| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7431277 |
Device for collecting printed sheets in a certain sequence astride and atop one another to form |
October 7, 2008 |
| A device for collecting printed sheets in a certain sequence astride and atop one another to form a printed product has a saddle-shaped support supplied by a sheet feeder with printed sheets. The saddle-shaped support is arranged above a conveying device transporting the printed products |
| 7192028 |
Device for processing printed products supplied to a stacking device |
March 20, 2007 |
| In a device for processing printed products supplied to a stacking device, the printed products are picked up at a delivery of a printing machine or a printed product processing machine by a transport device and are transported in a suspended position on a transport path to a transfer |
| 7097608 |
Signature folding device |
August 29, 2006 |
| A folding device for signatures includes a saddle-shaped folding sword having an upright folding edge and an inside guide element below the upright folding edge on which the signatures are folded while passing through the folding device. An outside folding element follows and operate |
| 7055814 |
Apparatus for collecting printed products |
June 6, 2006 |
| An apparatus for collecting, stitching and/or cutting printed products includes an endless collector chain and feeders arranged one behind the other and above the collector chain for placing the printed products on the collector chain, and a stitching device for stitching or stapling the |
| 7007951 |
Transport disc for an opening device of a printed sheet feeder |
March 7, 2006 |
| A transport disc for an opening device of a printed sheet feeder is arranged on a first opening drum of the opening device and has at least one outer elastic support. The outer elastic support cooperates with a securing disc of a second opening drum of the opening device to clamp an |
| 7004463 |
Conveying arrangement for processing printed material to printed products |
February 28, 2006 |
| A conveying arrangement for processing printed material to printed products has a conveying member supplying printed material and an intermediate conveying device with compartments rotating about an axis of rotation and formed by two opposed adjustable plates. The compartments receiv |
| 6796209 |
Cutting machine for automatic trimming of printed products |
September 28, 2004 |
| A cutting machine for automatically trimming edges of folded printed products has a first cutting station with a cutting element for performing a front cut at a front cut location on an open side of the printed products. A feeding device transports the printed products to the first c |
| 6793211 |
Pocket wheel feeding device |
September 21, 2004 |
| A feeder for collecting printed sheets in an astride position includes a pulling-off drum which has at the circumference thereof gripping members for pulling off printed sheets stacked in a magazine. The feeder further includes a unit for conveying the printed sheets with an open side fa |
| 6758469 |
Gripping conveyor with pneumatic separator |
July 6, 2004 |
| A feeding device for feeding a processing line with printed products, including folded or non-folded printed sheets, from a stack of printed products. The printed sheets are held in a magazine. A conveyor defines a circulating path and moves in a conveying direction for conveying the |
| 6698749 |
Device for feeding folded or unfolded signatures to a production line |
March 2, 2004 |
| A feeder device for removing folded or unfolded signatures from a stack of signatures in an adjacent signature magazine and feeding a production line with the signatures. The device includes a conveying rotor having an approximately circular circumference and being rotatable in a conveyi |
| 6655674 |
Arrangement for stitching the spine of printed products, compiled of folded printed sheets, by m |
December 2, 2003 |
| An arrangement for stitching the spine of printed products, complied of folded printed sheets, by staples has a stitching device with a stitching head/bending arrangement. A conveying device for conveying the printed products to the stitching device at a spacing sequentially behind one |
| 6632059 |
Method for adhesive attachment of a cover provided with a binding strip and device for performin |
October 14, 2003 |
| In a method for adhesive attachment of a cover and a binding strip on the flanks of a spine of an book block comprised of bound printed sheets, the book block is transported in a transport direction on a circulating transport device. A binding strip is placed onto the book block spine su |
| 6619650 |
Device for feeding printed products to a conveying channel |
September 16, 2003 |
