EP2440377A2

EP2440377A2 - Device for separating individual sections of material according to a certain format, from a strip-like object, and variable folding system comprising linear drives, especially for printing machines

Info

Publication number: EP2440377A2
Application number: EP10726047A
Authority: EP
Inventors: Andreas Baumüller; Fritz Rainer GÖTZ
Original assignee: Baumueller Nuernberg GmbH
Current assignee: Baumueller Nuernberg GmbH
Priority date: 2009-06-08
Filing date: 2010-06-08
Publication date: 2012-04-18
Anticipated expiration: 2030-06-08
Also published as: CN102458781B; DK2532492T3; EP2532492A1; US8960059B2; CN102458781A; ES2431920T3; DK2440377T3; US20140342893A1; EP2532492B1; WO2010142691A3; US20120111163A1; EP2440377B1; WO2010142691A2

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for producing individual material sections, especially sheets of paper, according to a certain format, from a strip-like, for example, printed object (object strip), especially a strip of paper or material, using a cutting means for separating the individual material sections from the object strip and then removing said sections from the cutting means. During the actuation of the cutting means, at least one driving element is engaged with the object strip. Following the cutting process, the driving element is displaced together with the object strip gripped thereby, by means of a controllable linear drive, over a displacement course that is adjusted and/or varied in a controlled manner by the linear drive according to a section format pre-defined for the material section.

Description

Variable folding system with linear drives, especially for printing presses

The invention relates to a method for producing individual, format-appropriate material sections, in particular paper sheets, from a web-like, for example printed object (object web), in particular a paper, cloth, plastic or metal foil web, wherein at least one cutting means is used with separated from the object web, the individual material sections and then removed from the cutting means. In the course of the cutting process or the actuation of the cutting means while at least one driver is brought into engagement with the object web. Furthermore, the invention relates to a corresponding device for separating individual, format-appropriate material sections of a web-like object (object web), wherein a can be brought into operative connection with the object web cutting tool, and one or more transport or conveying means are arranged. The latter are designed to remove the separated material portion after the separation process by the cutting tool. The transport or conveying means comprise at least one driver (4, 6; 20) which is designed to engage and / or to detect the object web (1).

Further, the invention relates to a method for folding a material portion, which may be, for example, a printed paper sheet and in particular has been produced according to the aforementioned manufacturing or separation process. In this case, a folding member is pressed in the region of a Sollfalzlinie against the cut material portion. Furthermore, the invention relates to a corresponding device for folding the material portion with a folding tool, which is engageable in the region of the Sollfalzlinie with the material portion in engagement. For this purpose, the folding tool is associated with a gripper or other driver for interaction. The driver is by means of an adjusting device with the material portion in operative connection settable or solvable by this. Finally, the invention relates to a cutting and folding arrangement for sheet or sheet-like material, such as a printed paper web or printed paper sheet, wherein the aforementioned separating and folding devices are used.

Folders are known, for example for roll offset

Machines from the printing press sector. There is especially the execution as Klappenfalzapparat common. From a former, a strand or object web first passes into a cross cutter, which consists of an example, two-piece cutting blade cylinder, which operates against a three-piece folding blade. The latter is equipped for this purpose with three cutting strips made of elastic, but durable material. The cutting knife is toothed like a saw and performs a punching cut, in which the bow ends therefore also appear toothed after the cut. Characteristic of the Klappenfalzapparat is the type of fold by means of folding blade and jaw. For this purpose act after the cut, for example, a three-piece folding blade cylinder and a two-piece jaw cylinder together. The Klappenfalz arises because at the point of contact of folding blade and jaw cylinder the folding blade cam-controlled emerges from the periphery of the cylinder while a example multi-layered, cut strand package (bows) pushes into the likewise cam-controlled open jaw. The jaw, which consists of a sprung steel strip with counter bar, closes immediately and holds the (folded) product as the cylinder continues. After the folding operation, the jaw opens in turn cam controlled, and in grooves of the cylinder engaging Abstreiferzungen remove the folded product from the cylinder surface and let it fall by gravity and centrifugal force with the Falzrücken leading into a paddle wheel, where the product is braked between the curved blades and designed scaled (see Kipphahn (publisher): Handbook Print Media, Springer Verlag 2000, page 298-300). EP 0 335 190 B1 discloses a folding apparatus with collecting and folding cylinders. In addition to this cylinder, a cutting cylinder and a jaw cylinder are still arranged.

