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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2005
Filed:
Jul. 06, 1999
David Clarke Pollock, Somersworth, NH (US);
Matthew Thomas Sharkady, Portsmouth, NH (US);
Paul Emmett Bredenberg, Portsmouth, NH (US);
Kevin Lauren Cote, Durham, NH (US);
Richard Daniel Curley, Dover, NH (US);
John Marshall Gaffney, Kittery Point, ME (US);
David Clarke Pollock, Somersworth, NH (US);
Matthew Thomas Sharkady, Portsmouth, NH (US);
Paul Emmett Bredenberg, Portsmouth, NH (US);
Kevin Lauren Cote, Durham, NH (US);
Richard Daniel Curley, Dover, NH (US);
John Marshall Gaffney, Kittery Point, ME (US);
Goss International Americas, Inc., Dover, NH (US);
Abstract
A positive control signature transferring assembly, for use in a lower folder, transports and diverts signatures under positive control. The assembly has a first positive control deceleration device having grippers for transporting some of the signatures of a stream of signatures to a first delivery stream. The assembly has a gripper cylinder containing a plurality of grippers for gripping a leading edge and a trailing edge of each of the remaining signatures in the signature stream for transporting the signatures on the gripper cylinder. A second positive control deceleration device has grippers for transporting the remaining signatures released by the gripper cylinder to a second delivery stream. In this manner, the signatures are positively controlled at all times and alignment and fixed pitch errors are significantly reduced.