Right angle turning device for an inserter system and corresponding method
US6689040B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 29, 1999 |
| Grant date | Feb 10, 2004 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 29, 2019 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB43M5/04
- WIPO fieldOther consumer goods
- WIPO sectorOther fields
Abstract
An apparatus, and corresponding method, for accumulating and directionally reorienting the movement of a stack of sheets after first folding the stack, each sheet of the stack being fed from a feed conveyor along a feed path. The apparatus includes a turnplate, for receiving each of a series of sheets which are there accumulated into a stack of sheets. Stops protrude from a sheet-receiving surface of the turnplate, which holds the stack of sheets edge aligned against the stops. The apparatus also includes a chute pusher disposed so as to have a pusher tab movable across the sheet-receiving surface of the turnplate, for pushing the stack of sheets along the sheet-receiving surface of the turnplate in a chute direction at substantially ninety degrees from the feed path; a chute feed nip, disposed at the edge of the turnplate toward which the pusher tab pushes, for grabbing the stack of sheets and driving it onward in the chute direction; a chute, disposed so as to receive the stack of sheets being provided in the chute direction by the chute feed nip, the chute having a chute stop disposed a distance along the chute approximately equal to a half-width of the stack of sheets, for cont…
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