In EP 1 247 757 A1 a sheet-folding device is described with a saddle-shaped folding blade, on which the printed sheets in

Be folded through. The folding sword has a standing, inner

Guide member which cooperates with an outer follower folding member in the form of a circulating conveyor belt for folding the signatures.

DE 29 17 616 C2 describes a folding blade drive having a traveling linear motor. At each stroke of the motor secondary part a folding blade is pressed down and with him a sheet to be folded between two folding rollers with fixed axes of rotation. The two opposite folding rollers transport the folded sheet on. A substantially similar fold arrangement is also disclosed in DE 198 43 872 A1.

DE 10 2008 012 812 A1 describes a folding machine for a printing press. The folding machine includes, among other things, a folding cylinder, a holding cylinder, a conveyor belt section, a chopper folding device, two folding rollers and unloading conveyors. At the periphery of the folding cylinder, two pairs of folding blades are provided at intervals of approximately 180 °. Further, at the periphery of the folding cylinder, a needle device for web conveying and a separating blade for severing the web are provided. The folding cylinder pushes the needles of the needle device onto the top of the web and rotates while holding the web. The chopper folding apparatus includes, among other things, a chopper sword which is vertically reciprocated at a predetermined timing by a looping motion of a chopper arm. DE 100 55 582 A1 describes an apparatus and a method for cutting a web for use in web-fed rotary printing presses. It should be possible to cut a web into signatures of variable section length. For this purpose, the device is provided with a plurality of linearly movable cutting elements for cutting the web in signatures and a plurality of gripper elements which cooperate with the cutting elements. The cutting elements are moved in the signature cutting area in a straight line in the web direction. The signatures are taken and the length of the signatures changed by controlling the distances between the cutting elements. Since the cutting elements and the gripper elements can enter the signature cutting area in a controlled manner, the signature length can be changed by controlling the distance between successive pairs of cutting and gripper elements in the signature cutting area.

DE 200 00 554 U1 describes a cutting press for

Cutting out workpieces from a foil. About a press table a height-adjustable cutting tool is arranged. On both sides of the press table shelves are provided for cut by the cutting tool punched parts. Two cutting tools are rigidly connected to each other and together can be moved transversely so that one tray is covered by a cutting tool when the other cutting tool is located above the press table. This should enable automatic stamped part removal at the highest possible production speed.

DE-840 551 discloses an apparatus for incrementally advancing and periodically cutting a packaging tape in an automatic folding machine. After each cut-off operation and before subsequent advances, the portion of the tape to be cut by the following cut-off operation is automatically returned by an adjustable amount. Furthermore, funds for Execution of a control movement of constant amplitude and a loop-shaped slide rail provided whose position is arbitrarily adjustable during operation. In the slide a shoe is arranged to perform reciprocating movements in the slide rail. This shoe transmits a component of the reciprocation to organs which engage the band for its return.

DE 101 33 213 A1 describes a separating device for plate-shaped components. The separating device has a table-like shape. In the table top a pivotable about its vertical axis turntable is embedded, which has a cutting gap, so that the acting from above and from below on the plate-shaped member to be separated cutting and breaking tools along the cutting gap perform a longitudinal movement. This should also allow an oblique to the transport direction of the component running section. The plate-shaped components are moved on an air cushion floating over the table surface.

Especially in rotationally driven folders with rotating Schneidmesser-, Falzmesser- and jaw cylinders resulting from the determination of the scope of the folding blade a determination on a specific, integer multiple of the folding format to be produced (section length). In particular, the folding blade cylinder and the cutting blade cylinder are realized as rotating components with fixed circumferential ratios. These are aligned with the associated jaw cylinder to a print format. The folding format or the section length, which is determined according to the distance of the cutting tools on the circumference of the cutting cylinder, so it is fixed once for the press once and then can not be changed.

In contrast, the specified in claim 1 manufacturing process format-appropriate material sections with the appropriate, specified in claim 12 separating device and in the Claim 7 specified folding method with the corresponding folding device according to claim 21 proposed. In claim 27, an arrangement with a combination according to the invention of the severing or cutting device is defined with the folding device. Optional, preferred embodiments and embodiments of the invention will become apparent from the dependent claims.

