EP2177465B1 - Folding apparatus and method - Google Patents

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EP2177465B1
EP2177465B1 EP09173150A EP09173150A EP2177465B1 EP 2177465 B1 EP2177465 B1 EP 2177465B1 EP 09173150 A EP09173150 A EP 09173150A EP 09173150 A EP09173150 A EP 09173150A EP 2177465 B1 EP2177465 B1 EP 2177465B1
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
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  • the invention relates to a folding apparatus according to the preamble of claim 1 and a folding method according to the preamble of claim 9.
  • German patent application DE 10 2004 005 807 A1 is in a folder next to a Standardbasisfalztechnik (cross-cutter, collecting cylinder, jaw cylinder) an additional cross-cutting device provided with a supplied second web of a second substrate (eg salmon paper) can be cut into second printed products, and a gripper cylinder for transferring the second printed products on the collecting cylinder on which also the first printed products are placed, which have been produced by the cross-cutting device associated with the collecting cylinder from a first web of a first printing material (eg white paper), so that in each case a first and a second printed product are placed on the collecting cylinder, which are transversely folded with the help of the collecting cylinder and the jaw cylinder to produce a total product.
  • a first printing material eg white paper
  • Skipslitter are interval cutting knives, which have a rotating interrupted blade, which are aligned with the fold line of a folder and serve as a longitudinal cutting device for a printing material above the former. Alternately, a length corresponding to the sheet of the paper or printing material web is then provided with a longitudinal slot or not.
  • the cross-cutting device can conventionally be a pair of cutting cylinders or a cutting blade cylinder which, in cooperation with a subsequent folding or collecting cylinder, carries out the cross-section via a cutting blade pressed against the collecting cylinder.
  • the small format sheets eg tabloid
  • the longitudinally folded large format sheet eg Broadsheet
  • the cross-cutting device and the additional cross-cutting device are each preceded by at least one former, the former associated with the cross-cutting device being further associated with a longitudinal cutting device having a cutting edge aligned with the former, whereas no such longitudinal cutting device is provided on the auxiliary cross-cutting device.
  • an additional collecting cylinder is interposed, which may be constructed as the collecting cylinder as NOTEurfalzzylinder or Greiferfalzzylinder.
  • the transfer device can be switched on and off at the collecting cylinder in order to also enable production from only one web strand.
  • the additional collecting cylinder particularly advantageous an additional jaw cylinder and a product display - each preferably on / off adjustable - be assigned.
  • a band transfer can be provided.
  • a NOTEurzylinder between the additional collecting cylinder and the collecting cylinder has proven to be particularly advantageous. If no additional collecting cylinder should be provided, the Nursingurzylinder could also be interposed between the collecting cylinder and the additional cross-cutting device. With this arrangement, another strand can be cut into products and supplied via the transfer device located on the collection cylinder products from the strand.
  • the funnel superstructure is preceded by a further longitudinal cutting arrangement with which a printing material web is divided into partial webs which can be steered onto the funnels so as to produce the two web strands guided into the folding apparatus from a single printing material web coming from a production.
  • the printed products produced from the second web strand can then be collected one or more times into the additional collecting cylinder before they are transferred in a collected manner to a first printed product on the collecting cylinder.
  • a six-page wide production can be used to produce a final product with two broadsheet books of four pages each and a tabloid book of eight pages.
  • FIG. 1 shows a schematic side view of an embodiment of a folding apparatus according to the invention.
  • the folder is designated as a whole with 1, the basic folder with 2, and the parent funnel superstructure with 3.
  • the funnel superstructure has three funnels 5, 16, 17, wherein over the funnel 5, a web track 6 is guided, which on various, not closer train and guide rollers are fed to the Basisfalzwerk 2.
  • a web strand 8, 9 are guided, which are superimposed before reaching the Basisfalzwerkes and so as supplied from two longitudinally folded, single strands of existing total strand 7 the Basisfalzwerk 2.
  • the funnel 5 has a direction indicated by a scissors symbol longitudinal cutting device 4 on its funnel edge, with the first Web strand is cut longitudinally, so that, as a result, the first web strand 6 has the same width as the second, not longitudinally cut, but but longitudinally folded web strand 7 when entering the base folder 2.
  • the first web strand 6 is now fed to a collecting cylinder 12 in the classical way via a pair of draw rollers 10 and a cutting blade 11 and thereby cut into single copies by the rotating cutting blades of the cutting blade cylinder 11, which press against corresponding counter-pressure surfaces on the collecting cylinder 12.
  • the second web strand 7 is, however, fed to a sibling Noticefalzhow, which has a pair of Wernergate 20, between which the web strand 7 is guided to a serving as Sakquerschneid issued additional cutting cylinder 21, the cutting blade in turn in cooperation with corresponding counter-pressure surfaces on a beaumelzylinder 22 the second web strand in single copies crosswise cuts.
  • the collecting cylinder 12 can also be formed as a NOTEurfalzzylinder so that a further layer of collected or unsorted, originating from the second web strand 7 single copies can be pinned on a first layer of unsorted, cut from the first web strand 6 individual copies.
  • the punctures of the transfer cylinder 26 are offset laterally relative to the punctures of the two collecting cylinders 12, 22, so that they act on the printed product act at adjacent positions. While the punctures of the transfer cylinder 26 take over the second products of the additional collection cylinder 22, the punctures thisificatsammelzylinders 22 are simultaneously controlled back. When transferring to the (main) collecting cylinder 12, the punctures of the collecting cylinder 12 take over the second printed products on the already imprinted first printed products, while the punctures of the transfer cylinder 26 are controlled back.
  • first and second printed products are then folded transversely together during the transfer to a jaw cylinder 13 and transferred via a paddle wheel 14 to a delivery belt 15, that is, the jaw cylinder 13 is a paddle wheel 14 and a delivery belt 15 downstream.
  • the jaw cylinder 13 When common cross folds on the jaw cylinder 13 thus creates a printed product with four books Broadsheet and an inside book in tabloid format.
  • the particular advantage of the invention is that the page number of the tabloid format is independent of the page number of the broadsheet format and can be adjusted via the configuration of the funnel structure and the thickness of the first web strand.
  • the page and book number of the broadsheet format can be adjusted by the type of production on the additional collection cylinder, as well as by the thickness and the number of webs combined as a second web strand and the hopper configuration can be adjusted.
  • Deviations from the illustrated embodiment are therefore not only included in the invention, but necessary in order to produce a wide variety of printed products.
  • the additional crossfold unit could be assigned an additional hopper, where the number of pages of the tabloid insert is also offset by another, the parent Increase folding unit 11, 12, 13 associated with funnel or leading multiple paper webs over the hopper 5 would let. It would also be conceivable to form the funnels 5, 16, 17 displaceably in order to allocate them either to the additional transverse folding unit or to the master transverse folding unit.

