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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 1998
Filed:
Sep. 03, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gunter Stephan, Wiesloch-Baiertal, DE;
Peter Thoma, Mannheim, DE;
Assignee:
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, Heidelberg, DE;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
101420 ; 1014161 ; 271194 ; 271195 ;
Abstract
A contact-free sheet guidance device in a sheet-fed printing press, having a sheet guiding surface, includes at least one blast air nozzle formed in the sheet guiding surface and having a cross section directed obliquely downwardly with respect to the sheet guiding surface, the sheet guiding surface being formed with an opening for an air outlet directed substantially vertically at a sheet being fed in the sheet travel direction, the air outlet opening being disposed upstream of the blast air nozzle in the sheet travel direction and being smaller in cross section than the cross section of the blast air nozzle.