Patent · US Expired

Contact-free sheet guidance device in a sheet-fed printing press

US5836247A · kind A · utility

7Cited by
5References
4Claims
0Family size

Assignee

Inventors

Key dates

Filing dateSep 3, 1997
Grant dateNov 17, 1998
Priority date
Expiry dateSep 3, 2017

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB65H2406/00
  • WIPO fieldHandling
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A contact-free sheet guidance device in a sheet-fed printing press, having a sheet guiding surface, includes at least one blast air nozzle formed in the sheet guiding surface and having a cross section directed obliquely downwardly with respect to the sheet guiding surface, the sheet guiding surface being formed with an opening for an air outlet directed substantially vertically at a sheet being fed in the sheet travel direction, the air outlet opening being disposed upstream of the blast air nozzle in the sheet travel direction and being smaller in cross section than the cross section of the blast air nozzle.

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.