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The apparatus (1) has a transfer cylinder (26) for transferring printing products produced from a web strand (7), to a collecting cylinder (12) so that the printing products are joined in the collecting cylinder and cross-folded during transfer to a folding flap cylinder (13). Folding hoppers (5, 16, 17) are provided upstream to a transverse cutting device and an auxiliary transverse cutting device (21). A longitudinal cutting device (4) with a cutter is attached to the folding hoppers that are attached to the transverse cutting device. The cutter is aligned with a hopper fold. An independent claim is also included for a method for folding printing products.

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Die Erfindung betrifft einen Falzapparat gemäß dem Oberbegriff des Anspruchs 1 sowie ein Falzverfahren gemäß dem Oberbegriff des Anspruchs 9.The invention relates to a folding apparatus according to the preamble of claim 1 and a folding method according to the preamble of claim 9.

Gemäß der deutschen Patentanmeldung DE 10 2004 005 807 A1 ist bei einem Falzapparat neben einem Standardbasisfalzwerk (Querschneideinrichtung, Sammelzylinder, Falzklappenzylinder) eine Zusatzquerschneideinrichtung vorgesehen, mit der ein zugeführter zweiter Bahnstrang aus einem zweiten Bedruckstoff (z.B. lachsfarbenes Papier) in zweite Druckprodukte schneidbar ist, sowie einen Greiferzylinder zum Überführen der zweiten Druckprodukte auf den Sammelzylinder, auf den auch die ersten Druckprodukte aufgelegt werden, welche von der dem Sammelzylinder zugeordneten Querschneideinrichtung aus einem ersten Bahnstrang aus einem ersten Bedruckstoff (z.B. weißes Papier) erzeugt worden sind, so dass auf dem Sammelzylinder jeweils ein erstes und ein zweites Druckprodukt aufeinander gelegt werden, welche mit Hilfe des Sammelzylinders und des Falzklappenzylinders gemeinsam zu einem Gesamtprodukt quergefalzt werden. Damit ist man bei der Wahl des Bedruckstoffs und der Dicke der beiden Bahnstränge, das heißt bei der Vorgabe, wie viele Bedruckstoffbahnen in einem der beiden Bahnstränge übereinander oder auch ineinander gelegt werden sollen, völlig frei von dem Bedruckstoff und der Dicke des anderen Bahnstrangs. Da die beiden zu einem Gesamtdruckerzeugnis gesammelten und gemeinsam quergefalzten Druckprodukte das gleiche Tabloidformat aufweisen, erhält man so ein Gesamtdruckerzeugnis mit einer Einlage und einem Umschlag im gleichen Format, aber aus unterschiedlichen Bedruckstoffen.According to the German patent application DE 10 2004 005 807 A1 is in a folder next to a Standardbasisfalzwerk (cross-cutter, collecting cylinder, jaw cylinder) an additional cross-cutting device provided with a supplied second web of a second substrate (eg salmon paper) can be cut into second printed products, and a gripper cylinder for transferring the second printed products on the collecting cylinder on which also the first printed products are placed, which have been produced by the cross-cutting device associated with the collecting cylinder from a first web of a first printing material (eg white paper), so that in each case a first and a second printed product are placed on the collecting cylinder, which are transversely folded with the help of the collecting cylinder and the jaw cylinder to produce a total product. This is completely free from the substrate and the thickness of the other web strand in the choice of the substrate and the thickness of the two web strands, that is, in the specification of how many printing material to be placed in one of the two web strands one above the other or into each other. Since the two collected to a total print product and together cross-folded printed products have the same tabloid format, so you get a total print product with a deposit and an envelope in the same format, but from different substrates.

