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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 15, 1997
Rainer Klenk, St. Leon-Rot, DE;
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen Aktiengesellschaft, Heidelberg, DE;
Abstract
A device for guiding vertically movable sheet pile carriers for receiving thereon sheets of a substantially horizontally oriented, continuous stream of sheets including a pile lifter having a main pile support and an auxiliary pile support displaceable back and forth between a readiness position located outside the sheet stream, and a catching position located inside the sheet stream and, when the main pile is being changed, temporarily carrying, in the form of an auxiliary pile, some of the sheets coming from the sheet stream, includes an auxiliary pile frame embracing the displaceable auxiliary pile support and being guidable, jointly with guiding devices of the auxiliary pile support, in vertically extending guide elements.