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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 1998
Filed:
Jul. 21, 1995
James A Simmons, Painsville Township, OH (US);
Ranpak Corp., Concord, OH (US);
Abstract
A cushioning conversion system includes a cushioning conversion machine which converts stock paper into cut pads, a conveyor system positioned to receive a pad produced by the cushioning conversion machine and to move the pad to a staging area, the staging area including a sensor for sensing the presence of a pad in the staging area and generating a representative signal, and a pad retrieval system for retrieving the pad from the staging area, wherein the cushioning conversion machine produces a pad when the representative signal indicates that a pad is not present in the staging area and the retrieval system retrieves a pad when the representative signal indicates a pad is in the staging area.