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Article: Indiana Inventors Develop Automatic Paper Folder
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- May 23, 2007
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Donald Thomas Shoebridge of Huntington, Ind., and George Arthur Carver of Wabash, Ind., have developed automatic paper folders with means for the automatic and manual paper feed.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention provides an automatic paper folder with the adjustable distance between a retarder and a feeding wheel assuring the consistency of the automatic feed for most types of paper."
An abstract of the invention, released by the Patent Office, said: "The automatic paper folder includes a paper feed assembly that combines the functions of a retractable retarder and a retractable tension block, assuring the automatic feed of a ...