Patent ID: 7731185
Filing Date: 2010-06-08
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
1. Device for the placement of sheets for a printer, said device comprising: at least one first sheet conveyor in the shape of a disk having a jacket surface, serving as a support for a sheet, defining a curvature path for the conveyance of sheets; and at least two second sheet conveyors each having at least a pair of gripping elements, each of said respective gripping elements including a tongue, which follows parallel to the curvature path of the jacket surface of said at least one first sheet conveyor to grip a front edge of a sheet in such a way that the front edge of the sheet can be gripped and conveyed respectively between each of said gripping elements and the jacket surface, said at least two second sheet conveyors being essentially two-arm swivel beams with two free ends pointing radially outwards, each free end having a respective one of said gripping elements, said gripping elements of said at least two second sheet conveyors are repeatedly presented, in such a way that said at least two second sheet conveyors can be rotated on a common axis, essentially independently of one another, and thus one of said gripping elements of said at least two second sheet conveyors are ready to grip the next sheet, if another of said gripping elements is still occupied with the transport of a preceding sheet.