Insbesondere im Zeitungsdruck besteht heutzutage jedoch das Bestreben, Druckprodukte mit Einlagen in einem kleineren Format als das der Zeitung ("des Umschlagsprodukts") herzustellen. Dazu ist es bekannt, einen sogenannten Skipslitter einzusetzen. Skipslitter sind Intervallschneidmesser, welche eine rotierende unterbrochene Klinge aufweisen, die mit der Falzlinie eines Falztrichters fluchten und oberhalb des Falztrichters als Längsschneideinrichtung für eine Bedruckstoffbahn dienen. Abwechselnd wird dann eine einem Bogen entsprechende Länge der Papier- bzw. Bedruckstoffbahn mit einem Längsschlitz versehen oder nicht.However, newspaper printing in particular tends to produce printed products with inserts in a smaller format than the newspaper ("the envelope product"). It is known, a so-called Skipslitter use. Skipslitter are interval cutting knives, which have a rotating interrupted blade, which are aligned with the fold line of a folder and serve as a longitudinal cutting device for a printing material above the former. Alternately, a length corresponding to the sheet of the paper or printing material web is then provided with a longitudinal slot or not.

Wird die so intermittierend längs geschnittene Bedruckstoffbahn über den Falztrichter in ein Basisfalzwerk geführt, wird die Bahn zunächst an einer Querschneideinrichtung quergeschnitten, wodurch abwechselnd ein längs gefalzter Bogen im doppelt großen Format und zwei aufeinander liegende Bögen im einfach großen Format erzeugt werden. Die Querschneideinrichtung kann dabei herkömmlich ein Schneidzylinderpaar sein oder ein Schneidmesserzylinder, welcher im Zusammenwirken mit einem anschließenden Falz- bzw. Sammelzylinder den Querschnitt über ein gegen den Sammelzylinder gepresstes Schneidmesser vornimmt.If the thus intermittently longitudinally cut substrate web is fed via the former into a base folder, the web is first cross-cut at a cross cutter, which alternately a longitudinally folded sheet in double size and two superimposed sheets are produced in a simply large format. The cross-cutting device can conventionally be a pair of cutting cylinders or a cutting blade cylinder which, in cooperation with a subsequent folding or collecting cylinder, carries out the cross-section via a cutting blade pressed against the collecting cylinder.

In einem anschließenden Schritt können dann die Kleinformatbögen (z.B. Tabloid) und die längs gefalzten Großformatbogen (z.B. Broadsheet) auf dem Sammelzylinder aufeinander gelegt werden, so dass sich nach dem im Zusammenwirken des Sammelzylinders mit einem Falzklappenzylinder eingebrachten Querfalz ein Druckprodukt mit einer Einlage in der halben Seitengröße des Umschlags ergibt. Dabei ist die Seitenzahl der kleinformatigen Einlage unmittelbar abhängig von der Seitenzahl des großformatigen Umschlags (nämlich doppelt so groß) und es lassen sich nur Endprodukte mit einer geradzahligen Anzahl von Büchern erstellen.In a subsequent step then the small format sheets (eg tabloid) and the longitudinally folded large format sheet (eg Broadsheet) are placed on the collecting cylinder to each other, so that after the interaction of the collecting cylinder with a jaw cylinder introduced transverse fold a printed product with an insert in the half Page size of the envelope results. The page number of the small-format insert is directly dependent on the page number of the large-sized envelope (namely, twice as large) and it can only create end products with an even number of books.

Hiervon ausgehend ist es Aufgabe der Erfindung, einen Falzapparat und ein Falzverfahren zu schaffen, mit denen die Produktion von aus großformatigen Umschlagprodukten und kleinformatigen Einlagen zusammengesetzten Druckerzeugnissen weiter flexibilisiert werden kann.On this basis, it is an object of the invention to provide a folder and a folding method, with which the production of composite from large-sized envelope products and small-sized deposits printed products can be further flexibilized.

Diese Aufgabe wird hinsichtlich des Falzapparats mit den Merkmalen des Anspruchs 1 gelöst, hinsichtlich des Falzverfahrens mit den Merkmalen des Anspruchs 9.This object is achieved with regard to the folding apparatus with the features of claim 1, with regard to the folding method with the features of claim 9.

Erfindungsgemäß ist der Querschneideinrichtung und der Zusatzquerschneideinrichtung jeweils zumindest ein Falztrichter vorgeordnet, wobei dem der Querschneideinrichtung zugeordneten Trichtern ferner eine Längsschneideinrichtung zugeordnet ist, die eine mit dem Trichterfalz fluchtende Schneide aufweist, wohingegen an den der Zusatzquerschneideinrichtung keine solche Längsschneideinrichtung vorgesehen ist.According to the invention, the cross-cutting device and the additional cross-cutting device are each preceded by at least one former, the former associated with the cross-cutting device being further associated with a longitudinal cutting device having a cutting edge aligned with the former, whereas no such longitudinal cutting device is provided on the auxiliary cross-cutting device.

