Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a clothes folding device including: a loading assembly which causes the clothes to be pushed-in and seats the clothes on a first folding layer equipped with a conveyor for transport; a folding assembly which performs the folding of the clothes while the pushed-in clothes are transported; and an unloading assembly which is disposed below the folding assembly and loads the clothes discharged by the folding assembly. The loading assembly includes: a seating plate which forms an inclined surface at an inlet and allows the clothes to be seated thereon; a clamp assembly which fixes the clothes and moves the clothes to the first folding layer; and a transport roller which presses the clothes seated on the first folding layer and rotates together with the moving of the clothes while pressing the clothes, and thus, preventing the clothes from being separated. The clamp assembly includes a wheel assembly and a clamp plate which presses inserted clothes from both sides.

Abstract: An interfolding machine produces interfolded sheets according to an interfolding configuration and, starting from a web of paper provides a feeding section, which applies a tension on the web and moves the same along a feeding direction feeding the same to a cutting section, in which the web of paper is cut into a series of sheets at a cutting point between a cutting roller and a counter-cutting element. Downstream of the cutting section, a folding section includes a first and a second folding rollers counter-rotating with respect to each other. The first and second folding rollers rotate about respective rotation axes with a first peripheral velocity vP, and fold, at a folding zone, a plurality of sheets in a plurality of panels and form the stack of interfolded sheets. The cutting roller alternately distributes the aforementioned sheets between a transfer roller and the first folding roller.

Abstract: Disclosed is an escrow module. The escrow module may include a drum, a first belt and a tape. The drum may have a first end, a second end, and an intermediate portion. The first belt may partially encircle the drum. The tape may have a first end attached to the drum and a second end attached to a spool. Upon rotation of the drum in a first direction, a first side of a media object may contact the tape and a second side of the media object may contact the first belt.

Abstract: A broadsheet newspaper printing press has at least one print unit printing at least one web of material and a folder. The folder has a cross-cutter to cut the web of material into broadsheet newspapers, a tucker cylinder having a gripper gripping the broadsheet newspapers at a lead edge and a tucking blade for forming a cross-fold in the broadsheet newspapers, and a jaw cylinder or fold rollers to receive the cross-folded broadsheet newspapers from the tucker cylinder at the cross-fold, the gripper being located with respect to the tucking blade so that the cross-fold is located at between 33% and 45% or 55% and 67% of the height of the newspaper.

Abstract: A first folding portion includes: a first folding roller pair consisting of a common roller and a first roller; and a blade member that feeds a sheet to a first nip, thereby forming a first fold on the sheet in the first nip. A second folding portion includes a second folding roller pair consisting of the common roller and a second roller, thereby forming a second fold on the sheet in a second nip. The common roller and the first roller are parallel in a conveying direction in a case where the sheet is guided toward the first folding portion. A feeding portion evacuates the sheet to the evacuation guiding portion for evacuating the sheet that on which the first fold is formed, switches back the sheet, and then feeds the sheet into the second nip.

Abstract: A sheet folding unit, including: a first folding roller configured to rotate around a first axis; a second folding roller configured to rotate around a second axis which is in parallel with the first axis and biased to the first folding roller separably to a separating direction to make a nip together with the first folding roller therebetween; a blade configured to push a surface of a sheet into the nip; and a roller cover configured to move together with the second folding roller in the separating direction to prevent the second folding roller contacting the sheet when the blade unit starts contacting the sheet.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for collecting a printed copy is disclosed. A collecting cylinder is operable in a non-collect mode and a collect mode. A cam collect is coupled to the collecting cylinder. The collecting cylinder is switchable between the non-collect mode and the collect mode by a relative rotational movement between the collecting cylinder and the cam collect.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for facilitating folding of material fed through a nip between two folding rolls having a tucker on one roll and a corresponding gripper on the other roll, by using a resilient tucker element having a tip that is moveable from a neutral position thereof, through elastic deformation of at least a portion of a body of the tucker element, for directing a portion of the material into the gripper. The resilient tucker element may have a tucker body formed at least partially of elastically resilient material fixedly attached at a proximal end thereof to the other roll. A portion of a distal end of the resilient tucker element may be wedge-like and have vacuum ports extending at least partially into the wedge-like portion, for securing an end of a sheet of material being fed through the nip between the folding rolls.

