Transporting an essentially sheet-shaped element, particularly a print material sheet

An apparatus for transporting an essentially sheet-shaped element, particularly for transporting a print material sheet in a printing press comprising:

• at least one rotating transport which transports a sheet-shaped element from a grasping location to a delivery location and delivers it there, said transport having at least one mouth-like receptacle for taking hold of and entraining the sheet-shaped element for introducing a front-edge of the sheet-shaped element, and including at least one flexional core which is at least fragmentarily present for bending the sheet-shaped element during the entraining over a rotation or curvature radius, at least one grasping device in the region of the mouth-like receptacle, said grasping device is a cam disk which is rotatable about an axis which is parallel to a rotational axis of said transport and is supported on said transport such that said cam disk closes said mouth-like receptacle in at least one relative rotational position with respect to the transport and leaves said mouth-like receptacle open in at least one other relative rotational position, and means for driving said grasping device and said transport in a rotating manner at a predetermined rotational speed ratio with respect to one another.