Abstract: A live storage buffer for receiving newspapers from a printing press which includes an endless conveyor having carriers adapted to travel about the pathway of the conveyor and to removably support newspaper container members thereon. A pair of spaced transfer conveyors operatively associated with the endless conveyor are adapted to sequentially receive and then return the containers to the endless conveyor. On one transfer conveyor the containers are positioned by an indexing member at a location for receiving a supply of newspapers, and on the other transfer conveyor the containers are indexed to a position where the newspapers are unloaded for further processing downstream of the storage buffer.

Abstract: A carriage is moved on an ell shaped frame by a pneumatic actuator and a curved gripping device at the end of an ell shaped extension mounted on the carriage is operated by a second pneumatic actuator to pick up pieces of web material. The pneumatic actuator for the carriage is controlled by a sequence valve so as to not be movable until the gripper has gripped the web of material. A third pneumatic actuator thereafter moves the carriage at a relatively fast initial movement until the web of material has cleared the sewing machine. The carriage movement is slowed and this carriage moves the web of material to a predetermined location where it is released by the gripper to fall in a stack.