Abstract: A strip deflection device (1) for deflecting a strip (2), in particular a metal strip, at an angle: at least one deflecting cylinder (3) around which the strip (2) can be deflected by a deflection angle (7) while maintaining strip tension. The angle is defined by the inlet direction (14) and the outlet direction (15) of the strip (2). Rollers (20) on the circumference of the deflection cylinder (3), form bearing faces of equal height for the strip (2) along a wrap around the cylinder. The deflection cylinder (3) can be adjusted between a first (31) and a second operating position (32) preferably perpendicular by an adjusting device (16). Each operating position (31, 32) is associated with a respective arrangement (10, 11) of the rollers (20) and the rollers in that arrangement (10, 11) are oriented in a direction that corresponds to the wrap around the cylinder.

Abstract: The device (100) is destined to receive flanked continuous strips (1, 2) from an arrival line (L), and feed them towards a transversal cutting station (SR). The device (100) comprises: a basin (3), associated to a terminal part of the arrival line (L), destined to enable formation, in each of the strips (1, 2) of a free loop (A1, A2) in a downwards direction; deviator organs (4), at a 45° angle, provided downstream of the basin (3), destined to guide the strips (1, 2) such as to orientate them perpendicularly to the arrival direction, horizontally centered and correctly staggered in height such as to enter the transversal cutting station (SR).

Abstract: A paper transport system for transporting a web in a printing system includes a stationary bar positioned such that the web slides over a portion of an exterior surface of the bar, a rotatable source roller for supplying unused cover material, and a rotatable take-up roller for receiving used cover material. Cover material extends between the source roller and the take-up roller and is disposed over the portion of the exterior surface of the bar that the web slides over. A locking mechanism can be used to maintain tension in the cover material.

Abstract: A ribbon applicator configured to guide ribbon to a web includes a support structure and a cantilever arm supported by the support structure. The cantilever arm is moveable through a range of motion relative to the support structure. A guide roller guides the ribbon onto the web. The guide roller is pivotally mounted on the cantilever arm for pivotal movement of the guide roller with respect to the cantilever arm.

Abstract: A continuous web inversion system used in a continuous web imaging device includes a first, a second, and a third turn bar. The web moves over the three turn bars to invert the web for duplex printing. The second and third turn bars are operatively connected to one another for translation in a plane and a driver is operatively connected to one of the second and third turn bars to translate the bars in the plane. A sensor is configured to generate a signal indicative of a lateral position of the continuous web exiting the third turn bar. The driver adjusts a position of the third turn bar with reference to the signal generated by the sensor.

Abstract: A continuous web inversion system for use in a continuous web imaging device includes a first turn bar positioned to receive a substantially continuous web moving in a first direction with a first surface facing in a printing direction and to flip the web and direct it in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. A second turn bar is positioned to receive the continuous web from the first turn bar to flip the web and direct it in a third direction opposite the first direction. A third turn bar is positioned to receive the continuous web from the second turn bar to flip the web and direct it in the first direction with a second surface of the web facing in the printing direction. The second and the third turn bars are coupled together and supported for translation along an axis perpendicular to the first direction. A sensor is configured to generate a signal indicative of a lateral position of the continuous web exiting the third turn bar.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes: a first retainer and a second retainer arranged side by side in a thrust direction, the first and second retainers being rotatable and retaining a long recording medium wound therearound; a guide mechanism that draws the recording medium wound around the first retainer in the thrust direction and guides the recording medium in a direction in which the recording medium can be wound around the second retainer; and a recording unit that performs a first recording process on the recording medium wound in a single layer around and retained by the first retainer under rotation of the first retainer and a second recording process on the recording medium wound in a single layer around and retained by the second retainer under rotation of the second retainer.

Abstract: A device and method are provided for continuously manufacturing a thermoplastic resin film product of any width having a small film thickness and uniform flat surface at an excellent yield. A tubular resin film cutting and winding device for cutting a tubular resin film 1a into a helical shape and winding a long film 1b, comprising a cutting device having a cutting member 2 for cutting a tubular resin film 1a; a winding device 4 for winding the cut long film 1b; and a guide rollers 3 for guiding the cut long film to the winding device, wherein the cutting member 2 and the guide rollers 3 have a mechanism for rotation in the circumferential direction of the tubular resin film.

