Abstract: A method of manufacturing thread-stitched books and an arrangement for carrying out the method, the method including gathering individual folded printed sheets into sheet blocks in a gathering unit, and loading after each gathering cycle the sheet blocks onto a block receiving unit of a storage unit releasably connected to the gathering unit. Batches of the sheet blocks are supplied to at least one book sewing machine. Subsequently, the sheets are sewn together into book blocks in the at least one book sewing machine.

Abstract: Printed products are transported on a transport path to a product storage apparatus disposed laterally of the transport path by a curved transport segment and are transported from the product storage apparatus to the next processing station on a straight removal segment disposed approximately at a right angle to the transport path.

Abstract: A motor-operated adjusting device is provided for adjusting machine axles. The device includes an addressable unit, an operating unit for executing control functions for adjusting a position of an axle to be adjusted, a bus coupling the operating unit to the addressable unit, and an adjusting unit. The adjusting unit includes a path indicator for indicating the position of the axle to be adjusted, a gear connected to the axle and a motor connected via the gear to the axle for adjusting the position of the axle, the motor and the output of the path indicator being connected via the addressable unit and the bus to the operating unit so that the operating unit can instruct the motor via the addressable unit to adjust the position of the axle in dependence of the position of the axle as indicated by the path indicator.

Abstract: A conveyor apparatus for further transporting individually conveyed, flat products includes a rotatingly driven pulling element and spaced receiving apparatuses that can be loaded and emptied secured to the pulling element for being moved in a conveying direction. The receiving apparatuses each included two side walls which are respectively spaced in the conveying direction and form a receiving chamber having an opening for the products. A mechanism is provided for widening the opening in the receiving chamber of the respective apparatuses for loading product into the chamber and a further mechanism is provided for moving the receiving apparatuses into a hanging position with a predetermined inclination in which the openings are downwardly-oriented so that the product can be ejected through the opening.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for supplying at least one enclosure to multiple-page printed sheets collected to form printed products at the edge opposite the last folded edges. The printed products are gripped at the fold side on collecting carriers and removed from the collecting apparatus. The products are supplied with enclosures on a further conveying path with the open edge facing a feeder.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for assembling printed products. The method and apparatus involve the selective delivery of the printed products to receiving devices situated in succession along a production line formed by a plurality of controlled sheet feeder stations. Printed products are selectively supplied to a receiving device at a discharge end of the production line, and transferred to a helical circulation track guiding a plurality of further receiving devices driven in synchronism with the production line through a feed path disposed between the discharge end of the production line and the circulation track. Any incomplete printed products are removed from the printed products, and replaced with replacement complete printed products by delivery of the replacement complete printed products to respective receiving devices of the circulation track corresponding to removed incomplete printed products at a feed point in the circulation track through the feed path.

Abstract: A device for forming a stack of printed sheets. The device includes a conveying device for conveying the printed sheets in an imbricated flow vertically downwards and an approximately horizontal stack support disposed below the conveying device and having an entrance end for receiving the printed sheets. The stack support has a working region where stacks of the printed sheets are formed, and, disposed downstream of the working region in a stack formation direction, a pressing region where formed stacks of the printed sheets are compressed.

Abstract: A method and an article are disclosed pertaining to the production of book blocks comprising a stack of signatures each having a fold and which together form a spine of the book block, the signatures being aligned with one another on their flat sides and stitched together by means of a binding thread with at least two spaced transverse seams formed of a double strand of binding thread passing through each of the folds of the signatures from a location outside of the signatures and extending along an inner edge of each of the folds to an exit point in each of the folds, a first one of the at least two spaced transverse seams being formed by chaining together loop-like binding thread sections pulled successively out of the folds of the signature. The chained transverse seam is interrupted after a stack section determining the size of the book block has been formed.

Abstract: A device for conveying individual printed products to a second conveying track from a staggered flow of printed products on a first conveying track. A step is formed between the first conveying track and the second conveying track. The second conveying track branches off from the first conveying track at the step and has a front end disposed adjacent the step. The device includes a carriage disposed on the second conveying track and adapted to assume an oblique movement toward and away from the step. The carriage includes a flap disposed thereon. The flap can be pivoted into and out of an effective area of the first conveying track for engaging and disengaging individual products from the staggered flow.

Abstract: A downward-leading step is disposed between a first and second conveying track, where a first scale-shaped flow is spread open and transferred into a second, deflected scale-shaped flow. Pressure rollers are disposed ahead of and behind the step, which rest against the top of the first or second scale-shaped flow and constitute means for aligning the second scale-shaped flow. In this way the exact evenness and directional consistency of the deflected scale-shaped flow is ensured without a lateral guidance panel.