The prior art design with cylinders whose circumference and arrangement of the tools set the editable format on peripheral portions is replaced by an array of tools and tool carriers on linear guides and cross tables. These lie according to a preferred embodiment in pairs opposite each other and are each arranged next to the material web / object web. So their mutual, especially alternating action on the web is possible. On the basis of the optional use of multi-linear guides integrated in cross tables, arcuate movements can also be realized for the tool carriers. These can be synchronized in sections with the transport speed of the material web.

By in the context of the invention, the coupling of a peripheral speed of a cylinder, such as cutting blade or folding blade, is resolved to the transport speed of a web, any variable section lengths or fold formats can be realized. This is made possible by the free movement control of the tools that are currently not in contact with the material web (for example, cutting knives, grippers or point needles) as well as their carriers and drive systems.

In the application of printing presses that can be edited

Object be taken from a known funnel apparatus. At the end of the severing and folding process, the folded products can be routed in the usual way to a paddle wheel or a belt delivery. With the invention thus allows a flexibility of the folding system or -apparates without any changes to upstream or downstream parts of the system are required.

The separating and folding arrangement according to the invention is suitable for any materials, especially those that can be transported only by applying a tensile force (for example, paper, fabric, films).

The solution according to the invention is characterized in particular by the following aspects:

The provided for acting on the object web, according to the invention linearly guided tool elements are arranged in pairs, along and on both sides of this object path. This will be a reciprocal

Intervention, for example in push-pull, the tool elements on the

Object path allows. Only during the period of intervention in the

Object or material web, the relevant tool element must be moved synchronously to this. Also the linear guides for the folding blades and

Jaw grippers are located on the left and right or on both sides of the

(already cut) material section.

The drive system of the folding system according to the invention is realized essentially by linear drives. The corresponding linear axes or guides can be superposed on each other via several linear drives. As a result, curve-like movements or curved trajectories can be realized in one plane (according to the type of cross tables known per se). By superimposing, for example, two linear movements, a tool which is carried and guided in a two-axis guidance system, for example a cross table, executes any, even curved, curved movement path in a plane. There are sections of the movement path in which the tool held on the cross table should be in engagement with the material web. On these sections The tools must move synchronously to the transport direction of the material or object path, otherwise they will tear them apart. On tracks without intervention, the tools can move asynchronously, since they are moved, for example, counter to the transport direction of the material or object web.

In the context of the invention, the tools for processing the object web or the separated material section are variably positioned by means of the linear drives with replacement of the cutting blade and folding blade. The latter carry, for example, a cutting blade and the corresponding counter element, the cutting bar. The cut products (material section) are guided between parallel linear drives, for example with puncturing needles. When replacing the folding blade cylinder and the other folding rollers according to the invention by gripper or other tool elements on linearly guided tool carriers even arcuate paths can be realized in sections synchronously to the material web or the material section using the cross table principle.

The Schneidmesser-, Falzmesser- and Falzklappenzylinder used in per se known folders, the invention is replaced by an arrangement with multiple linear drives. In particular, if these are provided with sliding carriage, can be realized by variable control different motion profiles, from which different section lengths or variable Falzformate can be derived. On the basis of the invention, the motion control for the object path or material section tools takes place independently of the object path, if they are not in engagement with the object path. This can be exploited to achieve flexibility and variability. Compared with the prior art, the following advantages can be achieved with the invention:

The folding format or the section length can be adjusted flexibly according to the user requirements. The section length can be even with ongoing production change and in a wide range even customize.

With the replacement of the cylinder by linear drives a reduction of the moving masses and thus a faster machine downtime is achieved. The security level is thus increased. In the case of a web break or web break (i.e., the object web is intentionally severed by separate elements in front of the folder), the linearly moving tool web engaging tool elements can be quickly opened and released from the object web. This reduces the amount of waste produced.

The generally used according to the invention

Movement principle is the synchronized, alternating holding and pulling the object web. The retention can be realized by puncturing needles, vacuum chambers, electrostatic membrane converters or even adhesive elements.

For carrying and guiding the object path tools and

-Using elements can be multi-axis drive and / or guide systems, especially cross tables, use with several combined linear axes or - guides. These run at an angle to each other, preferably 90 °, so that the plane of movement of the relevant, carried on the example cross table tool element is perpendicular to the plane which is defined by the transport direction of the material or object web and its width. The guided by multi-axis drive and / or guide systems tool elements can perform arcuate movements. Suitably, these systems, such as cross tables, arranged in pairs on both sides of the object path and can perform movements both synchronously and asynchronously to the object trajectory. A further preferred embodiment is that the multi-axis drive and / or guide systems, such as cross tables, are connected to their respective longer axis fixed to the frame. This can be the dynamic stresses that occur due to movement of the other axle and the tool parts carried thereon, as well as to minimize the inertial forces to be overcome.

