Patent ID: 8413977

Claim:
A device for delivering a printed product from a saddle-shaped support, the saddle-shaped support including a ridge, a plurality of conveying members and two support parts, and being configured to introduce the printed product, using the conveying members, in a conveying direction to a delivery region of the saddle-shaped support with the printed product straddling the ridge, the two support parts being arranged with mutual spacing so as to form between them a gap extending in the conveying direction at least in the delivery region, at least one gripper member being configured to remove the printed product from the saddle-shaped support in the delivery region, the device comprising: at least two discs that are configured to pass through the gap, the at least two discs being rotatable about respective fixed rotation axles that are mutually spaced from one another in the conveying direction, each of the discs being configured to project intermittently, during the rotation about the respective fixed rotation axles, above a ridge line of the ridge in the delivery region of the saddle-shaped support so as to continuously lift the printed product from the saddle-shaped support in the delivery region.