Appeal No. 96-3968
Application No. 08/117,669
APPENDIX
1. A burster for business forms comprising:
a transport mechanism; a pair of driven high speed
rolls; a plurality of guide elements for guiding forms to said
high speed rolls; and a breaker blade between said guide elements
and high speed rolls; and
said guide elements mounted so that said guide elements
have a fixed gap, greater than zero, therebetween during
processing of business forms having a particular weight, said
fixed gap sufficient to prevent formation of a form bubble in
business forms being burst by said burster.
15. A method of bursting continuous single part business
forms having perforation lines formed periodically therein; and
having a paper weight of about 32 lb. or less, utilizing a
burster having gapped slow speed rolls upstream of high speed
rolls, and a breaker blade between the slow and high speed rolls,
comprising the steps of:
(a) feeding the forms with a paper weight of about 32
lbs. or less to the slow speed rolls at a speed not less than a
first speed;
(b) driving the slow speed rolls at substantially the
first speed;
© passing the forms through a gap between the slow
speed rolls that is of sufficient spacing to prevent bubble
formation in the forms;
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