Patent ID: 8425392

Claim:
A Berliner broadsheet newspaper printing press comprising: at least one print unit printing at least one web of material; a folder having: a cross-cutter to cut the web of material into Berliner broadsheet newspapers, a tucker cylinder having a gripper gripping the Berliner broadsheet newspapers at a lead edge and a tucking blade for forming a cross-fold in the Berliner broadsheet newspapers, and a jaw cylinder or folding rollers to receive the cross-folded Berliner broadsheet newspapers from the tucker cylinder at the cross-fold, the gripper being located with respect to the tucking blade so that the cross-fold is located approximately 8 inches or 10.5 inches from an edge of the Berliner broadsheet newspaper so as to create a Berliner broadsheet newspaper having one side with a height of at least approximately 10.5 inches a servomotor connected to the jaw cylinder or tucking cylinder or grippers and to a controller, the controller controlling the phasing of the jaw cylinder, tucking cylinder or gripper via the servomotor, the gripper being offset from the tucking blade by about 78 degrees.