Patent ID: 6132121
Filing Date: 2000-10-17
Classification: B41J,B65H

Abstract:
A document-printing arrangement comprising a paper path having at least a paper transport means for transporting a continuous paper web, said transport means being driven by a first electrical motor, a printing station having a second electrical motor being positioned along the paper path downstream of the transport means, a light barrier responding to a leading edge of the continuous paper web being arranged in the paper path downstream of the printing station, a cutting arrangement for cutting individual documents from the continuous web being arranged downstream from the light barrier and including a third electrical motor and a document collection station for the documents which have been cut off, said document collection station comprising a drum being rotated by a fourth electrical motor and having an outer surface having clamping elements which are displaceable between a clamping position, resting on the outer surface and a raised, released position independent of the fourth electrical motor of the drum, a document being able to run under the raised clamped elements at a transfer position at a specific first angular position of the drum relative to the paper path, said drum having a rest position being at a second angular position which, as viewed in the direction of rotation of the drum, is set back by a prescribable angular dimension with respect to the first angular position when the leading edge of the continuous web is detected, so that when the leading edge of the continuous paper web is detected, said drum is accelerated so that at a moment when the leading edge of the continuous web runs into the transfer position, the drum has reached the first angular position and a circumferential speed of the drum corresponds to the transport speed of the paper transport means.