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US 6,164,640 AGranted
Apparatus for directionally reorienting sheets
AssigneePitney Bowes Inc.
InventorsRichard F Stengl, Joseph F Zuzick, Jr., Edward M Ifkovits
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Abstract
The present invention provides an apparatus and method for receiving at least one sheet from a first upstream direction and feeding the at least one sheet in either a second mainstream direction or a third disposal direction. Conventionally, this invention may be used to reorient a sheet, or an accumulation of sheets, from landscape to portrait or vice versa, and to dispose of an incorrect accumulation of sheets into an out-sort station.
Claims2
A method for conveying sheets received from first and second input sources to a paper deck of a document inserting system, comprising the steps of:
- providing an apparatus having a first paper path coupled to the first input source and a second paper path coupled to the second input source, the apparatus having an output connected to the paper deck of the inserter system;
- receiving sheets conveying from the first input source in the first paper path of the apparatus;
- continuously conveying the sheets in the first paper path of the apparatus to the paper deck of the inserter system;
- receiving individual sheets conveying in a first direction and in a first paper orientation from the second input source in the second paper path of the apparatus;
- accumulating a predetermined number of sheets in the second paper path of the apparatus;
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- conveying the accumulated sheets in the second paper path of the apparatus to the paper deck of the inserter system in a second direction that is substantially orthogonal relative to the first direction.
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