Es lassen sich somit aus zugeführten Bedruckstoffbahnen gleicher Breite Produkte mit einer beliebigen Anzahl von längsgefalzten Büchern in einem Großformat (zweiten Druckprodukte) auf eine beliebige Anzahl von längsgeschnittenen Bögen in einem halb so großen Kleinformat (erste Druckprodukte) legen, so dass unterschiedlichste Endprodukte herstellbar sind, deren Umschlagsprodukt (beispielsweise im Broadsheet-Format) jeweils doppelt so groß ist wie das zugehörige Einlageprodukt (z.B. im Tabloid-Format). Dabei werden die einer Querschneideinrichtung als erster Bahnstrang zugeführten Bedruckstoffbahnen längsgeschnitten und aufeinander gelegt, während die der Zusatzschneideinrichtung als zweiter Bahnstrang zugeführten Bedruckstoffbahnen längsgefalzt werden, bevor die beiden Bahnstränge dem Falzapparat zugeführt werden. Dabei ist beim entstehenden Gesamtprodukt der Querfalz des großformatigen Druckprodukts gleichzeitig der Querfalz des kleinformatigen Druckprodukts, welches aufgrund des ihm fehlenden Längsfalzes eine Einlage mit genau auf die Abmessungen des großformatigen Druckprodukts abgestimmter Seitengröße bildet.It can thus be supplied from supplied printing material webs of the same width products with any number of longitudinally folded books in a large format (second printed products) on any number of slit sheets in half a small format (first printed products), so that a variety of end products are produced, whose cover product (for example in broadsheet format) is twice as large as the corresponding insert product (eg in tabloid format). In this case, the printing material webs fed to a cross-cutting device as the first web strand are cut longitudinally and placed on one another, while the printing material webs supplied to the additional cutting device are longitudinally folded before the two web strands are fed to the folding apparatus. The transverse fold of the large-format printed product is at the same time the transverse fold of the small-format printed product, which due to the lack thereof Längsfalzes an insert forms with exactly on the dimensions of the large-sized printed product page size.

Besonders vorteilhaft ist es dabei, wenn der Zusatzquerschneideinrichtung und der Überführungseinrichtung ein Zusatzsammelzylinder zwischengeordnet ist, welcher wie der Sammelzylinder als Punkturfalzzylinder oder Greiferfalzzylinder aufgebaut sein kann. Werden die zweiten Druckprodukte in Sammelproduktion auf dem Zusatzfalzzylinder aufeinandergelegt, so können auch mehrere Bücher auf einen Bücherstapel der ersten Druckprodukte auf dem Sammelzylinder aufgelegt werden, so dass die Produktionsvielfalt weiter zunimmt. Insbesondere kann auf einfache Weise ein Endprodukt mit vier Broadsheet- Büchern und einer Tabloid-Einlage aus einem halbformatigen Buch produziert werden.It is particularly advantageous if the additional cross-cutting device and the transfer device an additional collecting cylinder is interposed, which may be constructed as the collecting cylinder as Punkturfalzzylinder or Greiferfalzzylinder. Are the second printed products in collective production the Zusatzfalzzylinder superimposed, so several books can be placed on a stack of books of the first printed products on the collecting cylinder, so that the production variety continues to increase. In particular, an end product with four broadsheet books and a tabloid inlay can be easily produced from a half-size book.

Vorteilhaft ist es dabei, wenn die Überführungseinrichtung an den Sammelzylinder an- und abstellbar ist, um auch die Produktion aus lediglich einem Bahnstrang zu ermöglichen. Um die Produktion auch aus beiden Bahnsträngen unabhängig voneinander zu ermöglichen, kann dem Zusatzsammelzylinder besonders vorteilhaft ein zusätzlicher Falzklappenzylinder sowie eine Produktauslage - jeweils vorzugsweise an-/abstellbar - zugeordnet werden.It is advantageous in this case if the transfer device can be switched on and off at the collecting cylinder in order to also enable production from only one web strand. In order to enable the production of two web strands independently, the additional collecting cylinder particularly advantageous an additional jaw cylinder and a product display - each preferably on / off adjustable - be assigned.

Als Überführungseinrichtung kann eine Bandüberführung vorgesehen sein. Als besonders vorteilhaft hat sich jedoch ein dem Zusatzsammelzylinder und dem Sammelzylinder zwischengeordneter Punkturzylinder erwiesen. Falls kein Zusatzsammelzylinder vorgesehen sein sollte, könnte der Punkturzylinder auch dem Sammelzylinder und der Zusatzquerschneideinrichtung zwischengeordnet sein. Mit dieser Anordnung kann ein weiterer Strang zu Produkten geschnitten werden und über die Überführungseinrichtung den auf dem Sammelzylinder befindlichen Produkten aus dem Strang zugeführt werden.As a transfer device, a band transfer can be provided. However, a Punkturzylinder between the additional collecting cylinder and the collecting cylinder has proven to be particularly advantageous. If no additional collecting cylinder should be provided, the Punkturzylinder could also be interposed between the collecting cylinder and the additional cross-cutting device. With this arrangement, another strand can be cut into products and supplied via the transfer device located on the collection cylinder products from the strand.

