Sheet-material associating – Associating or disassociating – Sheet associating
Patent
1994-01-21
1995-05-16
Look, Edward K.
Sheet-material associating
Associating or disassociating
Sheet associating
270 57, 271 31, 271 9, 271186, 271202, 271225, 271270, B65H 3905
Patent
active
054153859
ABSTRACT:
Groups of differently printed advertising inserts are collated into stacks of at least two inserts each, and the stacks are advanced along a main predetermined path for feeding to a host machine having continuously moving pockets which contain newspaper jackets and which receive the collated stacks of inserts in order to marry the inserts and the jackets. Initially, at least two relatively tall stacked bundles of inserts are located above and are spaced laterally from the main path. Inserts are stripped from the tall bundles, are advanced laterally toward the main path and are stacked in two relatively short queues located above and spaced along the path. A first vacuum belt strips inserts from the upstream queue and advances such inserts in an upstream direction as a running shingle, which then reverses directions and proceeds downstream. As an incident thereto, successive leading inserts are stripped from the shingle and are advanced in spaced relation along the main path toward the host machine. Inserts in the downstream queue are stripped therefrom by a second vacuum belt and are advanced upstream as a second running shingle, which also reverses directions and proceeds downstream. As the second shingle proceeds downstream, successive leading inserts are stripped therefrom and are placed on top of the spaced inserts previously stripped from the first shingle and being advanced along the main path. Spaced stacks of collated inserts are thus formed. The stacks are elevated from the main path, simultaneously inverted and turned at right angles to the main path, advanced laterally relative to the main path and then fed vertically downwardly into the pockets of the host machine.
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Evans Roger
Newsome John R.
Polarek Kenneth
Look Edward K.
Ryznic John
Southern Illinois Machinery Co., Incorporated
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