Abstract: A machine for providing a collation of a series of forms with partial overlap defined by a predetermined stagger from a continuous web of such forms has; a tractor feed for feeding the web into a separating station; bursting rollers for separating the web along transverse lines; a conveyor for feeding individual forms consecutively to a collation station; a rotatable stop and indexing conveyor for advancing a form at the registration station through a distance of the stagger with respect to the next form to be received at the registration station, whereby each form as it arrives at the registration station is offset from the preceding form by the predetermined stagger; adhesive being applied to the forms to hold them together with said predetermined stagger.

Abstract: A cheque book assembly comprises carrier leaves arranged one above another and bound together at their right hand ends. Cheques making up a sub-set are bound detachably to each carrier leaf at their left hand ends with a staggered overlap between the cheques. A pressure sensitive strip causes an inscription on an elongated field of a first cheque to be reproduced on a corresponding field on the first carrier leaf to provide a journal entry for the first cheque. Other pressure sensitive strips cause inscriptions on the other cheques to be reproduced on other fields of the carrier leaf, these fields being offset from one another by the stagger of the cheques to form a journal for the sub-set of cheques.