EP1424211B1 - Device for the production of bound printed products - Google Patents

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EP1424211B1
EP1424211B1 EP02406039A EP02406039A EP1424211B1 EP 1424211 B1 EP1424211 B1 EP 1424211B1 EP 02406039 A EP02406039 A EP 02406039A EP 02406039 A EP02406039 A EP 02406039A EP 1424211 B1 EP1424211 B1 EP 1424211B1
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Hanspeter Hediger
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H5/00—Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines
    • B65H5/32—Saddle-like members over which partially-unfolded sheets or signatures are fed to signature-gathering, stitching, or like machines
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B42—BOOKBINDING; ALBUMS; FILES; SPECIAL PRINTED MATTER
    • B42C—BOOKBINDING
    • B42C19/00—Multi-step processes for making books
    • B42C19/08—Conveying between operating stations in machines
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2301/00—Handling processes for sheets or webs
    • B65H2301/40—Type of handling process
    • B65H2301/44—Moving, forwarding, guiding material
    • B65H2301/447—Moving, forwarding, guiding material transferring material between transport devices
    • B65H2301/4475—Rotary or endless transport devices having elements acting on edge of articles
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2301/00—Handling processes for sheets or webs
    • B65H2301/40—Type of handling process
    • B65H2301/44—Moving, forwarding, guiding material
    • B65H2301/447—Moving, forwarding, guiding material transferring material between transport devices
    • B65H2301/4479—Saddle conveyor with saddle member extending in transport direction
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2701/00—Handled material; Storage means
    • B65H2701/10—Handled articles or webs
    • B65H2701/19—Specific article or web
    • B65H2701/1932—Signatures, folded printed matter, newspapers or parts thereof and books

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  • the invention relates to a device for producing a bound printed product from at least one for stapling by staples supplied astride printed product, consisting of a conveyor with a formed from individual elements, obliquely sloping to the side support and with carriers for machine clockwise transfer of the printed products to a stapling section upstream intermediate conveyor ,
  • Object of the present invention is therefore to provide a device of the type mentioned in such a way that a reliable transport of the printed products is ensured by the conveyor to the stapler.
  • the object is achieved in that the transition region of the conveying device and intermediate conveyor is formed by a circumferentially at least one associated with the drivers for their immersion recess, clock-driven side support disk. This makes it possible to transfer the arriving at the end of the conveyor printing products astride the intermediate conveyor trouble-free.
  • the recess reaches the transition point simultaneously with the driver, which dips into the recess.
  • the support disk can rotate at the periphery at the speed of the conveying speed, if two recesses are provided.
  • the at least approximately flat surface of the support disk is arranged directly above the laterally sloping support of the conveyor.
  • the support disk is driven by a gear connected to a deflection wheel of the conveyor, which transmits the machine cycle to the support disk.
  • the drive of the support disk could also be done via a separate, angle-controlled electric motor.
  • this is releasably attached to a hub which is connected to the transmission.
  • the support effective circumference of the support disc forms an approximately tangential connection to the guide line of the printed products on the support and the guide rail of the intermediate conveyor.
  • opposing support discs are provided on both sides of the conveyor, which increase the reliability of the device.
  • a device 1 for producing a bound printed product 2 which consists of one or more folded printed products.
  • the printed products reach as loses printed product 2, the conveying end of a conveyor device 3, which consists of rotating parts a saddle-like support 4 forming.
  • the printing products lying on the support 4 at regular intervals are held on the rear edge by a driver 5 against a longitudinal displacement on the conveyor device 3.
  • the attached to an endless pulling member items form a laterally sloping support 4 on which the printed products rest astride with spread legs.
  • the printed products resp.
  • the printed product 2 is lifted by a guide device 7 from the lateral surfaces of the support 4 and then passed over a driven support disk 8, which accompanies the printed products 2 in the transition region between the conveyor 3 and intermediate conveyor 6.
  • the printed product 2 is transported by the driver 5 in the conveying region of the intermediate conveyor 6, before he leaves the path of the printed product 2 down through the further course of the conveyor device 3.
  • the intermediate conveyor 6, consisting of attached to a rotating traction element 9 conveyor tines 10, detects the incoming over the support plate 8 printed products 2 at the rear Edge and promotes them on a guide rail 10 to a stitching station, not shown.
  • the guide rail 11 has at the upper end a guide groove 12 in which the conveyor tines 10 are guided, and the upper end, as the support 4, provided with sloping sloping to the side bearing surfaces.
  • the printed products are 2 further opened by both sides of the guide rail 11 expanding wedges 13 to prevent unwanted deformation of the printed products 2 at the rear end by the driver 5 of the conveyor 3 and the conveyor tines 10 of the intermediate conveyor 6 in the takeover to be able to.
  • the support disc 8 is of small thickness and stiff, so that there is an insignificant height difference between the support 4 and its surface, which is preferably flat and smooth.
  • the support disk 8 On the circumference, the support disk 8 has two opposing recesses 14, in each of which a driver 5 of the conveyor 3 dips, ie the pitch of the recesses on the circumference of the support disk 8 corresponds to the distance between two drivers 5 of the conveyor 3.
  • the support disk 8 on a hub be fixed and the recesses 14 may have a different shape than shown due to different drivers 5.
  • the drive of the support disk 8 can take place via a separate angle-controlled electric motor (not shown) or, as illustrated, by two belt drives 15, 16.
  • a guide wheel 17 of the conveyor device 3 a pulley 18 of a first countershaft 15, the driven pulley 19 is drive-connected to a drive roller 20 of the second Riemenvorgeleges 16.
  • the second Riemenvorgelege 16 has a right-angled arrangement of the circulating toothed belt 2, which extends around the axis of rotation of the guide roller 19 and drives a connected to the support plate 8 Antriebspulley 22.
  • a deflection wheel 23 is provided on the working strand of the toothed belt 21 and opposite a tension roller 24 acts on the toothed belt 21 a.
  • the toothed belt 25 of the first Riemenvorgeleges 15 is stretched by a tension roller 26.
  • Fig. 1 shows a printed product 2, the legs are raised by a guide device 7, so that the support disk 8 dips to the inner folded edge in the printed product 2, while being transported by the driver 5 in the effective range of the intermediate conveyor 6.
  • the latter detects the printed product 2 by a respective conveyor tines 10 in the region of the rear folded edge, whereas the driver 5 moves downwards and leaves the conveying path of the printed product 2.
  • the guide 7 may be as shown a twice folded sheet to form a flat step; it could also be a deformed ledge for the same purpose. In Fig. 1, the guide device 7 is not illustrated in the interest of illustrating the drive of the support plate 8.