Abstract: A web guiding apparatus is provided. The web guiding apparatus includes an angle bar and an angle bar support supporting the angle bar. The angle bar support has a first end portion and a second end portion. The web guiding apparatus also includes a first actuator coupled to the angle bar support for moving the first end portion along a vertical axis and a second actuator coupled to the angle bar support for moving the second end portion along a horizontal axis. A folder for a printing press is also provided.

Abstract: A media turnover mechanism includes a roller. A first turn bar is positioned upstream relative to the roller at an angle relative to a direction of media motion. A second turn bar is positioned downstream relative to the roller at an angle relative to a direction of media motion. A first guide is positioned between the first turn bar and the roller to direct a leading edge of a web of media toward the roller. A second guide is positioned between the roller and the second turn bar to direct the leading edge of the web of media toward the second turn bar. A third guide is positioned to direct the leading edge of the web of media around the second turn bar.

Abstract: An apparatus for roll-to-roll processing includes a first roller for converting the transmission of a roll of flexible material from a first direction to a second direction substantially orthogonal to the first direction, a second roller spaced apart from the first roller and extending transversely with respect to the first roller for converting the transmission of the roll of flexible material from the second direction to a third direction substantially orthogonal to the first direction and the second direction, and a third roller spaced apart from the second roller and extending perpendicularly with respect to the first roller for converting the transmission of the roll of flexible material from the third direction to a fourth direction, wherein the roll of flexible material includes a first side and a second side, and wherein the first roller, the second roller and the third roller contact the same one of the first side and the second side of the roll of flexible material.

Abstract: An apparatus for the concurrent converting of multiple web products includes at least a first unwind station and a second unwind station. The apparatus further includes a first web transformation station associated with a first web material unwound from the first unwind station, and a second web transformation station associated with the second web material unwound from the second unwind station. The first and second web transformation stations are disposed such that less than twice the width of the widest web material separates a portion of the first web material in the first web transformation station from a portion of the second web material in the second web transformation station. The method of the invention includes steps of unwinding web materials from rolls at each of the first and second unwind stations and transforming the respective web materials using the first and second web transformation stations.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for reversing a print material web is disclosed. A reversing bar unit includes a frame and a reversing bar pivotably mounted on the frame at a pivot point. The reversing bar includes an outer tube and an inner tube. A first end of the coupling element is coupled to the inner tube and a second end of the coupling element is moveably coupled to the frame at a distance from the pivot point. Upon a pivoting of the reversing bar the coupling element translationally or rotationally moves the inner tube relative to the outer tube.

Abstract: 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 the first wall. The foil matter is held at a level of use outside by a first idling roller arranged in a frame. The device guides the foil matter so that its transfer from outside to inside is effected by at least one progressive turning of this foil matter around a second idling roller during passage of the foil matter through the window. The second roller intersects an edge of the window. The foil matter passes over a third idling roller angled with respect to the second one and to reoriented the foil matter along the longitudinal axis of the machine.

Abstract: An apparatus for roll-to-roll processing includes a first roller for converting the transmission of a roll of flexible material from a first direction to a second direction substantially orthogonal to the first direction, a second roller spaced apart from the first roller and extending transversely with respect to the first roller for converting the transmission of the roll of flexible material from the second direction to a third direction substantially orthogonal to the first direction and the second direction, and a third roller spaced apart from the second roller and extending perpendicularly with respect to the first roller for converting the transmission of the roll of flexible material from the third direction to a fourth direction, wherein the roll of flexible material includes a first side and a second side, and wherein the first roller, the second roller and the third roller contact the same one of the first side and the second side of the roll of flexible material.

Abstract: A turning device uses a turning bar for diverting a material web. The turning bar includes a sleeve with a plurality of holes and an inner chamber that is supplied with compressed air, as well as a closing body. The turning bar is supported by a frame and is able to pivot through 90°. The closing body is movable within the inner chamber in response to this pivoting movement of the turning bar. Movement of the closing body closes one of two groups of the holes, depending on the position of the turning bar. The turning bar is connected to the frame at only one end and is supplied with compressed air through a joint connecting the turning bar to the frame.

