Georg Spiess Gmbh

Georg Speiss Gmbh

Klaus Mank

Luitpold Kluber

An apparatus for lifting a sheet from a stack of sheets including a frame, a suction plate for engaging a sheet from the stack, a lifter connected to the suction plate so as to move the suction plate in a vertical direction, a setting member pivotally connected to the suction plate, and a ramp member connected to the frame and positioned along a length of the setting member. The lifter serves to move the suction plate between a first sheet-engaging position and a second sheet-releasing position. The suction plate is pivotally connected to the lifter so as to align parallel to the surface of a sheet. The setting member extends upwardly from the suction plate The ramp member is in cooperative relationship with the setting member. The setting member causes the ramp member to be positioned in parallel relationship to the suction plate when the suction plate is in the first position. The ramp member is stationary during a movement of the suction plate between the first and second positions. The suction plate includes a plate carrier and a setting member pivotally affixed to a surface of the plate carrier. The setting member extends through an opening in the ramp member. An abutment member is affixed to the setting member so as to be interactive with the ramp member.

Apparatus for lifting sheets from a stack

A device for the formation of a train of underlapping sheet-like articles and more particularly for the formation of an overlapped stream during conveying sheets cut by a preceding transverse cutter device from a web of paper to a feed table of a paper processing machine, comprising a holding up device arranged over a belt arrangement and with which the trailing part of the successively moving articles is able to be moved into engagement with the formation of an inlet gap for the respectively following article and more particularly by means of an associated lifting device, is able to be brought into engagement, and a draw off device following the belt arrangement and adapted to be driven at the same speed as the overlapped stream. The belt arrangement is designed in the form of a drag device with circulating entraining belts adapted only for engagement of the consecutively moving articles at the leading edge thereof. The holding up device comprises a brake device with circulating holding belts adapted for engagement with the trailing ends of the consecutively moving articles, such holding belts being adapted to be driven at an adjustable speed which initially is equal to the conveying speed of the entraining belts of the belt arrangement and then may be reduced therefrom to be equal to the speed of the overlapping stream.

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Munchen, Germany

Klaus Mank