Metromail Corporation

Reginald F Lunt

Clarence L Gieson

Randy J Marsh

A multi-length sheet material conveyor and collator is provided including a first conveyor for receiving successive cut sheets from a cutter and a second conveyor for receiving cut sheets from the first conveyor and arranging the received cut sheets in collated sets of sheets. The second conveyor includes drive structure for intermittently driving the collated sets of sheets therealong and support structure whereby additional equipment may be supported from the second conveyor for performing single or multiple additional operations on the collated sets of sheet material such as stapling, gluing and token tipping.

Multi-length sheet material conveyor and collator

The spacing between jaws on a gripper lever is gauged by a sensing rod movably mounted on the lever to actuate a limit switch supported in a switch housing clamped to the oscillatory shaft to which the gripper lever is attached. The limit switch is adjusted to detect deviations from the thickness of a single sheet of material clamped between the jaws during transfer from a magazine to a collating conveyor.

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Rutland, VT, United States of America

Reginald F Lunt