Stapling means and gaging and stapling combination

Claim 1

A GAGING AND STAPLING COMBINATION FOR USE WITH A COLLATOR COMPRISING A FRAME, TRANSPORTING MEANS CARRIED BY THE FRAME TO FEED A BOOK OF SHEETS LONGITUDINALLY IN A SHEET PATH IN STAGGERED SHEET RELATION, A DRIVE SHAFT, MEANS CONNECTING THE DRIVE SHAFT, WITH THE TRANSPORTING MEANS TO DRIVE THE LATTER, STOP MEANS, STOP MOUNTING MEANS CARRIED BY THE FRAME AND MOUNTING THE STOP MEANS ADJACENT TO THE TRANSPORTING MEANS AND BETWEEN THE ENDS THEREOF TO BE ENGAGED BY THE BOOK OF SHEETS IN ITS PATH OF MOVEMENT SAID STOP MOUNTING MEANS MOUNTING THE STOP MEANS FOR MOVEMENT TOWARDS AND AWAY FROM THE PATH OF MOVEMENT OF THE BOOK OF SHEETS, MEANS CONNECTING THE DRIVE SHAFT WITH THE STOP MEANS TO OPERATE THE LATTER, STAPLING MEANS CARRIED BY THE FRAME ADJACENT TO AND ABOVE THE STOP MEANS SO AS TO BE OVER THE BOOK WHEN HALTED AT THE STOP MEANS INCLUDING AT LEAST ONE STAPLER, STAPLER OPERATING MEANS CONNECTING THE DRIVE SHAFT WITH THE STAPLING MEANS TO OPERATE THE LATTER WHEN THE SHEETS ARE HALTED AT THE STOP MEANS, GAGING MEANS CARRIED BY THE FRAME SPACED REARWARDLY OF THE STOP MEANS TO ENGAGE THE BOOK OF SHEETS INCLUDING A GAGE RESPONSIVE TO A THIN BOOK AND A GAGE RESPONSIVE TO A THICK BOOK, A GAGE SWITCH CONNECTED WITH EACH GAGE AND OPERATED THEREBY, MEANS OPERATED BY A GAGE SWITCH AND CONNECTED WITH THE STAPLER OPERATING MEANS TO RENDER THE SAME INOPERABLE WHEREBY THE BOOK IS NOT STAPLED A BOOK DEFLECTOR AT THE END OF THE TRANSPORTING MEANS, A NORMALLY INOPERATIVE CONNECTING MEANS BETWEEN THE DRIVE SHAFT AND THE DEFLECTOR TO OPERATE THE LATTER, AND MEANS OPERATED BY THE GAGING MEANS AND CONNECTED WITH THE DEFLECTOR CONNECTING MEANS TO RENDER THE SAME OPERATIVE.