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Hinged and bifurcated cart document handling apparatus utilized with a lazy-portrait document printing system

US8235641B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateFeb 26, 2008
Grant dateAug 7, 2012
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Expiry dateDec 2, 2030

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB65H2801/15
  • WIPO fieldHandling
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

For use with lazy-portrait narrow-end to narrow-end (LPEE) formatted document pages printed on a continuous web of material, an apparatus and method of use for assembling correctly page-sequenced document sets that utilizes a slitter for separating the LPEE formatted document pages into two separate streams of continuous sheets that are loaded onto a document transfer cart that has two side-by-side and hinged-together document receiving trays, for each tray a removable bottom support plate assembly having casters on the lower portion of one of the bottom support plates, a top document delivery roller for each tray, a central hinge connecting the two trays to each another, support rack pivot rods, a handle secured to each tray, and cart transfer wheels.

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