Odd copies bundling system in connection with fixed copies auto-bundling

Abstract

In a counter stacker for stacking and dividing every predetermined number of printed copies including a counter disposed on a first path of convey along which said copies are successively conveyed partially superimposed one on the other at a constant pitch of superimposing, a first dividing plate disposed on said path and adapted to be inserted between said copies, the above mentioned system has an odd copies dividing and delivering mechanism including a second dividing plate located at the same position with the first dividing plate or at least at a downstream side position of the first dividing plate and a second path only for odd copies and shunting from said first path at said second dividing plate. The system further has means for actuating the first dividing plate in accordance with a sum of the standard number S of fixed copies and a number F of odd copies which is coded on a label to be attached to a bundle of odd copies, the means being adapted to actuate, only when the number F in not equal to zero, the second dividing plate when the standard number S has been counted, and means incorporating a folding device disposed on the path of odd copies and adapted to actuate the device only when the height of stacking of the odd copies is smaller than a threshold, to fold the copies across a longitudinal center to impart a sufficient strength to the later.