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Die Erfindung betrifft eine Einrichtung zur Herstellung eines gebundenen Druckerzeugnisses aus wenigstens einem zum Heften mittels Heftklammern rittlings zugeführten Druckprodukt, bestehend aus einer Fördervorrichtung mit einer aus Einzelelementen gebildeten, zur Seite schräg abfallenden Auflage und mit Mitnehmern zur maschinentaktweisen Ueberführung der Druckprodukte an einen einer Heftstrecke vorgeschalteten Zwischenförderer.The invention relates to a device for producing a bound printed product from at least one for stapling by staples supplied astride printed product, consisting of a conveyor with a formed from individual elements, obliquely sloping to the side support and with carriers for machine clockwise transfer of the printed products to a stapling section upstream intermediate conveyor ,

Einrichtungen dieser Art sind bei Sammelheftern mit der Bezeichnung "Tempo" von Müller Martini für die Herstellung von gehefteten Druckerzeugnissen bekannt. Die Druckprodukte werden durch Anleger, die entlang einer ein- oder zweisträngig geführten Fördervorrichtung angeordnet sind, an dieser rittlings aufeinanderliegend gesammelt und durch Mitnehmer transportiert. Bevor die Druckprodukte eine Heftstrecke erreichen, die durch ein zweifach umlaufendes Zugorgan - Ketten oder Riemen - ausgebildet ist, werden sie über eine stationäre Führungsschiene geführt. Diese Führungsschiene weist einen sich zum vorderen Ende hin geneigt verlaufenden Abschnitt auf, ein lückenloser Uebergang mit der Fördervorrichtung ist jedoch nicht vermeidbar. Das in dem Uebergangsbereich schräg nach unten verlaufende Ende der Fördervorrichtung bildet mit der Führungsschiene einen leichten Knick, der die Flugbahn der transportierten Druckprodukte verändern kann. Insbesondere kürzere Druckprodukte stossen an der Führungsschiene auf bzw. bleiben hängen und führen einen Produktionsunterbruch herbei, weil sie von dem mit der Führungsschiene zusammenwirkenden Zwischenförderer nicht erfasst werden können.Devices of this type are known in saddle stitchers called "Tempo" by Muller Martini for the production of stitched printed matter. The printed products are collected by investors, who are arranged along a single- or double-stranded guided conveyor on this astride one another and transported by drivers. Before the printed products reach a stitching path which is formed by a double circulating tension member - chains or belts - they are guided over a stationary guide rail. This guide rail has a to front end inclined towards extending section, a gapless transition with the conveyor is not avoidable. The obliquely downward in the transition area end of the conveyor forms with the guide rail a slight kink, which can change the trajectory of the transported printed products. In particular, shorter printed products abut on the guide rail or remain hanging and cause a production interruption, because they can not be detected by the cooperating with the guide rail intermediate conveyor.

