Patent ID: 8231125

Claim:
An apparatus for transporting sheets with a sheet guide element and at least one gripper system for holding sheets by a sheet leading edge thereof, said gripper system having at least two grippers spaced apart from each other and a sheet guide surface defined by the sheet guide element, said sheet guide surface being curved concavely and having a shape of a circular arc, the sheet guide element being provided with depressions in the sheet guide surface, running parallel to the transport direction, at least in some sections, in order at least partially to accommodate the grippers, so that the sheet guide surface described by the sheet guide element in the transport direction runs, at least in some sections, at the same height as the movement path of the sheet leading edge fixed in the gripper system, wherein the sheet guide surface of the sheet guide element approaches the transport plane of the gripper system, as referred to the transport direction, and the grippers are arranged to dip increasingly more deeply into the depressions in the transport direction.