Abstract: An arrangement for manufacturing book blocks formed of printed sheets which are bound by an adhesive includes a spiral guide wall for transferring the gathered printed sheets which are placed one on top of the other in stacks from an essentially horizontal position into a vertical position. The arrangement further includes a support element which projects at approximately a right angle from a lower edge of the guide wall for guiding the stacks at the rear folded edges of the printed sheets and a guide duct formed by a guide rail which is adjustable in accordance with the height of the stacks. A filling element is arranged between the support element and the guide rail, wherein the filling element extends at least closely adjacent to or partially into the conveying duct, and wherein the filling element can be placed so as to rest against the support element.

Abstract: To transport flat printed products lying on a support formed by a driven first belt, and moved forward in a conveying channel by means of the run of a second belt disposed above the first, the entrance region of the channel is configured to be adjustable in height in the cadence of the supplied printed products.

Abstract: An arrangement for charging successive pockets on a conveyor path of an insetting machine with inset products with a given edge first. A sheet feeder disposed to convey the inset products approximately perpendicular to a conveying direction of the insetting machine is provided. Above the pockets a conveyor segment ends that is disposed downstream of the sheet feeder. The conveyor segment is formed by two endless adjacent flat belts and conveys the inset products from the sheet feeder to the pockets of the insetting machine. The inset products are grasped between respective conveying surfaces of the flat belts. Deflector rollers circulate the flat belts.

Abstract: A device is provided to combine printed products that are supplied to a folded envelope. A rotating conveying member is equipped with receiving pockets that are distributed over its circumference and can be closed and opened. The receiving pockets have an associated charging station for the envelopes and a supplying station for the enclosures on the opposite side of the conveying member as well as a subsequently connected removal station, with the charging station and the supplying station being connected by means of an undercut conveying region of the conveying member.

Abstract: A device for manufacturing uniform sheets from paper panels having a cutter roller which has, at its circumference, at least one pair of blades which interact with a stationary counter blade. Each blade is individually adjustable and is fastened to a mounting surface of a prismatic recess wherein the mounting surface extends parallel to the rotation axis of the cutter roller. Each blade is adjustable by way of a feeding member which acts perpendicularly on the blade for radial adjustment of the blade.

Abstract: A first conveying member (11) has a gap (11) which is engaged by the front end of a second conveying member. This second conveying member conveys obliquely in respect to the first conveying member and has a lower and an upper draw-off belt (14). The front end of the upper draw-off belt (14) can be telescopically adjusted.

Abstract: A method and an arrangement for collecting and subsequently stitching folded sheet-like printed products. The method includes regularly feeding printed products to a conveying track. The arrangement has a plurality of supports for placing the printed products thereon, wherein the supports extend transversely of the conveying direction and are spaced apart in conveying direction. At least one feeder station is provided for the supports. A stitching apparatus is arranged in front of the end of the conveyor track. The conveyor track is driven by a bending means which engages the supports.

Abstract: An arrangement for the step-by-step conveyance of printed products, such as, newspapers, magazines or the like from a removal location, wherein the printed products are supplied to the removal location by a conveying unit approximately vertically and spaced apart from each other. The arrangement includes at least one set of gripping tongs for gripping the lower ends of the printed products at the removal location. The gripping tongs are connected to a driven hub. The gripping tongs are retractably controlled by the periphery of the hub which interacts with a friction wheel arranged after the removal location. The gripping tongs extend through a space which is arranged downstream and is provided for the controlled release of the printed products. The space is defined by conveying members which are driven in the same direction.

Abstract: An apparatus in a book binding machine for binding books by gluing includes a notch cutting tool for producing notches in the back of the book block, wherein the notches extend approximately transversely of the back of the book block. The notch cutting tool is mounted for cutting notches in a portion of the book block which projects from a mounting device. A rotatably mounted abutment has a cylindrical support surface for laterally supporting the projecting portion against the cutting force exerted by the notch cutting tool. A guide plate is mounted rearwardly offset from the cylindrical support surface of the abutment. The guide plate has a groove surrounding the travel path of the notch cutting tool and the cylindrical support surface of the abutment is located opposite the groove in the guide plate.

Abstract: The backbones of successive stacks of signatures of a series of such stacks are trimmed by a rotary implement having two annuli of substantially radially extending orbiting trimming or cutting tools. The tools of one annulus extend radially outwardly beyond the tools of the other annulus, and the tools of one annulus extend axially forwardly beyond the tools of the other annulus. The tools which extend axially forwardly beyond the other tools orbit at a higher speed. The two annuli of tools can be orbited in the same direction or in opposite directions.