Apparatus for evening an imbricated stream of printed products
AssigneeFerag AG
InventorsWerner Honegger, Erwin Muller
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Abstract
An apparatus for evening a printed stream of printed products comprising a number of revolving entrainment members which are in a drag connection with one another. At the region of their conveying-active path the entrainment members are guided and at the start of this path driven by a thrust drive and at the end thereof driven by a traction drive. The entrainment members engage the printed products and the thrust and traction drives cause a change in the spacing of the entrainment members and, consequently, in the spacing of the products.
Claims13
An apparatus for evening an imbricated stream of products, especially printed products, comprising a plurality of revolving entrainment members, each entrainment member engaging a trailing end of an associated one of the printed products, means defining a path of travel for the entrainment members, said entrainment members being movable along said path of travel through a conveying-effective path, means providing a drag connection between the entrainment members, means for guiding the entrainment members at the region of their conveying-effective path, thrust drive means for driving the entrainment members at the start of the conveying-effective path and traction drive means for driving the entrainment members at the end of said conveying-effective path, said drive means constituting a first controllable drive means at the start of the conveying-effective path for driving said entrainment members in pushing relationship to one another and a second controllable drive means at the end of the conveying-effective path for driving said entrainment members in pulling relationship to one another.
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