Abstract: The invention relates to a device and method for manipulating a first paper strip (12) and at least one second paper strip (16) and a machine for producing booklets of paper sheets. The device comprises a conveying unit (64) providing a first conveying direction (14) for the first paper strip (12) and at least one second conveying direction (18) for the at least one second paper strip (14), wherein the at least one second conveying direction (18) is directed non-parallel to the first conveying direction (14), a meeting unit (58) at which the first paper strip (12) and the at least one second paper strip (16) meet to form a single strand of paper.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing wet wipes includes a step of continuously conveying a plurality of sheets by a conveyor, a step of folding each of the sheets toward a conveyor non-contact surface side of the sheets, a step of impregnating each of the folded sheets with the predetermined chemical solution, from a conveyor contact surface side of the sheets a step of laminating each of the sheets impregnated with the predetermined chemical solution, and a step of cutting the laminated sheets.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing longitudinally folded products has a machine frame (17) which is arranged below a former arrangement which can be charged with web material. Transporting and processing units are arranged in tandem in the machine frame (17), and a superstructure wall (18) which carries web guiding members (19) associated with the former arrangement is mounted on the machine frame (17). At least one web ribbon (2a) is guided through the superstructure wall (18). The machine frame (17) has at least two modules (22, 23) arranged one above the other which are rotatable by 180° relative to one another and can be connected to one another. Each module (22, 23) has its own at least one drive motor, and every unit provided in the region of the dividing line (24) between modules (22, 23) which are rotatable relative to one another is constructed symmetrically with respect to a center working plane containing the axis of rotation.

Abstract: A folder includes a first signature conveyor conveying first signatures along a first signature path; a second signature conveyor conveying second signatures along a second signature path; and a chopper located between the first and second signature paths imparting a fold on both the first and second signatures. A chopper and method are also provided.

Abstract: The present invention aims at preventing sanitary tissue paper from being torn when it is removed. The purpose is accomplished by sanitary tissue paper of single-ply or double-plies, characterized in that said paper has a lateral tensile strength on a dry condition of 32 N/m or more, a longitudinal tensile strength on a wet condition 32 N/m or more, and a longitudinal tensile strength on a dry condition which is 2.5 to 3.5 times higher than the lateral tensile strength on a dry condition.

Abstract: 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 be combined to form a principal sheet at an exit of the sheet combining device. A stapler is provided on one of the at least two partial web guide routes and is used to staple the partial sheet which is conveyed on that guide route.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for forming individual insert assemblies using an inline printing press comprising forming from a web at least one first ribbon defining an insert; forming from the web at least one second ribbon defining an advertising panel; applying repositionable or stick once glue to the advertising panel; and attaching the advertising panel to the advertising insert by the repositionable or stick once glue, thereby creating an insert having a removably attached advertising panel.

Abstract: An interfolding apparatus including a knife roll rotatable about an axis and operable to cut successive sheets from a stream of web material issuing from a source in a downstream direction. A folding roll is positioned downstream of the knife roll and is rotatable in a first direction at a first roll speed. An additional roll is disposed adjacent to the folding roll and is rotatable about an axis in a second direction at a second roll speed. The additional roll is operable to receive the successive sheets and release the successive sheets in the downstream direction toward the folding roll. The folding roll and the additional roll define a nip therebetween, the successive sheets passing through the nip. The first roll speed of the folding roll is different from the second roll speed of the additional roll, the difference in speed between the folding roll and the additional roll operable to overlap adjacent portions of the successive sheets onto the folding roll.

Abstract: 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 be combined to form a principal sheet at an exit of the sheet combining device. A stapler is provided on one of the at least two partial web guide routes and is used to staple the partial sheet which is conveyed on that guide route.

Abstract: 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 side of a continuous web, with each row having different contents relative to each other, with each row having at least two printed segments in a width direction of the continuous web, and with rows on opposite sides of the continuous web corresponding to each other. This printed continuous web is cut with respect to each of the lateral printed rows and each two-page spread of newspaper, and these cut portions are set and are delivered for every printing cycle. Each set of these portions is folded at a longitudinal central portion of a two-page spread thereof.

