Patent ID: 6846278
Filing Date: 2005-01-25
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
1. In a card package production system for producing card packages with cards mounted to a bifold carrier form with a body and first and second parallel spaced preweakened fold lines dividing the body into leading end, middle and lagging end sections, the improvement being a card carrier form folding apparatus, comprising: means for supporting the leading end, middle and lagging end sections of the carrier form; means for moving the leading end, middle and lagging end sections along the supporting means in a first direction normal to the fold lines; means for defining a fold gap; means for guiding the leading end section to move in a second direction transverse to said first direction until the first fold line between the leading end section and the middle section is aligned with the folding gap; and said moving means moving the middle section and the leading end section adjacent the first fold line through the fold gap to fold the leading end section and the middle section toward each other along the first fold line therebetween as they pass through the gap.