US 4,743,005 AGranted

Apparatus for stuffing inserts into multi-sheet printed products

AssigneeFerag AG

InventorWalter Reist

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Abstract

A multiplicity of similar pockets open at their top and each serving for the reception of a printed product are attached in a closely spaced or uninterrupted row at endless revolving drive elements which move in a direction transversely to the direction of extent of the open pockets. These pockets successively travel to infeed stations for the printed products and the inserts. Each pocket is equipped with a mechanism for opening the printed product located therein. To reduce to a minimum the number of movable components in each pocket and to attain a faultless or proper alignment of the printed products with the inserts and which are collated together for forming a final product, each pocket is provided with an entrainment element intended for the reception of a printed product. This entrainment element is controllably displaceable, transverse to the direction of revolving motion of the pockets, between a first terminal position and a second terminal position. In each pocket there is provided an opening element, such as an opening wedge, which is stationary in relation to the associated pocket. This opening wedge opens the printed product which is entrained by the entrainment element during the course of displacement of the entrainment element from its first terminal position into its second terminal position.

Claims11

Dependent claims

An apparatus for stuffing inserts into multi-sheet printed products, especially newspapers, comprising:

endless revolving drive elements;
a plurality of substantially similar pockets arranged in a closely spaced row;
each of said pockets having an open upper region and serving for the reception of at least one printed product;
said pockets being secured in said closely spaced row to said endless revolving drive elements in a direction extending substantially transverse to the open upper region of the pockets for movement in a predetermined direction of revolving motion;
respective infeed means defining infeed stations for successively infeeding at least one printed product into each of the pockets and thereafter at least one insert into each pocket containing said at least one printed product;
at least one discharge station for removing said at least one printed product and the therein contained at least one insert from each pocket;
said pockets successively moving past said infeed stations and said discharge station;
means provided for each pocket for opening the at least one printed product inserted therein so as to be able to receive the at least one insert subsequently deposited into said at least one open printed product;
an entrainment element arranged in each pocket and serving to receive the at least one printed product deposited into such pocket;
means for controllably displacing each said entrainment element from a first terminal position into a second terminal position in a direction transverse to the predetermined direction of revolving motion of the pockets;
said opening means for opening the printed products comprising a product opening member provided for each pocket;
each said product opening member being stationarily arranged in relation to its related pocket;
and
each said product opening member opening the printed product disposed in the associated pocket and entrained by the entrainment element of such pocket during the course of movement of the entrainment element and therewith the printed product from the first terminal position into the second terminal position.

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An apparatus for stuffing inserts into multi-sheet primary products, comprising:

endless revolving drive elements;
a plurality of pockets arranged in a predeterminate spacing from one another;
each of said pockets having an open upper region and serving for the reception of at least one primary product;
said pockets being secured at said predeterminate spacing from one another to said endless revolving drive elements in a direction extending substantially transverse to the open upper region of the pockets and for movement in a predetermined direction;
respective infeed means for successively infeeding at least one primary product into each of the pockets and thereafter at least one insert into each pocket containing said at least one primary product;
at least one outfeed means for removing said at least one primary product and the therein contained at least one insert from each pocket;
said pockets successively moving past said infeed means and said outfeed means;
means provided for each pocket for opening the at least one primary product inserted therein so as to be able to receive the at least one insert subsequently deposited into said at least one open primary product;
an entrainment element arranged in each pocket and serving to receive the at least one primary product deposited into such pocket;
means for controllably displacing each said entrainment element from a first terminal position into a second terminal position in a direction transverse to the predetermined direction of movement of the pockets;
said opening means for opening the primary products comprising a product opening member provided for each pocket;
each said product opening member being stationarily arranged in relation to its related pocket;
and
each said product opening member opening the primary product disposed in the associated pocket and entrained by the entrainment element of such pocket during the course of movement of the entrainment element and therewith the primary product from the first terminal position into the second terminal position.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 07/031,663Filed 30 Mar 1987
Priority: CH 1338/864 Apr 1986
Granted: 10 May 1988
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

B65H 5/30
Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines: opening devices for folded sheets or signatures
B41F 13/68
Auxiliary folding, cutting, collecting or depositing of sheets or webs: adding inserts
B65H 29/28
By dropping the articles: from mechanical grippers
B65H 2301/431711
Inserting subproducts in a signature as main product: the subproduct being inserted in a direction substantially perpendicular to the fold of the…