Cutting Patents (Class 270/21.1)
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Publication number: 20100117285Abstract: A product section is produced in a printing machine that has at least one former. A web or a partial web of material is guided over the former. At least one web or one partial web is initially guided over a plow fold device and then over one, or another odd number of turning bars. This at least one web or partial web is then united, without passing through the former, and on a side that has been folded in by the plow fold device, over at least one guide roller as a partial strand with a partial strand that was guided over the former as a strand bundle before this partial strand is cut transversely in a transverse cutting direction into product sections.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2008Publication date: May 13, 2010Inventors: Gunther Eckert, Burkard Otto Herbert, Stefan Wander
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Incremental velocity changing apparatus for transporting printed products in a printing press folder
Publication number: 20100099544Abstract: A printing press folder is provided. The printing press folder includes a pair of cutting cylinders cutting a web at a cutting location to form signatures, a pair of transport cylinders positively gripping and transporting the signatures and a pair of acceleration cylinders positively gripping and transporting the signatures. The transport cylinders define a first nip and the first nip and the cutting location are separated by a first distance that is slightly shorter than a length of each of the signatures. The acceleration cylinders define a second nip. The pair of transport cylinders receives and releases signatures at a first velocity and the pair of acceleration cylinders receives the signatures from the pair of transport cylinders and releases the signatures at a second velocity that is greater than the first velocity.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2008Publication date: April 22, 2010Applicant: Goss International Americas, Inc.Inventor: Kyle Albert Sandahl -
Patent number: 7699309Abstract: A collector for stacking sheets of paper, plastics, and cardboard has a feeding device and a tray downstream of the feeding device in the feeding direction. The tray is arranged in a lowered position relative to the feeding device. A stop is provided downstream of the tray. At least one transport roll transports sheets individually from the feeding device onto the tray to form a stack. An adjusting element is arranged in an area where the feeding device and the tray adjoin, wherein the adjusting element is adjustable between a lowered rest position and a position of use lifted relative to the rest position. In the position of use, the adjusting element lifts a trail end of a first sheet that has reached the tray such that a following second sheet is moved into a position underneath the trail end of the first sheet.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2008Date of Patent: April 20, 2010Assignee: Mathias Bäuerle GmbHInventor: Wilhelm Markgraf
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Patent number: 7661359Abstract: A printing machine includes a printing cylinder that is fitted with plates for printing the width of N pages. A web of material is printed and is then cut longitudinally, by an elongate cutting device, into printed webs. The number N of pages is a whole number that is divisible by three and the total width of N pages is less than the width of the printing cylinder. A width of N+1 pages is greater than the width of the printing cylinder. The elongate cutting device can be arranged, on one boundary, between a Kth and a Kth+1 page, wherein k is one third or two thirds of N. At least one of the resulting partial webs is guided through a former. The former is oriented so that the direction of travel of the web entering the former is transverse to the direction of web travel in the elongated cutting device. The former has a width that is equal to, or greater than two thirds of the width of the printing cylinder, but is less than the entire width of the printing cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2005Date of Patent: February 16, 2010Assignee: Koenig & Bauer AktiengesellschaftInventor: Günther Oskar Eckert
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Patent number: 7658371Abstract: A system for producing removable portions having personalized information, for mass-distributable packets, by single-pass manufacturing, in which a printed web is slit into two ribbons, one of which is then folded and glued upon itself to create a multi-ply ribbon that appears to be of heavier stock than the original paper, and a label containing a magnetic strip is applied. The magnetic strip can be encoded with information personalized to the recipient or the advertiser. Alternatively, the multi-ply ribbon can be created by gluing together multiple ribbons, or by a combination of folding ribbons and gluing ribbons. The multi-ply ribbon is die cut into an inside portion and an outside portion and married to the other ribbon, after which the outside portion is removed, leaving the inner portion as removable portions. Alternatively, the folded ribbon can be kiss cut after it has been married to the other ribbon.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2006Date of Patent: February 9, 2010Assignee: Lehigh Press, Inc.Inventor: David Deschryver
