Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
270520140 | Signature associating | 29 |
20100059917 | METHOD OF DELIVERING A PRINTED PRODUCT TO A BINDING OR MAILING LINE - A method of delivering signatures to a finishing line includes generating an assembly order. The assembly order is provided to a controller that is operatively associated with a feeder that comprises a print-on-demand printer. Paper is provided to the print-on-demand printer. The controller controls printing on a signature with the print-on-demand printer according to the assembly order. The controller controls feeding the signature to a first pocket on the finishing line and delivering the signature from the first pocket to the finishing line according to the assembly order. The controller controls printing on an additional signature with the print-on-demand printer according to the assembly order. The controller controls feeding the additional signature to the first pocket, and delivering the additional signature from the first pocket to the finishing line according to the assembly order. | 03-11-2010 |
20110140339 | INSERTER AND A SINGLE-COPY GRIPPER WITH DEEP REACH - An inserter including a pocket for holding an unevenly folded printed product having a fold edge, a first section on a first side of the fold edge and a second section on a second side of the fold edge that is at least 20 percent shorter than the first section is provided. The pocket includes a lower support surface for supporting the fold edge, a first wall for supporting the first section and a second wall for supporting the second section. The first and second walls each have at least one cutout defined therein. The at least one cutout of the second wall includes a lower cutout edge that is less than a length of the second section away from the lower support surface. The inserter also includes a gripper for securely gripping unevenly folded printed product and removing the unevenly folded printed product from the pocket by passing through the at least one cutouts in the first and second walls. A method of inserting an insert into an unevenly folded printed product is also provided. | 06-16-2011 |
20120242027 | METHOD OF, AND APPARATUS FOR, PROCESSING SHEETS OF DIFFERENT FORMATS - Sheets of different formats, i.e. of different format lengths, are transported in a feeding direction one behind the other; and at a certain conveying speed, to at least two collecting drums, which have essentially cylindrical lateral surfaces. Each of these collecting drums is driven about an axis of rotation at a circumferential speed, which corresponds essentially to the feeding speed of the sheets. The first incoming sheet is secured temporarily on one of the collecting drums, while the following, second sheet is secured temporarily on the other collecting drum. At a suitable point in time, the two sheets secured on the collecting drums are detached from the collecting drums and brought together with the third fed sheet to form a sub-product or end product. | 09-27-2012 |
20140048998 | SECTION SIGNATURE ACCUMULATING APPARATUS AND SECTION SIGNATURE ACCUMULATING METHOD - A section signature stacking body where one or more section signatures are stacked in a proper appearance is formed and carried out. A section signature accumulating apparatus includes: a first carrying part configured to receive and carry the manufactured section signature; a classifying/carrying part configured to classify N (N is an integer equal to or larger than 2 section signatures having the same configuration transported by the first carrying part to N different section signature accumulating parts one by one to carry the section signatures; N section signature accumulating parts configured to stock the section signatures carried by the classifying/carrying part and form a section signature stacking body where one or more sections signatures are stacked; and a second carrying part configured to carry N section signature stacking bodies discharged from the N section signature accumulating parts, respectively. | 02-20-2014 |
20220135360 | PAPER EJECTION APPARATUS, PAPER EJECTION METHOD, AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - A paper ejection apparatus including: paper ejection trays to which printed sheets are selectively ejected; a main tray disposed lower than the paper ejection trays; an inspection result acquirer configured to acquire an inspection result of each of the printed sheets; a paper ejection controller configured to control paper ejection such that each of the printed sheets is ejected to the paper ejection trays before the inspection result is obtained by the inspection result acquirer; and a tray information manager configured to manage by associating identification information of each of the paper ejection trays with the inspection result of each of the printed sheets ejected on the paper ejection trays. | 05-05-2022 |
270520160 | Gathering line | 1 |
