Patent ID: 9555659
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: B41F,B42C,B42D,B65H,Y10T

Claim:
1. An apparatus for producing multi-leaf, folded printed products, the apparatus comprising: a digital printing station producing a material web having at least three printed material-web portions arranged one beside the other in a longitudinal direction of the material web, the material web including: (i) a first material web-strand formed by at least one printed material-web portion, and (ii) a second material web-strand formed by two printed material-web portions; a perforating tool configured to form a perforated folding line between one material web portion and another material-web portion of the material web by applying the perforating tool along a delimitation line between the one material web portion and the another material-web portion; a combining station arranged downstream of the digital printing station, the combining station being configured to combine the first material web-strand and the second material web-strand by folding the first and second material web portions about the perforated folding line, the combining station including: a cross-cutting station arranged downstream of the combining station and receiving the printed material web advanced from the combining station, the cross-cutting station being configured to sever individual subproducts from the interconnected material-web strands by cutting transversely to the advancement direction of the material web; a stacking station downstream of the cross-cutting station and configured to form the individual subproducts into a stack, the stacking station including a device configured to apply an adhesive to the subproducts in the region of a subsequent folding line to connect the subproducts to one another; and a folding station downstream of the stacking station and configured to fold the stacked subproducts about the folding line that coincides with the un-perforated delimitation line.