Device for facilitating sheet separation or singling

US5558321A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG · DE

Inventors

• Martin Greive · Heidelberg, DE
• Bernd Ruf · Weiterstadt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 27, 1994
• Grant date: Sep 24, 1996
• Expiry date: Dec 27, 2014

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65H3/48
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Device for facilitating sheet separation or singling in an upper region of a feeder pile, wherein equipment for acting upon an edge of the feeder pile facing away from a processing machine is adjustably movable against lateral edges of the sheet pile, includes a supporting structure disposed above a feeder pile and extending beyond dimensions of a maximally processable format of a printing material and being swivellable out of a plane extending parallel to a top surface of the feeder pile, and elements for facilitating sheet separation carried by said supporting structure.