Patent ID: 6394449
Filing Date: 2002-05-28
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
Apparatus for receiving sheet-like products, in particular printed products, comprising: a plurality of transporting mechanisms; individual grippers, having legs that can be opened and closed, coupled to corresponding transporting mechanisms; said transporting mechanisms having a receiving path along which the grippers can be conveyed, said receiving path including a region in which the legs of successive, open grippers are supported against one another; each transporting mechanism having a given dimension, measured in the direction of transport, that is less than the distance between the legs of an open gripper such that the number of grippers that can occupy said region of the receiving path is restricted by the size of an open gripper rather than by the size of the transporting mechanisms; a gripper-closing device, which can be actuated once a product has been introduced into an open gripper; said receiving path is curved convexly in order to increase the maximum possible gripper opening; and an accelerating conveyor for transporting the transporting mechanisms and corresponding gripper and gripped product away from the region of the receiving path at elevated speeds and with larger intervals between the transporting mechanisms.