Mailroom conveyor system with an electric linear device
AssigneeHeidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
InventorsStephan Edward Abbadessa, Roger Robert Belanger, Michael Kruger, Hans-Jorg Laubscher
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Abstract
A mailroom conveyor system for transporting and handling a stream of printed and folded signatures supplied by high speed tapes of a folding apparatus of a printing press. The system includes a plurality of grippers, a rail system for guiding the grippers, an electric linear drive system for individually driving the grippers in the rail system, and a control system coupled to the electric linear drive system for individually controlling the movement of the grippers in the rail system.
Claims23
A web-fed printing press including a folding section and a mailroom conveyor system downstream of the folding section for transporting and handling a stream of signatures in a mailroom, the conveyor system comprising:
- a plurality of grippers;
- a rail system for guiding said plurality of grippers;
- an electric linear drive system individually driving said grippers in said rail system;
- a control system connected to said electric linear drive system for independently controlling the movement of each of said plurality of grippers in said rail system;
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- tapes for transporting the signatures to said grippers:
- wherein the arrangement of the rail system relative to the tapes is such that said grippers dive into gaps formed between said tapes, when said grippers are advanced along said rail system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.