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EP2412538B1 - Procédé et dispositif d'introduction d'au moins un supplément dans des produits d'impression multi-feuillets - Google Patents

Procédé et dispositif d'introduction d'au moins un supplément dans des produits d'impression multi-feuillets Download PDF

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EP2412538B1
EP2412538B1 EP11174616.0A EP11174616A EP2412538B1 EP 2412538 B1 EP2412538 B1 EP 2412538B1 EP 11174616 A EP11174616 A EP 11174616A EP 2412538 B1 EP2412538 B1 EP 2412538B1
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Günther Silberbauer
Konrad Boos
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  • the invention relates to a method for introducing inserts into multileaf printed products, according to the preamble of claim 1 and an apparatus for introducing inserts into multi-sheet printed products, according to the preamble of claim 13.
  • Inserts are to be understood to mean flat objects, for example CDs / DVDs, single sheets, printed sheets, thin booklets, reply cards, flat bags or samples of goods, which are inserted loosely between two adjacent pages of the printed product.
  • the EP 0577964 A1 discloses a method and apparatus for inserting inserts between the sheets of printed products, wherein a gas stream is used to separate the sheets, wherein the dynamic pressure arising upon impact with the face is to fan and separate the sheets. After that, although an insert between the separated by the air flow pages can be introduced. However, it is no precise page separation of the printed products and thus no precise page feed the supplement possible.
  • the EP 1559573 A1 discloses a method in which the inserts are placed on predetermined, horizontally transported printed products, which are then stacked into a loose book block.
  • the supplements can be reproduced reproducibly and accurately, they can become unintentional during subsequent binding be integrated into the printed products.
  • the inserts must be positioned and secured within the area of the printed product with extra effort so that they are outside the area of the binding.
  • printed sheets and / or printed single sheets are first collected in a collating machine into loose book blocks in the production of printed products and then bound to their backs by means of adhesive binding, wire or thread stitching.
  • the printed product is provided with an envelope, which is then connected to the book block.
  • the book blocks bound in this way are trimmed on their open side, on the head and foot.
  • the book blocks must be opened before or after cutting. It is known to lift the envelope of the book block by means of suction organs or to open the book block by means of a sword and then to supply the thus opened book block one or more supplements.
  • a disadvantage of this method is that the book block is not accurate to the page, i. can be opened between two arbitrarily determinable pages and thus inserts can not be inserted page-accurate in the book block.
  • one or more supplements are fed to loose, unbound book blocks after collating and before binding, the book blocks also being opened by means of a sword before the supplements are fed.
  • this method it is not possible to open the book block page exactly and feed supplements targeted between any predefined pages.
  • the insert must be positioned and secured within the area of the book block in such a way that it lies outside the area of the binding, otherwise the danger exists that the insert will be firmly bound into the book block.
  • US 6,283,466 B1 discloses a method according to. the preamble of claim 1, and an insertion according to. the preamble of claim 13.
  • the invention has for its object to provide a method which makes it possible to open multi-sheet printed products to the page after collection or collation and insert inserts exactly between two predetermined pages.
  • the inventive method for introducing at least one supplement in consisting of printed sheets and / or single sheets each having a back multi-sheet printed products, which are transported in aligned with a conveying direction spine comprising the following steps: In a first step are Imas, between two adjacent sheet and / or individual sheets supplied at least one predetermined separation point having printed products, in which protrudes at least one sheet and / or at least one single sheet of the multi-sheet printed product. In a second step, the multi-leaf printed products are opened at the at least one separation point, and in a third step, the at least one separation point in the multi-leaf printed products is expanded. Finally, in a fourth step, at least one supplement is introduced into the extended separation point.
  • the opening and widening of the multi-sheet printed products at a separation point offers the advantage that side-by-side pre-separation for inserting inserts takes place, whereby violation of the printed products during uncontrolled penetration of a separating element into its closed side area is avoided.
  • the format-preparing step of the above-described method takes place spatially and / or temporally separated or immediately before the feeding of the multiblade printed products.
  • the at least one printed sheet and / or the at least one single sheet are preferably produced in the format-preparing step with a different back length and / or a different width from the other printed sheets and / or single sheets.
