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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8047521 | Making magazine pop-up formats A method of making magazine formats in the form of signatures that include a flat 3-D piece that is die-cut from a web on a web press, which produces a plurality of such identical signatures as part of a high speed operation. The flat 3-D piece is located at the upp... | 11/01/2011 |
| 7950640 | Rotary printing press and method for producing a newspaper product in tabloid format A rotary printing press is usable for producing a newspaper product in tabloid format. The printing press has at least one printing unit which is configured so that it prints a web with printed pages in a horizontal tabloid format. A part web, which is formed by sli... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7878494 | Making magazine pop-up formats A method of making magazine formats in the form of signatures that include a flat 3-D piece that is die-cut from a web on a web press, which produces a plurality of such identical signatures as part of a high speed operation. The flat 3-D piece is located at the upp... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7866643 | Image forming system and program thereof An image forming system including an image forming apparatus and a book binding apparatus, the image forming system includes: a first detection section which detects maximum and minimum book-body sheet length in the bundle of the book-body sheets; a second detection... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7775509 | Method and arrangement for producing digitally printed newspapers A method and apparatus for producing a digitally printed product that includes at least one section of sequentially printed sheets folded approximately in the center. The sequentially printed sheets are conveyed one after another on a conveying device and folded ins... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7556247 | Printer-lane-packaging for variable page-count document sets A system, apparatus, and method for printer-lane-packaging of documents utilizing a printer for printing on a linear web medium documents having fixed-data and variable-data information to produce in-lane formatting for each of the document and including a web cutte... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7434795 | Removable portion format A system for producing removable portions for mass-distributable packets by single-pass manufacturing, in which a printed web is slit into two ribbons, one of which is then folded upon itself to create a multi-ply ribbon that appears to be of heavier stock than the ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7364148 | Sheet combining device and a method for combining sheets A sheet combining device includes at least one former, at least one longitudinal cutter, and at least two partial web guide routes. A respective partial sheet of partial cut webs can be conveyed on each of the at least two partial web guide routes. These sheets can ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7354211 | Perforation forming mechanism for use in an imaging apparatus An apparatus for perforating a sheet of print media having a front side and a back side includes a printhead carriage for carrying a printhead. A perforator carriage carries a perforation forming mechanism. An isolation damper having elastic, vibration absorbing, ch... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7326161 | Folder A folder includes a cut-off cylinder, etc. for cutting a web into sheets; a group of cylinders for folding each sheet into a signature in accordance with the selected folding specifications; and a conveyer apparatus, a fan wheel, a delivery conveyer, etc. for convey... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7204654 | Perforation forming mechanism for use in an imaging apparatus An apparatus for perforating a sheet of media includes a perforation forming mechanism including at least one perforation device. The perforation forming mechanism is configured to drive the perforation device through the sheet of media to extend through the sheet o... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7191704 | Conveyor unit for conveying flat objects A conveyor unit for conveying flat objects includes at least first, second and third endless belts, together with a cylinder. The first endless belt extends along a part of the circumference of the cylinder and forms, with the cylinder circumference, a section of a ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7173356 | Independent direct drive for paper processing machines The present invention provides an electric drive, including a stator (4) and a rotor (3), for a paper processing machine, in particular a printing press having at least two rotary subassemblies (1, 2), the stator (4) and the rotor (3 | 02/06/2007 |
| 7172547 | Variable-circumference folder A variable-circumference folder includes a gathering cylinder fitted with pin systems for reliably holding products of different thickness fed to the gathering cylinder by an accelerating device without any adjustment effort. ... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7134392 | Conveyor unit for conveying flat objects A conveyor unit for conveying flat objects includes at least first, second and third endless belts, together with a cylinder. The first endless belt extends along a part of the circumference of the cylinder and forms, with the cylinder circumference, a section of a ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7115087 | Cutting device A cutting device is used to accomplish the transverse cutting of at least a first material web. The cutting device includes a cutting cylinder and a first counter cylinder. These two cylinders rotate cooperatively and define a first gap through what a first transpor... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7115088 | Folder cylinder with support plate A folding cylinder includes a plurality of gripping devices supported on a first rotatable support with a first gripping device for holding a signature on the cylinder. A plurality of tucking devices are supported on a second rotatable support, the tucking devices i... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7090631 | Methods and apparatus for scoring and trimming imaged sheet media A sheet finishing apparatus includes a media path configured to receive a sheet of media moving along the media path. A creasing tool is located proximate to the media path and is configured to form a crease in the sheet of media. The apparatus also includes a sheet... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7044058 | Automatic motor phase presetting for a web printing press A method for presetting motor phase in a web printing press includes providing a mark on a printing form, the mark being a function of a desired preset phase for a motor driving the printing form during printing. The mark is read using a sensor, the sensor having a ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7028598 | Apparatus for longitudinally perforating a web of paper in a rotary printing press A rotary printing press has a folding station where the printed web is perforated both transversely and longitudinally in order to expedite subsequent folding thereof into signatures. In order to incorporate a longitudinal perforator into the folding station without... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7017899 | Removable portion format A system for producing removable portions for mass-distributable packets by single-pass manufacturing, in which a printed web is slit into two ribbons, one of which is then folded upon itself to create a multi-ply ribbon that appears to be of heavier stock than the ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7007603 | Conveyor unit for conveying flat objects A conveyor unit for conveying flat objects includes at least first, second and third endless belts, together with a cylinder. The first endless belt extends along a part of the circumference of the cylinder and forms, with the cylinder circumference, a section of a ... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7000539 | Offset printing machine The invention relates to the drive of a printing machine. Cylinders and functional groups are to be driven with low technical expenditure. To this end, all form cylinders (1.1, 1.2) in a printing unit, for example, are driven respectively by separate electric... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6938543 | Web fed printing machine having pasting-related misregistration eliminating apparatus A web fed printing machine includes a web path provided between two sequentially disposed printing units and a misregistration detector for detecting misregistration in superimposition printing performed by the printing units. During superimposition printing, cylind... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6923753 | Folder cylinder with support plate A folding cylinder includes a plurality of gripping devices supported on a first rotatable support with a first gripping device for holding a signature on the cylinder. A plurality of tucking devices are supported on a second rotatable support, the tucking devices i... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6923436 | Process for the manufacture of sets of printed pages for the preparation of books, and set of printed pages manufactured by that process The process is based on printing, in an electronic printing machine, the various bodies of text of the pages with symmetrical distribution with respect to the center of symmetry of the sheet being printed and likewise symmetrically with respect to one or both axes o... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6910843 | Cover authoring systems and methods and bookbinding systems incorporating the same Cover authoring systems and methods for automatically composing a final content layout for a cover, including spinal content formatted to accommodate the width and height dimensions of the book spine, are described. By automatically computing the typeface parameter ... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6899026 | Folding installation on a rotary roller press and as rotary roller press A folding installation of a web-fed rotary printing press includes a first group of at least two folding formers and at least one additional folding former which is offset vertically from the first group. The folding formers of the first group are adjacent and are o... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6896250 | Printed product and method for producing a printed product A printed product is produced on a web-fed rotary newspaper printing press. The dimensions of the resultant printed product can be varied. Paper webs of constant and preselected widths are combined with sub-paper webs of preselected and somewhat smaller widths. Thes... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6892635 | Arrangement for processing a web a folded product from a rotary roller press and a rotary roller press An arrangement for processing webs in a rotary web-fed printing press includes a turning device that is usable for shifting the web about an uneven multiple of a half web-width of the web. A folding installation is also provided. The web or webs, which are displaced... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6889970 | Delivery apparatus for folding machines A delivery apparatus for folding machines having a folding apparatus FA and a delivery apparatus DA, comprising a delivery fly 3 for receiving signatures S1, S2 and S3 folded by the folding apparatus FA, a conveyor C for operating the del... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6834849 | Device for cutting paper webs A water jet cutting device is used to cut a paper web into a plurality of partial paper webs. The water jet cutting device is placed between the output of a web-fed rotary printing press and the input of a folder which folds the plurality of partial paper webs. ... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6779788 | Apparatus for folding printed paper sections A web of printed paper is cut into sections by a cutting cylinder while riding on a folding cylinder, and each paper section has its midpart subsequently pushed by a folding blade on the folding cylinder into a jaw cavity formed in the surface of a jaw cylinder in o... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6651539 | Perforating, grooving or cutting device for a multicolor sheet-fed rotary press The invention relates to a perforating, grooving or cutting device for a multicolor or single-color sheet-fed rotary press (1) comprising printing and/or varnishing groups (2), at least one of which has a rubber cylinder (3) with a holding system (14) for... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6644193 | Web cutting tuck folding machine and method A high speed web cutting and tuck folding machine feeds webs downstream between overlying and underlying runs of feed belts having cutting and tuck folding openings spaced along the belts. Lead segments of the webs are cut at a cutting station and are fed... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6513427 | Device for guiding material webs in rotary presses A device for guiding material webs (A through D; E through H) via an angle-bar deck (2), including a folding section that is arranged on a plurality of planes (3.1, 3.2, 3.3), from where the material webs (A through D), (E through H) enter folding apparat... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6435092 | Method of producing a newspaper A method for producing a printed product, such as a newspaper using a plurality of product and part-product webs. The webs, or selected ones of the webs can be longitudinally or transversely perforated or both. This allows a simple way for accomplishing t... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6402132 | Method of folding demand-printed webs into signatures for gathering in rotary gathering/binding machines and signatures produced thereby A method for folding demand printed webs into signatures for gathering by rotary gathering and binding machines, as well as the signatures produced thereby, are disclosed. The method involves the steps of digitally printing pages onto a moving web of mate... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6298781 | Former board arrangement in a web-fed rotary newspaper printing press A former board arrangement in a web-fed rotary newspaper printing press comprises a first and a second row of former boards each row including a first, second and third former board for longitudinally folding one or more ribbons passing over the former bo... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6279890 | Combination rotary and jaw folder for a printing press A printing press having a jaw mode assembly and a rotary mode assembly with a single folding cylinder adapted to feed either the jaw mode assembly or the rotary mode assembly is disclosed. A moving web of material is initially trained about the folding cy... | 08/28/2001 |