Abstract: Disclosed are guide apparatus for guiding an advancing continuous fiber bundle, a winding machine having the guide apparatus installed therein, a method for making a bobbin of a continuous fiber bundle, particularly that of carbon fibers, and a carbon fiber bobbin made by using the winding machine; and the guide apparatus comprises: a pair of a first and a second guides disposed on the passage of the fiber bundle, axis lines of which guides are in a relation twisted away from each other in a space, and a parallel guide disposed at the downstream side of the pair of the guides, axis line of which parallel guide is parallel to that of the bobbin, the first guide being a flat or a conical guide, and the second guide being a conical guide.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for turning and reorienting the displacement direction of strips (1), especially of a thin hot strip. The strip can be turned about any angle by means of at least one deflection roller, with roller banks (5) which are arranged on the circumference of the deflection roller, and which respectively comprise a plurality of individual rollers. Plastic and elastic deformations are avoided due to the fact that the strip is supported at various points by the individual rollers of successive roller banks (5). The invention also relates to a device for carrying out the method. Said device enables the roller banks placed one after the other in the strip deflection direction to be staggered in relation to each other in such a way that the contact surfaces of their rollers with the strip are staggered from bank to bank, by one roller width (11,12).

Abstract: A device for deflecting a web has at least one turning bar (1; 2) that can be shifted. A first turning bar holding device (11a, 11b; 11a, 11b, 11c) is connected with an axial end of the turning bar. A second turning bar holding device (12) is connected with the other axial end of the turning bar. A first guide is provided, along which the first turning bar holding device (11a, 11b; 11a, 11b, 11c) is guided movably. A second guide (22) is provided, along which the second turning bar holding means (12) is guided movably. An adjusting device (19, 20) is provided, by which at least one (11a, 11b; 11a, 11b, 11c) of the turning bar holding means is adjustable along its guide (21) in order to position it (11a, 11b; 11a, 11b, 11c) for shifting the turning bar (1; 2).

Abstract: A web is guided in a processing machine by the use of a device which includes a regular device and at least one further web guiding element. These cooperate to subject the web to an offset or to a change in direction. The regular device and the at least one further web guiding element are arranged for mounting on a common guide in a direction that is transverse to the direction of travel of one incoming web.

Abstract: A guiding roller, that is used to turn a web of material, has a jacket surface provided with holes over at least a portion of its periphery. An inner surface of the guiding roller is provided with compressed air. A piston is axially displaceable in the roller inner surface and can occlude selected ones of the holes. A motor is provided for displacing the piston in response to a control signal supplied by a control circuit. The guiding roller is pivotally supported by a frame and can pivot through 90° about a pivot axis which is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the roller. A gear mechanism couples a rotational movement of the piston about the axis to the pivotal movement of the guiding roller.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for unwinding a vertically oriented roll of web material is disclosed. The roll comprises a lower surface, an upper surface and a circumferential surface. The apparatus comprises: at least one drive element adapted to rotate the vertically oriented roll, a sensor adapted to measure a tension of the web, and a controller adapted to adjust a speed of the web according to the tension of the web. The method comprises steps of rotating the roll, determining a desired web tension, and adjusting the speed of the roll according to the desired web tension.

Abstract: A device for isolating strips conveyed next to another in lengthwise direction is constituted by at least one separating unit which is extended parallel to a lengthwise axis. Each strip is assigned to one guide and it is inserted and guided by the guides in a plane running essentially parallel to the lengthwise axis of the separating unit and different for neighboring guides. When the strips are inserted into the guides, the guides are adjustable from a starting position, in which the strips have a slight lateral interval, into a separable position, in which a larger interval exists between the strips.

