Patent ID: 7531069

Claim:
A device for the transport of flexible plate-shaped or sheet-shaped planar material into treatment devices, comprising: transport means for gripping the planar material, transporting the planar material in a transporting direction onto a transport conveyor and applying a tension reinforcing the planar material and directed essentially transversely with respect to the transporting direction, the transport means housing roller tracks provided on opposite sides of the transport conveyor and pairs of rollers which have contact surfaces for rolling on boundary regions lying transversely opposite to one another and extending parallel with respect to the transporting direction and contacting the planar material from opposite planar sides under a contact pressure, and a space adjusting device for adjusting the distance between the roller tracks, wherein the rollers have axes which are arranged at an angle to the vertical relative to the transporting direction, the pairs of rollers follow one another in the transporting direction and run essentially in the boundary regions, at least partly driven pairs of rollers of each roller track cooperate under the contact pressure, shafts carrying the rollers are connected to the space adjusting device, the space adjusting device has a traverse guiding the shafts carrying the rollers and the space adjusting device is essentially movable transversely relative to the transporting direction.