Patent ID: 8066468
Filing Date: 2011-11-29
Classification: B65G,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A collecting and conveying apparatus for paper sheets, the apparatus comprising: means for feeding a plurality of rows of sheets in a longitudinal travel direction to a transversely extending collecting station for forming in the collecting station at a downstream end of each row of sheets a respective stack of the respective sheets; a transversely extending cross conveyor adjacent the collecting station and displaceable transversely of the longitudinal travel direction; a carriage shiftable transversely synchronously with the cross conveyor and carrying respective holddown clamps aligned in an upstream position in the longitudinal travel direction with the rows and engageable downwardly with the stacks on the cross conveyor; and means for pressing the holddown clamps down against the respective stacks on the cross conveyor during displacement of the stacks on the cross conveyor away from the collecting station while pressing the stacks down against the cross conveyor at least during an acceleration phase of the cross conveyor.