  • a favorable condition for the further processing results from the fact that the multi-sheet printed products are aligned in a conveyor according to two reference edges and transported with downwardly facing back by means of carriers pushing in the conveying direction.
  • the multileaf printed products preferably consist of book blocks which are formed from gathered, loose or by means of adhesive binding, wire or thread stitching raw bound sheet and / or single sheets.
  • printed products which contain a printed sheet and / or a single sheet with a different back length from the other printed sheets and / or single sheets are opened at a front edge by means of laterally introduced into the separation point Offnerierin. An even more accurate separation takes place when the opener elements are inserted at an acute angle to a perpendicular to the conveying direction in the separation point of the multi-leaflet printed products.
  • the movement sequence of the opening elements follows a control curve extending in the conveying direction, it can be precisely determined when, where and how the opening elements engage in the multi-sheet printed product.
  • the opening elements are driven at a first speed and the drivers at a second speed, wherein the two speeds in the conveying direction are at least approximately equal.
  • the desired pre-separation can be carried out without a relative speed being applied in the conveying direction or bending or infringing the multi-leaf printed products.
  • the speeds of the drivers and the ⁇ ffneretti be changed cyclically and synchronously in order to respond flexibly to deviations or disturbances. This allows even more accurate coordination of parallel zueinender running conveyor with the opening devices.
  • opening elements are arranged on both sides in the conveying direction, whereby the multileaf printed products are opened on both sides by the opening elements.
  • the printed products which have a printed sheet and / or a single sheet with a different width from the other sheets and / or single sheets, at an upper edge of one introduced into the separation point and as a ⁇ ffnerklinge trained Offnerelement opened.
  • the distance of the ⁇ ffnerelements to the back of the multi-sheet printed products is adjusted according to their width.
  • the separation point is widened with a separating blade and the at least one insert is introduced through a feed opening of the separating blade into the multileaf printed products.
  • the altitude of the ⁇ ffnerieri is set to the conveyor according to the width of the multilayer printed products.
  • the feeding of supplements in the multi-sheet printed product is preferably carried out with a speed component of a feed rate, which corresponds at least approximately to a conveying speed of the multi-sheet printed products in the conveying direction.
  • a plurality of separation points are formed in a multi-sheet printed product, wherein the printed product is opened at these separation points and at least one of the inserts is introduced here.
  • the inserts are inserted at an angle between 0 degrees and 180 degrees, preferably approximately perpendicular to a plane passing through the spine, into the opened multi-sheet printed product. Due to the gravity of the printed product higher insertion speeds of the inserts are possible when inserted vertically. If e.g. other structural conditions should make this type of insertion difficult, the supplements can also be introduced at any angle between 0 degrees and 180 degrees in the open printed product. The backs of the printed products could be oriented transversely to the conveying direction at any angle between 0 degrees and 360 degrees.
  • the multi-sheet printed products may be laterally compressed in the area of their back during transport in the insertion area, so that fanning in this area and damage to the printed products are avoided.
  • the insertion device has a format-preparing region with at least one stacking device for forming the separation point in the multi-leaf printed products.
  • the insertion device may be equipped with a control device for driving printing presses and / or a cutting device and the stacking device. This then takes over the control of the devices connected via control connections, for example, to produce marks on the printed image, so that the cutting devices perform the cuts at the predicted places.
  • the stacking device is driven so that when collecting the sheet and / or the single sheets with different back lengths and / or different widths in an order that arise through the formation of the desired separation points for the insertion of the supplements.
  • the at least one opening element has at least one guide element which is connected to a circulating traction means, wherein a slider is arranged displaceably transversely to the conveying direction of the printed products in the guide element.
  • a slider is arranged displaceably transversely to the conveying direction of the printed products in the guide element.
  • the opening device is arranged at an upstream end of the separating blade and designed as a pivotable ⁇ ffnerelement, through the outstanding sheets and / or single sheets of multi-sheet printed products are selectively deflected to the right or left, transverse to the conveying direction ,
  • Such an insertion device allows a page-accurate opening of multi-sheet printed products that have been provided in the format preparation area with printed sheets and / or single sheets of different widths.
  • the insertion device has a delivery channel with channel walls which have a maximum height which is smaller than a width of the multi-leaflet printed products.
