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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 1995
Filed:
Apr. 18, 1994
Kenneth W Lowell, Bristol, CT (US);
Pitney Bowes Inc., Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
In a collating machine for stacking sheets of paper fed seriatim thereto from a singulating feeder, the collating machine comprising a deck including a stacking area, a plurality of upper, endless, elastic belts, each of the belts moving around a pair of upstream and downstream pulleys suspended above the deck, a plurality of ramp guide blocks adjustably secured to the deck between the pairs of pulleys, and structure for stopping each of the sheets at a downstream end of the stacking area, the stacking area being a section of the deck between the stopping structure and the ramp guide blocks, an improvement comprises structure for locking the upstream pulleys on an idler pulley shaft, and structure for removably mounting the idler shaft to opposite sides of the collating machine whereby the idler shaft is lifted from the mounting structure to provide access to the collation in the stacking area.