Die beiden vorzugsweise gleich breiten Bahnstränge, von denen der erste über die Querschneideinrichtung auf den Sammelzylinder geführt wird und der zweite über die Zusatzquerschneideeinrichtung und die Überführungseinrichtung, können dabei wiederum aus mehreren Bedruckstoffbahnen bestehen, wenn der Querschneideinrichtung und der Zusatzquerschneideinrichtung ein entsprechender Trichteraufbau mit entsprechenden Wendestangen vorgeordnet ist. Denkbar wäre aber auch ein Magazinaufbau.The two preferably equally wide web strands, of which the first via the cross-cutting device is guided on the collecting cylinder and the second on the additional cross-cutter and the transfer device, in turn can consist of several substrates where the cross-cutting device and the additional cross-cutting arranged a corresponding funnel structure with corresponding turning bars is. But it would also be conceivable a magazine structure.

Vorteilhaft ist dem Trichterüberbau eine weitere Längsschneidanordnung vorgeordnet, mit der eine Bedruckstoffbahn in auf die Trichter lenkbare Teilbahnen zerteilt wird, um so aus einer einzigen, aus einer Produktion kommenden Bedruckstoffbahn die beiden in den Falzapparat geführten Bahnstränge zu erzeugen. Die aus dem zweiten Bahnstrang erzeugten Druckprodukte können dann dem Zusatzsammelzylinder ein- oder mehrfach gesammelt werden, bevor sie gesammelt auf ein erstes Druckprodukt auf dem Sammelzylinder überführt werden.Advantageously, the funnel superstructure is preceded by a further longitudinal cutting arrangement with which a printing material web is divided into partial webs which can be steered onto the funnels so as to produce the two web strands guided into the folding apparatus from a single printing material web coming from a production. The printed products produced from the second web strand can then be collected one or more times into the additional collecting cylinder before they are transferred in a collected manner to a first printed product on the collecting cylinder.

Sind der Zusatzquerschneideinrichtung zwei Trichter zugeordnet, kann aus einer sechs Seiten breiten Produktion ein Endprodukt mit zwei Broadsheetbüchern zu je vier Seiten und einem Tabloidbuch zu acht Seiten gefertigt werden.If two additional funnels are assigned to the additional cross-cutting device, a six-page wide production can be used to produce a final product with two broadsheet books of four pages each and a tabloid book of eight pages.

Vorteilhafte Weiterbildungen sind Gegenstand der weiteren Unteransprüche.Advantageous developments are the subject of the other dependent claims.

Im Folgenden wird unter Bezugnahme auf die beiliegende Zeichnung eine vorteilhafte Ausführungsform näher erläutert.In the following, an advantageous embodiment will be explained in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Figur 1 zeigt eine schematisierte Seitenansicht einer Ausführungsform eines erfindungsgemäßen Falzapparats. FIG. 1 shows a schematic side view of an embodiment of a folding apparatus according to the invention.

Der Falzapparat ist dabei insgesamt mit 1 bezeichnet, das Basisfalzwerk mit 2, und der übergeordnete Trichterüberbau mit 3. Der Trichterüberbau weist dabei drei Trichter 5, 16, 17 auf, wobei über den Trichter 5 ein Bahnstrang 6 geführt ist, welche über verschiedene, nicht näher bezeichnete Zug- und Umlenkwalzen dem Basisfalzwerk 2 zugeführt wird. Über die Trichter 16 und 17 sind dagegen ebenfalls jeweils ein Bahnstrang 8, 9 geführt, welche aber vor Erreichen des Basisfalzwerkes übereinander gelegt werden und so als aus zwei längs gefalzten, übereinander gelegten Einzelsträngen bestehender Gesamtstrang 7 dem Basisfalzwerk 2 zugeführt werden. Der Trichter 5 weist dabei eine mit einem Scherensymbol angedeutete Längsschneideinrichtung 4 auf seiner Trichterkante auf, mit der der erste Bahnstrang längsgeschnitten wird, so dass im Ergebnis der erster Bahnstrang 6 bei Einlauf in das Basisfalzwerk 2 die gleiche Breite wie der zweite, nicht längsgeschnittene, dafür aber längsgefalzte Bahnstrang 7 aufweist.The folder is designated as a whole with 1, the basic folder with 2, and the parent funnel superstructure with 3. The funnel superstructure has three funnels 5, 16, 17, wherein over the funnel 5, a web track 6 is guided, which on various, not closer train and guide rollers are fed to the Basisfalzwerk 2. On the other hand, via the funnels 16 and 17, in each case a web strand 8, 9 are guided, which are superimposed before reaching the Basisfalzwerkes and so as supplied from two longitudinally folded, single strands of existing total strand 7 the Basisfalzwerk 2. The funnel 5 has a direction indicated by a scissors symbol longitudinal cutting device 4 on its funnel edge, with the first Web strand is cut longitudinally, so that, as a result, the first web strand 6 has the same width as the second, not longitudinally cut, but but longitudinally folded web strand 7 when entering the base folder 2.

