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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 1995
Filed:
Dec. 17, 1993
Gotthard Schmid, Nussloch, DE;
Arno Wirz, Bammental, DE;
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, Heidelberg, DE;
Abstract
Sheet delivery of a printing machine having a gripper system running on an endless conveyor includes air containers located adjacent the endless conveyor and being formed with a sheet-wide field of air-outlet openings, the gripper system including grippers for gripping a sheet of printing material at a leading edge thereof so that the sheet is floatingly conveyable by the endless conveyor over the sheet-wide field of air-outlet openings formed in the air containers, the endless conveyor having a capability of turning the sheet and depositing it on a sheet pile, at least one of the air containers extending over the sheet width and having air-outlet openings of varying shapes formed so that air is discharged therefrom in different directions, the one air container being chargeable with blowing air regulatable in accordance with specific requirements of the printing material of the sheet.