Heidelberger Druckmaschinen Ag

Roland Hirth

Richard Burkhard Mack

Ralf Weiser

Karl-Heinz Filsinger

Udo Lautenklos

Nikolaus Spiegel

Frank Gunschera

Rainer Klenk

Michael Voge

Gerhard Pollich

Martin Mayer

Bernhard Wagensommer

Norbert Thunker

Sven Kerpe

Stefan Mutschall

Edmund Klein

Georg Roessler

Bernhard Maul

Martin Buschmann

Bettina Remarque

Matthias Seitz

Dieter B&auml;cker

Bernd Maul

Dieter Bäcker

Frank Gunshera

In an apparatus for aligning sheets that are deposited on a sheet stack, there are sheet leading edge stops disposed so as to be vertically displaceable by a common leading edge shaft. An auxiliary stack carrier that is to be introduced into the stack region for nonstop operation causes the leading edge shaft or leading edge stops to be raised.

Apparatus for aligning sheets which are deposited on a sheet stack

A belt drive for a machine for printing images on a flat printing material, having a continuous belt revolving during operation, includes a belt guide having stops for two protruding edges of the belt, the edges being oriented in a longitudinal direction of the belt and opposite one another in a transverse direction of the belt; and a machine for printing images on flat printing material having such a belt drive.

Belt drive

A sheet-braking system and method of operation for a delivery of a sheet-processing machine, includes a braking belt revolving during operation and undergoing periodic decelerating and accelerating phases. The braking belt further includes a braking strand passable over a suction region providing a suction effect passing through the braking strand. The suction region is overlapped throughout the duration of a respective decelerating phase, by a respective sheet deposited on the braking strand.

Sheet-braking system for a delivery of a sheet-processing machine, and method of operation

A delivery for a sheet-processing machine for keeping the extent thereof required downline from the delivery pile as short as possible, includes a frame and grippers revolvable, during operation, along a gripper path within the frame. The grippers seize sheets at a location on the gripper path and drag the sheet along sections of the gripper path in a transport direction. A first switching element is provided, for defining a first end of a first one of the sections of the gripper path located downline with respect to the transport direction. A second switching element defines a second end of a second section of the gripper path located downline with respect to the end of the first section. The first switching element is provided on the frame, and the second switching element is provided on a guide part fixed to the frame, and serves for determining a section of a course of the gripper path.

Delivery for a sheet-processing machine

A delivery of a machine for processing sheet-like printing materials, includes sheet grippers passing through a gripper path during operation, an actuating element adjustable from adjustable basic positions into an extreme position and the reverse and, at locations of the gripper path corresponding to the basic positions and the extreme position, serving for shifting the sheet grippers from a closed, sheet-conveying operating state into an open operating state, a linkage mechanism provided for adjusting the actuating element, and an actuating drive for actuating the linkage mechanism, the linkage mechanism being movable between a predeterminable extreme position corresponding to the extreme position of the actuating element, and adjustable starting positions corresponding to one of the adjustable basic positions of the actuating element; and a machine for processing sheet-like printing materials including the delivery.

Delivery of a sheet-processing printing machine

A suction belt conveyor for a sheet processing machine includes an operationally revolving endless suction belt having, at an outer side thereof a filigree structure formed by indentations, the suction belt being formed with penetrating bores terminating in the indentations. In a variation of the foregoing, the suction belt conveyor for a sheet processing machine includes an operationally revolving endless suction belt formed with pores distributed in longitudinal and transverse directions of the suction belt, so that the suction belt is air permeable.

Suction belt conveyer for a sheet processing machine

A belt drive for a machine for processing flat printing materials includes an endless belt revolving during operation, a roller about which the belt is partially looped, a frame with respect to which the roller is adjustable between a working position, wherein the roller keeps the belt tensioned, and a position moved away from the working position, wherein the belt is untensioned, and a spring device for biasing the roller into the working position thereof. Also included are a double crank by which the roller is articulated with the frame, and a stop which, due to a change in position of the double crank from a position corresponding to the working position of the roller into a position corresponding to the moved-away position of the roller, is carried out to a given extent beyond a dead-center position of the double crank, prevents a change in position beyond the given extent; and a machine for processing flat printing materials, which includes the belt drive.