In order to provide a coupling element between an active surface of the object web tool and the cross table or other multi-axis tool

To achieve guidance system are according to an optional invention example

Last arranged as support elements or other linear tool holders. Above this, e.g. Pointing needles or cutting or

Gripping elements each extend over the entire width of the material or object web. In the prior art, these strips are the respective ones

Tool holders on the tool-carrying cylinders of the folder.

In the context of the folding system according to the invention, a folding system control is provided which simultaneously controls the movements of all interacting in the folder axes and has an interface to another higher-level control system of an entire system or machine, for example, higher-level printing machine. Through the interface, a data communication between the folding system control and the higher-level machine control can be established. As a guide, for example, the location of marks on the object web, which may be real (printed) or virtual, ie data technology implemented by software markers used. The term "virtual marking" comes from the context of the virtual leading axis known per se in modern printing presses, ie means a position marker that indicates the location of the web at a specific time and then from there via the location-time functions or the associated first three derivatives (speed, acceleration and jerk) of the local positions of the individual drives are determined. In the process, this marker becomes a plastic mark on the material web can, at regular intervals and renewed if necessary corrections calculated.

In the context of an optional invention training, the motion profile of the linear guides or linear axes with ramped inlets and outlets to bring about Aufsynchronisierens on the position and speed of the object web is influenced. Thus, a so-called "hacking" of the object web tools into the material web or object web can be prevented The web movement variables (web travel, web speed, web acceleration and web pressure) of the linear axes and guides are selected such that a so-called "flying" positioning of the tools is made possible to the web, so an asynchronous approach of a tool to the web. From the engagement of the tool in the Materialbzw. Object path is the tool movement with the movement of Materialbzw. Operate object track synchronized.

For the linear and XY table axes are preferably

Servo linear drives are used. However, within the scope of the invention, ball-roller, roller-screw, threaded-spindle, spindle, rack-pinion, toothed-belt drives or even pneumatic or hydraulic drives would be practicable.

In order to prevent the collision of a specimen trajectory tool with an adjacent specimen trajectory tool, an optional embodiment is provided in a movement section "place creation." This means the traversing movement of a tool and tool carrier in order to avoid an adjacent tool.

Further details, features, advantages and effects,

Feature combinations and feature subcombinations based on the invention will become more apparent from the following description Embodiments of the invention and the drawings. These show in each case a schematic side view in

Figure 1 shows the Gesamtfalzsystem with arranged in series separation device and subsequent folding device

Figure 2: an alternative embodiment of the separating device.

According to Figure 1, a material or object web 1, for example, printing material, the folder or system according to the invention is supplied in a transport direction A. On both sides of the object web 1 cutting means 5, 7 are arranged in the transport direction A first, each of a fixedly supported lifting magnet 2 in a transverse direction Q transversely to the object web transport direction A with a predetermined movement stroke linearly back and forth are displaced. The cutting means 5, 7 comprise a cutting tool carrier 5 and one in the direction of the object web 1 projecting cutting blade 7. The mutual cutting means 5, 7 are arranged and driven along a linear guide axis y parallel to the transverse direction Q, alternately with the object web 1 this cutting to be brought into engagement in order to repeatedly cut and / or regularly cut off sheets or material sections 11 cut therefrom in a predetermined section length (folding format).

Further, on each side of the object web 1 or the cut material sections 11 or arcs per a driver device 4, 6 are arranged. The entrainment device comprises at least one puncturing needle 6 projecting toward the object web 1 and at least one cutting bar 8, which is assigned as counter element to the aforementioned cutting blade 7. For this purpose, the cutting bar 8 can be formed elastically pressed by the cutting blade tip. The respective drivers 4, 6 are on a two-axis linear drive 2, 10, 9 in the manner of a cross table both along the object web 1 or cut sheets 11 and Material sections (linear guide axis x) and perpendicular thereto (linear guide axis y) adjustable. The two adjustment axes x, y are preferably located according to the cross table principle in a common plane and perpendicular to each other. The linear guide axis y perpendicular to the object web 1 or the cut sheet or material section 11 is realized by a solenoid 2 as the first linear drive. This adjusts the carrier 4 for the puncturing needle 6 and the cutting bar 8 with a predetermined movement stroke in such a way that the puncturing needle 6 can pierce the object lane and carry it along in the direction of the linear guide axis x along the object lane 1 or the material section 11. At the time of actuation of the cutting blade 7, the cutting bar 8 is available as a counterhold for the tip of the cutting blade 7, which separates the material sections or sheets 11 by means of adjustment by the lifting magnet 2.

