Sheet delivery for a printing press

US5697605A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG · DE

Inventors

• Gerhard Pollich · Heidelberg, DE
• Josef Wehle · Schwetzingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 4, 1996
• Grant date: Dec 16, 1997
• Expiry date: Mar 4, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65H2801/21
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Sheet delivery for a printing press includes a removable sheet stop, and sheet catchers movable into the sheet delivery for catching sheets to be deposited on a sheet pile while the sheets are yet above the sheet pile, for purposes of both removing a sample sheet and inserting an auxiliary pile holder, the sheet catchers being disposed at an outer end of the sheet pile and being introducible with a close spacing from delivery grippers transporting the sheets to be deposited, the sheet stop being removable from the sheet pile for enabling a sample sheet to be taken, and the sheet catchers being bringable into a position therein at least by respective front ends thereof they have a slight spacing from the sheet pile enabling the auxiliary pile holder to be inserted, the surface of the sheet pile being lowerable so that the auxiliary pile holder is insertable between a lower end of the sheet stop and a top surface of the sheet pile.