Stripping and depositing mechanism for calendered sheets

Calender device for producing rubber-asbestos sheets, comprising:

• a calender unit including a heatable calender roll and a counter roll, for calendering an asbestos-carrying rubber solution into a hot, calendered layer surrounding the calender roll, the calender roll having more than 1 meter circumference and the two rolls having more than 1 meter length and having axes parallel to one another;
• means for cutting the layer on the heatable roll to provide a hot, calendered rubber-asbestos sheet, adhering to said roll and having more than one meter side length on all sides of the sheet;
• suction means located alongside the heatable roll for engaging an edge region of the hot, calendered sheet on said roll and for stripping the engaged edge region from said heatable roll, comprising a plurality of suction cups spaced apart along a line parallel to said axes, means for moving the suction cups into locations on and longitudinally spaced along the heatable roll and, with the edge region of the hot sheet engaged thereby, away from the heatable roll;
• a pair of draw-off rolls disposed adjacent to and smaller than the heatable roll, parallel to said axes for rotation to facilitate a movement of further portions of the hot sheet, away from the heatable roll regardless of adhesion of the rubber-asbestos of the sheet to said roll;
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• means for effecting the movement of the further sheet portions, while the sheet is still hot, comprising draw-off grippers engageable with the stripped edge region of the hot sheet, and a gripper device for longitudinally moving the grippers, engaged with the edge region of the hot sheet, away from the heatable roll.