Patent ID: 8380344

Claim:
A method of tamping media during transportation comprising: providing one or more beltsets carrying a media set, each beltset including: one or more parallel belts; a motor operatively connected to drive the beltset; and a plurality of pushers attached to the one or more belts of the beltset, the pushers being spaced apart at least a distance greater than the largest media to be transported, wherein the pushers of one beltset are situated between successive pushers of the adjacent beltset; and tamping the media set, at least once during the transport of the media set, wherein the tamping occurs at predetermined time intervals through a control module performing the steps of: accepting a set of instructions; defining a velocity profile for the one or more beltsets; and varying the distance between two successive pushers on the one or more beltsets during the transport of the media set.