Patent ID: 8602411

Claim:
A method for combining sheet-like products, in particular printed products, with further sheet-like products, said method comprising the following steps: transporting the sheet-like products via a feeding device, the transporting being in a feeding direction to a discharge end of the feeding device; grasping the sheet-like products at the discharge end in a product border region adjacent to an edge running transversely with respect to the feeding direction by a gripper of a gripper conveyor, such that the sheet-like products are grasped by the grippers of the gripper conveyor in the product border region in a manner offset in the direction of the edge with respect to a central section and the grasped sheet-like products are conveyed further via the gripper conveyor; driving the grippers of the gripper conveyor, arranged one behind another, in a circulatory direction along a gripper circulatory path, the gripper circulatory path being self-contained and running with a receiving section past the discharge end; conveying the sheet-like products via the gripper conveyor past a supply station for further sheet-like products arranged downstream of the receiving section in the circulatory direction of the gripper conveyor; and combining the further sheet-like product via the supply station with sheet-like products moving past the supply station via the gripper conveyor, whereby the further sheet-like products are combined via the supply station with the sheet-like products in a manner offset laterally with respect thereto.