Patent ID: 6139003
Filing Date: 2000-10-31
Classification: B41F,B65H

Abstract:
A method for producing multi-layered newspaper products including an interior tabloid section including:providing at least one longitudinal former;providing at least one longitudinal separating device upstream in a direction of travel of a paper web from said at least one longitudinal former;providing a longitudinal skip slitter and a cooperating former pre-inlet roller in said at least one longitudinal separating device;directing a plurality of paper webs to said longitudinal former;directing at least one of said plurality of paper webs, which at least one of said plurality of paper webs will form said interior tabloid section, to said longitudinal separating device prior to directing said plurality of paper webs to said longitudinal former:forming discontinuous longitudinally extending slits in said interior tabloid section forming at least one of said plurality of paper webs in said longitudinal separating device, each of said longitudinally extending slits being slightly greater than a length of a signature to be formed using said plurality of paper webs;combining said at least one of said plurality of paper webs provided with said discontinuous longitudinally extending slits with said plurality of paper webs prior to said longitudinal former;longitudinally folding said plurality of paper webs in said at least one longitudinal former; andtransversely cutting said longitudinally folded paper webs into a plurality of signatures, said interior tabloid section forming at least one of said plurality of paper webs provided with said discontinuous longitudinally extending slits forming said interior tabloid section in a multi-layered newspaper product produced using said signatures formed by said at least one longitudinal former.