Patent ID: 7661359
Filing Date: 2010-02-16
Classification: B41F

Abstract:
1. A printing press adapted for imprinting a web of material and comprising: a forme cylinder, said forme cylinder having a forme cylinder width and being equipped with printing plates of a number of N pages in width, said number N of pages being a natural number evenly divisible by three, said number N of pages having a combined page width less than said forme cylinder width, said number N of pages, plus one page having a width greater than said forme cylinder width, said printing plates being adapted to print said number of pages on said web of material and having a maximum web width equal to said combined page width; at least one longitudinal web cutting device usable to cut the web of material, having said maximum web width, into at least first and second partial webs of said material, each of said at least first and second partial webs having a partial web width less than said maximum width of said web, one of said partial web widths being two-thirds of said maximum web width; means for placing said at least one longitudinal web cutting device on a boundary between a K a former, at least one of said partial webs being conducted along a web path from said at least one longitudinal web cutting device and through said former for longitudinal folding of said at least one of said partial webs, said former having a former entry direction in an area of said at least one longitudinal web cutting device, said entry area extending transversely to a web running direction; at least first and second turning bars in said web path between said at least one longitudinal web cutting device and said former; and an effective width of one of said at least first and second turning bars, said effective width being at least two-thirds of said maximum web width, said partial web of said width of two-thirds of said maximum web width being directed over this one of said at least first and second turning bars.