Patent ID: 7883455

Claim:
Folding apparatus with a folding blade cylinder ( 11 ) and a folding jaw cylinder ( 16 ), wherein the folding jaw cylinder ( 16 ) and the folding blade cylinder ( 11 ) are each equipped with a plurality of holding devices ( 17 ; 12 ) in the circumferential direction, wherein the holding devices ( 17 ; 12 ) can be moved between a released position, for receiving and releasing a leading edge of a product, and a holding position, in which the leading edge is held on the holding device ( 17 ; 12 ), wherein the folding jaw cylinder ( 16 ) also has a folding jaw ( 19 ) for each of its holding devices ( 17 ), and the folding blade cylinder ( 11 ) has a folding blade ( 18 ) for each of its holding devices ( 12 ) for the purpose of pressing a product that is being held by the holding device ( 12 ) allocated to the folding blade ( 18 ) into one of the fording jaws ( 19 ) as it passes through a transfer gap ( 14 ) between folding blade cylinder ( 11 ) and folding jaw cylinder ( 16 ), and wherein the distance between each folding blade ( 18 ) and its allocated holding device ( 12 ) on the fording blade cylinder ( 11 ) can be adjusted, wherein the distance between a holding device ( 17 ) of the folding jaw cylinder ( 16 ) and a folding jaw ( 19 ) that follows behind this holding device ( 17 ) on the circumference of the folding jaw cylinder ( 16 ) is fixed, characterized in that the distance between a holding device ( 17 ) of the fording jaw cylinder ( 16 ) and a folding jaw ( 19 ) that follows behind this holding device ( 17 ) on the circumference of the folding jaw cylinder ( 16 ) is smaller than the maximum distance between one of the holding devices ( 12 ) on the circumference of the folding blade cylinder ( 11 ) and the folding blade ( 18 ) that follows behind this holding device ( 12 ).