Apparatus for transporting continuously arriving flat paper products, especially a stream of printed products arriving in an imbricated formation

An apparatus for transporting substantially flat paper products arriving continuously and essentially in a plane, particularly for transporting a stream of printed products arriving in an imbricated formation, comprising:

• a guided revolvingly driven endless traction means defining a conveying run running in a predetermined direction of transport of the paper products;
• controlled gripper units mounted at said traction means in spaced relationship from each other;
• each of said gripper units comprising a substantially planar clamping surface extending laterally from said traction means;
• said planar clamping surfaces being inclined at essentially equal angles with respect to said plane in the direction of said conveying run;
• and
• said gripper unit serving to grip a lateral marginal region of said paper products and to impress thereupon an undulated configuration, the undulations of which extend substantially at right angles with respect to said conveying run of said endless traction means.