Patent ID: 7329219

Claim:
A folding apparatus in a web-fed rotary printing press for folding signatures cut off from a running web of material comprising: a cutting device; at least one rotating band shaped conveying element; and a cylinder having a signature transport surface for carrying the signatures with the aid of the at least one rotating band-shaped conveying element around the cylinder; the cutting device including a cutting blade arranged on the cylinder and a rotating anvil element interacting with the cutting blade; the rotating band-shaped conveying element being passed around the rotating anvil element and acting as a counter-pressure element for the cutting blade during cutting of the signatures; the band-shaped conveying element being a belt guided in a groove formed on the rotating anvil element, a death of the groove being smaller than a thickness of the band-shaped conveying element; wherein the belt is a toothed belt provided with reinforced sections in regions where the cutting blade interacts with the belt during the cutting operation.