| A device is used to insert and/or deposit printed products into a conveying channel. The printed products are conveyed in the conveying channel with of carriers of a conveying element. An acceleration apparatus pre-accelerates the printed products in conveying direction. The accelera |
| 6616139 |
Device for removing printed products transported uniformly spaced on a transport device |
September 9, 2003 |
| A device for removing printed products, having a fold and being transported uniformly spaced and astraddle by a transport device, has a rotatingly driven gripping device with controlled gripping elements for gripping one of the printed products by the fold on the transport device and rem |
| 6612559 |
Conveying device for collecting and transporting printed sheets placed astraddle on a first chai |
September 2, 2003 |
| A conveying device for collecting and transporting printed sheets has a first chain conveyor on which the printed sheets are placed astraddle to be conveyed in a conveying direction. A second chain conveyor is arranged downstream of the first chain conveyor in the conveying direction and |
| 6609605 |
Arrangement for intermediate storage of packages |
August 26, 2003 |
| In an arrangement and a method for intermediate storage of packages, a first transport path is provided to transport packages from a loading station to a transfer station. A second transport path and at least one storage surface arranged along the second transport path are provided, |
| 6568672 |
Device for forming a stack of successively arranged printed sheets |
May 27, 2003 |
| A device for forming a stack of successively arranged printed sheets has a stack support with support elements and a conveying device supplying printed sheets, arranged in an imbricated arrangement, in a vertical direction to the stack support. The printed sheets formed stacks on the |
| 6565658 |
Glue spreader |
May 20, 2003 |
| A glue spreader for spreading glue to a back or adjacent area of a book block of gathered printed pages conveyed past the glue spreader on a conveyor includes a tub for holding the glue. At least one application roller, drivable in the same direction and at the same speed as the book |
| 6547240 |
Gripper drum for gripping printed products |
April 15, 2003 |
| A gripper drum for gripping printed products includes a drum shaft; at least one gripper disk coupled to the drum shaft; a gripper shaft disposed on the at least one gripper disk and having a shaft body rotatable about its longitudinal axis; an apparatus for controlling the gripper shaft |
| 6540066 |
Conveyor for gathering and processing printed sheets |
April 1, 2003 |
| Signatures are transported straddling on a saddle-shaped support of a conveying device by circulating drivers and are removed by means of a blade of the conveying device and are transferred to a lift-off device. The conveying device is lowered in the region of blade and the drivers p |
| 6533207 |
Method and arrangement for producing a roll from printed products |
March 18, 2003 |
| A method for producing a roll from printed products in a winding operation includes winding the printed products with winding tape onto a winding core; driving a winding rug with a first drive, wherein the winding rug is arranged on the underside of the winding core and fitted against th |
| 6520446 |
Device for winding and unwinding flat printed sheets onto or from a rotary winding drum |
February 18, 2003 |
| A winding device for flat printed sheets has a rotatably supported winding drum for receiving and dispensing printed sheets. At least one winding mandrel having a winding belt wound thereon and configured to unwind the winding belt and feed undershot the winding belt to the winding drum |
| 6517064 |
Device for gathering and conveying printed sheets straddling a gathering segment |
February 11, 2003 |
| A device is provided for gathering and conveying printed sheets over a conveying path. The device includes a gathering segment, with the legs of the printed sheets straddling the gathering segment. The gathering segment includes a conveyor device having a saddle-shaped support surface fo |
| 6508881 |
Device for maintaining constant a certain viscosity of an adhesive for pasting the spine of an i |
January 21, 2003 |
| A device for maintaining constant a certain viscosity of an adhesive, that is used for pasting a spine of an inner book or a book cover, by adding a diluent has an adhesive container filled with an adhesive. A rotating conveyor roll is immersed in the adhesive. An applicator roll is |
| 6505730 |
Distribution arrangement for packages |
January 14, 2003 |
| A distribution arrangement for packages has a first conveying device and one or more producing groups transferring packages onto the first conveying device. Target groups receive the packages from the first conveying device for further transport. The first conveying device forms a fi |
| 6502782 |
