Patent ID: 6971646

Claim:
A module for temporarily storing a succession of flat printed products, comprising: first and second mutually opposite side walls spaced apart by a variable distance; first and second transport elements respectively assigned to said first and second side walls; first and second carrier element trains respectively disposed on said first and second transport elements, said first carrier element train having a first carrier element with an upper side and a third carrier element with a underside, said second carrier element train having a second carrier element with an upper side and a fourth carrier element with a underside; and means for curving a loaded printed product, said means adjusting the distance between said first and second side walls causing the loaded printed product to be held with a curvature, concave on an underside thereof and convex on an upper side thereof; said transport elements being movable relative to said side walls and correlated with one another, for a form-locking, at least partial support of the underside of the loaded printed product by said upper sides of said first and second carrier elements; said undersides of said third and said fourth carrier elements making form-locking contact with the upper side of the loaded printed product, for holding down the underside of the loaded printed product on said upper sides of said first and said second carrier elements.