Der erste Bahnstrang 6 wird nun auf klassischem Weg über ein Zugwalzenpaar 10 und einen Schneidmesserzylinder 11 einem Sammelzylinder 12 zugeführt und dabei durch die rotierenden Schneidmesser des Schneidmesserzylinders 11, welche gegen entsprechende Gegendruckflächen auf dem Sammelzylinder 12 drücken, in Einzelexemplare zerschnitten. Der zweite Bahnstrang 7 wird dagegen einer nebengeordneten Zusatzfalzeinheit zugeführt, welche eingangs ein Zugwalzenpaar 20 aufweist, zwischen dem der Bahnstrang 7 zu einem als Zusatzquerschneideinrichtung dienenden Zusatzschneidzylinder 21 geführt wird, dessen Schneidmesser wiederum im Zusammenwirken mit entsprechenden Gegendruckflächen auf einem Zusatzsammelzylinder 22 den zweiten Bahnstrang in Einzelexemplare querschneidet. Die Einzelexemplare werden dann auf den als Punkturfalzzylinder ausgebildeten Zusatzsammelzylinder 22 aufgenadelt und je nach gewünschtem Endprodukt gesammelt oder ungesammelt an einen ebenfalls als Punkturfalzzylinder ausgebildeten Übertragungszylinder 26 übergeben, mit welchem die Zusatzquerfalzeinheit mit dem Sammelzylinder 12 in Verbindung steht.The first web strand 6 is now fed to a collecting cylinder 12 in the classical way via a pair of draw rollers 10 and a cutting blade 11 and thereby cut into single copies by the rotating cutting blades of the cutting blade cylinder 11, which press against corresponding counter-pressure surfaces on the collecting cylinder 12. The second web strand 7 is, however, fed to a sibling Zusatzfalzeinheit, which has a pair of Zugwalzenpaar 20, between which the web strand 7 is guided to a serving as Zusatzquerschneideinrichtung additional cutting cylinder 21, the cutting blade in turn in cooperation with corresponding counter-pressure surfaces on a Zusatzsammelzylinder 22 the second web strand in single copies crosswise cuts. The individual copies are then needled on the designed as a Punkturfalzzylinder additional collection cylinder 22 and collected depending on the desired end product or unsorted passed to a likewise formed as Punkturfalzzylinder transfer cylinder 26, with which the Zusatzquerfalzeinheit communicates with the collecting cylinder 12.

Der Sammelzylinder 12 kann dabei ebenfalls als Punkturfalzzylinder ausgebildet sein, so dass auf eine erste Lage ungesammelter, aus dem ersten Bahnstrang 6 geschnittener Einzelexemplare eine weitere Lage gesammelter oder ungesammelter, aus dem zweiten Bahnstrang 7 stammende Einzelexemplare aufgenadelt werden kann.The collecting cylinder 12 can also be formed as a Punkturfalzzylinder so that a further layer of collected or unsorted, originating from the second web strand 7 single copies can be pinned on a first layer of unsorted, cut from the first web strand 6 individual copies.

Die Punkturen des Übergabezylinders 26 sind dabei an gegenüber den Punkturen der beiden Sammelzylinder 12, 22 seitlich versetzt, so dass sie am Druckprodukt wirken an benachbarten Positionen wirken. Während die Punkturen des Übergabezylinders 26 die zweiten Produkte von dem Zusatzsammelzylinder 22 übernehmen, werden gleichzeitig die Punkturen dies Zusatzsammelzylinders 22 zurückgesteuert. Bei der Übergabe an den (Haupt-)Sammelzylinder 12 übernehmen die Punkturen des Sammelzylinders 12 die zweiten Druckprodukte auf die schon aufgenadelten ersten Druckprodukte, während die Punkturen des Übergabezylinders 26 zurückgesteuert werden.The punctures of the transfer cylinder 26 are offset laterally relative to the punctures of the two collecting cylinders 12, 22, so that they act on the printed product act at adjacent positions. While the punctures of the transfer cylinder 26 take over the second products of the additional collection cylinder 22, the punctures this Zusatzsammelzylinders 22 are simultaneously controlled back. When transferring to the (main) collecting cylinder 12, the punctures of the collecting cylinder 12 take over the second printed products on the already imprinted first printed products, while the punctures of the transfer cylinder 26 are controlled back.

Diese übereinander gelegten ersten und zweiten Druckprodukte werden dann bei der Übergabe an einen Falzklappenzylinder 13 gemeinsam quer gefalzt und über ein Schaufelrad 14 an ein Auslageband 15 übergeben, das heißt dem Falzklappenzylinder 13 ist ein Schaufelrad 14 und ein Auslegeband 15 nachgeordnet.These superimposed first and second printed products are then folded transversely together during the transfer to a jaw cylinder 13 and transferred via a paddle wheel 14 to a delivery belt 15, that is, the jaw cylinder 13 is a paddle wheel 14 and a delivery belt 15 downstream.

Man erkennt, dass in Abhängigkeit von der Konfiguration des Trichterüberbaus 3, der Anzahl, Seiten- und Bahnzahl der zugeführten Bahnstränge und davon, ob am Zusatzsammelzylinder 22 ein - oder mehrfach gesammelt oder ungesammelt produziert wird, eine Vielzahl von Produkten erzeugt werden kann, was insbesondere dann günstig ist, wenn die ersten Druckprodukte höchstens halb so groß sind wie die zweiten Druckprodukte, so dass beim gemeinsamen Querfalzen im Zusammenwirken von Sammelzylinder 12 und Falzklappenzylinder 13 ein Endprodukt entsteht, welches ein großformatiges Umschlagsprodukt und eine Einlage in einem kleineren Format enthält, welche aber einen gemeinsamen Querfalz aufweisen. Ein solches Produkt wäre beispielsweise eine Broadsheet-Zeitung mit einer Tabloid-Werbeeinlage oder einem Tabloid-Fernsehheft oder dergleichen.It can be seen that, depending on the configuration of the hopper superstructure 3, the number, side and web number of the supplied web strands and whether one or more collected or unsorted products are produced at the additional collecting cylinder 22, a large number of products can be produced, which is especially true is favorable when the first printed products are at most half as large as the second printed products, so that the common Querfalzen in the interaction of collecting cylinder 12 and jaw cylinder 13, a final product is produced, which contains a large-sized envelope product and a deposit in a smaller format, but which have a common transverse fold. Such a product would be for example a broadsheet newspaper with a tabloid advertising insert or a tabloid television booklet or the like.

