Device for turning flat objects, such as for example bundles of notes

Claim 1

Device for turning flat objects (2a, 2b, 2c), such as for example bundles of notes, which are transported in uniform fashion as material to be conveyed on a conveying track (1) with the aid of pushers (3a, 3b, 3c), characterised in that a thrusting mechanism which accelerates the objects and has a thrusting member (5) moved at least approximately parallel to the conveying track is provided along a turning zone, which member has a front face (5a), inclined backwards in relation to the conveying direction and is moved periodically with an acceleration relative to the conveying speed out of a starting position into an end position and back into the starting position by a drive arrangement (20 to 27), the motion period of this thrusting member (5) being given by the quotient of the distance between successive objects on the conveying track and the conveying speed, and in that an upwardcurved ramp (8), the start of which lies tangentially to the conveying track (1), and, at a distance from the end of this ramp, in the track of motion defined by the latter, a guide track (9) curved further upwards and bent to an at least vertical orientation are arranged in the turning zone in such a way that each object, under acceleration by the thrusting member (5), is pushed up on the ramp (8) and the guide track (9), then tilted backwards through an angle of over 90° and, after the removal of the thrusting member (5) out of its end position, falls back onto the conveying track (1) having been turned.