Bell & Howell, LLC

Bell & Howell Mail Processing Systems

Robin L Heilman

Edward J Kapturowski

Aaron A Kracht

Todd Murdock

Martin Sting

Rainer Oberheim

Joseph Zuech

Joseph G Melber, Jr

The present application relates to techniques and equipment to manufacture mailpieces containing inserts. The equipment can be an inserter or an envelope wrapper that collects documents and inserts on a collating track before the material is inserted into an envelope by inserting equipment or wrapped with paper or film to make an envelope by wrapping equipment. More specifically, the present application relates to a rotary insert feeder that feeds inserts to a collating track on inserting or wrapping type equipment.

Method and system to feed inserts with a rotary and gripper system

Rotary and gripper system including back support stack assist assembly having a tamper bar and holdback vacuum

A guide apparatus and method are provided for selectively guiding sheet articles into a first, second or third conveying path. In a preferred embodiment, the first and second conveying paths are the upper and lower conveying paths, respectively, of a dual-deck accumulator and the third conveying path is a divert path. The guide apparatus includes a guide member having a pair of spaced-apart divert plates which are elongated and parallel so as to define a slot therebetween for passage of sheet articles therethrough. The divert plates are fixedly positioned with respect to one another and selectively pivotal in a first position for guiding sheet articles into a first conveying path, a second position for guiding sheet articles into a second conveying path and a third position for guiding sheet articles into a third conveying path.

Guide apparatus and method for selectively guiding sheets into a

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Garner, NC, United States of America

Robin L Heilman