Patent ID: 6773008
Filing Date: 2004-08-10
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
An apparatus for transporting sheet like articles, in particular printed products, comprising:conveying elements, which are moved in the conveying direction along a circulatory path and are arranged one behind the other; and individually controllable transporting clamps, which are each arranged on a conveying element and are intended for retaining laterally, as seen in the conveying direction, by means of their clamp mouth, which is arranged in a conveying plane running in the conveying direction, in each case at least two articles which are arranged in the conveying plane and overlap one another in an imbricated manner and in the conveying direction, said transporting clamps being mounted on the conveying elements such that they can be displaced back and forth between two positions at least more or less in the conveying plane and in a displacement direction running transversely to the circulatory path; and a feed conveyor arranged to convey articles in an imbricated formation into a receiving portion of said circulatory path; wherein said transporting clamps, in the receiving portion, enclose and grip in each case at least two the articles, from the side and, wherein, at the end of the receiving section, before the respectively following transporting clamp grips articles, a control arrangement displaces the transporting clamps such that the gripped articles are located outside the region of the following transporting clamp.