In some previous post I explained that we can put up to seven inserts in a paper. (Actually, there's a way to "cheat" and get even more in, but that's a different story.) If you watched the video in How Do the Newspapers Move you saw a series of stations which is where three of the flyers are fed in. But you can also see a lady in a blue sweatshirt. Notice how it looks like she is in a sort of corner. That's a series of stations which stack four inserts and then feed them into the paper all at one time. Here's that line of stations.
![newspaper stuffing machine](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggv0AXwRMJ3QDviWXW21C7pLPZ0B0OcGkXUheYZZftKHzpn7uiYl9HP-20Uo7dkJU_SE08XaDGxp3eHBS4M4fVYsYRJVtQ-GbQL6EorHQ65NWhCsfuAjXYlAyWM5knSCjV4Bqx9XifMQtv/s1600/LDNstuffer05.jpg)
The insert near the bottom of the photo will be sucked onto a belt below the pile. Then the next one will be sucked down on top of that one, and so on. You get a look at the pile held by the belts just before it falls into the main paper.
![newspaper stuffing machine](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLCk4_vF4v8UySIV_2vlRrSQ-RZaIwy-m0GbKbCjWnWV-5heC5sI332J7zablSggcAtWBb8ZvxHBOeDir0UGSh46p_-ppvH8ayUJYLSn8jNl9_NgXIc6L6IWvmVBdhIEGL3wgh-ok1IpoW/s1600/LDNstuffer06.jpg)
I hope that made sense. Let's try this. Three inserts are sent into the paper individually. Then this line comes into the main line on a T and four inserts are stacked in this line and fed in as if they were one.
And the way to get even more inserts in? A separate "cover" with some sort of advertising on it is stuffed with several more inserts and then the stuffed cover goes into the first station on the line I just showed you. That way it's already a group that gets stacked with all the rest.
I'm pooped.
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3 comments:
It's like one great mechanical monster.
I bet not many people take into consideration how much really goes in to putting a paper together
Chuck- it IS a monster!
Ann- Without advertising money, all papers would go under. It's quite a complicated "dance" to get everything put together.
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