Abstract Method for bundling, transporting, and feeding sheets of paper which are preferably in a folded or signature form to be assembled and form a magazine, book, or the like. The sheets are handled by a delivery device, such as a folding machine, and are placed into discrete stacks which are subjected to a compressing device. The stack is formed at an inclined angle and a clamp is applied to the compressed stack. The clamp is shown to have rollers which permit the clamped stack to be wheeled to a transport device such as a cart which is shown. The cart with a plurality of the clamped stacks is then moved to a feeding device which receives the clamped stack in an inclined attitude, and the clamp is removed from the sheets and the sheets are then singly fed into the feeding device which causes the sheets to be collated into an assembled magazine or book. The clamp is shown to be of two extendable and contractable pieces which have a self-locking device for holding the clamp in the contracted position when it is clamping the sheets, and the locking device is releasable when the stack is released in the feeding device.
A method of bundling, transporting and feeding sheets from a delivery device to a feeding device, comprising the steps of positioning said sheets on said delivery device in folded form and in a stack with the folds to one side of the stack, clamping said sheets in the stack and with a clamp having transporting means and having the fold side of the stack being fully exposed relative to said clamp, loading said clamped stack by said transporting means onto a transport device and moving said stack by moving said transport device to a feeder device, positioning said stack by moving said transporting means onto said feeder device in an inclined position with the folds on the underside of said stack, removing said clamp from the stack, and separately removing said sheets from said stack at the fold side of said stack.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
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A method of bundling, transporting and feeding sheets from a delivery device to a feeding device, comprising the steps of positioning said sheets on said delivery device in folded form and in a stack with the folds to one side of the stack, clamping said sheets in the stack and with a clamp having transporting means and having the fold side of the stack being fully exposed relative to said clamp, loading said clamped stack by said transporting means onto a transport device and moving said stack by moving said transport device to a feeder device, positioning said stack by moving said transporting means onto said feeder device in an inclined position with the folds on the underside of said stack, removing said clamp from the stack, and separately removing said sheets from said stack at the fold side of said stack.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
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The method as claimed in claim 1, including the steps of positioning said stack in an inclined position on said delivery device, tipping the clamped stack into an upright position for loading it directly onto said transport device, and tipping the clamped stack onto said feeder device directly from said transport device for positioning said stack onto said feeder device.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
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The method as claimed in claim 1, including the steps of stacking said sheets in an inclined stack on said delivery device, and compressing said sheets in said Stack and prior to clamping said sheets with said clamp.