Method and apparatus for inserting printed products in a folded main product
AssigneeFerag AG
InventorWerner Honegger
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Abstract
Folded main products (H) are brought from an inserting drum (2) with a fold directed at right angles to the conveying direction and in the open state to an acceptance station (U), where they are gripped at edges facing the fold by grippers in such a way that a gripper always grips the rear folding part (H.sub.h) of a main product in the conveying direction together with the front folding part (H.sub.v) of the following main product. As an almost continuous folding belt the main products are conveyed through an insertion section (1), whilst from above and between the grippers the insert products (E) are inserted in the main products.
Claims30
Method for inserting printed products (insert products E) in folded printed products (main products H), in which the main products (H) folded in two folding parts are conveyed into an acceptance station (U) and from there via an insertion section (1) to a delivery station (A) and along the insertion section (1) the insert products (E) are inserted, characterized in that the folded main products (H) are conveyed with the fold directed at right angles to the conveying direction (F) into the acceptance station (U), that at the acceptance station (U,U') the two folding parts of each main product (H) are gripped in the vicinity of the edges facing the fold by two conveying means spaced from one another in the conveying direction (F) and that the main products (H) are conveyed by said conveying means over the insertion section with a freely downwardly hanging fold, the insertion products (E) being inserted from above between the conveying means into the main products (H).
Apparatus for inserting printed products characterized in that it has a supply means (2,90/91/92) for folded main products (H) guiding the folded main products in open form to an acceptance station (U,U'), that it has an insertion section (1) leading away from the acceptance station (U,U') with at least one pulling member (3,3') and grippers (4,4') and further supply means (5) for insert products (E) directed from above against the insertion section (1) and that the supply means (2) for the main products (H) and the grippers (4,4') of the insertion section (1) are so matched to one another that the grippers (4) and the centres of the main products (H) are displaced relative to one another at the acceptance station (U).
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