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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2007
Filed:
Jan. 12, 2005
Geoffrey A. Farmer, Ingatestone, GB;
Paul Blamire, Bishop's Stortford, GB;
Eric A. Belec, Southbury, CT (US);
Peter Watson, Rayleigh, GB;
Keith G. R. Watts, Abbots Langley, GB;
Chris Brown, Baldock, GB;
Geoffrey A. Farmer, Ingatestone, GB;
Paul Blamire, Bishop's Stortford, GB;
Eric A. Belec, Southbury, CT (US);
Peter Watson, Rayleigh, GB;
Keith G. R. Watts, Abbots Langley, GB;
Chris Brown, Baldock, GB;
Pitney Bowes Ltd., Harlow Essex, GB;
Abstract
An accumulator apparatus for paper collations having an accumulation chamber for receiving sheet material, the chamber defined by a fixed guide on one side, a movable guide on the other side and a movable stop member at one end. Rollers are included for driving the sheet material against the stop member, and gates are provided for moving the movable guide between a first position in which it is spaced from the fixed guide by a gap sufficiently small to prevent buckling of the sheet material as it is driven by the rollers against the stop member, and a second position in which the movable guide is spaced away from the fixed guide for discharge of the sheet material from the chamber.