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Publication number: 20100007071Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus that can process a folded sheet bundle, comprising: deforming processing means configured to perform deforming processing by deforming a folded spinal portion of the folded sheet bundle to form a substantially flat portion along the folded spinal portion; and cutting means configured to cut an edge portion, opposite to the folded spinal portion, of the folded sheet bundle, wherein the distance from the folded spinal portion of a folded sheet bundle to a position to be cut by the cutting means is shorter for a folded sheet bundle A having a particular thickness and having been subjected to the deforming processing than the distance from the folded spinal portion of the folded sheet bundle to a position to be cut by the cutting means for a folded sheet bundle B not subjected to the deforming processing but having the same thickness as folded sheet bundle A.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2009Publication date: January 14, 2010Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kenichi Hayashi
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Publication number: 20090315240Abstract: A printing system includes a processing unit configured to cause a sheet processing unit to execute a sheet processing including a folding processing and a trimming processing on a printed sheet by executing a job, a determining unit configured to determine whether a fold line of a sheet folded by the folding processing is cut out by the trimming processing, and a control unit configured to perform controlling such that the fold line of the sheet folded by the folding processing is not cut out by the trimming processing if the determining unit determines that the fold line of the sheet folded by the folding processing is cutout by the trimming processing.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2009Publication date: December 24, 2009Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yutaka Myoki
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Patent number: 7631857Abstract: For the production of different types of newspapers, the material web printed in a digital printing system (2) passes through a further processing system (3), whose most important structural units are a side edge cutting station (4), a longitudinal cutting station (5), a crosscutting station (6), a first collecting station (8), a crossfolding station (10), a longitudinal folding station (11), a stitching station (12), a second collecting station (13) and a delivery station (14). The sheets separated from the material web in the crosscutting station (6) are placed on one another in the first collecting station (8) to form sections. These sections are folded transversely with respect to the direction of movement (Y) in the crossfolding station (10). In the longitudinal folding station (11), the sections are folded in their direction of movement (Y). In the stitching station (12), the sheets of a section are joined to one another along the longitudinal fold.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2006Date of Patent: December 15, 2009Assignee: Hunkeler AGInventors: Franz Hunkeler, Dominik Scheidegger
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Patent number: 7618032Abstract: A spinning wheel format having a wheel rotatable about an axle, both carried within a substrate, wherein the substrate, the wheel, and the axle are made from the same stock, created in a continuous, single-pass finishing system, is described. The format is manufactured by adhering a first ribbon to a second ribbon to form a multi-ply ribbon, cutting the multi-ply ribbon to form a plurality of wheels and axles within the wheels, marrying the multi-ply ribbon to a third ribbon, folding the third ribbon to enclose the multi-ply ribbon within the folded third ribbon; and transversely cutting the third ribbon into a plurality of spinning wheel formats. A mass distributable packet can be created by marrying a plurality of spinning wheel formats to a fourth ribbon, and manufacturing a plurality of mass distributable packets from the fourth ribbon.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2006Date of Patent: November 17, 2009Assignee: Lehigh Press, Inc.Inventor: David Deschryver
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Patent number: 7556247Abstract: A system, apparatus, and method for printer-lane-packaging of documents utilizing a printer for printing on a linear web medium documents having fixed-data and variable-data information to produce in-lane formatting for each of the document and including a web cutter for cutting each of the in-lane printed documents into a stream of shingled sheets, a folder and collator for folding and collating the stream of shingled sheets into folded sets of variable page-counts per set for storage or immediate subsequent processing, and a computer for controlling the overall operation of the system components.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2006Date of Patent: July 7, 2009Assignee: DST Output West, LLCInventors: Frank W. Delfer, Charles B. Clupper, Brett J. Flickner
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Patent number: 7540481Abstract: A system for producing removable portions for mass-distributable packets by single-pass manufacturing, in which a printed web is slit into two ribbons, one of which is then folded upon itself to create a multi-ply ribbon that appears to be of heavier stock than the original paper. Alternatively, the multi-ply ribbon can be created by gluing together multiple ribbons, or by a combination of folding ribbons and gluing together ribbons. The multi-ply ribbon is die cut into an inside portion and an outside portion and married to the other ribbon, after which the outside portion is removed, leaving the inner portion as removable portions. Alternatively, the folded ribbon can be kiss cut after it has been married to the other ribbon. The removable portions can be UV-coated to simulate plastic and printed with information personalized for the advertiser or for the recipient.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2006Date of Patent: June 2, 2009Assignee: Lehigh Press, Inc.Inventors: John Romita, William Castillo
