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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2002
Filed:
May. 24, 2000
Martin Sting, Frankfurt, DE;
Christian Botschek, Rodermark, DE;
Pitney Bowes Technologies GmbH, Friedberg, DE;
Abstract
With regard to an installation designed to handle sheet-like pieces by means of gripper arms ( ) provided with gripper clutches ( ), a particularly simple and economical structure requiring less components can be obtained by a design according to which the distribution crankshaft gear carries a distributing disk with operating cams ( ) for enabling oscillatory movements by the gripper arm ( ), said disk interacting with the cam follower ( ) in an actuating mechanism which is coupled with the swivelling gripper clutch ( ) of the clamping device ( ) and mounted on the gripper arm ( ). The distributing disk has been specially designed for that purpose.