Abstract: Disclosed is a sheet stack manufacturing process. At first, a plurality of band sheets are fed. Each band sheet is folded at least once along a longitudinal direction thereof at a first folding step, to form folded bands. Then, each folded band is folded along the longitudinal direction at a second folding step to have at least three fold lines by the first and second folding steps and to sandwich a portion of at least one of an overlying sheet and an underlying sheet thereof, thereby to form a band-shaped sheet stack in which a plurality of sheets are combined with one another so as to be stacked on one another. The band-shaped sheet stack is cut to a predetermined length to be separated into individual sheet stacks.

Abstract: A method for producing a batch of products having a multiplicity of interfolded, generally rectangular sheets including wet wipes, from a limited amount of a web material, at a high production speed and in efficiently used floor space.

Abstract: An exemplified object of the present invention is to provide a guide mechanism, paper feed control method, and image-forming device that can prevent a jam or image degradation from occurring. The guide mechanism of the present invention includes a guide part that guides continuous paper from a paper feeder part storing the continuous paper to a conveyor part while regulating a conveyance route of the continuous paper, and a driving part that drives the guide part and the paper feeder part to move relatively and automatically according to a storage amount of the continuous paper in the paper feeder part.

Abstract: 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 material, creating a series of fan folds across the transverse axis of the web, severing the web after a desired number of fan folds have been created to form a separate log, and chop folding the resulting log zero one or more times to form a signature. The resulting signature includes a plurality of layers each having pages printed thereon in proper orientation and sequence and includes a sturdy closed backbone which enables the signature to be easily handled by conventional high-speed rotary gathering machines.

Abstract: A device for stacking continuous forms, in which pressure means are present, which comprise a pressure component which can move in a reciprocating manner towards and away from a vertically extending support surface, for pressing the continuous forms against the support surface, the device furthermore comprising conveyor means for conveying the continuous forms into the storage space.

Abstract: A process for making packs of interleaved laminar articles, comprising the operations of: providing a first plurality of strips of laminar material, subjecting these strips to a first interleaving operation so as to create a composite strip having an interleaved structure in which the strips located at terminal positions have corresponding outer limbs which project with respect to the said composite strip, cutting the composite strip into lengths through a transverse cutting operation so as to give rise to successive separate lengths of the said composite strip, and subjecting a second plurality of the said pieces to a second interleaving operation performed by making use of the said projecting limbs so as to give rise to a further composite strip comprising interleaved strips in a number identified by the product of the said first and the said second pluralities.

Abstract: A package of a continuous strip of material includes a plurality of parallel side by side stacks each containing a length of the strip which is folded back and forth such that each folded portion of the stack is folded relative to the next portion about a line transverse to the strip and such that the side edges of the strip portions are aligned. The strip of material includes a splice defined by the two ends of the strip. The two ends of the strip are held together by yarn stitches passing through and bridging the strip ends.

Abstract: A stacker and cart are provided for vertically stacking forms fed from a printer, folder, or other mechanism, by a conveyor, which do not require tilting of the cart to allow offloading of the forms. The stacker has a housing with side walls parallel to and spaced from each other in a first dimension and a base which mounts the side walls so that they are inclined with respect to the vertical (e.g. about 15 degrees), tilted in a second dimension perpendicular to the first. A number of forms-supporting stacker tines are parallel to and spaced from each other in the first dimension, and an elevator mechanism moves the tines in unison generally vertically with respect to the side walls. A stacker cooperates with a cart, a part sensor mounted on or adjacent the stacker base, and a latch on the cart cooperating with a latching mechanism on the stacker.

Abstract: In a method of making sealed paper, a web of paper is unrolled and fed, while under a given tension, from a paper roll, and is single-folded or multiple-folded. Prior to the or each folding step, the unrolled web of paper is treated by having an adhesive applied to margin portions thereof destined to be margins of the sealed paper on an inner surface thereof other than along a fold line at which the paper is to be folded. The folded web of paper is then cut to yield a number of sealable paper units so treated and folded as above. The method further includes pressing the sealable paper units to have them sealed with the adhesive applied and thereafter discharging the sealed paper units each of which represents a sealed paper. The method may further include printing a given message or information on a sheet of paper before the paper is rolled into the above mentioned paper roll.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for guiding a thin web material while folding the web material over a triangular former. The apparatus includes two guide rolls over which the web material is driven. The second guide roll is secured to a baseline of the triangular former. The triangular former and the guide roll may be tilted back and forth about a longitudinal axis of a bearing axle extending through a tip of the triangular former. The longitudinal axis is parallel with the web material extending between the two guide rolls. The position of the triangular former is controlled by a non-contacting edge scanning member that scans the position of the web material on the guide roll and causes the adjustment device to tilt the guide roll and the triangular former to ensure that the edges of the folded web material are precisely aligned.