  • a plurality of insertion devices can also be arranged serially one after the other in the conveying direction, whereby, for example, different supplements can be introduced into different separation points of the multileaf printed products.
  • an insertion device 5 is shown in a first embodiment, consisting of a conveyor 2, an opening device 18 and a feeder 26th
  • the conveyor 2 is, as in Fig. 2 can be seen, formed from a rotating drive member 16, drivers 15, as well as from a substantially vertical U-shaped conveyor channel 1.
  • the opening device 18, as in Fig. 2 shown, comprises a control cam 24, a traction means 19, are attached to the periodically spaced opener elements 20 with the associated guide elements 21, slide 22 and rollers 23.
  • Such an opener element 20 has the guide element 21, which is connected to the traction means 19 and guided in a guide arrangement, not shown, wherein in the guide member 21 of the slider 22 is arranged in the upstream portion of the insertion device 5 substantially transverse to the conveying direction F of the printed products 3 is guided displaceably.
  • the direction of movement forms the slider 22 is at an acute angle ⁇ with a perpendicular S to the conveying direction F.
  • the drive of the slide 22 by means arranged on the sliders 22 rollers 23 which follow the conveyor 2 extending along the control cam 24, wherein between the sliders 22 and the guide elements 21st not shown springs press the rollers 23 against the cam 24.
  • the speeds of the drivers 15 and thus of the multi-sheet printed products 3, as well as the ⁇ ffnerieri 20 are preferably the same size.
  • the channel walls 13, 14 are only so high that the multi-leaf printed products 3 with their open side 11 (FIGS. Fig. 1 ) protrude from the conveyor channel 1.
  • Downstream of an engagement position of the slide 22 is in the region of the conveyor 2, the feeder 26 for inserts 25 ( Fig. 1 ), as in the Fig. 1 and 2 shown, consisting of a separating blade 29 and a feed opening 31.
  • a supplement feeder 28 is arranged, by means of which the supplements 25 are conveyed into the feeder.
  • the supplement feeder 28 is in Fig. 1 shown farther away. However, this is advantageously arranged spatially directly above the feed opening 31 of the separating blade 29.
  • An upstream preparation of the insertion device 5 provided format preparing area 58 is in the Fig. 4b and 5b shown.
  • This comprises a printing press 50 and / or a further printing press (not shown), cutting devices 53, 54, a stacking device 55 and a buffer 56.
  • the multi-sheet printed products 3, which are to be provided with at least one supplement 25, are provided with the back 4 facing down through the insertion device 5 for inserting the inserts 25 into the printed products, in a conveying direction F transported.
  • a multi-leaf printed products 3 such as books, brochures, catalogs or magazines in the Fig. 4b and 5b are shown are from sheet 27th and / or individual sheets 6 formed, gathered, loose book block or also from printed sheet 27 or single sheets 6 formed and understood by means of adhesive binding, wire or thread stitching raw bound book block.
  • the printed sheet 27 is folded or unfolded individual sheets 6 or an arrangement of a plurality of nested individual sheets 6, which are connected by a fold on a side edge or otherwise.
  • the individual sheets 6 originate, for example, from the printing machine 50.
  • the individual pages of a subsequent printed product are successively printed one after the other (sequentially) on a web of a printing material, for example paper, unrolled from a paper roll 51.
  • the printed web 52 is cut in the conveying direction F 1 with the cutting devices 53, 54 to individual sheets 6.
  • the printed sheets 27 originate for example from a (not shown here) printing machine, the individual printed sheet 27 of a later printed product printed in a similar manner. After printing, these printed sheets 27 can be folded and / or cut with cutting devices and fed to the stacking device 55 in the conveying direction F 2 .
  • All individual sheets 6 and printed sheet 27 within a multi-sheet printed product 3 are usually aligned on two reference edges 7, 8, for example on the back 4 and on a head side 9 of the printed product 3, as shown in the Fig. 4a and Fig. 5a is shown.
  • Top edge 34 of the printed product 3 the single sheets 6 and the printed sheet 27 are formed so that they protrude differently according to their different back length R 1 ... R 5 and / or their different width B 1 ... B 5 .
