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GB1568752A – Apparatus for stacking folded continuously arriving printing products especially product arriving in an imbricated product stream
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GB1568752A – Apparatus for stacking folded continuously arriving printing products especially product arriving in an imbricated product stream
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Apparatus for stacking folded continuously arriving printing products especially product arriving in an imbricated product stream

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GB1568752A

GB1568752A
GB49776/77A
GB4977677A
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B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING

B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL

B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES

B65H31/00—Pile receivers

B65H31/30—Arrangements for removing completed piles

B65H31/3009—Arrangements for removing completed piles by dropping, e.g. removing the pile support from under the pile

B65H31/3018—Arrangements for removing completed piles by dropping, e.g. removing the pile support from under the pile from opposite part-support elements, e.g. operated simultaneously

B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING

B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL

B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING

B65B13/00—Bundling articles

B65B13/18—Details of, or auxiliary devices used in, bundling machines or bundling tools

B65B13/20—Means for compressing or compacting bundles prior to bundling

B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING

B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL

B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES

B65H29/00—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles

B65H29/66—Advancing articles in overlapping streams

B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING

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B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL

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B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING

B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL

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B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL

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B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL

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Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS

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Y10S414/12—Associated with forming or dispersing groups of intersupporting articles, e.g. stacking patterns including means pressing against top or end of group

