Apparatus for deflecting sheet material

Apparatus for processing sheet-shaped documents of value, comprising a first sheet material transport path and a second sheet material transport path, and an apparatus for deflecting sheet material arranged to deflect sheet material from the first to the second sheet material transport path, the apparatus comprising:

• a support plate defining a sheet material transport path for the sheet material to be deflected, having an even deflecting area comprising a sheet material supply zone facing the first transport path and a sheet material removal zone facing the second transport path, and
• at least one slider arranged to engage a trailing edge of the sheet material supplied to the sheet material supply zone,
• wherein the at least one slider is arranged such that upon movement of the at least one slider, the sheet material engaged by the slider in the sheet material supply zone is pushed along the transport path from the sheet material supply zone to the sheet material removal zone, while the orientation of the sheet material relative to the pushing direction is maintained;
• the apparatus further including a cover plate, and a gap being defined between the cover plate and the support plate, the sheet material transport path being disposed in the gap;
• wherein the sheet material supply zone and the sheet material removal zone are co-planar.

Apparatus for deflecting flat, rectangular sheet material from a first sheet material transport path having a first transport direction to a second sheet material transport path having a second transport direction differing from the first transport direction, comprising

• a support plate defining a sheet material transport path for the sheet material to be deflected, having a deflecting area comprising a sheet material supply zone facing the first transport path and a sheet material removal zone facing the second transport path, and
• at least one slider arranged to engage a trailing edge of the sheet material supplied to the sheet material supply zone,
• wherein the at least one slider is arranged such that upon movement of the at least one slider, the sheet material engaged by the slider in the sheet material supply zone is pushed along the transport path from the sheet material supply zone to the sheet material removal zone, while the orientation of the sheet material relative to the pushing direction is maintained;
• wherein the at least one slider is arranged to plunge into the sheet material transport path in the movement direction of the slider upstream of the sheet material supply zone, and emerges again from the sheet material transport path downstream of the sheet material removal zone;
• the apparatus further including an oblique supply section in the sheet material transport path upstream of the supply area, and an oblique removal section in the sheet material transport path downstream of the sheet material removal zone, the arrangement of the oblique supply section and oblique removal section causing adjustment of the level of the sheet material transport path in the deflecting area to a level of the sheet material transport path in the transport direction upstream and downstream of the deflecting area, enabling the at least one slider to be plunged into the sheet material transport path in the area of the oblique supply section and to emerge again from the sheet material transport path in the area of the oblique removal section.