Method and apparatus for the stream feeding delivery of sheet products

US4629175A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Albert-Frankenthal Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Emil Fischer · Ludwigshafen am Rhein, DE
• Rudolf Stab · Bischofswerda, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 14, 1985
• Grant date: Dec 16, 1986
• Expiry date: Jan 14, 2005

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65H2404/561
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Sheet-like products coming off a folder are firstly transported some distance before being caused to overlap. In order to slow down the products to cause this to take place and to arrange them in a perfectly regular feed stream without being damaged, the products are engaged by grippers that are moved along a preferably arcuate path on a support in the course of which the products are slowed down by the grippers to the speed of a delivery belt on which the products are then deposited.