Card folding and creasing device

A folding and creasing device for a card having thereon sliced food products, comprising:

• a source of segregated sliced food product;
• a source of supply of card with each card having a leading end and a trailing end and having a fold line intermediate these ends;
• means for depositing the segregated sliced food product on the card between the fold line and the trailing end;
• conveyor means for conveying the card with sliced product thereon;
• folding means for folding the leading end of the card rearwardly about the fold line over the upper part of the sliced product on the card while travelling on the conveyor means;
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• creasing means for creasing the folded card at the fold line and thereafter permitting the conveyor means to take away the creased folded card with sliced product thereon, the creasing means including a vertically reciprocal lower stop bar having a vertical surface for moving into the path of the folded card for momentarily stopping the folded card with sliced product thereon for assuring that the fold line is essentially normal to the line of travel of the folded card with sliced product on the conveyor means and having an upper horizontal surface for engaging the folded card at the fold line for creasing the folded card, means for raising said stop bar, the creasing means further including a vertically reciprocal upper bar means for lowering each upper bar into engagement with the folded card at the fold line while the folded card is momentarily stopped by the stop bar and in cooperation with said horizontal surface of said stop bar creasing the card at the fold line.