Aufgabe der vorliegenden Erfindung ist es nun, eine Einrichtung der eingangs genannten Art so auszubilden, dass ein zuverlässiger Transport der Druckprodukte von der Fördervorrichtung zu der Heftvorrichtung gewährleistet ist.Object of the present invention is therefore to provide a device of the type mentioned in such a way that a reliable transport of the printed products is ensured by the conveyor to the stapler.

Erfindungsgemäss wird die Aufgabe dadurch gelöst, dass der Uebergangsbereich von Fördervorrichtung und Zwischenförderer durch eine am Umfang wenigstens eine den Mitnehmern zu deren Eintauchen zugeordnete Ausnehmung aufweisende, taktgebunden angetriebene seitliche Stützscheibe ausgebildet ist. Dadurch ist es möglich, die am Ende der Fördervorrichtung ankommenden Druckprodukte rittlings an den Zwischenförderer störungsfrei zu überführen. Die Ausnehmung erreicht die Uebergangsstelle gleichzeitig mit dem Mitnehmer, der in die Ausnehmung eintaucht.According to the invention the object is achieved in that the transition region of the conveying device and intermediate conveyor is formed by a circumferentially at least one associated with the drivers for their immersion recess, clock-driven side support disk. This makes it possible to transfer the arriving at the end of the conveyor printing products astride the intermediate conveyor trouble-free. The recess reaches the transition point simultaneously with the driver, which dips into the recess.

Die Stützscheibe kann am Umfang mit der Geschwindigkeit der Fördergeschwindigkeit drehen, wenn zwei Ausnehmungen vorgesehen sind.The support disk can rotate at the periphery at the speed of the conveying speed, if two recesses are provided.

Vorteilhaft ist die zumindest annähernd ebene Oberfläche der Stützscheibe direkt über der seitlich schräg abfallenden Auflage der Fördervorrichtung angeordnet.Advantageously, the at least approximately flat surface of the support disk is arranged directly above the laterally sloping support of the conveyor.

Vorzugsweise ist die Stützscheibe durch ein mit einem Umlenkrad der Fördervorrichtung verbundenen Getriebe angetrieben, welches den Maschinentakt an die Stützscheibe überträgt. Selbstverständlich könnte der Antrieb der Stützscheibe auch über einen separaten, drehwinkelgesteuerten Elektromotor erfolgen.Preferably, the support disk is driven by a gear connected to a deflection wheel of the conveyor, which transmits the machine cycle to the support disk. Of course, the drive of the support disk could also be done via a separate, angle-controlled electric motor.

Als einfache Ausführung des Getriebes erweisen sich zwei antriebsverbundene Zahnriemenvorgelege.As a simple embodiment of the transmission, there are two drive-connected toothed belt countershaft.

Zur Demontage der Stützscheibe ist diese an einer Nabe, die mit dem Getriebe verbunden ist, lösbar befestigt.To disassemble the support disk, this is releasably attached to a hub which is connected to the transmission.

Vorteilhaft bildet der stützwirksame Umfang der Stützscheibe eine etwa tangentiale Verbindung zur Führungslinie der Druckprodukte an der Auflage und der Führungsschiene des Zwischenförderers.Advantageously, the support effective circumference of the support disc forms an approximately tangential connection to the guide line of the printed products on the support and the guide rail of the intermediate conveyor.

Zweckmässig sind beidseits der Fördervorrichtung sich gegenüberliegende Stützscheiben vorgesehen, die die Zuverlässigkeit der Einrichtung erhöhen.Conveniently, opposing support discs are provided on both sides of the conveyor, which increase the reliability of the device.

