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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Harry C. Noll, Jr., Allentown, PA (US);
Assignee:
Graphic Management Associates, Inc., , DE (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 2/968 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 2/968 ;
Abstract
The device stacks successive planar products (newspapers) and separates a plurality of the products into individual stacks. A circular conveyor has a plurality of grippers thereon which are spaced apart by a circumferential distance, grasps the planar products from a linear conveyor, upstream of the circular conveyor, so that the products are transferred from the linear conveyor to the circular conveyor and onto a stack.