DEVICE FOR COLLECTING PILES OF PRINTED MATTER INTO BUNDLES

The device includes a pile advancing rollerway, the rollers of which are mounted so that the ends thereof are free and spaces are left intermediate of these free ends. Levers are mounted radially on shafts and arranged in opposition to one another so as to form opposing pairs of said levers defining a pile assembling zone. These levers have their arms of an overall length approximating the spacing between these shafts and being offset relative to one another, so that on rotation of these shafts the arms of these levers are brought together and overlap to support a pile in the assembling zone. The device further includes means for spreading these levers, with said shafts being stationary, to provide for delivering of collected bundle from the collecting zone in the same plane in which the piles are advanced thereinto. A compressing plate compresses a bundle being collected. The disclosed structure provides for collecting piles of any printed matter into bundles, prevents running of the levers on the same shafts onto one another and enables to effect compressing of a bundle directly in the course of its collecting.