Patent ID: 7316392

Claim:
A method of conveying flat, flexible products, in particular printed products, comprising: a) gripping one or more products adjacent gripped edges by means of grippers having two gripper jaws forming a gripper mouth; b) moving the grippers with the gripped products along a movement path toward a transfer region, wherein the movement path in the transfer region is curved and in the curved transfer region approaches a horizontally running conveyor belt from above; c) before reaching the transfer region, conveying the gripped products from their gripped edges in the gripper mouth with the ungripped edges in a substantially hanging position and the gripper mouth inclined out of the vertical at a predetermined angle to the vertical; d) upon reaching the transfer region of the movement path, changing the orientation of the grippers such that the gripper mouths change their position from being inclined out of the vertical at said predetermined angle to being inclined at a greater angle to the vertical than said predetermined angle and the products are moved in a way that the ungripped edge of the product lying opposite the gripped edge is moved at the same path speed or a lower path speed than the gripped edge; e) depositing the products, at least partly overlapping one another, on the conveyor belt; and f) conveying away the deposited products by means of the conveyor belt.