Patent ID: 6343685
Filing Date: 2002-02-05
Classification: B65G

Abstract:
An apparatus for conveying sheet-like articles, preferably stacks of sheet like articles, comprising:a first conveying means, wherein the first conveying means has a plurality of first bearing elements, each of the plurality of first bearing elements having a central axis, which are arranged parallel to one another and define first bearing surface and can be driven such that they can be translated in a direction perpendicular to the central axis, in a first conveying direction; a second conveying means, wherein the second conveying means has a plurality of second bearing elements which run parallel to one another and to the first bearing elements and define a second bearing surface, the second bearing elements being designed as conveying elements which can be driven in a second conveying direction, which runs transverse to the first conveying direction; and a lifting apparatus, which allows either the first or the second bearing elements to be displaced in a lifting direction, which runs essentially at right angles to the bearing surface, and wherein the first and second bearing elements are configured and spaced apart from one another to form an inter-space, such that, upon displacement in the lifting direction, the second bearing elements can be displaced through the inter-spaces between the first bearing elements, with the result that either the first bearing surface or the second bearing surface is arranged above the other bearing surface.