Patent ID: 6758469
Filing Date: 2004-07-06
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
A feeding device for feeding a processing line with printed products, including folded printed sheets, from a stack of printed products, said feeding device comprising:a magazine for holding the folded printed sheets; a conveying means defining a circulating path around an axis and moving in a conveying direction for conveying the printed products to the processing line with the folds of the printed products extending in the conveying direction; a synchronously driven separating mechanism pivotally attached to the magazine for acting upon a front edge of a printed product and operating to partially remove the printed product from the stack of printed products; and a gripping arrangement comprising a controlled gripping device attached to the conveying means in a feeding region of the processing line and essentially moving along in the conveying direction for taking over the printed product from the separating mechanism by gripping the front edge of the printed product relative to the conveying direction, wherein both the separating mechanism and the gripping arrangement are arranged to one side of the conveying means in an axial direction of the conveying means and arranged adjacent the folds of the printed products so that the respective printed products are gripped only on the one side of the conveying means.