Abstract:
To permit introduction of spreading fingers or insert sheet or sheet packages between essentially adjacent positioned sheet elements or halves (4a, 4b) of a folded sheet, the sheet is folded incompletely by extending a fold or spine or crease line or partly across the sheet while leaving a terminal portion in form of an open loop. The insert element, which may be spreading fingers (13, 23, 24), spreading disks (25, 26) or another sheet (31), is then engaged within the loop which, after insertion of the insert element, can be compressed, for example by cams (20) to form a crease also in the previous loop position. The transport of the incompletely folded sheet is carried out by transporting the sheet between, for example, transport belts, with the open loop projecting laterally from the transport belts so that they will not be squeezed or compressed.
Abstract:
An inserting machine is provided with mechanisms which allow it to operate in conjunction with a rotary printing press. In a preferred embodiment, the inserting machine is driven synchronously by the press and is fed newspaper jackets directly from the printing press without the need for intervening jacket feeders or stackers. A diverting mechanism which oscillates is positioned previous to the shingling operation of the press folder to divide the single press stream into multiple streams by diverting alternate jackets to different conveyors which are driven at a slower throughput. The divided streams of jackets are transported via the conveyors to an inserting machine which has two inserting lines arranged in a tandem configuration in order to insert at double the speed of a single line inserter and also in order to compensate the folds in the stacks and to output a bundle rather than a stream.
Abstract:
If a newspaper jacket to be stuffed with a collection of inserts does not timely arrive at the stuffing station the inserts intended therefore are rejected but the machine is not stopped; if the inserts are detected as insufficient in number the ones which are present may be rejected and the jacket may also be rejected.
Abstract:
Apparatus and method for high speed in-line paper inserting, primarily for insertion of supplements and the like into newspapers, wherein newspaper jackets and inserts are advanced and manipulated in a straight line motion. The system includes means for rectilinearly conveying a folded newspaper jacket and placement thereof in a pocket, where the jacket is opened by an edge gripping mechanism, and an insert is impelled into the so opened jacket at a higher speed than that of the advancing jacket, the jacket then being released by the gripping mechanism to close with the insert therein, and the assembled newspaper, including insert, is then removed from the jacket for further conveying and processing. The insert pick-up station being of an improved advanced design to so improve pick-up and advancement of the insert.
Abstract:
A feeder folder unit for use with an inserter of the type having a rotary feed drum, a signature opening mechanism and a conveyor chain and wherein the feeder folder unit includes hopper means for supplying signatures in a horizontal position, rotary extractor drum for extracting these signatures from the hopper, transfer means for transferring extracted signatures from the rotary drum to a folder mechanism and transfer chain means for transferring the folded signatures in timed relation to the feed drum of the inserter. The feeder folder mechanism may be constructed as a separate unit but driven from the inserter drive and used with existing inserter gatherers both to convert such gatherers from a vertical hopper feed to a horizontal hopper feed and to perform a fold operation during feeding of the signatures.
Abstract:
A stuffing machine attachment comprises a rigid support block which is universally adjustable in position with respect to the stuffing machine, and a resilient blade carried by the support block, the blade having a free unsupported end which is adapted to engage the bottom edge of a stack of inserts. The blade is located in a guideway provided in the support block and is adjustable therealong for varying the effective length of the free, unsupported portion of the blade.
Abstract:
A printing control apparatus according to one aspect of this invention controls to print images on sheets based on image data of a plurality of pages, generate a bookbinding product by executing folding processing for the image-printed sheets, and output the bookbinding product. The printing control apparatus further accepts the position of an insertion sheet to be inserted into the sheets for which the folding processing is executed, and controls to output a plurality of bookbinding products by using, as a reference, the accepted position of the insertion sheet.