Mccain Manufacturing, Inc.

John Vente

William B McCain

James F Cosgrove

Thomas R Flavin

Ronald W Weller

A signature feeding machine of the type having suction grippers for removing a signature from a hopper. A vacuum is applied to the gripper when grabbing a signature. The gripper transports the signature to a rotating cylinder where the gripper releases it by disapplying the vacuum. The machine is operable in two modes; a run mode and a jog or intermittent mode. An adjustable timing control is provided to time differently the application and disapplication of the vacuum in accordance with the particular mode of operation.

Signature machine having an adjustable timing control of the extraction

Signature feeding machine operable in a run mode or jog mode and having means to time differently the application and disapplication of vacuum to an extractor in accordance with the modes.

Signature machines

Mail is sorted by scanning zip code data, delivering the scanned mail from a delivery conveyor to a sorting conveyor and altering the speed of the sorting conveyor when there is a change in the zip code; zip code batches cannot be interrupted by missing pieces. The delivery conveyor and sorting conveyor are at right angles and both conveyors may be duplicated by a parallel conveyor, enabling large size mail to be handled.

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Western Springs, IL, United States of America

John Vente