Patent ID: 6234475
Filing Date: 2001-05-22
Classification: B65H,G07D

Abstract:
A transporting apparatus for individual sheets, said apparatus having a frame on which there are provided a first transporting path, a second transporting path, which is directed at an angle to said first transporting path, and, at the connecting location between the two transporting paths, a diverter arrangement with a first diverter surface which, together with a first frame-side directing surface, bounds a first connecting path, which leads from the first transporting path to the second transporting path, and with a second diverter surface which, together with a second frame-side directing surface, bounds a second connecting path, which leads from the second transporting path to the first transporting path, so that the two diverter surfaces can be adjusted alternately such that, when the first connecting path is opened, the first transporting path is interrupted and the inlet opening from the second transporting path into the second connecting path is closed and, when the latter is opened, the inlet opening from the first transporting path into the first connecting path is closed and the first transporting path is released, the improvements comprising the first diverter surface and a third diverter surface, which forms an acute angle with the first diverter surface and bounds part of the first transporting path being formed on a first strip-like diverter body, which extends over the width of the transporting paths and can be adjusted in a translatory manner between a first position, in which the third diverter surface is located in a surface which bounds the first transporting path and the first connecting path is closed, and a second position, in which the third diverter surface has been lifted out of the surface, which bounds the first transporting path, and the first connecting path is open, and the second diverter surface being formed on a second strip-like diverter body, which is parallel to the first diverter body and is mounted to be pivoted about a pivot spindle parallel to the respective transporting plane of the transporting paths, and in that the two diverter bodies being coupled to a drive arrangement for the synchronous adjustment of the diverter bodies.