Albert-frankenthal Ag

Rudolf Fischer

Rudolf Stab

Helmut Puschnerat

Rudolf Frey

In connection with a unit for parallelizing a chain of overlapping printed products such as signatures (that is to say causing the leading edges to be parallel), delivered by way of a fan wheel onto a delivery belt thereunder, the purpose of the invention is to make for trouble-free operation, to see that the signatures are completely regularly placed, and to make upkeep work on the unit simple. For this purpose, the unit has at least one driver which is moved along at a higher speed than the signatures so as to come up against the trailing edge of each signature as its leading edge comes onto the delivery belt. The driver is moved along a line of motion in such a way that at least part of such motion is directed out of the transport plane of the delivery belt. The driver may be a simple kicking edge of a part fixed to a driver support.

Unit for parallelizing sheet-like products at the delivery end of a

The invention has to do with conveying systems for folded products coming from a folder and each made up of sheets which are overlapped so that their unoverlapped edges are sticking out sideways. For pulling the overlapped sheets out sideways and separating them, the apparatus has two gripping means moving along the sides of the system, each gripping means having a gripping gap for taking up said edges. One gripping means is placed at an angle to the direction of conveying for pulling the sheets out to the side. The gripping means are made up of belts or pulleys running at an equal speed and with a gap between them for the edges. One useful effect of the apparatus is that it is not necessary to keep to any fixed spacing between the products in their direction of transport.

Apparatus for separating overlapped sheets of folded products

For the purpose of helping in the making of a second lengthways fold in a web of paper in a folder having a folder blade for producing this fold, the paper is firstly scored at the desired fold position in the long direction by a sharp-edged wheel pushing the paper against a turning back-up part, which is let into the face of one of the nipper or guiding rolls of the folder. The wheel with the sharp edge is placed on the other, opposite roll between separate roll parts or wheels thereon gripping the web against the other roll.

Unit for scoring webs of paper in the lengthways direction

A folder has at least two transverse paper cutters, each with folding blades for use with a fold jaw cylinder for sheeting and folding paper web coming from a printing press and forwarding the sheets produced to a delivery station. The one or the other transverse cutter (as put into operation on makeready) is used for producing sheet sizes answering to the full or half of the plate cylinder circumference of the printing press. The fold jaw cylinder has tool take-up or fixing positions spaced about its circumference with a spacing equal to half the smaller sheet size to be processed. The fold jaw cylinder is designed to have fixed thereon fold jaws with a spacing therebetween equal to the spacing between the folding blades of the one or the other cutter used at the time and to have fixed thereon scissor or shear cutting knives, running out past its circumference radially and spaced to the back of the jaws (in the direction of running) by half the jaw-to-jaw distance. There is furthermore a knife cylinder between the cutters and the delivery station. This knife cylinder has a circumference at least equal to the largest paper size and is designed to take up knives for use with knives on the fold jaw cylinder.

Folder

The invention is concerned with a device for slowing down a fed printing specimen as it is fed to the paddle wheel, and includes a pair of rollers, one of which is adjustable relative to the other to provide for an adjustable wedge portion therebetween which includes means to slow the speed of the fed printing specimen down as it is fed to the paddle wheel.

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Ludwigshafen-Oggersheim, Germany

Rudolf Fischer