Patents Assigned to Stewart & Shea
  • Sheet sorter
    Patent number: 4235435
    Abstract: A sorting machine has sheet deflecting fingers actuatable from closed positions at one side of a sheet path to open positions, in succession, to remove sheets from a sheet transport and direct the sheets into trays. The fingers, in closed condition, span adjacent fingers, in nested relation, with surfaces of the fingers facing the transport lying on a plane parallel to the moving sheets and extending arcuately beneath the open finger below to assist in guiding a sheet into a tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1978
    Date of Patent: November 25, 1980
    Assignee: Stewart & Shea
    Inventor: Frederick J. Lawrence