  • the production of individual sheets 6 different format is shown, ie of individual sheets 6, either different back lengths R 1 ... R 5 and / or different widths B 1 ... B 5 have.
  • the production of such single sheets 6 represents the preparatory step for the formation of separation points T 1 ... T 8 in the printed product 3, ie between adjacent single sheets 6 different format.
  • the printed products / book block 3 can be formed instead of single sheets 6 and also of sheet 27 and / or individual sheets 6.
  • the printed sheets 27 may also have different back lengths R 1 ... R 5 and / or different widths B 1 ... B 5 and additionally at least one fold.
  • the cutting device 53 which is designed as a longitudinal cutter, separates the paper web 52 corresponding to the printed image into partial webs 52a, 52b, 52c of approximately the same width the width of the future printed product 3, as in Fig. 4b or partial webs 52d, 52e of equal length R corresponding to the back length of the future printed product 3, as shown in FIG Fig. 5b shown.
  • Trained as a cross cutter cutter 54 then takes over the separation of previously separated in the conveying direction F 1 paper webs 52a, 52b, 52c, 52d, 52e and generates single sheets 6 different format, ie either with different back lengths R 1 ... R 5 or different widths B. 1 ...
  • the single sheets 6 fed in the conveying direction F 1 and / or the printed sheets 27 fed in the conveying direction F 2 are formed into multi-sheet printed products 3.
  • the one buffer 56 in the conveying direction F 3 fed multi-sheet printed products 3 are then in the conveying direction F also not shown Set-up element 57 supplied and prepared here for the subsequent transport in the conveyor channel 1.
  • the stacking device 55 are fed, produced in a timely process upstream, sheet 27. These printed sheets 27 are provided in a stack and are by means of a separating device, not shown, in the conveying direction F 2 , the stacking device 55 can be fed.
  • the prefabricated printed sheets 27 may also have 27 different back lengths R 1 ... R 5 and / or widths B 1 ... B 5 from the remaining printed sheets 27.
  • the coordination of the sequence for feeding printed sheet 27 to the correct position in the printed product 3 is effected by the control device 61.
  • the stacking device 55 takes over the collation of the printed sheets 27 and / or the single sheets 6 with different back lengths R 1 ... R 5 and / or different widths B 1 ... B 5 in an order that is necessary for the formation of the desired separation points T 1 ... T 8 is required for the insertion of the inserts 25.
  • the required information and processing algorithms can be stored.
  • the control device 61 may be networked with other control devices upstream or downstream devices.
  • At least one channel wall 13, 14 transverse to the conveying direction F is adjustable, as in the Fig. 6 to Fig. 8 shown.
  • Fig. 2 shows, at regular intervals the driver 15 having, rotating drive member 16, for example, a chain, promotes the multi-sheet printing products 3 sliding along the conveyor 2, wherein the driver 15, the channel walls 13, 14 penetrate. Because of this sliding promotion the printed sheet 27 and / or the single sheets 6 are aligned with the drivers 15 and are applied to these.
  • the opening device 18 is arranged laterally parallel to the conveyor 2 according to a first embodiment, which at the circumferential Traction means 19, the ⁇ ffnerimplantation 20 has. Because of the better clarity is in Fig. 1 only one opening device 18 is shown. Of course, on both sides of the insertion device 5 such an opening device 18 may be arranged, that is, the printed products 3 can be opened from both sides with the opening elements 20.
  • the sliders 22 hit on the multi-sheet printed products 3 protruding sheet 27 or sheets 6 or parts thereof and thus cause a pre-separation of the multi-sheet printed products 3.
  • the opening device 18th Open page exactly where there is at least one single sheet 6 or a sheet 27 protruding from sheet 27 or single sheets 6. Accordingly, if back lengths R1... R4 are selected such that exactly where the insert 25 is to be inserted, two unequal length individual sheets 6 abut each other, the multi-sheet printed products 3 can be opened at predetermined locations on the side.
  • an intended separation point T 1 , T 2 , T 3 , T 4 are selected in the printed product 3. If the printed product 3 is to be opened, for example, at the separation point T 1 , the distance D is set to a value between the back length R 1 and the back length R 2 .
