Buckle chute folding machine
First Claim
1. A buckle folding machine, comprising:
- a plurality of roller pairs including a first and second roller cooperating to form a sheet intake site for feeding in individual sheets and at least an additional roller cooperating with said second roller to form a folding station;
a folding pocket associated with said folding station, said folding pocket including a paper stop which may be adjusted to a stop surface position to form a stop plane corresponding to a sheet feed length, said stop surface being positionable at a location spaced from a folding pocket intake by a distance for receiving a full length of each sheet in said folding pocket thereby allowing receipt of a plurality of sheets for maintaining a plurality of sheets in said folding pocket;
pushing means for pushing the sheets out of said folding pocket, said pushing means being associated with said folding pocket; and
presettable sheet counting means for determining a number of sheets delivered to said folding pocket and maintained therein and for controlling said pushing means to eject said sheets when a predetermined number of sheets has entered said folding pocket.
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Abstract
A buckle folding machine with one or several folding roller pairs (W1/W2, W2/W3, W3/W4, W4/W5) and one or several folding pockets (T1, T2), which are associated with the individual folding station (F1 through F4) and which each have a paper stop (10, 11/1, 12, 13), which can be set to different feed lengths. To also collect and jointly fold a plurality of sheets of paper (1), at least one folding pocket (T2) is designed for simultaneously receiving a plurality of sheets of paper (1) such that the individual sheets of paper (1) are able to run in automatically up to the paper stop (11/1) over their full length and remain there. A pushing device is provided (3) which performs impulse-like stroke movements by means of a special drive (31) controlled by a presettable sheet counting device (18) or code-reading device (24). These stroke movements cause the sheets of paper collected in this folding pocket (T 2) to be delivered together into the next folding station (F2).
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10 Claims
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1. A buckle folding machine, comprising:
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a plurality of roller pairs including a first and second roller cooperating to form a sheet intake site for feeding in individual sheets and at least an additional roller cooperating with said second roller to form a folding station; a folding pocket associated with said folding station, said folding pocket including a paper stop which may be adjusted to a stop surface position to form a stop plane corresponding to a sheet feed length, said stop surface being positionable at a location spaced from a folding pocket intake by a distance for receiving a full length of each sheet in said folding pocket thereby allowing receipt of a plurality of sheets for maintaining a plurality of sheets in said folding pocket; pushing means for pushing the sheets out of said folding pocket, said pushing means being associated with said folding pocket; and presettable sheet counting means for determining a number of sheets delivered to said folding pocket and maintained therein and for controlling said pushing means to eject said sheets when a predetermined number of sheets has entered said folding pocket. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A buckle folding machine, comprising:
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a plurality of roller pairs including a first and a second roller pairs forming a sheet intake site for feeding in individual sheets, an additional roller cooperating with said second roller to form a folding station and an additional roller pair forming an additional folding station; a folding pocket associated with each of said folding station and said additional folding station, each said folding pocket including a paper stop which may be adjusted to a stop surface position to form a stop plane corresponding to a sheet feed length, at least one said folding pocket including a stop surface which is positionable at a location for receiving a full length of each sheet thereby allowing receipt of a plurality of sheets for maintaining a plurality of sheets in said at least one said folding pocket; pushing means for pushing the sheets out of said at least one said folding pocket, said pushing means being associated with said folding pocket and including an electromagnetic drive; and presettable sheet counting means for counting sheets delivered to said at least one said folding pocket and maintained therein and for controlling said pushing means to eject said sheets when a predetermined number of sheets has entered said at least one said folding pocket.
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Specification