Printing machine comprising at least one printing group, one folder and at least one turn-and-mix stage
AssigneeKoenig & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsGunther Eckert, Burkard Herbert
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Abstract
A printing machine includes at least one printing group, one folder and at least one turn-and-mix stage that supplies the printed web output from the printing group to the folder. A web path from the printing group to the folder, when projected into a horizontal plane, is bent or deviates in the area of the turn-and-mix stage. The turn-and-mix stage or superstructure, includes a horizontal cutting device at an input side, for use in cutting the web into at least two partial webs. At least two horizontally displaceable turning bars are provided, and the partial webs pass around these turning bars.
Claims21
1-24. (canceled)
A printing press comprising:
- at least one printing group;
- at least one folding apparatus adapted to receive a printed web from said at least one printing group;
- a former in said at least one folding apparatus, said former including a former nose;
- at least one turning and mixing stage, interposed, in a path of travel of the printed web, between said at least one printing group and said at least one folding apparatus, said path of travel, when projected into a horizontal plane, having a bend in said turning and mixing stage;
- a longitudinal web cutting device at an input side of said turning and mixing stage and adapted to cut a web into first and second partial webs;
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- at least first and second turning bars in said turning and mixing stage, each of said first and second printed webs being looped around a respective one of said first and second turning bars.
A printing press comprising:
- at least one printing group, said at least one printing group being double-wide and having cylinders with a width of four newspaper pages;
- a former adapted to fold a printed web printed by said at least one printing group;
- a longitudinal cutting device adapted to selectively cut a printed web printed by said at least one printing group, said printing group being selectively operable in a first mode wherein a web of more than single width and less than double width is centered on said printing group and is printed with two newspaper pages, and in a second mode wherein a double wide web is halved by said longitudinal cutting device into two printed webs which are each aligned with said former;
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- an inlet for said former, said inlet being arranged at 90° with respect to longitudinal axes of said printing group cylinders.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.