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US 7,063,313 B2Granted
Device for holding printed products
AssigneeFerag AG
InventorsWilly Leu, Erwin Muller
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Abstract
A device for holding printed products fed in variations of at least collecting and collating feed modes. The device includes a holding element for holding products fed in different feed modes. The holding element, in turn, includes a deflection element which, in a printed product transfer region, is effective to deflect printed products being fed away from those already fed to the holding element.
Claims14
In a conveying system, a device for holding printed products in a transfer region, comprising:
- at least one holding element, said one holding element including a supporting element, a base element and a support, the supporting element and the base element being constructed and arranged to hold printed products from the side or from below, the support being constructed and arranged to hold folded printed products astride;
- and
- a deflection element movable relative to said holding element between at least two positions, said deflection element having a deflection surface spaced apart from said holding element and effective, when in at least one of said two positions, to deflect a printed product fed to the holding element so that it is held positioned either completely on that side of printed products already held which, standing on the base element, face away from the supporting element, or part of the printed product placed astride the support is positioned on that side of printed products already held which face away from the supporting element.
A method of feeding printed products onto a holding element in a printed product transfer region comprising the steps of:
- providing a holding element which has a supporting element, a base element and a support, the supporting element and the base element being constructed and arranged to hold printed products from the side or from below, the support being constructed and arranged to hold folded printed products astride;
- serially feeding printed products in at least one of a collation mode and a collecting mode onto said holding element;
- providing a deflection element movable relative to said holding element between at least two positions, said deflection element having a deflection surface spaced apart from said holding element;
- and
- before each printed product is deposited on said holding element, deflecting the printed product being deposited with said deflection surface when said deflection element is in one of said at least two positions so that the product is held positioned either completely on that side of printed products already held which, standing on the base element, face away from the supporting element, or part of the printed product placed astride the support is positioned on that side of printed products already held which face away from the supporting element.
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