Belt drive for a machine for processing flat printing materials

A delivery of a sheet-processing printing machine having operationally revolving grippers for transferring processed sheets to a sheet brake in a conveying direction includes sheet guides for acting upon lateral borders of the sheets, as viewed in the conveying direction, and for guiding the sheets as they are transferred to the sheet brake.

A printing press having an actuator, includes a chamber partly surrounding the actuator and having a pressure prevailing therein that is greater than the pressure in the outer surroundings of the chamber.

Printing press with an actuator

A chain conveyor for transporting sheets in a sheet-processing printing press, having chain guide rails which, together with a holder for carrying the guide rails, define an interior having an open long side, and having conveyor chains carrying gripper systems for gripping the sheets. The conveyor chains being guidable by the chain guide rails, being formed by outer tabs and inner tabs joined together swivellably with respect to pivot axes and, on a side thereof, having cover tabs for covering the open long side, includes detent elements on the cover tabs for connecting the cover tabs form-lockingly to a respective outer tab; and a sheet-fed printing press having the foregoing chain conveyor.

Chain conveyor for transporting sheets in a printing press

A device for depositing paper sheets, in particular on a sheet pile or stack in a delivery of a printing machine, includes a revolving belt, a drive motor for driving the revolving belt separately from any other drive system, and at least one suction device having a discretely effective suction action, the suction device being disposed on the revolving belt, the revolving belt being constructed as a toothed belt for transmitting torque and synchronicity between the drive motor and the suction device; and a method of operating the depositing device.

Device and method for depositing printed sheets on a stack without

Sheet delivery for a sheet-fed printing press having gripper systems arranged on conveyor chains or toothed belts revolvingly guided and driven by guide wheels, the gripper systems being activatable by a locally fixed control member for gripping sheets individually at respective leading edges thereof and for releasing the sheets in vicinity of a sheet pile, and including guideways for slidingly guiding the conveyor chains, includes rollers with roller bearings fastened to the conveyor chains or toothed belts, the rollers, in regions of increased load, being movable into separate roller guides arranged on a frame of the printing press, for transmitting to the printing-press frame forces which act upon the conveyor chains or toothed belts.

Sheet delivery for a sheet-fed printing press

Gripper bar for a delivery of a printing press, the gripper bar being carried at respective ends thereof by transport chains and having a multiplicity of grippers with gripper fingers for transporting sheets includes a hollow profiled member having a boxlike profile wherein a gripper shaft is receivable, the boxlike profiled member being formed with lateral openings through which the gripper fingers of the grippers extend.

Gripper bar for deliveries of printing presses

Method of introducing an auxiliary sheet pile carrier above a main sheet pile to be removed, the introduction being effected during uninterrupted feeding of additional sheets above the main sheet pile in a sheet travel direction and in synchronism with the travel of a sheet to be deposited, includes controlling respective drives at a sheet delivery by a control device which determines actual data of a printing press, so that the auxiliary pile carrier traverses a velocity profile identical with a velocity profile of the sheet to be deposited in order to avoid relative movement between the auxiliary pile carrier and the sheet to be deposited.

Method of introducing an auxiliary pile carrier

Individual sheets are singled out in a delivery of a sheet-fed rotary printing press. The delivery has a chain delivery with gripper bars extending transversely to the sheet-transport direction. The gripper bars are disposed on revolvingly driven transport chains and carry spaced apart sheet grippers disposed side by side. The sheet grippers grip the leading edges of the sheets and slave them to a main sheet pile. The gripper release is subject to an adjustable control for delayed sheet release, so that selected sheets may be transported beyond the main sheet pile. Revolvingly drivable suction tapes suction-grip the sheets which are released by the grippers with the delay, and they transport those sheets in the transport direction across and beyond the main sheet pile and onto a single sheet depository. The sheet depository is movably disposed in or on the printing-press frame. The suction tapes have upper suction surfaces at a raised position which extend between the sheet grippers. The grippers delay the sheet release until at least a leading region of the respective sheet is located above the suction tapes.

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Roland Hirth