Apparatus for the winding-up of printed products

An apparatus for the winding-up of printed products such as newspapers, magazines and the like, arriving particularly in an imbricated formation, in conjunction with a winding band placed under tensional load, onto a winding core to form a product package, comprising:

• a bearing arrangement for rotatably supporting and driving the winding core;
• a conveyor-belt arrangement for infeeding the printed products to the winding core or the already partially formed product package;
• said conveyor-belt arrangement being structured for entrainment in a freely revolving movement;
• said conveyor-belt arrangement partially wrapping around in underfeed and from below the winding core or the product package located thereupon, and thereby being driven in said freely revolving movement;
• a winding-band spool for the winding band which is to be selectively unwound from the winding core and wound onto said winding-band spool, or unwound from said winding-band spool and wound in conjunction with the printed products onto the winding core;
• braking means effective upon aid winding-band spool to outfeed, during said winding-up of the printed products, the winding band wound up thereon;
• the winding band having a free end connectable to said winding-band spool;
• driving means effective upon said winding-band spool to receive, during the unwinding of the winding band from the winding core, the winding band with said free end connected to said winding-band spool;
• means for coupling said winding-band spool with said conveyor-belt arrangement;
• said winding-band spool having a predetermined wind-up sense of rotation;
• and
• said coupling means serving to drive said winding-band spool in said predetermined wind-up sense of rotation during said unwinding of the winding band from the winding core.