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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 21, 1998
Heinz Boss, Strengelbach, CH;
Grapha-Holding AG, Hergiswil, CH;
Abstract
A method of and an apparatus for feeding a processing machine with flat products, such as printed sheets, cards, patterns or the like. Over a conveyor path arranged between a storage unit and the processing machine and forming a product storage unit, the flat products are carried from the storage unit in a stream formed by products arranged in an overlapping configuration. The product stream conveyed on the conveyor path toward the processing machine is followed by a product stream having a higher speed. The apparatus includes a device with a drivable storage unit for removing the flat products, wherein the storage unit is connected through a conveyor unit to a processing machine for processing the products. The conveyor unit includes a plurality of separate conveyor elements arranged one behind the other and driven in the same direction, wherein a sensor each is directed to the conveying ends of the conveyor elements, and wherein each sensor is connected to a control unit for changing the discharge speed of the product from the storage unit and/or the conveying speed of the products on the conveyor elements.