Patent ID: 8308153

Claim:
A transversal cutting equipment for sheets separable from overlapped continuous forms, wherein said forms are longitudinally divided from a basic continuous form for producing documents with a single sheet or with more sheets, wherein the documents and the respective sheets are printed according to a predetermined order, and wherein the sheets are transversely cut and longitudinally extracted and moved; the said equipment comprising: a cutting device, actuatable for joined separation of the sheets from the overlapped forms; an extractor device for extracting and moving forward sheets separated by the cutting device; an accumulating and forwarding device for a partially formed document and a formed document; transport paths, downstream of the extractor device, for transporting the separated sheets, along overlapped paths, to the accumulating and forwarding device; and differentiating means for modifying transport times of the sheets along one or more transport paths; wherein the cutting device and the extractor device operate in a continuous way, while the accumulating and forwarding device collects the sheet or the sheets of a partially formed document and sends the sheet or the sheets upon the completion of the document; and wherein the differentiating means temporarily modify the transport times so that a cut sheet of a following document, different from the partially formed document, is transferred to the accumulating and forwarding device for the formation of the following document, substantially after the forwarding of the preceding document.