Abstract: In a folding apparatus for a rotary printing press having a form cylinder with four or six etchings, with a folding cylinder having a plurality of spaced fastening devices on the circumference thereof and a collecting cylinder associated with the folding cylinder with folding blades, grippers or point group cassettes thereon, the improvement comprising, the fastening devices being divided into two groups, each with a number of fastening devices, with the ratio of the number of the fastening devices in each group being a mixed number. Each fastening device is provided with a cam follower and a cam wheel is positioned within the folding cylinder with cams thereon for selectively rendering the folding devices of one of the groups inoperative.

Abstract: In a printing press adapted to print different size paper, after the imprinting, the paper passes rotatable cutting rollers whose rotative phase position is invariable; the paper next passes a folding knife cylinder and a coaxial gripper cylinder; the gripper cylinder has cam controlled fingers thereon; cams control these fingers; the rotative phase positions of the folding cylinder, the gripping cylinder and the gripper finger control cams are adjustable through respective control gearing for each of them and with respect to the invariable phase position of the cutting rollers; there is a rigid drive connection to the control gearing for each of the phase adjustable parts for jointly readjusting their phase positions for different size paper; individual calibrating adjustments disengageably connect each phase adjustable part from the rigid drive for individual corrections.

Abstract: Apparatus for forming in a sheet a fold extending transversely of the direction of sheet travel therethrough is provided with a triad of cylinders rotating about parallel axes. The sheets to be folded are first engaged about the periphery of a first of said triad of cylinders with their trailing and leading edges engaged by releasable grippers. A folding blade located between said grippers on said first cylinder causes a portion of the sheet intermediate the leading and trailing end thereof to be engaged by a folding flap provided on a second of said triad of cylinders. The folding flap engages the sheet at an intermediate point thereon and draws the sheet off said first cylinder while the sheet ends are positively held in a controlled manner. The third of said triad of cylinders cooperates by engaging the leading end of said sheet as said sheet is drawn off said first cylinder by the second cylinder.

Abstract: In a printing press including a first roller which is rotatable about a stationary axis and an adjustably positionable second roller spaced from the first roller, a third roller is adjustably positionable into contact with the first and second rollers initially by positioning it in contact with the first roller and fixing the relative positions of the two rollers and then by placing the third roller into contact with the second roller while maintaining the fixed relationship between the first and third rollers.