Method and apparatus for the formation of exact piles
AssigneeKBA-Planeta AG
InventorsMichael Koch, Volker Taschenberger, Hans Zimmermann
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method for exact pile formation in printing press deliveries, which comprises printing, or printing and coating sheets in a printing press, transporting the printed or printed and coated sheets to a sheet delivery pile, releasing the sheets above the delivery pile, compacting the delivery pile by applying mechanical or pneumatic pressure thereonto, and removing the thus compacted delivery pile, and to apparatus for carrying out the foregoing method.
Claims22
A method for exact pile formation in printing press deliveries, which comprises printing, or printing and coating sheets in a printing press, transporting the printed or printed and coated sheets to a sheet delivery pile of the printing press, releasing said sheets above the delivery pile, and upon completion of the pile compacting the delivery pile by applying mechanical or pneumatic pressure thereonto while optionally simultaneously lowering the pile, and removing the thus compacted delivery pile.
Apparatus for exact pile formation in a printing press delivery, which comprises means for printing or printing and coating sheets, means for transporting said sheets to a delivery pile having a center, means for releasing the transported sheets above the delivery pile, means for laying down the released sheets onto the delivery pile, a pile compactor disposed above the delivery pile and movable downwardly toward said delivery pile for the compaction thereof upon the completion thereof, and optional means for lowering the pile during the compaction thereof.
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