Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and apparatus for feeding and folding sheets
- Patent Title (中): 送纸和折页的方法和装置
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Application No.: US12693989Application Date: 2010-01-26
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Publication No.: US08257238B2Publication Date: 2012-09-04
- Inventor: Marcus Franciscus Eijkelkamp
- Applicant: Marcus Franciscus Eijkelkamp
- Applicant Address: FR Bagneux
- Assignee: Neopost Technologies
- Current Assignee: Neopost Technologies
- Current Assignee Address: FR Bagneux
- Agency: Sughrue Mion, PLLC
- Priority: EP09151340 20090126
- Main IPC: B31B1/56
- IPC: B31B1/56

Abstract:
A method and apparatus are provided for feeding and folding sheets. Providing a folding blade having a free edge, reciprocably movable between a retracted position and a folding position, provided with blade surfaces adjacent to the free edge converging towards the free edge at a first angle in the folding position, and by further providing a pressing mechanism having pressing surface areas reciprocably movable between a retracted position and a pressing position, and enclosing in the pressing position a second angle larger than the first angle of the folding blade, allows an apparatus, having a pair of folding rollers and a sheet support, selectively to fold only an outer sheet from a set of sheets or to fold a set of sheets simultaneously.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100190629A1 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FEEDING AND FOLDING SHEETS Public/Granted day:2010-07-29
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