George P Mcinerny

US Patent:

42536510, Mar 3, 1981

Filed:

Jan 30, 1979

Appl. No.:

6/007928

Inventors:

George P. McInerny - Andalusia PA
Aaron F. Parker - Elm NJ

Assignee:

Technitrol, Inc. - Philadelphia PA

International Classification:

B65H 3904

US Classification:

270 58

Abstract:

A device for handling documents which operates to interleave or intermix documents from separate stacks in accordance with a predetermined pattern. The documents are fed through the machine preferably so as to be visible and retrievable throughout their travel. The machine includes an inspection station where the documents are overlapped to permit visual inspection of at least one edge portion of each separate document. The documents from separate stacks are fed one-by-one through separate feed paths with means for insuring single-document feed and means for counting prior to merger and discharge of the merged documents.

US Patent:

41161270, Sep 26, 1978

Filed:

Sep 27, 1976

Appl. No.:

5/726830

Inventors:

George P. McInerny - Andalusia PA

Assignee:

Brandt-Pra, Inc. - Cornwells Heights PA

International Classification:

B41F 1324

US Classification:

101232

Abstract:

Apparatus for counting and endorsing documents and more particularly tickets dimensioned within the preferred range from 1 inch by 2 inches to 2 inches by 5. 5 inches and in the thickness range from 2 mils to 14 mils. The stack of tickets is placed in an in-feed hopper and is engaged by an eccentric bottom feed picker to drive preferably the bottom-most document toward a drive wheel and stripper wheel assembly to permit documents to pass only in single file beyond the stripper device. The documents are fed in single file between cooperating belts until they are picked up by acceleration means which abruptly accelerates the documents to provide a gap therebetween suitable for counting purposes. The documents are driven into a stacker wherein they are stacked in the same order in which they were loaded into the in-feed hopper. A stacker arm provides pressure on the building stack which pressure is continually reduced as the stack increases in height to assure a smooth stacking operation.

US Patent:

44164491, Nov 22, 1983

Filed:

Dec 9, 1981

Appl. No.:

6/328951

Inventors:

George P. McInerny - Andalusia PA

Assignee:

Technitrol, Inc. - Philadelphia PA

International Classification:

B65H 352

US Classification:

271122

Abstract:

A document separation device for separating documents in a stack employs counter-rotating drum and friction belt members to strip away and hold back more than a single document trying to pass between them. The structure employs a pair of friction drums and a free-wheeling pulley between them of slightly smaller diameter but on the same axis. Counter-rotating friction stripper belt is supported between two pulleys one of which is driven and is wrapped over the pulley between the friction drum members. A third rotatable pulley between the two supporting the friction belt is located opposite the free-wheeling pulley and has flanges which bear upon the friction drum surfaces such that the friction belt will normally not contact the third pulley when the friction belt is in direct contact with the idler between the friction drums. The friction belt is slightly slack. When a document passes between the belt and the friction drums, it moves the third pulley against the action of the tensioning means and causes the friction belt which is stretchable and resilient to become more taut.

US Patent:

39442101, Mar 16, 1976

Filed:

Apr 30, 1974

Appl. No.:

5/465700

Inventors:

George P. McInerny - Andalusia PA

Assignee:

Pennsylvania Research Associates, Inc. - Cornwells Heights PA

International Classification:

B65H 304

US Classification:

271 4

Abstract:

Apparatus for counting and endorsing documents and more particularly tickets dimensionally within the preferred range from 1 inch by 2 inches to 2 inches by 5. 5 inches and in the thickness range from two mils to 14 mils. The stack of tickets is placed in an in-feed hopper and is engaged by an eccentric bottom feed picker to drive preferably the bottom-most document toward a drive wheel and stripper wheel assembly to permit documents to pass only in single file beyond the stripper device. The documents are fed in single file between cooperating belts until they are picked up by acceleration means which abruptly accelerates the documents to provide a gap therebetween suitable for counting purposes. The documents are driven into a stacker wherein they are stacked in the same order in which they were loaded into the in-feed hopper. A stacker arm provides pressure on the building stack which pressure is continually reduced as the stack increases in height to assure a smooth stacking operation.

