Patent ID: 8789683

Claim:
A crossing ( 10 ) between two transport lines ( 11 , 12 ) configured for the horizontal transport of planar articles ( 14 ), in particular print products, preferably in the form of an imbricated stream ( 13 ), of which one transport line ( 11 ) is disposed over the other transport line ( 12 ) at a predefined vertical distance apart (d) and angle, comprising: controllable means ( 15 ), in the region of the crossing ( 10 ), for transferring the transported articles from one of the transport lines ( 11 , 12 ) to the other of the transport lines ( 11 , 12 ), which controllable means, in a first setting, freely admit the transport of the articles on one of the transport lines ( 11 , 12 ) and, in a second setting, divert the transported articles from one of the transport lines ( 11 , 12 ) to the other; and a transfer apparatus ( 15 ) having an adaptable diversion line ( 25 ), which describes a space curve that effects an angular diversion of the imbricated stream of planar articles with simultaneous turning over of the planar articles onto the other of the transport lines ( 11 , 12 ), the transfer apparatus ( 15 ) including a displaceable free end ( 16 ) that, in the first setting, maintains a distance to one of the transport lines ( 11 , 12 ) and that, in the second setting, engages with the free end in one of the transport lines ( 11 , 12 ) to effect a diversion.