Vacuum manipulation device

A vacuum manipulating device for an object to be manipulated by being drawn up by suction, comprising:

• a lifter hose connected to a vacuum-generating device;
• and
• a suction gripper device which engages the object to be manipulated and draws up the object by suction and lifts it by contracting said lifter hose, said suction gripper device includes a prestressed regulating member on its suction side, which when in engagement with the object, unblocks a flow cross-section so that the object is drawn up by suction, a suction plate which defines a front plane,
• wherein said regulating member includes a front face which, in the non-actuated position of said regulating member is situated in said front plane by said prestress, and a valve plate, by means of which the flow cross-section is blocked when said suction gripper device is uncoupled, and is unblocked in the actuated position of said regulating member, said regulating member being arrested in its actuated position so that in the event of an unintentional release of the drawn-up object, said flow cross-section is not blocked thereby preventing the abrupt upward acceleration of the suction gripper device.