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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2006
Filed:
May. 21, 2003
Applicants:
Jerry L. Bates, Redlands, CA (US);
Earl J. Anker, Tinley Park, IL (US);
Inventors:
Jerry L. Bates, Redlands, CA (US);
Earl J. Anker, Tinley Park, IL (US);
Assignee:
Systems Technology, Inc., San Bernardino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 83/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Vertical pocket feeder signature handling equipment which supplies signatures in an on-edge orientation one at a time to bindery equipment. The vertical pocket feeder particularly cooperates with a hopper loader apparatus which transfers and separates individual signatures of sheet materials from a vertically aligned, stack of such signatures. The separated, individual signatures may then be subjected to bindery operations such as stapling or stitching.