Patent ID: 7644917

Claim:
An apparatus for handling sheet products, comprising: gliding rails; a truck that is glidable on said rails; a grip assembly for gripping a sheet; a supporting structure for supporting said grip assembly, said supporting structure having lateral translational motion means so as to be able to perform a translational motion on said truck with respect to a direction of advancement of the truck, said grip assembly being rotatably coupled to said supporting structure by way of rotation means thereof which are adapted to move the supporting structure from a first raised grip configuration to a second horizontal configuration; a worktable which is arranged above said rails and is provided with through openings which are contoured so as to be crossable downward from above and vice versa by said grip assembly during rotary motion of the grip assembly from said first raised configuration to said second horizontal configuration, when said truck is in a predefined position proximate to said worktable, said grip assembly being able to slide away below the worktable after leaving a sheet thereon, wherein said supporting structure is constituted by at least one slider, which is adapted to perform a lateral translational motion on said truck by way of said lateral translational motion means and wherein said supporting structure comprises two sliders, a first lower slider, which performs a lateral translational motion with respect to the truck, and a second upper slider, which performs a lateral translational motion on the first slider.