Patent ID: 7661668

Claim:
A delivery device for a printing press, comprising: a fan wheel which holds, between fan blades thereof, a sheet transported from a printing press thereto, and which rotates with the held sheet; a stopper which restricts the front end of the sheet held between the fan blades, and which then discharges the sheet from the inside of the fan wheel; speed-reduction means which presses a surface of the sheet advancing between the fan blades before the front end of the sheet comes into contact with the stopper, so as to reduce the speed of the sheet, the speed-reduction means being movable relative to the fan wheel; moving means for moving the speed-reduction means relative to the fan wheel; a web-data input device to which web data including quality, thickness, and folding specification of the sheet in input; and a control device that adjusts a position of the speed-reduction means by controlling the moving means based on the web data input to the web-data input device.