US PATENT SUBCLASS 271 / 306
.~ With transfer means between conveyor and receiver

Current as of: June, 1999
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271 /   HD   SHEET FEEDING OR DELIVERING

278  DF  DELIVERING {13}
306.~ With transfer means between conveyor and receiver {8}
307  DF  .~.~> Means to strip sheets from engagement with moving conveyor {5}
175  DF  .~.~> Means to drape sheets over horizontal bar
176  DF  .~.~> Responsive to delivered sheet
177  DF  .~.~> Means to push sheets out of edgewise into broadside movement (e.g., packer) {2}
182  DF  .~.~> Means to retard sheets {1}
184  DF  .~.~> Means to change orientation or direction of sheets during delivery {1}
188  DF  .~.~> Means to bow sheets during delivery
189  DF  .~.~> Means temporarily interposed between conveyor and receiver {3}

DEFINITION

Classification: 271/306

With transfer means between conveyor and receiver:

(under subclass 278) Apparatus provided with means additional to the removing means and a receiving means, which additional means (i.e., transfer mechanism) is located adjacent a receiving means and which additional means facilitates or effects the passage of individual sheets from said removing means to said receiving means.

(1) Note. In this and the indented subclasses the delivery means includes a conveyor for merely moving a succession of individual sheets (usually in a direction parallel to their surfaces) from an operating station, and a receiver wherein the individual sheets are stacked (usually in surface-to-surface contact). The additional transfer mechanisms of these subclasses do more than merely convey the sheets in one direction. It is a positively acting mechanism that effects a change in position, orientation, speed, or other condition of the sheets just prior to the receipt of such sheets by the receiver.