Newspaper stuffers

In a newspaper stuffing machine where a newspaper section is opened at a stuffing station so it may be stuffed with insert material, the newspaper being fed from a jacket supply hopper to a transport conveyor moving past the stuffing station which is located in front of a gathering conveyor on which is gathered the insert material to be stuffed, and in which the insert material may be composed of a number of individuual inserts fed to the gathering conveyor from a corresponding number of insert supply hoppers disposed in feeding relation to the gathering conveyor:

• means to feed the newspaper sections one by one from the jacket supply hopper to the transport conveyor;
• a detector to detect failure to feed a newspaper section timely to the stuffing station;
• a reject deflector positioned at the stuffing station normally to support and guide the gathered insert material for delivery into the opened newspaper section and when actuated serving to guide the gathered insert material into a discard station;
• and means to actuate the reject deflector in the event of failure to detect a timely fed newspaper section thereby to prevent delivery of the insert material intended for the missing newspaper section.