Abstract: A folding device with a folding drum for producing the second longitudinal fold in products of a rotary press has at least two folding blades fixed in folding-blade carriers, a folding-blade shaft is mounted in the folding drum at both ends by means of bearings and between the latter by means of at least one further bearing, the bearing preferably being arranged between the folding-blade carriers.

Abstract: A sheet folding apparatus, including: a stacker configured to stack a plurality of sheets; a first folding roller configured to rotate around a first axis; a second folding roller configured to rotate around a second axis which is in parallel with the first axis and biased to the first folding roller separably to make a nip together with the first folding roller therebetween; a blade unit configured to push a surface of the plurality of sheets stacked by the stacker, into the nip; a first support configured to support the blade unit and configured to move linearly in a common tangential direction of the first folding roller and the second folding roller at the nip; and a second support configured to support the blade unit, configured to move linearly in the common tangential direction when the blade unit passes a section between where the blade unit starts touching at the plurality of sheets and where the plurality of sheets approaches the nip, and configured to deviate the blade away from the common tangenti

Abstract: A cylinder is usable for processing flat material and includes a cylindrical body, which can be rotated about a cylinder axis, and at least one group of a plurality of tools. These tools perform a working movement in relation to the cylindrical body and are coupled to first and second control levers. A fixed cam plate is followed by the first control lever of each tool. A rotating cover disk is followed by the second control lever of each tool. The cover disk comprises a plurality of congruent sectors each having at least one section with a first radius which allows that tool to accomplish its working movement. The cover disk sectors each also have at least one section with a second radius which blocks the working movement of the tool.

Abstract: A sheet folding unit, including: a first folding roller configured to rotate around a first axis; a second folding roller configured to rotate around a second axis which is in parallel with the first axis and biased to the first folding roller separably to a separating direction to make a nip together with the first folding roller therebetween; a blade configured to push a surface of a sheet into the nip; and a roller cover configured to move together with the second folding roller in the separating direction to prevent the second folding roller contacting the sheet when the blade unit starts contacting the sheet.

Abstract: A sheet folding apparatus, including: a stacker configured to stack a plurality of sheets; a first folding roller configured to rotate around a first axis; a second folding roller configured to rotate around a second axis which is parallel with the first axis and biased to the first folding roller separably to make a nip together with the first folding roller therebetween; a blade unit configured to push a surface of the plurality of sheets, stacked by the stacker, into the nip; a stationary support configured to support the blade unit linearly movable to avoid deviating from a common tangential direction of the first folding roller and the second folding roller at the nip to a first folding roller side; and a movable support relatively movable against the blade unit, configured to bias the blade unit to the first folding roller side deviatably from the common tangential direction to a second folding roller side.

Abstract: A sheet folding apparatus, including: a stacker configured to stack a plurality of sheets; a first folding roller configured to rotate around a first axis; a second folding roller configured to rotate around a second axis which is in parallel with the first axis and biased to the first folding roller separably to make a nip together with the first folding roller therebetween; a blade unit configured to push a surface of the plurality of sheets stacked by the stacker, into the nip; a first support configured to support the blade unit and configured to move linearly in a common tangential direction of the first folding roller and the second folding roller at the nip; and a second support configured to support the blade unit, configured to move linearly in the common tangential direction when the blade unit passes a section between where the blade unit starts touching at the plurality of sheets and where the plurality of sheets approaches the nip, and configured to deviate the blade away from the common tangenti

Abstract: A folding apparatus includes at least a first folding cylinder and a second, folding jaw cylinder. A third measuring cylinder is also provided. The measuring cylinder is usable to cut product sections or signatures of a determined length L from an endless web. The first cylinder is embodied, in one embodiment, as an engaging cylinder, and as a second embodiment as a puncture cylinder. In both embodiments, the product section or signatures which are produced, have the same length.

Abstract: A folding drum includes folding-drum side walls lying opposite one another, journals lying opposite one another and acting on the folding-drum side walls, a frame on which the folding drum is mounted rotatably via the folding-drum side walls and the journals, a folding-blade spindle arranged between the folding-drum side walls, at least one folding blade arranged on the folding-blade spindle, roller bearings for rotatably mounting the folding-blade spindle, and at least one device positioned laterally next to the roller bearings and serving to mount the folding-blade spindle in order to introduce a radial force into the folding-blade spindle and therefore to prestress the respective roller bearing in a radial direction.

