Abstract: Apparatus and method for indexing sheets cut from a web including a production line having an unwind at one end and a backstop at the other end, a printer and a rotary knife between the ends, the relation of the knife speed to the web speed being changed cyclically to develop longer and shorter sheets.

Abstract: A method of making and using a combined shipping label and product information device which includes the steps of providing a relatively elongated foldable sheet having a pair of sides and leading and trailing ends and equipped with a plurality of connected panels, and having a release liner adhesively secured thereto, printing addressee information on one panel and product information on another panel, applying adhesive in a longitudinally extending pattern adjacent each of the sides and also in a transversely extending pattern while folding the sheet between adjacent panels to position the product information on a hidden inner surface and the addressee identification information on an outer surface, perforating the folded sheet along a longitudinally extending line adjacent each of the sides inboard of the longitudinally extending adhesive pattern, removing the release liner and adhesively securing the device to a carton, shipping the carton to the addressee and upon carton receipt tearing the device along

Abstract: Method and apparatus for fold conditioning a continuous business form web having longitudinally-extending control punch margins and equally longitudinally-spaced apart lines of transverse perforation including advancing the web along a longitudinally extending path from a printer to a folder both of which operate at a predetermined normal speed and wherein the conditioning apparatus includes a plurality of offset rollers arranged in zig-zag fashion to provide a serpentine path to alternately contact opposite sides of the web and with some of the rollers being operated at a surface speed at least greater than the predetermined normal speed.

Abstract: A method of making a core lock shaft for supplying paper to a computer printer including the steps of cutting an actually elongated recess in the periphery of a cylindrical shaft midway of the shaft length and to a predetermined depth to provide a chordal bottom wall, grinding a plurality of axially extending transversely spaced slots in the bottom wall to provide a plurality of rack teeth, providing a length of pinion wire of a diameter slightly greater than the predetermined depth of the recess, drilling the ends of the pinion wire to provide axially extending bores and inserting a dowel pin in each bore with a portion of the dowel pin length projecting axially beyond the pinion wire ends, mounting the pinion wire in the recess with the pinion teeth in engagement with the rack teeth and installing clips at the ends of the recess in covering relation to the projecting portions of the dowel pins.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for printing and separating continuous forms into discrete folded jobs from a single moving web including an accumulator positioned between a printer and job separator with the accumulator being constructed to accumulate a portion of the web in random loops whenever the job separator operates at a capacity less than the printer.