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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 03, 1999
Frank Gunschera, Nussloch, DE;
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, Heidelberg, DE;
Abstract
A delivery of a sheet-processing machine having gripper rows for drawing sheets, during operation, along a conveying section having endless conveying chains bearing the gripper rows and, during operation, running through the delivery in a revolving direction, and having a pair of chain wheels which are rotatable about a common axis of rotation, are in engagement with the conveying chains and form a deflecting region of the conveying section, includes a blast-air source for expelling an air curtain actable upon a side of the sheets being drawn past the sheet-deflecting region, that side being directed towards the axis of rotation of the chain wheels, the air curtain being movable past the sheet-deflecting region in the same direction as the grippers, while the sheets passing the sheet-deflecting region are being subjected to the action of the air curtain.