Abstract: There is disclosed a processing apparatus of sheets using an accumulation device of a vaned wheel system including a vaned wheel having a plurality of blades arranged at a predetermined interval in a rotation direction, and rotating, thereby allowing continuously feed sheets to enter between the blades, and guiding the sheets in a predetermined direction, so that the sheets guided by the vaned wheel are laminated/accumulated in an accumulation section, and synchronization is established between a supply timing of paper money by a paper money supply section and a rotation phase of the vaned wheel.

Abstract: A “spider” device for collecting and conveying signatures produced on rotary print machines. The inventive device is adapted to be moved outside the production line without stopping operation of the production line. The device is equipped with a hinging mechanism adapted to connect it to a vertical riser of the production line for rotating it around at least one vertical axis with respect to the ground. The inventive device is further equipped with a hooking/unhooking mechanism used to allow repositioning the device in the same operating position in the production line.

Abstract: A transfer device for an inserting device is rotatable about an axis of rotation extending transversely to a feed direction of articles being fed to the transfer device. The transfer device has at least one receptacle for the articles. At least one transport unit for transporting the articles away in a transport direction transverse to the feed direction is provided. A central shaft for driving the transport units is provided.

Abstract: Method of raising sheet-like products (2), in particular printed products, which are taking part in a conveying process and follow sequentially one after the other, the products (2) resting, at least in certain regions, on a conveying means (1) during the conveying process, it being the case that, for at least a period of time of the raising operation, gravitational force being overcome in the process, the products (2) are pivoted actively about an axis (B) which extends essentially parallel to the direction (A) in which the conveying process is oriented immediately prior to the raising operation.

Abstract: A sheet material conveying apparatus includes a plurality of pockets running along a track, each pocket including a setting device for adjusting a height of the pocket so as to define a set height. At least one setting actuator located to a side of the pockets is provided, with the setting actuator being selectively movable between a first position where the setting actuator contacts the setting device for adjusting the setting device when the pockets are stationary and a second position where the setting actuator is free from the setting device to allow movement of the pockets along the track.

Abstract: A star wheel manufacturing process, and a star wheel manufactured thereby, suitable for an ink jet printer. Metal is formed by chemical milling, subtractive etching or the like, into the desired star wheel configuration, including a plurality of radially extending projections having tips. At least a portion of each tip has an electropolished surface. A coating of fluorinated polymer or the like may be applied to at least a portion of the electrolpolished surface on each tip.

Abstract: An offset sheet stacker device for flexible sheet material (2), especially paper, with at least one deflection wheel (3) which has at least one receiving slot (4) which is located essentially tangentially, a sheet feed device (5) which discharges into at least one receiving slot (4) when it is in the receiving position (6), and a sheet delivery stop (7) in the area of the deflection wheel (3) which is opposite a receiving position (6), the wheel running in a recess (8) of said sheet delivery stop (7) and the latter lying in the sheet delivery position (17) at least on one side of said receiving slot (4). On one shaft (9) there are at least two deflection wheels (3) which have receiving slots (4) in identical positions and that the shaft (9) can be inclined relative to the transport direction (10) of the sheet feed device (5).

Abstract: In a sheet-processing apparatus, banknotes are separated by a separator (10) and fed to a depositing arrangement (18) via a sensor and transporting unit (8). Depositing takes place in different depositing compartments in accordance with depositing criteria which are determined by certain features of the banknotes (BN) being sensed. The individual depositing compartments (30, 32, 34) of the depositing arrangement (18) are assigned stacker wheels (20, 22, 24), which have stacker fingers which, in pairs, define a sheet compartment between them. The banknotes are introduced into the sheet compartments and are then deposited in the associated depositing compartment by the stacker fingers.

Abstract: A device for separating groups of sheets may be used on an apparatus for forming and banding groups of sheets comprising at least one track to feed the individual sheets to a pick up roller for the individual sheets arriving and to transfer said sheets to a stacking channel, extending along a stacking axis, where the sheets are placed on top of one another in stacks which may be preset and banded, one after another. The device comprises a partial support element for the sheets transferred, which operates between the roller and the channel and is mobile, by means synchronized with the roller, between an operating separation position, in which the element is partially inside the dimensions of the roller, intercepting a portion of a first sheet in a stack to be formed, and a release position, in which the element is outside the dimensions of the roller and close to the mouth of the channel, partially supporting a corresponding presettable stack of sheets fed from the roller.

