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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2009
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2006
John W. Sussmeier, Cold Spring, NY (US);
Gregory P. Skinger, Southbury, CT (US);
John W. Sussmeier, Cold Spring, NY (US);
Gregory P. Skinger, Southbury, CT (US);
Pitney Bowes Inc., Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
An improved inserter input system and method for transversely cutting a web of printed material into separate sheets, the web including a plurality of separated side-by-side sheets. A set of sheets on the web is transported to the cutting device. One or more of the sheets in the set belongs to a new collation for which sheets have not previously been cut. The system determines whether sufficient collation parking spots exist to accommodate a new collation. If there are no available collation parking spots, and if all of the sheets in the set belong to the new collation, then transverse cutting is delayed until an open collation parking spot becomes available. If there are no available collation parking spots, and if a subset of sheets belong to a prior collation, then the web is partially cut to separate only the sheet, or sheets, that belong to the prior collation. The cutting of the other sheet(s) is delayed until the open collation parking spot becomes available. If there is an available collation parking spot, then the cutting device transversely cuts the entire set of side-by-side sheets.