Apparatus for processing printed products
AssigneeFerag AG
InventorReinhard Gosslinghoff
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Abstract
The apparatus for processing printed products includes receiving compartments that are arranged one behind the other in the direction of rotation and are moved, with their outer opening, past the discharge end of a belt conveyor. Arranged at the opening of each receiving compartment is a conveying-roller pair that is intended, upon moving past the discharge end, to grasp between its rollers one printed product that has been fed by the belt conveyor and to clamp printed product in the conveying gap. During further movement of the receiving compartment in the direction of rotation, the firmly clamped printed product is conveyed into the receiving compartment. This permits reliable introduction of the printed products into the receiving compartments, even if said printed products are fed at different spacings.
Claims12
An apparatus for processing printed products, comprising:
- receiving compartments that are driven in rotation along a continuous movement path, said receiving compartments arranged one behind the other;
- wall elements extending transverse to the direction of rotation of said receiving compartments, said receiving compartments being delimitted by said wall elements;
- each receiving compartment including an opening located on the outside with respect to the continuous movement path and through which printed products can be inserted into the receiving compartments;
- a belt conveyor for feeding printed products, said belt conveyor including a discharge end that said openings of the rotating receiving compartments are adapted to move past such that a printed product can be fed from the discharge end, through the opening into a receiving compartment with its leading edge first;
- a conveying-roller pair provided adjacent said opening of each receiving compartment, said conveying-roller pair forms a conveying gap said conveying-roller pair including a driven roller;
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- said conveying-roller pair, when moving past said discharge end of the belt conveyor, receiving between its rollers one fed printed product and clamping said printed product in said conveying gap and then conveying the firmly clamped printed product into the receiving compartment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.