  • T 4 is preferably one of the opening device 18 mirror-inverted opposite, in Fig. 1 to provide only in the form of an opening device 20 shown the ⁇ ffnerimplantation.
  • the printed products 3 can also be opened at the separation points T 3 , T 4 by means of the opening device 18, the slides 22 for this purpose also having a nose, likewise not shown, for engaging the above printed sheets 27 or individual sheets 6.
  • the already pre-separated, multi-leaf printed products 3 are guided over the separating blade 29 and in their further transport in the conveying direction F further opened while the slider 22 of the ⁇ ffnerelements 20 is retracted again.
  • the separating blade 29 arranged above the slide 22 opens the printed product 3 so far that one or more inserts 25 can be introduced into the opened printed product 3 through the feed opening 31 arranged downstream in the separating blade 29 ( Fig. 2 ).
  • a plurality of opening devices 18 and feed devices 26 can be arranged serially one after the other in the conveying direction F, so that the inserts 25 can be supplied to a printed product 3 at different locations by hand or by means of insert feeders 28.
  • multi-sheet printed products 3 can optionally be opened at different locations, i. the supplements 25 are supplied at different locations of the printed products 3.
  • the opening device 18 is adjustable to adapt to different widths of multi-sheet printed products 3 with respect to their altitude relative to the support 12 of the conveyor channel 1.
  • An advantageous application of the invention results in the processing of printed by means of immediately before binding on a designed as a digital press 50 printing machines and cut sheets 6 digital printing machines continuously successively (sequentially) side by side later Printed product 3 on the unwound from a roll of paper 51 paper web 52 from which the individual sheets 6 are cut out, wherein both the printed image and the back length R 1 ... R 5 ( Fig. 4b ) or the width B 1 ... B 5 ( Fig. 5b ) are continuously changeable from single sheet 6 to single sheet 6.
  • the collated printed product 3 in addition to individual sheets 6 and 27 comprises printed sheet or consists only of sheet 27, the separation points T 1 ... T 4 before and / or after and / or in the middle of the sheet 27 can be selected.
  • separation points T 5 ... T 8 between adjacent individual sheets 6 can thus be created in a targeted manner.
  • a made in this way and in the Fig. 5a shown printed product 3 can be according to a second embodiment, as in the FIGS. 9 and 10 illustrated, in a simple manner directly through an opening device 18 'in the form of a ⁇ ffnerelements 30 at the four separation points T 5 ... T 8 open.
  • the separation points T 5 ... T 8 can be selected over a height H between the support 12 of the conveyor channel 1 and the ⁇ ffnerelement 30. If the printed product 3 is to be opened, for example, at the separation point T 5 , the height H is to be set to a value between the width B 1 and the width B 2 .
  • the opening device 18 ' is formed at the upstream end of the separating blade 29 as a pivotal opening member 30, as in FIG FIGS. 9 and 10 shown.
  • the conveyor channel 1 of the conveyor 2 in this case has channel walls 13, 14 whose maximum height H K is smaller than the width of the multilayer printed products.
  • the feeding of the inserts 25 can then take place as previously described.
  • the printed product 3 is shown in the processing with downwardly directed back 4. This vertical orientation has the advantage that the supplements 25 are supported by gravity in the open printed product 3 can be fed.
  • the present invention is not limited to the vertical orientation of the multi-leaflet printed products 3, but also includes multi-sheet printed products 3 fed at any angle to the vertical.
