further transported together.

Method of collecting printed products to form final printed products

Device for charging an insetting machine for printed products

An arrangement for the step-by-step conveyance of printed products, such as, newspapers, magazines or the like from a removal location, wherein the printed products are supplied to the removal location by a conveying unit approximately vertically and spaced apart from each other. The arrangement includes at least one set of gripping tongs for gripping the lower ends of the printed products at the removal location. The gripping tongs are connected to a driven hub. The gripping tongs are retractably controlled by the periphery of the hub which interacts with a friction wheel arranged after the removal location. The gripping tongs extend through a space which is arranged downstream and is provided for the controlled release of the printed products. The space is defined by conveying members which are driven in the same direction.

Arrangement for step-by-step conveyance of printed products

Each of the pockets (3), which are arranged at regular distances apart and are moveable along an endless path, is provided with two vertically adjustable stops (14, 15) for the printed product (12) placed into the pocket (3). The stops (14, 15) are mounted displaceably in a pocket carrier (8). Within the pocket carrier (8) there is horizontally arranged a slide (18) which has two elongated openings (19, 20) of slight inclination to the horizontal. A projection (21, 22) on each stop (14, 15) is guided in the corresponding opening (19, 20) of the slide (18). A displacement of the slide (18) accordingly effects a vertical displacement of the stops (14, 15). A guide member (28) which is displaceable in the direction of the slide (18) on a carrier (29) fixed to the machine has a guide groove (32) for a projection (27) arranged on the protruding end of the slide (18). Upon the moving past of the pockets (3), the projection (27) moves through the guide groove (32) so that the slide (18) is brought into a corresponding horizontal position and the stops (14, 15) are brought into a corresponding vertical position. Upon change of the height of the printed product (12), therefore, only the guide member (28) need be newly set on the carrier (29) in order for the printed products (12) to lie at the correct height in all pockets (3).

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Strengelbach, Switzerland

Albert Eugster