Gripper bar for deliveries of printing presses

US5758576A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG · DE

Inventors

• Richard Mack · Kennesaw, US
• Martin Mayer · Ladenburg, DE
• Michael Voge · Malsch, DE
• Norbert Thunker · Weinheim, DE
• Roland Hirth · Münstermaifeld, DE
• Bernd Maul · Heidelberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 29, 1996
• Grant date: Jun 2, 1998
• Expiry date: Jul 29, 2016

Classification

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

Abstract

Gripper bar for a delivery of a printing press, the gripper bar being carried at respective ends thereof by transport chains and having a multiplicity of grippers with gripper fingers for transporting sheets includes a hollow profiled member having a boxlike profile wherein a gripper shaft is receivable, the boxlike profiled member being formed with lateral openings through which the gripper fingers of the grippers extend.