Patent ID: 6401903
Filing Date: 2002-06-11
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
Method for removing individual items or groups of items from a scaled stream (2) consisting of a line of flat items overlapping each other like scales and being conveyed in a held manner along a first conveying path (F.1), characterized in that the scaled stream (2) is held for held conveyance in a region of at least one longitudinal edge of the scaled stream with the aid of clamping elements (1.2), and wherein, at the entrance of a removal region (A) arranged along the first conveying path, for stream sections (2.2) which are to be removed from the stream or from which items are to be removed, the held conveyance is deactivated, opening the clamping elements (1.2), and the items to be removed are conveyed from the first conveying path (F.1) onto a second conveying path (F.2) and that the remaining sections (2.1) are conveyed through the removal region (A) in an unchanged held manner along the first conveying path, (F.1).