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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 26, 1997
Henk Haan, Niagara Falls, NY (US);
R Joseph Varieur, Sanborn, NY (US);
John A Sabatowski, Grand Island, NY (US);
John Van de Ven, Grand Island, NY (US);
Moore Business Forms, Inc., Grand Island, NY (US);
Abstract
The folding, and accumulation in configurations simulating a booklet, of flexible sheets (such as paper sheets) is accomplished in a simple, straight-forward, yet effective manner. A movable bar is pivotally mounted at a first end adjacent a cutter from which it receives paper sheets. A plurality of first pulleys having a circumferential periphery with a concave substantially V-shape are mounted by the movable bar and cooperate with a second plurality of pulleys on a stationary V-shaped bar. The second pulleys have convex substantially V-shaped circumferential peripheries with a groove for receipt of a circular cross-section conveyor belt which extends between the sets of pulleys and drives sheets for folding between them. At the discharge end of the folder is a downwardly sloping convex substantially V-shaped accumulator bar which cooperates with a guide (having a concave V-shape) and an automatically movable stop. After a plurality of folded paper sheets in a configuration simulating a booklet are collected, the stop is released and they are transmitted to a binder.