Patent ID: 7530442

Claim:
A device for turning continuously transported, flat lying bound printed products comprising: a driven feed conveyor transporting the printed products within certain distances from one another in a transport direction; a turning section arranged substantially tangentially downstream of the feed conveyor having an inlet and extending semicircularly downward to an outlet, said turning section including a path guide that provides an inwardly curved sliding path for the printed products received with sufficient speed to slide freely downwardly and under the force of gravity along said sliding path in a transit time through the turning section to a transfer point at the outlet; a delivery conveyor for the turned printed products that extends underneath the feed conveyor in the opposite transport direction and is arranged substantially tangentially downstream of the turning section to receive a guided printed product at the transfer point; lateral guides operatively associated with the path guide and adjustable to the respective format width of the printed products; wherein said delivery conveyor is a suction conveyor belt having a transport speed in said opposite transport direction with at lease one suction segment arranged at the transfer point for decelerating the printed products to the transport speed of the delivery conveyor.