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US 2008/0164649 A1Published application
Apparatus for Feeding Sheets to a Sheet Processing Machine and Sheet-fed Rotary Printing Press Having the Apparatus
AssigneeHeidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
InventorsJens Forche, Christian Hieb
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Abstract
An apparatus for feeding sheets to a sheet processing machine smoothes out and fixes a sheet through the use of a suction groove disposed transversely relative to a sheet transport direction, before the sheet is gripped by an onward transport device. A sheet-fed rotary printing press having the apparatus is also provided.
Claims16
An apparatus for feeding sheets to a sheet processing machine, the apparatus comprising:
- a feed table;
- and
- a pneumatic device disposed in said feed table for smoothing out the sheets, said pneumatic device including a groove for receiving suction air, said groove extending over a maximum sheet width to be processed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.