Patent ID: 7137554

Claim:
In a card mailing system for producing card packages formed of a card attached to a matching card carrier form having means for attaching cards to matching carriers, the improvement being a carrier folding apparatus, comprising: means for folding carriers at a plurality of folding stations spaced along a carrier path at which folds to the carriers are made; means for selectively passing the carriers to the plurality of folding stations to selectively fold the carriers into a plurality of different fold configurations including a plurality of feed rollers to feed the carriers to the plurality of folding stations, and means for selectively changing the amount of a carrier that is fed to a folding station by at least one of the plurality of feed rollers to obtain different fold configurations. a movably mounted folding arm at each of the plurality of folding stations, and means for selectively and independently moving each folding arms between a home position and a fold position, movement of an arm to a fold position engaging the carrier at a location of the carrier to create a fold in the carrier at said location.