Sheet feeding or delivering – Special articles – Envelope
Patent
1996-10-18
1999-08-31
Terrell, William E.
Sheet feeding or delivering
Special articles
Envelope
270 5806, 271 1003, 271 1011, 271259, 271266, B65H 500, B65H 702, B65H 512, B65H 3304
Patent
active
059443049
ABSTRACT:
An separating and staging machine is disclosed which is used in conjunction with high speed document processing apparatus in which a succession of collations of insert material moving along an insert material feed path to an insert location are inserted into envelopes fed to the insert location. The machine of the present invention feeds envelopes from a storage hopper to a feed path which is long enough to accommodate a plurality of staging locations at which individual envelopes are maintained until one is fed to the insert location, after which the envelopes at each staging location are advanced to the next staging location, and a new envelope is fed from the storage hopper to the first of the staging locations. With this arrangement the distance between successive envelopes moving through the staging locations is approximately equal to the distance between successive collations moving along the insert material feed path, thereby increasing the rate at which envelopes can be fed to the insert location.
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Branecky George
Ifkovits Michael R.
Ifkovits, Jr. Edward M.
Janatka Karel J.
Malick Shahzad H.
Capelli Christopher J.
Dillon, Jr. Joe
Pitney Bowes Inc.
Scolnick Melvin J.
Terrell William E.
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