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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7329221 | Assembly for and method of gripping sheets of material in an interfolder A folding machine includes a first folding roll with a series of the gripper assemblies and a series of tucker assemblies uniformly and alternately spaced to interact with a series of gripper and tucker assemblies of an adjacent second folding roll. The series of al... | 02/12/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7296516 | Rotary roller printing press A rotary roller printing press has a printing unit for printing a web in six printed pages arranged axially next to each other. A superstructure is used to cut the web longitudinally into three partial webs. A folding installation is used to fold the partial webs an... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7255668 | Folding appliances A folding appliance includes a rotatable folding blade cylinder for transporting a signature to be folded, and at least one folding blade that can rotated about a first axle inside the folding blade cylinder. That first axle is held on a carrier which, in turn, can ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7220223 | Printing press having an apparatus for measuring a printed product A printing press having an apparatus for determining the product thickness of a folded product which is fed to folding rolls for making a fold known as the third fold. The apparatus has measuring heads that are arranged on both sides of a folding roll bearing levers... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7156019 | Rotary roller printing press A rotary roller printing press has a printing unit for printing a web in six printed pages arranged axially next to each other. A superstructure is used to cut the web longitudinally into three partial webs. A folding installation is used to fold the partial webs an... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7153253 | Folding drums of a folding device A folding drum of a folding device is comprised of at least one folding element and a transmission unit. The transmission unit has at least one toothed wheel which is coaxially arranged with respect to the rotational axis of the folding drum. The toothed wheel can b... | 12/26/2006 |
| 6905118 | Sheet finisher and image forming system using the same A sheet finisher of the present invention is included in an image forming system and folds a stack of sheets sequentially transferred from an image forming apparatus thereto. The sheet finisher includes a fold roller pair for holding the stack of sheets being convey... | 06/14/2005 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6886823 | Printing machine with several sections A printing machine includes several sections, each of which has at least one printing unit with at least one web running through the at least one printing unit per section. Two such sections are arranged offset to each other, transverse to the longitudinal direction... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6868253 | Image forming apparatus which conveys an image-formed sheet to reverse the sheet and conveys the sheet to a folding unit when a three-fold process of folding a lower surface is selected An image forming apparatus includes an image forming apparatus body, an image reading apparatus mounted on the upper portion of the apparatus body, and a postprocessing apparatus having a folding unit which folds a sheet. The image forming apparatus includes a selec... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6840616 | Air folder adjuster apparatus and method An air folder adjuster (10) includes an air supply (12) and air supply tubing (14) connected to air supply (12) at end (16). The opposite end (18) of air supply tubing (14) is connected to one or more air nozzles (... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6810813 | Device and method for controlling registration in a printing press A method for controlling a printing press having a first image cylinder for providing at least a first cylinder first image and a first cylinder second image to a printed material and a second image cylinder for providing at least a second cylinder first image and a... | 11/02/2004 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6257142 | Rotary printing press for production of multiple center spread signatures Several printing units are arranged in a row for printing on as many separate webs traveling in centerline alignment and in phase with one another. At least one preselected web, on issuing from one printing unit, is directed over an angled guide rod there... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6250622 | Cylinder assembly for a folding apparatus of a rotary printing press The present invention is related to a paper conducting cylinder in a folder which is assigned to a rotary printing press such as a rotary newspaper printing press. A plurality of cylinder's surface sections (19) is mounted about the circumference of said ... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6193640 | Paper feeding in a folder Folders in a web-fed rotary printing press are associated with two spaced horizontal planes. Each of these planes is provided with a superstructure carriage that supports a plurality of turning bars. Each of the superstructure carriages can be displaced h... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6082259 | Turning tower arrangement A turning tower arrangement for a printing press includes a turning tower (11) with turning bars (21, 22) arranged in a plurality of planes (E1-E12) one over the other for guiding printed webs one over the other. A first turning tower (11) and at least on... | 07/04/2000 |
