Device for trimming the top and/or bottom edge of printed products moved through a cutting tool
AssigneeMueller Martini Holding AG
InventorMarcel Buerge
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Abstract
A device for cutting printed products arranged successively spaced apart and transverse to a conveying direction. The device includes a conveyor to convey the print products in the conveying direction. The printed products rest on a flat side on the conveyor and convey with a bound edge forward. The device also includes a cutting tool synchronized with a timing of the conveyor so that the cutting tool cuts a top and/or bottom edge of the printed products. The device also including a cutter upstream of the cutting tool in the conveying direction so that the cutter is synchronized with the cutting tool and operative to make a cut to the bound edge.
Claims14
A device for cutting printed products arranged successively spaced apart and transverse to a conveying direction, comprising:
- a conveyor to convey the printed products in the conveying direction, wherein the printed products are conveyed with a bound edge forward in the conveying direction;
- a cutting tool synchronized with a timing of the conveyor, wherein the cutting tool comprises:
- a first cutting unit configured to cut at least one of a top edge and a bottom edge of the printed products, and
- a second cutting unit configured to cut a front edge of the printed products, the front edge being opposite to the bound edge;
- a cutter upstream of the first cutting unit in the conveying direction, the cutter comprising a cutter knife with a cutting edge that extends perpendicular to the bound edge and pointing against the conveying direction of the printed products;
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- a control unit that controls the cutter to be synchronized with at least one of the first and second cutting units of the cutting tool and to make a precut perpendicular to the bound edge.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.