Sheet guiding device

US6612235B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG · DE

Inventors

• Eckart Frankenberger · Darmstadt, DE
• Michael Gieser · Oftersheim, DE
• Christian Gorbing · Heidelberg, DE
• Peter Hachmann · Dossenheim, DE
• Karl-Heinz Helmstadter · Heidelberg, DE
• Christian Hieb · Schifferstadt, DE
• Ruben Schmitt · Bühl, DE
• Gunter Stephan

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 31, 2001
• Grant date: Sep 2, 2003
• Expiry date: Aug 31, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65H2406/422
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A guiding device in a machine for processing sheets of printing material includes unthrottled air nozzles for contact-free guidance of the sheets, and throttled air nozzles arranged at locations which are prone to contact by the sheets; and a machine for processing sheets of printing material and a sheet-fed rotary printing machine, respectively, having the guiding device.