Patent ID: 7040616
Filing Date: 2006-05-09
Classification: B41J,B65H

Abstract:
1. A transporting system for use in a high velocity document processing system using lower velocity print technology, the system comprising: a transport path comprising an upstream transport conveying spaced apart documents at a first transport velocity, a deceleration transport having a variable velocity downstream of the upstream transport, and a print transport transporting overlapped documents and having a print transport velocity the print transport velocity being less than the first transport velocity, the print transport located downstream of the deceleration transport; a controller controlling the deceleration transport to decelerate an upstream document from the first transport velocity to the print transport velocity, the deceleration of the upstream document controlled so that a lead portion of the upstream document overtakes a trailing portion of an immediately downstream document moving at the print velocity; an overlapping arrangement whereby the lead portion of the upstream document is urged to overlap the trailing portion of the downstream document when the upstream document overtakes the downstream document.