To realize the driving function is parallel to the transport direction A extending linear guide axis x, along which a

Carriage 10 controlled in a guide bed of a linear motor 9 back and forth is movable. In this carriage 10 in turn is said solenoid 2 for

Realization of the linear guide axis y perpendicular to the transport direction A.

(parallel to the above-mentioned transverse direction Q) controlled slidably mounted. About the linear guide axis y can the cutting bar 8 in the opposite cutting blade 7 associated position and the

Pointing needle 6 in engagement with the object web 1 or the truncated

Take material section 11. By means of the linear guide axis x parallel to

Transport direction A, the puncturing needle 6 can be actuated to carry away the cut material portion 11 of the cutting means 5, 7.

The double-sided two-axis linear drives 2, 10, 9 is a

Roller pair 13, 14 arranged downstream. Between the two rollers 13, 14 of the cut material portion is guided, with the respective driver 4, 6 can solve this. One of the two rollers is as a tension roller thirteenth trained and preferably driven by a servomotor with angle encoder. The second roller operates as a guide roller 14 and is linearly adjustable via a correspondingly adapted lifting magnet 3. The adjustment stroke runs in a linear guide axis y perpendicular to the transport direction A. Thus, the cut material portion 11 can be firmly grasped and guided in the pair of rollers. The roller pair 13, 14 is still a light sensor 15, for example, a light barrier downstream. This is designed to detect an initial edge of the cut sheet or material section 11 and deliver a corresponding output signal to a controller. If this control links this light sensor signal with the angular position value output by the angular position sensor of the servo drive of the tension roller 13, the controller can determine the position of the material section 11 and influence or readjust it by changing the speed or acceleration, for example.

Subordinate to the light barrier sensor are pneumatic

Suction and blowing elements 16 and 17, which serve to hold and guide the material section 11 for subsequent folding by means of the folding blade 18 in a conventional manner. The latter is in turn displaceable via a linear drive in the form of a solenoid 2 in the transverse direction Q perpendicular to the transport direction A with a predetermined stroke. The displacement corresponds to the above-mentioned linear guide axis y. The displacement stroke of the folding blade 18 is dimensioned and aligned such that the folding blade tip between two guide strips 19 abuts the cut material section 11 in the region of a Sollfalzlinie in the receptacle of a gripper 20 into it. The latter can be actuated by a gripper actuator 21 for opening and closing. The gripper actuator 21 is mounted on a carriage 10 which is mounted according to the linear guide axis y and transverse direction Q perpendicular to the transport direction A in a linear motor 9 adjustable. The latter is fixedly supported. The gripper 20 is a sheet delivery 22 downstream. By opening the gripper 20 by means of its actuator 21, the folded sheet 12 can fall on the sheet delivery 22 and be transported away.

For the movement sequence of the overall arrangement according to FIG. 1, the following is also executed:

According to the position shown in Figure 1 are located just with respect to the transport direction A left of the object web 1 located cutting means 5, 7 and the right of the object path 1 located driver 4, 6 respectively engaged with the object path. Complementary to this, the cutting blade carrier 5 with the cutting blade 7 has been retracted so that there is sufficient space for the right-hand driver 4, 6 in the case of the right-hand cutting means 5, 7. Conversely, the linksbefindliche cutting means 5, 7 is extended by the associated lifting magnet 2, while the left befindlichem two-axis linear drive 10, 9, 2 so far removed from the left-hand driver 4, 6 of the cutting point that the cutting process by the left-hand cutting means 5, 7 not disturbed. If the severing of the material section 11 from the continuous object web 1 is completed, the left-hand cutting means 5, 7 are again moved away or retracted by the associated lifting magnet 2 in the transverse direction Q, while the driver 4, 6 still in engagement with the severed material section 11 the right side is moved by means of its associated Zweiachs- linear drive 9, 10, 2 of the cutting point in the direction of the actual folding station. Thus, alternately the left-hand cutting means 5, 7 and the right-hand driver 4, 6 on the one hand and the right-hand cutting means 5, 7 and the left-hand driver 4, 6 on the other hand with the material to be machined (object web 1, material portion 11) into engagement. Each push-pull the two-sided Zweiachs- ensure linear drives 10, 9, 2 for the opposite-phase method of the associated driver 4, 6 and the two-sided cutting means lifting magnets 2 for the out of phase extension or retraction of the cutting means 5, 7, which is coordinated by a folding control.

