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Luwa Ag

Heinz Linder

Albert Eugster

Felix Kramer

Peter Merkli

Kurt Heutschi

Urs Maag

Hans Gruter

In an arrangement and a method for intermediate storage of packages, a first transport path is provided to transport packages from a loading station to a transfer station. A second transport path and at least one storage surface arranged along the second transport path are provided, wherein the second transport path receives packages from the first transport path and places the packages onto the at least one storage surface for intermediate storage of the packages and unloads the packages from the at least one storage surface for transport of the packages to the transfer station, as needed.

Arrangement for intermediate storage of packages

A distribution arrangement for packages has a first conveying device and one or more producing groups transferring packages onto the first conveying device. Target groups receive the packages from the first conveying device for further transport. The first conveying device forms a first closed loop arrangement and extends in at least two planes arranged above each other. At least one of the producing groups has at least two of the target groups correlated therewith, and the at least one of the producing groups and the at least two of the target groups correlated therewith are serially arranged along the first closed loop arrangement.

Distribution arrangement for packages

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

A method and an apparatus for manufacturing printed products by insetting at least one subproduct and/or inserts into a main product, wherein at least the main products are grasped at the delivery of a printing machine by revolving gripping members of a conveying unit provided with an intermediate storage arrangement for inserting and delivering products, wherein the products are conveyed on conveying paths to an insetting machine formed of revolving insetting pockets, and wherein the products are taken up at the delivery of the printing machine by a first conveyor of the conveying unit connected to the insertion side of the intermediate storage arrangement and are transferred to a second conveyor of the conveying unit connected to the delivery side of the intermediate storage arrangement. The products grasped at the folds thereof are selectively transferred in front of the intermediate storage arrangement from the first conveyor with the folds facing forwardly on a direct transfer path to the second conveyor.

Method of manufacturing printed products by insetting at least one subproduct into a main product and apparatus for carrying out the method

The invention relates to a method, an apparatus and a container for shipping printed matter. The method of the invention is essentially distinguished in that the printed matter reaches the respective shipping points in returnable containers adapted to its format. These returnable containers can then be used again after their return to the packaging station. The containers used in this connection are essentially distinguished in that they have free spaces extending from the container bottom to the upper container edge for access to printed matter to be placed in them. The apparatus of the invention to be used for packaging is distinguished by a magazine for receiving returnable containers stacked inside each other, from which the containers can be taken separately for loading with printed matter.

Method, apparatus and container for shipping printed matter

A container includes two container halves and a hinge connecting the two container halves so that the two container halves can be pivoted between a folded up position and a folded down position. In the folded up position the container includes a bottom, four side walls and an upper filling opening and is stackable on another like container in the folded up position, and in the folded down position the container is nestable with another like container in the folded down position.

Container for transport of printed products

Device for processing printed products

A method and apparatus for assembling printed products. The method and apparatus involve the selective delivery of the printed products to receiving devices situated in succession along a production line formed by a plurality of controlled sheet feeder stations. Printed products are selectively supplied to a receiving device at a discharge end of the production line, and transferred to a helical circulation track guiding a plurality of further receiving devices driven in synchronism with the production line through a feed path disposed between the discharge end of the production line and the circulation track. Any incomplete printed products are removed from the printed products, and replaced with replacement complete printed products by delivery of the replacement complete printed products to respective receiving devices of the circulation track corresponding to removed incomplete printed products at a feed point in the circulation track through the feed path. The feed path is thus adapted to transfer both originally complete printed products and replacement complete printed products to the circulation track.

Method and apparatus for replacing incomplete printed products in the

Device for charging an insetting machine for printed products

A device is provided to combine printed products that are supplied to a folded envelope. A rotating conveying member is equipped with receiving pockets that are distributed over its circumference and can be closed and opened. The receiving pockets have an associated charging station for the envelopes and a supplying station for the enclosures on the opposite side of the conveying member as well as a subsequently connected removal station, with the charging station and the supplying station being connected by means of an undercut conveying region of the conveying member.

Device for combining printed products that are supplied to a folded

An inserting machine has a plurality of successively arranged feeder heads mounted along two parallel travel paths. In a main jacket feeding station, main jackets are inserted fold first into the feeder heads. The main jackets are opened and one or more insert feeding stations insert inserts into the main jackets. For increasing the output of the inserting machine, the insert feeding station is constructed for selectively feeding inserts to the feeder heads of both parallel travel paths.

Inserting machine

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

Large rolls of partially overlapping paper sheets which are convoluted onto the cores of reels are stored in one or more rows of compartments in a newspaper printing or bookbinding plant. Two adjoining rows are separated from each other by a track for one or more vehicles which are used to transport empty reels to one or more compartments wherein the sheets are convoluted onto the respective cores as well as to transport loaded reels to unoccupied compartments or to compartments which are adjacent to unwinding units. Conveyors in the form of cranes and/or chain or belt conveyors are used to transfer empty and loaded reels between the compartments of the rows and pairs of similar compartments on the vehicles. A vehicle which transports a loaded reel from the convoluting station to an empty compartment is used to transport an empty reel from such compartment to the compartment at the convoluting station so that the vehicle is put to use during each stage of its movement.

Depository for accumulations of paper sheets

Partially overlapping printed sheets which are transported from an inserting or other producing or processing machine are delivered into a stacking unit which accumulates groups of overlapping sheets and dumps such groups into an intermittently operated wrapping unit wherein the groups are confined in plastic foils. The sheets which are intercepted during evacuation of a freshly formed group from the stacking unit are diverted into an accumulating unit which gathers the diverted sheets into piles and dumps the piles into a magazine for packing or for admission into one or more additional wrapping units.

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Zofingen, Switzerland

Heinz Linder