Suction head for a feeder of a sheet-fed rotary printing press

US5542658A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG · DE

Inventors

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

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 21, 1995
• Grant date: Aug 6, 1996
• Expiry date: Feb 21, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65H3/0883
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A suction head for a feeder of a sheet-fed rotary printing press for feeding sheets of small format through the press in a given direction, including only one double sucker formed of two juxtaposed suction nozzles connected by a transverse tube and being disposed transversely to the feeding direction of the sheets, the only one double sucker being exchangeably secured at a center location of the printing press.