Folding roller with rubber-elastic inserts
Assigneemanroland web systems GmbH
InventorSiegmund Echerer
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Abstract
A folding roller for use in a folding device for folding a fold is disclosed. At the folding device a substrate to be folded is pushed into an inlet roller nip of folding rollers rotating in opposite directions by a folding knife for forming a fold. The folded-away substrate is transferred from the folding rollers to a belt line guided about the folding rollers and consisting of transport belts for the purpose of onward transporting the folded product. The folding roller in the regions in axial extension in which at least one transport belt at least partially wraps the folding roller includes at least one rubber-elastic insert.
Claims14
A folding roller, comprising:
- a cylindrical folding roller body, wherein the folding roller body has a circumferential insert groove that is part of a circumferential groove which, in addition to the circumferential insert groove, has a circumferential transport belt groove;
- a transport belt, wherein the transport belt is guided on the cylindrical folding roller body in an axial region of the cylindrical folding roller body;
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- a rubber-elastic insert disposed on the axial region, wherein the rubber-elastic insert is disposed in the circumferential insert groove.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.