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Letter sheet forming apparatus

US5383836A · kind A · utility

5Cited by
13References
3Claims
0Family size

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Key dates

Filing dateMar 23, 1993
Grant dateJan 24, 1995
Priority date
Expiry dateMar 23, 2013

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T428/24314
  • WIPO fieldOther consumer goods
  • WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

A machine for forming letter sheets from a paper web having regularly spaced transverse cut lines extending inwardly from pin hole edges and leaving a perforated but uncut middle portion has a tractor feed, a slitter for removing the pin hole edges of the web, an in-line Z-folder, pinch rollers and a burster. The Z-folder has a length which is one and half to two times the spacing between transverse perforation lines. The speed of the tractor feed drive and pinch roller drive are monitored and a sensor senses each transverse cut so that the speed of the pinch rollers may be synchronized with the tractor feed.

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