Patent ID: 8056892

Claim:
Device for collating flat objects, in particular printed products, and for conveying the collated objects further, comprising: a plurality of feeding units for feeding the objects; a plurality of compartments circulating on a circuit for collating the fed objects, wherein the circuit comprises regions with different gradients; a conveyor for conveying the compartments along the circuit and for the substantially continuous conveyance at least through a feeding region of the circuit, wherein outlets of the feeding units in the feeding region are arranged successively in a line and wherein the circuit of the compartments runs in parallel to the named line in the feeding region; and an extractor for removal of the collated objects out of the compartments in an extraction region of the circuit; wherein the compartments comprise compartment bases for the lying stacking of the objects, at least one object to be oriented with a main surface lying on the base, and a transverse wall and are coupled to the conveyor, such that the compartment bases, at least in the feeding region, are inclined with respect to the horizontal direction and are conveyable in a manner arranged with the transverse wall in transverse to the circuit and such that the compartments are pivotable in relation to the circuit around substantially horizontal and/or around a substantially vertical pivot axis, wherein an angle between a compartment base and the circuit in a first region of the circuit is different from that in another region, and wherein the base is a longer portion of the compartment as compared to the transverse wall.