Abstract:
A device for conveying signatures from a gripper cylinder to a folding cylinder comprises, in a free gap formed between the two cylinders, a supporting element supporting a plate which can be pivoted about a fulcrum, the plate rotatably supporting a signature guiding body having an oval cross-section and extending through the width of the cylinders, the body being covered, on a side thereof facing the cylinders, by a low friction web.
Abstract:
A parallel folding apparatus of a folding machine comprises a first cylinder in contact with a second cylinder. A guide plate guides a signature transported on the lower circumferential surface of the second cylinder after being double-folded by grippers of the second cylinder in cooperation with knives of the first cylinder. The guide plate comprises a stationary guide located downstream, in the rotating direction, of the point of contact between the first cylinder and the second cylinder and disposed continuously along the circumferential surfaces of the first cylinder and the second cylinder, and a moving guide movable in accordance with the operating speed of the folding machine between a position, closer to the circumferential surface of the first cylinder than the stationary guide, and a position, more remote from the circumferential surface of the first cylinder than the stationary guide.
Abstract:
A puncture or gripper cylinder is provided with at least one puncture strip that is provided with gripper pins or point needles. These pins are extendable from the cylinder to puncture and to grip a signature. At least one deflector is carried on the puncture cylinder and is extendable and retractable with respect to a surface of the cylinder. The deflector, when it is extended at least temporarily shields the signature from subsequent pins.
Abstract:
A folder in a signature-processing machine has a transfer cylinder and a folding cylinder. The two cylinders are mounted to be rotatable in relative counter-rotation at a substantially equal peripheral speed. They form a nip through which a signature is transported. The signature is taken up by the folding cylinder at a folding location between its leading edge and its trailing edge. In order to reduce the formation of dog-ears and crumpling when the signature tail is ripped away from the transfer cylinder, there is provided a fold-off guide at the exit side of said nip. In order to adapt for speed changes of the folder, and to allow for the fold-off guide to change its shape in synchronicity with each signature, the fold-off surface of the guide is movably disposed. The fold-off guide, in a simple embodiment, may be a flexible plate. In a dynamically varying embodiment, the fold-off guide may be cam or an eccentric with or without the intermediary of an endless belt which travels with the folding cylinder.
Abstract:
A high speed paper folding machine for cutting a continuously fed web of paper into sections and folding said sections is disclosed. The machine includes a rotating hollow drum on which the web is deposited and on which the cutting and folding operations are performed without transferring the web or the cut or folded sections off of the drum. The drum includes a knife for cutting the web. The knife preferably is situated within the drum interior and adapted to extend through elongated apertures defined on the drum outer surface. Grippers on the drum hold the web on the drum through the operation. At least one folding station is operably associated with the drum. At least one pack-off station can be provided for stacking the folded product in separate stacks.
Abstract:
A folding cylinder for a folding apparatus of a rotary printing press having displaceable mechanisms which are connected with at least one spindle which is arranged in the folding cylinder, spaced radially from its shaft and can be turned by an adjustment spindle arranged in a coaxial bore in the shaft. The adjustment spindle is secured against rotation with respect to the shaft but is axially displaceable in its bore, and, axially spaced, is firmly attached to a pull which has two courses that extend towards each other, pass over a guide pulley, arranged in a radial opening of the bore to a drive disk which is fastened on the spindle and wrapped by the pull chain.
Abstract:
A collecting cylinder and a folding flap cylinder cooperate to form a cross-folding device for signatures in a rotary printing press. The leading edge of each signature is initially retained on the collecting cylinder and is held there after insertion of the cylinder into the folding flap. The trailing edge of the signature is transferred to grippers on the folding flap cylinder at a point where the two cylinders are in contact. Operation of the cross-folding device results in reduced folded product damage.
Abstract:
A folding device is provided which produces folded printed products from an incoming web of printed material. The folding device has a mechanism for automatically converting the folding device from a configuration that forms a single transverse fold to a configuration that forms a second transverse fold parallel to the first fold. The conversion mechanism has a set of movable belts wound partially around a first folding cylinder and partially around a second folding cylinder. It also has a device for moving the set of movable belts to a first position, where the set of movable belts is wound partially around the first folding cylinder downstream of a plane P passing through the axes of the first and second folding cylinders, for forming a single transverse fold and to a second position, where the set of movable belts is wound only partially around the second folding cylinder downstream of the plane P passing through the axes of the first and second folding cylinders, for forming a second transverse fold parallel to the first fold.
Abstract:
To pick up folded paper sheets, being folded, for example, by a standard folding apparatus (1, 2, 4-6), an endless transport belt or chain (71; 7, 7, 7', 18) retains thereon carrier elements (9) made of highly elastic flat spring steel, being guided by the endless transport means in a path which places the flat spring steel strips edgewise between the folding products at the folding zone, then transport the folded products along the path and then decelerates the folded products while spreading them apart. The latter combined effect is obtained by guiding the transport means over a deflection wheel (11, 16) at the region of attachment of the carrier elements to the transport chain or belt, while retaining the flat strip free end portions, forming hangers, at or close to the center of rotation of the deflection wheel, so that, effectively, the folded paper products will be spread while, at the same time, will be slowed, or have a linear speed of, or close to 0.