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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7347416 | Apparatus for transporting a printing material sheet An apparatus for transporting a printing material sheet includes a holding crossmember for holding the printing material sheet and a traveling-wave motor for driving the holding crossmember. The traveling-wave motor has a first traveler and a second traveler for mou... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7334790 | Apparatus for conveying sheets through a rotary press Sheets are conveyed through a rotary press with linear travel grippers. The novel conveying apparatus prevents collisions between the grippers and printing unit cylinders. The grippers are fixed to circulating links to convey a sheet through a nip between two cylind... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7275633 | Device for changing the direction of conveyance of flat postal items and the position of the postal items relative to their direction of conveyance A device for changing a direction of conveyance of flat postal items and a position of the postal items relative to their direction of conveyance includes a driven carousel tray to which one or more gripper arms whose lengths are modifiable in a controlled manner ar... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7232123 | Apparatus for conveying sheets through a printing machine An apparatus for conveying sheets from a printing machine to a stack has highly rigid gripper bars that can be produced with relatively little expense, and the gripper assembly permits great flexibility in the use of the apparatus. The apparatus has at least one gri... | 06/19/2007 |
| 6976674 | Method of, and apparatus for, conveying sheet like products The invention relates to a method of, and an apparatus for, conveying sheet like products (10, 10′), in particular printed products. In each case two or more products (10, 10′) are gripped together, in the region of their leading edges (10 | 12/20/2005 |
| 6923119 | Sheet transport system for a rotary printing press A sheet transport system for a rotary press having rails (6a, 6b) configured on both sides of a sheet transport path, driven grippers (20a, 20b) gripping a sheet (2) to be transported near its front end,... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6877732 | Feed conveyor with opening apparatus The apparatus has a feed conveyor (12) which is assigned an opening apparatus (18). Located at the downstream end of the feed conveyor (12) is the transfer region (16), through which the movement path (26) of clamps (24) run... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6814352 | Installation for the processing of piece goods An installation for processing piece goods including a processing station and a supply unit and/or removal unit. Supply and removal units are displaceable relative to the processing device. Supply and removal units include a closed-in-itself rail track and a plurali... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6773008 | Apparatus for transporting sheet-like articles The invention relates to a device for conveying flat objects (46), especially products of a printing works, which comprises successively arranged conveying elements that are moved along a continuous track (16) in a direction of conveyance (F). Individu... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6772689 | Printing quality inspection apparatus An inspection unit of an intaglio printing press includes a suction table for correcting the position of printed sheet-like object as being disposed inside of a unit frame, and a camera and a light for inspecting the printing quality of sheet-like object being corre... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6749190 | Method and device for the gathering of flat articles An apparatus and method are provided for gathering flat articles (5) into stacks (9) by conveying stacks in production successively along a gathering route (1) past feed stations. The stacks (9) are conveyed on stack supports (2) w... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6736391 | Method and apparatus for further conveyance of flat objects arriving in a lamellar flow In each case at least two objects arriving in a lamellar flow (14) are grasped from the side by a conveyor clamp (22) and conveyed further while maintaining their mutual position. The at least two objects forming a section are held by a single conveyor... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6726201 | Method and device for the horizontal positioning of serially conveyed, flat objects For the horizontal positioning of serially supplied, flat objects (1) to be conveyed onward, the objects (1) are supplied suspended, one of their main surfaces (10) facing downstream and the other main surface (11) facing upstream. Prior ... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6705607 | Device for transporting printed products A device for transporting printed products has an endless circulating traction member having support frames. Receiving elements configured to pick up supplied printed products and to release the printed products are fastened on the endless circulating traction membe... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6690996 | Method and device for the sequential supply of articles to be processed For allowing a reduction in the processing capacity to be accommodated without a delay in a system, in which articles are supplied and transferred to an article processing device (8) from an article delivering device (4) in a regularly clock-cycled supply... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6631901 | Sheet-feeding device The present invention relates to a sheet-feeding device for delivering printed sheets produced by a printing press, having a plurality of grippers which grasp the sheets and transport them from the printing press in the direction of a stacking device, cha... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6612559 | Conveying device for collecting and transporting printed sheets placed astraddle on a first chain conveyer A conveying device for collecting and transporting printed sheets has a first chain conveyor on which the printed sheets are placed astraddle to be conveyed in a conveying direction. A second chain conveyor is arranged downstream of the first chain convey... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6575456 | Device for held conveyance of flat articles in a dense conveying stream For conveying flat articles (10) in dense conveying streams, grippers (3) conveyed one behind the other by conveying elements (1) are used, each gripper (3) holding one of the articles gripped in an edge zone. For increasing the possibilities for changing... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6264192 | Process and apparatus for conveying pressroom products A process and apparatus for conveying printed products of the type having a main surface and a side edge, wherein each product is retained in the region of its side edge by an individual gripper, and wherein each gripper and its retained product are conve... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6213463 | Conveying apparatus for flexible, flat articles arising in an imbricated formation The conveying apparatus has a transport belt (10) which is intended to feed flexible, flat articles (12) arising in imbricated formation (S), resting freely, to a conveyor (14). The transport belt (10) is led around a deflection drum (16) and, together wi... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6213459 | Signature gripper and delivery device A signature gripper having a gripper pad for firmly gripping a signature; a gripper base connected to the gripper pad, the gripper pad being rotatable about the gripper base in a direction of rotation; and a spring acting in the direction of rotation to p... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6213457 | Apparatus and method for feeding sheet material magazines An apparatus for feeding flat products from a pile of flat products to a receiving location especially on a conveyor includes a plurality of delivering units for extracting a single flat product from the pile. Each of the delivering units has a first driv... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6213280 | Gripper for clamping flat articles The present invention is related to a gripper having a stationary gripper member and a movably mounted gripper member being relatively movable toward said stationary gripper member. An actuating member extends through the stationary and the movable grippe... | 04/10/2001 |
| 5988633 | Guiding device for a freshly printed sheet A guiding device for a freshly printed sheet has a sheet-guiding surface, which is located at a distance from an imaginary conveying surface. The sheet has a leading edge, which sweeps over the imaginary conveying surface along a sheet transport direction... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5931459 | Conveyor device The device according to the present invention is primarily intended to be used for handling and conveyance of newspapers and magazines. The clamping devices of the conveyor (4) are designed as clamps, where the clamp is closed by spring loading and can be... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5918543 | Adjusting device for a gripper opening cam in a chain delivery of a sheet-red printing press An adjusting device for a gripper opening cam in a chain delivery of a sheet-fed printing press, the gripper opening cam being pivotally guided in a bearing and being connected by a linkage to one of a pair of threaded nuts of a combination of a lefthand ... | 07/06/1999 |
| 5697607 | Device for controlling grippers engaging sheet-like workpieces at an infeed station of a processing machine A device for controlling the gripping action of grippers on a plate-like workpiece at the end of the feeding table of a machine that processes sheet-like workpieces has an arrangement for controlling the upper mechanisms for positioning, respectively, the... | 12/16/1997 |
| 5559575 | Edge-belt film handling system for film processors and accumulators A system for transporting film through photographic-type processing uses a pair of flexible belts which have grooves to receive and guide the edges of the film in loose frictional engagement, and a drive and support system for moving the belts and film th... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5477901 | Apparatus for the manufacture of high pressure laminates For the manufacture of high pressure laminates, the pressed laminate (4) consisting of a stack of artificial resin impregnated paper sheets is fed into a single daylight hot press. The pressed laminate is held and guided along both longitudinal edges (6) ... | 12/26/1995 |
| 5465952 | Gripper for a conveying device for conveying single-sheet or multiple-sheet printed products A gripper for conveying printed products is disclosed. The gripper has two gripper parts mounted so as to be pivotable on a shaft which, in turn, is mounted rotatably in a holder. Connected to this shaft so as to be fixed against rotation is closing lever... | 11/14/1995 |
| 5443256 | Process and device for the formation of a scale-like stream of folded printed copies A process for the formation of a scale-like stream of folded printed copies wherein the printed copies are delivered directly to claws from a folding jaw cylinder and are transported onward while being held by the claws. An apparatus for the formation of ... | 08/22/1995 |
| 5356128 | Gripper for a conveying device for conveying single-sheet or multiple-sheet printed products A gripper for conveying printed products is disclosed. The gripper has two gripper parts mounted so as to be pivotable on a shaft which, in turn, is mounted rotatably in a holder. Connected to this shaft so as to be fixed against rotation is closing lever... | 10/18/1994 |
| 5222727 | Side-gripping conveyor A side-gripping conveyor arrangement functions to transport a steam of mutually overlapping newspapers carried by a substantially horizontal conveyor belt with one edge margin of the newspaper stream extending freely over one side of the conveyor belt. Th... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5074542 | Manipulator of flat sheet, in particular sheet metal plate The manipulator comprises a closed-ring conveyor device, which comprises a succession of grasping organs having a fixed part and a movable part. The part of the conveyor device comprises at least one rectilinear section along which suitable assemblies act... | 12/24/1991 |
| 4896874 | Method and apparatus for turning continuously conveyed flat structures, especially arriving imbricated printed products such as to retain their original imbricated formation Continuously conveyed flexible flat structures, especially printed products, infed in an imbricated formation, are turned such as to retain their original imbricated product formation. This is accomplished by accelerating the flexible flat structures such... | 01/30/1990 |
| 4878658 | Sheet delivery device in a printing machine In a printing machine, a sheet delivery device having pneumatic braking devices of substantially bipartite construction on a chain delivery arranged as rotating brake rollers on a traverse extending beneath the chain delivery transversely to a sheet conve... | 11/07/1989 |
| 4869485 | Envelope holder An envelope holder is described for feeding envelopes through a printer. It comprises a pocket formed from an upper and lower sheet joined together, a window portion of which is removed to allow printing of an envelope held in the pocket. The holder is im... | 09/26/1989 |
| 4598902 | Apparatus for separating laterally projecting imbricated printed copy products To pull apart interfolded, imbricated paper copy products (4, 5), two pairs (1, 2) of upper and lower transport systems, typically sprocket chains, each have engagement projection elements (10-13), preferably roller elements, extending therefrom, and grip... | 07/08/1986 |
| 4512457 | Apparatus for transporting continuously arriving flat paper products, especially a stream of printed products arriving in an imbricated formation A guided endless, revolvingly driven traction element is equipped with controlled gripper units or grippers arranged in spaced relationship from each other. These gripper units are adapted to grip one margin of the paper products which constitutes a later... | 04/23/1985 |
| 4220081 | Sheet feeding, registering and printing apparatus A sheet feeding, registering and printing apparatus has one or more printing units for printing desired characters on a sheet, and means for feeding such a sheet positively to and from a printing position with respect to each printing unit. The feeding me... | 09/02/1980 |
