Abstract: A compact hydraulic cylinder for use in a recess of a sliding door of a waste processing system. The cylinder includes a housing containing a first cylinder rod extending from one end of the housing and second and third rods extending from an opposite end of the housing and spaced apart such that the first rod is located between the second and third rods. The first cylinder rod is adapted to be connected to a fixed mounting bracket located on the waste processing system and the second and third cylinder rods are adapted to be connected to a removable mount. The removable mount is also located in the recess and is adapted to be connected to the door such that the mount and cylinder assembly can be accessed from the rear of the door without having to disassemble the door.

Abstract: Printed products are transported in the direction of conveyance suspended, held by their fold, from transporting clamps of a conveying device. The end area of the printed products rests on a supporting mechanism and the uppermost product part protrudes with its marginal section over the bottommost product part. To the two product parts there is in each case assigned a gripper of the opening device. The grippers are disposed on a revolutionally driven drawing member. The clamping tongue of the first gripper grips underneath the marginal section and, upon running up against an opening crank, lifts the product part from the bottommost product part. The second gripper grasps the lifted-off product part in the marginal section and, when the clamping tongue is lowered into the closed position, the latter clamps the product part between itself and the clamping jaw of the first gripper, by the end edge. The first gripper revolves at a greater velocity than the second gripper.

Abstract: A buckle folder having upper and lower plates. Each plate has a front and a rear end with the two plates connected to each other at their rear ends. The plates are movable relative to each other so that the space between the two plates may be adjusted to accommodate different thicknesses.

Abstract: A pivoted bin sorter has a stapler for finishing sets of sheets in the bin trays and a jogger operated by a camming action of the trays as the trays are moved from a position in which sheets are deposited in the trays to a position above the sheet receiving position. The camming action is caused by a cam projection on the jogger which engages a side edge of a slot in the trays as the trays are moved relative to the jogger. The jogger moves the sheets laterally of the direction of sheet movement into the trays against a registration surface opposed to the jogger. The registration edge is a vertical surface provided by a wall of the frame structure at the opposite side of the trays from the jogger. During upward movement of the trays, the stapler is moved to a stapling position and displaces the sets of sheets in trays above the sheet inlet position in the direction of sheet infeed.

Abstract: In handling machines, in particular punching machines, operating in discrete steps, for sheets of paper or similar objects, a warping, waving or wrinkling of the sheets occurs during the deceleration movements of the sheets ahead of the delivery station. These deformations are smoothed by the hold-down device according to the invention, which consists of a circulating perforated endless belt, to which an underpressure is applied from below. There is also synchronization between the feed movement of the sheets and the movement of the endless belt.

Abstract: Method and device for stapling stacks of sheets situated in bins placed one above another in parallel with a stapler movable along the bins, the stapler being rotatable about an axis of rotation so as to move the stapler at each bin from an inoperative position, in which the stapler is turned away from the bins, to an operative position, in which the stapling elements of the stapler surround an edge portion of the stack of sheets to be stapled, the stapler having a pressure surface which, during this rotatory movement, pushes to one side of an adjacent bin a stack of sheets already stapled and positioned in the adjacent bin.

Abstract: A method for sorting, separating and indicating sections of an outputted stack, such as printed continuous paper web. A continuous web is outputted which includes a plurality of sections having pages therein. Page separation and section separation locations are determined upon the web wherein the size of each page in a section is equal and wherein the size of at least one section separator page disposed adjacent to a section separation location is unequal to the size of the other pages in the section. The web is folded at each of the subsequent page separation locations upon an alternating face to produce a zig-zag pattern. The section separator pages may be folded so that their size is greater than or less than the size of the pages in the section and the section separator pages may be cut so that their size is greater than or less than that of the pages in the section.

Abstract: A compact interstacking web deflector for causing a split paper web to overlap one side of the web over the other. The web deflector includes a triangular support plate over which the split web flows. The triangular leading edge of the support plate includes a pair of rods angled with respect to the paper webs. As the paper webs flow over the respective rods, opposing twists are imparted to the side-by-side sections of the paper web that causes the web sections to merge towards the centerline of the deflector. The twists in the web sections are removed as the sections loop under a pair of free-floating tension tubes. In this manner, the paper webs are superimposed one over the other for subsequent processing.

Abstract: This invention relates to a continuous cycle process for the assembly of an unlimited number of multiple distinct editions of magazines in a bindery line. The invention provides a process wherein signatures in a hopper can be changed to produce a different edition of a magazine without stopping the bindery line. The number of different editions which can be produced without stopping the bindery line is increased without lengthening the line.

Abstract: A bellows for use in fluid control devices includes a head, a shoulder, a blind hole extending from an opening in the shoulder to the head, and a hollow compressible neck between the head and the shoulder, through which the blind hole extends. The neck includes a thin-walled, circumferential band located between the shoulder and the head. The bellows is formed by forming, in a body of thermoplastic material, an inner bore having an inner diameter. Next, at least one thin-walled circumferential band is formed between the head and the shoulder. Finally, the body is deformed to cause each circumferential band to bow.

Abstract: A connection apparatus for connection with an inside of a fluid conduit including seal member, sleeve member and collet assembly to seal and grip the fluid conduit which is in fluid communication with a fluid passageway. The connection apparatus further includes a resilient member and a control valve to cause actuating and deactuating relative movement between the collet assembly and the sleeve member so as to grip and seal the inside of the fluid conduit.

