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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2001
Filed:
Feb. 08, 2000
Ulrich Frank, Eichenau, DE;
Rainer Stoll, München, DE;
Ralf Linck, München, DE;
Hermann Kronbauer, Aschheim, DE;
Giesecke & Devrient GmbH, , DE;
Abstract
The invention relates to an apparatus for automatic bundling of sheet material, in particular bank notes, having a deposit device on which sheet material to be bundled is deposited as a precisely fitting stack, a sliding device moving the stack of sheets perpendicularly toward a foil supplied by a device whereby the stack is partly wrapped with the foil and supplied to a transport device. The invention is characterized in that the transport device has two parallel, vertically adjustable conveyer belts between which the stack with its partly surrounding foil is clamped and transported to a banding device, said stack being positioned by the conveyer belts such that the foil is guided around the stack by the banding device and connected into a band, thereby obtaining a bundled stack of sheets. Subsequently the bundled packet can be pushed onto a transport belt with the aid of a delivery pocket.