In the course of further transport of the cut material sections 11 via the pair of rollers 13, 14 of the material section 11 enters the region of the folding blade 18 with associated, open and foldable gripper 20. This transport movement can be specifically by means of the tension roller 13 with extended by Lifting magnet 3 brought in plant guide roller 14 in operative connection with the light sensor 15 control, with the position of the material sections 11 can be calculated based on the output signals of the light sensor 15 and integrated in the servo drive of the draw roller 13 angle encoder in the controller and taken into account. As a result, when the material portion 11 is pushed by the folding blade 18 in the gripper 20, so coordinated the hitherto applied guide roller 14 by means of the corresponding controlled lifting magnet 3 retract, so that sufficient material for the generation of the signature is free.

The embodiment of Figure 2 differs from that of Figure 1 on the one hand by the special design of the cutting blade 7 by the blade shaft expires via a curved guide shoulder 24 in a pointed cutting edge 23. On the other hand, the puncturing needle according to FIG. 1 is replaced by a gripper 26 which can be opened and closed and which is designed to detect the starting edge of the separated material section of the object web 1 which has been bent out by means of the cutting edge 23 and the curved guide shoulder 24 of the cutting blade 7. To open and close the gripper 26 in turn serves a gripper actuator 21, which may be the gripper actuator of the folding blade associated gripper 20 of Figure 1 similar. Incidentally, the above statements on FIG. 1 apply here accordingly. LIST OF REFERENCE NUMBERS

A movement direction of the printing material web, transport direction

Q transverse direction x linear guide axis y linear guide axis

1 printing material web

2 lifting magnet

3 lifting magnet 4 carriers! Pointing needles and cutting bar

5 carrier f. cutting blade

6 point needles

7 cutting blades

8 cutting bar 9 linear motor (LIM with long stator)

10 sleds

11 cut bow

12 folded bow

13 Pull roller (servo-driven with angle encoder) 14 Guide roller

15 photocell f. Detection d. Initially bow

16 intake

17 blowing element

18 folding blade 19 guide strip

20 grippers

21 gripper actuator

22 sheet delivery

23 cutting edge 24 guiding shoulder

25 led tail / led bow start

26 grippers

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Claims

claims

1. A method for producing individual, format-appropriate material sections (11), in particular paper sheets, from a web-like, for example printed object (object web (1)), in particular paper or fabric web, using a cutting means (5,7), with the Object web (1) the individual material portions (11) separated and then by the cutting means (5,7), are removed, wherein in the course of actuation of the cutting means (5,7) at least one driver (4,6; 20; 26) with the Object track (1) is brought into engagement, characterized in that after the cutting operation by means of a controllable linear drive (9) of the driver (4,6; 20) is moved with the object track (1, 25) detected by him with a movement stroke, the in the case of the linear drive (9), control technology sets and / or varies in accordance with a section format predetermined for the material section (11).

2. The method according to claim 1, characterized by the use of two drivers (4,6; 26) arranged on both sides of the object web (1) or of the separated material portion (11) and by means of a respective linear drive (9) corresponding to the predetermined section format be moved, the two linear actuators control technology to move in a push-pull procedure to each other and / or for the exercise of oppositely set and / or out of phase movement strokes for the drivers (4,6; 20) are set.

3. The method according to claim 2, characterized in that the two-sided drivers are alternately and / or mutually brought into engagement with the object web (1, 25).

4. The method according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the one or more drivers (4,6; 20) in the course of Cutting process are adjusted transversely to the longitudinal direction of the object web (1).

5. The method according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the driver (4,6) is used to remove the separated material portion (11) from the cutting means (5,7).

6. The method according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the displacement of the or the driver (4,6; 26) by means of the linear drive (9) in at least two directions (x, y) or via a superposition of multiple linear axes (x, y).

