Patent ID: 8398063
Filing Date: 2013-03-19
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
1. A folder for a printing press, the folder folding and cutting a plurality of ribbons slit from a web, the folder comprising: the web traveling along a path, the web being slit by a slitter into the plurality of ribbons; a ribbon transport apparatus including a vacuum conveyor belt arranged in a vertical alignment on one edge of the vacuum conveyor belt transporting at least one of the plurality of ribbons in a vertical alignment on one edge of the at least one ribbon and a manifold supporting the vacuum conveyor belt, the vacuum conveyor belt and the manifold arranged to draw the at least one ribbon towards the vacuum conveyor belt via a suction; a former roll for receiving the at least one ribbon downstream of the ribbon transport apparatus; and a former receiving the at least one ribbon from the former roll, the former longitudinally folding the ribbon.