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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:
Jun. 12, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 11, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Christopher Hugh Williams, Essex, GB;
Assignee:
Printed Products Equipment, Ltd., Loughton, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 2/900 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 2/900 ;
Abstract
A collating device for sheet material comprises a collating station (,) having a pair of guide members (,) for receiving sheets to be collated through an opening (,) therebetween, first conveyor means (,) for conveying sheets consecutively into the collating station and second conveyor means (,) for conveying a collated stack of sheets out of the collating station, support means (,) biased towards a position for supporting sheets in the collating station away from the second conveyor means, and an actuator member (,) movable to urge a collated stack of sheets towards the second conveyor means against the bias of the support means.