Abstract: A device for guiding a web includes a frame, a first angle bar angled with respect to the entering web direction and supported by the frame for movement along a first path, the first angle bar having a first and a second side, a second angle bar angled with respect to the entering web direction and supported by the frame for movement along a second path, and a roller for changing a direction of the web between the first angle bar and second angle bar, the roller being moveable along a third path so as to be movable laterally beyond both the first side and second side of the angle bar.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for guiding a band-type product (1) especially a metal band, comprising at least two conical deflectors (2, 2?) arranged head to foot. According to the invention, each deflector (2, 2?) comprises a fixed base (3, 3?) whereon are mounted, in the manner of satellites, a plurality of rotating guiding rolls (4, 4?) forming the same angle (A) with an axis (30, 30?) of the deflector (2, 2?), and said deflectors (2, 2?) are oriented relative to the longitudinal running axis (10) of the band (1) so that the latter comprises successively, in the running direction, an upstream portion (1a) tangent and perpendicular to an input generatrix (5a) on a first deflector (2), a central portion (1b) tangent and perpendicular, upwardly to an output generatrix (5b) of the first deflector (2) and, downwardly, to an input generatrix (5?a) on the second deflector (2?) and a downstream portion (1c) tangent and perpendicular to an output generatrix (5?b) of the second deflector (2?).

Abstract: A turning bar arrangement for redirecting the path of travel of a material web utilizes at least one turning bar and at least one register roller. The web of material is caused to be enwrapped about both and extends between both to define a plane. When viewed in a direction perpendicular to this plane, the turning bar and the register roller do not overlap.

Abstract: A reversible angle bar device for a web printing press having a web with an entering web centerline has a support, a first angle bar portion angled with respect to the first entering web centerline on a first side of the entering web centerline, and a second angle bar portion angled with respect to the entering web centerline and being located on a second side of the entering web centerline opposite the first side, the first and second angle bar portions being fixed to the support. A moveable angle bar portion is selectively attachable to either the first angle bar portion or the second angle bar portion.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to an angle-bar arrangement for deflecting material webs on an angle-bar jacket (1) which is provided with a plurality of air outlet openings (2). Closing elements (6), which seal off respective air outlet openings (2), are movably accommodated in the angle-bar jacket (1). Compressed air enters into the hollow space bounded by the movably accommodated closing elements (6). The movable closing elements (6), whose outer contour (7) corresponds to the inner wall (3) of the angle-bar jacket (1), are driven independently of one another by actuators (18, 20).

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for turning and reorienting the displacement direction of strips (1), especially of a thin hot strip. The strip can be turned about any angle by means of at least one deflection roller, with roller banks (5) which are arranged on the circumference of the deflection roller, and which respectively comprise a plurality of individual rollers. Plastic and elastic deformations are avoided due to the fact that the strip is supported at various points by the individual rollers of successive roller banks (5). The invention also relates to a device for carrying out the method. Said device enables the roller banks placed one after the other in the strip deflection direction to be staggered in relation to each other in such a way that the contact surfaces of their rollers with the strip are staggered from bank to bank, by one roller width (11,12).

Abstract: A turning device uses a turning bar for diverting a material web. The turning bar includes a sleeve with a plurality of holes and an inner chamber that is supplied with compressed air, as well as a closing body. The turning bar is supported by a frame and is able to pivot through 90°. The closing body is movable within the inner chamber in response to this pivoting movement of the turning bar. Movement of the closing body closes one of two groups of the holes, depending on the position of the turning bar. The turning bar is connected to the frame at only one end and is supplied with compressed air through a joint connecting the turning bar to the frame.

Abstract: A device for guiding a web includes a frame, a first angle bar angled with respect to the entering web direction and supported by the frame for movement along a first path, the first angle bar having a first side and a second side, a second angle bar angled with respect to the entering web direction and supported by the frame for movement along a second path, and a roller for changing a direction of the web between the first angle bar and second angle bar, the roller being movable along a third path so as to be movable laterally beyond both the first side and second side of the first angle bar.

Abstract: A reversible angle bar device for a web printing press having a web with an entering web centerline has a support, a first angle bar portion angled with respect to the first entering web centerline on a first side of the entering web centerline, and a second angle bar portion angled with respect to the entering web centerline and being located on a second side of the entering web centerline opposite the first side, the first and second angle bar portions being fixed to the support. A moveable angle bar portion is selectively attachable to either the first angle bar portion or the second angle bar portion.