Description

( 21) Application No 49776/77
( 11) 1 568 752 ( 22) Filed 30 Nov 1977 ( 31) Convention Application No 12893/77 ( 32) Filed 24 Oct 1977 in ( 33) Switzerland (CH) ( 44) ( 51)
Complete Specification Published 4 Jun 1980
INT CL 3 B 65 H 29/00 // 29/04 29/14 29/18 29/60 29/66 ( 52) Index at Acceptance l \\ \ B 8 R 611 651 662 664 671 681 721 731 ( 54) APPARATUS FOR STACKING FOLDED, CONTINUOUSLY ARRIVING PRINTED PRODUCTS, ESPECIALLY PRODUCTS ARRIVING IN AN IMBRICATED PRODUCT STREAM ( 71) We, FERAG AG, a Swiss Company, of 8340 Hinwil, Switzerland, do hereby declare the invention for which we pray that a patent may be granted to us, and the method by which it is to be performed, to be particularly described in and by the following statement:-
The present invention relates to apparatus for stacking folded, continuously arriving printed products, especially products arriving in an imbricated product stream also sometimes referred to as a fish-scale product stream.
With the heretofore known apparatus for this purpose, an infeed device delivers the printed products with the edges already leading in the arriving imbricated product stream such that the leading edges first move into a stacking device Of notable disadvantage with this solution is that such leading edge of the printed product constitutes the fold edge.
Since the stack which is in the process of being formed is higher at that side where the printed products nest against one another at their folds than at the opposite side, it is necessary in the case where the leading fold edge of the printed products is infed to the stacker or stacking device that each printed product be deposited upon a stack whose free support surface is directed upwardly at an inclination As a result, faultless stack formation is not guaranteed.
Using apparatus in accordance with the present invention it is possible to deliver printed products arriving with a leading fold into the stacker or stacking device by means of the trailing fold Since the printed products are placed upon a stack, the free support surface of which extends at an inclination downwards, there is obtained an improved stack Furthermore, due to the fact that the open side of the printed product, which is located opposite the fold, strikes against the wall of the stack chute, there is beneficially produced alignment of the individual sheets of each printed product.
The present invention provides apparatus for stacking folded, continuously arriving printed products, especially products arriving in an imbricated product stream comprising: a stacker device including a stacker chute; an infeed device arranged ahead of said stacker device; said infeed device comprising: first conveyor means; second conveyor means arranged after the first conveyor means; said second conveyor means leading to the stacker chute of the stacker device and receiving printed products transferred from the first conveyor means; said second conveyor means having a direction of conveying of the printed products with a component which is opposite to the conveying direction of the first conveyor means, and said second conveyor means being arranged below the first conveyor means at least at the transfer region of the printed products from the first conveyor means to the second conveyor means, and gap forming means arranged at said transfer region for dividing the continuously arriving product stream into sections spaced from each other by gaps.
Specific embodiments of the present invention will now be described by way of example, and not by way of limitation, with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:Figure 1 is a schematic side view of an apparatus in accordance with the present invention for stacking folded printed products arriving in an imbricated product stream; Figures 2, 3 and 4 are respective schematic side views of a part of the apparatus shown in Figure 1 during different operational cycles thereof; and Figure 5 is a schematic side view of another apparatus in accordance with the present invention for stacking folded printed products arriving in an imbricated product stream.
PATENT SPECIFICATION in O 1,568,752 With reference now to the accompanying drawings, the folded printed products 1 are delivered as an imbricated product stream S by means of an only partially shown conveyor band or belt 3 in the direction of the arrow B The printed products 1 are located over one another in a fish-scale or imbricated arrangement, like the tiles of a roof, and the leading fold 2 (back or spine) is located at the top of the imbricated product stream S A second conveyor band 4 receives the printed products 1 from the conveyor band 3 and conveys these printed products 1 in the same conveying direction B to a further conveyor band or belt 5 This conveyor band 5 is inclined in relation to the conveyor band 4 and coacts with a conveyor band 6 located thereabove.
The printed products 1 are moved by both of the conveyor bands 5 and 6 against an inclined impact or stop plate 7 against which strike the printed products 1 by means of their fold 2 and drop onto a further conveyor band or belt 8, the direction of conveying C of which is opposite to the conveying direction B of the arriving imbricated product stream S The printed products 1 are again deposited in the form of an imbricated product stream upon the conveyor band 8, but, however, in contrast to the arriving imbricated product stream moved by the conveyor bands 3 and 4, now the fold 2 forms the trailing and no longer the leading edge of the printed products 1 Hence, there has been accomplished a reversal of the direction of conveying of the printed products 1 so that the fold 2 which was leading prior to such reversal, after the deflection or turning, now becomes the trailing edge The uniform imbricated product formation also is not distrubed by such turning or deflection At the deflection location, i e, the impact plate 7, the region of the leading edge 2 of each individual arriving printed product 1 is exposed or laid free, as such has been illustrated by the printed product designated by reference character la Hence, at this region the printed product 1 is freely accessible both at the top and bottom.
At this point it is mentioned by way of completeness, conventional drive means can be used for driving the different conveyor bands, such as typically sprocket chain drives or other suitable drive elements Also the term “printed products” is used in its broader sense to encompass, whenever appropriate, products and the like which are even not yet printed.
For forming a gap in continuous imbricated product streams there is provided a separation device 9 The separation device 9 has a lower clamping jaw 10 secured to a carriage 11 or equivalent structure Engaging at the carriage 11 is the piston rod 12 of the piston-and-cylinder unit 13 By means of this piston-and-cylinder unit 13 it is possible to move the carriage 11 back-and-forth in the direction of the arrow D.
Furthermore, two levers 14 and 15 are pivotably mounted at the carriage 11, these levers being interconnected at their ends by means of a connection element 16 The piston rod 17 of a piston-and-cylinder unit or device 18 engages at the lever 15, and such piston-and-cylinder unit is likewise secured at the carriage 11 The connection element 16 carries an upper clamping jaw 19 The levers 14 and 15 and the connection element 16 form a quadrilateral link arrangement, and the lever 15 thereof can be rocked by extending and retracting the piston rod 17, whereby the upper clamping jaw 19 is moved towards the lower clamping jaw 10.