Abstract: A variable length cutting device includes a cutting cylinder and a transfer cylinder. The transfer cylinder cooperates with the cutting cylinder for cutting a ribbon into signatures having a desired cutoff length. An adjustable diameter portion of the transfer cylinder can be moved in a direction toward and away from the central axis of the transfer cylinder for adjusting the desired cutoff length of the signatures.

Abstract: A parallel folding apparatus of a folding machine comprises a first cylinder in contact with a second cylinder. A guide plate guides a signature transported on the lower circumferential surface of the second cylinder after being double-folded by grippers of the second cylinder in cooperation with knives of the first cylinder. The guide plate comprises a stationary guide located downstream, in the rotating direction, of the point of contact between the first cylinder and the second cylinder and disposed continuously along the circumferential surfaces of the first cylinder and the second cylinder, and a moving guide movable in accordance with the operating speed of the folding machine between a position, closer to the circumferential surface of the first cylinder than the stationary guide, and a position, more remote from the circumferential surface of the first cylinder than the stationary guide.

Abstract: A folding gear is comprised of a cylinder that is mounted to a frame for rotation. At least one clamp is arranged on the outer surface of the cylinder. The at least one clamp can be positioned by an actuator which includes a flexible toothed shell that is shaped by a non-circular section of a shaft. A hollow gear engages this flexible shell and cooperates with it to form a harmonic drive gear.

Abstract: A sheet folding apparatus for folding a set of sheets into two at a center thereof, includes: a sheet number recognition section that recognizes the number of sheets in the set; a pair of rotating rollers pressed against each other to form a nip portion; a blade member retractably moves with respect to the nip portion; and a blade member control section that controls the blade member to move toward the nip portion to push the set of sheets in the nip portion at a depth corresponding to the number of sheets recognized by the sheet number recognition unit.

Abstract: A rotary blade folder includes two fold rollers and a folding cylinder, the folding cylinder including a cylinder body with an outer surface, a set of tucking blades and an expansion plate adjustable to change an effective diameter of the folding cylinder. The expansion plate has at least one aperture, the set of tucking blades fitting through the at least one aperture during a tucking operation so as to present a fold in a signature to the two fold rollers. Also provided is a method of folding a signature comprising the steps of gripping a signature about a folding cylinder so that the signature is over an expansion plate of the folding cylinder, the expansion plate having at least one aperture, and folding the signature by passing tucking blades through the at least one aperture.

Abstract: A folding blade cylinder for use in a folding machine includes a cylindrical cradle and a folding blade that can be situated in various positions in the cylindrical cradle. Each position of the folding blade corresponds to a gap in the cylinder cradle surface. These gaps are separated from each other by segments of the cylindrical cradle. In order to move the folding blade from one gap to another, the folding blade is retracted into the interior of the folding blade cylinder.

Abstract: A rotary-blade folding unit includes at least one folding blade, a pair of folding rollers and a drive for producing a hypocycloid movement of the folding blade about a rotational axis of the folding blade and a main rotational axis for folding a signature that has been guided up to the rotary-blade folding unit in a transport plane extending between the main rotational axis and the folding rollers, and further includes a drive mechanism for producing an oscillatory movement of the folding blade at least approximately parallel to the main rotational axis; a folder including the folding unit; and a printing machine in combination with the folder.

Abstract: The folding device of a folding machine, which can perform parallel double folding and delta folding, and which can smoothly and reliably transfer a parallel single-folded signature between first and second jaw cylinders regardless of paper quality. A first jaw cylinder and a second jaw cylinder arranged with circumferential surfaces thereof opposed to and in contact with each other. At least one belt is looped between the first jaw cylinder and a set of rollers, and wherein one of the rollers is moved to switch the belt between a guide position and a retreat position.

Abstract: The present invention provides exemplary sheet folding systems and methods, including systems and methods for printing on a continuous sheet, and removing and folding individual sheets from the continuous sheet. In one embodiment, a sheet folding system (100) includes a separator (200) adapted to separate an individual sheet from a continuous form sheet, a receiver (300) adapted for receiving the individual sheet, a first folder (500) adapted to perform a first fold of the individual sheet, and a second folder (800) adapted to perform a second fold of the individual sheet. In some embodiments, the first and second folders include two different types of folders.

