Patent ID: 7569010
Filing Date: 2009-08-04
Classification: B41F,B65H

Abstract:
1. A folding machine for a web-fed printing press, having a cutting blade cylinder ( 11 ), a folding blade cylinder ( 12 ) and a folding jaw cylinder ( 13 ), wherein exemplars ( 34 ) are cut off from a web of a substrate ( 14 ) by the cutting blade cylinder ( 11 ), the cut exemplars ( 34 ) held by the folding blade cylinder ( 12 ) and conveyed further in a direction of the folding jaw cylinder ( 13 ), and in a collecting mode of the folding machine, several exemplars ( 34 ) are collectable on the folding blade cylinder ( 12 ) such that at least two exemplars ( 34 ) of different sheet lengths cut off by the cutting blade cylinder ( 11 ) are superimposed one above the other on the folding blade cylinder ( 12 ) and sent to the folding jaw cylinder ( 13 ) as collected exemplars ( 34 ), wherein the cutting blade cylinder ( 11 ) has at least one cutting blade ( 18 ), and wherein: a) a separate drive ( b) a control unit assigned to the drive (