Abstract: Apparatus for wrapping and sealing stacks of paper sheets from the output of high speed copiers and printers. The apparatus includes a paper handling assembly, a sealing assembly, rolls of a plastic film material, and a tote or hopper system. The paper handler permits single sheet feeding and inverting of sheets when desired. The sealing assembly wraps the stack of sheets with the plastic film and lowers a U-shaped sealing bar assembly around the wrapped package to seal simultaneously three sides thereof. Two of the three sides are parallel and near the edge of the plastic film, and are sealed with non-severing type seams. The third side is perpendicular to the other two sides and is sealed with a severing type seam. The severing type seam is made with a heating element on one side of the sealed plastic layers, and a non-heated cut-off wire located on the other side. The cut-off wire is also used to control the temperature in the seal area.

Abstract: A tote box for discrete sheets from a reproduction apparatus, such as an electronic printer, has a bottom wall on which the sheets are stacked. Four side walls project upwardly from the bottom wall, and handles on two opposite side walls can be grasped by a person to lift and remove the tote box loaded with sheets from the reproduction apparatus. When sheets are delivered face down into the tote box with the first page facing downwardly, the entire stack needs to be inverted as it is removed from the box. In order to unload and invert the sheets, the tote box is turned first ninety degrees onto the back wall of the box and then, by grasping handholds formed in the bottom wall, the box is turned another ninety degrees to completely invert the box, thereby leaving the stack of sheets on a support with the first sheet facing upwardly. The box is removed from the stack of sheets using the handholds on the bottom of the box.

Abstract: A set of sheets delivered seriatim from a copier/duplicator or other source are advanced along a sheet path leading from an input station to an assembly station where a booklet is formed. As a sheet is moved along the path a line of adhesive is applied to one surface of the sheet adjacent to one side edge of the sheet. In the assembly station the sheets are jogged to align the sheets of the set and then pressure is applied to the sheets over the line of adhesive. When the entire set has been bound together into a booklet, the booklet is removed from the assembly station and delivered to an output station, such as a tote tray.

Abstract: A set of sheets delivered seriatim from a copier/duplicator or other source are advanced along a sheet path leading from an input station to an assembly station where a booklet is formed. As a sheet is moved along the path a line of adhesive is applied to one surface of the sheet adjacent to one side edge of the sheet. In the assembly station the sheets are jogged to align the sheets of the set and then pressure is applied to the sheets over the line of adhesive. When the entire set has been bound together into a booklet, the booklet is removed from the assembly station and delivered to an output station, such as a tote tray.