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Method and device for transferring a trailing edge of a sheet in a reversing device of a sheet-fed rotary printing machine

US6254094A · kind A · utility

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20Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateJul 28, 1999
Grant dateJul 3, 2001
Priority date
Expiry dateJul 28, 2019

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB41F21/108
  • WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A device for transferring to a downline sheet-guiding cylinder of a reversing device in a sheet-fed rotary printing machine, a trailing edge of a sheet guided on an upline sheet-guiding cylinder, includes at least one lifting device for lifting the trailing edge of the sheet from the upline sheet-guiding cylinder, and a gripper device disposed on the downline sheet-guiding cylinder, the gripper device having a gripper pad extensible out of the periphery of the downline sheet-guiding cylinder for receiving the trailing edge of the sheet from the lifting device outside the periphery, and retractable into the periphery of the downline sheet-guiding cylinder after receiving the trailing edge of the sheet, the lifting device being at least one adjustable blowing nozzle disposed in a stationary manner or on the upline sheet-guiding cylinder, for blowing air beneath the trailing edge of the sheet; and a method of transferring the trailing edge of the sheet.

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