Im dargestellten Ausführungsbeispiel sind die beiden längs gefalzten Bahnstränge 8, 9 im Broadsheet-Format und werden auf dem Zusatzsammelzylinder 22 einmal gesammelt, so dass sich insgesamt ein Broadsheet-Produkt mit vier Büchern ergibt, welches jeweils auf ein aus dem ersten Teilstrang 6 geschnittenes erstes Druckprodukt im Tabloid-Format gelegt wird, wenn es mit dem Übertragungszylinder 26 vom Zusatzsammelzylinder 22 auf den Sammelzylinder 12 übertragen wird. Beim gemeinsamen Querfalzen an dem Falzklappenzylinder 13 entsteht somit ein Druckprodukt mit vier Büchern Broadsheet und einem innen liegenden Buch im Tabloid-Format.In the illustrated embodiment, the two longitudinally folded web strands 8, 9 in broadsheet format and are collected once on the additional collection cylinder 22, so that a total of a broadsheet product results in four books, each on a cut from the first sub-strand 6 first printed product is placed in the tabloid format when it is transferred to the transfer cylinder 26 from the additional collecting cylinder 22 to the collecting cylinder 12. When common cross folds on the jaw cylinder 13 thus creates a printed product with four books Broadsheet and an inside book in tabloid format.

Der besondere Vorteil der Erfindung liegt darin, dass die Seitenzahl des Tabloid-Formats unabhängig von der Seitenzahl des Broadsheet-Formats ist und über die Konfiguration des Trichteraufbaus und die Dicke des ersten Bahnstrangs eingestellt werden kann. Die Seiten- und Buchzahl des Broadsheet-Formats kann durch die Produktionsart am Zusatzsammelzylinder eingestellt werden, sowie durch die Dicke und die Anzahl der als zweiter Bahnstrang vereinigten Bedruckstoffbahnen sowie die Trichterkonfiguration eingestellt werden.The particular advantage of the invention is that the page number of the tabloid format is independent of the page number of the broadsheet format and can be adjusted via the configuration of the funnel structure and the thickness of the first web strand. The page and book number of the broadsheet format can be adjusted by the type of production on the additional collection cylinder, as well as by the thickness and the number of webs combined as a second web strand and the hopper configuration can be adjusted.

Abweichungen von der dargestellten Ausführungsform sind somit nicht nur von der Erfindung umfasst, sondern nötig, um verschiedenste Druckprodukte herstellen zu können.Deviations from the illustrated embodiment are therefore not only included in the invention, but necessary in order to produce a wide variety of printed products.

Wenn beispielsweise ein Druckprodukt mit sechs Büchern im Broadsheet-Format und einer Einlage mit einem Buch im Tabloid-Format gewünscht ist, könnte der Zusatzquerfalzeinheit ein weiterer Trichter zugeordnet sein, wohin gegen sich die Seitenzahl der Tabloid-Einlage ebenfalls durch einen weiteren, der Stamm-Falzeinheit 11, 12, 13 zugeordneten Trichter oder das Führen von mehreren Papierbahnen über den Trichter 5 erhöhen ließe. Es wäre auch denkbar, die Trichter 5, 16, 17 verschiebbar auszubilden, um sie wahlweise der Zusatzquerfalzeinheit oder der Stammquerfalzeinheit zuzuordnen.If, for example, a printed product with six books in broadsheet format and one insert with a book in tabloid format is desired, the additional crossfold unit could be assigned an additional hopper, where the number of pages of the tabloid insert is also offset by another, the parent Increase folding unit 11, 12, 13 associated with funnel or leading multiple paper webs over the hopper 5 would let. It would also be conceivable to form the funnels 5, 16, 17 displaceably in order to allocate them either to the additional transverse folding unit or to the master transverse folding unit.

BezugszeichenlisteLIST OF REFERENCE NUMBERS

11
Falzapparatfolding
22
Basisfalzwerkbasic fold
33
Trichteraufbauformer assembly
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LängsschneideinrichtungSlitter
55
erster Trichterfirst funnel
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erster Bahnstrangfirst railway line
77
zweiter Bahnstrangsecond track
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erster Teilstrangfirst substrand
99
zweiter Teilstrangsecond substrand
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Zugwalzenpaarpair of drawing rollers
1111
Schneidzylindercutting cylinder
1212
Sammelzylindercollecting cylinder
1313
Falzklappenzylinderjaw cylinder
1414
Schaufelradpaddle wheel
1515
Auslagebanddelivery belt
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zweiter Trichtersecond funnel
1717
dritter Trichterthird funnel
1818
1919
2020
Zugwalzenpaarpair of drawing rollers
2121
ZusatzschneidzylinderAdditional cutting cylinder
2222
ZusatzsammelzylinderAdditional collection cylinder
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Überführungseinrichtung (PunkturzylinderTransfer device (Puncture cylinder