Abstract: The present invention provides exemplary sheet folding systems and methods, including systems and methods for printing on a continuous sheet, and removing and folding individual sheets from the continuous sheet. In one embodiment, a sheet folding system (100) includes a separator (200) adapted to separate an individual sheet from a continuous form sheet, a receiver (300) adapted for receiving the individual sheet, a first folder (500) adapted to perform a first fold of the individual sheet, and a second folder (800) adapted to perform a second fold of the individual sheet. In some embodiments, the first and second folders include two different types of folders.

Abstract: A guide apparatus is composed of a guide plate which is disposed in such a manner as to be able to move between an active position located within the sheet transfer space and a retreat position where the guide plate does not interfere with the sheet transferring from the collect cylinder to the jaw cylinder; a position-changeover drive unit for moving the guide plate between the active position and the retreat position; a printing-speed detection unit for detecting the driving speed of a rotary press and outputting a driving speed signal during printing; and a control unit for outputting, upon reception of the driving speed signal from the printing-speed detection unit, a position changeover signal to the position-changeover drive unit in order to move the guide plate accordingly.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for folding continuous medium including a swing arm pivotable about an axis at one end of the swing arm. The continuous medium is guided by the swing arm and accordion-folded with equal widths as a result of the swinging operation of the swing arm. The swing arm has a telescopic structure for varying the length of the swing arm over a range of a swing of the swing arm.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to an outside diameter adjuster for a folding cylinder. The folding cylinder rotates about an axis and has a basic body having a columnar outer circumferential face, where an outer circumferential member forms one portion of the outer circumferential face of the basic body and is movable in a radial direction of the basic body by the angular displacement of an eccentric portion. The eccentric portion is angularly displaced by gears to which it is connected. These gears are connected to other gears, some of which are helical gears, that are configured to rotate and/or axially move in a manner such that the angular displacement of the eccentric portion can be totally controlled by the movement of the gears while the folding cylinder rotates.

Abstract: A high speed paper folding machine for cutting a continuously fed web of paper into sections and folding said sections is disclosed. The machine includes a rotating hollow drum on which the web is deposited and on which the cutting and folding operations are performed without transferring the web or the cut or folded sections off of the drum. The drum includes a knife for cutting the web. The knife preferably is situated within the drum interior and adapted to extend through elongated apertures defined on the drum outer surface. Grippers on the drum hold the web on the drum through the operation. At least one folding station is operably associated with the drum. At least one pack-off station can be provided for stacking the folded product in separate stacks.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: Signatures that are cross-folded to form cross folded products can be formed without damaging the product whether the cross-folded product is thick or thin. The signatures are given a pre-fold by a pre-fold cylinder that utilizes a plurality of pre-fold gripping element systems. The pre-folded product is carried by the pre-fold cylinder to a pair of folding rollers which finish fold the cross-folded signatures.

Abstract: A machine (1) for interfolding sheet material (4a, 4b) starting from a web (3a, 3b) of paper and the like. A sequence of offset sheets (4a, 4b) is formed on folding rollers (7a, 7b) which are counter-rotating with respect to each other and have a plurality of circumferential grooves (15a, 15b), in which oscillating folding arms engage (20a, 20b) so as to form a stack (17) of interfolded sheets (4a, 4b). The folding arms (20a, 20b) have pivots (21) very close to the periphery of the folding rollers (7a, 7b), inside or outside of the grooves (15a, 15b). Moreover they can be operated by a crank mechanism that allows to the grooves (15a, 15b) to be shallow enough also in case of rollers (7a, 7b) of enlarged diameter. For the same reason, the folding arms (20a, 20b) can have a bent portion.

Abstract: A folding apparatus in a rotary printing press utilizes a cutting blade cylinder, a transport cylinder and a folding jaw cylinder. Operation of the various assemblies on the transport cylinder, such as folding blades and gripper systems is accomplished by control cams and associated cam rollers. The control cams are carried on the transport cylinder and rotate in the direction of the transport cylinder and at a speed which is different from the speed of rotation of the cylinder itself. This ensures low wear of the control cams and of the cam rollers.

Abstract: Provided in a copy or web guiding cylinder of a copy-processing machine is a guiding device for extensible operating elements, having at least two opposing and cooperating cylinders, wherein copies are retainable on the circumference of one of the cylinders and are transferrable by extensible operating elements into receiving elements on the circumference of the other cylinder, including coverings mounted on the one cylinder at the circumference thereof and defining an opening through which an operating element disposed in an underlying recess formed in the one cylinder is extensible.

