US 7,854,426 B2Granted

Method and device for inscribing printed products

AssigneeFerag AG

InventorWerner Honegger

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Abstract

An apparatus (10) for inscribing folded printed products (12) having a first product part (14) and a second product part (16) joined together by a fold (18). The printed products (12) are conveyed by a conveyor device (22), with the fold (18) astride receiving saddles (26) disposed transversely to the direction of conveyance (F), through an inscribing section (30) to which a inscribing station (60) is assigned. For the inscribing of an outer side (56) of the first product part (14) disposed in leading arrangement in the direction of conveyance (F), a region (66) of the outer side (56) comes into contact with a fixed support surface (58) assigned to the inscribing section (30) and is inscribed by the inscribing station (60). For the inscribing of an inner side (48) of the second product part (16), the first product part (14) is respectively raised from a supporting member (38), assigned at least in the inscribing section (30) to the receiving saddles (26), such that a region (78) of the inner side (48) of the second product part (16) is exposed and this exposed region (78) comes to bear upon the support surface (58) and can hence be inscribing by the inscribing station (60).

Claims18

Dependent claims

A method for inscribing folded printed products which have a first product part and a second product part joined together by a fold, and each product part having a free margin running at least approximately parallel to the fold, comprising the steps of:

conveying the printed products one behind the other and with the fold running transversely to a direction of conveyance in the direction of conveyance through an inscribing section by means of a conveyor device having receiving saddles disposed transversely to the direction of conveyance, the printed products being deposited astride the receiving saddles;
drawing the printed products by means of the receiving saddles in the inscribing section over a support surface, the printed products thereby bearing upon the support surface;
for inscribing on an inner side of the second product part which trails behind in the direction of conveyance (F), raising the leading first product part by means of a supporting member supporting the first product part at an inner side of the first product part at a height, as measured from the fold, of at most approximately one-half of a distance between the fold and the free margin of the first product part, such that the free margin of the first product part is drawn over the support surface and a region of the inner side of the second product part is exposed;
and
inscribing the second product part in the exposed region, bearing upon the support surface at an inscribing station being assigned to the inscribing section;
and
for inscribing of an outer side of the first product part, supporting the inner side of the second product part, in the inscribing section, on a further supporting member at a height, as measured from the fold, of at most approximately one-half of a distance between the fold and the free margin of the second product part, whereby the first product part is free of raising by the supporting member such that a region of the outer side of the first product part adjacent to the free margin of said first product part comes into bearing contact with the support surface;
and inscribing the first product part in the region bearing upon the support surface adjoining the free margin of the first product part at the inscribing station.

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An apparatus for inscribing folded printed products which have a first product part and a second product part joined together by a fold and each product part has a free margin running at least approximately parallel to the fold, comprising:

a conveyor device with which the printed products are conveyed one behind the other and with the fold running transversely to a direction of conveyance in the direction of conveyance through an inscribing section;
the conveyor device having receiving saddles, which are disposed transversely to the direction of conveyance and which are intended to convey the printed products deposited astride them;
an inscribing station, assigned to the inscribing section;
a support surface which is assigned to the inscribing section and upon which, for the inscribing, the printed products come to bear;
a supporting member, assigned to each receiving saddle at least in the region of the inscribing section such that, for the inscribing of an inner side of the second product part which trails behind in the direction of conveyance, the leading first product part is drawn over the support surface with its free margin and raised by the supporting member at a height, as measured from the fold, of at most approximately one-half of a distance between the fold and the free margin of the printed product, in order to expose a region of the inner side of the second product part, which region comes to bear upon the support surface;
and, at least in the inscribing section, the receiving saddles are assigned a further supporting member such that the second product part trailing the first product part for an inscribing of the outer side of the first product part is raised in the inscribing section by the further supporting member at a height, as measured from the fold, of at most approximately one-half of a distance between the fold and the free margin of the second product part, such that a region of the outer side of the first product part comes to bear upon the support surface.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 11/590,633Filed 31 Oct 2006
Priority: CH 1742/0531 Oct 2005
Published: US 2007/0096378 A13 May 2007
Granted: 21 Dec 2010
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

B65H 5/30
Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines: opening devices for folded sheets or signatures
B65H 2301/322
Orientation of handled material: riding over one elongated or saddle-like member
B65H 2301/33
Orientation, displacement, position of the handled material: modifying, selecting, changing orientation
B65H 2301/44795
Transferring material between transport devices: saddle conveyor with saddle member extending transversally to transport direction