Abstract: A ribbon gathering and folding assembly including a plurality of guide rollers positioned in superimposed relation to each other, the guide rollers being adapted to guide a ribbon, and a ribbon former including a former board that is positioned to receive ribbons from the guide rollers. The former board has a longitudinally extending forming surface that is positioned such that a direction of each ribbon travelling between the guide rollers and the former board is always within about 35 degrees of the forming surface. The ribbon former further includes a former roller positioned to guide the ribbons travelling from the guide rollers to the former board, and preferably also a control roller positioned between the former roller and the guide rollers on an opposite side of the ribbons from the former roller. A coating device is positioned to coat a low friction substance (e.g., silicone) onto a the upper surface of the upper-most ribbon and another coating device coats the lower surface of the lower-most ribbon.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus which includes a paper delivery unit which is provided as to be rockable and displaceable between an operating position close to a photosensitive drum and a standby position remote from the photosensitive drum; a supporting link system, operably coupled to the paper delivery unit, for holding the paper delivery unit at the operating position; and energizing device, operably coupled to the supporting link system, for energizing the paper delivery unit so as to move from the standby position to the operating position. The paper delivery unit includes a transferring device for transferring a toner image from the photosensitive drum onto a sheet, a tractor for feeding the sheet, disposed in the upstream of the transferring device in a paper delivery direction, and a suction feeder for holding and delivering the sheet, disposed in the downstream of the transferring device in the paper delivery direction.

Abstract: A dispenser for dispensing discrete lengths of longitudinally corrugated strips of wiping web material from a source of uncorrugated continuous length wiping material. In the device the web material is payed through and between converging longitudinally disposed projections whereby the corrugations are formed. The corrugated web is then fed between cogwheels, then to an egress part of the dispenser through which the web projects for a distance. The cogwheels may be provided with a severing means. To dispense the web projecting from the dispenser it is pulled outwardly resulting in obtaining a desired severed length of wiping material.

Abstract: An apparatus for folding and cutting a continuous length of paper. The apparatus includes (1) a folding mechanism for folding the paper into a stack of sheets, (2) a vertically movable supporting table for supporting the sheets, and (3) a cutting mechanism for cutting the paper.

Abstract: An improved pin driven collator with a freely rotatable platen for crimping a plurality of single sheets into a continuous multiple copy forms is disclosed. The collator assembly comprises a modular assembly having a frame to fix a pin drive, rotary plunger and platen into preselected spatial alignment and to maintain such components in dynamic registry. The rotary plunger is fixed to a shaft which also carries a drive sprocket which is engaged by an endless pin chain loop of the pin drive. A pair of mirror image modular collating assemblies are supported and interconnected by a pair of shafts, a splined drive shaft and a stabilizing shaft. The modular assemblies may slide along the shafts to adjust for varying paper width without disturbing the spatial alignment of the components or their dynamic registry.

Abstract: A thermographic printing machine has a powder applicator, a heating stage, and a cooling stage wherein the heating stage has a paper transport path which is sinuous and passes on both sides of a heater, the paper passing around rollers which define the ends of the transport path. The rollers at one end do not touch the printed surface of the paper and a guide shell prevents buckling. The machine can run much faster than any previous thermographic machine because of the compactness of the heater stage. The machine may have a re-folding device for continuous fan-folded paper, wherein the paper is drawn through the machine by a drive mechanism at the exit end of the machine prior to the re-folding stage, and wherein an adjustable linkage between the drive mechanism and the re-folding device ensures re-folding of fan-fold paper of different sheet lengths.

Abstract: Thermoplastic film is fed from a roll and pleated by passing the film across a series of rigid guides. As the film is drawn down across the guides, the film is pleated and then gathered onto a wind up roll. A J-shaped roll rack is preferably pneumatically activated to bring a fresh roll of film into a position for feeding the pleating arrangement.