Winding stand for a reel hub employed for winding and unwinding flat printed products |
January 7, 2003 |
| For a space-saving and cost-effective device for winding or unwinding printed products onto or off of a reel hub (3), which can be supported on a winding stand and to which at least one winding tape (10) is supplied undershot to the reel hub (3) and which can be rolled off a winding |
| 6484639 |
Device for delivering a printing plate to a plate cylinder of a printing press |
November 26, 2002 |
| A device for delivering a printing plate having at least one edge to a plate cylinder of a printing press in a position for exchange is provided. The device includes at least one selectable exchangeable format slide-in unit insertable into the printing press. The format slide-in unit is |
| 6450749 |
Arrangement for applying an adhesive onto outer surfaces of an inner book to be inset into a boo |
September 17, 2002 |
| An arrangement for applying an adhesive to outer surfaces of an inner book to be inset into a book cover by an insetting machine, moving inner books on saddle plates of a circulating conveyor vertically upwardly. The arrangement has an adhesive applying device with two application roller |
| 6390748 |
Device for threading a binding thread along a transfer path between a thread spool and a sewing |
May 21, 2002 |
| A device for threading a binding thread along a transfer path between a thread spool and a sewing needle of a stitching unit of a thread stitching machine configured for binding a book in sheets at a groove side of the book in sheets has manipulation devices for manipulating the thread a |
| 6375179 |
Device for opening a folded signature and depositing it onto a running conveyor |
April 23, 2002 |
| A device for opening and depositing a folded signature onto a moving conveyor for conveying the folded signatures in a conveying direction includes two opening rollers each having a rotational axis that extends essentially parallel to the conveying direction of the conveyor. The open |
| 6357479 |
Rotary disc valve |
March 19, 2002 |
| A rotary disc valve with a stationary valve plate provided with a vacuum connection, a rotary slide member mounted so as to be movable between first and second valve positions, wherein the slide member has a breakthrough connecting the vacuum connection to a suction opening in the fi |
| 6328519 |
Method and device for producing printed products |
December 11, 2001 |
| A method is disclosed for fabricating printed products, such as newsprint, brochures and the like, from folded signatures by partially joining the signatures together at the folded edges with an adhesive to form a bound spine. The signatures are moved astride on a saddle-shaped transport |
| 6315107 |
Conveyor plant for gathering and processing printed sheets |
November 13, 2001 |
| A conveyor plant for gathering and processing printed sheets includes a saddle-shaped collecting chain, a double chain with a gap between the individual chains of the double chain, a transfer area in which the collecting chain travels into the gap of the double chain, and carrier mem |
| 6314881 |
Printing group for a printing press |
November 13, 2001 |
| A printing group for a printing press includes a plate cylinder, a blanket cylinder operatively coupled to the plate cylinder, and a further cylinder operatively coupled to the blanket cylinder. The blanket cylinder includes two end faces, each of which has a conical bearer ring. The fur |
| 6311968 |
Method of producing printed products by inserting partial products and/or enclosures into a prim |
November 6, 2001 |
| A method and device for producing printed products wherein first primary products are supplied, respectively, fold first to successive, uniformly-spaced pockets disposed transversely to a conveying direction at a beginning of a first segment of a production path formed by feeders. Su |
| 6308945 |
Apparatus for placing folded signatures on a transport device |
October 30, 2001 |
| Signatures (1) are individually gripped from a stack (2) by a rotatable extracting cylinder (A) and transferred to a first rotating opening cylinder (B) and a second rotating opening cylinder (C) which open the gripped signatures (1) at the edges (4, 5) opposite from the fold (3) and |
| 6302007 |
Method for trimming the exposed lateral edges of printed bound documents conveyed individually o |
October 16, 2001 |
| For trimming the exposed lateral edges of printed bound documents (4 to 6) conveyed individually or in quires, such as books, brochures or magazines, which are held at the bound lateral edge (23) and conveyed to a trimming device (2) through a rotational and translational conveying movem |
| 6254088 |
Method of manufacturing printed products by insetting at least one subproduct into a main produc |
July 3, 2001 |
