Apparatus for receiving and transporting folded sheets or sheet packages

Abstract From the Canadian patent

To provide for a space-saving yet high-capacity storage, system for sheet elements for example folded printed paper, sheets or the like a plurality of segments (6) are slidable along a guide track. The segments are interconnected for, example by welding, hinges or the like in zig-zag or accordeon, pleat form. When compressed the structure can be empty and, any number of segments can be taken from an empty storage region transported to a loading/unloading/mixing region for insertion removal, or interleaving of sheet elements while the segments, are in expanded position; and then again, compressed, so that sheet elements or folded sheets will continue to be carried in the structure formed by …