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Publication number: 20090127763Abstract: A method for making a tabloid printed product is provided. At least one first web of material is printed, the at least one first web of material is slit to define a first ribbon bundle and a second ribbon bundle. The first ribbon bundle is then folded longitudinally. The first ribbon bundle is cut into defined lengths. The second ribbon bundle is cut unfolded into the defined lengths. The first and second ribbon bundles are combined with the first ribbon bundles being folded and the second ribbon bundles being unfolded. The second ribbon bundle is longitudinally folded over the first folded bundle after the combining step to form a sectioned tabloid newspaper. Tabloid printing presses are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2008Publication date: May 21, 2009Applicant: Goss International Americas, inc.Inventor: Laura Schuler Cossette
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Patent number: 7523925Abstract: A device is used for at least one of treating and conveying a strip of material in one of a treating and processing machine. The device includes at least one strip-treating tool which is embodied in the form of a folding cone, and one strip-treating tool which is provided as a knife. The knife and the folding cone are both transversely displaceable in the direction of travel of the strip of material by the operation of a regulating element.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2003Date of Patent: April 28, 2009Assignee: Koenig & Bauer AktiengesellschaftInventors: Burkard Otto Herbert, Stefan Wander
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Publication number: 20090090260Abstract: A former arrangement for a rotary printing press is disclosed. The former arrangement includes a former arrangement module with a base element which is mountable on a stationary element of the rotary printing press. A former is connected to the base element. A first web lead device provides for guidance, on the former entry side, of a printing substrate web to be directed in the case of operation over the former. A second web lead device provides for guidance, on the former exit side, of the printing substrate web. The former rests on a cantilevered support element which is fastened with a first end to the base element and which extends cantilevered transverse to a web feed direction over the former.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2008Publication date: April 9, 2009Applicant: manroland AGInventors: Johannes BEHMEL, Andrea Schaedlich
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Patent number: 7506864Abstract: A cutting device that cuts an edge portion of a sheet bundle having plural sheets stacked, includes: a cutting blade; a paddle provided on a side of the cutting blade, which removes chips attached to the cutting blade by rubbing a side surface of the cutting blade; a controller which controls drive of the paddle. The controller includes a judging section which compares a length of the chips in a direction perpendicular to an edge side of the sheet bundle to be cut by the cutting blade with a predetermined length that has been preset. When the length of the chips is shorter than the predetermined length, the controller makes the paddle to rotate in a predetermined direction, and when the length of the chips is longer than the predetermined length, the controller makes the paddle to rotate in a reverse direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2007Date of Patent: March 24, 2009Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Hiroyuki Wakabayashi, Masaaki Uchiyama, Tsuyoshi Shiokawa
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Patent number: 7469887Abstract: A system for producing removable portions for mass-distributable packets by single-pass manufacturing, in which a printed web is slit into two ribbons, one of which is then folded upon itself to create a multi-ply ribbon that appears to be of heavier stock than the original paper. Alternatively, the multi-ply ribbon can be created by gluing together multiple ribbons, or by a combination of folding ribbons and gluing together ribbons. The multi-ply ribbon is die cut into an inside portion and an outside portion and married to the other ribbon, after which the outside portion is removed, leaving the inner portion as removable portions. Alternatively, the folded ribbon can be kiss cut after it has been married to the other ribbon. The removable portions can be UV-coated to simulate plastic and printed with information personalized for the advertiser or for the recipient.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2006Date of Patent: December 30, 2008Assignee: Lehigh Press, Inc.Inventors: John Romita, William Castillo
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Patent number: 7434795Abstract: A system for producing removable portions for mass-distributable packets by single-pass manufacturing, in which a printed web is slit into two ribbons, one of which is then folded upon itself to create a multi-ply ribbon that appears to be of heavier stock than the original paper. Alternatively, the multi-ply ribbon can be created by gluing together multiple ribbons, or by a combination of folding ribbons and gluing together ribbons. The multi-ply ribbon is die cut into an inside portion and an outside portion and married to the other ribbon, after which the outside portion is removed, leaving the inner portion as removable portions. Alternatively, the folded ribbon can be kiss cut after it has been married to the other ribbon. The removable portions can be UV-coated to simulate plastic and printed with information personalized for the advertiser or for the recipient.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2006Date of Patent: October 14, 2008Assignee: Lehigh Press, Inc.Inventors: John Romita, William Castillo
