Stitching machine for variable size sheets

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PATENT NO 8876098
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13403187

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A thread stitching machine to process signatures into book blocks includes a transport system for the signatures including a transport section on which the signatures are straddling for supply to a stitching station. The transport section includes an auxiliary saddle and a driven, continuously moving conveying chain to drive the auxiliary saddle. The conveying chain has spaced-apart, integrated pusher elements. A downstream installed stitching station includes a freely moving stitching saddle immediately following the auxiliary saddle. The stitching saddle includes a separate conveying device for the signatures, operated by a drive. A detection device is arranged at a transition between the auxiliary saddle and the stitching saddle to detect a position of the signature and a time which the signature passes by. The conveying chain is operated with a change in speed that depends on different sheet lengths following each other directly in a sequence of signatures.

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MUELLER MARTINI HOLDING AGSONNENBERGSTRASSE 13 HERGISWIL 6052

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Arendt, Holger Grossrinderfeld, DE 5 3
Mezger, Franz Lauda-Koenigshofen, DE 3 1
Waldmann, Dirk Bad Mergentheim, DE 7 14
Weiss, Marcel Bad Mergentheim, DE 2 1

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