Sheet gripping jar arrangement

Abstract

A sheet gripping arrangement of a rotary printing machine has a sheet gripper abutment member, a soft gripper seat member, a gripper shaft having a gripper shaft pivot point, a sheet gripping element including a gripper finger cooperating with the gripper seat member and eccentrically pivotable relative to the gripper shaft about a gripper finger pivot point so as to move first over a substantially flat gripping path and then to move during its final movement phase normally to the latter, and a threaded abutment member arranged in the finger member and acting against the sheet gripper abutment member, wherein the gripper finger member is arranged at an angle of substantially 90.degree. to a contact point of the threaded abutment member with the sheet gripper abutment member, to the gripper finger point, and to the gripper shaft pivot point.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.