Cutter device for use with mailing machine
AssigneeSensible Technologies, Inc.
InventorsLeo A. Haydt, III, Christopher Segatti
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Abstract
A cutter device for removing the spine from packets of sheet materials to be enveloped by a mailing machine, including means for redirecting the packets across said cutter device while the packets remain superimposed with other sheet materials to be inserted into the same envelope while being moved along a support surface by a conveyor mechanism, and after cutting being recombined with said other sheet materials prior to being enveloped.
Claims9
A device for use with a collating machine having a plurality of sheet supply stations, said device for removing the spine from folded packets of sheet material picked from one of said sheet supply stations, comprising:
- (a) a motor driven cutting blade;
- (b) means for directing said folded packets of sheet material picked from a sheet supply station across said cutting blade to separate the spine from the packets, disassembling the packets into a plurality of individual sheets, and
- (c) means for combining the disassembled plurality of individual sheets with one or more associated sheets picked from another supply station either upstream or downstream from said device without any of said one or more associated sheets being directed across said cutting blade.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.