  • a deviating from the vertical position requires correspondingly adapted, more sophisticated conveyors 2 and feeders 26th

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  1. Procédé conçu pour introduire au moins un supplément (25) dans des produits d'impression (3) à plusieurs feuillets, qui sont composés de feuillets imprimés (27) et/ou de feuilles individuelles (6), sont respectivement munis d'un dos (4), sont alignés dans un dispositif de convoyage (2) suivant deux arêtes de référence (7, 8), par des dos (4) orientés parallèlement à une direction de convoyage (F), et sont transportés par coulissement dans ladite direction de convoyage (F) au moyen d'organes d'entraînement (15), avec des dos (4) dirigés vers le bas, caractérisé par le fait
    - qu'au moins deux feuillets imprimés (27) et/ou feuilles individuelles (6), d'un format considéré, sont produit(e)s au cours d'une étape de préparation de formats, sachant qu'au moins l'un desdits feuillets imprimés (27) ou au moins l'une desdites feuilles individuelles (6) présente un format différant de ceux des autres feuillets imprimés (27) et/ou feuilles individuelles (6),
    - que lesdit(e)s feuillets imprimés (27) et/ou feuilles individuelles (6) sont regroupé(e)s en des produits d'impression (3) à plusieurs feuillets, sachant qu'une disposition d'au moins deux feuillets imprimés (27) ou feuilles individuelles (6) de formats différents ou feuillets imprimés (27) et feuilles individuelles (6) de formats différents, au voisinage direct les un(e)s des autres, donne naissance à au moins une zone de séparation (T1...T8) dans laquelle au moins un feuillet imprimé (27) et/ou au moins une feuille individuelle (6) dépasse(nt) au-delà du produit d'impression (3) à plusieurs feuillets,
    - que, lors d'une première étape, il s'opère une délivrance de produits d'impression (3) à plusieurs feuillets qui présentent, entre deux feuillets imprimés (27) et/ou feuilles individuelles (6) voisin(e)s, au moins une zone prédéterminée de séparation (T1...T8) dans laquelle au moins un feuillet imprimé (27) et/ou au moins une feuille individuelle (6) dépasse(nt) au-delà du produit d'impression (3) à plusieurs feuillets,
    - que, lors d'une deuxième étape, lesdits produits d'impression (3) à plusieurs feuillets sont ouverts dans ladite zone de séparation (T1...T8) à présence minimale, sachant que les produits d'impression (3) renfermant le feuillet imprimé (27) à présence minimale et/ou la feuille individuelle (6) à présence minimale muni(s) d'une longueur de dos (R1...R5) différant de celle des autres feuillets imprimés (27) et/ou feuilles individuelles (6), sont ouverts sur une arête antérieure (33), au moyen d'éléments d'ouverture (20) engagés latéralement dans la zone de séparation (T1...T4), lesdits éléments d'ouverture (20) et les organes d'entraînement (15) étant respectivement entraînés à une première vitesse, et à une seconde vitesse, et les deux vitesses étant au moins approximativement identiques dans ladite direction de convoyage (F),
    - que, lors d'une troisième étape, ladite zone de séparation (T1...T8), à présence minimale, est élargie dans lesdits produits d'impression (3) à plusieurs feuillets, et
    - que, lors d'une quatrième étape, au moins un supplément (25) est introduit dans ladite zone de séparation (T1...T8) élargie.
  2. Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé par le fait que l'étape de préparation de formats s'opère avec séparation dans l'espace et/ou dans le temps, voire immédiatement avant la délivrance des produits d'impression (3) à plusieurs feuillets.
  3. Procédé selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisé par le fait que le feuillet imprimé (27) à présence minimale et/ou la feuille individuelle (6) à présence minimale est (sont) produit(e)(s), au cours de l'étape de préparation de formats, avec une longueur de dos (R1...R5) et/ou avec une largeur (B1...B5) différant de celle(s) des autres feuillets imprimés (27) et/ou feuilles individuelles (6).
  4. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 1 à 3, caractérisé par le fait que les éléments d'ouverture (20) sont engagés, dans la zone de séparation (T1... T4) des produits d'impression (3) à plusieurs feuillets, suivant un angle aigu α par rapport à une perpendiculaire (S) à la direction de convoyage (F).
  5. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 1 à 4, caractérisé par le fait que le déroulement des mouvements des éléments d'ouverture (20) décrit une courbe de commande (24) dans la direction de convoyage (F).
  6. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 1 à 5, caractérisé par le fait que les vitesses des organes d'entraînement (15) et des éléments d'ouverture (20) sont modifiées cycliquement et de manière synchrone.
  7. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 1 à 6, caractérisé par le fait que des éléments d'ouverture (20) sont implantés de part et d'autre dans la direction de convoyage (F), et les produits d'impression (3) à plusieurs feuillets sont ouverts des deux côtés par lesdits éléments d'ouverture (20).
