WORK, WORK, WORK!!

I have been so busy at work, and everyone keeps asking what it is that I do. Then I go into the explaination of it, and I get a deer in the head lights look. So to help, I have gone and taken a few photos. This is only the inserter side. I do have an entire printing side, that I will have to post later.

The set up. This is our first of two machines.
We are currently loading by stacks. There are several ways to do this, but this has seemed to work out best for us. The pin feed below is where the cutter has cut the 18" width paper into two pages and cut the pinfeed off.
This is where the two cut pages are then turned over and sent to the accumilator.

This accumilator is a double stack, meaning that it has a set of pages on top and then another set on the bottom. Moves faster this way. The computer is set to a specific amount of pages and that is what is "accumilated" into each set before being pushed to the folder.

The folder is shown above (the long stripes above) then the folded letter is pushed thru the rubber rollers and then shot out to the "track" (seen below)

This photo shows the folded page being pushed out, one after another.

The track is lined with pins every 10" or so for each new letter. The machine will sense when it is time to "dump" the letter into the track. It will hold it if there is not a space available yet.

The pages will now move down the track. They pass over a sensor, so that the machine knows it needs to add a "stuffer".

This shows the entire track. We have a 6 space track.

The envelope or stuff piece is pulled out by the grabers (at top) a sucker will pull down the next piece for the arms to grab then swing out over the letter and drop into the track.

The the letter will have a Carrier envelope pulled, opened up and then lifted by these sucker arms to open the envelope.

Then the letter is shoved "shove station" into the carrier envelope.

Then after getting its letter the envelope will travel down to the turnover, but first being "licked" by a wet brush, and closed.

The turn over then turns the envelope over 180 degrees, so it may travel down for its postage.

The letter then moves thru the meter, which is controled by another computer above the meter (black box) with the correct postage.

After being "stamped" the letter is turned upright and collected at the end, shown here. We will then pick the envelopes up flip thru them to make sure they all are stuffed and metered correctly, and then stacked into trays.

We will have anywhere from 5 to 30 pallets of trayed letters a week.

Those letter are sent out for people to then send back their orders for different books. Here are a stack of books that are going out. Lots of orders. I have around 3 to 8 pallets of these go out twice a week.

Fun stuff! Now you know half of what I manage on the floor. I will soon post the printer side later.