Vertical delivery of folded webs

• US 3,301,111 A
• Filed: 04/10/1964
• Issued: 01/31/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 04/10/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Daniel Nystrand Ernst
• Original Assignee: Daniel Nystrand Ernst
• Inventors: DANIEL NYSTRAND ERNST
• Application Number:
  US04/358,722
• Time in Patent Office: 1,026 Days
• US Class Current: 83/92
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 20/28 Mechanisms for delivering webs in superposed folds and refeeding them from the lower end of the folded assemblies
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 45/1015 Folding webs provided with predefined fold lines; Refolding prefolded webs, e.g. fanfolded continuous forms
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 83/205 By timed relocation of holder along path of stack gscheme-change-itemth
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 83/2098 With means to effect subsequent conveying or guiding

Claims

1. IN VERTICAL DELIVERY APPARATUS FOR MULTIPLE COPY FORMS, AND THE LIKE, A FRAME, MEANS ON SAID FRAME FOR DELIVERING A Z-FOLDED WEB IN A GENERALLY VERTICAL PATH, AN ENDLESS CONVEYOR ON EACH SIDE OF SAID PATH DISPOSED FOR MOVEMENT IN A GENERALLY VERTICAL PLANE, EACH CONVEYOR BEING EQUIPPED WITH A PLURALITY OF LATERALLY-EXTENDING FLANGES, A HORIZONTALLY TRAVELING CONVEYING MEANS POSITIONED AT THE BOTTOM OF SAID PATH, AND A PLURALITY OF PLATES INSERTABLE IN SAID WEB TO SEPARATE THE SAME AND SUPPORT A STACKED WEB PORTION THEREON WHEN CARRIED BY SAID FLANGES, EACH CONVEYOR BEING EQUIPPED WITH SPROCKET MEANS ADJACENT SAID CONVEYING MEANS WHEREBY ADJACENT FLANGES ARE SPACED FURTHER APART AT THE TIME OF TRANSFER OF SAID PLATES TO SAID CONVEYING MEANS THAN DURING VERTICAL TRAVEL OF SAID FLANGES, EACH PLATE BEING EQUIPPED WITH A LONGITUDINALLY-EXTENDING CUTTING EDGE, SAID CUTTING EDGE HAVING A CENTRAL PROJECTION.