Title: Method for manufacture of business forms

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1. In a method for manufacture of business forms, the steps of advancing at least three superposed webs along a generally horizontal processing path wherein said webs are simultaneously and continuously processed, said processing including at least across perforation, advancing only one of said webs further in said path to a two-wide folder and zig-zag folding said one web, moving one of the remaining webs laterally of said path to a second path parallel to the first mentioned path and introducing the same into said two-wide folder and zig-zag folding the same, moving the other of said remaining webs a distance laterally of the first mentioned path substantially further than the distance said one of the remaining webs was moved laterally into a third path parallel with said first mentioned path and then folding said other of said remaining webs in a second folder separate from said two wide folder, said folders being generally aligned in a direction transverse of said first mentioned path whereby at least three stacks of zig-zag folded webs are presented in side-by-side relation along a common front for takeaway.

2. The method of claim 1 in which one of said remaining webs is moved laterally to one side of said path and another of said remaining webs is moved laterally to the other side of said path prior to folding.

3. The method of claim 2 in which at least two webs are moved laterally to one side of said path prior to folding.

4. The method of claim 1 in which the second mentioned folder is also a two-wide folder.

5. The method of claim 1 in which said webs are advanced at a speed of about 1,000 feet per minute.

Other info:

Inventors: Fulk, James B. (Saratoga, CA, US)

Application Number: 700138
Filing Date: 1976-06-28
Publication_date: 1978-01-17
Assignee: Paper Converting Machine Company (Green Bay, WI)
Primary Class(es): 270/52.11 493/374, 493/410
Other Classes:
US Patent Ref:

2181117	Nov, 1939	Brenn	270/21.
2334283	Nov, 1943	Pfeiffer	270/52.
2975989	Mar, 1961	Hinman	270/52.
3143342	Aug, 1964	Pine	270/52.
3972520	Aug, 1976	McKeefry	270/52.

Other Refs:
Primary Examiner: Burr, Edgar S.
Assistant Examiner: Heinz, A.
Attorney: Tilton, Fallon, Lungmus, Chestnut