| 5937757 | Gap adjusting device with pressure relief for a second fold roller In order to permit automated setting of operating parameters while also facilitating the removal of paper jams, a device for adjusting the gap size between folding rollers of a rotary press folding machine includes a pair of counter-rotating folding rolle... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5749567 | Printing method and apparatus A method and apparatus for forming books comprising pages of coated paper interspersed with pages of newsprint paper. The book is formed by providing a moving web of coated paper, providing a plurality of moving webs of newsprint paper, printing the movin... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5730056 | Rotary printing press with a further processing unit connected down-line therefrom Rotary printing press having a product delivery unit including a conveyor system revolving in a conveyor path, and a further-processing unit disposed downline therefrom and having a product-guiding cylinder for conveying incoming products through the furt... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5685528 | Paper web feed for a folding apparatus A pair of partial paper web receiving superstructure units are placed above a transverse folding unit in a folding apparatus. Either a drawing unit or a longitudinal folder and its associated folder hopper inlet can be placed between the superstructure un... | 11/11/1997 |
| 5551678 | Cylinder folding apparatus A cylinder folding apparatus for a web-fed rotary printing press utilizes solid cutting and a collecting cylinders to cut a paper web into signatures. A hollow folding drum is provided with an interior folding blade cylinder whose axis of rotation is offs... | 09/03/1996 |
| 5526748 | Folded substrate, dual-sided printing process and substrates printed thereby A low basis weight substrate is printed by a folded substrate, dual-sided printing process. The substrate is folded to present two printing surfaces. The folded substrate is then passed through a printing station to have an ink pattern printed on one surf... | 06/18/1996 |
| 5437442 | Single or plural sheet folding apparatus for use with rotary printing presses In a folding apparatus that follows web-fed rotary printing presses, folded or unfolded sheets (9) are folded after the printed web has been severed. The folded or unfolded sheets (9) are delivered in parallel from a transport apparatus with a gripper cha... | 08/01/1995 |
| 5411245 | Folding apparatus with rotating vacuum roller A device for guiding signatures between signature-guiding cylinders in a folding apparatus of a rotary printing press includes a guide member extending over the length of the signature-guiding cylinders for receiving signatures thereon, the guide member b... | 05/02/1995 |
| 5314566 | Mailing machine including low speed sheet feeding and jam detection structure In a machine including structure for printing an indicia on a sheet at a predetermined printing speed, wherein the machine includes structure for feeding the sheet in a path of travel to the printing structure, apparatus for detecting a malfunction of the... | 05/24/1994 |
| 5137506 | In-line folder/gluer A system and method for automatically producing folded and sealed printed products from form sheets includes a high-speed printer interconnected with a conveyor which directs form sheets from the outfeed of the printer to the infeed of a folder gluer. In ... | 08/11/1992 |
| 5042788 | Processing paper and other webs A printing apparatus has an array of cartridges for printing a web of e.g. paper passing through the array, and one or more units containing printing medium. The cartridges each are capable of transferring the printing medium from the unit(s) to the web. ... | 08/27/1991 |
| 4952426 | Reducing cancer risk from newspapers The present invention provides a process for coating paper having printed ink on its surface which comprises applying and adhering a transparent plastic to said paper while said ink is wet. Preferably the paper used is newsprint and the ink used is carbon... | 08/28/1990 |
| 4925170 | Overhead frame for a folder In the context of an overhead frame for a folder placed transversely on the delivery end of a web-feed printing press comprising a set of adjustable first angle bars running transversely in relation to the direction of feed of the paper web and arranged t... | 05/15/1990 |
| 4893803 | Method of and device for folding a sheet A method of folding a sheet, cut from at least one advancing web of material electrostatically bonded at least on one side and preferably consisting of paper or of a composite manufactured therefrom, transferred to a collecting cylinder, picked up in the ... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4824503 | Magazine assembly system and method Paper from a roll or other supply is processed by an in-line magazine publishing and/or assembly system. The processing sequence includes printing pages of the magazine in predetermined places on the paper, laying down patterns of glue in other places of ... | 04/25/1989 |
| 4623136 | Printing press An improved printing press. The printing press forms transverse lines of weakening at spaced intervals along a continuous strip of paper after the paper has been imprinted with a repeating business format. The press then creases the strip of paper along t... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4573671 | Automatic setting device for slowing down a signature prior to folding in printing press chopper folders An automatic slow down setting device for a signature prior to folding thereof in chopper forders for web fed printing presses comprises a single detector of abutment of the signature, relay timing means connected to said detector and having an opening co... | 03/04/1986 |
| 4519594 | Former for a folder in a web-fed rotary printing press A former assembly for a folder in a web-fed rotary printing press is disclosed. The former assembly includes a paper guide spaced between side frames which are supported for rotation about a vertical axis above a group of folder cylinders. An upper carrou... | 05/28/1985 |
