Patent ID: 7156019

Claim:
A web-fed rotary printing press adapted to produce a product having a plurality of multi-colored imprinted pages in newspaper format from a plurality of full webs comprising: at least first and second printing towers; at least two printing units, through which said plurality of full webs are conducted in a direction of web travel in each of said at least first and second printing towers, each of said printing units including a plurality of cylinders each having a width for printing a full web with six axially side-by-side arranged newspaper pages; a superstructure positioned vertically above said at least first and second printing towers and after, in said direction of web travel, said at least two printing units and aligned with said at least two printing units, and having means for cutting each of said plurality of full webs longitudinally into three partial webs, said partial webs being formed into at least three groups of partial webs; a folding structure, said folding structure including two groups of formers, each of said two groups of formers including three formers, said two groups of formers being vertically offset from each other and being aligned with said at least two printing units in each of said at least first and second printing towers in said direction of web travel from said at least two printing units, and further including at least one group of lead rollers arranged upstream, in said direction of web travel, of said folding structure and adapted for conveying said partial webs; a folding apparatus being located downstream, in said direction of web travel, from said folding structure, and drive motors for driving said printing units, said at least one roller of said folding structure, and said folding apparatus mechanically independent of each other.