Patent ID: 7137943
Filing Date: 2006-11-21
Classification: B65H,G03G,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A sheet preparation system, comprising: an image forming device; an input path that communicates with the image forming device and receives a sheet from the image forming device; a sheet preparation module that individually processes sheets received from the image forming device, the sheet preparation module comprising: an output path that outputs the received sheet from the sheet preparation module, wherein the sheet preparation module includes a manipulation path for directing a sheet to of the hole forming device, the perforating device, or the folding subsystem, and a bypass path to allow the received sheet to bypass the hole forming device, the perforating device, and the folding subsystem, of the sheet preparation module, wherein the folding subsystem is further controllable to selectively locate a selected number of folds in the received sheet and comprises a first folding device and a second folding device, and each of the first and second folding devices comprises: a set of folding rollers, and a set of servo rollers that is controllable to reverse a direction of the received sheet at a selectable location that determines a location of a fold to be formed in the received sheet by a set of drive rollers.