Device for processing a web

Claim 2

System according to claim 1, characterised thereby that the cutting edges (223a, 243a) of all knives (223, 243) are without interruptions, in order to cut up the web (5, 505, 905) into sheets by transversely extending cuts.

Claim 3

System according to claim 1, characterised thereby that the cutting edge (283a) of the or each knife (283) of at least one of the processing members (273, 275) is provided with interruptions, in order to provide the web (285) with perforations forming desired, transversely extending tear lines.

Claim 4

System according to one of claims 1 to 3, characterised thereby that each knife (223, 243) is straight and that the or each knife (243) belonging to a rotatable processing member (87, 275) is parallel to the rotational axis (251) of the processing member (87,275).

Claim 5

System according to one of claims 1 to 4, characterised thereby that the gearwheel (257) rotatably mounted on the support (201) is detachably mounted and that the gearwheel (259) connected with the rotatable processing member (87) is detachably connected with the said processing member (87).

Claim 6

System according to one of claims 1 to 5, characterised thereby that the frame (11) has guide means (203) for the displaceable guidance of the support (201) on the frame and that securing means (207) are present in order to selectably secure the support (201) in a work setting serving for processing of the web (5, 285, 505, 905) or to release it and by the latter to enable the processing device (83, 271, 583, 783, 883) to be able to be displaced as well as separated from the frame (11).

Claim 7

System according to one of claims 1 to 6, characterised thereby that the gearwheel (257) rotatably mounted on the support (201) is connected, to be secure against relative rotation, with a gearwheel (213), which stands in engagement with a gearwheel (211), which is mounted on the frame (11) and rotatable by a drive device (67) held by the frame (11).

Claim 8

System according to claim 6 or 7, characterised thereby that the gearwheel (211) mounted on the frame (11) and the gearwheel (213), which stands in engagement with this and is connected, to be secure against relative rotation, with the gearwheel (257) mounted on the support (201), are bringable out of engagement and back into engagement through displacement of the processing device (83) along the guide means (203).

Claim 9

System according to one of claims 1 to 8, characterised thereby that a further processing device (39, 539, 639), which with respect to the transport direction of the web (5, 285, 505, 905) is disposed in front of the processing device (83, 271, 583, 783, 883) having the knives (223, 243, 283) and which comprises two rotatable processing members (41, 43), is present in order to provide the web (5, 285, 505, 905) at each of its two longitudinal edges (5c) with a row of holes (5d) extending in its longitudinal direction, and that a printing mechanism (51, 551, 951), which with respect to the web transport direction is arranged after the last-mentioned processing device (39, 539, 639) and in front of the first-mentioned processing device (83, 271, 583, 783, 883) and which is for printing of the web (5, 285, 505, 905) with data variable by control means and/or computing means (1, 93), is present.

Claim 10

System according to claim 9, characterised thereby that the rotatable processing members (41, 43, 87, 275) of the processing devices (39, 83, 271, 539, 583, 639, 783, 883) stand in rotational operative connection with the or an electrical drive device (35, 63, 67, 563, 567, 663, 767, 867) of the transport means and/or at least one additional electrical drive device (405) and that the or each electrical drive device (35, 63, 67, 405, 563, 567) is electrically connected with the control means and/or computing means (1, 93) and controllable by this.

Claim 11

System according to claim 10, characterised thereby that the control means and/or computing means (1, 93) are constructed in order to so control the or each drive device (35, 63, 67, 563, 567, 663, 767, 867), which serves for the purpose of transporting the web (5, 285, 505, 905) through the processing devices (39, 83, 271, 539, 583, 639, 783, 883) and the printing mechanism (5, 551, 951) and/or of driving at least one of the rotatable processing members (41, 43, 87, 275), that movable transport members (29, 31, 53, 55, 553, 555, 629, 653, 755, 757, 855, 857, 1053), which engage at the web (5, 285, 305, 905), of the transport means and the rotatable processing members (41, 43, 87) are simultaneously set into movement and brought to standstill, and that the rotatable processing elements (41, 43, 87, 275) are rotated at a speed which is proportional to the speed of the transport members (29, 31, 53, 55, 553, 555, 629, 653, 755, 757, 855, 857, 1053).

Claim 12

System according to one of claims 1 to 11, characterised thereby that the or each rotatable processing member (41, 43, 87, 275) of the or each processing device (39, 83, 271, 539, 583, 639, 783, 883) stands in rotational operative connection with an electrical drive device (63, 67, 405, 563, 567, 663, 767, 867), which has a stepping motor.

Claim 13

Processing device for a system according to one of claims 1 to 12, characterised thereby that it comprises a support (201), a carrier (225), which is pivotable relative thereto about a pivot axis (255) and fixable in different pivot settings, and two processing members (85, 87, 273, 275), which are each provided with at least one knife (223, 243, 283), for the processing of the web (5, 285, 505, 905) transported between them, of which at least one member is rotatably mounted in the carrier (225), that the cutting edges (223a, 243a, 283a) of the knives (223, 243, 283), which belong to different processing members (85, 87, 273, 275), form an angle with each other and at least one of them forms an angle different from 90° with the transport direction of the web (5, 285, 905), that the cutting edges (223a, 243a) of all knives (223, 243) are without interruptions in order to cut up the web (5, 505, 905) into sheets by transversely extending cuts, or that the cutting edge (283a) of the or each knife (283) of at least one of the processing members (273, 275) is provided with interruptions in order to provide the web (285) with perforations forming desired, transversely extending tear lines, that a gearwheel (257) is mounted at the support (201) to be rotatable about a rotational axis (217), that the processing member (87) rotatably mounted at the carrier (225) is connected, to be secure against relative rotation, with a gearwheel (259) rotatable together with it about a rotational axis (251), that the two gearwheels (257, 259) have teeth standing in engagement with one another, the flanks of which are convexly curved in plan view at right angles to the rotational axis (217, 251) of the respective gearwheel (257, 259), and that the pivot axis (255) crosses the two rotational axes (217, 251) at right angles as well as extends through the toothings of the two gearwheels (257, 259).