Abstract: A matrix is provided having at least two diagonal turnbars and one parallel turnbar respecting the direction a paperweb is fed into the matrix. By threading through the turnbars in one or another way, the paperweb exits either face-up or face-down as compared to its orientation upon entering the matrix. Additional turnbars enable the matrix to direct the paperweb to exit in any number of directions with either orientation.

Abstract: A tape guide device for a magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus includes a pole base assembly to guide a tape supplied from a supply reel and passed through a predetermined path to be moved horizontally to a read surface of a head drum. The pole base assembly includes a pole base installed adjacently to or separately from one side of the head drum during a loading/unloading operation of the tape. The pole base assembly also includes a pole unit including a spiral flange inclined to the pole base to be in a horizontal direction to the read surface of the head drum, to guide the tape entering the head drum to be inclined at a predetermined angle and positioned in the horizontal direction to the read surface.

Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for fabricating a laminate product having a pair of sheet materials spaced by a plurality of flexible parallel vanes which are secured to the sheet material so that planar movement of the sheet materials in opposite directions cause the vanes to shift between open and closed positions. The vane material is formed from a web of material by dyeing the material, drying the dyed material, applying spaced longitudinally extending lines of adhesive on opposite faces of the material, and cutting the material into a plurality of side-by-side strips with each strip having a bead of adhesive on each face and along opposite side edges. The cut material with adhesive applied thereto is taken up on a transfer roll and moved to a vane/strip handling station where the strips of material are processed and delivered to a laminating station in parallel overlapping relationship with each other.

Abstract: A turning bar assembly rotatably disposed adjacent a web of material moving at an operational speed in a web forming device has a turning bar for changing a direction of the moving web. Moreover, the turning bar is controllably rotated 360 ° against the moving web to prevent dust accumulation and dust clumping on the turning bar.

Abstract: Paper web sections which may have been produced by longitudinally cutting a wide paper web, and which are being fed in a production direction, are laterally shifted with respect to that production direction. The web sections are fed within a device for deflecting the paper webs transversely from the left and from the right, with respect to the machine production direction. Two upper 45° deflection devices are supported by lateral side frames and can be displaced horizontally transversely to the machine production direction. Each of these two upper deflection devices has a lower surface that lies in a horizontal plane and the two horizontal planes have different heights.

Abstract: A web expanding device for or in a web-processing machine, especially a web-fed rotary printing press includes a frame and a cutting device (4) for longitudinally cutting a web (B) into a left-hand web strand (Bl) and a right-hand web strand (Br). A first deflecting device (5l) for the left-hand web strand (Bl) is provided along with a second left-hand deflecting device (6l) for the S left-hand web strand (Bl), which is arranged after the first left-hand deflecting device (5l) in the direction of web delivery (F). A first right-hand deflecting device (5r) for the right-hand web strand (Br), which points toward the first left-hand deflecting device (5l) is provided along with a second right-hand deflecting device (6r) for the right-hand web strand (Br), which is arranged after the first right-hand deflecting device (5r) in the direction of web delivery (F) and points toward the second left-hand deflecting device (6l).

Abstract: An inverting transfer apparatus for continuous web substrate, such as may utilize a single printing system including a conventional or existing simplex web-fed xerographic print engine.

Abstract: A turning bar assembly rotatably disposed adjacent a web of material moving at an operational speed in a web forming device is provided. The turning bar assembly has a turning bar for changing a direction of the moving web. Moreover, the turning bar is controllably rotated 360° against the moving web to prevent dust accumulation and dust clumping on the turning bar. Related methods of rotating the turning bar are also provided.

Abstract: 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 defined by boundary elements, the surface element and the boundary elements having gaseous medium provided therein, includes an adjustable closure element for varying, in accordance with a respective format of the web material guided over the surface, a flow of a volume of the gaseous medium from an air cushion formed beneath the web material; a device for forming the first longitudinal fold; and an angle-bar superstructure and a web-processing rotary printing machine, respectively, including the fold-forming device.

