Insertion apparatus and insertion method
AssigneeFerag AG
InventorMartin Keller
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Abstract
An apparatus for, and a method of, inserting flat articles, e.g. printed pre-products or additional products, parts of newspapers, goods samples, leaflets, fliers and other inserts, into folded printed products. Use is made of a rotary system with compartments which run along a closed circular rotary path and are oriented as a tangent or secant to the rotary path (U). This makes it possible for the printed products and the articles to be fed in the direction of rotation, as a result of which the forces acting on the products can be reduced. There are also advantages relating to format adaptation, since the opening angle of the product upon adjustment of the compartment base does not change to such a pronounced extent as is the case with radially oriented compartments.
Claims20
An apparatus for inserting flat objects into a folded printed product, comprising:
- a circulating system with a plurality of compartments;
- wherein the compartments are moveable along a closed circular circulating path about a rotational axis, are delimited by dividing walls in the circulating direction and, along the circumference, have openings for inserting printed products and flat objects into the compartments,
- a controllable opening device for opening and keeping open printed products which are inserted into the compartments at a first feed point, in such a way that the flat objects can be inserted into the opened folded printed products at a second feed point,
- wherein the dividing walls, at least in parts thereof, run substantially tangentially or secantially with respect to the circulating path.
A method for inserting flat objects into folded printed products, comprising the following steps:
- feeding of the printed products at a first feed point to a circulating system with a plurality of compartments which are moved along a circulating path and are delimited in the circulating direction by dividing walls), the dividing walls extending at least in regions substantially tangentially or secantially with respect to the circulating track, and the printed products being fed in a direction which extends substantially parallel to the trailing dividing wall of the compartment when the latter passes the first feed point;
- opening of the printed products in the compartments during the movement along the circulating track;
- insertion of the flat objects into the opened printed products at a second feed point;
- and
- discharging of the printed products with the inserted flat objects out of the circulating system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.