Claims (15)

  1. A folder (1) for a reel-fed rotary printing press with
    a cross-cutting device (11), such as for example cutting knife cylinder (11) or cutting cylinder pair, a collect cylinder (12) such as for example a pin folding cylinder (12) or gripper folding cylinder, and a folding jaw cylinder (13), wherein a first web strand (6) fed to the cross-cutting device (11) can be cross-cut into first printing products with the cross-cutting device (11) from a first number of substrate webs and the first printing products can be subsequently cross-folded with the collect cylinder (12) and the folding jaw cylinder (13), with an additional cross-cutting device (21), such as for example cutting knife cylinder (21) or cutting cylinder pair, wherein a fed-in second web strand (7) can be cut into second printing products with the additional cross-cutting device (21) from a second number of substrate webs (8, 9), and with a transfer device (26) for transferring onto the collect cylinder (12) the second printing products generated from the second web strand (7), so that a first and a second product each are combined on the collect cylinder (12) and are jointly cross-folded during the transfer to the folding jaw cylinder (13),
    characterized in that the cross-cutting device (11) and the additional cross-cutting device (21) each have at least one former (5, 16. 17) arranged upstream, wherein merely the former (5) assigned to the cross-cutting device (11) is assigned a longitudinal cutting device (4) with a cutting edge aligned with the former fold.
  2. The folder (1) according to Claim 1, characterized in that an additional collect cylinder (22) such as for example a pin folding cylinder (22) or gripper folding cylinder is arranged between the additional cross-cutting device (21) and the transfer device (26).
  3. The folder (1) according to Claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the transfer device (26) on its own or with the additional cross-cutting device (21) and the additional collect cylinder (22) can be engaged with and disengaged from the collect cylinder (12).
  4. The folder according to Claim 3, characterized in that the additional collect cylinder is assigned a further folding jaw cylinder with its own product delivery.
  5. The folder (1) according to any one of the Claims 1 to 4, characterized in that the transfer device (26) is a pin cylinder (26) arranged in between the collect cylinder (12) and the additional collect cylinder (22) or the additional cross-cutting device (21).
  6. The folder (1) according to any one of the Claims 1 to 5, characterized in that the cross-cutting device (11) and the additional cross-cutting device (21) have a former superstructure arranged in front of them (3), which has a longitudinal cutting arrangement arranged upstream, with which a substrate web can be divided into part webs that can be directed onto the formers (5, 16, 17).
  7. The folder according to any one of the preceding Claims, characterized in that the formers, the longitudinal cutting device and/or if applicable the longitudinal cutting arrangement arranged upstream are adjustable in position so that the width of the format of the first printing products and the second printing products is variable.
  8. A folding method, wherein first printing products and second printing products are placed on top of one another and are jointly cross-folded, in that the first and the second printing products are each cross-cut from web strands fed in from two separate cross-cutting directions (11, 21) of a folder (1), more preferably a folder (1) according to any one of the preceding claims, and the placing on top of one another takes place on a collect cylinder (12) charged with the first and the second printing products, characterized in that a first number of first substrate webs, which as first web strand (6) is fed to the cross-cutting device (11), is first guided via formers (5) and longitudinally cut in the middle and a second number of second substrate webs (8, 9), which as second web strand (7) are fed to the additional cross-cutting device (21), is guided via formers (16, 17) beforehand and longitudinally folded in the middle.
  9. The folding method according to Claim 9, characterized in that the first and the second substrate webs (8, 9) are of equal width.
  10. The folding method according to Claim 9 or 10, characterized in that the first printing products are fed to the collect cylinder (12) by direct route via a cross-cutting device (11) assigned to the collect cylinder (12) and the second printing products to the collect cylinder (12) via an additional cross-cutting device (21), an additional collect cylinder (22), and via a transfer device (26) arranged in between the collect cylinder (12) and the additional collect cylinder (22), particularly a pin folding cylinder (26).
  11. The folding method according to Claim 9, 10 or 11, characterized in that the first number of substrate webs placed on top of one another, which is fed to the cross-cutting device (11) as first web strand (6) and the second number of substrate webs (8, 9) which is fed to the additional cross-cutting device (21) as second web strand (7), differ from each other.
  12. The folding method according to any one of the Claims 9 to 12, characterized in that the second printing products are singly or multiply collected on the additional collect cylinder (22) before they are transferred onto a first printing product on the collect cylinder (12).
  13. The folding method according to any one of the Claims 9 to 13, characterized in that the second printing products are in the broadsheet format and the first printing products in the tabloid format.
  14. The folding method according to any one of the Claims 9 to 14, characterized in that for the second printing products two substrate webs are placed on top of each other and the second printing products are singly or multiply collected on the additional collect cylinder (22) so that each end product comprises four large format books and one small format book.
  15. The folding method according to any one of the Claims 9 to 15, characterized in that end products are produced collected with an even-number of broadsheet books, more preferably four broadsheet books, with any, more preferably uneven number of tabloid books, more preferably one tabloid book.
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