Method of, and apparatus for, loading a singling installation for printed products, especially a feeder

摘要

The printed products are supplied in an imbricated formation by an infeed device and are pushed together to form a reclining buffer stack concomitant with a reduction in their mutual spacing or imbrication pitch. This buffer stack is conveyed to a stack accommodating space of a feeder by a conveying device and at a reduced conveying speed as compared to the infeed rate of the infeed device. There is thus formed a stack of interaligned printed products. The printed products are individually removed from the stack at a product withdrawal location which is determined by a stop. The buffer stack forms a printed product storage device for bridging interruptions in the supply or infeed of the printed products.