US Patent Issued to Heidelberger Druckmaschinen on Sept. 23 for "Sheet folding machine with waste product removal" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,065, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg, Germany).

"Sheet folding machine with waste product removal" was invented by Mario Pfitzenmeier (Bretten, Germany), Michael Ostreicher (Eppelheim, Germany), Volker Kautz (Althengstett, Germany), Udo Ganter (Freiberg am Neckar, Germany) and Herbert Ackermann (Ludwigsburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine for folding sheets receives a stream of sheets. A first folding unit is followed by a further unit. The first folding unit has at least one buckle plate and at least two folding rollers to fold the sheets. A monitoring device checks t...