Device for combining printed products that are supplied to a folded envelope
AssigneeGrapha-Holding AG
InventorHeinz Linder
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Abstract
A device is provided to combine printed products that are supplied to a folded envelope. A rotating conveying member is equipped with receiving pockets that are distributed over its circumference and can be closed and opened. The receiving pockets have an associated charging station for the envelopes and a supplying station for the enclosures on the opposite side of the conveying member as well as a subsequently connected removal station, with the charging station and the supplying station being connected by means of an undercut conveying region of the conveying member.
Claims18
In a device for combining printed products supplied to a folded envelope, the device comprising a sector-like rotatable conveying member including receiving pockets that can be controlled into a closed position and an open position, a charging station for supplying the envelope fold-first to a receiving pocket, at least one supplying station for filling the open envelope with printed products, and a removal station for finished products associated with a circumference of said conveying member, the improvement wherein the conveying member is drum-shaped and has an under-shot conveying region, the conveying member is rotatable around an approximately horizontal rotation axis, the receiving pockets are distributed over the circumference of the conveying member, the conveying member is disposed between the charging station and the supplying station which lie approximately opposite one another at the circumference of the conveying member, the conveying member is constructed to produce a conveying effect between the charging station and the supplying station and the removal station is disposed above a horizontal plane defined by the rotation axis of the conveying member.
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