Title:
ACCUMULATOR HAVING POWER RAMP
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO2003035520
Kind Code:
A3
Abstract:
The present invention concerns a document processing and collating machine having a feeding path leading to at least one document conveying devices having one or more document accumulating bins for receiving a series of documents that are fed downstream in spaced apart collations with documents in shingled relationship. The document accumulator bins have an intermediate conveying and diverting apparatus (30) which is momentarily engaged to cause a leading end of a shingled collation of documents to be diverted into a document accumulating bin where documents are registered at their common leading end at a nip (20y) of a set of downstream conveying rollers (20m, 20n) that are stopped during the registration process.
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Inventors:
WRIGHT WILLIAM J
ANDERSON REBECCA J
ANDERSON REBECCA J
Application Number:
PCT/US2002/034312
Publication Date:
October 02, 2003
Filing Date:
October 24, 2002
Export Citation:
Assignee:
PITNEY BOWES INC (US)
International Classes:
B65G57/06; B65H1/00; B65H9/08; B65H29/14; B65H31/30; B65H39/10; B65H83/00; B65H; (IPC1-7): B65G57/06; B65H31/30; B65H9/08
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Other References:
See also references of EP 1461279A4
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