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Publication number: 20080237962Abstract: Imaging-system bookbinding apparatus avoids cutting any folded sheets mixed into booklets it trims. Furnished with: an imaging unit; a sheet-folding unit that folds imaging-unit sheets; a stacking unit that stacks sheets from the sheet-folding or image-forming units; a cover-sheet binding unit that encases stacking-unit sheet bundles with, and binds them into, cover sheets; a trimming unit that trims true the bundle fore-edge; and a fold-position computing unit that determines where a sheet is pleated by the sheet-folding unit. The sheet-folding unit has a sheet conveyance path along which folded sheets are transported elsewhere than the stacking unit, while the fold-position computing unit in a first control mode transports to the stacking unit sheets folded over by the sheet-folding unit, and in a second control mode transports them from the sheet conveyance path elsewhere than the stacking unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2008Publication date: October 2, 2008Applicant: NISCA CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuyuki Kubota, Kazuhide Sano, Tadahito Takano, Shinya Sasamoto, Yutaka Amemiya, Isao Kondo, Kenichi Yoshimura
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Publication number: 20080150208Abstract: A folder superstructure includes a former, a first nip roll located downstream of the former and having a compressible outer layer, and a second nip roll forming a nip with the first nip roll. A nip roll for nipping a plurality of superimposed printed ribbons or webs is also disclosed, the nip roll including a roll body and a compressible layer disposed about the roll body. A method for operating a printing press is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2007Publication date: June 26, 2008Applicant: Goss International Americas, Inc.Inventors: Brian Robert Elkinson, Daniel Matthew Perdue, Lawrence Edward Zagar
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Patent number: 7326161Abstract: A folder includes a cut-off cylinder, etc. for cutting a web into sheets; a group of cylinders for folding each sheet into a signature in accordance with the selected folding specifications; and a conveyer apparatus, a fan wheel, a delivery conveyer, etc. for conveying signatures. In the folder, a cutting blade, etc. are disposed on the upstream side of the cut-off cylinder with respect to the feed direction of the web. When the folding specifications of signatures are changed or when the width of the web is changed, a control device operates the cutting blade to cut the web, and controls the feed of the web in such a manner that only a cut portion of the web present on the downstream side of the cut blade with respect to the feed direction is conveyed to the delivery conveyer.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2005Date of Patent: February 5, 2008Assignee: Komori CorporationInventor: Akira Ishikawa
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Patent number: 7191704Abstract: A conveyor unit for conveying flat objects includes at least first, second and third endless belts, together with a cylinder. The first endless belt extends along a part of the circumference of the cylinder and forms, with the cylinder circumference, a section of a path of conveyance for the objects. The second and third belts define another section of the path of conveyance.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2005Date of Patent: March 20, 2007Assignee: Koenig & Bauer AktiengesellschaftInventor: Berthold Peter Held
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Patent number: 7134392Abstract: A conveyor unit for conveying flat objects includes at least first, second and third endless belts, together with a cylinder. The first endless belt extends along a part of the circumference of the cylinder and forms, with the cylinder circumference, a section of a path of conveyance for the objects. The second and third belts define another section of the path of conveyance.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2005Date of Patent: November 14, 2006Assignee: Koenig & Bauer AktiengesellschaftInventor: Berthold Peter Held
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Patent number: 7017899Abstract: A system for producing removable portions for mass-distributable packets by single-pass manufacturing, in which a printed web is slit into two ribbons, one of which is then folded upon itself to create a multi-ply ribbon that appears to be of heavier stock than the original paper. Alternatively, the multi-ply ribbon can be created by gluing together multiple ribbons, or by a combination of folding ribbons and gluing together ribbons. The multi-ply ribbon is die cut into an inside portion and an outside portion and married to the other ribbon, after which the outside portion is removed, leaving the inner portion as removable portions. Alternatively, the folded ribbon can be kiss cut after it has been married to the other ribbon. The removable portions can be UV-coated to simulate plastic and printed with information personalized for the advertiser or for the recipient.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2004Date of Patent: March 28, 2006Assignee: Lehigh Press, Inc.Inventors: John Romita, William Castillo
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Patent number: 7007603Abstract: A conveyor unit for conveying flat objects includes at least first, second and third endless belts, together with a cylinder. The first endless belt extends along a part of the circumference of the cylinder and forms, with the cylinder circumference, a section of a path of conveyance for the objects. The second and third belts define another section of the path of conveyance.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2002Date of Patent: March 7, 2006Assignee: Koenig & Bauer AktiengesellschaftInventor: Berthold Peter Held
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Patent number: 6923436Abstract: The process is based on printing, in an electronic printing machine, the various bodies of text of the pages with symmetrical distribution with respect to the center of symmetry of the sheet being printed and likewise symmetrically with respect to one or both axes of symmetry of the initial sheet which pass through the center of symmetry thereof and which are parallel with its outer edges, the extent of the body of text varying for each page in accordance with the dimensions provided therefor and the sheet receiving the print subsequently being reversed in order to print the bodies of text corresponding to the reverse faces of the printed sheets.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2001Date of Patent: August 2, 2005Assignee: Digital Internet Transport System S.I.Inventor: Domingo Figueras Payas
