FIELD: conveyor engineering.
SUBSTANCE: flow of flat items includes formations (26.1, 26.2, 26.3) of overlapped items of various types (A, B, C) and different number of items of various types, for example, printed products being piled. For forming a flow there used is a sequence of feeders (23.1, 23.2, 23.3) and a transporting surface, at that, feeder provides preparation of formation of overlapped items and piling of the whole pre-formed formations made of overlapped items on transporting surface. Device of forming a flow of flat items includes main conveyor (21) with transporting surface (22), and source of items (25) and intermediate conveyor for each feeder, at that, feeders are controlled independently of one another. Intermediate conveyor and source of items of one feeder can also be controlled independently of one another.
EFFECT: providing the possibility of easy device adaptation to a changing number of supplied items of various type.
17 cl, 6 dwg
