Patent ID: 8777221
Filing Date: 2014-07-15
Classification: B65G,B65H

Abstract:
1. A device for processing printing products comprising: a processing device having a large number of receiving elements which are driven along a circulation path in a direction of circulation and are arranged one after another and transversely to the circulation path, and a discharge station for grasping and discharging printing products, which are brought in the receiving elements up to the discharge station, in a portion of the circulation path that runs in an arc of a circle about an axis of rotation, wherein the discharge station has a removal conveyor with a number of gripper tongs which are driven so as to circulate along a self-enclosed movement path counter to the direction of circulation and are moved in a takeover portion, which runs in an arc of a circle around a takeover axis and faces with its radial outer side the processing device, the takeover axis being parallel to and set apart from the axis of rotation of the circulation path, into the receiving elements in synchronization therewith and, after the grasping of the printing products at a side rim, out of the receiving elements while moving along the arc of the circle, and wherein the discharge station has a clamp transporter which is arranged, viewed in the direction of circulation, downstream of the removal conveyor and has controlled clamps which are driven along a self-enclosed clamp path in the same direction as the direction of circulation and are capable of grasping the printing products, which are held by the gripper tongs at their edge opposing the side rim and of conveying them onward once released by the gripper tongs.