Abstract: A cylinder in a folding apparatus includes a plurality of product seizing devices. Each product seizing device includes a cam and a shaft having a plurality of product seizing devices attached thereto. A cam follower is mounted to the shaft and a torsion bar is coupled to the cam follower. A torque preloading element for applying a preloaded torque to the torsion bar is provided which maintains the cam follower in contact with the cam. Finally, mechanism for incrementally adjusting and maintaining the preloaded torque on the torsion bar is provided. A variety of mechanisms for incrementally adjusting the preloaded torque are possible. For example, the mechanism may include a first facial toothing on an interior face of the torque preloading element and a second facial toothing on an exterior face of an opposing element. The opposing element is mounted to a work side end of the cylinder and the first facial toothing engages the second facial toothing.

Abstract: In a folding blade shaft of a folding cylinder of a drum folding apparatus, the drive shaft and spindle are connected so that the slanting of these parts does not cause any damage to the machine. To this end, the drive shaft and the spindle are connected to each other via a disk packet and centered by a radial rocker bearing.

Abstract: Point needles in a conveying cylinder of a rotary press are caused to follow a curve course which securely fastens a web to the cylinder while eliminating transport damage to the printed products as well as reducing paper waste. The needle tips of the point needles are moved along their path by the superimpositioning of two pivot movements, one of which is accomplished by a point holder arm and the second of which is accomplished by a rocker. The two cooperate to form a level four member swivel joint.

Abstract: Device for converting or changing a mode of operation of a paper-conducting cylinder of a folder having at the circumference thereof at least one element for operating on the paper conducted by the cylinder, a disc having a peripheral contour forming a control cam for at least one actuating element for generating a movement of the operating element, and a device for moving the control disc, independently of a drive therefor, so as to switch the mode of the paper-conducting cylinder between operating on the paper and not operating on the paper, includes at least one first adjustment element activatable axially and angularly by remote control for radially moving the actuating element, and at least one second adjustment element activatable by remote control for axially moving the control disc.

Abstract: The folding blade spindle of a folding drum is rotatably driven by a single drive train that utilizes only one gear drive pair. The folding drum itself is rotated by a separate drive assembly. The use of only one gear drive pair for the folding blade spindle drive substantially reduces play in the folding blade and promotes accurate folding of printed products.

Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus for producing at least two 4-page signatures (340) and an apparatus for producing at least one 16-page signature (460). The signatures are produced by folding and cutting sheets cut from a continuous web in a folding machine (500 or 600). The apparatus of the present invention provides a selectable blade device which folds or folds and cuts sheets being processed in the device. When placed in the fold and cut position, the apparatus is capable of producing at least two 4-page signatures (340) or at least one 16-page signature (460) without the need for a final off-line trimming step.

Abstract: A tearing-off roller pair, for tearing off sections or strips divided by perforation cuts from a material web, consists of a first roller with a substantially smooth steel shell and, applied against it, a second roller with a resilient body set into it for increasing the contact pressure, which resilient body projects above its peripheral surface in its unstressed state. To allow a greater retaining force to be exerted on the sections to be torn off, several of the resilient bodies are set in a recess along a cylindrical surface of the second roller.

Abstract: An apparatus for the adjustment of folding jaws, in which the cylinder body supports the noncontrolled folding jaw and, for the purpose of its adjustment, is supported on the cylinder shaft so as to be swivelable. The cylinder body further contains a swivelable support in which the controlled folding jaw is supported eccentrically to the swivel axis of the support. A gear unit acts on the support and swivels it so that the controlled folding jaw is moved in the opposite direction of the noncontrolled folding jaw.

Abstract: A paper folding assembly (15) with a plurality of rotatable rollers (18) including a cutting cylinder (60) with a cutting cylinder body (76) mounted for rotation with a rotary drive shaft (66) and having cutting members (84A, 84B) for cutting a paper ribbon (19) into individual paper sheets (24) and folding members (82A, 82B) for creasing the individual sheets (24) into a rotatable jaw cylinder (50) to create a lap (20) between opposed edges (22, 23), a cutting cylinder lap adjustment apparatus (70) with an end plate (62) secured to the folding members (82A, 82B) and mounted to the rotary drive shaft (66) adjacent an end (72) of the cutting cylinder body (76), a plurality of cutting members (84A, 84B) secured to the cutting cylinder body (76) which is mounted for rotary movement around the rotary drive shaft (66) and an adjusting member (90) connected to the cutting cylinder body (76) to move the cutting members (84A, 84B) at different selected angular positions relative to the rotary drive shaft (66) to chan

