Patent ID: 11890868
Assignee: BOBST MEX SA
Field: Textile and paper machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 13:
14. A machine for processing individual sheets, the machine comprising:
at least one processing station;
a transport system for transporting the individual sheets through the at least one processing station, along a transport direction, the transport system comprising:
at least one gripper conveyor movable along the transport direction, for gripping an individual sheet of the individual sheets defining a sheet position in the transport direction, and at least one support conveyor movable along the transport direction for supporting a region of the individual sheet, the at least one support conveyor comprising a vacuum system for supporting the individual sheet on an interacting surface of the at least one support conveyor, the vacuum system comprising a plurality of orifices in the interacting surface of the at least one support conveyor, wherein the supported individual sheet and the at least one support conveyor are movable along the transport direction with respect to each other; and

a control system for controlling a movement of the at least one gripper conveyor and the at least one support conveyor such that the supported region coincides with a processing region of the at least one processing station, wherein the control system is designed to control a speed of movement along the transport direction of the at least one support conveyor to be smaller than a speed of movement along the transport direction of the at least one gripper conveyor, during a processing operation.