Device and method for delivering printed products from a saddle-shaped support
AssigneeMueller Martini Holding AG
InventorMarcel Buerge
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Abstract
A device for delivering a printed product from a saddle-shaped support includes at least two discs that are configured to pass through a gap that extends in a conveying direction and that is disposed, at least in a delivery region, between two support parts of the saddle-shaped support. The at least two discs are rotatable about respective fixed rotation axles that are mutually spaced from one another in the conveying direction. Each of the discs is configured to project intermittently, during the rotation about the respective fixed rotation axles, above a ridge line of the ridge in the delivery region of the saddle-shaped support so as to continuously lift the printed product from the saddle-shaped support in the delivery region.
Claims17
A device for delivering a printed product from a saddle-shaped support, the saddle-shaped support including a ridge, a plurality of conveying members and two support parts, and being configured to introduce the printed product, using the conveying members, in a conveying direction to a delivery region of the saddle-shaped support with the printed product straddling the ridge, the two support parts being arranged with mutual spacing so as to form between them a gap extending in the conveying direction at least in the delivery region, at least one gripper member being configured to remove the printed product from the saddle-shaped support in the delivery region, the device comprising:
- at least two discs that are configured to pass through the gap, the at least two discs being rotatable about respective fixed rotation axles that are mutually spaced from one another in the conveying direction, each of the discs being configured to project intermittently, during the rotation about the respective fixed rotation axles, above a ridge line of the ridge in the delivery region of the saddle-shaped support so as to continuously lift the printed product from the saddle-shaped support in the delivery region.
A method for delivering a printed product from a saddle-shaped support configured to initially introduce the printed product, using conveying members, in a conveying direction to a delivery region of the saddle-shaped support with the printed product straddling the saddle-shaped support, at least one gripper member being configured to remove, after the delivering, the printed product from the saddle-shaped support in the delivery region, the method comprising:
- continuously lifting the printed product from the saddle-shaped support in the delivery region towards the at least one gripper member using at least two rotating discs disposed so as to pass through a gap that extends in the conveying direction and that is disposed, at least in the delivery region, between two support parts of the saddle-shaped support, the at least two discs being rotatable about respective fixed rotation axles that are mutually spaced apart from one another in the conveying direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.