Abstract: A folding jaw cylinder for a printing press has a folding jaw arranged rotatably at the cylinder, a stop for the folding jaw, a rotary body, which can be nonrotatably connected to the cylinder, and whose angular position in relation to the cylinder is adjustable, and a gear mechanism for adjusting a working distance between the folding jaw and the stop by adjusting the angular position between the cylinder and the rotary body. The stop is arranged movably at the cylinder, and is adjusted in relation to the cylinder--during the adjustment of the angular position between the cylinder and the rotary body--by an adjusting arrangement, which is articulated to the rotary body and attached to the stop.

Abstract: An arrangement for transferring transversely folded printed products to a third fold has a mechanism for providing a first longitudinal fold, a subsequently arranged mechanism for forming a transverse fold and having an outlet gap, two devices for forming a third fold, located one above the other and each having an inlet gap, two drawing-in roller pairs associated with a respective one of the devices and each having a central axis located in one imaginary vertical plane. The inlet gaps of the devices for forming a third fold and the outlet gap of the mechanism for forming a transverse fold are arranged relative to one another so that an imaginary horizontal plane extending through the outlet gap is simultaneously a plane of symmetry for the inlet gaps. A mechanism for connecting the outlet gap with the inlet gaps and includes a first transporting roller pair, a product deflector and two mirror-symmetrical sheet guides of a same length.

Abstract: An imaging device is provided utilizing a continuous-form recording sheet (i.e., continuous-form sheeting), having a plurality of transverse perforations at predetermined intervals of length, on which the desired image is formed. At least an oscillating member which is driven by a rotating shaft is provided for oscillating continuous-form sheeting discharged from the imaging device. The oscillation caused by the oscillating member forwardly propagates the sheeting toward the imaging device. The continuous-form sheet is alternately and accurately folded at the transverse perforations in opposite directions, and stacked in a vertical direction between two folding positions as the continuous-form sheeting is discharged from the imaging device.

Abstract: A folder (58) of the type having a folding cylinder (16) cooperating with a jaw cylinder (20) to cut and fold a ribbon of paper (14) into a folded product (14') provided with a guide assembly (60) with a guide surface defined by a nonconcentric guide with a convex section (64) and a convex section (74) joined together end-to-end to form a generally S-shaped or approximately cubical parabolic guide surface which conforms to the natural flow shape of the product (14') for minimum interference therewith to reduce the formation of dog-ears.

Abstract: To provide close coupling between movable elements, such as segments (18) capable of varying the effective diameter of a folding blade cylinder (2) or a movable jaw (38) of a folding jaw cylinder, a first gear gear element (21, 47) is coupled via a positioning spindle (20, 43) to the respective movable element (18, 38); a second gear element (22) is coupled to the spindle (20, 43) and further rotationally coupled to the cylinder shaft (11, 35). A positioning or adjustment gearing, for example a differential, or a planetary gearing is positioned in close vicinity to a side wall of the machine, facing the respective cylinder, the positioning gearing being operable to be controlled to change the relative angular relationship between input or received rotation and output or delivered rotation, and being coupled to the second gear element (22), to receive rotation therefrom and further to the first gear element to deliver rotation and additional adjustment movement thereto.

Abstract: To move folding jaws (4, 5) in a scissor-like or pincer-like movement symmetrical with respect to a center line (CL) and to permit adjustment of the gap or opening of the jaws, for acceptance of folded substrates of different thicknesses, the jaws are coupled together by a rotation reversal arrangement (14, 114, 112, 314) so that rotation of one of the carrier bodies (6) will be transferred as an equal and opposite movement to the other (7) of the carrier bodies. An axial position adjustment spindle (25, 125, 325), controllable by a hand wheel (29) or servo motor (30), changes the axial position of gears rotating or rotating with a shaft (2, 202, 402) of a folding jaw cylinder (1, 201, 401), at least some of the gears or gear pairs having inclined teeth, to thereby transfer a positioning movement into a relative rotary shift of the respectively rotating gear with respect to the gear driving the shaft, thereby causing rocking or tilting of the folding jaw carriers (6, 7).