Machine for making paper booklets

A machine for forming booklets of paper comprising:

• a plurality of roller means for continuously providing strips of paper;
• forming means for converging paper strips withdrawn from said roller means into a single strand;
• means for advancing the strand in a first direction;
• a cutting station for reciprocably moving along the strand whereby a booklet length of the strand enters said cutting station while said cutting station moves counter to the strand in a second direction opposite the first direction;
• a rotating shaft of non-circular cross-section extending through and operably connected to said cutting station parallel to said first direction;
• a knife means responsive to rotation of said rotating shaft disposed in said cutting station for cutting a booklet from the strand while said cutting station moves alongside the strand in the first direction;
• knife coupling means for translating rotational movement of said rotating shaft into rotational slicing movement of said knife means across the strand in a plane substantially perpendicular to said first direction;
• an ejector means for ejecting booklets from said cutting station into an outlet passage;
• ejector coupling means for coupling said ejector to said rotating shaft;
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• wherein said knife coupling means and said ejector coupling means cooperate with said rotating shaft so as to permit mutually independent movement of said knife means and said ejector means.

A machine for forming booklets of paper, comprising:

• a plurality of roller means of continuously providing strips of paper;
• former means for converging paper strips withdrawn from said roller means into a strand;
• means for advancing the strand in a first direction;
• a cutting station for reciprocably moving along the strand whereby a booklet length of the strand enters said cutting station while said cutting station moves counter to the strand in a second direction opposite to the first direction;
• knife means disposed in said cutting station for cutting a booklet from the strand while said cutting station moves alongside the strand in the first direction;
• outlet passage means normal to the first direction;
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• ejector means immediately adjacent to said knife means for ejecting booklets from said cutting station into said outlet passage means;
• a rotating shaft of non-circular cross-section extending through said cutting station parallel to the first direction and having a tubular sleeve slideably mounted thereon, said tubular sleeve being operably connected to said cutting station;
• wherein reciprocal movement of said cutting station causes said tubular sleeve to slide in an axial direction along said rotating shaft;
• and
• wherein rotation of said rotating shaft causes said tubular sleeve to actuate said knife means.

A machine for forming booklets of paper comprising:

• a plurality of roller means for continuously providing strips of paper;
• forming means for converging paper strips withdrawn from said roller means into a single strand;
• means for advancing the strand in a first direction;
• a cutting station for reciprocably moving along the strand whereby a booklet length of the strand enters said cutting station while said cutting station moves counter to the strand in a second direction opposite the first direction;
• a rotating shaft of non-circular cross-section extending through and operably connected to said cutting station parallel to said first direction;
• a knife means responsive to rotation of said rotating shaft disposed in said cutting station for cutting a booklet from the strand while said cutting station moves alongside the strand in the first direction;
• an ejector means responsive to rotation of said rotating shaft for ejecting booklets from said cutting station into an outlet passage;
• a connecting means for directing movement of each of said knife means and said ejector means comprising:
• knife coupling means for coupling said knife means to said rotating shaft;
• ejector coupling means for coupling said ejector to said rotating shaft;
• wherein said knife coupling means and said ejector coupling means cooperate with said rotating shaft so as to permit mutually independent movement of said knife means and said ejector means in response to rotation of said rotating shaft.