Device for producing folded items
AssigneeKoenig & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsEdgar Maylander, Horst Bernhard Michalik
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Abstract
Folded products are produced in a web-fed press by directing the printed web to longitudinal formers and then to multi-width transverse folders. The longitudinal formers are supported so that at least selected ones of them can be shifted vertically with respect to the transverse folders. A parallelogram-like linkage is used to shift the longitudinal formers vertically. Vertical shifting of the formers accomplishes transverse shifting of the location of the delivery of formed products from the formers to the multi-width transverse folders.
Claims5
A removable longitudinal former for forming a paper web into a plurality of paper trains, said movable longitudinal former being supported for horizontal movement in a direction along an axis of rotation of a multi-width transverse folder which receives said plurality of paper trains from said movable longitudinal former, said movable longitudinal former also being movable generally vertically, said movable longitudinal former being supported for both said horizontal and said vertical movement by a parallelogram pivot-square linkage, said horizontal movement being at least as great as a width of one of said plurality of paper trains.
A movable longitudinal former supported for movement along an axis of rotation of a transverse folder, said movable longitudinal former being movable generally vertically and being supported by a parallelogram pivot-square linkage, said parallelogram pivot-square linkage including at least first and second rockers, each of which has a first end and a second end, said first end of each of said first and second rockers being pivotally connected to a machine frame and said second end of each of said first and second rockers being pivotally connected to said movable longitudinal former.
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