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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 28, 1999
James Kniss, Chester, CT (US);
David Thayer, Chester, CT (US);
GBR Systems Corporation, Chester, CT (US);
Abstract
A tamping mechanism for tamping the edge of sheets in a stack including a tamping assembly having a tamping blade. The tamping blade is positioned adjacent an edge of a stack of sheets and is moved toward and away from the edge. Magnets are provided to move the tamping blade toward and away from the edge. The tamping blade has one magnet and another magnet is movable into and out of magnetic interaction of the said first magnet. The second magnet is in a wheel adjacent tamping blade. The wheel has a plurality of magnets and is rotated so that the magnets in the wheel are moved into and out of magnetic interaction with the magnet in the tamping blade.