Abstract: In a multi-bobbin machine for making paper booklets e.g. of interleaved cigarette paper, a multiplicity of strips from respective supply bobbins are interfolded and converged to form a booklet strand which is cut to length by a cutting station which reciprocates along the strand so that booklet lengths enter it and are cut. A rotating non-circular shaft passes through the cutting station and a sleeve in the cutting station slides axially along the shaft as the station reciprocates and rotates with the shaft. The sleeve is independently linked to a strand clamp and to a cutting knife which are separately timed and move along different paths, the strand clamp moving longitudinally towards and away from the strand while the knife makes a slicing movement across and through the strand.

Abstract: A plant for the production of stacks of intermeshed blanks of paper, cellse or the like folded together in a zig-zag fashion, in which two supply rolls are associated with the plant. Material webs on the rolls correspond to a multiple of two, four, or six or a higher even-numbered multiple of the width of the individual blanks. Longitudinal cutting stations divide the material webs into partial webs. The partial webs are opposite each other and run toward each other in the longitudinal direction of the webs and are fed to a stack-producing unit from two opposing sides. The stack-producing units of partial webs adjacent to each other are arranged in displaced relation to each other.

Abstract: To permit easy threading of a plurality of paper webs through rollers which have projecting pins thereof to provide for positive feed of the paper webs by perforating the paper webs, the pins are located such that they can be selectively positioned below a cylindrical generated outline defined by the largest radial dimension of at least one of the engagement rollers, for example by being selectively retractable (FIG. 1) within the outline of the cylindrical roller, or by being located (FIG. 2) in flutes or depressions of fluted rollers. If the pins are selectively retractable and projectionable, preferably, a positioning cone (5) is located within a hollow roller (1), the axial position of the cone being determined by an external hand wheel (23) which, over a rod (4), axially positions the cone, while including a rotation-isolating coupling (14-22) between the hand wheel and the rod (4).

Abstract: A computer paper loading-and-unloading device which is adapted to be positioned next to and spaced from a paper processing unit having a paper receiving station and a paper discharge station. The device has a top level support for supporting a stack of folded computer paper sheets, and a bottom level support under the top support and positioned below the level of the discharge station of the paper processing unit. An upright guide extends across the planes of the top and bottom supports and is adapted to guide the forward motion of the paper sheets underneath the bottom support and into the processing unit. The processed sheets are discharged from the discharge station, fold over, and stack up on top of the bottom support.

Abstract: A folder unit according to the teachings of the preferred embodiment of the present invention is shown as including front and rear sets of spirals for folding a continuous web of paper. The spirals are driven by first and second shafts whose ends extend through elongated slots formed in the side plates of the unit. A third drive shaft is further provided rotatably related to the first and second shafts and including a slideable helical gear. When the helical gear is slid on the third drive shaft, the third drive shaft is forced to rotate due to the helix of the helical gears simultaneously changing the rotational position of the spiral sets with respect to the other folder unit components. To prevent the spiral gear boxes from rotating with the first and second shafts, anti-rotation bars are provided which also extend through the elongated slots of the side plates.

Abstract: A method for quantitatively dividing a zigzag folded sheet of paper comprises continuously folding a sheet of paper to obtain a zigzag folded sheet of paper having a plurality of divisions connected to one another, continuously accumulating the divisions one on top of another, allowing a separator with a cutting edge to be inserted, when the continuous accumulation constitutes a first unit composed of a prescribed number of divisions, between the uppermost division of the first unit and the division connected to the uppermost division and becoming the lowermost division of a second unit to be subsequently obtained, thereby partitioning the first unit, allowing the first unit and the separator to descend to accumulate the divisions which will constitute the subsequent unit on the separator and allow the separator to advance immediately before the fold between the aforementioned uppermost and lowermost divisions, and allowing the cutting edge to advance away from the separator to cut off the fold.

Abstract: Refolder for a fan-folded web which automatically adjusts the height of the area in which refolding takes place to accommodate different speeds of movement and volume of fan-folded paper.

Abstract: Longitudinal folding of flexible web into four substantially equal sections without the occurrence of undesirable wrinkling of the surface of the folded sections is effected by a longitudinal folding board system. The folding board system employs a secondary folding board for initiating folding a first section of the web into parallel relationship with a second section to form a double-folded half section of the web. The web moves over the top surface of the secondary folding board; and the first section of the web is diverted from the remainder of the web along a given angular path.

