Apparatus for receiving and transporting folded sheets or sheet

Details Apparatus for receiving and transporting folded sheets or sheet Apparatus for receiving and transporting folded sheets or sheet

1987-05-29

1989-06-20

Garrett, Robert E.

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270 55, 270 57, 270 58, B65H 3902

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048403652

ABSTRACT:
To provide for a space-saving, yet high-capacity storage system for sheet elements, for example folded printed paper sheets or the like, a plurality of segments (6) are slidable along a guide track. The segments are interconnected, for example by welding, hinges or the like, in zig-zag or accordeon pleat form. When compressed, the structure can be empty and any number of segments can be taken from an empty storage region, transported to a loading/unloading/mixing region for insertion, removal, or interleaving of sheet elements, while the segments are in expanded position; and then, again, compressed so that sheet elements or folded sheets will continue to be carried in the structure formed by the segments, with little space required. For interleaving or intermixing of sheets, folded or single sheet elements, two such zig-zag carrier structures can be located adjacent each other or above each other, and by spreading apart the segments which may be in U-shape, two paired lateral elements supported on divergent rails or the rail, permit dropping of sheets or sheet elements from an upper segmental array into a lower one or, if located adjacent each other, permit gripping of sheet elements in one array and lateral transport by grippers to an adjacent one.

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patent: 4605212 (1986-08-01), Kobler
patent: 4605213 (1986-08-01), Hechler
patent: 4723770 (1988-02-01), Seidel et al.

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