Abstract: A sheet-stacking apparatus capable of receiving two sheets at substantially the same time, which includes a disk unit including four substantially identical rotatable disks, each disk including a receiving slot for receiving a portion of a sheet therein. The disk unit is arranged so that two of the four disks receive portions of a first sheet and the remaining two disks receive portions of a second sheet. Embodiments also include a bin into which the first sheet and the second sheet are deposited and a selectively extendable separator that separates the first sheet and the second sheet into two separate stacks. The apparatus can also include a tamping mechanism.

Abstract: In the case of a method of, and an apparatus for, forming a bundle of individual sheets, in particular banknotes (98), which are drawn off individually from a sheet-storage container, fed, via a sheet conveyor (14), to a stacking-wheel arrangement (16) comprising at least one stacking wheel, and set down on a stacking surface by means of said stacking-wheel arrangement, the stacking wheel (58) is driven intermittently and controlled such that a receiving gap (90) of a stacking wheel is aligned with the outlet end (44) of the sheet conveyor (14) when a sheet (98) leaves the sheet conveyor (14). The trailing edge of a sheet (98) leaving the sheet conveyor (14) is detected at a predetermined location of the sheet conveyor (14), and the stacking wheel is advanced by one receiving gap (90) in dependence on the time at which the trailing edge is detected.

Abstract: In a preferred embodiment, the web product manipulation device of the present invention is a finger having a constrained layer damping assembly coupled thereto. The constrained layer damping assembly preferably has a damping layer located between a constraining layer and an elongated body at least partially defining the finger. The damping layer preferably includes viscoelastic damping material, and the constraining layer is preferably a resilient element such as a strip of metal on the damping layer. The application of the constrained layer damping assembly to the finger dampens vibrations induced in the finger during operation. This reduces deflection in the end of the finger caused by vibration, thereby allowing the machine in which the finger is installed to be operated at higher speeds.

Abstract: A method for transferring signatures is described. A gripper assembly contains a gripper bar having a gripper and a pivot arm having a gripper seat. The gripper assembly is moved such that the gripper projects through a space in front of a leading edge of a signature being delivered on a transport system. The gripper assembly is moved such that the gripper seat is directly aligned with the leading edge of the signature and the gripper seat is travelling at the same velocity as the signature. The gripper is driven in a direction of the gripper seat such that the signature is held between the gripper and the gripper seat. In this manner the velocity of the signature is not changed during the handoff. In addition, a gripper assembly for performing the handoff is described.

Abstract: A paddle wheel delivery for flat copies, which are delivered onto a belt surface of a delivery belt, the paddle wheel delivery including at least one paddle wheel formed of two paddle wheel disks mutually adjustable relative to one another. The delivery includes sickle-shaped regions inwardly movable by a relative movement of the paddle wheel disks, for converting a first pocket width of the paddle wheel pockets on the paddle wheels into a second pocket width of the paddle wheel pockets. Also included is a folder including the paddle wheel delivery; and a web-fed rotary printing machine including the paddle wheel delivery.

Abstract: An inspection and/or processing apparatus for sheets such as banknotes includes a stacker wheel arrangement in which, rather than continuously rotating the stacker wheel and decelerating or accelerating the wheel to adjust the wheel speed in order to cause the grooves to align with the entrance chute at the same time that sheets arrive at the wheel, the stacker wheel is rotated only between sheet arrivals, and only for the purpose of indexing the stacker wheel to a new position at which a sheet can enter the stacker wheel without jamming. Indexing of the stacker wheel follows a predetermined profile, and the stacker wheel is held stationary at each predetermined aligned position until a respective individual sheet has entered the stacker wheel.

Abstract: An improved delivery section of a folder of a printing press in which the bucket assemblies and side guides are adjustable to accommodate varying widths of signatures.

Abstract: A paddle-wheel deliverer for a web-fed rotary printing machine is driven by its own, position-controlled motor so that the deliverer can be set up cost-effectively and the products are transferred reliably into the paddle wheel.

Abstract: A document creating apparatus comprises an image transfer system and a sheet stacker for stacking sheets of material. The sheet stacker is coupled to the image transfer system and is adapted to transport the sheets of material from the image transfer system along a paper path. The sheet stacker has a rotatable disk located along the paper path. The rotatable disk receives at least two of the sheets of material. A controller is connected to the rotatable disk and controls a position of the rotatable disk. The controller rotates the rotatable disk to or past a sheet stacking position after the rotatable disk receives at least two of the sheets of material adjacent each other.