The mode of operation of the separation device 9 now will be considered based upon the showing of Figures 2-4, illustrating a part of the apparatus of Figure 1 Now if for the subsequent processing of the printed products, delivered in a continuous imbricated product stream by the conveyor devices in the form of the transport bands 3, 4, 5 and 6, this imbricated product stream should be interrupted for a certain amount of time, then by extending the piston rod 17 the lever is rocked or pivoted, which, in turn, causes a rocking of the upper clamping jaw 19 out of the rest position shown in Figure 1 into the work position In this work position which has been shown in Figure 2, the upper clamping jaw 19 presses the now freed end of a printed product lb arriving at the impact plate 7 against the lower clamping jaw 10 which is located in its starting position The printed product lb now is fixedly retained by both of the clamping jaws 10, 19 and can no longer be entrained by the associated conveyor band.
Now by retracting the piston rod 12 the carriage 11 together with both of the clamping jaws 10, 19 fixedly holding the printed product lb is shifted towards the left in the direction of the arrow B and specifically, at a speed which is smaller than the conveying speed of the conveyor band 8 The feed speed of the carriage 11 and thus the clamp jaws 10, 19 or equivalent structure, can amount to for instance one-third of the conveying speed of the conveyor band 8 Consequently, there is formed a gap 20, as best seen by referring to Figure 3, between the last printed product Ic which is still entrained at the full conveying speed by the conveyor band 8, and the fixedly retained printed product lb.
The printed products 1 which trail the fixedly retained printed product lb come to lie upon such printed product lb, and specifically, as best seen by referring to Figure 3, likewise in an imbricated formation, since the printed product lb moves away from the 1,568,752 stop of impact plate 7 in the conveying direction C The fixedly retained printed product lb now assumes the function of a conveyor element for the printed products lying thereon instead of the conveyor band 8.
As soon as printed products are again delivered for further processing, then by extending the piston rod 17 the upper clamping jaw 19 is again lifted away from the lower clamping jaw 10 so that the now freed printed products can be further conveyed by the conveyor band 8 at the full conveying speed, as the same has been illustrated in Figure 4 The carriage 11 is now again back at the starting position The separation device 9 is now ready to carry out the next gap formation at the product stream.
In contrast to the heretofore known equipment for forming a gap in an imbricated product stream, wherein the printed products are stopped for a certain amount of time, during which the products dam-up, with the described exemplary arrangement the printed products are not completely stopped, rather further conveyed, even if at a reduced speed A release of the retained or held-back printed products, with the illustrated embodiment, affords a more uniform arrival of printed products at the next following processing station than in the case where there is formed a dam-up of the printed products as considered heretofore with the prior art equipment.
This processing station which is arranged after the separation device, in other words, downstream with regard to the direction of movement of the printed products, and as shown in Figure 1, is a stacker or stacking unit 21 Nonetheless it is also possible to deliver the printed products which are divided into individual sections, separated by gaps 20 from the neighbouring sections, to other types of processing stations.
As mentioned, and as has been shown in Figure 1, the printed products 1 are delivered by the conveyor band 8 to a stacker unit or device 21 and a package forming device or unit 22 The construction and mode of operation of the stacker device 21 and the package forming device 22 will only be briefly explained in this environment.
The stacker device 21 possesses a stacker or stacking chute 24 or equivalent structure which is bounded or fixed in its geometry by the boundary ledges 23 The printed products 1 which are conveyed by the conveyor band 8 arrive with the edge opposite the fold 2, in other words, the “cut-edge” or “flower” leading against the boundary ledges 23 and in such stack chute 24, so that in the stack chute 24 there is formed a stack of printed products 1 which are lying upon one another with their folds 2 At the bottom the stack chute 24 is closed by two displaceable slide plates 25 and 26 By opening the slide plates and 26, the stack formed in the stack chute 34 is transferred to the package forming device 22, where there are formed packages or bundles of crosswise piled stacks.
Details of a possible construction of package forming unit have been disclosed in our copending Patent Application No 49777/77 (Serial No 1568753).
Now in Figure 5 there is shown another embodiment of apparatus for stacking folded printed products The printed products 100 are infed by means of a transport device 101 which may be of the type disclosed in detail in United States patent 3,955,667 and German patent publication 25 19 561, to which reference may be readily had and the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference.
The transport device 101 possesses grippers 102 anchored in spaced relationship from one another at a not particularly illustrated traction element, each gripper 102 fixedly holding or retaining a printed product 100.
The grippers 102 are moved in the direction of arrow B The printed products are delivered in an imbricated product stream S and the leading fold 103 (spine) of the printed products 100 is located at the top of the printed product stream S and engaged by the grippers 102 To release the printed products the grippers 102 are opened by means of a release mechanism 104 or 105 To control the release of the printed products there is provided a signal transmitter 106.
The printed products 100 which are infed by the transport device 101 in the form of a printed product stream S are now stacked in two similar stacking units or devices 107 and 108, as such will still further be more fully explained hereinafter Each stacking device 107 and 108 has operatively associated therewith a conveyor band 109 and 110, respectively, the conveying direction of which coincides with the conveying direction B of the transport device 101 Each conveyor band 109 and 110 is driven by a chain drive 113 and 114 through the agency of a drive motor 111 and 112 respectively Each drive motor 111 and 112 drives a second, downwardly inclined conveyor band 115 and 116, respectively, the direction of conveying C of which has a component which is opposite the direction of conveying B of the transport device 101 Upon opening the grippers 102 by the release mechanism 104 and 105.
