Device and method for conveying and aligning flat products
AssigneeFerag AG
InventorsWerner Honegger, Marcel Schneider
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Abstract
A conveying device for conveying and aligning flat products or stacks of flat products, in particular printed products, includes leading pins for stop on a leading edge of conveyed products and trailing pins or pushers for stop on a trailing edge of the conveyed products. The products are insertable between the leading and trailing pins and are thus aligned by the pins. A distance between successive pushers is adjustable without parts of the device having to be exchanged.
Claims13
A conveying device for conveying and aligning flat and optionally flexible products or stacks of flat products comprising:
- leading pins acting as a stop on a leading edge of conveyed products, and
- trailing pins or pushers acting as a stop on a trailing edge of the conveyed products,
- wherein the products are placeable between the leading and trailing pins and thereby are conveyed and aligned,
- wherein a distance between successive pushers is adjustable without parts of the device having to be exchanged
- wherein the pushers, for achieving an adjustable distance at regular distances, are arranged along a circulating conveying means and the distance is adjustable by adjusting a length of the conveying means.
A method for conveying and aligning flat and optionally flexible products or stacks of flat products comprising the steps of:
- pushing the products by their trailing edges by means of leading pins or pushers;
- holding back the products along their leading edges by means of leading pins;
- conveying and aligning the products by the pushers and the leading pins;
- adjusting of a distance of successive products by the distance between each of the pushers and the following leading pin holding back the next product, wherein the pusher and a following leading pin are connected to each other at a fixed distance and thus form an alignment element acting on both a leading side and a trailing side of adjacent products or stacks of products;
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- adjusting the distance by changing a length of a conveying means, along which the alignment means are affixed at regular distances.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.