To provide a method for automatically replacing piles which securely forms a pocket into which an auxiliary pile support is inserted by improving a method for forming an auxiliary pile when pile replacement takes place at the delivery of a sheet processing machine provided with an auxiliary pile support device for receiving the auxiliary pile at an underside during nonstop pile replacement and provided with a plurality of stopper elements and separator elements which are arranged outside a pile area and in front of the edge of a pile to form the pocket in the flow of sheets dropped on the pile after convey and release by a conveying system.
Stopper elements 28 and 29 are moved from working positions at the edge of the pile to standby positions spaced apart from the edge of the pile immediately before a pile 21 is dropped, and after the pile is dropped by a designated distance, a sheet height position holder 38 for a rear edge of the sheet is moved to a pile area.
KLENK RAINER
PETERS UWE
| JPH09216762A | 1997-08-19 | |||
| JP2004292137A | 2004-10-21 |
Takuya Kuno
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