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US 5,029,843 AGranted
Printed products handling apparatus for reception, storage and transfer of folded sheet products
AssigneeMAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG
InventorIngo Kobler
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AssigneeMAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG
InventorIngo Kobler
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To hold and transport folded printed products, a belt (18), for example a steel ribbon, has separating and holding elements (19), for example flat metal plates or sheets secured thereto. The transport belt (18) with the separating elements thereon is guided about a curved guide surface (20), for example a roller, whereupon the separating elements will spread or fan out from the underlying transport belt. In this spread or fanned out position, they can accept one sheet element (11) of a spread apart folded product (1), the separating element (19) gripping that sheet element (11) between itself and the transport belt. The folded products can then be transported, in scale-like or imbricated or shingled form, to a storage position, for example by rolling up the steel ribbon (18). The folded products are released be again passing the belt about a curved directing surface (26) which may again be a roller or the same roller, which will again fan out the separating elements, spreading them from the transport belt (18) for release of the folded products, for example for placement on a saddle or other support structure where they are held suspended from beneath the bend or fold thereof.
A system for reception, loading for storage and subsequent removal and transfer of folded sheet products (1) defining essentially parallel adjacent sheet elements (11, 12), particularly printed products, comprising
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