respectively, the printed products 100 which are freed in this manner are deposited upon the corresponding second conveyor band and 116, respectively, as shown in Figure The printed products 100 thus again are deposited in the form of an imbricated product stream upon the conveyor bands 115 and 116, respectively, wherein, however, in contrast to the incoming imbricated product stream conveyed by the transport device 100 now the fold 103 forms the trailing and no 1,568,752 longer the leading edge of the printed product 100 It therefore should be apparent that also with this arrangement there is a reversal of the conveying direction of the printed products 100, so that the leading edge 103 now becomes the trailing edge, just as was the case with the embodiment of Figure 1 where this was achieved in a somewhat different manner.
Each stacker or stacking device 107 and 108 arranged following the conveyor bands and 116, respectively, and which in construction and mode of operation correspond to the stacker device 21 of Figure 1, possesses a stacker chute 119 and 120 geometrically defined by the boundary or limiting ledges 117 and 118, respectively, or equivalent structure The printed products 100 which are conveyed by the conveyor bands 115 and 116 arrive with their edge, the socalled “cut-edge” or “flower”, situated opposite the fold 103 leading against the boundary ledges 117 and 118 and into the related stacker chutes 119 and 120, respectively In the stacker chutes 119 and 120 there are formed stacks of printed products which are arranged superimposed or lying on top of one another with their folds 103 Each stacking chute 119 and 120 is closed at its lower end by two displaceable slide plates 121, 122 and 123, 124 respectively By opening the slide plates 121, 122 and 123, 124 the stacks formed in each of the stacker or stacking chutes 119 and 120, respectively, are transferred to a respective package or bundle forming device 125 and 126, which, in conventional manner, similar to the package or bundle forming device 22 of Figure 1, forms packages of bundles from crosswise piled stacks.
The equipment shown in Figure 5 operates in the following manner:
Both of the stacker units or devices 107 and 108 operate counter-cyclically, i e, in the one stacker unit 107 there is formed a stack whereas at the same time in the other stacker unit 108 the formed stack is transferred to the package or bundle forming unit 126 and vice versa For forming a stack in the stacker chute 119 of the stacker unit or device 107 the grippers 102 are opened by the gripper release or opening mechanism 104 so that all of the printed products 100 drop onto the conveyor band 115 and are conveyed by such to the stacker unit 107.
During this time no printed products are delivered to the other stacker unit 108 and the previously formed stack is transferred to the package or bundle forming unit 126 by opening the slide plates 123, 124.
After a certain number of printed products the release mechanism 104 is rendered inoperative and the release mechanism 105 is turned-on, i e rendered operative The closed grippers 102 now travel together with the printed products 100 engaged thereby past the release mechanism 104 and are first opened by the gripper release or opening mechanism 105 The printed products 100 now drop onto the conveyor band 116, which conveys the printed products 100 in the conveying direction C to the stacker unit 118.
During the time span during which a stack is formed in the stacker chute 120, the stack formed previously in the stacker chute 119 of the other stacker unit or device 107 is delivered to the package forming unit or device Thereafter there is again accomplished a switching of the gripper release mechanisms 104, 105 and a renewed filling of the stacker chute 119 and emptying of the stacker chute 120.
In both of the embodiments shown in Figures 1 and 5 the infeed of the printed products to the stacker device 21, 107 or 108, respectively, must be accomplished in each instance with periodic interruptions, in order to render possible emptying of the stacker chute 24, 119 and 120, respectively Since, however, the printed products 1 and 100 are continuously infed by the conveyor band 3 and the transport device 101 respectively, measures must be undertaken in order to, as mentioned, periodically interrupt this continuous stream of printed products.
With the embodiment according to Figure 1 this interruption is accomplished by the separator device 9, By means of the separator device 9 the printed products are delayed during transport for such length of time until the stacker unit 21 is ready for receiving new printed products 1.
With the embodiment of Figure 5 this interruption is accomplished by switching from one to the other stacker unit 107 or 108 or vice versa.
It is also conceivable to provide more than two similar stacker units, which, in the manner described in conjunction with the embodiment of Figure 5, in each case are supplied for a certain time span with printed products and thereafter disconnected from the infeed of the printed products for the purpose of emptying the stacker chute.
It is also possible, with the embodiment of Figure 1, to infeed the printed products 1 by means of a transport device 101 of the type disclosed in connection with Figure 5.
Equally, it is conceivable to employ, instead of the transport or conveyor device 101, a conveyor band for the infeed of the printed products 100 In this case there must be arranged at a suitable location, for instance, at a deflection or turning location, a switch which alternately delivers the infed imbricated product stream to the individual stacker devices or units 107 and 108.
With the described exemplary embodiments the second conveyor device is formed by the conveyor bands 8, 115 and 116, which 1,568,752 have a conveying direction with a component which is opposite to the carrying direction of the first conveyor device or means 3, 4, 5, 6 and 101 respectively This second conveyor device or means can be, however, also differently constructed, for instance, there can be provided a number of adjacently arranged conveyor bands wherein neighboring conveyor bands have conveying directions which are disposed at right angles to one another, and the conveying direction of the printed products during each transfer from one conveyor band to the other conveyor band is turned in each instance through 90 By accomplishing a double deflection or turning through 900 there is produced the same result as with the described single or turning deflection through 180 A thus constructed second conveyor device would then have, like the already described exemplary embodiments, a conveying sense or direction with a component which is opposite to the carrying direction of the first conveyor device.
There has been described apparatus for stacking folded, continuously arriving printed products, especially products arriving in an imbricated product stream, comprising an infeed device arranged to feed products to a stacking device The infeed device comprises a first conveyor device and at least one second conveyor device for receiving products from the first conveyor device The second conveyor device leads to a stack chute of the stacker device The second conveyor device has a direction of conveying of the printed products with a component which is opposite to the conveying direction of the first conveyor device.

