Device for conveying sheets that comprises a sheet directing element

US8231125B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• KBA-NOTASYS SA · CH

Inventors

• Thomas Hendle · Würzburg, DE
• Gerald Josef Reinhard · Eppingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 20, 2003
• Grant date: Jul 31, 2012
• Expiry date: Aug 2, 2029

Classification

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

Abstract

The invention relates to a sheet guide element for use in an apparatus for transporting sheets by means of a gripper system having at least two grippers spaced apart from each other and a sheet guide surface defined by the sheet guide element. Here, the sheet guide element is provided with depressions in the sheet guide surface, running parallel to the transport direction, at least in some sections, in order at least partially to accommodate the grippers, so that the sheet guide surface described by the sheet guide element in the transport direction runs, at least in some sections, at the same height as the movement path of the sheet leading edge fixed in the gripper system.