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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 1995
Filed:
Nov. 10, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
Frank A Todaro, Old Saybrook, CT (US);
Assignee:
General Binding Corporation, Northbrook, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H / ; B65G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
4147989 ; 414796 ; 4147973 ; 414786 ; 271113 ; 271117 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for separating groups of sheets from a stack for a punching or binding operation. The invention uses a dual disk arrangement having a front disk and a rear disk. The arrangement is for separating a substack from a stack of pages, the substack temporarily resting on the rear disk, and divided by the front disk. The arrangement includes a plurality of rollers downstream of the substack to transport the substack to a downstream processing station.