Method and apparatus for the insertion of at least one insert or supplement into printed products

Abstract

In each case two printed products conjointly travel through a processing path which starts at an input or infeed section and terminates at a removal or withdrawal section. At the infeed section an opening is produced in one of these printed products by the action of a pressure element which exerts a pressure or force transversely with respect to the plane of the printed products. During the forward advance of the printed products in a subsequently arranged feed section the opened printed product travels onto a separation element, such as a separation wedge, by means of which such printed product is opened. There is stuffed an insert into the opened printed product. At this first feed section the other printed product, which up to this time merely travelled along, is opened by means of a further pressure element. During the further advance of the printed products the second printed product is likewise opened by a separation element, for instance a separation wedge, which engages into the previously formed opening of this other printed product. At a second feed section there is now likewise stuffed an insert into the open second printed product. The final products, each of which have been provided with a respective insert, are now removed from the removal section for further processing. With a given processing speed the output of the equipment is increased due to the simultaneous travel or passage of two printed products through the stuffing device.

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