7. A method for folding a material section (11), for example, printed paper sheet, in particular produced according to one of the preceding claims, wherein a folding member (18) in the region of

Sollfalzlinie is pressed against the material portion (11), characterized in that in the course of pressing the folding means (18) of completely or partially folded material portion (12) is brought into engagement with a gripper (20) or other driver, which then by means of a controllable linear drive (9) with adjustable and / or variable

Moving stroke away from the folding member (18) and a delivery (22) or other transport or processing station is provided.

8. The method according to claim 7, characterized in that the driver movement is regularly or constantly reversed.

9. The method according to claim 7 or 8, characterized in that the folding means (18) and / or the driver (20) via a controllable actuator (2) and / or the driving linear drive (9) in each case depending on signals from a sensor (13,15) are actuated, which one

Capture conveying or transport position of the material section (11) to be folded.

10. The method according to any one of claims 7 to 9, wherein in a collective production a plurality of consecutively following material sections (11) congruent placed on each other and provided with mutually congruous folding edges, characterized in that at each subsequent material section (11) the folding means ( 18) for pressing and the driver (20) to a respectively renewed Grasp now a stack of several, with congruent folded edges abutting material sections (12) are actuated, and from a predetermined number folded and the driver (20) gefasst

Material sections of the driving linear drive (9) for removing the driver (20) with the stack of nested material sections (12) is controlled by the folding means (18).

11. The method according to claim 10, characterized in that in collecting production already folded, detected by the driver and held material sections (12) are brought into operative connection with a material adjustment device (16,17) to subsequent, still to be folded material sections (11). To provide access to the folding means (18) with associated driver (20).

12. Device for separating individual, format-appropriate material sections (11), in particular paper sheets, from a web-like, for example printed object (object web (1)), in particular paper or fabric web, suitable for carrying out the method according to one of claims 1 -

11, with a cutting tool (5, 7, 23) which can be brought into operative connection with the object web (1), and with one or more conveying or conveying means which are or are required for removing the separated material portion (11) after the cutting operation by the cutting tool (11). 5,7,23) are formed, wherein the transport or

Conveying means comprise at least one driver (4,6; 20), which is designed for engagement with and / or for detecting the object web (1) characterized in that the driver (4, 6, 20) is mounted on a linear motor (9) reciprocable carriage (10), wherein a control of the linear motor (9) program and / or circuit technology is set up to exercise movement strokes corresponding to one for the material portion (11) predetermined

Section set and / or are varied, and the operation of the driver and the linear motor and with the cutting tool (5,7,8) is synchronized control technology.

13. The apparatus according to claim 12, characterized by the arrangement of two drivers (4,6) on both sides of the object web (1) or of the separated material section (11), wherein each driver (4,6; 20) to its displacement in accordance with the section format on a movable carriage (10) each one of two linear motors (9) is mounted, which are provided with a control, the program and / or circuitry for driving the linear motors in a push-pull process to each other with exercise of opposing opposite and / or opposite-phase movement strokes for the drivers (4,6,20) is set up.

14. The apparatus of claim 12 or 13, characterized in that the driver on the linear motor carriage (10) via an actuating device, for example, lifting magnet (2), is mounted, by means of which the driver (4,6; 20) transversely to the longitudinal direction of Object path (1) and / or the separated material portion (11) is adjustable.

15. Device according to one of claims 12 to 14, characterized in that the driver (4,6; 26) with a linear drive system (9,10,2) with a plurality of superimposed linear guide axes (x, y) arch for execution or curved tracks or movements coupled and / or guided.

16. Device according to one of claims 12 to 15, characterized in that the driver (4,6; 26) coupled to an XY or cross table for executing arcuate or curved tracks or movements and / or guided.

17. The apparatus according to claim 16, characterized in that one of the cross table (9,10,2) for the or the driver (4,6) defined movement plane is arranged perpendicular to the plane passing through the object web (1) and the transport direction (A) is defined.

18. The apparatus of claim 16 or 17, characterized in that the cross table (9,10,2) or two on both sides of the object web (1) arranged cross tables (9,10,2) each have different lengths linear guides or linear axes, of which each longer is firmly connected to a machine frame or foundation.

19. Device according to one of claims 12 to 18, characterized in that the cutting tool (5,7) is associated with a complementary cutting counter-tool (8), for example cutting counter strip (8), between which guided the object web (1) and to the

Material sections (11) is cut.

