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

Claim 14:
15. A process for processing printing individual sheets, the process comprising:
gripping a sheet of the individual sheets by a gripper conveyor running in a transport direction;
transporting, by the gripper conveyor, the gripped sheet along the transport direction, through a processing station;
during the transport through the processing station, supporting a region of the gripped sheet by a support conveyor running in the transport direction; and
during the transport of the support conveyor through a processing region of the processing station, selectively switching a number of connections of a vacuum system of the support conveyor, the connections being arranged along the transport direction,
wherein a distance between the gripper conveyor and the support conveyor is changed during the transport through the processing station in order to ensure that the supported region coincides with a processing region of the processing station.