Patent ID: 8201816

Claim:
A device for taking over flexible, flat objects at a take-over location, from a feed unit, comprising: at least one receiver unit which may be moved past the take-over location, and is capable of receiving an object which is fed in a feed direction, wherein the receiver unit comprises an entry opening with an entry opening width measured transversely to the feed direction, and at least one abutment for the object edge leading in the feed direction, further comprising at least one controllable narrowing element, with which, in an active condition, the opening width of the receiver unit measured transversely to the feed direction, in a region between the entry opening and the abutment, may be reduced compared to an inactive condition, and further comprising a control device, in order to bring the narrowing element in the region of the take-over location into the active condition, wherein the entry opening width is uninfluenced by the narrowing element.