Device for banding groups of sheets
AssigneeCurrency Systems International
InventorArmando Neri
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Abstract
A group of banknotes aligned and stacked on a longitudinal axis is positioned at the work station of a banding device by a clamp type gripper that compresses a first longitudinal portion of the group along the direction of the axis, ready to be secured with at least one band of strip material; as the compressive force is applied, parts of the notes forming a second longitudinal portion of the group, not directly compressed by the gripping device, are caused to fan out at the top and bottom ends of this same second portion, and accordingly, the banding device includes a finger and a locating surface impinging respectively on the two ends of the second portion and operating in conjunction to compact and smooth the parts of the banknotes coinciding with these same ends.
Claims23
A device for banding groups of sheets appearing substantially parallelepiped in shape, wherein the sheets are made to accumulate along a longitudinal stacking axis, taken up by respective gripping means engaging two longitudinally opposite ends of at least a first longitudinal portion of the resulting group, and fed thus to a station where at least one band of a strip material is applied comprising compacting means designed to compress at least a second longitudinal portion of the single group not engaged by the gripping means, in such a manner as to position the group of sheets in a configuration of readiness for application of the band.
A device as in claims 23, or 4, wherein the finger is carried by a first slide capable of movement in a direction parallel to the stacking axis at least between a first raised limit position in which the compacting device is at rest, and a second lowered limit position in which the group of sheets is compacted.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.