  8. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 1 à 7, caractérisé par le fait que la zone de séparation (T1...T8) est élargie au moyen d'une lame séparatrice (29) et le supplément (25), à présence minimale, est introduit dans les produits d'impression (3) à plusieurs feuillets en traversant un orifice de délivrance (31) de ladite lame séparatrice (29).
  9. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 1 à 8, caractérisé par le fait que la délivrance de suppléments (25), dans le produit d'impression (3) à plusieurs feuillets, s'opère avec une composante (ZF) d'une vitesse de délivrance (Z) qui correspond, au moins approximativement, à une vitesse de convoyage des produits d'impression (3) à plusieurs feuillets dans la direction de convoyage (F).
  10. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 1 à 9, caractérisé par le fait que plusieurs zones de séparation (T1...T8) sont ménagées dans un produit d'impression (3) à plusieurs feuillets, ledit produit d'impression (3) à plusieurs feuillets étant ouvert dans ces zones de séparation (T1...T8), puis au moins l'un respectif des suppléments (25) étant introduit.
  11. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 1 à 10, caractérisé par le fait que les suppléments (25) sont introduits, dans le produit d'impression (3) à plusieurs feuillets à l'état ouvert, suivant un angle compris entre 0 degré et 180 degrés, de préférence à peu près perpendiculairement à un plan passant par le dos (4).
  12. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 1 à 11, caractérisé par le fait que les produits d'impression (3) à plusieurs feuillets sont comprimés latéralement, au cours de leur transport, dans la région de leur dos (4).
  13. Dispositif d'insertion (5) dévolu à l'introduction d'au moins un supplément (25) dans des produits d'impression (3) à plusieurs feuillets, qui sont composés de feuillets imprimés (27) et/ou de feuilles individuelles (6) et sont munis d'un dos (4) orienté parallèlement à une direction de convoyage (F) dudit dispositif d'insertion (5), comprenant
    - un dispositif de convoyage (2), conçu pour convoyer les produits d'impression (3) à plusieurs feuillets,
    - un dispositif d'ouverture (18, 18'), conçu pour ouvrir lesdits produits d'impression (3) à plusieurs feuillets dans au moins une zone prédéterminée de séparation (T1...T8) dans laquelle au moins un feuillet imprimé (27) et/ou au moins une feuille individuelle (6) dépasse(nt) au-delà du produit d'impression (3) à plusieurs feuillets, et
    - un dispositif d'amenée (26), conçu pour introduire un supplément (25) dans la zone de séparation (T1...T8),
    ledit dispositif d'ouverture (18, 18') étant doté d'au moins un élément d'ouverture (20, 30) pouvant être engagé dans ladite zone de séparation (T1...T8), caractérisé par le fait que l'élément d'ouverture (20), à présence minimale, comporte au moins un élément de guidage (21) relié à un moyen de traction (19) effectuant une révolution, un coulisseau (22) étant intégré dans ledit élément de guidage (21), avec faculté de coulissement transversalement par rapport à la direction (F) du convoyage des produits d'impression (3).
  14. Dispositif d'insertion (5) selon la revendication 13, caractérisé par le fait que ce dernier comporte une région (58) de préparation de formats, munie d'au moins un dispositif d'empilement (55) conçu pour former la zone de séparation (T1...T8) dans les produits d'impression (3) à plusieurs feuillets.
  15. Dispositif d'insertion (5) selon la revendication 14, caractérisé par le fait qu'il est équipé d'un dispositif de commande (61) affecté à l'activation d'une machine d'impression (50), et/ou d'un dispositif de sectionnement (53, 54) et du dispositif d'empilement (55).
  16. Dispositif d'insertion (5) selon l'une des revendications 13 à 15, caractérisé par le fait que le dispositif d'amenée (26) est équipé d'une lame séparatrice (29).
  17. Dispositif d'insertion (5) selon l'une des revendications 13 à 16, caractérisé par le fait qu'il comporte un canal de convoyage (1) doté de parois (13, 14) présentant une hauteur maximale (H) moindre qu'une largeur (B1...B5) des produits d'impression (3) à plusieurs feuillets.
  18. Dispositif d'insertion (5) selon l'une des revendications 13 à 17, caractérisé par le fait que plusieurs dispositifs d'insertion (5) sont agencés en succession sérielle dans la direction de convoyage.
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