Patent ID: 7758043

Claim:
An apparatus for conveying planar objects, in particular printed products accrued in an overlapping formation (S), having a feed conveyor, an evacuating conveyor running at an angle (α, α′, α″) to a feed direction (Z) of said feed conveyor, and at least one pair of rotatably mounted first and second deflection members disposed at a distance (B) from an outlet of the feed conveyor, the first and second deflection members forming a transport gap therebetween through which the objects are transported in a direction parallel to an evacuation direction (W) of the evacuating conveyor, the deflection members being rotated synchronously with the cycle of the objects supplied, from a first position forming a passage gap therebetween, to a second position forming the transport gap, and then again to the first position, wherein the deflection members disposed in the first position allow each respective object to be fed from the feed conveyor through the passage gap, and the apparatus further comprises a stop, disposed downstream of the passage gap in the feed direction (Z), such that the leading edge of each respective object in the feed direction (Z) abuts the stop after first having passed through the passage gap, whereupon the deflection members rotated to the second position take hold of the respective object in a leading edge marginal portion of the object in the feed direction (Z) and transport the object through the transport gap.