The transport device has at least one movable slide for conveying blister packs. A linear motor drive device is used to drive the slide along a guide rail. The slide has at least one permanent magnet for interaction with the linear motor drive device. In addition, a retaining element for holding a product insert is arranged on the slide and is moved with the slide. The retaining element is operable between an activated or closed position to hold the product insert and a deactivated or opened position to receive or release the product insert.

An apparatus and method for forming a stack with advertising material compilations respectively consisting of an envelope with inserts therein, and having a common, leading folded edge. The apparatus includes a feed conveyor, a transfer conveyor and a stacking device. The transfer conveyor comprises a central wheel that rotates around a first rotational axis, a carrier wheel that rotates around a second rotational axis oriented parallel to the first rotational axis, and a number of pivoting arms with respectively one gripper. The second rotational axis is arranged below a horizontal plane extending through the first rotational axis. The grippers are respectively positioned on the pivoting arm to rotate around an axis. The grippers take over the advertising material compilations in a takeover region from the feed conveyor, transfer the adverting compilations in a transfer region to the stacking device which extends into the transfer region and deposit these on the stacking device.

The present invention includes a sheet transmission system, comprising: a sheet stacking unit, a sheet position adjusting unit, a sheet processing unit, and a sheet collection unit, arranged in series along a transmission path of a sheet; and one or more independent transmission units, each transmission unit provided between two adjacent units among above units; wherein the sheet stacking unit is configured to store the sheet to be processed; the sheet position adjusting unit is configured to adjust the position of the sheet; the sheet processing unit is configured to conduct a predetermined process to the sheet transmitted therein; the sheet collection unit is configured to collect the processed sheet; wherein when a sheet is transmitted along the transmission path, the sheet is subjected to at least one transition between the first-direction transmission state and the second-direction transition state; and wherein the sheet will not deflect in a vertical direction.

The filling of value documents cassettes involves a cassette receiving device for receiving a value document cassette and a gripping device for transporting a value document stack from a value document container into the value document cassette. The apparatus optionally has a formatting device for the automatic alignment of a value document stack removed from the value document container before the stack is inserted in the value document cassette. A finger element is attached to the transport device of the gripping device, and besides the gripping device, the finger element is guided into the value document cassette before the value documents are inserted.

The device for handling adjacent sheet elements comprises a clamp (2) for gripping a sheet element (10) and a capture head (1) which is provided with clamping means (4), which separates, grips and lifts an edge of a sheet element (10). The capture head/s (1) is/are rotatable about a longitudinal axis (3).

It allows the handling of sheet elements consisting of one or more layers of sheet material, allowing the clamp to slide along the surface supporting the elements to access the underside of the sheet element, thus capturing the elements on the same surface that has been used to cut them.

The application relates to an unloading device for a substrate magazine, wherein the substrate magazine has multiple drawers in which substrates are arrangeable for storage or temporary storage, having at least one controllable conveyor belt on which substrates can be placed, and having at least one controllable gripper arm, which is designed to push at least one substrate out of a drawer of the substrate magazine to the conveyor belt, wherein the conveyor belt and the gripper arm are arranged on a common and movably mounted carrier, wherein the gripper arm is arranged at least in a starting position below the conveyor belt in order to grip at least one substrate from below for pushing out. It is provided for this purpose that the gripper arm is designed to push a substrate stack having several substrates lying one on top of another out of one of the drawers above the conveyor belt, that a separating device is arranged above the conveyor belt, into which the substrate stack is insertable by the gripper arm and that the separating device is designed to release the lowest substrate of the substrate stack from the substrate stack and deposit it on the conveyor belt underneath.

A sheet material processing unit (20, 22, 24) comprises a transport system (32) for transporting sheets (12) or parts thereof from a respective input end (20i, 22i, 24i) to a respective output end (20o, 22o, 24o). A gripper unit (46) is releasably coupled to the transport system (32) and is configured for holding at least a part of one of the sheets (12). Additionally, at least one handover mechanism (47d, 47r) is provided being configured for decoupling the gripper unit (46) from the transport system (32) and providing the gripper unit (46) to a neighboring sheet material processing unit (20, 22, 24) and/or receiving a gripper unit (46) from a neighboring sheet material processing unit (20, 22, 24) and coupling the received gripper unit (46) to the corresponding transport system (32). Additionally, a sheet material processing machine (10) is presented which comprises at least two such sheet material processing units (20, 22, 24).

A post-processing device includes an alignment section on which a plurality of recording media are stacked, a medium receiving section to which a plurality of recording media are discharged, a conveyance section that conveys a stack of a plurality of recording media stacked on the alignment section to the medium receiving section, and a single drive section that drives the conveyance section, wherein the conveyance section includes a gripping part that grips the plurality of recording media stacked on the alignment section, a gripping-part conveyance section that moves the gripping part in a state of gripping the plurality of recording media in a sheet ejection direction directed from the alignment section toward the medium receiving section, and a reciprocation mechanism that reciprocates the gripping-part conveyance section in a direction parallel to the sheet ejection direction.

A sheet processing machine with a transfer mechanism for moving sheets along a handling direction of the sheet processing machine and with a waste evacuation device (36) for releasing the sheets. The transfer mechanism comprises a sheet handling element (28) for moving a sheet, the sheet handling element (28) comprising at least one sliding element (54). The sheet handling element (28) is adapted to release the sheet when passing the waste evacuation device (36). The waste evacuation device comprises at least one alignment element (38) adapted to interact with the at least one sliding element (54) for minimizing deformation of the sheet handling element (28) when passing the waste evacuation device (36).