Patent ID: 8132805
Filing Date: 2012-03-13
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
1. A method for feeding sheets to a sheet-processing machine, which comprises the steps of: feeding the sheets in an overlapping formation on a feed table to a first acceleration station and the sheets being accelerated by the first acceleration station; providing a skewed position correction to the sheets by the first acceleration station as the sheets are accelerated; feeding the sheets to at least one second acceleration station and the sheets being accelerated by the at least one second acceleration station to a machine speed of the sheet-processing machine, before the sheets are fed to sheet gripper devices of a feed cylinder of the sheet-processing machine; and feeding the sheets via a transport device that is driven continuously at a cycle rate of the sheet-processing machine to the gripper devices of the feed cylinder of the sheet-processing machine, after the sheets have been accelerated to the machine speed.