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WHAT WE CLAIM IS:-
1 Apparatus for stacking folded, continuously arriving printed products, especially products arriving in an imbricated product stream, comprising:
a stacker device including a stacker chute; an infeed device arranged ahead of said stacker device; said infeed device comprising:
first conveyor means; second conveyor means arranged after the first conveyor means; said second conveyor means leading to the stacker chute of the stacker device and receiving printed products transferred from the first conveyor means; said second conveyor means having a direction of conveying of the printed products with a component which is opposite to the conveying direction of the first conveyor means, and said second conveyor means being arranged below the first conveyor means at least at the transfer region of the printed products from the first conveyor means to the second conveyor means, and gap forming means arranged at said transfer region for dividing the continuously arriving product stream into sections spaced from each other by gaps.
2 Apparatus as claimed in claim 1, including at least two of said second con 70 veyor means spaced apart in the conveying direction of said first conveyor-means, each of said second conveyor means being arranged ahead of a respective stacker device, 75 said gap forming means comprising switching means cooperating with said first conveyor means for controlling the transfer of printed products to said two second conveyor means, 80 said switching means alternately bringing about during a predetermined time span transfer of printed products from said first conveyor means, to one of said second conveyor means 85 3 Apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein said first conveyor means is provided with a number of gripper means arranged in spaced relationship from one another and moving in the direction of con 90 veying of the printed products; each gripper means being arranged to hold a printed product and when activated to release the held printed product; said switching means comprising two grip 95 per release means each of which is associated with a respective one of said stacker devices and arranged at the transfer region of one of said second conveyor means, said gripper release means being alternately activated for 100 opening the gripper means.
4 Apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said gap forming means comprises a separation device movable in the product conveying direction of the second conveyor 105 means at a speed which is less than the product conveying speed of said second conveyor means; said separation device comprising clamping means for selectively and temporarily 110 retaining a printed product.
Apparatus as claimed in claim 4 wherein said separation device comprises:
a carriage, means for movably driving said carriage in 115 the direction of conveying of said second conveyor means; and said clamping means comprising two clamping jaws arranged at said movable carriage; 120 one of the clamping jaws being secured at the carriage; and means for moving the other clamping jaw for retaining a product in the direction of said one clamping jaw and for release of said pro 125 duct away from said one clamping jaw.
6 Apparatus as claimed in claim 5, further including:
stop means arranged at the conveying path of the first conveyor means above said sec 130 1,568,752 ond conveyor means; said stop means serving to coact with the printed products conveyed from the first conveyor means; and said clamping means in a rest position of said separation device being located at the region of said stop means in order to seize the printed products at an edge thereof abutting against said stop means.
7 Apparatus for stacking folded, continuously arriving printed products, substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to Figures 1 to 4 of the accompanying drawings.
8 Apparatus for stacking folded, continuously arriving printed products, substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to Figure 5 of the accompanying drawings.
GRAHAM WAIT & CO.
Chartered Patent Agents, 3, Gray’s Inn Square, London, WC 1 R 5 AH Agents for the Applicants Printed for Her Majestv’s Stationery Office, by Croydon Printing Company Limited Croydon Surrey, 1980.
Published by The Patent Office, 25 Southampton Buildings.
London WC 2 A LAY from which copies may be obtained.

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“DEVICE FOR REMOVING FLEXIBLE, FLAT PRODUCTS REPORTED BY MEANS OF A CONVEYOR, IN PARTICULAR PRINTED PRODUCTS, FROM THE CONVEYOR FLOW”

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Device for stacking printed products continuously arriving in an imbricated product stream

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