Abstract: A process for feeding defibrators with sheet pulp delivered in batches. Rectangular sheets are deposited one behind another on a feed belt with their longitudinal axis offset by 45.degree. with respect to the direction of advance of the belt, whereupon two equal lateral parts from each sheet are folded back along two folding lines parallel to the direction of advance of the belt, the distance e between said lines being equal to l/.sqroot.2 and two consecutive sheets being mutually apart by x=L/.sqroot.2, L and l, respectively, being the length and the width of the pulp sheet. Feeding a machine for diapers.

Abstract: Process and apparatus for folding and interleaving continuously moving strips of paper and cutting the interleaved strips into packets of interleaved paper sheets. A supply roll of paper strip is provided for each sheet of paper in a packet, and the strips are simultaneously drawn from the supply rolls and through a series of formers and interleavers to provide a continuously moving strand of interleaved paper strips. The packets are cut from the continuously advancing strand by severing means which moves along with the strand during cutting.

Abstract: First and second bundles of interfolded webs are formed. The uppermost web half of the first bundle is interfolded with the lowermost web half of the second bundle at a merging station. These web halves travel along parallel and inclined fold surfaces and become interfolded upon being discharged therefrom. To unfold the uppermost web half for travel along its associated fold surface a freely rotatable roller is positioned upstream of such fold surface. The roller is arranged to be contacted and frictionally driven by the uppermost web half. The roller is oriented toward the fold line of the uppermost web half so that upon driving the roller, the uppermost web half becomes unfolded. To promote unfolding of the lowermost web half of the second bundle a stationary elongate band is disposed between the lowermost web half and the remaining web halves of the second bundle.

Abstract: A machine and a method are disclosed for forming pleated and wound electrical capacitors having a metallized dielectric which is metallized on both sides to form electrodes thereon. The metallized dielectric material is fed from supply rollers and it is pulled tightly over one or more rotatable discs so that it is locked firmly onto the periphery thereof. In one embodiment, three rotatable discs are employed and the center disc projects beyond the other two discs which are aligned at acute angles with respect to the center disc. After the dielectric material leaves these discs, it passes through a low pressure air stream which smooths out the wrinkles in the material. It is then fed under tension around a substantial portion of the periphery of a relatively large winding wheel.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for interfolding featuring a series of identical folding plates each with six folding edges for use in V or Z interfolding.

Abstract: A machine for interfolding webs of material which includes a plurality of interfolding mechanisms for interfolding webs into a plurality of elongate bundles. Drive mechanism is provided for advancing first and second ones of the bundles in taut condition, with the second bundle being disposed beneath the first bundle. First and second fold plates are disposed vertically intermediate the first and second bundles. These plates are inclined relative to a vertical plane and lie in generally mutually parallel planes. The first fold plate is arranged to guide the top web of the first bundle in an upwardly unfolded condition during advancement of the first bundle. The second fold plate is arranged to guide the bottom web of the second bundle in a downwardly unfolded condition during advancement of the second bundle.

Abstract: A longitudinally interfolding device and method for simultaneously interfolding a pair of partially superposed webs wherein the free margins of the webs are simultaneously over and under folded.

Abstract: An apparatus for simultaneously folding and interfolding a multiplicity of webs of flexible material such as facial tissue paper in the machine direction to form an endless bundle of interfolded webs which endless bundle can be cut into discrete bundles and packaged in pop-up dispensing containers. The apparatus comprises a fan-shape, horizontally disposed folding table comprising a set of tapered elongate guides having inverted V-shape cross sections. The elongate guides are disposed in side-by-side relation and thereby form tapered V-shape troughs therebetween. The webs are directed in convergent relation onto the radially outwardly disposed edge of the fan-shape table in partially overlapped relation and are drawn radially inwardly thereacross and thence about a turning guide whereupon the folds of the webs are alternately V-folded upwardly in said troughs and downwardly about the ridges of the elongate guides so that an edge fold of each web is disposed intermediate two folds of an adjacent web.

Abstract: A method is disclosed wherein the longitudinal fold edges of the respective sections of a newspaper are disposed alternately on opposite sides thereof to form a more uniform, stable product; and apparatus is disclosed for practicing the method.