20090184453 | Aerodynamic Positioning Device - The gathering, conveyance, and assembly of printed material utilizing one or more aerodynamic positioning devices in conjunction with binding machinery is disclosed. The aerodynamic positioning device utilizes controlled fluid flow via a series of discretely spaced jets that create a low pressure region beneath a signature dropping from an adjacent feeder. The aerodynamic positioning device allows the binding machinery to operate at high speeds with lightweight and unbalanced signatures while maintaining high-quality production with reduced paper jams. | 07-23-2009 |
270520170 | Cutting | 3 |
20100187745 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING BOOK BLOCKS - An apparatus for producing book blocks includes a station to dispense a sheet web that moves in longitudinal direction and can be imprinted. A printing station has two cylinders that rotate with a circumferential speed corresponding to the movement speed of the web and function to support in a contacting manner the web with their circumferential surfaces over a specified angle. Contactless printing heads are assigned to each cylinder, arranged at a distance to the circumferential surface of the associated cylinder, and positioned side by side and at least essentially transverse to the circumferential and rotational direction of the associated cylinder. The printing head faces are oriented substantially tangential to the associated cylinder and the center lines of the printing heads are oriented to project substantially radially to the circumferential surface of the associated cylinder. The web is guided so that when it rests on one cylinder, one side of the web is imprinted and when it rests on the other cylinder, the other side of the web is imprinted. A desired web tension is created in the printing station. A cutting station is arranged downstream of the printing station to cut the printed web in longitudinal and transverse directions to form sheets having a predetermined height and width. An overlapping station arranges the cut sheets into an overlapping formation. A station collects the sheets to produce stacks that form book blocks. | 07-29-2010 |
20100201058 | Web conversion and collating apparatus and method - A web conversion and collating apparatus is provided. The web conversion and collating apparatus includes a cutting apparatus cutting a printed web into a first signature and a second signature, a transport conveyor for transporting the first signature and the second signature away from the cutting apparatus and a first diverter for diverting the first signature from the transport conveyor. The second signature passes by the first diverter on the transport conveyor. A first assembly receives the first signature from the first diverter and a second assembly downstream of the first assembly receives the second signature. A stack receiving conveyor downstream of the first assembly and the second assembly is also included. The stack receiving conveyor receives the first signature and the second signature and the first signature is stacked on the second signature on the stack receiving conveyor. A printing press and a method of producing and collating signatures are also provided. | 08-12-2010 |
20120091647 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TRIMMING THE TOP EDGE, BOTTOM EDGE AND OPENING EDGE OF A PRINTED PRODUCT - In a device for trimming the top edge, bottom edge, and opening edge of a printed product, the printed product is transported through a cutting region of a connected cutting unit in a closed clamp of a synchronously driven conveying apparatus. The conveying apparatus is configured as a conveying rotor and the clamps are guided on a circulating path. The printed product is trimmed in the cutting region of the cutting unit which is arranged between a transfer station and a delivery station. In the cutting region, each clamp transitions from a circular control path section into an intermediate control path section in which the clamp is maintained substantially perpendicular relative to a tangent to a circular cutting path of the cutting unit during trimming of at least the top and bottom edges of the printed product. | 04-19-2012 |
270520180 | Binding | 8 |
20090085272 | Stitching Device and Saddle Stitcher Having the Stitching Device - A device for stitching collated printed products, in particular signatures, with staples, includes a stitching head base body, a former, a clincher, a staple support and a driver. The former has a supporting projection and a control projection. The supporting projection extends beyond a contour of the control projection. A saddle stitcher having a stitching device is also provided. | 04-02-2009 |
20090295059 | Saddle stitcher with individual stitcher drives - A saddle stitching device including a saddle-back conveyor having a first printed product location and a second printed product location adjacent the first printed product location, a first stitcher adjacent the conveyor and driven by a first motor, and a second stitcher adjacent the conveyor and driven by a second motor. | 12-03-2009 |
20100044945 | PAPER SHEET HANDLING DEVICE - A paper-sheet handling device, as shown in FIG. | 02-25-2010 |
