Patent ID: 7918162
Filing Date: 2011-04-05
Classification: B41F,B65H

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for transporting sheets to or in a sheet-processing machine, the apparatus comprising: a gripper device including a gripper shaft having a longitudinal axis and at least one gripper to be actuated by a pivoting movement of said gripper shaft; said at least one gripper having a gripper housing with a gripper tip and a gripper pad, said gripper housing with said gripper tip and said gripper pad being pivotably disposed on said gripper shaft and being jointly pivotable; a single control cam disposed adjacent said gripper device; a control lever mounted to said gripper shaft, said control lever being operatively connected to said single control cam for producing the pivoting movement of said gripper shaft; said single control cam for producing the pivoting movement of said gripper housing, said gripper tip, and said gripper pad about said axis of said gripper shaft under a prescribed periphery and said single control cam controlling an opening or closing movement of said gripper tip and said gripper pad.