Patent ID: 7237479
Filing Date: 2007-07-03
Classification: B26D,B26F,B65H

Abstract:
1. Device for successively transporting sheets in a platen press comprising: a flexible element in the shape of an endless loop; the flexible element engages an intermittent drive wheel and at least one free guide wheel; gripper bars having a respective end fixedly attached to the flexible element, the gripper bars including grippers thereon; a working chase and an opposed movable platen respectively above and below the path of the grippers of the gripper bar; nozzles connected to a compressed air supply, for directing air jets towards the movable platen during a stopping phase of the gripper bars, in order to successively stop the sheets between the working chase and the movable platen, the chase having a transverse rear edge, and the nozzles being arranged below the transverse rear edge of the said working chase.