Abstract: Apparatus and method for stacking product such as flexible paper towels including a slotted wheel in combination with at least two endless chain conveyors equipped with finger assemblies which are orbitally offset so that while one finger assembly of one chain conveyor is accumulating a plurality of substacks, a first finger assembly of the other chain conveyor is being readied to take over the development of a successive stack, and programmable servo motor associated with the chain conveyors for varying the finger assembly advance during different portions of the orbital movement of the finger assemblies.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for facilitating product changeover in the manufacture of fluff pads for disposable diapers which employs a side shifting drum equipped with removable pad forms.

Abstract: A hanky delivery system including a folding mechanism slotted star wheel and collector/divider of the movable type wherein the collector divider is a chain loop having an upper turning radius positioned within the periphery of the slotted wheel and sized smaller than the bottom turning radius for the chain loop.