Patent ID: 8371570

Claim:
A synchronously driven conveying device for conveying a printed product to be trimmed along a top edge, a bottom edge, and an opening edge thereof, comprising: a conveying rotor; and a plurality of clamps coupled to an outside of the conveying rotor and conveyable along a circulating path, wherein the clamps are in an open position along the circulating path for loading of the printed product at a transfer station and for delivering of the printed product to a delivery station, wherein the clamps are in a closed position along the circulating path in a cutting region of a cutting unit arranged between the transfer station and the delivery station, and wherein, when the clamps are in the cutting region of the cutting unit for trimming of at least the top and bottom edges of the printed product, each clamp transitions from a circular control path section into an intermediate control path section in which the clamp is maintained substantially perpendicular relative to a tangent to a circular cutting path of the cutting unit.