Abstract: The invention relates to a sheet delivery device (1) for flexible sheet material (2), especially paper, with at least one deflection wheel (3) which has at least one receiving slot (4) which is located essentially tangentially, a sheet feed (5) which discharges into at least one receiving slot (4) when it is in the receiving position (6), and a sheet delivery stop (7) in the area of the deflection wheel (3) which is opposite the receiving position (6), the wheel running in a recess (8) of said sheet delivery stop (7) and the latter lying in the sheet delivery position (17) at least on one side of said receiving slot (4). One such sheet delivery device will be developed such that an offset in the delivered stack (20) is easily achieved. This is done in that on one shaft (9) there are at least two deflection wheels (3) which have receiving slots (4) in identical positions and that said shaft (9) can be inclined relative to the transport direction (10) of said sheet feed (5).

Abstract: A document creating apparatus comprises an image transfer system and a sheet stacker for stacking sheets of material. The sheet stacker is coupled to the image transfer system and is adapted to transport the sheets of material from the image transfer system along a paper path. The sheet stacker has a rotatable disk located along the paper path. The rotatable disk receives at least two of the sheets of material. A controller is connected to the rotatable disk and controls a position of the rotatable disk. The controller rotates the rotatable disk to or past a sheet stacking position after the rotatable disk receives at least two of the sheets of material adjacent each other.

Abstract: A delivery fan, comprising sets of blades at constant circumferential spacings, receives therebetween the sheets successively falling from an overhead infeed conveyor. The sheets fall off the delivery fan on hitting a set of abutment tines arranged interdigitatingly with the fan blades. A stack of sheets thus formed on a retractable platform is unloaded therefrom onto a delivery conveyor. A temporary sheet holder is provided which is angularly displaceable about the delivery fan axis between a working position, where it temporarily receive the sheets falling off the delivery fan pending unloading of the preformed stack of sheets, and a retracted position where the sheet holder allows the sheets to fall from the delivery fan onto the platform. The sheet holder is mounted to the shaft of the delivery fan via a pair of overrunning clutches and sprung from the retracted toward the working position.

Abstract: A device for separating groups of sheets may be used on an apparatus for forming and banding groups of sheets comprising at least one track to feed the individual sheets to a pick up roller for the individual sheets arriving and to transfer said sheets to a stacking channel, extending along a stacking axis, where the sheets are placed on top of one another in stacks which may be preset and banded, one after another. The device comprises a partial support element for the sheets transferred, which operates between the roller and the channel and is mobile, thanks to means in time with the roller, between an operating separation position, in which the element is partially inside the dimensions of the roller, intercepting a portion of a first sheet in a stack to be formed, and a release position, in which the element is outside the dimensions of the roller and close to the mouth of the channel, partially supporting a corresponding presettable stack of sheets fed from the roller.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to providing a product delivery apparatus which includes a fan wheel or the like having a modified arrangement for interacting with a product feed device, to enhance the control with which products are delivered into the pockets of the fan wheel. In accordance with exemplary embodiments, characteristics of the fan wheel are adjusted with regard to the product feed to accommodate product delivery requirements. More particularly, exemplary embodiments are directed to modifying a fan wheel to include a receiving area in each fan tip for receiving a product feed device (e.g., conveyor belt, tape drive, roller and so forth), such that the product feed devices can be placed in alignment with the fan blades of the fan wheel. Such a feature provides better control of the products as they are transported into the fan blades, since the product feed can be placed in closer proximity to a fan arrangement along the direction of product transport.

Abstract: A media storage system for an automated banking machine (10) includes a rotating flipper member (90, 178, 222) which is rotationally movable to engage sheets. A moveable gripper member (138, 182, 226) is movably mounted relative to the flipper member. The flipper member further includes an arcuately extending slot (92, 180, 232). A sheet extending in the slot is held in fixed engagement with the flipper member by the gripper member. Rotation of the flipper member to a releasing position causes the sheet to be engaged with a stop surface (160, 188, 284) as the gripper member moves to release the sheet. Sheets released by the flipper member are positioned in a stack (94, 184, 234). In alternative embodiments a flipper member (178, 222) includes a picker portion (202, 278). The picker portion is selectively operated to remove sheets from the stack for delivery to a user of the machine.

