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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsJohn Allen Church, Paul Feinstein, Jr., Ronald Eugene Hunt, Louis Marion McDaniels, Paul Francis Munch
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Disclosed is an alignment assembly for accurately aligning separate sets of documents being inserted into the assembly from transversely oriented feed paths, the alignment assembly including a pivotally mounted document gate which provides not only guide passageways for documents entering the assembly, but also an alignment edge for accurately positioning and aligning documents within the assembly in document clamps adapted to transport the documents from the alignment assembly to a print station and thereafter to an exit transport assembly. The movement of documents inserted in the alignment assembly is effected by a document aligner assembly comprising cooperating vibratory document transporters and pivotally mounted back-up rollers for simultaneously urging the documents into the clamps and against the alignment edge of the document gate.
Alignment apparatus for aligning separate sets of documents wherein at least one of said sets includes documents such as conventional envelopes, said apparatus disposed at the intersection of transversely oriented first and second transport paths along which said sets of documents are respectively transported for aligning respective ones of said documents in a document engaging means of a transport assembly with said document engaging means positioned substantially perpendicular to said first one of said transport paths, comprising:
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