Patent ID: 7591466

Claim:
A device for transferring print products conveyed along a conveying path in a conveying direction, comprising: a circulating conveying element including spaced apart clamps to suspend the print products transverse to the conveying direction; a conveyor driven to move approximately in the same direction and synchronously below the conveying element, the conveyor including grippers spaced at regular intervals; a guide arrangement disposed along a transfer segment in which the print products are transferred from the circulating conveying element to the conveyor, the guide arrangement accompanying the print products along the transfer segment and including spiral rotors having spiral sections which respectively extend from opposite sides into spaces between the print products resulting from the spacing of the clamps on the conveying element, wherein the spiral sections are effective in the conveying direction to stably position the print products; and activation devices operatively arranged to open the clamps and close the grippers to effect the transfer in the transfer segment of a respective one of the print products from one of the clamps on the circulating conveying element to one of the grippers on the conveyor, wherein the conveying element and the conveyor change direction and move upward in an intake region of the transfer segment, as seen in the conveying direction, so that the conveying element and the conveyor continuously move toward each other.