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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 15, 1999
Barry Mark Jackson, York, ME (US);
Joseph Adrian St. Ours, Lee, NH (US);
Jatinder Singh Sappal, Dover, NH (US);
Heidelberger, Druckmaschinen AG, Heidelberg, DE;
Abstract
A signature folding device including a first transport device for transporting a first part of a signature, and a second transport device next to the first transport device for transporting a second part of the signature. The second transport device is skewed with respect to the first transport device so as to move the second part of the signature toward the first part of the signature. Also provided is a method for folding a signature including the steps of transporting a first part of the signature in a first direction, and transporting a second part of the signature in a second direction, the second direction being skewed toward the first direction so that a fold begins to form in the signature.