A method for providing a running web with a perforation pattern fitting into printed image units successively printed on the web. The method includes the steps of performing a longitudinal perforation in a separate longitudinal perforator and performing a transverse perforation in a transverse perforator, wherein the perforation is divided to be carried out by a plurality of separate units. The pitch of the transverse perforation rows in the longitudinal direction of the web is controlled by changing the relative position of the transverse perforation units with respect to each other in accordance with the desired perforation pattern. The transverse perforator can be formed by a plurality of transverse perforation units each having a die roll in cooperation with two needle rolls placed diametrically at opposite sides of the die roll.
In the perforation of webs, such as in the perforation of paper webs in the production of business forms, a single perforating cylinder is utilized in cooperation with two anvil cylinders. Perforating elements, such as interrupted blades, extend outwardly from the periphery of the perforating cylinder and are rotated into operative association with the web passing between a first anvil cylinder and the perforating cylinder, and a second anvil cylinder and the perforating cylinder, to form first and second sets of perforations spaced a predetermined desired amount along the web. The length of the web between the first and second anvil cylinders is adjustable to control precisely the spacing of the first and second sets of perforations along the web, as by passing the web over a compensator roller mounted between the first and second anvil cylinders and movable toward and away from the perforating cylinder. The web may be directed in an alternate path bypassing the second anvil cylinder when the second set of perforations is not necessary.
According to one aspect of the invention, an apparatus and process are provided for transporting sheet-shaped print material. A first transport element and a first contact element are actuated to transport a sheet-shaped print material with alignment against an alignment stop. A second transport element and a second contact element are actuated to transport sheet-shaped print material past the alignment stop without alignment against the alignment stop.
The invention relates to a device for producing different hole patterns in sheet-shaped print materials. An apparatus and process for producing different hole patterns in a sheet-shaped print material is provided wherein a punch in a tool roller is raised and lowered relative to an outer surface of the tool roller in order to effectuate and ineffectuate, respectively, punching by the punch. According to a preferred embodiment, a die roller is provided having a die corresponding with the punch, and sheets are fed through the tool roller and the die roller. In one embodiment punches and dies are provided, and the punches are selectively raised and lowered in order to achieve a desired hole pattern in the sheet.
