Patent ID: 6149148
Filing Date: 2000-11-21
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
A hurdle board assembly for separating sheet piles in a delivery of a sheet-fed printing machine, comprising a hurdle board, a plurality of spacer elements connected to said hurdle board at locations in the vicinity of the border of one surface of the hurdle board, said spacer elements, respectively, being movable between a condition wherein they are retracted into the hurdle board and a condition wherein they extend vertically from the hurdle board, respective prestressing devices for prestressing said spacer elements, respectively, in a direction in the condition wherein said spacer elements, respectively, extend from said hurdle board, and respective locking devices for securing said spacer elements, respectively, in said retracted condition, said locking devices being deactivatable from a side of said hurdle board so as to release said spacer elements.