Patent ID: 7497426

Claim:
In a device for gathering printed sheets, with feeder stations that are arranged in a row and include a magazine for respectively accommodating a stack of identical decollated sheets having a bottom sheet with an exposed edge region extending in a longitudinal direction; a separating device that tilts the exposed edge region of the respective bottom sheet away from the stack; a transport device that withdraws the bottom sheet from the stack parallel to the longitudinal direction of the edge region; and with a collecting conveyor for gathered stacks that includes a collecting channel and a transport chain with pushers, to which the decollated sheets are delivered in order to form the gathered stacks; the improvement comprising that: the separating device has at least one suction element for tilting away at least one corner of the sheet; and the transport device for withdrawing the sheet is formed by a revolving traction conveyor; with individually actuated grippers that are anchored at certain distances from one another wherein a withdrawn sheet is taken hold of at the exposed edge region with at least two grippers; and wherein the traction conveyor is inclined toward the collecting conveyor in order to deposit the withdrawn sheet on the stack being formed directly in front of the pusher of the collecting conveyor.