US Patent:

42169526, Aug 12, 1980

Filed:

Jan 16, 1978

Appl. No.:

5/869663

Inventors:

George P. McInerny - Andalusia PA

Assignee:

Technitrol, Inc. - Philadelphia PA

International Classification:

B65H 352

US Classification:

271 10

Abstract:

Documents in a stack are loaded into a bin from which an endmost document is fed by some means to a generally cylindrical drum having a high friction surface which is rotationally driven about its cylindrical axis. A plurality of resilient continuous stretchable friction belts of lower friction than the high friction drum surface are arranged parallel to one another around pulley supports positioned such that non-friction circumferential areas around cylindrical drum surface stretch the path of the continuous belts between adjacent pulleys. The continuous belts are driven in the opposite direction from the high friction cylindrical surface of the drum. The opposed moving surfaces separate adjacent sheets while the belts apply a normal pressure to a document on the high friction surface so that it draws the endmost document from the stack and carries the separated single document through the mechanism by itself.

US Patent:

45000840, Feb 19, 1985

Filed:

Jul 27, 1983

Appl. No.:

6/517683

Inventors:

George P. McInerny - Andalusia PA

Assignee:

Technitrol, Inc. - Philadelphia PA

International Classification:

B65H 352

US Classification:

271 35

Abstract:

A document separation device for separating documents in a stack employs counter-rotating feed drum and friction belt members to strip away and hold back more than a single document trying to pass between them. The structure employs a pair of stripper idlers mounted for free-wheeling rotation adjacent the feed drum. The stripper idlers are constructed and arranged so as to be controlled by the documents passing between them and the adjacent feed drum so as to automatically speed up or slow down when required. The stripper idlers are designed to maintain the proper force against the drum or a document passing therebetween to feed the documents in the desired path through the apparatus and to straighten out severely curled leading edges of the documents to avoid jamming, tearing or skewing of the documents. In addition, the idler strippers serve to fan out the documents to hold them in a desirable condition for ease of separation.

US Patent:

40833038, Apr 11, 1978

Filed:

Jun 16, 1976

Appl. No.:

5/696572

Inventors:

George P. McInerny - Andalusia PA

Assignee:

Brandt/Pra, Inc. - Cornwells Heights PA

International Classification:

B41F 0712

US Classification:

1014151

Abstract:

An endorser drum assembly for printing data on paper sheets, documents and the like and having an elongated strip preferably formed of resilient material, for mounting about the periphery of a drum. An adjustable clamping means for releasable securement to the drum secures the printing strip thereto.

US Patent:

39499812, Apr 13, 1976

Filed:

Sep 16, 1974

Appl. No.:

5/505987

Inventors:

George P. McInerny - Andalusia PA

Assignee:

Brandt-Pra, Inc. - Cornwells Heights PA

International Classification:

B65H 2922
B65H 3114

US Classification:

271178

Abstract:

A sheet stacking mechanism neatly stacks a plurality of sheets, which may be of dissimilar sizes, thicknesses and surface quality (finishes), in the original sequence in which the sheets are fed into the mechanism. An outfeed mechanism picks each sheet into the stacker and removes each sheet entering into the stacker away from the throat of the stacker to permit unimpeded entry of the next sheet to the stacker. Anti-skewing devices are employed at various locations to maintain the sheets in proper alignment during stacking. Linkage means having a mechanical advantage greater than one interconnects a biasing spring to a stacker bar to provide elongation of the spring inversely proportional to the distance moved by the bar in response to the accumulation of stacked sheets thereon to render more uniform the force exerted on the bar by the spring means to provide uniform stacking.