Patent ID: 7192028

Claim:
A device for processing printed products supplied to a stacking device, wherein the printed products are picked up at a delivery of a printing machine or a printed product processing machine by a transport device and are transported in a suspended position on a transport path to a transfer device upstream of a stacking device, wherein the stacking device is a unit detachable from the transfer device and selectively connectable to the transfer device which is connected so as to effect conveying of the printed products to the printing machine or the printed product processing machine, wherein the transfer device has a transfer path and is formed as a partial stacking device at the end of the transfer path, wherein the partial stacking device is synchronized to a working cycle of the stacking device, the transfer device having a conveying drum, wherein the conveying drum at the upstream end of the transfer path, where the printed products approach the transfer device in an approach area, is driven in rotation in the same direction and synchronously to the printed products, wherein the conveying drum has pivotable grippers arranged circumferentially on the conveying drum, wherein the grippers are configured to grip downwardly extending ends of the printed products and, at the end of the transfer path, to position the printed products on the partial stacking device in an approximately horizontal position by opening the grippers.