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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 1991
Filed:
Jun. 02, 1989
Applicant:
Inventors:
Richard Szewczyk, Lincoln, NE (US);
Delmar O Barton, Salem, IA (US);
Assignee:
Metromail Corporation, Lincoln, NE (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
270 54 ; 270 52 ; 270 58 ; 270 55 ;
Abstract
The backbone portions of multiple page documents are trimmed by a chopper unit on a collating conveyor of an envelope inserter machine downstream of a supply station from which the documents are transferred to the conveyor, in order to establish collated sets of separated sheets onto which additional single insert sheets are added from other supply stations.