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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 08, 2000
Filed:
May. 18, 1999
Willi Becker, Bammental, DE;
Andreas Fricke, Eberbach, DE;
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen Aktiengesellschaft, Heidelberg, DE;
Abstract
In a reversing device of a sheet-fed rotary printing machine, there is provided a suction gripper for taking over a trailing edge of a sheet conveyed on an upline sheet-conveying cylinder, the suction gripper being movable out of a periphery of a downline sheet-conveying cylinder, gripping the sheet to be reversed in a region of the trailing edge thereof, and being movable back in a substantially radial direction towards the downline sheet-conveying cylinder for transferring thereat the trailing edge of the sheet to a further gripper device, including a device for converting the substantially radial return movement of the suction gripper into an axial movement of the suction gripper so as to tauten the sheet.