20. The apparatus according to claim 19, characterized in that the cutting counter-tool (8) together with the driver (4,6; 20) on the linear motor carriage (9) is mounted.

21. A device for folding a material section (11), for example, printed paper sheet, suitable for carrying out the method according to any one of claims 7 - 11, with a folding tool (18) in the region of a Sollfalzlinie with the material portion (1 1) engageable is, wherein the folding tool (18) is associated with a gripper or other driver (20) for cooperation, by means of an adjusting device (21). with the material portion (11) can be set in operative connection or detachable from this, characterized in that the driver (20) by means of a by a linear drive (9) movable carriage from the folding tool (18) is detachable and / or removable.

22. The apparatus according to claim 21, characterized in that the linear drive (9) is controllable with a movement stroke, depending on a size of a stack of folded and the driver (20) detected material portions (12) and / or the removal of a delivery ( 22) or other transport or processing station is adjustable and / or variable.

23. The apparatus of claim 21 or 22, characterized in that the entrainment actuating device (21) with an adjusting device (2) of the folding tool (18), for example, lifting magnet (2), and / or with a predetermined position of the linear drive (9) syncable or synchronized.

24. Device according to one of claims 21 - 23, characterized in that in a transport or conveying direction (A) of the cut

Material section (11) the folding tool (18) and / or the driver (20) a material adjusting device (16,17), for example, blowing and / or suction (16, 17), such upstream and aligned, that the adjusting a Offset of an already folded and taken from the driver (20) material portion of a transport path of a subsequent, still to be folded material section (11) causes.

25. The apparatus according to claim 24, characterized in that the blowing and / or suction (16, 17) or the other material adjusting means are arranged laterally of the transport path.

26. Device according to one of claims 21 to 25, characterized the respective linear guides of the folding tool (18) and the driver (20) extend on both sides of the material section (11) and / or perpendicularly thereto.

27. An arrangement for cutting and folding sheet and sheet-like material, such as a printed paper web or printed paper sheet, with a separating device according to any one of claims 12 - 20 and with a folding device according to one of claims 21 - 26, characterized in that the separating device and the

Folding device are arranged as successive processing stations in a series arrangement in or along a material movement direction (A).

28. Arrangement according to claim 27, characterized in that the material movement direction (A) from the severing device to the folding device rectilinear and / or parallel to the one or more strokes of the linear motor carriage runs, with which the hurrying end of the not yet cut Object track (1) associated driver (4,6; 20) are coupled.

29. Arrangement according to claim 27 or 28, characterized in that a proximity sensor, for example, light barrier (15) arranged between the separating device and the folding device, while a leading or trailing end edge of the cut material portion

(11) is aligned and connected on the output side to a control input of the driver actuating device (21) and / or another drive control.

30. An arrangement according to claim 29, characterized in that the drive control for coordinating the one or more linear drives (9) and / or the adjusting means (2) for the cutting tool (5,7; 23) the separating device and / or the linear drive (9) and / or the adjusting devices (2,21) for the folding tool (18) and the driver (20) of the folding device is formed.

31. Arrangement according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that a pulling device for conveying a cut material portion (11) is arranged by the separating device in the folding device.

32. An arrangement according to claim 31, characterized in that the pulling device comprises two opposite draw rollers (13,14), of which the first (13) is driven by a servomotor with angle encoder, and the second (14) via an actuator (3). to co-operate with the first displaceable or adjustable and released again

33. Arrangement according to claim 32, characterized in that the output signal of the angle encoder is fed to a higher-level drive control for coordinating drives for further processing.

34. Arrangement according to claims 31, 32 or 33, characterized in that the movement strokes of the one or more linear motors (9) and / or of the carriage (10) with drivers (4,6; 20) are sized in the separating device in that the section of material (11) covered thereby reaches the catchment area of the

Pulling device, in particular in the Eingangszwickel the two opposite draw rollers (13,14) passes.

35. Arrangement according to one of claims 27 to 34, characterized by a superordinate drive control for a coordination and / or simultaneous control of drives of the separating device and / or the folding device, wherein processed as a control-Leitgröße signals which represent the location of marks on the object web (1).

36. Arrangement according to claim 35, characterized in that in the higher-level drive control a synchronization of the

Movements of the cutting and / or folding tools (7,18) and / or driver (6,20) via their respective linear drives (9) is implemented with respect to object path markings.