Process and apparatus for the conveying of printing products
AssigneeFerag AG
InventorsWerner Honegger, Walter Reist
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Abstract
A conveying apparatus delivers a succession of printing products in a first imbricated formation to a take-over region where the products are transferred to a delivery conveyor and conveyed away in a second imbricated formation. In the takeover region, the successive products are formed into an arched configuration, when viewed perpendicularly to the direction of their travel. This assists in ensuring that the products are delivered singly to the delivery conveyor even if the products are received at the takeover region in congruent fully overlapping pairs.
Claims33
In a process for conveying a succession of printing products wherein the products are moved continuously and successively in a conveying direction to a takeover region and wherein, at the takeover region, the products are transferred to a removal conveyor for further movement in succession;
- the improvement comprising, in the takeover region, arresting the products successively against a stop, while arrested, forming each successive product individually into an arched configuration as viewed perpendicularly to the conveying direction and transferring each product successively and individually to the removal conveyor in the arched configuration.
In an apparatus for continuously conveying a succession of printing products comprising a feed conveyor for moving the products successively into a takeover region in a conveying direction, and a removal conveyor for receiving the products at the takeover region and successively moving the products from the takeover region;
- the improvements comprising a stop in the takeover region for arresting the successive products, arching means in the takeover region for forming the successive products when arrested by the stop individually into an arched configuration as viewed perpendicularly to the conveying direction and transfer means associated with the removal conveyor for removing the products successively and individually from the arching means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.