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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2002
Filed:
May. 16, 2000
Carl Conrad Maeder, Hinwil, CH;
Ferag AG, Hinwil, CH;
Abstract
A counting device associated with a conveying device for conveying flexible flat objects, such as printed products, in an overlapping stream. The counting device includes a slide mounted for forward and return movement along a guide which extends in the conveying direction, and a drive is provided for moving the slide along the guide at a higher speed than the conveying speed. The slide mounts a flexible contact element which engages the objects, and a sensor element which is engaged by the contact element when the contact element is deflected by engagement with a rear edge of each object, as the slide is forwardly advanced. A catch element, which is also mounted to the slide, then comes into contact with the rear edge of the object to displace the object in the conveying direction.