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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 28, 1999
Willi Becker, Bammental, DE;
Andreas Fricke, Eberbach, DE;
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen Aktiengesellschaft, Heidelberg, DE;
Abstract
A device for transferring to a downline sheet-guiding cylinder of a reversing device in a sheet-fed rotary printing machine, a trailing edge of a sheet guided on an upline sheet-guiding cylinder, includes at least one lifting device for lifting the trailing edge of the sheet from the upline sheet-guiding cylinder, and a gripper device disposed on the downline sheet-guiding cylinder, the gripper device having a gripper pad extensible out of the periphery of the downline sheet-guiding cylinder for receiving the trailing edge of the sheet from the lifting device outside the periphery, and retractable into the periphery of the downline sheet-guiding cylinder after receiving the trailing edge of the sheet, the lifting device being at least one adjustable blowing nozzle disposed in a stationary manner or on the upline sheet-guiding cylinder, for blowing air beneath the trailing edge of the sheet; and a method of transferring the trailing edge of the sheet.