Patent ID: 6598872
Filing Date: 2003-07-29
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
A delivery for a printing machine processing sheets passing therethrough in a processing direction, comprising:modular braking elements each: formed with at least one opening adapted to be connected to a vacuum source; and having a braking insert; modular supporting elements each having a supporting insert substantially identical to said braking insert; and sheet handling devices each having: one of a plurality of substantially identical basic driving modules adapted to be connected to the vacuum source and to be selectively displaced transverse to the sheet processing direction, each of said basic driving modules having a receptacle; and a sheet carrying device revolvably disposed on said one basic driving module, said sheet carrying device being one of said elements, a respective one of said braking insert and said supporting insert being removably connected to said receptacle, said braking element adapted to apply a vacuum of the vacuum source to the sheet through said at least one opening, said supporting element preventing application of the vacuum to the sheet.