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(11) EP 0 397 466 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
09.10.1991 Bulletin 1991/41

(43) Date of publication A2:
14.11.1990 Bulletin 1990/46

(21) Application number: 90304985.6

(22) Date of filing: 09.05.1990
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)5: B26D 1/08, B26D 7/18, B26D 7/06
(84) Designated Contracting States:
AT BE CH DE FR GB IT LI NL

(30) Priority: 10.05.1989 ZA 893464

(71) Applicant: DEBEX (PROPRIETARY) LIMITED
Johannesburg, Transvaal (ZA)

(72) Inventors:
  • Hill, Bruce Stanford
    Johannesburg, Transvaal (ZA)
  • Van Gruening, Louis Gerrit
    Secunda, Transvaal (ZA)

(74) Representative: Senior, Alan Murray et al
J.A. KEMP & CO., 14 South Square, Gray's Inn
London WC1R 5LX
London WC1R 5LX (GB)


(56) References cited: : 
   
       


    (54) Directory splitter


    (57) The directory splitter is used to split, for subsequent pulping, a directory, such as a telephone directory (50), which has highly flexible pages sandwiched between relatively inflexible covers and in which the covers and pages are connected together at a glued spine. The splitter has a cutting site at which a cutting blade (20) severs the spine from the covers and pages. The covers and pages and then moved in a stack from the cutting site to a suction site at which a perforated drum (37) connected to a suction source applies suction to the lower cover and separates it from the pages and the remaining cover. The pages and remaining cover are then moved in a stack to a separation site at which the pages are separated. The pages and the covers are therefore recovered separately. In addition, the spine is recovered apart from the pages and the covers.







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