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CA 2082230 A1 · Owner: Moore Business Forms, Inc. · Inventors: Van De Ven, John
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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Business form components are stacked to separate them into different jobs, and after stacking are synchronously conveyed together to a pressure sealer or similar device, for sealing the components together into a business form or are conveyed to subsequent operations such as secondary stacking into larger stacks. Each component moves from an aligner/feeder to a stacker, moving up an incline of a continuously running conveyor belt so that each successive component passes underneath any previous components in a stack. When a movable stop against which the components are held rotates out of the way a top roller near the trailing ends of the components pinches them against a bottom roller so …
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Why it's free to use
- Filed November 5, 1992. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended November 5, 2012.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by November 5, 2014.
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