Separator for book blocks
AssigneeHunkeler AG
InventorsKurt GRABER, Lukas WULLSCHLEGER, Daniel HÄFLIGER
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Abstract
A device for separating printed products out of a stack, the device including a feed device which defines a substantially horizontal plane, a first stop element which is arranged on a mounting support as well as a transfer device which defines a substantially horizontal plane, wherein the feed device moves the stack against the first stop element, wherein the transfer device accepts and transfers the bottommost printed product out of the stack from the feed device, wherein the feed device includes a vacuum conveyor, by means of which the bottom surface of the bottommost printed product is sucked up at least in portions, as well as to a corresponding method.
Claims19
A device for separating printed products out of a stack, said device comprising
- a feed device which defines a substantially horizontal plane,
- a first stop element which is arranged on a mounting support.
- a transfer device which defines a substantially horizontal plane, wherein
- the feed device moves the stack against the first stop element, wherein
- the transfer device accepts and transfers the bottommost printed product out of the stack from the feed device, wherein
- the feed device includes a vacuum conveyor, by means of which the bottom surface of the bottommost printed product is sucked up at least in portions.
A method for separating printed products out of a stack, said method including the following steps:
- (a) sucking, at least in portions, the bottom surface of the bottommost printed product out of the stack by means of a vacuum that is generated in a feed device;
- (b) moving the stack by means of the feed device against a first stop element, such that
- (c) the bottommost printed product out of the stack passes the first stop element and
- (d) is accepted and transferred by a transfer device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.