Suction head with lifting suction devices

US4869489A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG · DE

Inventors

• Arno Wirz · Bammental, DE
• Peter Sobotta · Heidelberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 1, 1988
• Grant date: Sep 26, 1989
• Expiry date: Apr 1, 2008

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65H3/0816
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Suction head includes a vertically adjustable lifting suction device having a respective guiding element, and an axially displaceable, telescopically guided suction chamber arranged on the guiding element, the suction chamber having at least two suction nozzles disposed adjacent one another transversely to a direction in which sheets are conveyed, the suction nozzles being united into a double suction chamber so as to form a narrowly defined vacuum chamber.