Method and apparatus for the intermediate storage and/or rearrangement

Abstract

Printed products, which are obtained as a scale formation from a processing stage (10), are intermediately stored and rearranged in such a way that they can again be supplied for further processing to a processing stage (20) as a scale formation, which can have a different number of scale flows, different speeds and a different sequence of different printed products. The method takes place in three method zones. In the first method zone (1), which is connected to the processing stages (10 and 20), the scale flows (S) are wound onto roll cores (WK) or rolls (W) are unwound into scale flows (S). In the second method zone (2), the rolls (W) and cores (WK) are transported between the storage station and the winding station and storage units (horizontal roll pairs (WP) and core flanges (R)) are formed and dismantled. In the third method zone (3) the storage units (WP, R) are introduced to and removed from a store. In all the method zones handling of printed products and auxiliary storage means takes place solely constituted by the roll cores with strips or bands. An advantageous feature of the inventive method is that the apparatus used in the individual method zones are method zone-specific and not product or auxiliary storage material-specific.