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Device for adjusting gripper timing at sheet deliveries

US5415392A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateOct 19, 1994
Grant dateMay 16, 1995
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Expiry dateOct 19, 2014

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB65H2801/21
  • WIPO fieldHandling
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A device for adjusting the release point of the timing of a gripper release in a sheet delivery of a sheet-processing machine, such as a printing machine, is disclosed. A gripper system is driven along a given travel path. The gripper system has gripper fingers for clamping a paper sheet, entraining the paper sheet along the given travel path and releasing the paper sheet at a predetermined position. A landing body with a cam surface is disposed at a stationary support structure and it is operatively associated with a member for releasing the paper sheet which travels with the grippers. The landing body is shiftable on a displacement track for the purpose of adjusting the timing of the paper release. The displacement track has a shape which is adapted to a geometric course of the given travel path of the gripper system.

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