Patent ID: 6237744
Filing Date: 2001-05-29
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
An apparatus for supplying printed products, such as newspapers, periodicals, brochures and the like, as well as supplements for such printed products, to a discharge location (21), having a source (Z) of given, limited storage capacity and having a conveying arrangement (3) which leads away the printed products (4) delivered from the source (Z), wherein the conveying arrangement (3) has a number of individual transporting elements (13), which are moved along a conveying path (14), are intended for transporting the printed products (4) to at least one discharge location (21) and have a variable spacing between them, and wherein the conveying path (14) has a buffer-storage section (23) which is arranged upstream of the discharge location (21), along which the transporting elements (13) are stored temporarily, in which case the spacing between them is reduced, and out of which the transporting elements (13) are moved continuously to the discharge location (21), said conveying path including a branch path for diverting and storing transporting elements (13') that are not transporting printed product from a branch location upstream of said buffer-storage section (23) and reintroducing them into the conveying path at an introduction location (27) downstream of said discharge location (21).