Abstract: An envelope stacker capable of stacking envelopes as they are discharged from an automatic pile delivery printing press. The stacker having a plurality of adjustable vertical standards extending upwardly from a base member through appropriate slots in a movable table positioned upwardly from the base and supported on an elevator normally carried by the printing press.

Abstract: Apparatus for counting and endorsing documents and more particularly tickets dimensionally within the preferred range from one (1) inch by two (2) inches to two (2) inches by five and one half (5.5) inches and in the thickness range from 2 mils to 14 mils. The stack of tickets is placed in an in-feed hopper and is engaged by an eccentric bottom feed picker to drive preferably the bottom-most document toward a drive wheel and stripper wheel assembly to permit documents to pass only in single file beyond the stripper device. The documents are fed in single file between cooperating belts until they are picked up by acceleration means which abruptly accelerates the documents to provide a gap therebetween suitable for counting purposes.The documents are driven into a stacker wherein they are stacked in the same order in which they were loaded into the in-feed hopper.

Abstract: A patty stacker is presented which is fully adjustable over a wide range of length, width and thickness of frozen or reasonably stiff meat patties or other flat food shapes hereinafter called patties; which accepts a predetermined configuration of individual patties either plain or frozen on a rectangle of paper from the discharge point of a separate conveying means in one or more parallel independent lanes; which quickly attains and retains a reasonably positive hold on the individual patty as it enters the conveying means; which accelerates the patty to a predetermined rate of speed; which conveys the patty in a horizontal plane past patty sensing means; which delivers the patty in a reasonably controlled manner into the top of a substacking volume; which counts patties into a reasonably stable substack at a level below the plane of the conveying means; which drops the substack in a reasonably controlled manner into a main stack volume; which repeats the substacking operations as necessary to obtain the pre

Abstract: Sheet handling apparatus for feeding just-burst sheets along a sheet path to a stacker mechanism where the sheets are stacked on end in the same order they entered. The stacker bed is adjustable to receive any of a predetermined sizes of sheets. A plurality of feeding means is spaced along the sheet path and these feeding means are actuated to feed the predetermined size sheet by setting the stacker bed in position. As the sheets are fed along the sheet path, each sheet can be selectively laterally offset to facilitate the separation of the sheets into sets of copies, data sets or jobs.

Abstract: This invention pertains to the type of apparatus for handling sheets shown in U.S. Pat. No. 3,658,322 and particularly to the take-off conveyor on such apparatus on which the direction of the sheets issued from the sheet making machine is changed toward a stacker.

Abstract: Sorting and collating apparatus for use with copying and duplicating machinery for distribution of flexible sheet material to designated stations or series of stations. The device has an interface unit for accepting paper sheet copies and which selectively diverts said copies into a tray or to the base of the sorter tower. From the base the copies are either directed into the sorter tower to a designated bin or they are sent on to the next sorter tower module. The apparatus employs mass air movement type conveyors for paper transport. Means are provided for selectively diverting paper copies into designated paper receiving bins, and means may also be provided for maintaining the papers in aligned relationship in the individual paper receiving stations.