A device for the collation of sheets which are arranged one above the other compartments with.

摘要

The collating machine comprises a frame (10), a plurality of boxes (20) which are superposed in the frame for the loading of the stacks of paper (28), each box (20) being equipped with a device for ejection of the individual sheets and a transfer device, and a vertical conveyor (26) which is adjacent to the transfer devices of the boxes (20) to receive, via the transfer devices, of the ejected sheets of the box and to transfer them to an assembly station. The ejection device comprises several endless perforated tapes (34) mounted on two guide rollers (36, 38) spaced apart and a vacuum chamber (46) surrounded by the strips (34) and having openings for passage of air is distributed in its lower wall, which is adjacent to the inner face of the lower strand (34a of the strips (34)). The opposite face of the lower strand of the strips (34) is situated facing the top sheet (28a) of the stack in a direction parallel to that - c 1 and at a distance substantially maintained constant by a mobile plate (22) on which rests the stack (28).