| A method and an apparatus for manufacturing printed products by insetting at least one subproduct and/or inserts into a main product, wherein at least the main products are grasped at the delivery of a printing machine by revolving gripping members of a conveying unit provided with an |
| 6234231 |
Device for attaching a supplement to a surface of signatures |
May 22, 2001 |
| A device for attaching a supplement to an exposed surface of signatures transported one after another in a transporting direction along a guide arrangement includes a rotating gripping roller for picking up the supplements at the circumference of the rotating gripping roller with a c |
| 6234054 |
Cutter for automatic trimming of leaflets magazines and books |
May 22, 2001 |
| A cutter arrangement for automatically trimming flat products, such as leaflets, magazines and books transported along a horizontal path includes a clamping mechanism positioned along the path for clamping the products, respectively, during a trimming operation. A counter-knife is fixedl |
| 6224050 |
Method and apparatus for feeding astride folded signatures to a collection path |
May 1, 2001 |
| A method and an apparatus is disclosed for feeding astride signatures (3) to a collection path. The signatures (3) are removed from a magazine (4) with a conveyor drum (6) and transferred to an opening device (16). The transport speed of the signature lifted from the magazine (4) is firs |
| 6193227 |
Continuously feeding sheets with coil unwind control |
February 27, 2001 |
| A method of and an apparatus for feeding a processing machine with flat products, such as printed sheets, cards, patterns or the like. Over a conveyor path arranged between a storage unit and the processing machine and forming a product storage unit, the flat products are carried from th |
| 6186721 |
Device for pressing a book cover onto the adhesive-coated outer surfaces of inner books to be in |
February 13, 2001 |
| An arrangement for pressing a book cover onto adhesive-coated outer surfaces of an inner book to be inset into a book cover in an insetting machine, moving inner books on saddle plates of a circulating conveyor vertically upwardly, has a pressing device with two or more pressing roll |
| 6186500 |
Apparatus for feeding printed products to a processing unit |
February 13, 2001 |
| An apparatus for feeding printed products to a processing unit includes a rotating conveyor drum which individually pulls the stacked printed products from a magazine; the conveyor drum has on an approximately circular travel path a gripping device formed by at least one movable grip |
| 6186494 |
Device for depositing printed sheets on a guide |
February 13, 2001 |
| A device for placing printed sheets on a guide includes a mechanism for accelerating a printed sheet in an off-transport direction to a transverse velocity before the printed sheet is placed on the guide. The mechanism includes a gripping device for grasping the printed sheet by the fron |
| 6175775 |
Method for optimizing the production output of an apparatus processing flat items |
January 16, 2001 |
| A method and an apparatus for optimizing a production output of a processing device for processing flat articles, the processing device including at least one processing arrangement for receiving and processing the flat articles and which has function parameters controllable through |
| 6161827 |
Method of collecting printed products to form final printed products |
December 19, 2000 |
| A method and an apparatus for collecting or gathering printed products to form final printed products, such as newspapers, magazines, brochures and/or books, wherein the printed products are moved along supply lines and are supplied to one or more processing locations. At least two of th |
| 6152683 |
Method, apparatus and container for shipping printed matter |
November 28, 2000 |
| The invention relates to a method, an apparatus and a container for shipping printed matter. The method of the invention is essentially distinguished in that the printed matter reaches the respective shipping points in returnable containers adapted to its format. These returnable con |
| 6142354 |
Gathering and stitching machine having variable pitch and a drive device therefor |
November 7, 2000 |
| A gathering and stapling machine includes a gathering chain for conveying printed products and having a variable chain pitch. A stapling device staples the printed products that are conveyed on the gathering chain. A drive device includes a first gear for driving the stapling device, a |
| 6102651 |
Stacking device for a conveyor tray |
August 15, 2000 |
| The invention relates to a device for forming stacks of items, e.g. stacked newspapers, periodicals or the like, on a tray for further conveyance in the direction of transport, where the stack is taken further by a cross assembler to a compacting tunnel, where there is a blocking device |
