Patent ID: 6581927
Filing Date: 2003-06-24
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
A device for separating groups of sheets in an apparatus for forming and banding groups of sheets, the apparatus being of the type with at least one track for feeding the individual sheets to a roller which picks up the individual sheets in arrival and transfers the sheets to a stacking channel that extends along a stacking axis and wherein the sheets are placed one on top of another in stacks which can be preset and banded, one after another, the separating device comprising an element for partial support of the sheets transferred, operating between the roller and the channel and mobile, by means synchronized with the roller, between an operating separation position, in which the element is partially inside the dimension of the roller, intercepting part of a first sheet of a stack to be formed, and a release position, in which the element is outside the dimensions of the roller and close to the mouth of the channel, partially supporting a pre-settable stack of sheets fed from the roller.