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Patent number: 6910843Abstract: Cover authoring systems and methods for automatically composing a final content layout for a cover, including spinal content formatted to accommodate the width and height dimensions of the book spine, are described. By automatically computing the typeface parameter values based upon the selected visual fit model, this cover authoring scheme enables users to avoid the time consuming, laborious and expensive process of manually composing the final cover content layout with a conventional graphics program.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2001Date of Patent: June 28, 2005Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Chit Wei Saw, Hui Chao, Giordano B. Beretta
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Patent number: 6899026Abstract: A folding installation of a web-fed rotary printing press includes a first group of at least two folding formers and at least one additional folding former which is offset vertically from the first group. The folding formers of the first group are adjacent and are offset from each other perpendicular to the running direction of partial webs and are arranged in a horizontal plane to at least partially overlap. Planes of symmetry of at least one folding former of the first group and the additional folding former lie essentially in a common line of a partial web running straight through the print machine. Both aligned folding formers are provided with a common group of leading rollers.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2002Date of Patent: May 31, 2005Assignee: Koenig & Bauer AktiengesellschaftInventor: Anton Weis
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Patent number: 6896250Abstract: A printed product is produced on a web-fed rotary newspaper printing press. The dimensions of the resultant printed product can be varied. Paper webs of constant and preselected widths are combined with sub-paper webs of preselected and somewhat smaller widths. These webs are combined and are brought together.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2002Date of Patent: May 24, 2005Assignee: Koenig & Bauer AktiengesellschaftInventor: Bernd Anton Hillebrand
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Patent number: 6892635Abstract: An arrangement for processing webs in a rotary web-fed printing press includes a turning device that is usable for shifting the web about an uneven multiple of a half web-width of the web. A folding installation is also provided. The web or webs, which are displaced by the uneven multiple of the half-width, run on two adjacent folding formers which are arranged generally perpendicular to the running direction of the web.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2002Date of Patent: May 17, 2005Assignee: Koenig & Bauer AktiengesellschaftInventor: Burkard Otto Herbert
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Patent number: 6889970Abstract: A delivery apparatus for folding machines having a folding apparatus FA and a delivery apparatus DA, comprising a delivery fly 3 for receiving signatures S1, S2 and S3 folded by the folding apparatus FA, a conveyor C for operating the delivery fly 3 at a predetermined speed ratio and receiving the signatures S1, S2 and S3 from the delivery fly 3, a gear drive 1 having a plurality of gear ratios provided between the folding apparatus FA and the delivery fly 3 for transmitting power to the delivery fly 3, and changeover means 2 capable of selectively changing over the gear ratio of the gear drive 1, so that the operating speed of the delivery fly 3 can be set to a plurality of speed steps with respect to the operating speed of the folding apparatus FA.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2003Date of Patent: May 10, 2005Assignee: Tokyo Kikai Seisakusho, Ltd.Inventors: Yukitoshi Takahashi, Tomonari Nakajima, Hiroyuki Fujinuma
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Patent number: 6834849Abstract: A water jet cutting device is used to cut a paper web into a plurality of partial paper webs. The water jet cutting device is placed between the output of a web-fed rotary printing press and the input of a folder which folds the plurality of partial paper webs.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2002Date of Patent: December 28, 2004Assignee: Koenig & Bauer AktiengesellschaftInventors: Thomas Hendle, Johannes Georg Schaede, Anton Weis
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Patent number: 6779788Abstract: A web of printed paper is cut into sections by a cutting cylinder while riding on a folding cylinder, and each paper section has its midpart subsequently pushed by a folding blade on the folding cylinder into a jaw cavity formed in the surface of a jaw cylinder in order to be folded into the form of a signature while being transferred from the folding cylinder onto the jaw cylinder. Mounted adjacent the opposite ends of the jaw cavity in the jaw cylinder are a pair of hooks which are cammed into and out of the space that is created by the midpart of each paper section upon insertion in the jaw cavity. The paper section has its midpart positively retained in the jaw cavity while being folded. A set of fixed and movable jaws is also provided in the jaw cavity and functions mostly to fold the paper section rather than to grip the same against accidental detachment.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2003Date of Patent: August 24, 2004Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Tokyo Kikai SeisakushoInventors: Yukitoshi Takahashi, Hiroyuki Fujinuma
