Patent ID: 6224050
Filing Date: 2001-05-01
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
A method for feeding astride signatures having a fold, to a collection path, comprising the steps of:at least partially lifting one signature from a stack,gripping the signature on the fold with a rotating conveyor drum and transporting the signature with the fold facing forwardly to a discharge location located on the circumference of the conveyor drum;moving the signature to the collection path with a subsequent opening device which holds the signature in a marginal region opposite the fold and transports the signature in an approximately opposite direction, andincreasing a transport speed of the signature lifted from the stack relative to a circumferential speed of the conveyor drum and then decreasing the transport speed of the signature before or inside a region of the discharge location, in a capture region of the opening device respectively, whereby the signature is moved again in the opposite direction with respect to the circumference of the conveyor drum.