Patent ID: 8899567
Filing Date: 2014-12-02
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
1. A section signature accumulating apparatus for manufacturing a plurality of kinds of an at least folding-in-two sections signature with one sheet or a plurality of overlaid sheets, and stacking the plurality of kinds of manufactured section signatures to form and carry out a newspaper form print product, comprising: a preprocessing unit controlled to continuously manufacture N (N is an integer equal to or larger than 2) copies of a leading section signature and then continuously manufacture N copies of at least one kind of a following section signature which is of a different kind of the leading section signature: a first carrying part controlled to receive and carry continuously and sequentially the N copies of the leading section signature and the N copies of the following section signature delivered from the preprocessing unit; N section signature accumulating parts installed side by side at a suitable interval in the same direction as a carrying direction of the section signatures; a classifying/carrying part installed between the first carrying part and the N section signature accumulating parts a second carrying parts; and a control part that controls the classifying/carrying part that the N copies of the leading section signature carried to the classifying/carrying part by the first carrying part are classified and carried to each of the N section signature accumulating parts one copy at a time, and controls the classifying/carrying part such that the N copies of the following section signature subsequently carried to the classifying/carrying part by the first carrying part are classified and carried to each of the N section signature accumulating parts one at a time, wherein each of the section signature accumulating parts is configured to stock the leading section signatures carried by the classifying/carrying part and overlay the following section signatures subsequently carried by the classifying/carrying part on the leading section signatures to form a newspaper form print product where a plurality of kinds of section signatures are stacked, wherein the second carrying part is controlled to carry out N copies of the newspaper form print product discharged from the N section signature accumulating parts, respectively, to the next process, and wherein the control part controls the classifying/carrying part such that the respective leading section signatures and following section signatures are sequentially classified and carried from the section signature accumulating part located at a downstream side in the carrying direction to the section signature accumulating part located at an upstream side.