A device with a gripper conveyor and with a conveying-away device as well as with means for transferring two-dimensional products fed by the gripper conveyors, to the conveying-away device amid the formation of an imbricate formation, wherein the device forms a transfer region, in which the gripper conveyor is arranged above the conveying-away device. At least two, preferably at least three product release devices which are arranged in series after one another and distanced to one another, are individually activatable and are for the individual release of the products, are assigned to the gripper conveyor in the transfer region.