FOLDING CARTON DELIVERY SYSTEM

A system for handling cut and creased folding carton blanks and delivering the blanks to a collecting conveyor with limited impact includes a lane adjustment section aligning the lanes, an accumulator section forming batches and a slow-down section. The lane adjustment section includes transfer assemblies each having a variable speed motor for individually adjusting the lanes and a pull roll for establishing a uniform speed. The accumulator includes a motorized drum, belts driven by the drum and a deflector moving the blanks into and out of a rotary pathway. The drum may be part of a removable drum module for modifying drum diameter. The slow-down section cyclically adjusts speed to slow each batch. An in-feed assembly provides for receipt of relatively short blanks onto opposite sides of the drum in a double batching mode to form separate batches in each lane.