Abstract: For accurately manipulating a sheet, in accelerating or decelerating that sheet, another sheet or a holder for receiving a sheet in a first time interval, a quantity is measured which forms a measure for the deceleration or acceleration in the first time interval. A measuring result obtained upon measurement is required. Next, a moment at which an acceleration or deceleration of the sheet in a second time interval after said first time interval is started is determined in accordance with the registered measuring result. As a result, in a very simple manner, an accurate determination is obtained of the moment at which the intended acceleration or deceleration is to be started. Further disclosed are apparatuses for practicing the proposed method.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for replacing elements of a product delivery fan wheel which is rotatably mounted. The fan wheel has a plurality of fan blades which include attaching devices for replaceably mounting fan blade tips on the fan blades.

Abstract: A stacking apparatus comprising a rotatable stacking wheel with a multiplicity of fingers, of which one end is fastened on the circumference of a hub, enclosing a stacking-wheel spindle and between which there is formed in each case one receiving gap for sheet-like articles, said stacking apparatus being characterized in that the width of the receiving gap can be adjusted between an open position, in which the sheet-like articles can be introduced into the gap, and a position in which the sheet-like articles are retained.

Abstract: An improved delivery section of a folder of a printing press in which the bucket assemblies and side guides are adjustable to accommodate varying widths of signatures.

Abstract: Printed products are guided from an infeed to a delivery belt by a plurality of partially overlapping paddle blades. The paddle blades are secured to an endless carrier such as a chain or a toothed belt. The printed products are deposited on the delivery belt in a smooth, gentle manner as they slip out of the pockets defined by the adjacent overlapping paddles.

Abstract: A folder of a printing press wherein the bucket assemblies are mounted on shafts cantilevered from the folder frame, and wherein each shaft is rotatably driven and positionally controlled by a motor that is mechanically independent of the folder drive mechanism.

Abstract: A device is used to transfer printed products from the paddle wheel pockets of a paddle wheel or a delivery fan. A gripper chain carries a plurality of grippers which remove the printed products from the pockets without damaging them. A gripper chain drive wheel and the paddle wheel or wheels have a common axis of rotation but are driven separately from each other.

Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus and method for receiving at least one sheet from a first upstream direction and feeding the at least one sheet in either a second mainstream direction or a third disposal direction. Conventionally, this invention may be used to reorient a sheet, or an accumulation of sheets, from landscape to portrait or vice versa, and to dispose of an incorrect accumulation of sheets into an out-sort station.

Abstract: A device and a method for depositing products or signatures on a conveying belt utilizes both a fixed stripper and a rotating stripper, in conjunction with a delivery paddle wheel. The cooperation of the fixed and rotating strippers deposits the signatures or folded products onto the delivery belt in an efficient manner while preventing damage to the products or signatures.

Abstract: An adjustable signature stripping mechanism for stripping signatures from a rotating bucket assembly in a folder of a printing press. The mechanism includes a stripper shaft having a mounting portion and a pivot axis and a plurality of strippers mounted on the stripper shaft for stripping signatures from the bucket assembly and wherein the strippers are non-rotatable relative to the stripper shaft and slidable positionable along the stripper shaft.

Abstract: A fly stripping mechanism for stripping sheet-like objects such as printed material from a rotating fly assembly having a plurality of fly pockets is disclosed. A cam adjacent the fly assembly remains stationary as the fly assembly rotates. A lever is disposed adjacent each fly pocket and is also pivotally mounted to the fly assembly. A cam follower is connected to each lever. As the fly assembly rotates, the cam follower follows the contour of the cam. The contour of the cam slows the rotation of the cam followers relative to the rotational speed of the fly assembly. The slowed rotation of the cam followers in turn causes an end portion of the lever to move from a position adjacent a rearward portion of the fly pocket toward a forward portion of the fly pocket, thereby ejecting printed material from the fly pocket.

Abstract: A printed sheets output inverting and stacking system for printers printing normal size sheets oriented widthwise and long size sheets oriented lengthwise, with a disk type rotatable sheet inverting and stacking system positioned adjacent to one side of the printer output path with its axis of rotation parallel to the direction of sheet movement of the printer. A scuffer or other lateral sheet feeding system receives the printed sheet output of the printer and laterally moves each sheet towards one side of the printer output path, at right angles to the original direction of sheet movement, and into the sheet inverting slots of the rotatable disk inverter-stacker, so that the long size sheets are inverted widthwise, for increased stacking reliability.

