APPARATUS FOR OUTFEEDING FLAT PRODUCTS, ESPECIALLY PRINTED PRODUCTS, ARRIVING IN AN IMBRICATED ARRAY

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?407 INVENTORS: WALTER REIST and WERNER HONEGGERINVENTION: APPARATUS FOR OUTFEEDING FLAT PRODUCTS,ESPECIALLY PRINTED PRODUCTS, ARRIVING IN ANIMBRICATED ARRAYABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSUREAn apparatus for outfeeding printed products arriving inan imbricated product stream, in which, in each case, the leadingedge of a printed product overlies the rearward edge of the pre-ceding printed product. The arriving imbricated product stream isinfed, by means of a conveyor belt or band, to the conveying gapof a deflection or turning device where the imbricated productstream is turned through about 180°. This deflection device com-prises a deflection drum about which there is guided an endlessconveyor belt. A pressing or contact belt, held under tension, isarranged opposite the deflection drum and forms together therewiththe conveying gap. The pressing belt presses the printed products,traveling through the conveying gap, against the deflection drum.The conveyor belt guided about the deflection drum conveys theprinted products, departing out of the conveying gap, towards anindividual conveyor. This individual conveyor possesses in-dividually actuable grippers which, viewed in the product convey-ing direction, are arranged behind one another and attached to atraction element. These grippers engage the printed products, in-fed by the conveyor belt, at their leading edges and convey suchupwardly away. At the transfer region the conveying direction ofthe individual conveyor extends from below towards the top andtransversely with respect to the surface of the printed products,so that the latter are raised upwardly and detached from the im-bricated product stream.