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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 1992
Filed:
Aug. 02, 1991
John A Manley, Vandalia, OH (US);
Aaron J Belvo, Miamisburg, OH (US);
Todd C Platt, Centerville, OH (US);
Andrew D Bruce, Troy, OH (US);
Peter A Wolf, Piqua, OH (US);
TA Triumph-Adler AG, Nurnberg, DE;
Abstract
An improved newspaper handling apparatus and method enables newspapers to be formed in a sequence which is the same as the sequence in which newspapers are to be delivered to different addresses along a delivery route. Therefore, newspapers containing inserts for readers having particular characteristics can be formed and indicia corresponding to addresses along a delivery route printed on the newspapers in a sequence which is the same as the sequence in which the newspapers are delivered to the different addresses along the delivery route. During the forming of the newspapers, collating spaces are moved past hoppers from which inserts are fed. The completed newspapers are transferred from the collating spaces to a discharge conveyor in a sequence which corresponds to the sequence in which newspapers are to be delivered to different addresses along a delivery route. In the event of a misfeed of an insert for a newspaper, the transfer of newspapers from the hoppers is inhibited until a misfed section of a newspaper has been fed to the hopper at which the misfeed occurred. This enables the newspapers to be maintained in the same sequence that they are to be delivered to different addresses along a delivery route.