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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 1988
Filed:
Jul. 31, 1986
Ingo Kobler, Anhausen, DE;
Eckhard Schneider, Stadtbergen, DE;
M.A.N. Roland Druckmaschinen Aktiengesellschaft, Augsburg, DE;
Abstract
To provide, selectively, different outputs from a cutting and folding apparatus (FIGS. 3, 4, 5), first and second cutting and folding groups (11, 12, 13; 608, 609, 610, 611; 14, 15, 13; 621, 622, 623) provide, respectively, first and second types of printed substrates (A1, A2), for example forming advertising material for men's wear and ladies' wear, for subsequent insertion into a newspaper, the respective first and second cutting and folding apparatus delivering the printed substrates which may have undergone one longitudinal fold, and have been transversely folded by the cutting and folding apparatus to transport belts, which, further and selectively, either transport the two different types of cut and folded substrates to separate receiving stations (21, 22) which may form further longitudinal folds therein, or, in dependence on a setting of a switch (16, 16'; 26, 611), supply the two types of printed subject matter to one further receiving station (22; 614) and associate the two types of substrates (A1, A2) by an alignment apparatus providing different path lengths for the respective substrates, so that the leading edges thereof are in alignment and match, for ready and automatic insertion into a newspaper.