Sheet delivery for rotary printing machines

US4083556A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG · DE

Inventors

• Paul Christopher Schilling · Neckargemünd, DE
• Gerhard Pollich · Heidelberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 24, 1976
• Grant date: Apr 11, 1978
• Expiry date: Nov 24, 1996

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65H2701/176
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Sheet delivery for rotary printing machines having gripper bridges carried by revolving endless chains traveling along a chain path having a straight and ascending section merging with a section of the path extending horizontally across a delivery pile, includes means defining a sheet guide path having a curvilinear configuration spaced at a continuously varying distance from the endless chains and disposed below the straight and ascending section of the chain path.