Patent ID: 8376123

Claim:
A device for opening and transporting on of printed products ( 6 ) with respectively at least two sheets ( 18 ) held together over a fixed edge ( 10 ), comprising a conveying device ( 1 ) with transport grippers ( 7 ) driven in a conveying direction (F), arranged at a distance behind one another with a spacing between one another, which are designed to hold the printed products ( 6 ) suspended by their fixed edge ( 10 ), as well as comprising an opening device ( 2 ) arranged below the conveying device ( 1 ), which is intended to open the printed products ( 6 ), wherein the opening device comprises gas supply means ( 5 ) for producing a gas flow ( 21 ), by means of which the sheets ( 18 ) of the printed product ( 6 ) are able to be fanned open in a free edge zone ( 24 ), as well as an opening element ( 15 ) capable of being introduced into the fanned open, free edge zone of the printed product ( 6 ), characterised in that the opening device ( 2 ) comprises an helical opening channel ( 14 ) rotatable around a rotating axis ( 29 ) for conducting the free edge zone ( 24 ), and in the opening channel ( 14 ) through the gas supply means ( 5 ) gas flows ( 21 ) capable of acting on the edge zone ( 24 ).