20100156021 | Gatherer Stitcher with Variable Chain Pitch - A gatherer stitcher for collating signatures made of paper, paperboard and the like, for stitching the collated signatures and for delivering the stitched signatures, includes a gathering section, a stitching station and a delivery station. The stitching station has a stitching carriage with at least one stitching head and, during a stitching operation, the stitching carriage is moved by a stitching carriage drive at a speed of the collated signatures. A switching unit is disposed between the stitching carriage drive and the stitching carriage for adapting a stitching carriage movement to a gatherer chain pitch, that is to say for adapting a horizontal reciprocating movement of the stitching carriage, and for adapting a horizontal distance between the stitching carriage and the delivery station. | 06-24-2010 |
20100314819 | Saddle stitcher with alignment paddle - An improved saddle stitcher incorporating alignment paddle which includes paddle | 12-16-2010 |
20120306143 | Z-FOLD SIGNATURE FINISHING METHOD - Methods for forming a signature are provided. In accordance with one embodiment, a signature print is received that is predisposed to z-fold of the across a width of the signature print to form a z-folded stack of sheets and an automatic z-fold system is used to enable the signature print to form the z-folded stack of sheets of the signature print according to the manner in which the signature print is predisposed. The z-folded stack is bound proximate to a saddle fold location between the z-folds and is saddle folded across a width of the stack proximate to the saddle fold location to dispose the z-folds along a common face of the saddle folded stack, and, the signature print is separated proximate to at least one of the z-folds. | 12-06-2012 |
20130154177 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A FEEDER OF A GATHERING-STITCHING MACHINE - A method for controlling a feeder of a gathering-stitching machine reduces the operating effort when setting the feeder, increases reliability when laying folded sheets on a transport device and improves quality during collating and stitching. Opening and closing times of grippers are regulated under program control, continuously and as a function of format when controlling the feeder of the gathering-stitching machine. Data relating to the dimensions and to the number of pages of the folded sheets is thus entered into a control device, from which data actuating signals for actuating elements of the grippers are generated. | 06-20-2013 |
20150008635 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - A sheet processing apparatus including: an accumulating section on which a sheet is accumulated; a staple inserting section which is provided above the accumulating section; a staple receiving section which is provided so as to face the staple inserting section across a sheet bundle accumulated on the accumulating section; and a movement section which moves an inserting unit or the accumulating section according to a thickness of the sheet bundle so that the inserting unit faces a predetermined position on an upmost sheet of the sheet bundle, wherein the staple inserting section includes the inserting unit which inserts a staple into the sheet bundle by rotating toward the sheet bundle. | 01-08-2015 |
270520190 | Insetting | 10 |
20090322009 | Device for Fitting Printed Products with Inserts - The device has successively disposed receiving elements ( | 12-31-2009 |
20100171255 | Sheet Handling Apparatus - An apparatus for collating or inserting inserts including a raceway for transporting sets of inserts at a raceway transport rate and an insert feed line for feeding an individual insert to each of the sets of inserts on the raceway at the raceway transport rate. The insert feed line having a singulater for separating the individual insert from bundles of inserts at a separation rate, the singulater including a lifter lifting at least one insert from the bundles of inserts, the lifting effecting separation of the individual insert from the bundles of inserts at the separation rate wherein, the singulater has a controller for controlling the singulater separation rate so that the singulater separation rate is variable with respect to a predetermined raceway transport rate, to allow the insert feed line to feed the individual insert to each set of inserts transported on the raceway at the raceway transport rate. | 07-08-2010 |
20110291345 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A PRINTED PRODUCT - A method and apparatus are provided for producing a printed product composed of at least one signature and at least one extra sheet. The signatures and extra sheets are supplied in different product flows to a transfer device having gaps for receiving the signatures and extra sheets. The transfer device is arranged between a first product flow of the signatures and at least a second product flow of the extra sheets, on the one hand, and at least one stacking device, on the other hand. The cadence of the gaps which accommodate the extra sheets is controlled with the use of a control coupled to the transfer device. | 12-01-2011 |
270520200 | Signature carrying hopper | 3 |
20100230887 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TAKING OVER FLEXIBLE, FLAT OBJECTS - A device and a method for taking over flexible, two-dimensional objects ( | 09-16-2010 |
