Apparatus for drying flat printed material
OwnerErich Weberinventor
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Abstract
An apparatus is provided for drying flat printed material such as paper and card sheets and the like, supports for the printed material being mounted on the chain links of the conveyor chains of an upright chain conveyor having a transfer path which is disposed in an upper reversal zone of the conveyor chains and on which the printed material is conveyed from a rising to a falling conveyor stringer. Conveying means are disposed on the conveying path of the printed material and comprise pusher elements and/or pull elements which can be reciprocated in the conveying plane and which act only on the trailing or leading ends of the printed material so as to push and/or pull the printed material over the conveying path.
Claims19
Apparatus for drying flat printed material such as paper and card sheets, plastic film or panels of board, timber, sheet metal or other material with printed material supports mounted on chain links connected to conveyor chains provided on a substantially upright chain conveyor means defining rising and falling conveyer stringers, an upper portion of said chain conveyor means provides a transfer path for said material wherein the material is transferred laterally from a rising conveyer stringer to a falling conveyer stringer, said transfer path including conveying means which comprise pull elements which can be reciprocated in the conveying plane for acting on the leading ends of the printed material so as to pull the printed material over the conveying path from said rising to said falling conveyer stringer.
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