Patent ID: 7980541

Claim:
A device for distributing successive folding products produced by a cross cutting device by dividing a material web into two branch flows comprising: a wedge arrangement arranged in a transporting plane of a product flow; two cam rollers arranged symmetrically with respect to a center working plane that flank the wedge arrangement, each of the cam rollers having an associated plurality of cams; two guide plates that flank the wedge arrangement configured to define a path fork with the wedge arrangement, each of the guide plates having a plurality of slots; and a pair of rollers associated with a pair of belt guides configured to laterally deflect the folded product upstream of the guide plates; wherein the guide plates are alternately penetrated by the plural cams of the respective adjacent cam rollers associated with the plural slots during rotation of the two cam rollers, wherein the penetrating cams and the one of the guide plates that is not penetrated form a feed for a belt guide associated with one of the branch flows.