Turn-bar document handling apparatus for utilization with a lazy-portrait document printing system
US8416450B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Feb 26, 2008 |
| Grant date | Apr 9, 2013 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 21, 2029 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB65H2801/12
- WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
- 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, a system and method 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, a turn-bar assembly positioned to flip only one of the continuous sheet streams, a cutter that produces separates pages from both the flipped stream of sheets and non-flipped stream of sheets, a collator for collating all of the separate pages into the correctly page-sequenced document sets, and a controller for tracking the LPEE formatted document pages and overseeing the assembly of the correctly page-sequenced document sets.
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