Patent ID: 7841594
Filing Date: 2010-11-30
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for altering the spatial orientation and/or direction of sheet material, comprising: an input deck for receiving the sheet material along an input feed path; an output deck for forwarding sheet material along an output feed path, the output deck being substantially parallel to, and vertically-spaced from, the input deck; an orbit nip roller assembly disposed adjacent the input and output decks and including a primary and secondary roller defining a roller nip, the secondary roller adapted to be bi-directionally displaced in an arc about the periphery of the primary roller such that the roller nip orbits the primary roller from a first radial position to a second radial position and alters the orientation of the sheet material; the roller nip being substantially parallel to the input and output feed paths such that, in the first radial position, the roller nip is adapted to accept sheet material from the input deck at a substantially right angle relative to the input feed path and, in the second radial position, the roller nip is adapted to dispense sheet material to the output deck at a substantially right angle relative to the output feed path.