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US 6,270,068 B1Granted
Transport device
AssigneeHeidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
InventorJohn Cracknell
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Abstract
An improved transport device for transporting signatures from a continuously moving saddle chain has a first pair of belts arranged opposite to each other. A signature moving with continuously speed on a saddle chain is gripped between the pair of belts and accelerated away from the saddle chain to a working station.
Claims14
A transport device especially for transporting a bundle of moving signatures, comprising:
- a saddle chain;
- a working station connected to said saddle chain;
- the signatures hanging on the saddle chain and having first and second sides, the first side hanging on one side of the chain and the second side hanging on an opposite side of the chain;
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- a first pair of transport belts, having a first and second belt arranged opposite to each other for gripping and transporting the first side of the bundle of signatures between them.
2 more elements
A saddle binding machine comprising:
- a signature conveyor,
- a plurality of hoppers disposed at spaced apart locations along said signature conveyor;
- a transport device especially for transporting a bundle of moving signatures each having a first side and a second side, including a saddle chain having an first side opposing a second side, said first side of said saddle chain supporting the first side of each signature and said second side of said saddle chain supporting the second side of each signature;
- a working station connected to said saddle chain;
- and a first pair of transport belts, having a first and second belt arranged opposite to each other for gripping and transporting the first side of the bundle of signatures between them.
2 more elements
A transport device especially for transporting a bundle of moving signatures each having a first side and a second side, comprising:
- a saddle chain having a first side opposing a second side, said first side of said saddle chain supporting the first side of each signature and said second side of said saddle chain supporting the second side of each signature;
- a working station connected to said saddle chain;
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- a first pair of transport belts, having a first and second belt arranged opposite to each other for gripping and transporting the first side of the bundle of signatures between them.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.