Patent ID: 11878890
Assignee: MUEHLBAUER GMBH & CO. KG
Field: Handling (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 7:
8. A method for folding and recording book documents, with the steps:
conveying unfolded book documents in a main conveying direction;
picking up the book documents conveyed in the main conveying direction with a secondary conveying device and conveying the book documents in a secondary conveying direction and against the secondary conveying direction, the secondary conveying direction running transversely to the main conveying direction;
folding the conveyed book documents with a movement of the book documents in the secondary conveying direction and/or against the secondary conveying direction; and
conveying the folded book documents into a receiving device, which is arranged at a spatial distance from a conveying surface of a main conveying device and/or a conveying surface of the secondary conveying device and is designed to receive folded book documents, with a lifting device, wherein
the lifting device is at least partially retractable in the main conveyor device and/or in the secondary conveyor device, and wherein
the lifting device can be lifted at least partially into the receiving device.