Abstract: In a sheet fed printing press the sheet delivery apparatus includes a delivery drum positioned adjacent to an impression cylinder of the printing press. The delivery drum has a shaft journaled in the press frame with a pair of delivery sprockets connected the shaft on opposite sides of the delivery drum for rotation therewith. Endless delivery chains are reeved about the sprockets and have a plurality of transversely extending gripper bars secured therebetween in spaced relation to each other. The delivery drum has a recessed portion arranged to receive the gripper bars as the gripper bars revolve about the shaft with the delivery drum.