Abstract: A transport path is branched into a main pass and a bypass. A deflector is provided at a branch point, for switching the path either to the bypass or to the main pass. Sheet detection switches are respectively provided along the bypass and the main pass, and also on a stapler plate, for controlling the rotation of a transfer roller. In this way, a first sheet being transported through the main pass and a second sheet being transported through the bypass can be discharged onto the stapler plate at the same time. As a result, the problem of the device being made larger or reducing the quality of the sheets can be prevented, and a faster process after copying can be achieved.

Abstract: A sorter of the moving bin type has a set of horizontally extended trays moved vertically between positions above and below a sheet entry location by cams which provide an enlarged entry space. A stapler is moved between a non-stapling position and a stapling position. The cams also enlarge the space between trays at the stapling position to permit a tray to be received in the throat of the stapler between stapler anvil and body.A sheet aligning jogger has opposed jogging bars extending vertically at opposite sides of the trays and simultaneously moveable towards and away from one another to engage opposite sides of the sheets in the trays to align the side edges of the sets of sheets in a neat stack. The jogging bars are also rotated in opposite directions to apply a force to the sheets urging the trailing edge of the sheets opposite to the direction of feed into the trays against an alignment surface on the tray normal to the side edges for aligning the trailing edges of the sheets in the set.

Abstract: A method of controlling a sheet material discharge apparatus with a sheet material binder includes, during discharge of sheet materials which form a set, the binding means operates to bind the set without waiting for a trailing edge of the last one of the sheet materials of the set to be discharged, once a leading edge of the last sheet is discharged and aligned in a sheet accommodating step, and after operating a binding means to bind a set, detecting a resetting of the binding means to a stand-by state, and permitting the operation of the sheet discharging operation when the resetting is not detected within a predetermined period after operation of the binding means is instructed.

Abstract: A "mailboxing" unit and system for separating by users the job sheet outputs of various users of a shared users printer. It provides for compiling, finishing, and stacking the sheets sequentially outputted from the printer in separate job sets into one or more temporarily and variably assigned "mailboxes" of a "mailboxing" job sorting accessory unit having a number of variably assignable "mailbox" bins. An integral moving sheet deflector, compiler and stapler unit is shown for collecting, compiling, and optionally stapling, and ejecting job sets of sheets for separate designated users into one or more of these discrete but variably assigned "mailboxes". It may also provide a bypass for sequentially stacking unstapled user sheets directly in a mailbox without compiling and stapling. A variable display indicates the bins into which that particular user's jobs have been placed last and not yet removed.

Abstract: The stitching or stapling heads, which act together in a stitching zone (C) with the supports that carry printed products to be wire-stitched, have a circular orbit. The stitching heads are guided so as to maintain their more or less vertical position during their orbit. Within the stitching zone (C), each stitching head is thus approximately aligned with its respective support and is therefore in the preferred position for driving the staples into the printed products. When the stitching heads encounter the supports, they are pushed back radially inward against the resistance of compression springs. This causes a slight flattening in the orbit of the stitching heads in the stitching zone (C) and slightly prolongs the time available for the stitching heads to act together with the supports in the stitching process.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a drive assembly, in particular a motor pump assembly for slip-controlled brake systems, with a device for transforming rotatory into translatory movements, including a drive shaft which is movably guided in a housing, and an eccentric device which is associated with the drive shaft. In order to be able to change the dimension of the eccentric, it is provided that the eccentric device is formed of two eccentrics which are turnable relative to each other and are in mesh with each other in a form-fit manner, so that at least an eccentric sum dimension formed from the individual eccentric dimensions of two eccentrics, respectively, can be set variably.

Abstract: A clutch-servo for vehicles which constitutes a working device arranged for fluid connection with a master cylinder to be operated by the vehicle's driver. The servo comprises a working cylinder unit (50) with a piston (5) arranged in a working cylinder (1), which piston is connected to the clutch's engaging mechanism, and a control valve unit (60) for the working cylinder unit (50), with a valve body (21) arranged in the valve housing (44). The master cylinder has a fluid connection with the working cylinder unit (50) and the control valve unit (60), so that the fluid in the master cylinder simultaneously exerts a force on the piston (5) and the valve body (21), in order to try to release the clutch and to move the valve body (21) in order to connect the working cylinder unit (50) to a servo pressure fluid source when the driver operates the master cylinder. According to the invention the valve unit is constituted by a slide valve.

Abstract: A sorter apparatus for receiving and attaching sets of sheet material in succession at a sheet input station. A plurality of bins are provided for receiving the sheet material in a first position within each bin. The bin has a slidable tray mounted thereon. The slideable tray is movable in a direction, transverse to the sheet input direction, to displace the sheet material, received within each bin, to a second position where the sheet set is attached. The slideable tray is then returned to the first position and another bin is positioned at the sheet attaching position where the process is repeated.

Abstract: An open-center fluid controller (15) is disclosed for controlling the flow of fluid to a steering cylinder (25). The controller includes a fluid meter (29) and valving arrangement (27), including a valve spool (43) and a sleeve (45), which define a main fluid path. The main path includes a fixed flow control orifice (86), a variable flow control orifice (87), the fluid meter (29), and a variable flow control orifice (89). In accordance with the invention, the spool and sleeve define an amplification fluid path (101), including a variable amplification orifice (99), in parallel with the main fluid path, and disposed to amplify the flow of fluid through the meter (29). In order to facilitate manual steering, the amplification orifice (99) reaches its maximum flow area when the spool and sleeve are in a normal operating position (FIG. 6). The amplification orifice then decreases and closes as the displacement between the spool and sleeve reach a maximum displacement (FIG. 7).