Abstract: Two methods for redirecting a continuous paper web with a face up orientation from a first direction to a second direction with either a face up orientation or an opposing face down orientation are provided. The directions correspond to paper processing devices such as printers and cutters, and an assembly to do the same is also provided. In the preferred embodiment of the assembly, the web passes about a turnbar that is moveable between a first and a second position. In the first position, the web is redirected face down along a second direction. In the second position, the web passes about a roller perpendicular to the second direction and is redirected along the second direction in a face up orientation.

Abstract: A tape guide device for a magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus includes a pole base assembly to guide a tape supplied from a supply reel and passed through a predetermined path to be moved horizontally to a read surface of a head drum. The pole base assembly includes a pole base installed adjacently to or separately from one side of the head drum during a loading/unloading operation of the tape. The pole base assembly also includes a pole unit including a spiral flange inclined to the pole base to be in a horizontal direction to the read surface of the head drum, to guide the tape entering the head drum to be inclined at a predetermined angle and positioned in the horizontal direction to the read surface.

Abstract: A configurable paper transport having a frame having at least one station for securing a non-driven paper web process device. The configurable paper transport defines a paper web path through the non-driven paper web process device, or devices. The configurable paper transport also contains a driver that moves a paper web along the paper web path. In a preferred configuration, the stations and associated non-driven paper web process devices have a universal receptacle permitting any non-driven paper process device, selected from a plurality of non-driven paper process devices, to be located in any station.

Abstract: A device for routing and redirecting a continuous web of sheet type material under tension, such as an endless roll of paper, from one processing or handling device to another, comprises a series of upright supports defining a polygon such as a square, and one or more generally horizontal tumbar members. When the web passes about a turnbar, the web's path is redirected in the vertical and/or horizontal planes toward the other web processing device.

Abstract: A matrix is provided having at least two diagonal turnbars and one parallel turnbar respecting the direction a paperweb is fed into the matrix. By threading through the turnbars in one or another way, the paperweb exits either face-up or face-down as compared to its orientation upon entering the matrix. Additional turnbars enable the matrix to direct the paperweb to exit in any number of directions with either orientation.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for aligning a continuous web of material with an entry point of a machine that utilizes the web as a source material. The web may include pre-processed materials that may be thicker than conventional webs and/or have uneven thickness, and/or are susceptible to excessive compression forces and/or tensions which may be found in ordinary straight-wound rolls. Such pre-processed materials may be wound in traverse-wound rolls or festooned into a container forming a web source structure which is wider than the web width. The web is pulled from such web source structure by the machine through a series of guides which include surfaces having various properties and shapes to create tensions in the web and to align the web with the entry point of the machine.

Abstract: The invention relates to an angle bar assembly that comprises a first angle bar around (7) which a material web is wrapped for redirecting the feed of the material web and a table roll (14) around which the material web is wrapped. When looked at from a plane defined by a section of the material web extending between the first angle bar and the table roller, the first angle bar and the idler roll are mounted so as not to overlap.

Abstract: A winding mechanism for a screen which is stretched in the form of a tunnel during use includes a winding tube which is rotatable about an axis of rotation for winding and unwinding said screen. A guide for the screen is disposed beside the winding tube, which guide is curved in such a manner that the distance via the guide and via the surface of the winding tube surface to a line on the surface of the winding tube that extends parallel to the axis of rotation is the same for all points that are located at the same longitudinal position on the screen. In a further embodiment, a rectilinear auxiliary guide can be disposed between said guide and said winding tube, in such a manner that the screen will make contact therewith over its entire width.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for deflecting paper web sections that are produced by longitudinally cutting a wide paper web or that are fed in the machine direction of production. These paper web sections are fed within said device transversely to the machine direction, namely transversely from the left and transversely from the right with respect to the machine direction. Two upper 45° (13, 14) deflection devices are provided between devices mounted between lateral stands (06, 07) and can be displaced manually or by means of a motor in the horizontal direction, either individually or jointly along the transverse machine directions, the lowest surface lines of said deflection devices lying in horizontal planes that have different heights.