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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 1988
Filed:
Feb. 03, 1986
Applicant:
Inventors:
John J Smerke, II, Lansdale, PA (US);
Raymond D DiSandro, Audubon, PA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
271184 ; 271225 ; 271251 ;
Abstract
An envelope transport guide is disclosed that organizes opened and emptied envelopes from an envelope opening machine. The guide has an entry surface coplanar with the pathway of the moving envelopes, and adjacent the opening machine for accepting each envelope. The envelopes turn, under the force of gravity, around some guiding means and slide off the entry surface into an organized stack in an angled collection receptacle.