Device and method for conveying and aligning flat products
AssigneeFerag AG
InventorsWerner Honegger, Marcel Schneider
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Abstract
A conveying device for conveying and aligning flat products or stacks of flat products, in particular printed products, includes comprises leading pins for stop on a leading edge of conveyed products and trailing pins or pushers for stop on a trailing edge of the conveyed products. The products are insertable between the leading and trailing pins and are thus aligned by the pins. A distance between successive pushers is adjustable without parts of the device having to be exchanged.
Claims16
A conveying device for conveying and aligning flat and optionally flexible products or stacks of flat products comprising leading pins acting as a stop on a leading edge of conveyed products and trailing pins or pushers acting as a stop on a trailing edge of the conveyed products, wherein the products are placeable between the leading and trailing pins and thereby are conveyed and aligned,
- wherein a distance between successive pushers is adjustable without parts of the device having to be exchanged.
A conveying device for conveying and aligning flat and optionally flexible products or stacks of flat products comprising leading pins acting as a stop on a leading edge of conveyed products and trailing pins or pushers acting as a stop on a trailing edge of the conveyed products, wherein the products are placeable between the leading and trailing pins and thereby are conveyed and aligned,
- and wherein two or more conveying means are arranged running in parallel and synchronously to one another, with leading pins being conveyed by at least a first of the conveying means and pushers being conveyed by at least a second of the conveying means, the leading pins and the pushers being conveyed at the same speed but phase-delayed relative to one another, and wherein a distance between the leading pins and the pushers is adjustable by changing a phase-delay between the first and second conveying means.
A method for conveying and aligning flat and optionally flexible products or stacks of flat products comprising the steps of:
- pushing the products by their trailing edges by means of leading pins or pushers;
- holding back the products along their leading edges by means of leading pins;
- conveying and aligning the products by the pushers and the leading pins;
- adjusting of a distance of successive products by the distance between each of the pushers and the following leading pin holding back the next product, wherein the pusher and a following leading pin are connected to each other at a fixed distance and thus form an alignment element acting on its both a leading side and a trailing side of adjacent products or stacks of products.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.