Abstract: In an sheet finishing apparatus for receiving a sheet on which an image has been formed by an image forming apparatus, and for ejecting the sheet after a front side thereof is reversed, the sheet finishing apparatus includes: a sheet conveyor for conveying the sheet fed from the image forming apparatus downstream; a sheet reversing device for receiving the sheet conveyed by the sheet conveyor, and for reversing the front side of the sheet by rotation; a sheet holder provided on a peripheral portion of the sheet reversing device for holding a leading edge portion of the sheet conveyed by the sheet conveyor, the sheet holder capable of being opened or closed; a sheet stopper for blocking the leading edge portion of the sheet to be stopped at a position where the front side of the sheet is reversed by a rotation of the sheet reversing device; and a sheet stacking member for stacking the sheet separated from the sheet reversing device by a further rotation of the reversing device after the leading edge of the she

Abstract: A fold section feeding out apparatus of a folding unit for a rotary press is capable of preventing rebounding of a read end portion of a fold section to be caused upon transferring from a delivery fan to a conveyer. The fold section feeding out apparatus includes the delivery fan receiving fold sections cut and folded by a folding unit for feeding, and the conveyer receiving fold sections fed from the delivery fan and transporting the fold section in overlapped condition with shifted for a predetermined pitch. The fold section feeding out apparatus also includes at least one air ejecting means opening above the conveyer and ejecting a compressed air from a leading end side of the fold section at least toward a position in the vicinity of the rear end of the fold section for holding the rear end of the fold section transferred from the delivery fan to the conveyer as being lowered according to rotation of the delivery fan, for restricting free movement of the rear end of the fold section.

Abstract: A paper guide unit is disposed in a signature delivery section of a rotary press in which signatures are inserted between vanes of a delivery fan and dropped onto a conveyor located under the delivery fan through rotation of the delivery fan. A guide member located in the vicinity of a rotation area of the delivery fan has a signature guide surface which comes into contact the signatures inserted between vanes of the delivery fan in order to guide them toward the conveyor. A movable unit is provided to support the guide member. The movable unit is reciprocatively movable in a substantially horizontal direction to move the guide member toward or away from the delivery fan. An adjusting unit is linked to the movable unit for moving the guide member toward or away from the delivery fan via the movable unit to thereby adjust the gap between the guide member and the delivery fan.

Abstract: In the apparatus of the invention for loading and dispensing bills, the deposited bills are isolated and directly provisionally stored and tested by means of a deposit path (A, B, C), and the testing result, particularly with respect to the amount, is displayed. Depending on the customer's command and/or test result, the bills are returned after deposit from the intermediate storage (20) to the return path (E, F) that has one embranchment location (24b) only, so that the customer can personally test eventual or supposed inaccuracies in the automatic sum and/or value determination of the deposited bills. The bills can be guided into the end storage container by means of the only embranchment location (24b). A completely undisturbed bill loading system is therefore obtained, wherein the bills can be dispensed in the original order in which they were deposited for reverification by the depositing customer. In this manner, the greatest possible feeling of security is extended to the customer making the deposit.

Abstract: A method for automatic processing of sheet material, e.g. bank notes, wherein the bank notes are singled, transferred to a transport system, tested, and stacked in units of a predetermined piece number in so-called stackers by predetermined categories in accordance with the testing. The transfer of bank note to the transport system is interrupted as soon as the sensor unit ascertains that the predetermined piece number of a category is reached in a stacker. The bank notes of the same category already singled at this time are stored temporarily in the sorting plant until the stacker has processed the deposited predetermined piece number.

Abstract: In a disk-type inverter-stacker system with plural rotatable fingers extending radially from an axis or rotation for sequentially inverting and stacking onto a stacking tray the printed sheets outputted by a reproduction apparatus, by temporarily retaining at least the leading portion of the sheet in sheet transporting slots defined by inside surfaces of the rotatable fingers, a fixed position sheet corrugating member is spaced from but interdigitated with the rotatable fingers, extending slightly radially beyond the inside surfaces of the fingers to slightly corrugate the leading portion of said sheet while it is in the finger-defined slots to provide improved inverting and stacking of sheets exceeding the length of the slots.

