Apparatus and method for aligning and transporting printed products
AssigneeGoss International Americas, Inc.
InventorThomas Bowen Clarke
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Abstract
An alignment and transport apparatus is provided including an input conveyor transporting and positioning successive sheets in a first plane in a first direction and a twisting apparatus defining a transport path for the successive sheets. The twisting apparatus is configured such that each of the sheets enters the transport path in the first plane and traveling in the first direction with a first side of each of the sheets facing upward and such that each of the sheets exits the transport path in a second plane and traveling in a second direction with a second side of each of the sheets facing upward. A variable data sheet insertion device, a post-press processing apparatus and a method for aligning and transporting printed products are also provided.
Claims21
An alignment and transport apparatus comprising:
- an input conveyor transporting successive sheets in a first plane in a first direction;
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- a twisting apparatus defining a transport path for the successive sheets, the twisting apparatus being configured such that each of the sheets enters the transport path in the first plane and traveling in the first direction with a first side of each of the sheets facing upward, and such that each of the sheets exits the transport path in a second plane and traveling in a second direction with a second side of each of the sheets facing upward.
A variable data sheet insertion device comprising:
- a printing station printing varying images on a web;
- a cutting device cutting the web into successive varying sheets;
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- an alignment and transport apparatus downstream of the cutting device receiving the successive varying sheets and realigning the successive varying sheets, the alignment and transport apparatus receiving the successive varying sheets traveling in a first direction with a first side of each sheet facing upward and outputting the successive varying sheets in a second direction with a second side of each sheet facing upward.
A method for aligning and transport printed products comprising:
- receiving a printed product traveling along a first plane in a first direction at an input of a transport path, the printed product being aligned during the receiving such that a first side of the printed product faces upward and a first edge of the printed product is aligned perpendicular to the first direction;
- continuously moving the printed product along the transport path such that the printed product is realigned;
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- outputting the printed product from an end of the transport path along a second plane in a second direction, the printed product being aligned during the outputting such that a second side of the printed product faces upward and the first edge of the printed product is aligned perpendicular to the second direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.