Apparatus for braking a succession of sheets to be stacked

US5221079A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Jagenberg Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Egbert Most · Southbury, US
• Ingo Becker · Linnich, DE
• Ewald G. Welp · Erkrath, DE
• Albrecht Blume · Düsseldorf, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 5, 1992
• Grant date: Jun 22, 1993
• Expiry date: Jun 5, 2012

Classification

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

Abstract

A brake for a sheet feed to a stacking site in which the sheets are engaged by a belt drive from the location at which they are cut from a continuous web. The brake device has an endless belt with a brake stretch parallel to the travel plane of the sheets or declined downward slightly therefrom. The brake has at least one element with a shank over the belt and projecting above the plane at the inlet side of the braking device. The rear edge of the sheet is thus engaged by the shank and the brake belt is decelerated so that the sheet is delivered to the stack at the lower speed.