Patent ID: 7926665

Claim:
A method for transferring flexible sheet products, in particular printed products, stored in a product stack, onto a belt conveyor, in which the product stack is supported from below and each individual product is gripped in its edge region that leads in the following method step by means of a suction element which is arranged underneath the product stack, the product that is gripped is accepted by a gripper that grips its leading edge region and runs on a closed circulation path and, by means of said gripper, is transported to the belt conveyor and deposited on the belt conveyor within a transfer region, the direction of movement of the gripper in its pick-up region placed underneath the product stack running substantially from the leading edge region to the trailing edge region of the products in the product stack, wherein the product is pressed onto the belt conveyor by means of a pressure roller following the gripper in the transfer region and the gripper releases the product at least approximately at the same time as the start of the pressing action.