Covering device for a side lay opening in a feed table of a sheet-processing machine

Abstract

A covering device for a side-lay opening formed in a feed table of a sheet-processing machine and disposed transversely to a sheet-transport direction, wherein a bottom edge of at least one side lay for laterally aligning sheets travelling through the sheet processing machine in the sheet-transport direction dips into the side lay opening to a location below the surface of the feed table, a holder for the side lay being disposed on a guide and being adjustable transversely with respect to the sheet-transport direction, and cover web segments mutually juxtaposed and in alignment with the surface of the table being disposed adjacent the side lay for covering the side-lay opening, includes a spring device for bracing the cover web segments and biasing them in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the feed table, a sliding pad attached to the holder for the side lay, the sliding pad, in vicinity of the side lay, being actuable from above on the cover web segments for pressing the latter against the spring bias into the side lay opening, the sliding pad having a surface in alignment with the plane of the surface of the feed table adjacent to an inner side of the side lay directed towards a center of the sheet-processing machine.

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