Delivery mechanisms ensuring the transfer of punched sheets from a press to a waste ejecting device

Claim 1

IN COMBINATION, A PUNCHING PRESS, A WASTE EJECTING DEVICE AND A DELIVERY MECHANISM FOR TRANSFERRING PUNCHED SHEETS FROM THE PRESS TO THE WASTE EJECTING DEVICE, SAID PRESS COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF BARS WHICH ENGAGE SUCCESSIVE SHEETS AND TRANSFER THE SHEETS THROUGH THE PRESS FOR PUNCHING OPERATIONS, MEANS ENGAGING THE BARS TO PERIODICALLY DRIVE AND IMMOBILIZE THE SAME TO ALTERNATELY POSITION THE SHEETS BETWEEN THE PRESS DURING A PUNCHING OPERATION AND THEREAFTER DRAWING THE THUS PUNCHED SHEETS FROM THE PRESS, SAID BARS REACHING A MAXIMUM SPEED BETWEEN SUCCESSIVE IMMOBILIZATION, MEANS OPERATIVE AT CONSTANT SPEED FOR DELIVERING PUNCHED SHEETS TO THE WASTE EJECTING DEVICE, SAID DELIVERY MECHANISM COMPRISING ROTATING MEANS ADJACENT SAID PRESS FOR ENGAGING THE SHEETS WHICH ARE DRIVEN BY SAID BARS, MEANS DRIVING THE ROTATING MEANS AT A VARIABLE SPEED IN SYNCHRONISM WITH THE PRESS AND CAUSING THE ROTATING MEANS TO ENGAGE THE SHEETS WITH A PERIPHERAL SPEED EQUAL TO THAT OF THE MAXIMUM SPEED OF THE BARS AND THEREAFTER DECELERATE TO REMOVE THE SHEETS FROM THE BARS, THE ROTATING MEANS BEING DECELERATED TO A CONSTANT SPEED WHICH IS EQUAL TO THE SPEED OF THE AFORESAID MEANS WHICH IS OPERATIVE AT CONSTANT SPEED SUCH THAT THE SHEETS CAN BE TRANSFERRED FROM THE ROTATING MEANS TO SAID AFORESAID MEANS AT SAID CONSTANT SPEED, SAID ROTATING MEANS INCLUDING PROFILED ORGANS HAVING A NOTCHED PERIPHERY TO PERMIT PASSAGE OF THE BARS AND THEREAFTER ENGAGE THE SHEETS WHICH ARE CONVEYED BY SAID BARS AND MEANS ENGAGING THE ROTATING MEANS TO VARY T HE POSITION THEREOF WITH RESPECT TO THE PATH OF THE BARS TO CAUSE THE SHEETS TO BE TEMPORARILY MOVED AWAY FROM THE BARS WHEN THE LATTER ARE SEPARATED FROM THE SHEETS AND THEREAFTER MOVE THE ROTATING MEANS BACK TO ITS ORGINAL POSITION FOR ENGAGING SUBSEQUENT SHEETS.