Patent ID: 7802780

Claim:
A method of inserting flat articles ( 20 ) into continuously conveyed printed products ( 3 ) having a fold or spine edge, comprising the steps of: holding the printed products ( 3 ) by a gripper ( 11 ) at their fold or spine edge; conveying the printed products ( 3 ) to a supply point ( 5 ) and away from the supply point, wherein the printed products ( 3 ) are conveyed past the supply point ( 5 ) in an open state, each with a separated leading and trailing part ( 31 and 32 ), and the grippers ( 11 ) are temporarily opened in the region of the supply point ( 5 ), and supplying the flat articles ( 20 ) to the supply point ( 5 ), and inserting the flat articles ( 20 ) into the open printed products ( 3 ) and gripping the flat articles together with the printed products by the re-closed grippers ( 11 ), wherein the supply point ( 5 ) is located in a region in which the grippers ( 11 ) are deflected by being conveyed around an essentially horizontal deflection axis ( 2 ), around which the grippers ( 11 ) are conveyed upward from below, such that the printed products ( 3 ) being conveyed to the deflection region and being held by the grippers ( 11 ) in a hanging manner are opened before the grippers ( 11 ) enter the deflection region, and that during conveyance through the deflection region the trailing part of each ( 32 ) printed product and the leading part ( 31 ) of the following product are held clamped together in corner regions opposite the fold or spine edge.