Patent ID: 7222850
Filing Date: 2007-05-29
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
1. Apparatus for transporting a sheet of printing material in a printing press, the apparatus comprising: at least one rotating transport for transporting the sheet from a pickup site to a delivery site and delivering the sheet there, said rotating transport having, for receiving and entraining the sheet, at least one gripper pickup defined as a slot or a slit into which the leading edge of the sheet is introduced or inserted, and including at least one fragmentally existing bending core used for curving the sheet during the transport over a rotational or curvature radius; and at least one guide element between the pickup site and the delivery site blocks, at least in the centrifugal direction, for the purpose of maintaining the radius of curvature wherein a distance, measured across the curvature path of the sheet, is variably adjustable between the guide element and the delivery site to accommodate the length and/or width of the sheet.