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Patent number: 6651539Abstract: The invention relates to a perforating, grooving or cutting device for a multicolor or single-color sheet-fed rotary press (1) comprising printing and/or varnishing groups (2), at least one of which has a rubber cylinder (3) with a holding system (14) for a blanket, as well as an associated counter-pressure cylinder (4). According to the invention, a rectangular base plate (13) is provided, which is made from a flexible and shape-retaining material over which it is possible to glue embossed treatment profiles (29, 37) used as perforating and/or grooving and/or punching profiles corresponding to perforating and/or grooving and/or punching shapes which can be predetermined. Furthermore, at least two fastening strips (17, 18) are provided for detachably attaching the punch foil to opposed marginal areas in the stretched state.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2000Date of Patent: November 25, 2003Inventors: Friedrich Eicher, Detlef Füessl
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Patent number: 6644193Abstract: A high speed web cutting and tuck folding machine feeds webs downstream between overlying and underlying runs of feed belts having cutting and tuck folding openings spaced along the belts. Lead segments of the webs are cut at a cutting station and are fed downstream to a tuck fold station where they are drawn through tuck fold openings, folded and stacked. The machine is readily adjusted to vary the length of the cut segments and the relative lengths of the legs of the segments when folded.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2002Date of Patent: November 11, 2003Assignee: Elsner Engineering Works, Inc.Inventor: Bertram F. Elsner
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Patent number: 6513427Abstract: A device for guiding material webs (A through D; E through H) via an angle-bar deck (2), including a folding section that is arranged on a plurality of planes (3.1, 3.2, 3.3), from where the material webs (A through D), (E through H) enter folding apparatuses (4), (5). Accommodated on longitudinal folding devices (8), (9) are infeed elements (7), which have guide sections (13), (14) that are-able to be operated independently of one another.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2000Date of Patent: February 4, 2003Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AGInventor: Jean-Claude Pautrat
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Patent number: 6435092Abstract: A method for producing a printed product, such as a newspaper using a plurality of product and part-product webs. The webs, or selected ones of the webs can be longitudinally or transversely perforated or both. This allows a simple way for accomplishing the removal of parts of the printed product, such as selected advertisements or selected columns of material.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2000Date of Patent: August 20, 2002Assignee: Koenig & Bauer AktiengesellschaftInventor: Bernd Anton Hillebrand
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Patent number: 6402132Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2000Date of Patent: June 11, 2002Assignee: R. R. Donnelley & SonsInventors: A. John Michaelis, Stephen M. Purduski, James L. Warmus
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Patent number: 6298781Abstract: A former board arrangement in a web-fed rotary newspaper printing press comprises a first and a second row of former boards each row including a first, second and third former board for longitudinally folding one or more ribbons passing over the former boards. The first row of former boards is arranged above the second former board, and a movable folder is located below one of the former boards of the second row of former boards for crossfolding and cutting the ribbons into signatures. (FIG.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2000Date of Patent: October 9, 2001Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AGInventor: Charles Henry Dufour
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Patent number: 6279890Abstract: A printing press having a jaw mode assembly and a rotary mode assembly with a single folding cylinder adapted to feed either the jaw mode assembly or the rotary mode assembly is disclosed. A moving web of material is initially trained about the folding cylinder and cut into a signatures which are then temporarily held on the folding cylinder. A folding blade extends from the folding cylinder to initiate a fold in each signature and direct each signature to either the jaw mode assembly or the rotary mode assembly. The timing of the folding blade is coordinated and adjusted using an indexable spider assembly to feed either the jaw mode assembly or the rotary mode assembly.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2000Date of Patent: August 28, 2001Assignee: Goss Graphic Systems, Inc.Inventor: Charles Tomczak
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Patent number: 6213703Abstract: The present invention provides a method and system for producing books on-demand. An electronic bookstore in accordance with the subject invention can receive an electronic text file of a book and then print and bind a copy of the book. A user may browse an electronic catalog, for example over the Internet, and place an order for a book which can be picked up at a conveniently located electronic bookstore shortly after placing the order. The subject invention reduces costs and waste associated with conventional production and distribution of print matter. Advantageously, the subject invention allows books with smaller audiences to be published at a reasonable price. An electronic bookstore in accordance with the subject invention can have access to literally millions of books and can print and bind any selected book in a few minutes.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2000Date of Patent: April 10, 2001Assignee: Instabook CorporationInventor: Victor Manuel Celorio Garrido