Patent ID: 7870947

Claim:
A gripper for gripping and conveying of flat objects, in particular of printed products such as newspapers, magazines or brochures, or of small groups thereof, said gripper comprising: a gripper body, a first clamping tongue comprising clamping jaws at its distal end, a second clamping tongue comprising clamping jaws at its distal end and being pivotable relative to the first clamping tongue about a pivot axis, and a means for producing a clamping force, wherein the gripper may be brought into an open and into a closed configuration by way of pivoting the first and second clamping tongues with respect to one another, wherein the clamping jaws of the two clamping tongues bear on one another or on a clamped object in the closed configuration, and are pressed against one another by the clamping force, further comprising: two laterally extending arms arranged at least one of the two clamping tongues at its distal end, wherein the arms are resilient in a direction parallel to the clamping force, and a clamping jaw with a contact surface provided on each of the arms, in a manner such that a clamped object is clamped in two clamping regions which are distanced from one another.