US PATENT SUBCLASS 271 / 216
.~.~.~.~ Conveyor-receiver for imbricated sheets

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271 /   HD   SHEET FEEDING OR DELIVERING

278  DF  DELIVERING {13}
207  DF  .~ To receiver for pack of sheets {7}
213  DF  .~.~ With movable sheet-surface support {1}
214  DF  .~.~.~ Receding from delivery zone (e.g., retractor) {3}
216.~.~.~.~ Conveyor-receiver for imbricated sheets

DEFINITION

Classification: 271/216

(under subclass 214) Device wherein the direction of movement of the backing is simultaneously parallel to the surface of the sheet adjacent thereto and away from the delivered sheets, whereby the sheets are arranged in overlapped array, the edge of a previously delivered sheet lying beyond the edge of a next delivered sheet.

(1) Note. Included in this subclass is a device wherein a circular table rotates circumferentially as sheets are deposited thereon as well as a device wherein an endless belt conveyor moves about its carrying pulleys as sheets are deposited thereon. In both instances the sheets are

imbricated on the conveyor, their margins exposed by an amount equivalent to the amount of movement of the conveyor surface during successive depositings of successive sheets.

SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:

149, for a stack holder wherein sheets are arranged in imbricated array for feeding therefrom.