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EP 0038918 B1 19850821 - MEANS FOR CREASING SHEETS OF MATERIAL WHILE CONVEYING THEM

Title (en)

MEANS FOR CREASING SHEETS OF MATERIAL WHILE CONVEYING THEM

Publication

EP 0038918 B1 19850821 (EN)

Application

EP 81101450 A 19810227

Priority

US 14479880 A 19800428

Abstract (en)

[origin: EP0038918A2] A stack of bills or other sheets of paper, to be separated and stacked are fed to a conveyor system. The conveyor forms and creases the bills to form corrugations therein in such a way as to grossly increase the beam strength and thereby improve the handling and stacking of the bills.

IPC 1-7

B65H 29/14

IPC 8 full level

B65H 29/14 (2006.01); B65H 29/70 (2006.01); B65H 31/34 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP)

B65H 29/52 (2013.01); B65H 29/70 (2013.01); B65H 31/02 (2013.01); B65H 31/26 (2013.01); B65H 2701/1912 (2013.01)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

CH DE FR GB IT LI NL

DOCDB simple family (publication)

EP 0038918 A2 19811104; EP 0038918 A3 19820331; EP 0038918 B1 19850821; DE 3171877 D1 19850926; JP S56165655 A 19811219

DOCDB simple family (application)

EP 81101450 A 19810227; DE 3171877 T 19810227; JP 6264581 A 19810427