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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7959143 | Former arrangement A former arrangement for a rotary printing press is disclosed. The former arrangement includes a former arrangement module with a base element which is mountable on a stationary element of the rotary printing press. A former is connected to the base element. A first... | 06/14/2011 |
| 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 |
| 7347398 | Device for transferring a foil matter from outside to inside of a machine Apparatus for transferring a foil matter from outside to inside of a machine. The apparatus has a longitudinal axis. The machine includes a frame comprising a first wall and a second wall. A window in the second wall. The outside and inside areas are separated by th... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7177045 | Process and system for mixed page imposition A process for formatting printable information orders selected data objects, document pages or images, to create a new document, where pages may be of uniform dimension and page orientation or varying in one or both of dimension and page orientation. Groups of pages... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7146908 | 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 in a printing unit, for example, are driven respectively by separate electric motors and are no... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7143692 | Device for producing folded products A device for providing folded products utilizes a funnel-shaped structure that consists of at least two funnels that are usable for providing two longitudinally folded strands or webs. A register device is usable for adjusting a path of at least one of the strands o... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7066368 | Paper web draw-in device for a web-fed printing press At least one paper web is drawn into a web-fed rotary printing press. A draw-in device is provided with permanently fixed pointed bars or spikes. These can be moved or oriented so that they penetrate the paper web only during drawing in of the web into the printing ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 6994005 | Apparatus for slitting, merging, and cutting a continuous paperweb A paper web, which may be pinless, is slit into side-by-side web ribbons that are merged one on top of the other for simultaneous crosscutting into appropriate page lengths. One web ribbon wraps substantially about an angled turnbar to shift it into registry with th... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6929710 | Method and device for winding up at least one paper web Paper webs are wound up or supplied to units of a rotary printing press, such as a longitudinal fold former. Flexible endless or open ended traction devices are used. Paper webs are secured to the traction devices in a positive manner. The paper webs or their starti... | 08/16/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6821038 | Newspaper producing method A newspaper producing method can produce a plurality kinds of newspapers different in page numbers and colors by using a single printing unit. This method includes a plurality of printing cycles, each of which produces a plurality of lateral printed rows on each sid... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6619583 | Device for contact-free guidance of a web material over a surface A device for contact-free guidance of a web material over a surface element whereon a first longitudinal fold is formed in the web material, the surface element decreasing in width continuously from a top crossmember to a bottom crossmember, and being def... | 09/16/2003 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6139003 | Process and device for producing multi-layered newspaper products with a tabloid section A device is provided for the production of multi-layered longitudinally folded newspaper products with a tabloid section having a variable number of pages in one layer of the newspaper product. An additional longitudinal separating device is placed upstre... | 10/31/2000 |
| 5503379 | Cross folding device with shiftable formers A device for making folded products, which is usable to simultaneously make two different folded products, includes a plurality of partial paper web train fold formers arranged on lower and upper levels and a double wide folding station. The fold formers ... | 04/02/1996 |
| 5490666 | Folder with spring-biased exit roller A folder apparatus is disclosed which has at least one lead-in tape mechanism having a left lead-in tape and left exit roller and a corresponding right lead-in tape and right exit roller, the fight and left lead-in tapes forming a signature passage for de... | 02/13/1996 |
| 5421567 | Synchronized web-fed rotary printing presses with inserting drum Two or more web-fed rotary printing press sections of a web-fed rotary printing press with usual printing units, reel stands, web-leads produce synchronously signatures with longitudinal and cross fold which are supplied to an inserting device of the web-... | 06/06/1995 |
| 5377964 | Device for cutting a web into sections In a combination of a rotary printing press having a drive, and a device for cutting a web into sections, the device is disposed downline from the rotary printing press in travel direction of a web therethrough and includes a cutting station having a driv... | 01/03/1995 |
| 5303909 | Paper web guide assembly with three forming levels A paper web guide assembly utilizes a plurality of longitudinal formers that are arranged in three levels. The formers in the upper level receive a web from a first six plate width press while the formers in the intermediate and lower levels receive web s... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5176371 | Rotary printing machine and printed web folding and handling system combination To ensure accurately aligned handling of a plurality of superposed webs (3, 4) forming a composite web, which is to be folded longitudinally twice, particularly to maintain alignment of the individual folded web portions for subsequent application of indi... | 01/05/1993 |
| 4984773 | Method of and apparatus for composing a press imposition An apparatus and a method are disclosed for composing an imposition in terms of an arrangement of printing plates on selected of the image positions on selected units of a printing press to print a given edition, by first assigning each section of this ed... | 01/15/1991 |
| 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 |
| 4793251 | Process and apparatus for the processing of security-paper prints and identification of misprints The print carriers which bear security-paper prints arranged in longitudinal and transverse rows and on which misprints are marked are numbered in such a way that all security-paper prints arranged in succession in a longitudinal row, but excluding mispri... | 12/27/1988 |
| 4725050 | Multi-section folding apparatus for rotary press A multi-section folding apparatus has two outer formers which are respectively provided on both sides of a pair of inner formers which are defined by a pair of upper and/or lower formers of a vertical two-stage former folding machine in such a manner that... | 02/16/1988 |
| 4720091 | Printed copy folding and assembly apparatus To provide double-infolded printed copy substrates for short copies, a collection and assembly apparatus assembles copy of a first type, for example representative of an advertisement for ladies' fashions, with folded copy of a second type, for example re... | 01/19/1988 |
| 4619449 | Folding apparatus for folding superposed multiple webs To prevent buckling of a lowermost one, or a lower group of superposed webs being fed, in superposed relation to a common folding triangle or folding former (1), a driven supply roller (2) is provided which has its circumference formed with projecting pin... | 10/28/1986 |
| 4340212 | Method and apparatus for producing sheet-like printed products having a folded portion A method and apparatus are disclosed for forming printed paper products having a folded or pocket portion, for example inserts for magazines and brochures having a reply envelope. A moving web of paper from which the inserts are made is first folded along... | 07/20/1982 |
| 4269334 | Printing and pleating There is provided a method of printing and pleating a fabric which comprises folding the fabric into a pleat pattern and then simultaneously forming the pleat and printing the fabric by passing the fabric together with a print paper in contact with at lea... | 05/26/1981 |
| 4167265 | Folding machine and control Each section of a buckle sheet feed folding machine is driven by a silicon controlled rectifier (SCR) controlled DC motor. The speed of the first section is infinitely variable by means of a rheostat in the SCR control. A signal related to the speed of th... | 09/11/1979 |
| 3993299 | Direct mail advertising booklet and method of production A low cost self-contained, direct-mail advertising booklet, particularly adapted to be a self-mailer type of booklet. A plurality of continuous strips or sheets of paper-like material are superposed and attached together to form a series of booklets in a ... | 11/23/1976 |
