Sheet guiding device for printing presses

US5730055A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG · DE

Inventors

• Stefan Dopke · Stolzenau, DE
• Katrin Ewert, heir

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 10, 1997
• Grant date: Mar 24, 1998
• Expiry date: Feb 10, 2017

Classification

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

Abstract

A sheet guiding device for printing presses, wherein, for recto printing, a sheet decurler is pivotable into a gap formed in a guide surface and, for recto/verso printing, the sheet decurler is pivotable out of the gap, a surface element of the guide surface being displaceable for closing the gap wherein the sheet decurler is engageable, includes a drive lever which, for switching to recto printing, is operatable for displacing the surface element in order to form the gap and for engaging the sheet decurler and pivoting it into the gap, the drive lever, for switching to recto/verso printing, being operatable for releasing the sheet decurler to swivel out of the gap and for engaging and displacing the surface element.