Apparatus for collecting, assembling and inserting printery products

An apparatus for collecting, assembling and inserting printery products comprising;

• a plurality of circulating, saddle-shaped supports, arranged transversely to a circulating direction and at a mutual distance apart, for collecting printery products along a processing path, the supports being directed upward in an area defined by the processing path;
• at least two feed locations which are arranged at a distance from one another along the processing path and at which printery products can be deposited astride onto the supports or onto the printery products already deposited onto these supports;
• a removal location arranged downstream from these feed locations;
• a plurality of circulating receiving parts, closed off at a bottom portion and arranged transversely to the circulating direction, for assembling or inserting printery products, said receiving parts arranged along the processing path, the openings of said receiving parts being directed upward in the area of the processing path such that the printery products can be fed into the receiving parts at the feed locations;
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• an opening device allocated to each receiving part for opening at least in each case the first printery product inserted into it in order to insert further printery products;
• wherein at least some of the printery products are folded at a fold outside the center and one part of which, at an open lateral edge opposite the fold, has a marginal section protruding relative to another part, and wherein the opening device comprises at least one opening member which can be moved from a product-hold-open position into a product-closed position and back again and on which a driving element is provided for detachably holding the one part of the product in position.

An opening device for opening at least a first printery product disposed into a pocket-shaped receiving part, in order to allow further printery products to be inserted into the first, opened printery product, wherein the pocket-shaped receiving part defines a closed bottom portion, and wherein the first printery product defines a fold and rests with the fold on the closed bottom portion, said fold positioned to define one part of the printery product which, at an open lateral edge opposite the fold, has a marginal section protruding relative to another part, wherein the opening device comprises:

• at least one opening member which can be moved from a product-hold-open position into a product-closed position and back again and on which a driving element is provided for detachably holding the one part of the product in position wherein the opening member comprises:
• a lever which is mounted adjacent a base portion of the receiving part about an axis running approximately in a longitudinal direction defined by the receiving part such that the lever can be pivoted by means of a drive arrangement from the product-hold-open position into the product-closed position and back again and in whose free end area the driving element is arranged;
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• wherein the distance between the base portion of the receiving part and the pivot axis defined by the lever is variable.

An apparatus for collecting, assembling and inserting printery products comprising;

• a plurality of circulating, saddle-shaped supports, arranged transversely to a circulating direction and at a mutual distance apart, for collecting printery products along a processing path, the supports being directed upward in an area defined by the processing path;
• at least two feeding means which are arranged at a distance from one another along the processing path and which deposit printery products astride onto the supports or onto the printery products already deposited onto these supports;
• a removal location arranged downstream from the feeding means, said removal location including a removal conveyor for carrying away collected, assembled, or inserted products;
• a plurality of circulating receiving parts, closed off at a bottom portion and arranged transversely to the circulating direction, for assembling or inserting printery products, said receiving parts arranged along the processing path, the openings of said receiving parts being directed upward in the area of the processing path such that the printery products can be fed into the receiving parts by the feeding means;
• a guide plate in the area of the base portion of the receiving parts wherein the guide plate lifts the assembled or inserted printery product toward the removal location;
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• wherein said feeding means move the printery products essentially in the circulating direction while preforming one of depositing them on the supports and feeding them into the receiving parts.