Patent ID: 7845485

Claim:
A method for creating a flow of flat products, in particular printed products, in a predefined sequence, comprising the steps of providing at least one conveyor having at least one conveying element which is moved continuously along a closed revolving path, wherein the revolving path comprises at least one grouping path; providing several feed flows of products, wherein release positions of the feed flows lie one after the other along the at least one grouping path; releasing the products coming from the feed flows at the release positions to the at least one conveyor; moving the products with the conveyor to a further-processing station, monitoring the created sequence to detect errors; transferring only those products whose sequence corresponds to the predefined sequence to the further-processing station; wherein the following steps are carried out in case of detection of an error at an error location within the created sequence: interrupting the release of new products from the feed flows to the conveyor, without interrupting the movement of the conveyor; conveying the products located on the conveyor, at least from after the error location back to the grouping path; and releasing the product or products necessary to correct the sequence while the created erroneous sequence passes the grouping path again.