Method and device to produce printed items
AssigneeMueller Martini Holding AG
InventorsGuenther Silberbauer, Konrad Boos
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Abstract
A method and device to produce printed items having at least one printed product and a supplement. The device includes a gathering device with a gathering section such that the gathering section includes a continuously circulating conveyor. A printer is also provided to produce the printed products wherein the printed products include a single page or partial block stacks. The device further includes feeders to supply the printed products to the conveyor and at least one supplement feeder arranged between two of the feeders to feed at least one supplement to the circulating conveyor.
Claims13
A method to produce printed items each having at least one printed product and a supplement, comprising:
- sequentially printing pages of printed products with at least one digital printer;
- continuously circulating a conveyor with uniformly spaced apart receiving locations that follow each other;
- supplying the printed products from the digital printer as individual sheets or partial block stacks to the uniformly spaced apart receiving locations by respective feeders arranged along a gathering section of the circulating conveyor to form an at least partially formed book block;
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- supplying at least one supplement to one of the at least partially formed book blocks on the circulating conveyor by a supplement feeder arranged along the gathering section of the circulating conveyor between two of the respective feeders, wherein the receiving locations at an end of the gathering section contain loose book blocks formed of selectively gathering of supplied printed products and supplements used to form the printed items.
A device to produce printed items having at least one printed product and a supplement, comprising:
- a gathering device with a gathering section, the gathering section including a continuously circulating conveyor;
- a printer to produce the printed products, the printed products including a single page or partial block stacks;
- feeders to supply the printed products to the conveyor, and
- at least one supplement feeder arranged between two of the feeders to feed at least one supplement to the circulating conveyor.
A method to produce printed items having at least one printed product and supplement, comprising:
- printing the at least one printed product with a printer, the printed products each including a single page or partial block stacks;
- feeding the printed products from the printer with feeders to a circulating conveyor,
- supplying a supplement with at least one supplement feeder arranged between two of the feeders to the circulating conveyor, and
- selectively gathering the printed products and supplement along the gathering section to form loose book blocks.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.