20100230888 | DEVICE AND PROCESS FOR TAKING OVER AND FURTHER PROCESSING OF FLEXIBLE, FLAT OBJECTS - Receiver units ( | 09-16-2010 |
20130032987 | APPARATUS FOR OPENING AND TRANSPORTING A PRODUCT WITH A NON-SYMETRICAL FOLD - A method for transporting newspapers includes the steps of feeding an asymmetrically folded multiple section newspaper into a pocket of a pocket conveyor of an inserting machine, wherein the asymmetrically folded multiple section newspaper has an extended lap having a height of at least 15% of a height of the asymmetrically folded newspaper when unfolded. A face of a first section of the headline side of the newspaper, when fed into the pocket is adjacent a movable wall of the pocket, and a back of a last section of the headline side of the newspaper adjacent a fixed wall of the pocket. The method further comprises feeding one or more inserts from a hopper to the pocket, where the inserts are fed into an opening between newspaper sections, removing the newspapers with the inserts therein from the pocket with a gripper conveyor, and releasing the newspapers with the inserts from the gripper conveyor headline up on a lapped stream conveyor. | 02-07-2013 |
270520210 | Roller signature feeder | 1 |
270520220 | With signature in-feed conveyor | 1 |
20090115117 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR INSERTING FLAT ARTICLES INTO PRINTED PRODUCTS - Flat articles are inserted into printed products ( | 05-07-2009 |
270520230 | Signature opener | 3 |
20080284084 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR OPENING PRINTED PRODUCTS - A device for opening folded or bound printed products, comprises a feeder device ( | 11-20-2008 |
20120280444 | HIGH SPEED INTERFOLDER SEPARATOR - An interfolder separator apparatus and method utilize a pair of count fingers that are movable longitudinally along and transversely to a stream of folded sheets, for temporarily supporting each successive pack formed by the separator and then releasing each successive pack when partly completed to alternating build fingers, so that the operation of separating successive packs from one another is performed separately from the operations of completing the build of each pack and transporting the completed packs to downstream operations. The count fingers may be mounted to pivot about axes that are movable longitudinally along and transversely to the stream of sheets. A first or last panel of the completed pack may also be folded back partly upon itself, after the partly completed pack is released by the count fingers. Some or all of the fingers may be spring loaded and automatically resettable for clearing jams. | 11-08-2012 |
270520240 | By suction | 1 |
20140138895 | APPARATUS FOR OPENING AND TRANSPORTING A PRODUCT WITH A NON-SYMMETRICAL FOLD - An inserting machine and method for transporting newspapers is provided. The inserting machine includes a pocket conveyor having a plurality of interconnected pockets, each pocket having a fixed pocket wall, a movable pocket wall, a first side gripper, a second side gripper, a center gripper located between the first and second side grippers, at least one first suction opening on the fixed pocket wall and at least one second suction opening on the movable pocket wall. The at least one first and second suction openings coupled to a vacuum source. Hoppers are located above the pocket conveyor to feed inserts to the pockets in the pocket conveyor. The machine also includes a set of actuators for separately controlling movement of the movable pocket wall, the first side gripper, the second side gripper, and the center gripper, and for separately controlling application of a vacuum to the at least one first and second suction openings. | 05-22-2014 |
270520260 | Saddle associating | 2 |
20100109224 | Profiled chain tops for a conveyor - A saddle stitcher for conveying a printed product is provided. The saddle stitcher includes a saddle chain conveyor, and a plurality of chain tops mounted on the saddle chain conveyor defining a chain top conveyance line for transporting a printed product. At least one of the chain tops includes a profiled top edge so the at least one chain top does not extend beyond the chain top conveyance line in a transition area. A method for transferring a printed product is also provided. | 05-06-2010 |
20120248676 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DELIVERING PRINTED PRODUCTS FROM A SADDLE-SHAPED SUPPORT - A device for delivering a printed product from a saddle-shaped support includes at least two discs that are configured to pass through a gap that extends in a conveying direction and that is disposed, at least in a delivery region, between two support parts of the saddle-shaped support. The at least two discs are rotatable about respective fixed rotation axles that are mutually spaced from one another in the conveying direction. Each of the discs is configured to project intermittently, during the rotation about the respective fixed rotation axles, above a ridge line of the ridge in the delivery region of the saddle-shaped support so as to continuously lift the printed product from the saddle-shaped support in the delivery region. | 10-04-2012 |