Anschliessend wird die Erfindung unter Bezugnahme auf die Zeichnung, auf die bezüglich aller in der Beschreibung nicht näher erwähnten Einzelheiten verwiesen wird, anhand eines Ausführungsbeispiels erläutert. In der Zeichnung zeigen:

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In den Fig. 1 und 2 ist eine Einrichtung 1 zur Herstellung eines gebundenen Druckerzeugnisses 2 veranschaulicht, das aus einem oder mehreren gefalzten Druckprodukten besteht.
Die Druckprodukte erreichen als loses Druckerzeugnis 2 das Förderende einer Fördervorrichtung 3, die aus umlaufenden Einzelteilen eine sattelartige Auflage 4 bildend besteht. Die auf der Auflage 4 in regelmässigen Abständen liegenden Druckprodukte werden an der rückwärtigen Kante durch Mitnehmer 5 gegen ein Längsverschieben auf der Fördervorrichtung 3 gehalten. Die an einem endlosen Zugorgan befestigten Einzelteile bilden eine seitlich schräg abfallende Auflage 4, auf der die Druckprodukte mit gespreizten Schenkeln rittlings aufliegen.
Auf dem Förderweg zu einem nachgeschalteten Zwischenförderer 6 werden die Druckprodukte resp. das Druckerzeugnis 2 durch eine Leitvorrichtung 7 von den seitlichen Flächen der Auflage 4 abgehoben und danach über eine angetriebene Stützscheibe 8 geleitet, welche die Druckerzeugnisse 2 im Uebergangsbereich zwischen Fördervorrichtung 3 und Zwischenförderer 6 begleitet. Das Druckerzeugnis 2 wird durch den Mitnehmer 5 in den Förderbereich des Zwischenförderers 6 transportiert, bevor er durch den weiteren Verlauf der Fördervorrichtung 3 die Bahn des Druckerzeugnisses 2 nach unten verlässt.
Der Zwischenförderer 6, bestehend aus an einem umlaufenden Zugorgan 9 befestigten Förderzinken 10, erfasst die über die Stützscheibe 8 ankommenden Druckerzeugnisse 2 an deren hinterer Kante und fördert sie auf einer Führungsschiene 10 zu einer nicht dargestellten Heftstation.
Die Führungsschiene 11 weist am oberen Ende eine Führungsnut 12 auf, in der die Förderzinken 10 geführt sind, und das obere Ende ist, wie die Auflage 4, mit schräg abfallend zur Seite verlaufenden Auflageflächen versehen.
Auf dem weiteren Weg nach dem Uebergangsbereich werden die Druckerzeugnisse 2 durch beidseits der Führungsschiene 11 angeordnete Spreizkeile 13 weiter geöffnet, um eine unerwünschte Verformung der Druckerzeugnisse 2 am hinteren Ende durch die Mitnehmer 5 der Fördervorrichtung 3 und die Förderzinken 10 des Zwischenförderers 6 bei der Uebernahme verhindern zu können.
Die Stützscheibe 8 ist von geringer Dicke und steif ausgebildet, sodass zwischen der Auflage 4 und ihrer Oberfläche, die vorzugsweise eben und glatt ausgebildet ist, eine unerhebliche Höhendifferenz vorliegt.
Am Umfang weist die Stützscheibe 8 zwei sich gegenüberliegende Ausnehmungen 14 auf, in die jeweils ein Mitnehmer 5 der Fördervorrichtung 3 eintaucht, d.h. die Teilung der Ausnehmungen am Umfang der Stützscheibe 8 entspricht dem Abstand zweier Mitnehmer 5 der Fördervorrichtung 3. Die Wirkung der Stützscheibe 8, die wenigstens annähernd eine Umfangsgeschwindigkeit aufweist, die der Geschwindigkeit der Druckerzeugnisse 2 auf der Fördervorrichtung 3 entspricht, erfolgt zwischen zwei Mitnehmern 5 an der Fördervorrichtung. Ist die Stützscheibe 8 nur mit einer Ausnehmung 14 versehen, muss sie die doppelte Geschwindigkeit aufweisen wie die Mitnehmer 5. Dies stört jedoch nicht, weil der Umfang der Stützscheibe 8 keine Förderwirkung, sondern lediglich eine Stütz- oder Führungswirkung ausübt. Wie Fig. 2 zeigt, kann die Stützscheibe 8 an einer Nabe befestigt sein und die Ausnehmungen 14 können aufgrund unterschiedlicher Mitnehmer 5 eine andere Form als wie dargestellt aufweisen. Der Antrieb der Stützscheibe 8 kann selbstverständlich über einen separaten drehwinkelgesteuerten Elektromotor (nicht ersichtlich) oder wie veranschaulicht, durch zwei Riemenvorgelege 15, 16 erfolgen. Hierzu weist ein Umlenkrad 17 der Fördervorrichtung 3 eine Riemenscheibe 18 eines ersten Vorgeleges 15 auf, dessen angetriebene Umlenkrolle 19 mit einer Antriebsrolle 20 des zweiten Riemenvorgeleges 16 antriebsverbunden ist. Das zweite Riemenvorgelege 16 weist eine rechtwinklige Anordnungsweise des umlaufenden Zahnriemens 2 auf, der um die Drehachse der Umlenkrolle 19 verläuft und ein mit der Stützscheibe 8 verbundenes Antriebspulley 22 treibt. Zwischen diesen ist an dem Arbeitstrum des Zahnriemens 21 ein Umlenkrad 23 vorgesehen und gegenüber wirkt eine Spannrolle 24 auf den Zahnriemen 21 ein. Der Zahnriemen 25 des ersten Riemenvorgeleges 15 wird durch eine Spannrolle 26 gestreckt.
Fig. 1 zeigt ein Druckerzeugnis 2, dessen Schenkel durch eine Leitvorrichtung 7 angehoben sind, so dass die Stützscheibe 8 bis zur inneren Falzkante in das Druckerzeugnis 2 eintaucht, währenddem es durch den Mitnehmer 5 in den Wirkbereich des Zwischenförderers 6 transportiert wird. Letzterer erfasst das Druckerzeugnis 2 durch jeweils einen Förderzinken 10 im Bereich der hinteren Falzkante, wogegen der Mitnehmer 5 sich nach unten bewegt und die Förderbahn des Druckerzeugnisses 2 verlässt. Der Spreizkeil 13 seitlich der Führungsschiene 11 spreizt beim Auftreffen des Druckerzeugnisses 2 dessen Schenkel zusätzlich, sodass das Druckerzeugnis 2 frei von Mitnehmer 5 transportiert wird. Die Leitvorrichtung 7 kann wie dargestellt ein zweimal abgekantetes Blech zur Bildung einer flachen Stufe sein; es könnte auch eine verformte Leiste für den gleichen Zweck verwendet werden. In Fig. 1 ist die Leitvorrichtung 7 im Interesse der Darstellung des Antriebes der Stützscheibe 8 nicht veranschaulicht.In Figs. 1 and 2, a device 1 for producing a bound printed product 2 is illustrated, which consists of one or more folded printed products.
