Patent ID: 8051973

Claim:
A device for transferring objects ( 100 ) from a printing machine chuck ( 2 ) to a support and distancing pin ( 51 ), wherein the chuck ( 2 ) and the pin ( 51 ) being moved on two independent paths, each path having a point in which said in ( 51 ) and said chuck ( 2 ) are parallel to one another and at a predetermined reciprocal distance, the device comprising: a carriage ( 40 ) which is mobile in a parallel direction to the chuck ( 2 ) and to the pin ( 51 ), between a distant position from the chuck ( 2 ) and the pin ( 51 ) to a close position to the chuck ( 2 ) and the pin ( 51 ), means for gripping and releasing the objects ( 100 ) being provided on the carriage ( 40 ), which means for gripping and releasing ( 46 ) are mobile along a predetermined path in order to be placed alternatively in front of the chuck ( 2 ) and the pin ( 51 ), and wherein projections of the path of movement of the means for gripping and releasing ( 46 ) and of the path of movement of the pins ( 51 ), in a plane perpendicular to a movement direction (A) of the carriage ( 40 ), coincide along at least a portion thereof.