Patent ID: 6230596
Filing Date: 2001-05-15
Classification: A41H,B65H,D05B,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
An apparatus for conveying flat pieces of a web, comprising:a first transporter for displacing a web subdividable into a succession of flat pieces of the web along a first path in a first direction;a second transporter defining a second path in a plane parallel to a plane of said first path for receiving said flat pieces and displacing the received flat pieces in a second direction perpendicular to said first direction; andclamping means engageable with said flat pieces at a location along said first path for transferring said flat pieces to said second path for engagement by said second transporter,said second transporter comprising:a strip-shaped support extending in said second direction away from a location along said second path at which said flat pieces are transferred from said first path to said second path,a continuously driven first conveyor element having a stretch traveling in said second direction and running along said support for entraining said flat pieces along said support, andfurther means for displacing at least an up-stream part of said conveyor element toward said location along said second path for receiving a transferred flat piece on said second transporter.