The printed products reach as loses printed product 2, the conveying end of a conveyor device 3, which consists of rotating parts a saddle-like support 4 forming. The printing products lying on the support 4 at regular intervals are held on the rear edge by a driver 5 against a longitudinal displacement on the conveyor device 3. The attached to an endless pulling member items form a laterally sloping support 4 on which the printed products rest astride with spread legs.
On the conveyor to a downstream intermediate conveyor 6, the printed products resp. the printed product 2 is lifted by a guide device 7 from the lateral surfaces of the support 4 and then passed over a driven support disk 8, which accompanies the printed products 2 in the transition region between the conveyor 3 and intermediate conveyor 6. The printed product 2 is transported by the driver 5 in the conveying region of the intermediate conveyor 6, before he leaves the path of the printed product 2 down through the further course of the conveyor device 3.
The intermediate conveyor 6, consisting of attached to a rotating traction element 9 conveyor tines 10, detects the incoming over the support plate 8 printed products 2 at the rear Edge and promotes them on a guide rail 10 to a stitching station, not shown.
The guide rail 11 has at the upper end a guide groove 12 in which the conveyor tines 10 are guided, and the upper end, as the support 4, provided with sloping sloping to the side bearing surfaces.
On the way to the transition area, the printed products are 2 further opened by both sides of the guide rail 11 expanding wedges 13 to prevent unwanted deformation of the printed products 2 at the rear end by the driver 5 of the conveyor 3 and the conveyor tines 10 of the intermediate conveyor 6 in the takeover to be able to.
The support disc 8 is of small thickness and stiff, so that there is an insignificant height difference between the support 4 and its surface, which is preferably flat and smooth.
On the circumference, the support disk 8 has two opposing recesses 14, in each of which a driver 5 of the conveyor 3 dips, ie the pitch of the recesses on the circumference of the support disk 8 corresponds to the distance between two drivers 5 of the conveyor 3. The effect of the support disk 8, which has at least approximately a peripheral speed which corresponds to the speed of the printed products 2 on the conveyor device 3, takes place between two carriers 5 on the conveyor device. If the support disk 8 is provided with only one recess 14, it must be twice the speed of the drivers 5. However, this does not disturb because the circumference of the support disk 8 exerts no conveying action, but merely a supporting or guiding action. As shown in FIG. 2, the support disk 8 on a hub be fixed and the recesses 14 may have a different shape than shown due to different drivers 5. Of course, the drive of the support disk 8 can take place via a separate angle-controlled electric motor (not shown) or, as illustrated, by two belt drives 15, 16. For this purpose, a guide wheel 17 of the conveyor device 3, a pulley 18 of a first countershaft 15, the driven pulley 19 is drive-connected to a drive roller 20 of the second Riemenvorgeleges 16. The second Riemenvorgelege 16 has a right-angled arrangement of the circulating toothed belt 2, which extends around the axis of rotation of the guide roller 19 and drives a connected to the support plate 8 Antriebspulley 22. Between these, a deflection wheel 23 is provided on the working strand of the toothed belt 21 and opposite a tension roller 24 acts on the toothed belt 21 a. The toothed belt 25 of the first Riemenvorgeleges 15 is stretched by a tension roller 26.
Fig. 1 shows a printed product 2, the legs are raised by a guide device 7, so that the support disk 8 dips to the inner folded edge in the printed product 2, while being transported by the driver 5 in the effective range of the intermediate conveyor 6. The latter detects the printed product 2 by a respective conveyor tines 10 in the region of the rear folded edge, whereas the driver 5 moves downwards and leaves the conveying path of the printed product 2. The expanding wedge 13 laterally of the guide rail 11 spreads when hitting the printed product 2 whose legs in addition, so that the printed product 2 is transported free of carrier 5. The guide 7 may be as shown a twice folded sheet to form a flat step; it could also be a deformed ledge for the same purpose. In Fig. 1, the guide device 7 is not illustrated in the interest of illustrating the drive of the support plate 8.