Abstract: An automated film slide orienting and mounting system includes at least one detector for detecting the orientation of film, a knife assembly for successively cutting the film to generate film segments, a rotatable table for orienting the film segments into a proper orientation, a set of driver assemblies for progressively moving each film segment for insertion into a slide mount, and a magnetic writing device for writing the orientation of the film segment magnetically onto the slide mount in a region of magnetic material disposed upon each slide mount.

Abstract: In a disk type sheet inverting and stacking system with rotatable disk units with sheet transporting slots, in which printed sheets outputted by a reproduction system are sequentially fed into those slots to be inverted by rotation of the disk units and then released from the slots at a stacking position, the sheet transporting slots of the disk units are provided with a convolute sheet path formed by plural internal sheet corrugating protuberances extending transversely across the slot from opposite sides of the slot, spaced along the slot, to form a convolute sheet corrugating sheet path within the slot to automatically increase the retention force of the sheet within the slot in proportion to an increase in the thickness or stiffness of the sheet, without substantially increasing the resistance to lateral movement of the sheet within the slot.

Abstract: A printing press has a plurality of in-line printing units in which substrates are transported along a rectilinear transport path. The printing units include several recto printing units and several verso printing units disposed along the transport path. A transport system, which transports the substrates through the printing units along the straight transport path, includes a first transport apparatus through the recto printing units, and a second transport apparatus through the verso printing units. A feeder assembly feeds the substrates to be printed from a feeder pile to the transport system. The feed by the feeder also follows a straight path which is coplanar with the path through the printing units. It is thus possible to print not only bendable substrates, but also rigid and stiff substrates such as carton, plastic, sheet metal, glass, and the like. The system further includes a turning apparatus for turning the substrates between the recto printing units and the verso printing units.

Abstract: The present invention is related to an apparatus for delivering flat products, such as signatures, in a folding apparatus of a rotary printing press. At least one fan wheel assembly has a plurality of fan blades separated from each other by fan wheel pockets. The fan wheel pockets are defined by surfaces of the fan blades. A first surface of each fan wheel pocket is configured to cause the signature to take on an energy dissipating state.

Abstract: A diverter mechanism for signatures in a folding apparatus is provided including a set of high-speed tapes (3) for conveying signatures in a conveying plane (1) toward delivery stations (12, 13). Rotating diverting elements (7.1, 7.2) are integrated into the path of the high speed tapes (3). Each of the diverting elements (7.1, 7.2) has at least two rotatably mounted guiding surfaces (10) that alter the diverting direction of signatures upon rotation of the diverting elements (7.1, 7.2).

Abstract: The disclosed rotatable disks type sheet inverting, registration and stacking system has finger units, with sheet carrying slots, which are mounted to the disk units for variable radial movement. These finger units automatically adjust their radius to release sheets from their respective slots closely adjacent to the top of the output stack of sheets at their registration position to automatically compensate for variations in the height of said stack of sheets, preferably by limited force engagement of the ends of the fingers with the top of the stack. Preferably the finger units are radially pivotally outwardly lightly spring loaded to provide a transporting and inverting position for the sheets in the sheet slots which is at a substantially greater radius than the reduced radius thereof in releasing the sheets at the stacking registration position.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing printed products comprising a plurality of part-products, for example newspapers, periodicals and the like, includes a processing drum which is divided into portions and is driven in rotation. The processing drum is provided with saddle-like rests which are distributed uniformly in the circumferential direction. A transporting device transports the products along the saddle-like rests from a product-feeding station which is arranged in the axial drum end region to a product-removal station which is spaced apart in the axial direction from said product-feeding station and is arranged in the opposite drum end region. Provided between the product-feeding station and the product-removal station are at least two product-processing stations. Provided between two product-processing stations and thus also between the product-feeding station and the product-removal station is at least one further product-removal station which can be optionally activated or deactivated.

Abstract: A device for delivering flat products, such as signatures or the like, having a plurality of fan wheels rotatably mounted on a fan wheel shaft. The fan wheels each have a plurality of fan pockets for receiving signatures emerging from a transporting device, the fan wheels being mounted on the fan wheel shaft in spaced relation to one another in an axial direction. Adjustably mounted deceleration devices, each having a curvature for diving between the spaced-apart fan wheels, allow for a desired deceleration of the signatures upon rotation of the fan wheels.