Patent ID: 8192340

Claim:
A buckle plate device for a folding machine comprising a buckle plate and sheet stopping means for stopping a sheet running into said buckle plate in an intake direction, said sheet stopping means being formed by clamping means clamping an incoming sheet in order to stop it; wherein said clamping means comprises at least one pair of first and second clamping elements arranged opposite one another at both sides of a sheet plane of an incoming sheet, wherein at least said first clamping element of said at least one pair can be moved towards said second clamping element for clamping an incoming sheet by drive means from an initial position to a clamping position and for an unobstructed intake of a subsequent sheet back into said initial position; and wherein said clamping elements are supported in a pivotable manner about a pivot axle extending in parallel to said sheet plane and perpendicularly to said intake direction such that they can be pivoted from a clamping position thereof into a release position against the force of bias means in an outlet direction.