Equipment

Gathering Machine – Kolbus ZU 841.C

• 15 feeder stations (base frame with 12 station slots + expansion by 3 stations), of which 9 are bar feeders Type STA 840 for processing pressed bar/sheet stock
• 1 hand feeding station (across two station slots)
• 2 card gluers (sample gluers) Type KK 841 for cards, booklets, CDs in sleeves and product samples
• Automatic sheet thickness control (ATC) and faulty-sheet control via light barrier at each feeder
• Signature recognition system SignaLynx (optical image and barcode control)
• Reject gate Type AS 841.C for diverting faulty products
• Base equipment for electrostatic restitution of bundled signatures
• Device for electrostatic fixing of advertising inserts (for 3 inserts)

Perfect Binder – Kolbus KM 412.C

• 30 transport clamps, laterally swing-open
• Variable-speed, frequency-controlled drive
• Copilot system with touchscreen (format memory, automatic format setting, product counters)
• Horizontal infeed section with jogging and settling section
• Spine preparation: 1 milling station, 1 equalizing milling station, 1 notching station, 1 micro-notching station, 1 brushing station
• Spine gluing units: 2x EVA hotmelt (mobile) plus 1 exchangeable spine glue unit for PUR hotmelt
• Side gluing unit: 1x EVA hotmelt (mobile)
• IR heating in the clamp deflection area
• Cover feeder Type SAL 412.C with missing/double-sheet control
• Creasing station for 4-fold creasing
• 2 pressing stations for pressing the cover onto the book block
• Straight delivery with laydown unit (plate chain, shingling function)

Premelters / Glue Supply

• 2x premelter Type LH 375.C (EVA hotmelt, for spine glue unit, 160 l reservoir, up to 130 l/h)
• 1x premelter Type LH 375.A (EVA hotmelt, for side glue unit, 90 l reservoir, up to 20 l/h)
• 1x Nordson drum melting unit Type XNO 962 (PUR hotmelt, for 200 l steel drums, approx. 35 kg/h output)

Transport and Cooling/Drying Line (year of manufacture 2009)

• Approx. 80 m long, from the binder to the three-knife trimmer, with various conveyor belts
• Belt control cabinet Type TS.E, frequency-controlled
• Cooling tower Type XAF 661 (belt width 400 mm, outer diameter 2,250 mm, 8 windings, approx. 47.45 m cooling path)

Three-Knife Trimmer – Kolbus HD 153.P

• Copilot system with touchscreen, automatic format setting
• Gripper transport device, automatic central lubrication system
• Right-hand infeed with counting stacker
• 2 sets of knife cassettes, 1 set of fine-grain carbide knives

Destacker – Kolbus AE 360

• Automatic unstacking of brochures after the three-knife trimmer
• Straight delivery, operator side left

Cross Stacker – RIMA XRS 130

• Electronic pre-selection of stack formation, side jogging in the magazine
• Left-hand delivery belt (roller track), coupled with delivery belt Type RS 121

Delivery Belt – Type RS 121

• Stack aligner with synchronously running, vertical aligning rollers

Blocker – Type VB 120

• Electrostatic blocking of product stacks (e.g. paperbacks, perfect-bound magazines)
• Lateral pneumatic aligning plates, pneumatic pressing ram

Palletizer – Type PL 771

• Automatic format adjustment, 90°/180° rotary turntable
• Interlayer feeder, upward-open pallet magazine
• Storage capacity of 99 palletizing formations; common pallet formats up to 1,360 x 1,200 mm

Compressed Air Supply – Becker Variair CS 0133 0111

• Year of manufacture: 2008
• Output: 16 kW

Addressing Base Unit

• For inkjet or Cheshire labeling

Technical Details