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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2000
Michael Taffertshofer, Weilheim, DE;
D.E. Pfaff Ingenieurburo GmbH & Co. KG., Augsburg, DE;
Abstract
A device for vertically forming partial stacks of printed products. Said device comprises a belt conveyor ( ) for transporting printed products, a bulging device ( ), by which the printed products conveyed on the belt conveyor ( ) may be provided with a convexity around an axis extending in the conveying direction of the belt conveyor ( ) vertically extending collecting shaft ( ), adjustable in format and disposed at one end of the belt conveyor ( ) in the extension thereof, and having an openable stacking support ( ) disposed therein, from which a stack of printed products may be picked up, and a first supporting finger ( ), disposed on the side of the belt conveyor ( ) facing away from the collecting shaft ( ) and above the stacking support ( ), said finger being displaceable by a displacing device ( ) from a starting position, in which it extends centrally into the collecting shaft ( ) above the stream of printed products, vertically downwards into said stream of conveyed printed products. The finger operates such that subsequently conveyed printed products are placed on said first supporting finger ( ), which is then horizontally displaceable out of the collecting shaft ( ) and back into its starting position.