APPARATUS FOR COLLATING FOLDED PRINTED PRODUCTS, ESPECIALLY SIGNATURES OR SHEETS

摘要

INVENTION: APPARATUS FOR COLLATING FOLDED PRINTED PRODUCTS, ESPECIALLY SIGNATURES OR SHEETS The collating apparatus comprises a plurality of collating or collecting conveyors or product advancing means revolvingly driven about the axis of revolution of the collating apparatus. These collating conveyors are pivotably mounted at each end face of the collating apparatus in control levers or rocker arms. These rocker arms are pivotably mounted on two disc-shaped supporting or support elements. These support elements are mounted in mutual axial separation on a shaft of the collating apparatus rotatably driven about the axis of revolution. The control levers or rocker arms support control rollers or followers which travel in guide grooves of guide or control curves or cams. The control curves or cams are constructed such that the rocker arms together with the collating conveyors are pivoted inwardly and subsequently are again pivoted outwardly relative to the axis of revolution of the collating apparatus during its revolution. In this manner an accommodation of the distances between adjacent collating conveyors to operational requirements is possible.