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  1. Device (1) for producing a bound printed product (2) from at least one printed product fed in the astride position for stitching by means of stitching hooks, consisting of a conveyor device (3) with a support (4) formed from individual elements and dropping obliquely to the side, and with carriers (5) for transferring the printed products in a machine cycle to an intermediate conveyor (6) connected in series to a stitching section, characterised in that the transfer region of the conveyor device (3) and the intermediate conveyor (6) is formed by a cycle driven lateral supporting disc (8) exhibiting on the periphery at least one recess (14) associated with the carriers (5) for their immersion.
  2. Device according to Claim 1, characterised in that the supporting disc (8) exhibits a flat surface which is arranged to the side of the falling support (4) of the conveyor device (3).
  3. Device according to Claim 2, characterised in that the supporting disc (8) is connected in series to a guiding device raising the legs of the printed products (2) on the lateral supports (4), viewed in the direction of conveying (F) of the printed products (2).
  4. Device according to any of Claims 1 to 3, characterised in that the supporting disc (8) is driven by a gear connected to a deflector wheel (17) of the conveying device (3).
  5. Device according to Claim 4, characterised in that the gear is formed by two drive-connected toothed belt primary transmissions (15, 16).
  6. Device according to any of Claims 4 to 5, characterised in that the supporting disc (8) is secured detachably to a hub connected to the gear.
  7. Device according to any of Claims 1 to 6, characterised in that the actively supporting periphery of the supporting disc (8) is arranged roughly tangentially to the path of conveyance of the printed products (2).
  8. Device according to any of Claims 1 to 7, with a guide rail (11) provided in the area of action of the intermediate conveyor (6) for the straddling support of the printed products (2), characterised in that the surface of the supporting disc (8) is actively arranged to the side of the guide rail (11).
  9. Device according to any of Claims 1 to 8, characterised in that opposing supporting discs (8) are arranged on both sides of the conveying device (3).
  10. Device according to any of Claims 1 to 9, characterised in that expanding wedges (13) spreading the printed products (2) are arranged underneath the intermediate conveyor (6).
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